College of Engineering and Computer Science Faculty

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Riyad S. Aboutaha, Associate Professor and Senior Associate Dean
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1994
Structural design, evaluation, and rehabilitation; structural concrete and composites; infrastructure renewal

Jeongmin Ahn, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California 2006
Energy Conversion, Combustion, Thermal Management, PowerMEMS

Benjamin Akih-Kumgeh, Associate Professor
Ph.D., McGill University, Canada, 2011
Combustion Physics & Chemistry; Fuel Technology.

Ercument Arvas, Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1983
RF/Microwave devices and circuits, electromagnetic scattering

Shobha K. Bhatia, Professor, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1980
Geosynthetic applications, image processing, soil dynamics, geo-environmental

Howard A. Blair, Emeritus Associate Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1980
Knowledge Representation and Automated, hybrid systems, formal methods and verification

Jesse Q. Bond, Associate Professor, Gustav A. Mezger Professor and Graduate Chemical Engineering Program Director
Ph.D.,, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2009
Heterogeneous catalysis, Kinetics, Reaction engineering, and Alternative resource utilization

Tomislav Bujanovic, Associate Teaching Professor
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western Michigan University, 2009
Distributed energy integration and control in Smart Grid; Dynamic optimization of grid operations; Demand response and ancillary services; Smart home network; Synchrophasor measurement technology; Smart Grid communication; Smart Grid cybersecurity; Medical signal analysis; Motion estimation in time-varying images; Power Engineering;

Katie D. Cadwell, Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Program Director
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison 2007
Development of engineering faculty attitudes and pedagogy; Development of engineering student professional skills, K-12 engineering outreach

Frederick J. Carranti, Associate Professor of Practice Emeritus
M.S.M.E., Syracuse University, 1994
Licensed professional engineer, energy system analysis, manufacturing processes

Joseph Chaiken, Professor, Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Illinois 1982
Spectroscopy

David G. Chandler, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1998
Hydrology, soil physics, environmental monitoring

Biao Chen, Professor
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1999
Signal processing, Communication and Information Theory

C.Y. Roger Chen, Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1987 CAD for
VLSI physical synthesis and multimedia information technologies

Ruth Chen, Professor of Practice
Ph.D., MPH, University of Michigan
Risk assessment; Environmental regulation; Injurious effect of environmental chemicals; Aerosol delivery of chemo-preventive agents; Alternative energy; Environmental education; Metabolism of hepatotoxic aliphatic halogenated hydrocarbons

Shiu-Kai Chin, Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1986
Formal verification, security, access control

Samuel P. Clemence, Professor Emeritus, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1973
Soil mechanics, geotechnical engineering, foundation engineering

Andria Costello Staniec, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Department Chair
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1999
Environmental biology

Thong Dang, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate Program Director
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985
Theoretical/ computational fluid dynamics of internal/external flows

Joan V. Dannenhoffer, Associate Professor
M.S., University of Connecticut, 1998; MBA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1986
Engineering education pedagogy, engineering mechanics, groundwater remediation

John F. Dannenhoffer, Associate Professor
Program Director of Aerospace Engineering
Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
Computational fluid dynamics, modeling and analysis in industry, collaborative education

Barry D. Davidson, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1988
Mechanics of composite materials, fracture mechanics, solid mechanics

Cliff I. Davidson, Thomas C. and Colleen L. Wilmot Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Program Director Environmental Engineering
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Engineering sustainability, air quality, water management through green infrastructure

R. Leland Davis, Research Faculty
M.S., University of Michigan
Indoor environmental quality

Kimberley M. Driscoll, Research Faculty
M.S.E.G., Syracuse University, 1991
Environmental systems engineering

Charles T. Driscoll Jr., University Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1979
Aquatic chemistry, biogeochemistry, environmental modeling

Wenliang (Kevin) Du, Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2001
Computer system and network security; data mining (security and privacy issues); security in wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks; security education

Gino Duca, Adjunct Instructor
M.S., Chemical Engineering Syracuse University, 2009
Process Design, Thermodynamics

Charles E. Ebbing, Adjunct Professor
M.S.E.E., SUNY, University at Buffalo, 1966
Acoustic consulting, sound quality, community noise, noise criteria, sound measurements, test facilities, creative problem solving

Sara Eftekharnejad, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2012
Power system operations planning; State estimation; Transmission expansion planning

Gustav A. Engbretson, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Zoology, University of Oklahoma, 1976

Ehat Ercanli, Associate Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1997
VLSI, computer-aided design, design automation for digital systems, computer architecture

Makan Fardad, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006
Structured control of spatially distributed and large-scale systems, input-output analysis of PDEs with periodic coefficients, parametric resonance in spatio-temporal systems

Bart Farell, Research Associate Professor
Ph.D., McGill University, 1977
Affiliate Member, Institute for Sensory Research. Visual psychophysics, visual object recognition

James W. Fawcett, Emeritus Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1981
Software, software complexity, re-use, salvage

Eric B. Finkelstein, Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical & Chemical Engineering & Lab Manager, Syracuse Biomaterials Institute
Ph.D., Anatomy and Cell Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 2002
Vascular cell biology; Biomaterials, Tissue engineering, Cell-material interactions, Bioreplication,  Engineered vascular networks

Prasanta Ghosh, Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1986
Microelectronics, solid state devices, optoelectronics, thin film processes, power engineering

Mark N. Glauser, Professor
Ph.D., University at Buffalo, SUNY, 1987
Turbulence, flow control, fluid mechanics of built environments, dynamical systems, unsteady aerodynamics, heat transfer, acoustics, applied mathematics, signal processing and instrumentation

Amrit L. Goel, Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968
Software engineering: data mining applications, radial basis function models

Jennifer Graham, Assistant Teaching Professor, Program Director, EECS
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2012
Electromagnetic wave behavior in complex media; Antenna design and characterization; RF and microwave design; Radar systems engineering

Melissa Green, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2009
Experimental Fluid Dynamics

Mustafa Cenk Gursoy, Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2004
Wireless Communications, Information Theory, Communication Networks, and Signal Processing.

Julie M. Hasenwinkel, Associate Professor, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Department Chair
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 1999.
Biomaterials, nerve regeneration, spinal cord injury

James H. Henderson, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2004
Biomaterials/Tissue engineering, Mechanobiology, Biomechanics

John C. Heydweiller, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University 1977

Ian Hosein, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, 2009
Sustainable energy, Materials synthesis and processing, Spontaneousprocess in materials, Device fabrication and measurements

Can Isik, Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1985
Applications of Neural Nets and Fuzzy Logic, Intelligent Systems, Controls, Medical Instrumentation, Environmental Control Systems

Chris E. Johnson, Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1989
Environmental geochemistry, soil chemistry, statistical modeling

H. Ezzat Khalifa, Professor Emeritus & Research Professor
Ph.D., Brown University, 1976
Thermofluid dynamics of environmental control and energy systems, fluid machinery, valuation of technology

Philipp Kornreich, Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1967
Fiber light amplifiers,lasers, optical fibers, image propagation through fibers

Andrew Chung-Yeung Lee, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 1998
Artificial intelligence, data structures, operating systems, software engineering, computer theory, computer security

Jay Kyoon Lee, Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985
Electromagnetic fields and waves, microwave remote sensing, antennas and propagation, waves in complex media

Raymond D. Letterman, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1972
Physical-chemical separation in water and wastewater treatment

Alan J. Levy, Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1982
Theoretical and applied mechanics, applied mathematics

Jacques Lewalle, Research Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1981
Fluid mechanics, thermodynamics

Eric Mun Lui, Associate Professor, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1985
Computer-aided analysis and design of structures, structural stability, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering

Yan-Yeung Luk, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Chicago 2001
Bio-organic and chemical biology; Nanomaterials; Biosurfaces

Zhen Ma, Assistant Professor, Samuel & Carol Nappi Research Scholar
Ph.D., Clemson University
Developmental biology and tissue morphogenesis, cardiac tissue engineering
and regenerative medicine, stem cell engineering

Sinead Mac Namara, Assistant Professor and Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Ph.D., Princeton University 2007
Innovation and creativity in structural engineering education; structural art; community engaged design-build; and the structural performance of shell structures

James A. Mandel, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1967
Composite materials, fiber reinforced concrete, curved bridge design, finite element analysis

Duane L. Marcy, Associate Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1996
Semiconductor manufacturing, processes, and devices; molecular electronics using the protein bacteriorhodopsin with applications of volumetric and holographic memories and thin films for semiconductor-protein based devices

Shalabh Maroo, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida, 2009
Multi-scale transport phenomenon, Thermal Management and Bio-mechanical Systems

Kishan G. Mehrotra, Professor Emeritus, Research Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1971
Multisensor scene analysis, algorithms, neural networks and genetic algorithms; earlier work in statistical inference includes reliability theory, coding theory, time series analysis

Chilukuri K. Mohan, Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1988
Artificial intelligence, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, optimization, pattern recognition, uncertainty

Young Bai Moon, William J. Smith Professor in Manufacturing Enterprises; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Chair
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1988
Cyber-manufacturing systems, manufacturing security, machine learning applications, system simulation

Shikha Nangia, Assistant Professor and Graduate Bioengineering Program Director
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2006
Multiscale computational modeling of nanomaterials and targeted cancer drug delivery

Dawit Negussey, Professor
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1985
Geotechnical engineering, experimental soil mechanics, stress strain behavior

Kent Ogden, Adjunct Associate Professor
Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin, 1999 Biomedical Imaging

Jae C. Oh, Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2000
Cooperation in multi-agent systems, application of game theory and artificial intelligence techniques to the Internet and distributed computer systems, evolutionary algorithms, game theory, search and optimization algorithms, machine learning algorithms

Susan Older, Associate Professor, Program Director, EECS
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1996
Semantics of programming languages, concurrency, fairness, logics of programs, formal methods

Daniel J. Pease, Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1981
Design and development of shared and distributed parallel systems, software and tools; performance optimization for multi-thread client/server application in C, C++, Ada, Java, and .NET applications on different parallel architectures, including mobile wireless systems and cyber security on mobile systems

Vir V. Phoha, Professor
Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 1992
Cyber Security - Cyber offense and defense; Machine Learning; Smart phones and tablets security; Biometrics - network based and standalone

Peter W. Plumley, Research Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1984
Paleomagnetism and Displacement of Tectonic Terranes, Science education, K-12 outreach

Qinru Qiu, Professor, Program Director, Graduate Programs in EECS
Ph.D., University of Southern California 2001
Dynamic power, thermal and performance management of multiprocessor system-onchip Power and performance optimization of energy harvesting real-time embedded systems Neuromorphic computing and high performance computing for bioinformatics and cognitive applications

Dana Radcliffe, Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1996
Ethical issues in engineering and research, Business ethics

Dacheng Ren, Associate Professor, Milton and Ann Stevenson Professor
of Biomedical & Chemical Engineering, Interim Director Syracuse Biomaterials
Institute, and Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2003
Biomaterials/Tissue engineering, Corrosion and electrochemistry, Indoor air 
quality/environmental engineering, Molecular  biotechnology, Sustainable
energy production, Systems biology

Philip A. Rice, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1963

Jorge Luis Romeu, Research Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1990
Statistical modeling, data analysis, simulation modeling, operations research

Utpal Roy, Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1989
Computer-integrated design and manufacturing, development and application of operations research, finite-element methods, geometric modeling, computational geometry, artificial intelligence techniques

James S. Royer, Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1984
Theory of the computational complexity of higher-type functionals, structural computational complexity theory, computational learning theory, biological computing

Baris Salman, Professor of Practice
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Construction Project Management and Scheduling, Construction Equipment, Sustainable Infrastructures and Asset Management, Civil Engineering Material, Principles of Transportation Engineering

Ashok Sangani, Professor
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 1982
Complex fluids, soft condensed matter, rheology; Molecular biotechnology; Multiple phase systems; Mathematical and numerical analysis

Suresh Santanam, Adjunct, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Professor, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering; Associate Director, Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems
Sc.D., Harvard University, 1989
Air pollution fundamentals, control and design, hazardous wastes management, green engineering, statistical and experimental methods, energy efficiency, sustainable built environments, indoor environmental quality, health effects, human performance and productivity, innovation and entrepreneurship

Tapan K. Sarkar, Emeritus Professor
Docteur Honoris Causa de l’Universite Blaise Pascal, France; Docteur Honoris Causa, Politechnic University of Madrid, Spain, 2004; Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1975
Analysis and design of electromagnetic radiation from various devices like computers, radio-television towers, and satellite and cable broadcasting system; design of mobile adaptive communication systems including antennas; analysis intelligent signal processing

Fred Schlereth, Research Associate Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1969
Past research interests include: Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer, Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometer, Quartz Crystal Vacuum Deposition Monitor, Halogen Gas Leak Detector; Analog and Digital Signal Processing and Circuit Design, VLSI Circuit Design; Architecture, Algorithms and Hardware for Parallel Computation; VLSI Cellular Array Computer; Distribution-free Detection Theory, Imaging in Dispersive Media; Neural Networks for Financial Applications. Current research interests include: design of VLSI Signal Processing Circuits for Software Defined Radio.

Klaus Schroder, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Göttingen, 1954

Walter H. Short, Adjunct, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Research Professor; Department of Orthopedic Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University
M.D., SUNY Upstate Medical University, 1975
Orthopedic biomechanics

Ernest Sibert, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Rice University, 1967
Computational logic, logic programming, and parallel computation

J. Cole Smith, Professor and Dean
Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 2000
Operations research; combinatorial optimization; non-convex programming

Robert L. Smith, Emeritus Professor and Director of the Institute for Sensory Research
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1973

Pranav Soman, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2009
Bioprinting, Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Additive manufacturing (3D printing)

Q. Wang Song, Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1989
Photonic switching, fiber communications, electro-optics, guided-wave optical devices, optical sensors

Sucheta Soundarajan, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2013
Detecting and characterizing communities in networks; Understanding how community structure contributes to network evolution; Identifying and characterizing classes of networks; Theoretical and axiomatic approaches to understanding networks; Interesting applications of the above in areas such as computational sustainability

Alexander Stern, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1952
Structure/permeability relationships of ‘rubbery’ and ‘glassy’ ploymers; membrane processes for the separation of gases, vapors, and liquids.

Shelley K. Stevens, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., SUNY Upstate Medical University, 2007
Tissue Engineering

Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, Distinguished Professor, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering; Chair
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 1996
Complex fluids, Soft condensed matter, Rheology, Multiple phase systems, Nanotechnology, Sustainable energy production, Systems biology/metabolic engineering, Mathematical and numerical analysis

Jian Tang, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2006
Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing, Green Computing and Networking, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Algorithm Design and Analysis

Lawrence L. Tavlarides, Professor
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1968
Indoor air quality/environmental engineering; Multiple phase systems; Sustainable energy production, Nuclear engineering

Chi Tien, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1958

Svetoslava Todorova
Ph.D., Syracuse University, Professor of Practice
Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, Sustainable Engineering, Water and Wastewater Treatment

Pramod K. Varshney, Distinguished Professor; Research Director, NY State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE)
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1976
Communications, signal and image processing, multisensor data/information fusion, remote sensing, wireless communications, detection theory

Thomas D. Vedder, Instructor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
B.S., Syracuse University, 1970
Mechanical laboratory experimentation, microprocessor machine control design

Senem Velipasalar, Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2007
Computer Vision, Video/Image Processing, Battery-Powered Embedded Smart Camera Systems, Distributed Multi-Camera Systems, Pattern Recognition, Statistical Learning, Signal Processing and Information Theory

David S. Wazenkewitz, Adjunct
B.S., Syracuse University
Environmental engineering and solid waste management

Volker Weiss, Professor Emeritus & Research Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Physics
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1957
Mechanical behavior of solids, materials science and engineering; computer applications

Pun To (Douglas) Yung, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2008
MEMS and microfluidics, biosensor development, microbial engineering,
astrobiology

Reza Zafarani, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2014
Big data, mainly in the order of billions, analyzing human behavior at scale using social media, and mining large-scale social media sites

Jianshun S. Zhang, Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1991
Building environmental and mechanical systems, materials emissions and indoor air quality, room air and contaminant distributions, multizone air and air contaminant transports in buildings, building energy efficiency, integrated computer simulation tools for building environmental and mechanical system design, system analysis and optimization

Josef J. Zwislocki, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Sc.D., Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich 1948