Faculty

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Pramod Abichandani

Assistant Teaching Professor, Drexel Engineering Core Curriculum
Office: Bossone 328
Phone: 215-571-3806
pva23@drexel.edu

Research: Optimal, multi-dimensional, data-driven decision-making, through the use of techniques from mathematical programming, linear and nonlinear systems theory, statistics, and machine learning.

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.

Tom Chmielewski

Assistant Teaching Professor, Drexel Engineering Core Curriculum
Office: Bossone 413I
Phone: 215.895.2254
tchmielewski@coe.drexel.edu

Research: Modeling and simulation of electro-mechanical systems; Optimal, Adaptive and Non-Linear Control; DC Motor Control; System Identification; Kalman Filters (Smoothing Algorithms, tracking); image processing, Robot design; Biometric technology and design of embedded systems for control applications utilizing MATLAB and SIMULINK

Andrew Cohen

Assistant Professor
Office: Bossone 110
Phone: +1 215 517 4358
acohen@coe.drexel.edu

Research: Image processing; multi-target tracking; statistical pattern recognition and machine learning; algorithmic information theory; 5-D visualization.

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 and Associate Dean of Research
Office: LeBow 239
Phone: +1 215 895 2228
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

Associate 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 and Vice Dean, College of Engineering
Office: Center for Automation Technology 170
Phone: +1 215 895 2359
eisenstein@ece.drexel.edu

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

Adam Fontecchio

Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
Office: University Crossings 120
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.

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.

Mark Hempstead

Junior Colehower Chair Assistant Professor
Office: Bossone 413c
Phone: +1 215 571 3688
mhempstead@coe.drexel.edu

Research: Computer engineering; power-aware computing; computer architecture; low power VLSI design; wireless sensor networks

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 Special Projects
Office: Bossone 310
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.

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

Associate 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

Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Media Technologies
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; Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs and Director of the BSE Program
Office: Bossone 313b
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.

Mohammad Madihian

Adjunct Professor
Office:
Phone: +1 919 641 5683
madihian@ieee.org

Research: Solid-state device-circuit interaction; microwave and millimeter-wave monolithic circuit design and evaluation technology; solid-state power generation/amplification/mixing technology; single/multi-mode wireless RF/IF transceiver technology

Karen Miu

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

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

Bahram Nabet

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

Research: High speed semiconductor devices (photodetectors and transistors); optoelectronics; nanoelectronics; plasma electronics; and nanophotonics.

Prawat Nagvajara

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

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

Vasileios Nasis

Associate Teaching Professor
Office: Bossone 413g
Phone: +1 215 895 2257
vtn23@drexel.edu

Research: Imaging with MOEMS, Projection systems using MEMS/MOEMS, Wireless communications, Remote monitoring, sensor networks.

Dagmar E. Niebur

Associate Professor
Office: Bossone 402
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.

Christopher Peters

Adjunct Professor
Office: Bossone 512
Phone: +1 215 895 6604
cpeters@coe.drexel.edu

Research: Nuclear reactor design; ionizing radiation detection; nuclear forensics; power plant reliability and risk analysis; naval/marine power and propulsion; directed energy/high power microwaves; nonstationary signal processing; radar; electronic survivability/susceptibility to harsh environments; electronic warfare

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.

Richard Primerano

Assistant Teaching Professor, Drexel Engineering Core Curriculum
Office: Bossone 413H
Phone: 215.895.2315
richard.anthony.primerano@drexel.edu

Research: biologically inspired robotics, robot locomotion, signal processing, ultrasonic data transmission

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 Professor
Office: Bossone 413c
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.

James Shackleford

Assistant Professor
Office: Bossone 211
Phone: 215.571.4269
shack@drexel.edu

Research: Medical image processing, high performance computing, embedded systems,
computer vision, machine learning

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.

Baris Taskin

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

Research: Electronic Design Automation (EDA) of VLSI Circuits, High-Performance Circuits, Resonant Clocking, Integrated Circuit (IC) Physical Design, Nanoarchitectures and Wireless IC Interconnects

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

Research: Imaging and image processing.

Yon Visell

Assistant Professor
Office: Bossone 602
Phone: 215.571.4507
yon.visell@drexel.edu

Research: Dr. Visell focuses on haptic display engineering, material and biomechanical contact physics, and the neuroscientific and physical basis of human tactile sensation/perception. His work is motivated by tasks including haptic human-machine interaction, sensorimotor learning, and interaction in virtual reality.

John MacLaren Walsh

Associate 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

Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Affairs
Office: Bossone 313d
Phone: +1 215 895 0254
sweber@ece.drexel.edu

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