College of Engineering and Computer Science Faculty

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Mo Abdallah, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., 2010
Computer Engineering

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

Michael Blatchley, Assistant Professor
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, August 2019
4D Biomaterials, Organoids, Vascularization, Extracellular Matrix, Tissue Morphogenesis

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

Jesse Q. Bond, 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

Katie D. Cadwell, Associate 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

Yue Cao, Assistant Teaching Faculty
MS, Ohio State University, 2016, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robotics and AI

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, Research 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
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985
Theoretical/ computational fluid dynamics of internal/external flows

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, Research Professor
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

Rodrick Kuate Defo, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2020
Development of ab-initio solid-state materials theory for improved accuracy of first-principles material-property predictions

Alexander Deyhim, Kenneth and Mary Ann Shaw Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurial Leadership
MBA, Cornell University, 1998
MEng, Cornell University, 1993
Entrepreneurship, Engineering Design, Innovation

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

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, Associate 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

Matthew Erdman, Assistant Teaching Professor
P.h.D Florida State University, 2020
High speed flows

Makan Fardad, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006
Comvex optimization; Design and optimal control of complex networks; Synchronization and consensus 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 BioInspired 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

Natarajan Gautam, Professor
Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997
Performacne modeling, analytics, control and optimization, queues and networks, applied probability

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

Mark N. Glauser, Emeritus 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, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Department Chair
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 1999
Biomaterials, nerve regeneration, spinal cord injury

James H. Henderson, Full Professor; Associate Director, BioInspired Institute 
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 Systems

Pankaj K. Jha, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2012
Quantum information science, quantum sensing and metrology, quantum nano- and meta-photonics, bio-inspired materials, bio-nano interfaces, and machine learning

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

Alex K. Jones, Klaus Schroder Professor of Engineering; Department Chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2002
Computer architecture and compilers

Dennis Joyce, Adjunct Professor

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

Kasey Laurent, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2022 (in progress)
Atmospheric turbulence on flight, flight performance of eagles and unmanned aerial vehicles

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, Emeritus Professor
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

Min Liu, Professor and Abdallah H. Yabroudi Endowed Professor in Sustainable Civil Infrastructure
Ph.D. in Engineering Project Management, University of California Berkeley, 2007
Lean Construction; Work module development for Digital Twin design; data mining and machine learning approaches for intelligent construction planning

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

Aoyi Luo, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2020
Mechanics, materials and computational methods for design, manufacturing and robotics.

Juntao Luo, Affiliate Professor
PhD, NanKai University, 2003
Drug Delivery, Nanomedicine, Biomaterials in Tissue Engineering, Gene Delivery and Gene Therapy

Zhen Ma, Associate 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
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, Full Professor, Chair of MAE Graduate Affairs Committee
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
Machine learning, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, 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, system simulation

Shikha Nangia, Full Professor; Graduate Biomedical Engineering Program Director
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

Gabriel Silva de Oliveira, Assistant Teaching Professor
MS, North Carolina State University, 2021, Computer Science
Computer Science Education

Joan Paulo Oliveira Marum, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., University of Mississippi, 2021
Reactive Programming, Self-adjusting Computation, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Software Engineering, Multi-paradigm programming, Programming Patters, Data Structures

Anupam Pandey, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Twente, 2018
Programmable soft surfaces, flexible metamaterials, elasto-fluidic composites, ultra-soft gels

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

Jason Pollack, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2017
Quantum Information, thermalization and decoherence, quantum gravity

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

Younes Ra’di, Assistant Professor 
Sc.D., Aalto University, 2015 
Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics, RF and Microwave Engineering, Antennas and Propagation, Electromagnetics of Artificial Materials and Surfaces

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, 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

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.

Ian Shapiro, Professor of Practice
M.S. Columbia University 1983
Heat pumps, decarbonization, green building design.

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

Martinez Soto, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 2024
Teaching and assessment for conceptual understanding, curriculum development, student cultural competencies

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

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

Svetoslava Todorova, Professor of Practice, Program Director, Environmental Engineering
MPA, Syracuse University, 2011; Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2012
Nutrients and Metals in Freshwater Ecosystems; Smart Water Monitoring; Sustainable Urban Infrastructure

John Trimmer, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019
Water and sanitation in resource-constrained communities; Sustainability analysis of water, sanitation, and resource systems

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/information 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

Yaoying Wu, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2014
Immunoengineering, polymer engineering, biomaterials

Eric Wing, Adjunct Professor

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

Reza Zafarani, Associate 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

Dr. Junzhe Zhang, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2023, Computer Science
Causal Reinforcement Learning

Yi Zheng, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2014
Stem cell-based microengineered systems

Fernando Zigunov, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Florida State University 2020
High-speed flows