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

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, Associate Teaching 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

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, John E. and Patricia A. Breyer Professor in Electrical Engineering
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1999
Signal processing, Communication and Information Theory

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; Program Coordinator, Cybersecurity MS
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
Engineering education, access and retention in STEM, applied environmental microbiology

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
Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
Computational fluid dynamics, modeling and analysis in industry, collaborative education

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
Sustainability in Engineering, air quality, green infrastructure for stormwater management, environmental policy

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

Omar El Masri, Adjunct Professor

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

Ehat Ercanli, Associate Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1997
Design automation for embedded systems, computer architecture, database systems, system verification and testing

Makan Fardad, Associate Professor
Ph.,D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006
Convex optimization; Design and optimal control complex networks; Synchronization and consensus in multi-agent systems

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, Associate Teaching Professor, Program Director, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Programs
Ph.D. Syracuse University, 2012
Electromagnetic wave behavior in complex media; Antenna design and characterization; RF and microwave design; Radar systems engineering

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

Julie M. Hasenwinkel, 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, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, 2009
Sustainable energy, Materials synthesis and processing, Spontaneous process in materials, Device fabrication and measurements

Can Isik, Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1985
Applications of Artificial Intelligence; Controls; Medical Instrumentation; Environmental Control System

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

Dennis Joyce, Adjunct Professor

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; Program Coordinator, Systems and Information Science BS
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 1998
Algorithms and data structures; artificial intelligence; computer science education; cryptography; history of computing; theory of computing

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

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

Eric M. Lui, Associate Professor, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, Structural Engineering, 1985
Numerical modeling, steel-design, 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

Duane L. Marcy, Associate Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1996
Undergraduate Laboratory Education, focusing on Linear Systems, EPGAs, Microcontrollers, Embedded Systems, Robotics, and Undergraduate Student Projects

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

George C. Martin, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota 1976
Complex fluids, soft condensed matter, rheology

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
Machine learning, neural networks, evolutionary algoriths, bioinformatics, anomaly detection

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

Shikha Nangia, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2006
Multiscale computational modeling of nanomaterials and targeted cancer drug delivery

Dawit Negussey, Professor and Graduate Dean’s Faculty Fellow for Diversity and Inclusion
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1985
Geotechnical and transportation engineering, sustainable and adaptive infrastructures, innovative sensors and forensic investigations, properties and applications of geofoam, diversity and inclusion in STEM

Jae C. Oh, David G. Edelstein Professor for Broadening Participation; Department 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, Engineering Materials, Structures and Materials, Mechanics of Solids

Qinru Qiu, Professor, Program Director, Graduate Programs in EECS
Ph.D., University of Southern California 2001
Neuromorphic Computing; Cyber Physical Systems; Dynamic Power; Thermal and Performance Management; Real-time Embedded Machine Intelligence; Computer Aided Design Automation

David  E. Quinn, Adjunct-Instructor
B.S., Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008
Analytical algorithm, Embedded system development, biomedical instrumentation

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

Dacheng Ren, Professor, Milton and Ann Stevenson Professor
of Biomedical & Chemical Engineering, 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

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, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 2010
Infrastructure Asset Management, Construction Engineering and Project Management, Sustainable Development, Information Technology and Visualization

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; Research 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

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, Associate 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, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2013
Developing algorithms for large scale complex and social network analysis, including algorithms for network data collection and exploration, measuring and improving fairness in network structure and network analysis, and characterizing hierarchy and resilience in network structure

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
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

Robert Tanchak, Adjunct Professor

Jian Tang, Research Professor
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, Professor of Practice
MPA, Syracuse University, 2011; Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2012
Nutrients and Metals in Freshwater Ecosystems; Smart Water Monitoring; Sustainable Urban Infrastructure

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
Data/informatoin fusion; Wireless communications; Signal processing; Statistical inference; Cybersecurity; Machine learning and Human-machine teaming

Senem Velipasalar, Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2007
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Video/Image Processing, Mobile Camera Applications, Embedded Smart Cameras, Distributed Multi-Camera Systems, Pattern Recognition, 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

Eric Wing, Adjunct Professor

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