ICS People
Faculty - College of Engineering
Raj Acharya
Department Head, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Director, Advanced Laboratory for Information Systems & Analysis
342B IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-9505
E-mail: acharya@cse.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Netcentric Computing, Information Fusion.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Raj Acharya's Web Site
Antonio Armaou
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
170 Fenske Laboratory, University Park
Phone: 814-863-1375
E-mail: armaou@engr.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Nonlinear model reduction and control of transport-reaction processes with focus on multiscale systems, Optimization and design of dynamic distributed chemical processes, Modeling, design and control of plasma-assisted microelectronics manufacturing and advanced materials processing, Simulation, analysis and control of fluid dynamic systems.
Ali Borhan
Professor of Chemical Engineering
122 Fenske Laboratory, University Park
Phone: 814-865-3509
Email: borhan@engr.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Interfacial flows, transport phenomena, capillary and wetting phenomena, complex fluids, hydrodynamic stability.
James G. Brasseur
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering and Mathematics
205 Reber Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-3159
E-mail: brasseur@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Fluid turbine physics, Mathematical modeling of gastrointestinal physiology, Direct numerical simulation, large-eddy simulation, modeling of turbulent flows, Image segmentation, High-performance computing.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
James Brasseur's Laboratory
Sean Brennan
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
318 Leonhard Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-2430
E-mail: sbrennan@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Simulation of vehicle dynamics, inverse problems, monte-carlo simulation, data fusion, image processing, robust control synthesis, allometric scalability of robots, atonomous vehicle development.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Special Issue on Control Applications in Automotive Engineering
Vehicle State Estimation Using Vision and Inertial Measurements
Lessons Learned from Matching Experimental Data to Low-Order Models of Vehicle Yaw, Sideslip, and Roll Behavior
Utilization of Vehicle Dynamic Simulations as Predictors of Highway Safety
The Vehicle Autopilot: Simultaneous Robust Control Through Parametric Adaptation
Long-Qing Chen
ICS Steering Committee
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
102 Steidle Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-8101
E-mail: lqc3@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computational materials science at the mesoscale, Phase-field method for materials microstructure evolution and materials design, Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transitions, Domain structures and electrical/mechanical/magnetic couplings in nanoferroelectrics and multiferroics, Alloy phase transformations, including order-disorder, phase separation, and martensitic transformations, Grain growth in thin films and bulk systems, Precipitate morphologies, Ostwald ripening, Interactions between defect and phase microstructures, Multiscale modeling, Computational materials design.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Crystals Within Crystals
Coray Colina
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Polymeric Systems
320 Steidle Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-3351
E-mail: colina@matse.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Improvement of polymer-based processes by gaining a fundamental understanding of polymeric materials, Human pathology associated with a number of diseases, Behavior of materials under conditions of extreme temperature and pressure, Fusion of materials and computational sciences, Materials theory, modeling and computer simulation.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Computational Biophysics and Soft Materials Group
Building Virtual Bridges Across the Borders of Science
Robert Collins
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Co-Director of the Lab for Perception, Action and Cognition
354H IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-1944
E-mail: rcollins@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computer Vision, with current emphasis on video scene understanding, human body segmentation, activity analysis, and real-time tracking.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Robert Collins' Personal Homepage
Enrique del Castillo
Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and Professor of Statistics
Director, Engineering Statistics Laboratory
310 Leonhard Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-6408
E-mail: exd13@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Control and optimization of models for complex data structures: profile (functional) data, surface data, spatial data, and shape data.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Engineering Statistics Lab web site
Brian Dempsey
Professor of Environmental Engineering
212 Sackett Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-1226
E-mail: bad5@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Inorganic coagulants and coagulation processes, Microfiltration for potable water and wastewater, Treatment of acid mine drainage, Chemistry of iron, aluminum, and trace metals, Reactions of natural organic materials, Manipulation of solid phases to enhance purity or density, Stream monitoring and TMDLs, Removal of arsenic from potable water, Uranium mobility and reactivity.
John Doherty
Professor of Electrical Engineering
325 Leonhard Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-8102
E-mail: jfdoherty@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Signal processing and communications, which includes specific applications to remote sensing, electronic intelligence, and biomedical engineering; data analysis for remote sensing of the lower atmosphere; developing new electronic intelligence and surveillance technologies for homeland security in collaboration with the Applied Research Laboratory.
Cheng Dong
Professor of Bioengineering
233 Hallowell Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-8091
E-mail: cxd23@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: The major focus of our research is to elucidate biomechanical, biophysical and biochemical aspects of cellular function in the circulatory system. A dual approach is taken that involves a coordination of in vitro, in vivo, biological experiments and mathematical modeling of cellular behavior. The laboratory expertise is in the field of cellular biomechanics, leukocyte rheology, cell signaling, cancer immunology and metastases. Current research includes studies of micro-hemodynamics, cell adhesion, cell migration, intercellular and intracellular signaling, systems biology and cell signaling network modeling. In particular, we study how tumor microenvironment changes leukocyte and/or endothelial immune functions which subsequently affect tumor cell extravasation from the microcirculation and subsequent metastasis.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Cellular Biomechanics Laboratory
Corina Drapaca
Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
307D Earth-Engineering Sciences Building, University Park
Phone: 814-867-2313
E-mail: csd12@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Brain Biomechanics, Computational Mechanics, medical Image Processing, Elastography and Inverse Problems.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Center for Neural Engineering
Christopher Duffy
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
231G Sackett Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-4384
E-mail: cxd11@engr.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems, Stability of a Two-State Hillslope Model, Concentration-Discharge Dynamics in Watersheds, Visualizing Dynamics of Layered Hillslopes, Spatio-temporal analysis of the forced Richards' Equation.
Darryl Farber
Assistant Professor of Science, Technology & Society
201G Old Botany, University Park
Phone: 814-865-3042
E-mail: dlf112@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Current research is on the environmental, societal, and ethical implications of nanotechnology. In a broader context, he is working on understanding how emerging technologies may contribute to a global sustainable energy and waste system and the societal and ethical implications of those technological systems. He has recently published on the decommissioning of nuclear facilities and is contributing to a series of articles on nuclear technology for the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics.
Additionally, he is working on an update of an economic impact analysis of Penn State University on the Centre Region, and he has become involved recently in understanding the impacts of a proposed local landfill, waste-to-energy facility in Centre County, PA.
Kristen A. Fichthorn
Merrell R. Fenske Professor of Chemical Engineering
Professor of Physics
164 Fenske Laboratory, University Park
Phone: 814-863-4807
E-mail: fichthorn@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, Density-functional theory, Statistical mechanics, Colloids, Surfaces.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Kristen Fichthorn's Research
C. Lee Giles
ICS Steering Committee
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Supply Chain and Information Systems, and Information Sciences and Technology
311A IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-7884
E-mail: giles@ist.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Information retrieval, knowledge extraction and management, and data mining, both for large and small data and information resources.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The Intelligent Information Systems Research Laboratory
Bruce Gluckman
Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Neurosurgery
Associate Director of the Center for Neural Engineering
212 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-0178
E-mail: bjg18@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dynamical and pattern forming systems with specific emphasis on system neuroscience. Ongoing experimental, computational and theoretical projects on dynamics in neural networks both in brain slices, freely behaving animals, and human EEG; seizure analysis, prediction and control; information processing in brain; brain computer interface (BCI); instrumentation and materials development for brain interfaces.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Center for Neural Engineering
Michael Gooseff
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Hartz Family Career Development Professor
321P Sackett Building, University Park
Phone: 814-867-0044
E-mail: mgooseff@engr.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Groundwater-surface water interactions, Ecohydraulics, Stream restoration, Stream tracer experiments, Solute transport, Watershed hydrology Response of polar regions to climate change, Isotope hydrology, Active layer and permafrost dynamics, Snow hydrology.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Michael Gooseff's Web Site
William Hancock
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
229 Hallowell Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-0492
E-mail: wohbio@engr.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Detailed workings of motor proteins and their role in intracellular transport and cell motility.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Hancock Lab
Daniel Haworth
ICS Steering Committee
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
232 Research Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-6269
E-mail: dch12@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computational thermal-fluids sciences including fluid mechanics, turbulence, combustion, numerical methods, IC engines, and transportation propulsion systems.
Mary Jane Irwin
Robert E. Noll Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Co-Director, Microsystems Design Laboratory
348C IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-1802
E-mail: mji@cse.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computer architecture, embedded and mobile computing systems design, power and reliability aware design, and emerging technologies in computing systems.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Mary Jane Irwin's Web Site
Trent Jaeger
Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Co-Director, Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security
346A IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-1042
E-mail: tjaeger@cse.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computer Security, Operating Systems, Security Policies, Source Code Analysis.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Trent Jaeger's Web Site
Michael Janik
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
104 Fenske Laboratory, University Park
Phone: 814-863-9366
E-mail: mjanik@engr.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computational Chemistry, Catalysis, Electrocatalysis, Fuel Cells, Reaction Kinetics.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Michael Janik's Research Group
Kenneth Jenkins
Department Head, Professor of Electrical Engineering
129 Electrical Engineering East, University Park
Phone: 814-863-2788
E-mail: jenkins@engr.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Digital filtering, signal processing algorithms, multidimensional array processing, computer imaging, one and two-dimensional adaptive digital filtering, VLSI architecture for signal processing.
Mahmut Kandemir
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Director of Graduate Affairs
354C Information Sciences & Technology Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-4888
E-mail: kandemir@cse.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Embedded Systems, Programming Languages, Compilers, Power-Aware Computing, Dependable Computing, Input/Output Systems.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Mahmut Kandemir's Homepage
Microsystems Design Laboratory
Timothy Kane
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Meteorology
121 Electrical Engineering East, University Park
Phone: 814-863-8727
E-mail: tjk7@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Optical remote sensing (specifically laser radar, or Lidar), atmospheric and oceanic measurements and modeling, data analysis and interpretation.
Yanxi Liu
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineeringand Electrical Engineering
Co-Director of the Lab for Perception, Action and Cognition
338B IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-7495
E-mail: yul11@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computational Symmetry and Group Theory, Discriminative subspace exploration for reduction and selection.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Yanxi Liu's Personal Homepage
College of Engineering
Lyle Long
Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics
229C Hammond Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-1172
E-mail: lnl@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Intelligent Systems, Software Engineering, Computational Science, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Unmanned Air Vehicles.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Lyle Long's Web Site
Costas Maranas
Donald B. Broughton Professor of Chemical Engineering
112 Fenske Laboratory, University Park
Phone: 814-863-9958
E-mail: costas@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computational design of proteins, Analysis and redesign of metabolic pathways, Regulatory network inference, Bioinformatics and computational biology, Molecular and product design, Supply chain planning and scheduling, Optimization theory and applications.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Chemical and Biological Systems Optimization Lab
Janna Maranas
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
132C Fenske Laboratory, University Park
Phone: 814-863-6228
E-mail: jmaranas@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mobility of polymers, glasses & biological systems on picosecond-nanosecond time scales and angstrom-nanometer spatial scales using molecular simulation and quasielastic neutron scattering.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Janna Maranas Research Group
Patrick McDaniel
Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Co-Director, Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory
360A IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-3599
E-mail: mcdaniel@cse.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Systems and Network Security, Security Policy, Networking, Distributed Systems, Public Policy, Telecommunications Security, Network Management, Applied Cryptography, Privacy.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Patrick McDaniel's Web Site
Ram Narayanan
Professor of Electrical Engineering
202 Electrical Engineering East, University Park
Phone: 814-863-2602
E-mail: ram@ee.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: High-resolution radar system conception and development, Scattering phenomenology from volume and surface targets, Information content characterization in remotely sensed imagery, Ground penetrating radar (GPR) applications for infrastructure assessment, and Covert communications systems and concepts.
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
354D IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-0392
E-mail: vxn9@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Energy-Aware and Reliable Systems, Embedded Java, Nano/VLSI Systems, Computer Architecture.
Eric Paterson
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Division Scientist, Computational Mechanics Division
Applied Research Lab, University Park
Phone: 814-865-7315
E-mail: egp11@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applied to ship hydrodynamics, homeland security, and bioengineering. In ship hydrodynamics, we are developing and applying numerical algorithms for: multiphase VOF and level-set simulation of seakeeping and cavitation; 6D0F RANS simulation of marine-vehicle maneuvering; and fluid-structure interaction. In homeland security, we are using CFD to model transport and deposition of trace chemicals in devices such as explosives-detection portals, artificial noses, and in biological olfactory systems. In bioengineering CFD, we are developing models to simulate both hydrodynamic performance and blood damage in a variety of artificial heart pumps, including axial-flow turbines, positive-displacement pumps, and other novel concepts (such as a Tesla friction pump).
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
ARL Computational Mechanics Division
Padma Raghavan
Director, Institute for Cyber Science
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
343K IST Building, 209 Life Sciences Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-9233
E-mail: raghavan@cse.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Parallel Scientific Computing, Sparse Graph and Matrix Algorithms, Energy-Aware High-Performance Computing, and Computational Modeling, Simulation and Knowledge Extraction.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Padma Raghavan's Homepage
Sofya Raskhodnikova
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
343F IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-0608
E-mail: sofya@cse.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Randomized Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Private Data Analysis.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Sofya Raskhodnikova's Web Site
Patrick Reed
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
212 Sackett Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-2940
E-mail: preed@engr.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Evolutionary Computing, Multi-objective Decision Support, Scientific Visualization, High-performance Computing.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Hydroinformatics Research Group
Three Faculty Members Receive National Science Foundation CAREER Awards
Suzanne Shontz
Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Co-Director of Scalable Scientific Computing Laboratory
343J IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-0193
E-mail: shontz@cse.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Scientific and Parallel Computing, Mesh Generation, Numerical Optimization, Computational Materials Science, Computational Cardiology.
Timothy Simpson
Director of The Learning Factory
Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering and Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
314D Leonhard Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-7136
E-mail: csd12@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Engineering design and design methodology, statistical approximations and design of experiments, and product family and product platform design.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Engineering Design & Optimization Group
Anand Sivasubramaniam
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Director of Embedded and Mobile Computing Center
Co-Director of Microsystems Design Lab and Computer Systems Lab
354A IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-1406
E-mail: axs53@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Designing, implementing, evaluating and tuning computer systems that span the spectrum of application domains from high performance clusters and shared memory multiprocessors, to embedded resource-constrained systems. His research methodology combines theoretical and experimental techniques to optimize performance, power consumption, and computation integrity characteristics of real-world systems. His current research focuses on scheduling and resource management for clusters, systems support for autonomic computing, power optimization in embedded/mobile and high-end servers, and high performance computer architectures.
Adam Smith
Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
338K IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-0076
E-mail: asmith@cse.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cryptography, Database Privacy, Information Theory, Quantum Computing.
Thorsten Wagener
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
226B Sackett Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-567
E-mail: thorsten@engr.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Analysis and Modeling of Hydrologic and Environmental Systems, Uncertainty Analysis, Sensitivity Analysis.
Qian Wang
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
325 Leonhard Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-8281
E-mail: quw6@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Robust control, Nonlinear Control, System Dynamics with Applications in Mechanical and Aerospace Systems; Optimization Algorithms and Soft Computing; Applications of Control Theory to Information and Computer Systems.
Douglas Werner
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Senior Scientist, ARL
211A Electrical Engineering East, University Park
Phone: 814-863-2946
E-mail: dhw@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Theoretical and computational electromagnetics with applications to antenna theory and design, phased array systems, conformal antennas, microwave devices, wireless and personal communication systems, electromagnetic wave interactions with novel materials, electromagnetic metamaterials, tiling theory, fractal and knot electrodynamics, neural networks, genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization.
Yuan Xie
Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
354E IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-7496
E-mail: yuanxie@cse.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: VLSI Design, Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems Design, Electronics Design Automation.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Yuan Xie's Web Site
Tao Yao
Assistant Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
349 Leonhard Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-8040
E-mail: taoyao@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Applications: Decision Making under Uncertainty, Real Options, Financial Engineering, Manufacturing and Service Operations, Information Systems, New Product Development, Energy
Methodology: Stochastic Models, Optimization, Game Theory.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Tao Yao's Personal Homepage
Savash Yavuzkurt
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
201B Reber Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-3340
E-mail: sqy@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computational Turbulent Flows, Gas Turbine Heat Transfer, CO2 Sequestration, Turbulent Flows (experimental and theoretical), Convective Heat Transfer, Experimental Methods, Combustion and Alternate Energy Sources.