Dr. Mathieu Aubailly is continuing his appointment with Drs. Miao Yu, Svetlana Lachinova, and Mikhail Vorontsov. He is conducting research on the analysis and numerical simulations of free-space laser communication, anisoplanatic imaging and active tracking applications.

Mr. Murat Aytekin is continuing his PDOC appointment with Dr. Cynthia Moss.  His research entails taking measurements and modeling the sonar beam pattern of echolocating bats.

Dr. Sharba Bandyopadhyay is continuing his ISR DOC appointment.  He is conducting research with Drs. Shihab Shamma and Patrick Kanold on a project aimed at imaging the activity and plasticity of neural responses in the auditory cortex using 2-photon imaging.

Dr. Stephen David is continuing his NRSA Fellowship/ISR PDOC appointment.  He is conducting research with Dr. Shihab Shamma on auditory computations, participating in the development of the NSL’s custom data acquisition software and physiology database, assisting with surgeries on animals, and mentoring a graduate student.

Dr. Kaushik Ghose is working with Drs. Cynthia Moss, P. S. Krishnaprasad, and Timothy Horiuchi to extract the control signals that the bat may use to orient in the environment and develop appropriate algorithms to model adaptive behaviors for spatially-guided behaviors.  He expects to conclude his PDOC appointment in April.

Dr. Gordon Gifford is continuing his appointment through Psychology. He is conducting research with Dr. Cynthia Moss on neurophysiological studies of auditory spatial information processing and sensorimotor integration.

Dr. Monther Hasouneh is continuing a part-time PDOC appointment with Dr. Eyad Abed and Dr. Balakumar Balachandran.  He is conducting research on dynamics and control of supercavitating bodies.

Dr. Chia-Yu Hsu is continuing her ISR PDOC appointment with Dr. Avis Cohen and her colleague, Dr. Lisa Fauci, Professor of Mathematics at Tulane.  She is developing computational models and simulations that couple internal force generating mechanisms of a swimming lamprey with external fluid mechanics.  Dr. Hsu is based at Tulane University.

Dr. Tao Jiang began an ISR PDOC appointment on January 2, 2008.  She is conducting research with Dr. John Baras on communications and social networking and intrusion detection.

Dr. Petr Konyaev is continuing his PDOC appointment with Drs. Miao Yu and Mikhail Vorontsov.  He is conducting research on the numerical analysis of atmospheric imaging and adaptive optics systems.  Dr. Konyaev’s appointment will end in March, 2008.

Dr. Svetlana Lachinova is continuing her appointment with Dr. Mikhail Vorontsov. She is conducting research on the analysis of laser tracking systems operating in atmospheric turbulence conditions for laser communication applications and the development of numerical simulation tools for characterization of atmospheric laser beam propagation parameters in laser tracking systems.

Dr. Ernst Polnau is continuing his appointment with Dr. Mikhail Vorontsov. He is conducting research in the area of experimental adaptive optics for free-space laser communication and active imaging applications.

Dr. Priya Ranjan is continuing his part-time appointment with Dr. Eyad Abed.  He is working on congestion modeling and control of computer networks.

Dr. Susanne Sterbing-D’Angelo began her part-time PDOC appointment with Dr. Cynthia Moss on November 1, 2007.  She is conducting research on neurophysiological studies of somatosensory signaling for flight control in the echolocating bat.

Dr. Vahid Tabatabaee is continuing his ISR PDOC appointment.  He is conducting research with Dr. John Baras on wireless network design and performance evaluation.

Dr. Daniel Winkowski began a PDOC appointment with Dr. Shihab Shamma in December, 2007.  He is conducting research on sounds processing in the auditory cortex.                                                             

Dr. Shah-An Yang began a PDOC appointment with Dr. John Baras on January 2, 2008.  He is conducting research on component-based networks and network design.

Dr. Ping-Bo Yin is continuing his appointment with Dr. Shihab Shamma and Dr. Jonathan Fritz. He is conducting research on the auditory cortex in the behaving ferret.

Dr. Xuanfang Zha will conclude his PDOC appointment with Dr. S.K. Gupta at the end of January.  He has been developing design methodologies and tools to support nanotechnology based products.  He has been based at NIST.