The People of DSRC

Elliot Anshelevich

Elliot works in the area of algorithms and theoretical computer science, especially on issues at the intersection of Economics and Computation.

Kristin Bennett

Dr. Bennett's research specialty is working with people with problems and data and then developing novel machine learning and AI models and work flows to solve their problems.

B Wayne Bequette

B. Wayne Bequette's research efforts are focused on the modeling and control of biomedical and chemical process systems.

Selmer Bringsjord

Selmer Bringsjord specializes in the logico-mathematical and philosophical foundations of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive science, and in collaboratively building AI systems on the basis of computational logic.

Tianyi Chen

Dr. Chen's current research focuses on the theory and application of optimization, machine Learning, and statistical signal processing to problems emerging in data science and wireless communication networks.

Brian Clark

Professor Clark's research focuses on financial intermediation and risk management with an emphasis on machine learning.

Frank Cunha

Professor Cunha's research focuses on Turbomachinery Development and Turbine Blade Analysis, Advanced Thermodynamics and Energy Systems, Solid and Fluid Mechanics, Computer Modeling and Simulation, Heat Transfer Testing, Slot Cooling and Thermal-Mechanical Fatique.

Barbara Cutler

Professor Cutler's research interests include computer graphics, geometry processing, visualization, and design tools for architecture.

Mark Embrechts

Professor Embrechts' research focuses on Data Mining, Big Data, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Computational Intelligence, Biocomputing, Drug Design, Big Data for Renewable Energy and Statistics.

W. Randolph Franklin

W. Randolph Franklin's current research hobby is designing and implementing small, simple, and fast data structures and algorithms for large geometric datasets.

Jianxi Gao

Jianxi Gao's research is focused on using network theory, control theory, statistic physics, and operation research to understand, predict, and ultimately control the resilience, cascading failures of complex systems.

Alex Gittens

Dr. Gittens' interests lie in applying randomness to computational linear algebra, machine learning, and statistics, and are motivated by the goal of efficiently extracting information from massive data sets while maintaining guarantees on rigor and accuracy.

Aparna Gupta

Dr. Gupta's interest is in developing enterprise risk management strategies and analyzing incentives for risk management.

Mona M Hella

Dr. Hella's research interests include the areas of mm-wave and THz circuits and systems, energy harvesting and sensor design.

Jason E. Hicken

Professor Hicken's research is focused on Simulation-based Design, Optimization, Aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Shape Optimization.

Xavier Intes

Professor Intes' research is focused on biomedical imaging, biomedical instrumentation, medical devices, biophotonics and Deep Learning.

David Isaacson

Professor Isaacson works in two areas: mathematical physics and medical imaging.

Qiang Ji

Professor Ji's research focuses on Computer Vision, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Machine Learning, Affective Computing, Human Behavior and State Modeling, Monitoring, and Recognition, Natural Human and Machine Interactions, Active Information Fusion for Situation Awareness and Decision Making under Uncertainty.

Fotis Kopsaflapoulos

Professor Kopsaflapoulos' research focuses on intelligent structural systems, structural health monitoring diagnostics and prognostics, stochastic system identification and machine learning, fly-by-feel aerial vehicles, bio-inspired systems and smart materials and structures.

Gregor Kovacic

Professor Kovacic's current research interests include studies of nonlinear evolution equations and their scientific applications, particularly in dispersive waves, optics, and neuroscience.

Peter Kramer

Dr. Kramer's research focuses on the application of ideas and techniques from probability theory and differential equations to model and analyze complex systems which evolve in time and involve too many variables to represent explicitly in a practical computational model.

Rongjie Lai

Dr. Lai’s research interests are mainly in developing mathematical and computational tools for analyzing and processing signals, images as well as unorganized data using methods of variational partial differential equations, computational differential geometry and learning.

K. V. Lakshmi

Professor Lakshmi's research focuses on Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biophysical Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Cheminformatics and Computational Chemistry, Polymers, Materials and Energy, Green Chemistry and Sustainability, Solar Energy Conversion, Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.

Daniel Lewis

Professor Lewis' computational work involves study of morphological evolution during processing and image driven machine learning.

Chjan Lim

Professor Lim's research focuses on Network Science, Computations on networks, Applied Stochastics, Vortex Dynamics, Statistical physics and turbulence, Symmetric Dynamical Systems and Combinatorial Matrix Theory.

Malik Magdon-Ismail

Professor Malik's research interests are in decision making from data in complex systems, including machine learning, computational finance and social and communication networks.

Amit Mathur

Professor Mathur's research focuses on Systems Modeling and Optimization and Systems Requirements and Integration.

Deborah L McGuinness

Professor McGuinness' main research thrusts are in languages, tools, and environments for the semantic web.

John Mitchell

Professor Mitchell's interests are in various areas of optimization. From a theoretical point of view, he develops algorithms for integer optimization, conic optimization problems, and problems with complementarity constraints, areas that have multiple applications in allocation of resources as well as in other areas of science.

Ana Milanova

Professor Milanova's research centers around static program analysis and its applications in software productivity and security.

Peter Olausson

Professor Olausson's research focuses on Artificial General Intelligence, Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning and Complexity and Network Science.

Rahmi Ozisik

Professor Ozisik's research focuses on Computational Modeling and Simulations, Polymer nanocomposites, Polymer processing and characterization, Protein structure and dynamics, and Supercritical fluid assisted processing.

Rushabh Padalia

Professor Padalia's research focuses on Data Science, Advanced Analytics, Big Data, Data Management, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Data Governance and Data Architecture.

Santiago Paternain

Dr. Paternain's research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and control of dynamical systems.

Stacy Patterson

Professor Patterson's research interests are in the area of distributed machine learning, edge and cloud computing, and networked systems.

Jennifer Ann Pazour

Dr. Jennifer Pazour’s research and teaching interests focus on the development and use of mathematical models to guide decision making for supply chain and logistics challenges.

Richard Radke

Dr. Radke's current research interests involve computer vision problems related to human-scale, occupant-aware environments, such as person tracking and re-identification with cameras and range sensors.

Trevor David Rhone

Trevor David Rhone's research interests involve using machine learning tools for materials discovery and knowledge discovery.

Tomek Strzalkowski

Prof. Tomek Strzalkowski research interests span a wide spectrum of human language technology including computational linguistics and sociolinguistics, socio-behavioral computing, interactive information retrieval, question-answering, human-computer dialogue, serious games, social media analytics, formal semantics, and reversible grammars.

Boleslaw Szymanski

Professor Szymanski research interests cover the broad area of network science with current focus on social and computer networks.

Ali Tajer

Professor Tajer's research focuses on Machine Learning and Information Theory.

Bram Van Heuveln

Dr. van Heuveln’s research is in the area of visual logic: using visual representations to perform and enhance logical reasoning.

Daniel Walczyk

Professor Walczyk's research focuses on Rapid Tooling, Environmentally Conscious Design and Machine Design.

Ge Wang

Professor Wang's interests include medical imaging and artificial intelligence especially deep learning.

Meng Wang

Professor Wang's research areas involve machine learning and data analytics, power system monitoring, signal processing, and optimization methods.

Lirong Xia

Professor Xia's research focuses on the intersection of computer science and microeconomics, in particular computational social choice, game theory, mechanism design, and prediction markets.

Yangyang Xu

Dr. Xu's broad research interests are optimization theory and methods and their applications such as in machine learning, statistics, and signal processing.

Pingkun Yan

The research goals Dr. Yan are to quantify, augment and visualize the information residing in large-scale multi-modality medical imaging data using artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies.

Birsen Yazici

Prof. Yazıcı’s research interests span the areas of statistical signal processing, inverse problems in imaging, applied mathematics, remote sensing, biomedical optics, and radar.

Bülent Yener

Professor Yener's current research interests include applied machine learning in bioinformatics, medical informatics, and cyber security.

Mohammed Zaki

Professor Zaki's research interests focus on developing novel data mining techniques, especially in bioinformatics.

Hao Zhao

Professor Zhao’s primary research interest is on factors that encourage people to become entrepreneurs and succeed, such as self-efficacy, personality, age, team dynamics, and entrepreneurship education.

Yalun Helen Zhou

Boleslaw Szymanski Professor Zhou research involves second language acquisition, multimodal literacy design with emerging technology, and user experience on different platforms (e.g., 2D, 3D, and immersive).