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Faculty Expertise

Faculty members of College of Engineering and Computing Sciences have a breadth and depth of expertise, and many are pursuing research that provides breakthrough advances in their respective fields.

At the full professor level, the following faculty expertise spans electrical and computer engineering, computer science, and mechanical engineering. You can find these distinguished faculty quoted in media, and their work published in research journals and presented at major conferences.

Ayat Jafari

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, City University of New York

Computer networks, cyber security, fuzzy logic and neural networks.

Babak D. Beheshti

Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology, and Dean, College of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Wireless communications and digital systems design, wireless sensor networks, embedded real time systems, wireless and cellular systems, and digital signal processing.

Steven Billis

Professor, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Quantum Electronics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

Digital design, VHSIC, VHDL, quantum electronics/optics, circuit-switched networks, modeling and quantitative performance analysis

Steven Zhiyun Lu

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University

Fluid dynamics and numerical methods applications to fluid dynamics

Associate and Assistant Professors, by Discipline

Faculty at the associate and assistant professor level represent a wide variety of experience and expertise in the following disciplines:

Computer Science

Kiran Balagani

Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computational Analysis and Modeling, Louisiana Tech University

Cyber-security, network-centric attack detection, biometrics for continuous authentication and verification.

Houwei Cao

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Electronic Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Her main areas of research are signal processing, machine learning, data mining and their applications in human-centric data analytics, with emphasis on developing computational methods for speech recognition, text analytics, affect detection, and healthcare analysis.

Jerry Cheng

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Statistics, Rutgers University

Big data analytics, artificial intelligence, data mining, statistical modeling, and high-performance computing. Applications in mobile computing, information security, and healthcare.

Paolo Gasti

Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science, DISI, University of Genoa, Italy

Cryptography and network security, privacy-preserving techniques for sharing sensitive information, new internet architecture security.

Huanying (Helen) Gu

Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science; New Jersey Institute of Technology

Data Analytics, Ontologies, Conceptual and object-oriented data modeling, Knowledge representation, Medical informatics with an emphasis on medical terminologies.

Xueqing Huang

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Internet of things, mobile edge computing, machine learning, energy efficiency and network security, and healthcare.

Frank Lee

Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Compiler design, artificial intelligence and computer graphics.

Wenjia Li

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

Wide areas of wireless networking, mobile computing, and cyber security, especially security, trust, and privacy issues in cyber-physical systems, wireless networks, internet of things, and intelligent transportation systems

Tao Zhang

Associate Professor, Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas

Wireless and optical networking.

Electrical and Computer Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

Ludmilla V. Amani

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University

IC circuit production and pattern recognition of organ transplants.

Lak Amara

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University

Digital signal processing and digital system design.

Reza Amineh

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada

Main areas of research: Forward modeling and inverse solutions in electromagnetics (low frequency, microwave, and millimeter wave) with applications in biomedical imaging, antenna/microwave component design, nondestructive testing, water/soil quality sensing, and material characterization.

Nabi Sertac Artan

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, NYU Polytechnic University

Low-power VLSI circuits, FPGAs, embedded systems, neurological signal processing, epileptic seizure detection, high-speed hardware design for networking and network security, intrusion detection and prevention.

Ahmadreza Baghaie

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI

Main areas of research are biomedical signal and image acquisition, processing and analysis, computer vision, and data visualization, machine learning, deep learning to the areas of research as well, right before data visualization.

Batu Chalise

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Current expertise focus: radar signal processing, distributed cognitive radar systems, passive and MIMO radars, joint radar and communications systems, mm-wave communications, cognitive radios, full-duplex, massive MIMO systems, energy harvesting wireless networks, and machine learning for sensing and communications applications.

Michael Colef

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, City University of New York

Digital signal processing, digital system design, digital communications, computer networks, cyber security and information assurance.

Ziqian Dong

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Computer networks, sensor networks, network security, assistive medical devices, and smart and sustainable cities.

Aydin Farajidavar

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington

Biomedical Instrumentation (wireless wearable/implantable medical devices), Medical Cyber Physical Systems, Modeling neural networks and biological phenomena.

Azhar Ilyas

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington

Nano-biotechnology with particular focus on nano-biosensor, BioMEMS, point of care devices, biomaterials, cell-surface interactions, bone regeneration and drug delivery systems.

Hossein Kashani

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
M.S., M.A., Columbia University

Development of software/hardware tools using image processing and pattern recognition, wireless web and handheld applications design.

Richard Meyers

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
M.S, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

Programming languages, semantics and the use of pseudocodes.

Mariam Ravan

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)

Her research interests include biomedical signal and image processing, statistical analysis, machine learning, microwave holography, radar systems and space time adaptive beamforming, and nondestructive testing.

Yoshikazu Saito

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering; Computer Science, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

Expertise: micro-controller interfacing and image compression.

George C. Salayka

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
M.S, Electrical Engineering, New York University

Electronic circuit design; electronics and communications technology; software applications.

Anand Santhanakrishnan

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Performance analysis of resource allocation schemes in cellular networks (thesis topic), data analytics for information propagation in social media, spectrum management and security in dynamic spectrum access networks and covert timing channels, biometrics and security in tele-robotics, dynamics of peer production projects and fast mm wave imaging.

Sabiha Wadoo

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech

Feedback Control of Nonlinear Control Systems, Nonlinear Control System Abstraction, Feedback Control of Distributed Parameter Systems.

M. Chris Wernicki

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

Fiber-optic telecommunications, data links and broadband network.

Energy Management/ Environmental Technology and Sustainability

Robert N. Amundsen

Associate Professor, Energy Management
Ph.D., Energy management and policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Energy management and policy.

Ehsan Kamel

Assistant Professor, Energy Management
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

His research focuses on physics-based building energy modeling (BEM), building information modeling (BIM) in BEM, energy-smart buildings, and building science.

Sarah J. Meyland

Associate Professor, Environmental Technology
J.D., St. John's University School of Law

Water resource management.

David Nadler

Assistant Professor, Environmental Technology and Sustainability
Ph.D. in Health Science from Touro University

Modeling health impacts of environmental systems and infrastructure; structural equation modeling; occupational safety and health; wastewater treatment; life cycle analysis.

Mechanical Engineering

Dorinamarina Carka

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin

Her area of expertise is mechanics of multifunctional materials and she specializes in computational solid mechanics, fracture and modeling of multifunctional, smart materials such as ferroelectrics and ferromagnetics at different length scales.

Tindaro Ioppolo

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Main research interests: Photonic sensors development for mechanical and aerospace applications, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, structural dynamics, elastic wave propagation, and acoustic wave-plasma interactions.

Fang Li

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Biosensors, Lab-on-a-chip devices, Acoustic wave sensors, and Stretchable electronics.

James Scire

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

Diverse, but they focus around combustion and optical sensors.