Faculty

Primary Appointments

Joseph Bordogna, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Engineering

Optoelectronics, manufacturing systems, environmental techniques, management of technological innovation, education innovation, federal science and engineering policy.

bordogna@seas.upenn.edu

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André DeHon, Associate Professor

Physical implementation of computation: physical substrates, programmable media, mapping, system abstractions and dynamic management, and problem capture.

andre@seas.upenn.edu

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Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering

Metamaterials, Theory and Simulation of Nano-Optics, Optical Nanocircuits, and Near-Field Nano-Scale Devices and Systems, Nanostructured Materials Modeling, Miniaturized Antennas, Photonic Band Gap Structures, Reverse-Engineering of Polarization Vision and Information Sensing in Nature, Bio-Inspired/Biomimetic Sensing, Processing, and Displaying Polarization Information, Physics of Information Contents in Polarization Vision, Bio-Inspired Hyperspectral Imagin, Through-Wall Microwave Imaging, Electromagnetics/Electrophysics of Event-Related Brain Cortical Potentials (e.g., EEG), Mathematics of Fractional Operators and Fractal Domains.

engheta@ee.upenn.edu

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Nabil H. Farhat, Professor and Head of the Electro-Optics & Photonic Neuroengineering Laboratory

Qualitative theory of nonlinear dynamics, bifurcation and chaos and its application to the modeling and understanding of cortical dynamics. This encompasses corticonics (echoing electronics), neural networks; complexity, and dynamical computing with diverse attractors, the role of synchronization, bifurcation, and chaos in computing and encryption; holographic models of cortical information processing; biomorphic and bifurcation networks for feature extraction, feature binding and cognition; hardware (optoelectronic) implementation of bifurcation processing elements and networks. Image understanding and neuromorphic signal processing; remote sensing and automated object and radar target recognition.

farhat@seas.upenn.edu

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Roch Guerin, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Networks

Wired and wireless networks, routing algorithms and protocols, traffic engineering, QoS mechanisms and solutions, network management, traffic characterization.

guerin@seas.upenn.edu

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Ali Jadbabaie, Associate Professor

Cooperative control of multivehicle systems; analysis, optimization, and control of networked dynamical systems in physics, engineering and biology; optimization, and optimal control of nonlinear and hybrid systems; analysis, design of distributed algorithms for sensor networks.

jadbabai@seas.upenn.edu

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Dwight L. Jaggard, Professor

Optics and electromagnetic waves: optical devices; electromagnetic theory; radiation, diffraction and scattering. Waves in complex media: fractal electrodynamics and electromagnetic chirality. Topology, symmetry and waves: waves in knotted media, scattering and radiation from knots and unknots; knot signatures. Inverse scattering and imaging: high-resolution imaging; inverse scattering theory and algorithms.

jaggard@seas.upenn.edu

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Cherie Kagan, Associate Professor

Chemical and physical properties of molecular, supramolecular, and nanoscale assemblies and devices; intramolecular, intermolecular, and interfacial charge and excitonic transport and interactions for the application of molecular and nanoscale materials in transistors and memory devices, photovoltaic devices, and chemical and biological sensors.

kagan@seas.upenn.edu

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Saleem A. Kassam, Solomon and Sylvia Charp Professor

Nonlinear, statistical, and digital signal processing, communication systems, wireless channels, blind signal separation, image processing, and high-resolution imaging arrays.

kassam@seas.upenn.edu

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John D. Keenan, Professor

Biological and health effects of pollution, wastewater treatment, water resources engineering, environmental impact assessment, and hazardous materials in the environment.

keenan@seas.upenn.edu

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Daniel Koditschek, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor and Department Chair

Application of dynamical systems theory to intelligent mechanisms issues, sensor driven dynamically dexterous robot manipulation, learning piecewise linear functional approximants, computational neuromechanics.

kod@seas.upenn.edu

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Kenneth R. Laker, Professor

Mixed signal system on a chip (SoC) design and test, analog and sample data signal processing and data conversion.

laker@seas.upenn.edu

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Daniel Lee, Associate Professor

Machine learning, computational neuroscience, adaptive signal processing, robotics, embedded real-time sensorimotor systems, multimodal sensory processing, motor learning, distributed multi-agent systems.

ddlee@seas.upenn.edu

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Rahul Mangharam, Assistant Professor

Real-time embedded systems, wireless communication and networks, medical sensor networks, vehicle-to-vehicle networks.

rahulm@seas.upenn.edu

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George Pappas, Professor

Hybrid systems, hierarchical control systems, embedded real-time systems, nonlinear systems, geometric control theory, robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles, formation control systems, distributed control of multi-agent systems.

pappasg@seas.upenn.edu

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Gianluca Piazza, Assistant Professor

Piezoelectric micro and nano systems (MEMS/NEMS) for RF wireless communications, biological detection, wireless sensor platforms and medical ultrasounds, micro/nano fabrication techniques and integration of microdevices with state-of-the-art electronics.

piazza@seas.upenn.edu

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Alejandro Ribeiro

Signal Processing and Wireless Communications and Networking theory.

aribeiro@seas.upenn.edu

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Jorge J. Santiago-Aviles, Associate Professor

Sensors, actuators and 3-D structures and devices utilizing LTCC tapes and electro-ceramics. Electro-spinned (electrostatically deposited) nano fibers from polymers and organo-metallic precursors.

santiago@seas.upenn.edu

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Saswati Sarkar, Associate Professor

Resource allocation in multicast networks and wireless networks; routing and scheduling, optimization and control of stochastic systems, distributed systems and algorithms, quality of service and pricing issues.

swati@seas.upenn.edu

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Barry G. Silverman, Professor

Mathematics of naturalistic human behavior and bounded-rationality decision making; generators for edutainment, interactive fictions, and role-playing videogames that afford stealth learning; emotion/stress/cognition modeling and immersive multi-agent simulations for analysis and rehearsal uses (crowds, terrorists, consumers, medical patients); narrative and distributed agent-based adjuvants for continual organizational evolution and dynamic knowledge management; principles of adaptive socio-technical systems in complex and chaotic environments; soft systems science.

barryg@seas.upenn.edu

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Tony E. Smith, Professor

Theory and application of probabilistic models to spatial interaction behavior. Structural analysis and axiomatic foundations of such models. Probabilistic theories of choice behavior; transportation and land use modeling; network equilibrium models of traffic flows and general equilibrium models of urban land use.

tesmith@seas.upenn.edu

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Jan Van der Spiegel, Professor and Deputy Department Chair

Analog and digital integrated circuits for intelligent sensors, data acquisition and sensory data processing systems. Vision sensors that are loosely based on the biological system. Acoustic-phonetic feature extraction for automatic speech recognition. Low-power, low-voltage integrated circuits for sensors and A/D converters.

jan@seas.upenn.edu

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Santosh S. Venkatesh, Associate Professor

Neural networks: computational complexity; randmoized learning algorithms. Computational learning theory and information theory: model complexity, optimal stopping, and regulatization; learning to detect fraud; threshold functions. Patter recognition: finite-sample performance of algorithms; utilizing side information; the information content of an example.

venkatesh@seas.upenn.edu

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Vukan R. Vuchic, UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation

Urban transportation: systems and their relationships. Intermodal and balanced transportation systems. Policies and methods for achieving intermodal balance. Impacts of different transportation modes on urban environment, economy and social conditions. Measures to achieve livable cities.

vuchic@seas.upenn.edu

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Secondary Appointments

Christos Davatzikos, Director Section of Biomedical Image Analysis Professor, Department of Radiology

Image processing and analysis, Deformable models and registration, computational anatomy, Neuroimaging of Alzheimer's Disease and schizophrenia, Modeling and analysis methods for surgical planning and guidance, Genotype/Phenotype relationships examined via imaging methods.

christos@rad.upenn.edu

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Alan (Charlie) Johnson, Associate Professor of Physics

Carbon nanotube electronics; thermal transport in carbon nanotubes; electron transport in single molecules.

johnson@dept.physics.upenn.edu

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John C. Schotland, Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Near-field optics; Optical tomography; Inverse scattering; Biomedical optics.

schotland@seas.upenn.edu

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Jonathan Smith, Professor of Computer and Information Science, Olga and Alberico Pompa Professor of Engineering and Applied Science

Adaptive protocol architectures, secure high-performance programmable network architectures, scalable security architectures for the Internet, diffuse computing, and building secure open source operating systems.

jms@cis.upenn.edu

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Adjunct Faculty

Ernest R. Gilmont
Peter Hahn
Lunal Khuon
Tom Oser
Dale Nelson
Raju Rajan
Scott A. Snyder
Amjad Umar
Raymond L. Watrous
Vijitha Weerackody
Thomas Woo

Emeritus Faculty

C. Nelson Dorny
Lawrence Eisenberg
David Farber, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems
Kenneth Fegley
Haralambos N. Kritikos
John A. Lepore
Sohrab Rabii
Ralph M. Showers
Jay N.Zemel
Iraj Zandi

Visiting Faculty