Faculty

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S. Basavaiah

Visiting Professor
Office: Bossone 412
Phone: +1 215 895 6922
basu@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Computer engineering; computer engineering education; custom circuit design; VLSI technology; process and silicon fabrication.

Fernand Cohen

Professor
Office: Bossone 410
Phone: +1 215 895 1420
fscohen@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Computer vision; medical image processing; applied stochastic processes.

Kapil R. Dandekar

Associate Professor
Office: Bossone 210
Phone: +1 215 895 2004
dandekar@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Cellular/mobile communications and wireless LAN; smart antenna/MIMO for wireless communications; applied computational electromagnetics; microwave antenna and receiver development; free space optical communication; ultrasonic communication;
sensor networks for homeland security; ultrawideband communication.

Afshin Daryoush

Professor
Office: Bossone 501
Phone: +1 215 895 2362
daryoush@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Microwave photonics systems; nonlinear microwave circuits; RFIC and wireless communications; antennas and radiating systems; electromagnetic interaction with biological systems.

Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira

Assistant Professor
Office: Bossone 202
Phone: +1 215 895 2248
jau@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Ad-hoc and sensor networks; network management; traffic engineering; congestion control; network routing; engineering education.

Bruce Eisenstein

Arthur J. Rowland Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: Bossone 513a
Phone: +1 215 895 2359
eisenstein@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Pattern recognition; estimation theory; decision theory; digital signal processing.

Adam Fontecchio

Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Studies
Office: Bossone 313c
Phone: +1 215 895 0234
fontecchio@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Electro-optics; liquid crystals; polymer dispersed liquid crystals; holography; remote sensing; color filtration; electrically switchable Bragg gratings.

William Freedman

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Office: 714
Phone: +1 215 895 2249
william_freedman@coe.drexel.edu

Research: Control of motor systems; postural control and locomotion; neural network description of plasticity in motor systems.

Gary Friedman

Professor
Office: Bossone 510
Phone: +1 215 895 2108
gary@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Magnetic sensors; miniature Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) systems; Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS).

Eli Fromm

Roy Brothers, University Professor and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: Bossone 513b
Phone: +1 215 895 2201
fromm@drexel.edu

Research: Innovative structures, content, delivery methods and assessment of the undergraduate engineering educational experience; extensions to the K-12 school environment with engineering as a contextual means to support creative approaches to learning science and mathematics; development of the technological workforce and professoriate of the future; technological literacy.

Edwin Gerber

Professor
Office: Bossone 411
Phone: +1 215 895 2255
gerber@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Computerized instruments and measurements; undergraduate engineering education.

Allon Guez

Professor
Office: Bossone 101
Phone: +1 215 895 1646
guezal@drexel.edu

Research: Control systems; decision making and optimization in business systems; automation; biomedical systems and devices; neuro-engineering; machine learning and adaptation.

Peter R Herczfeld

Lester Kraus Professor
Office: Bossone 511
Phone: 2256
herczfeld@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Microwave photonics, including optically controlled and activated high speed devices; microchip lasers; optically generated high fidelity microwave and millimeter-wave signals; coherent fiber-optic links; all-optical microwave receivers; applications of photonics and microwaves to biology and medicine; renewable energy sources; energy policy.

Leonid Hrebien

Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Studies
Office: Bossone 313d
Phone: +1 215 895 6755
lhrebien@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Dynamics and controls of biological systems in the context of aerospace medicine, especially the development of G-suits for aircraft pilots; detection and estimation in large scale databases of biological data (e.g., proteomics and cytometry) with applications in predictive toxicology and drug development.

Dov Jaron

Calhoun Distinguished Professor of Engineering in Medicine
Office: Bossone 709
Phone: +1 215 895 2215
dov.jaron@drexel.edu

Research: Engineering development and optimization of cardiac assist devices; cardiovascular dynamics; cardiovascular function under stress; modeling of biological systems; mechanisms of gas transport in the mivtocirculation; biomedical instrumentation.

Jeremy Johnson

Professor and Department Head of the Computer Science Department
Office: University Crossings 89-100c
Phone: +1 215 895 2893
Jeremy.Russell.Johnson@drexel.edu

Research: Computer algebra; design and analysis of algorithms; programming languages and compilers; algorithms for digital signal processing; parallel processing; scientific computing.

Paul Kalata

Associate Professor
Office: Bossone 102
Phone: +1 215 895 2251
kalata@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Stochastic and adaptive control theory; estimation, identification and decision theory; computer control; system design; Kalman filters.

Moshe Kam

Robert Quinn Professor and Department Head
Office: Bossone 313a
Phone: +1 215 895 0364
kam@minerva.ece.drexel.edu

Research: Detection and estimation; sensor networks; team decision making; multisensor architectures; data and decision fusion; navigation and robotics; modeling and simulation; wireless communications; engineering education.

Nagarajan Kandasamy

Assistant Professor
Office: Bossone 603
Phone: +1 215 895 1996
kandasamy@drexel.edu

Research: Computer performance management; computer architecture; fault-tolerant systems; dependable computing.

Bruce Katz

Adjunct Professor
Office: Bossone 413j
Phone: +1 215 895 1467
bruce.f.katz@drexel.edu

Research: Neural networks; the study of aesthetics; artificial intelligence; music perception.


Youngmoo E. Kim

Assistant Professor
Office: Bossone 413d
Phone: +1 215 895 5973
ykim@drexel.edu

Research: Machine listening and learning; audio signal processing; human-computer interaction; audio source separation; audio data compression.

Timothy P. Kurzweg

Associate Professor
Office: Bossone 602
Phone: +1 215 895 0549
kurzweg@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Micro-optical systems; optical spectroscopy; programmable imaging with MEMS; bio-sensors; diffuse optical communication; MEMS fabrication; diffractive optics; optical automation; optical modeling and simulation; magnetic particle locomotion; meta-materials; reconfigurable antennas.

Ryszard Lec

Professor of Biomedical Technology Development
Office: Bossone 714
Phone: +1 215 895 1334
r.lec@coe.drexel.edu

Research: Medical and biomedical sensors; surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices; new sensing mechanisms; sensor intelligence and micro-machining.

Peter Lewin

Richard B. Beard Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Office: Bossone 701
Phone: +1 215 895 2361
lewin@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Ultrasonic characterization of materials; propagation of ultrasonic waves in inhomogeneous media; electro-acoustic transducers; biological effects of ultrasound; physical acoustics; underwater acoustics.

Spiros Mancoridis

Professor of Computer Science
Office: University Crossings 89-139
Phone: +1 215 895 6824
spiros.mancoridis@drexel.edu

Research: Software engineering; reverse engineering; software security; software forensics.

Karen Miu

Associate Professor
Office: Bossone 413a
Phone: +1 215 895 6207
miu@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Power systems; distribution networks; distribution automation; optimization; system analysis.

Karen Moxon

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Office: Bossone 714
Phone: +1 215 895 1959
Karen.Moxon@drexel.edu

Research: Computational modeling; neural modeling; neurorobotics; neuromimetics; neurocontrol multi-unit neural recording.

Bahram Nabet

Professor
Office: Bossone 502
Phone: +1 215 895 6761
nabet@ece.drexel.edu

Research: High speed semiconductor devices (photodetectors and transistors); optoelectronics; fabrication and modeling; fiber optic devices; nanoelectronics; nanowires.

Prawat Nagvajara

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: Bossone 103
Phone: +1 215 895 2378
prawat_nagvajara@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Application specific computing; reconfigurable computing; field programmable gate arrays (FPGA); custom computing.

Dagmar E. Niebur

Associate Professor
Office: Bossone 403
Phone: +1 215 895 6749
niebur@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Electric power systems dynamics; security, monitoring and control of non-linear hybrid systems; design and control of terrestrial power systems; shipboard systems; intelligent information processing including neural nets, fuzzy systems and blind source separation techniques.

Chika Nwankpa

Professor
Office: Bossone 401
Phone: +1 215 895 2218
nwankpa@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Power system dynamics; stochastic modeling; power electronic switching systems; optically controlled high power switches.

Paul Oh

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office: Randell 4-172E
Phone: +1 215 895 6396
paul@coe.drexel.edu

Research: Robotics; computer vision; visual-servoing; micro-air-vehicles; autonomous systems.

Banu Onaral

H. H. Sun Professor & Director, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Office: Bossone 717
Phone: +1 215 895 2247
banu.onaral@drexel.edu

Research: Biomedical signal processing; complexity and scaling in biomedical signals, systems, and imaging.

Athina Petropulu

Professor
Office: Bossone 413b
Phone: +1 215 895 2358
athina@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Statistical signal processing; blind system identification; blind MIMO system estimation; wireless communication networks; blind channel estimation; multi-user separation; cooperative cross-layer approaches; applications of signal processing in biomedical problems.

Kambiz Pourrezaei

Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Office: Bossone 716
Phone: +1 215 895 2260
pourrezaei@coe.drexel.edu

Research: Nanotechnology; near infrared imaging (NIR); medical devices.

Karkal Prabhu

Visiting Professor
Office: Bossone 612
Phone: +1 215 895 6243
Karkal.S.Prabhu@drexel.edu

Research: Computer engineering education; neural networks; software reliability.

William Regli

Professor of Computer Science
Office: University Crossings 89-143
Phone: +1 215 895 6827
regli@drexel.edu

Research: Artificial intelligence planning; knowledge-based systems; evolutionary computation; solid modeling and graphics; Internet computing; databases and human-computer interaction.

Arye Rosen

Academy Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Office: Bossone 504
Phone: +1 215 895 1913
arosen@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Microwave/millimeter-wave devices and circuits; microwave optical interaction; high-power semiconductor lasers; medical technology for infants and children.

Gail L Rosen

Assistant Professor
Office: Bossone 403
Phone: +1 215 895 0400
gailr@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Digital signal processing; genomics; biological modeling; chemical source localization and tracking; bio-inspired robotics; adaptive filtering.

Kevin J Scoles

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs, College of Engineering
Office: 119 University Crossings
Phone: +1 215 895 2259
kscoles@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Engineeering education and student retention; alternative energy; electronic circuit applications; microelectronic packaging.

Harish Sethu

Associate Professor
Office: Bossone 611
Phone: +1 215 895 5876
sethu@drexel.edu

Research: Design and analysis of protocols, architectures and algorithms in computer networks; network structure and large-scale dynamics; web science; network security; distributed algorithms in mobile ad hoc networks and sensor networks.

P. Mohana Shankar

Allen Rothwarf Professor
Office: Bossone 311
Phone: +1 215 895 6632
shankapm@drexel.edu

Research: Wireless communications; channel modeling; ultrasonic Imaging; medical ultrasound; fiber optic sensors; biophotonics.

Jonathan Spanier

Assistant Professor
Office: LeBow 27-440
Phone: +1 215 895 2301
spanier@drexel.edu

Research: Nanostructured electronic and photonic materials and devices; multifunctional ferroics and phase transitions; nano-laminate materials, electronic structure and lattice dynamics; scanning probe microscopy; Raman scattering spectroscopy.

Baris Taskin

Assistant Professor
Office: Bossone 413f
Phone: +1 215 895 5972
taskin@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Electronic Design Automation (EDA) of VLSI circuits; clock skew scheduling; resonant clocking; high-performance mixed-signal integrated circuits; nanoachitectures including Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA).

Aydin Tozeren

Professor
Office: Bossone 713
Phone: +1 215 895 6148
tozeren@coe.drexel.edu

Research: Breast cell adhesion and communication; signal transduction networks in cancer and epithelial cells; integrated bioinformatics; molecular profiling; 3D-tumors; bioimaging.

Lazar Trachtenberg

Professor
Office: Bossone 111
Phone: +1 215 895 2282
trachtenberg@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Fault tolerant and secure computing machines; optimal design methods; theory of logically computing machines; multi-objective signal processing.

Oleh John Tretiak

Robert C. Disqu Professor
Office: Bossone 610
Phone: +1 215 895 2214
tretiak@drexel.edu

Research: Imaging and image processing.

John MacLaren Walsh

Assistant Professor
Office: Bossone 203
Phone: +1 215 895 2360
jwalsh@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Delay mitigating codes and rate delay tradeoffs in multipath routed and network coded networks; joint source separation and identification; performance and convergence of distributed estimation in wireless sensor networks via expectation propagation.

Steven Weber

Assistant Professor
Office: Bossone 211
Phone: +1 215 895 0254
sweber@ece.drexel.edu

Research: Mathematical modeling of computer and communication networks, specifically streaming multimedia and ad hoc networks.

Aspasia Zerva

Professor of Civil Engineering
Office: Curtis 4-270
Phone: +1 215 895 2340
Aspasia.Zerva@drexel.edu

Research: Engineering seismology: earthquake engineering; probabilistic methods.