school of electrical engineering & computer science...
TRANSCRIPT
Faculty ProfilesSCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
Margaret BurnettDistinguished Professor
PhD University of Kansas
Expertise: Human issues of programming & software engineering,
specifically: end-user programming, end-user software engineering, information foraging theory as applied to programming, how gender issues relate to software
Notable: NSF Young Investigator; ACM CHI Academy; NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award; IBM International Faculty Awards; two patents; IEEE VL/HCC Most Influential Paper Award Over the Last 20 Years; OSU Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award
Danny DigAssistant Professor
PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Expertise: Automated refactoring; software
design & architectural patterns; concurrency & parallelism; object-oriented frameworks, software development processes; software testing; software evolution
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; contributor to the Eclipse and NetBeans development environments; founded two workshop series on refactoring tools and software upgrades; chaired or co-organized 11 workshops; member of 28 program committees
Martin ErwigProfessor
PhD University of Hagen
Expertise: Functional programming; end-user programming; visual
languages and domain-specific languages
Notable: Associate editor, Journal of Visual Languages & Computing; author of two books; one patent
Alex GroceAssociate Professor
PhD Carnegie Mellon University
Expertise: Testing; coverage metrics;
explicit-state model checking; verification of embedded systems; specification of software; error explanation and automated debugging; connections between machine learning and verification and testing
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Carlos JensenAssociate Professor
PhD Georgia Institute of Technology
Expertise: Human-computer interaction;
computer-mediated communication; computer-supported cooperative work; software engineering; social computing; online communities; human factors in security and privacy
Cherri M. PancakeProfessor Emeritus
PhD Auburn University
Expertise: User requirements and usability engineering;
user interface design; cyberinfrastructure; virtual communities; computational and data portals for practicing scientists and engineers
Notable: ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow; Woman of Distinction, Oregon Commission on Women; founder of: Parallel Tools Consortium, High Performance Debugging Forum, Network for Earthquake Engineering & Simulation Consortium, ACM Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing
Anita Sarma Associate Professor
PhD University of California, Irvine
Expertise: Coordination and collaboration
in distributed teams; configuration management systems; software maintenance and evolution; software visualization
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Christopher ScaffidiAssociate Professor
PhD Carnegie Mellon University
Expertise: End-user programming; end-user
software engineering; system design; visual programming; HCI of programming tools
Notable: Former director of the EUSES Consortium
Eric WalkingshawAssistant Professor
PhD Oregon State University
Expertise: Language design, formal languages,
domain-specific languages, functional programming, visual languages
Software Engineering, HCI, Programming Languages
Mike BaileyProfessor
PhD Purdue University
Expertise: Visualization; GPU programming; high performance computer graphics; stereographics
Notable: OSU Beaver Champion Award
Fuxin LiAssistant Professor
PhD Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Expertise: Machine learning algorithms and applications; computer vision; segmentation-based object recognition and scene understanding; spatio-temporal cues in video
Rakesh BobbaAssistant Professor
PhD University of Maryland at College Park
Expertise: Secure protocols; access
controls; key Management; power grid & other critical infrastructures; cyber-physical systems, cloud computing
Glencora BorradaileAssociate Professor
PhD Brown University
Expertise: Algorithms; approximation algorithms;
computational geometry; planar graph algorithms; graph algorithms
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Sinisa TodorovicAssociate Professor
PhD University of Florida
Expertise: Computer vision; object and activity recognition; stochastic image grammars
Notable: Associate editor, Pattern Recognition Letters
Eugene ZhangAssociate Professor
PhD Georgia Institute of Technology
Expertise: Computer graphics; scientific
visualization; geometric modeling and processing; computational topology; non-photorealistic rendering
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Vision
Algorithms and Cryptography
Amir NayyeriAssistant Professor
PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Expertise: Theoretical computer science and its
application; computational topology and geometry
Mike RosulekAssistant Professor
PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Expertise: Secure computation protocols;
theoretical foundations of cryptography; computational complexity
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Attila YavuzAssistant Professor
PhD North Carolina State University
Expertise: Applied cryptography, network
security and privacy
Yue ZhangAssistant Professor (Sr. Res)
PhD North Carolina State University
Expertise: Modeling and simulation of biological
and physical problems; mathematical optimization
Thomas G. DietterichDistinguished Professor
PhD Stanford University
Expertise: Machine learning; intelligent systems; intelligent user
interfaces; ecosystem informatics
Notable: ACM Fellow; AAAI Fellow; AAAS Fellow; president, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence; NSF Young Investigator; past president, International Machine Learning Society
Alan FernProfessor
PhD Purdue University
Expertise: Artificial intelligence, including machine learning, data
mining, and automated planning/control
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; OSU Promising Scholar Award
Xiaoli FernAssociate Professor
PhD Purdue University
Expertise: Machine learning and data mining, specifically the subfields
of unsupervised learning and pattern discovery
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Liang HuangAssistant Professor
PhD University of Pennsylvania
Expertise: Large-scale natural language
processing and structured machine learning
V John MathewsProfessor and Head
PhD University of Iowa
Expertise: Adaptation & learning; nonlinear signal processing; application of
signal & information processing to neural engineering and biomedical applications, structural health monitoring, audio & communication systems
Notable: IEEE Fellow; past assoc ed, IEEE Trans Signal Processing; past assoc ed, IEEE Signal Processing Letters; IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award
Fuxin LiAssistant Professor
PhD Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Expertise: Machine learning algorithms and applications; computer vision; segmentation-based object recognition and scene understanding; spatio-temporal cues in video
Raviv RaichAssociate Professor
PhD Georgia Institute of Technology
Expertise: Adaptive sensing/sampling;
manifold learning; sparse representations for signal processing
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; associate editor, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing
AI/Machine Learning & Data Science
AI/Machine Learning
Prasad TadepalliProfessor
PhD Rutgers University
Expertise: Artificial intelligence; machine learning; automated
planning; natural language processing
Notable: Assoc ed, Machine Learning; associate editor, Journal of AI Research
Weng-Keen WongAssociate Professor
PhD Carnegie Mellon University
Expertise: Data mining; machine learning;
anomaly detection; human-in-the-loop learning; ecosystem informatics
Arash TermehchyAssistant Professor
PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Expertise: Data exploration and
management; large scale data analytics; easy-to-use query interfaces; knowledge-base construction
Databases
Bella BoseProfessor & Associate Head
PhD Southern Methodist University
Expertise: Error control codes; VLSI testing; parallel
processing; fault tolerant computing; computer networks
Notable: IEEE Fellow; ACM Fellow; associate editor, IEEE Trans. on Computers; Southern Methodist University CSE Academic Accomplishment Award
Lizhong ChenAssistant Professor
PhD University of Southern California
Expertise: Architecture; application and emerging
technology of computing systems, including embedded and mobile devices, many-core processors, data centers and high performance computing systems.
Bechir HamdaouiAssociate Professor
PhD University of Wisconsin at Madison
Expertise: Mobile computing; wireless
networking; network management; distributed systems; cognitive networks; multiagent systems
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; associate editor, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology; associate editor, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing; assoc ed, Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications; IEEE Communications Society distinguished lecturer
Jinsub KimAssistant Professor
PhD Cornell University
Expertise: Statistical signal processing; statistical learning theory; power
systems state estimation; security of cyber physical system
Ben LeeProfessor
PhD The Pennsylvania State University
Expertise: Computer architecture; computer
networks; multimedia systems; parallel architectures
Notable: Program committee for Pacific Rim Int’l Symposium on Dependable Computing
Mario E. MagañaAssociate Professor
PhD Purdue University
Expertise: Mobile wireless communications; automatic control applications;
mathematical modeling of biological systems
Notable: Fulbright scholar
Thinh NguyenAssociate Professor
PhD University of California at Berkeley
Expertise: Networking and communications;
signal processing; machine learning
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; associate editor, IEEE Trans on Circuits and Systems; associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia; associate editor, Springer Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networks
Networking & Communications
David HendrixAssistant Professor
PhD University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Motif finding; non-coding RNA structure
and function analysis; applications of machine learning to computational biology; deep sequencing data analysis
Notable: 4 publications in “Faculty of 1000 Biology”
Rebecca HutchinsonAssociate Professor
PhD Carnegie Mellon University
Expertise: Machine learning; data mining;
ecosystem informatics; computational sustainability
Stephen RamseyAssistant Professor
PhD University of Maryland, College Park
Expertise: Machine learning; computational
systems biology; bioinformatics; integrative computational methods to map gene regulatory networks
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; NIH K25 Career Development Award
Bioinformatics
Circuits
Tejasvi AnandAssistant Professor
PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Expertise: Wireline communication systems;
PLLs; regulators and sensors with emphasis on energy efficiency
Notable: IEEE Solid State Circuit Society Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award
Patrick ChiangAssociate Professor
PhD Stanford University
Expertise: Energy-efficient VLSI systems (on/off chip interconnects; robust,
near-threshold computing); power-constrained, wireless medical electronics
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; DOE Early Career Award; associate editor, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Circuits and Sys.
Matthew JohnstonAssistant Professor
PhD Columbia University
Expertise: Biosensor and bioelectronic platforms; massively-parallel sensing;
lab-on-chip technologies for medical monitoring and point-of-care diagnostics
Notable: Co-founder of Helixis, startup company developing low-cost, real-time PCR systems
Karti MayaramProfessor
PhD University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Simulation, modeling, and design of
analog/RF CMOS circuits
Notable: IEEE Fellow; NSF CAREER Award; past editor-in-chief, IEEE Trans. on CAD
Un-Ku MoonProfessor
PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Expertise: Low-voltage and high-performance analog
CMOS integrated circuits; data converters; filters; PLLs; timing recovery
Notable: IEEE Fellow; editor-in-chief, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits; past editor-in-chief, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II; TPC member of ISSCC and VLSI Circuits Symposium; NSF CAREER Award; OSU Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award
Gabor C. TemesProfessor
PhD University of Ottawa
Expertise: Data converters; switched-capacitor circuits; analog and mixed-
mode integrated circuits
Notable: IEEE Life Fellow; IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg Award; IEEE Gustav R. Kirchhoff Award; IEEE CAS Golden Jubilee Medal; IEEE Millennium Medal; IEEE Circuits & Systems Society Technical Achievement Award & Education Award; IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society Andrew Chi Prize; IEEE Centennial Medal; IEEE CAS Darlington Award; hon. doctorate, Technical Univ of Budapest; past assoc. ed., J. of the Franklin Institute; past ed., IEEE Trans on Circuit Theory; former VP, IEEE Circuits & Systems Society
Communications/Signals
Huaping LiuProfessor
PhD New Jersey Institute of Technology
Expertise: Wireless systems; signal
processing for communications
Notable: Assoc. ed., IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; assoc. ed., IEEE Communications Letters; assoc. ed., J of Communications and Networks
RF & Microwaves
Arun NatarajanAssistant Professor
PhD California Institute of Technology
Expertise: mm-wave and sub-mmwave integrated
circuits; systems for high-speed wireless communication and imaging
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Andreas WeisshaarProfessor
PhD Oregon State University
Expertise: Passive RF and microwave circuits
and components; embedded passives; interconnects and electronic packaging; signal integrity
Notable: IEEE Fellow; past NSF program director (2008-2011); assoc. ed., IEEE Trans on Components, Packaging, & Manufacturing Technology
Analog/Mixed Signal Design
Larry ChengAssistant Professor
PhD University of Michigan
Expertise: Micro- / nano-fluidics; biomedical devices;
electronic devices; functional materials; nanofabrication
John F. Conley, Jr.Professor
PhD The Pennsylvania State University
Expertise: Thin film materials and devices;
atomic layer deposition; coating, directed assembly, and device applications of nanomaterials; reliability, radiation effects, and structure of electrically active point defects
Notable: IEEE Fellow; ONAMI Signature Faculty Fellow; guest editor, IEEE Trans. Device and Material Reliability; IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop chair
Pallavi DhagatAssociate Professor
PhD Washington University, St. Louis
Expertise: Magnetic logic devices; magnetic sensor
applications; magnetic nanometrology; information storage
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Albrecht JanderAssociate Professor
PhD Washington University, St. Louis
Expertise: Magnetoresistive magnetic sensors and
applications; semiconductor spintronics; magnetic resonance force microscopy; magnetic MEMS
John F. WagerProfessorMichael and Judith Gaulke Endowed Chair
PhD Colorado State University
Expertise: Solid state materials and devices (thin film synthesis, device characterization, and modeling)
Notable: IEEE Fellow; Society for Information Display Fellow; co-inventor of the first transparent transistor; lead author of Transparent Electronics (Springer 2008); co-founder of Inpria Corporation; OSU Sigma Xi Researcher of the Year
Alan WangAssistant ProfessorPhD University of Texas at Austin
Expertise: Board level optical interconnects;
micro- & nano-photonic devices; RF photonics; optical sensing technologies including IR spectroscopy & Raman scattering for biomedical research & environmental protection
Notable: Program committee member and session chair, SPIE Photonics West; conference chair, SPIE/COS Photonics Asia
Ted BrekkenAssociate Professor
PhD University of Minnesota
Expertise: Control, power electronics and electric
drives, renewable energy systems modeling and control
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; IEEE Power & Energy Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award; Fulbright Scholar
J. Eduardo Cotilla-SanchezAssistant Professor
PhD University of Vermont
Expertise: Cascading outages in power grids; complex systems and
complex networks; chaos and nonlinear dynamics; big data and high performance computing
Annette von JouanneProfessor
PhD Texas A&M University
Expertise: Power electronics; power systems; renewables such
as wave and wind energy
Notable: IEEE Fellow; NAE Celebrated Women Engineer; NSF CAREER and GOALI Awards; Int’l Ocean Energy Pioneer Award; National IEEE Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award; Top 12 contemporary Oregon innovators - OMSI/Portland Monthly Brain Storm project; OSU Impact Award for Outstanding Scholarship
Julia ZhangAssistant Professor
PhD The Ohio State University
Expertise: Electric machine design; electric
machine drive control; power electronic circuits
Energy Systems Materials and Devices
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Oregon State University1148 Kelley Engineering CenterCorvallis, Oregon 97331-5501 USA
Voice: 541.737.3617 | Fax: 541.737.1300E-mail: [email protected]://eecs.oregonstate.edurevised 7/2013
Computer Science
D. Kevin McGrathInstructor
Expertise: Operating systems, networking, security, architecture, parallelism and
concurrency, systems programming
Linda O’HaraInstructor
Expertise: Social and ethical issues in computer science; Ecampus instruction
Jennifer Parham-MocelloInstructor
Expertise: Computer science education, cognitive development, problem solving,
scientific computing, parallel processing, high-performance computing, virtual classroom environments, Access Grid Node technology, computational science outreach
Terry RookerInstructor
Expertise: Computer science education; software engineering; discrete structures; networking and security
Notable: Virginia Community College System certified Master Online Instructor
Justin WolfordInstructor
Expertise: Ecampus computer science postbaccalaureate program
Notable: Innovation in Online Credit-based Teaching Award
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Don HeerEducational Research & Development
Expertise: Senior design; project management; product design; educational innovation
Notable: OSU Student Learning & Success Teamwork Award; OSU Outstanding Faculty Research Assistant Award
Matt ShumanInstructor
Expertise: Digital logic design and robotics
Notable: 2008 Mars Rover champion; COE
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award; EECS IEEE Teacher of the Year
John SweetInstructor
Expertise: System controls and data acquisition - automated machine design
Notable: Industry experience at Boeing, Intel and HP
Roger TraylorSenior Instructor
Expertise: Standard cell ASIC design; RTL-level design with VHDL and system verilog; design with FPGAs; embedded
system design; digital signal integrity; hardware/software design of Platforms for Learning; active and cooperative learning techniques
Notable: OSU Faculty Teaching Excellence Award; OSU Student Learning & Success Teamwork Award; COE Austin-Paul Engineering Faculty Award; COE Loyd Carter Award for outstanding and inspirational teaching; EECS IEEE Student Appreciation Award; EECS HKN/ACM Innovative Teaching Award
Instructors