WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE FACULTY RESEARCH AREAS
Welcome to the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) State-of-the-art engineering now and in the future is the focus of faculty in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS). Our innovative engineering faculty conduct research with the government, industry and other organizations to move the world forward. We believe that engineering research is a core component for training future engineers. We encourage you to reach out to our faculty and learn more about the exciting things they are working on, and our graduate programs. We take a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to bridge the boundaries between science, math, engineering and medicine. We invite you to make the most of your education here at Wright State University and hope you choose to engage in undergraduate and graduate research while you are here. This is your opportunity to work side-by-side with our world-class faculty on cutting edge research. Raider Up!
STRATEGIC RESEARCH THRUSTS HEALTHCARE Human Factors Health Informatics Visualization Neuroengineering/NEC Systems Effectiveness Clinical Research
AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS Nathan W. Klingbeil, Ph.D.
Adaptive Controls UAV/RPA/MAVs Energy for UAVs Model/Simulation Flight Testing/Evaluation
Jennie J. Gallimore Ph.D.
Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies
CYBER SCIENCE & SENSORS
Research Lives
HERE
Kno.e.sis/Big Data Cyber Security Hardware/Software Biometrics Embedded Systems Sensor Integration
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
Additive Manufacturing MLPC Collaboration CEPRO Personalized Products Training/Logistics Control Systems
RESEARCH AREAS Additive Manufacturing Joy Gockel Nathan Klingbeil Junghsen Lieh Ahsan Mian Raghu Srinivasan
Artificial Intelligence Derek Doran Pascal Hitzler T.K. Prasad
Assistive Technology Tanvi Banerjee Nikolaos Bourbakis
Autonomous Systems Adam Bryant Travis Doom Zach Fuchs John Gallagher Jennie Gallimore Junghsen Lieh Joseph Slater Zifeng Yang Frank Zhang
Aviation Systems Jennie Gallimore Rory Roberts Joseph Slater Raghu Srinivasan Mitch Wolff Zifeng Yang Frank Zhang
Big Data and Cloud Computing Keke Chen Derek Doran T.K. Prasad Amit Sheth
Biofluid Mechanics George Huang Philippe Sucosky Zifeng Yang
Biomechanics/Prosthetics Tarun Goswami Ping He Junghsen Lieh David Reynolds
Biologically Inspired Engineering John Gallagher Ahsan Mian Sharmila Mukhopadhyay Yong pei Nikolai Priezjev Michael Raymer
Cognitive Radio/Networks Bin Wang Zhiqiang (John) Wu
Communications Systems Fred Garber Yong pei Arnab Shaw Bin Wang Zhiqiang (John) Wu
Computer Architecture Meilin Liu
Computer Vision Tanvi Banerjee Arthur Goshtasby Mateen Rizki Thomas Wischgoll
Control Systems Zach Fuchs John Gallagher Junghsen Lieh Pradeep Misra Luther Palmer Rory Roberts Joseph Slater Mitch Wolff Zifeng Yang
Cyber Security/Information Security Nikolaos Bourbakis Adam Bryant
Michelle Cheatham Henry Chen Keke Chen Soon Chung Marty Emmert Jennie Gallimore Meilin Liu Prabhaker Mateti Junjie Zhang
Databases
Keke Chen Soon Chung Guozhu Dong
Data Mining/Analytics Keke Chen Soon Chung Guozhu Dong Derek Doran Pratik J. Parikh T.K. Prasad Michael Raymer Mateen Rizki Amit Sheth
Decision Making and Support Caroline Cao Mary Fendley Jennie Gallimore Subhashini Ganapathy
Design Optimization Ha-Rok Bae Frank Ciarallo John Gallagher Jennie Gallimore Rory Roberts Xinhui Zhang
Disaster and Emergency Response Subhashini Ganapathy
Electronics (micro, mini and VLSI) Henry Chen Marty Emmert John Gallagher Ahsan Mian Saiyu Ren Jiafeng Xie Yan Zhuang
Engineering Education Travis Doom John Gallagher Subhashini Ganapathy Hong Huang Nathan Klingbeil Ahsan Mian Michael Raymer Raghu Srinivasan Mitch Wolff
Fatigue Mechanics and Fatigue
Ha-rok Bae Joy Gockel Nathan Klingbeil Sheng Li Ahsan Mian Joseph Slater Raghu Srinivasan
Fluid Mechanics/Dynamics George Huang Philippe Sucosky Scott Thomas Mitch Wolff Zifeng Yang
Health Care/Medical Systems Tanvi Banerjee Caroline Cao Guozhu Dong Travis Doom Sherif Elbasiouny Jennie Gallimore Subhashini Ganapathy George Huang Hong Huang Nasser Kashou Pratik Parikh T.K. Prasad Amit Sheth Philippe Sucosky Ulas Sunar
Human Performance/Human Factors Adam Bryant Caroline Cao Mary Fendley Jennie Gallimore Subhashini Ganapathy
Imaging and Image Processing Josh Ash Ha-Rok Bae Elliott Brown Fred Garber Arthur Goshtasby Ping He Nasser Kashou Brian Rigling Mateen Rizki Arnab Shaw Michael Saville Ulas Sunar Thomas Wischgoll
Informatics
Guozhu Dong Travis Doom Derek Doran Jennie Gallimore Subhashini Ganapathy Michael Raymer Mateen Rizki Amit Sheth Bin Wang
Language Processing T.K. Prasad Amit Sheth
Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition Josh Ash Tanvi Banerjee Guozhu Dong Derek Doran John Gallagher Jack Jean Michael Raymer Mateen Rizki Arnab Shaw Amit Sheth
Manufacturing Processes Junghsen Lieh Ahsan Mian
Medical Devices Maher Amer Caroline Cao
Tarun Goswami Nasser Kashou Philippe Sucosky Ulas Sunar Yan Zhuang
Networks
Derek Doran Jack Jean Yong pei Mateen Rizki Bin Wang Zhiqiang (John) Wu
Materials/Nanomaterials/ Nanotechnology Maher Amer Caroline Cao Amir Faraijan Hong Huang Sharmila Mukhopadhyay Nikolai Priezjev Jaime Ramirez-Vick Raghu Srinivasan Dan Young Yan Zhuang
Medical Imaging Nasser Kashou Ulas Sunar
Medical Image Processing Nasser Kashou Arthur Goshtasby
Microwave Yan Zhuang
Neuroengineering Caroline Cao Sherif Elbasiouny Subhashini Ganapathy Nasser Kashou
Power/Energy
Amir Faraijan Marian Kazimierczuk Hong Huang Sheng Li James Menart
Sharmila Mukhopadhyay Rory Roberts Raghu Srinivasan Mitch Wolff
Propulsion Rory Roberts Mitch Wolff
Robotics
Zach Fuchs John Gallagher Luther Palmer
Data & Web Semantics Michelle Cheatham Derek Doran Pacal Hitzler T.K. Prasad Amit Sheth
Sensors
Maher Amer Caroline Cao Amir Faraijan Zach Fuchs Ahsan Mian Brian Rigling Michael Saville Arnab Shaw Mitch Wolff Yan Zhuang
Signal Processing Josh Ash Ha-Rok Bae Henry Chen Fred Garber Nasser Kashou Yong Pei Junghsen Lieh Brian Rigling Rory Roberts Arnab Shaw Zhiqiang (John) Wu
Simulation and Modeling Ha-Rok Bae Adam Bryant Caroline Cao Derek Doran
Sherif Elbasiouny Mary Fendley Jennie Gallimore Subhashini Ganapathy Ashan Mian Pratik Parikh Nikolai Priezjev Rory Roberts Raghu Srinivasan Thomas Wischgoll Mitch Wolff Xinhui Zhang
Supply Chain/Logistics Frank Ciarallo Pratik Parikh Xinhui Zhang
Terahertz
Elliott Brown Yan Zhuang
Thermal Modeling, Stress Fluid and Management Rory Roberts Scott Thomas Mitch Wolff Zifeng Yang
Tissue Engineering/Biophysical Philippe Sucosky Jaime Ramirez-Vick
User Interfaces
Caroline Cao Mary Fendley Subashini Ganapathy Jennie Gallimore
Visualization/Virtual Reality Adam Bryant Caroline Cao Jennie Gallimore Thomas Wischgoll
PROFESSORS Maher S. Amer, Ph.D.
Elliott Brown Ph.D.
Phone: 937-775-5095 Email: maher.amer@wright.edu Research Interests: Self-assembly in nanostructured systems, raman spectroscopy, ultra-thin films and composites Domains: Advanced materials, remote materials measurements and multi-functional coatings.
Phone: 937-775-4903 Email: elliott.brown@wright.edu Research Interests: THz devices and components, metal-semiconductor nanocomposites for sub-picosecond photoconductive sources, plasmon components, oxides, biomolecules, graphene field-effect transistors and spectrometers.
Josh Ash, Ph.D.
Adam Bryant, Ph.D.
Phone: 937-775-3983 Email: josh.ash@wright.edu Research Interests: Large-scale bayesian inference and graphical models, statistical signal processing, detection and estimation, machine learning. Domains: Synthetic aperture radar, hyperspectral imaging, medical imaging, sensor networks and systems biology.
Phone: 937-829-8810 Email: adam.bryant@wright.edu Research Interests: Computer science and engineering, program analysis, reverse engineering tools, autonomy, human-machine teaming, agent-based systems, cognitive task analysis and cognitive modeling. Domains: Software engineering, reverse engineering, complex systems analysis, cyber training, virtual environments and synthetic task environments.
Ha-Rok Bae, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5089 Email: ha-rok.bae@wright.edu Research Interests: Uncertainty quantification, stochastic metamodeling, multidisciplinary design optimization, validation and verification, reliability and robustness based design optimization, decision-making under uncertainty, engineering data analytics and structural reliability analysis. Domains: Design optimization, simulation and modeling and fatigue mechanics.
Tanvi Banerjee, Ph.D.
Caroline Cao, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-2185 Email: caroline.cao@wright.edu Research Interests: Human factors of medical systems, design and evaluation of enabling technology (robotics, image guidance, haptics) for minimally invasive surgery, training of surgical skills in practice and virtual simulators, and decision-making and team communication in the operating room.
Michelle Cheatham, Ph.D.
Phone: 937-775-5283 Email: tanvi.banerjee@wright.edu Research Interests: Chronic disease management using smartphone technology, activity analysis, senor integration and machine learning techniques for data analytics.
Phone: 937-775-3723 Email: michelle.cheatham@wright.edu Research Interests: Semantic data integration, automated population and structuring of knowledge bases and privacy concerns related to big data.
Nikolaos Bourbakis, Ph.D
Henry Chen, Ph.D.
Phone: 937-775-5154 Email: nikolaos.bourbakis@wright.edu Research Interests: Assistive technology, loss of vision and blindness, loss of hearing and deafness, natural language understanding, paraplegic and mobility disabled, medical imaging analysis, assisted living robotics, micro-robots, wearable devices, cybersecurity and privacy, smart homes and AI planning.
Phone: 937-775-5056 Email: henry.chen@wright.edu Research Interests: Digital and mixed-sign integrated circuits, VLSI/FPGA/GPU for signal processing, communication and ultra wideband receivers. Domains: Electronic warfare, cybersecurity, VLSI, FPGA and GPU.
Keke Chen, Ph.D.
Derek Doran, Ph.D
Phone: 937-775-4642 Email: keke.chen@wright.edu Research Interests: Privacy-preserving data analytics, databases, data mining, scalable learning algorithms, visual analytics of big data, learning T-rank and ranking function adaptation.
Phone: 937-775-3728 Email: derek.doran@wright.edu Research Interests: Statistical and network-based complex systems analysis, graph mining and network science, social network analysis, web mining, data science, machine learning and system performance evaluation. Domains: distributed web systems, online social systems, mobile phone data, social media, geospatial and tracking databases and churn modeling.
Soon Chung, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5119 Email: soon.chung@wright.edu Research Interests: Data grid, information security, data mining, text mining, parallel and distributed databases, multimedia databases, parallel and distributed processing.
Frank Ciarallo, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5024 Email: frank.ciarallo@wright.edu Research Interests: Control and management of supply chain systems, interaction of risk and competition in-game theoretic models of inventory systems, supply uncertainty and risk in inventory models and multi-objectivization as a technique for single-objective optimization problems via evolutionary algorithms.
Guozhu Dong, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5066 Email: ghozhu.dong@wright.edu Research Interests: Data mining, machine learning, data science, database and predictive modeling, regression modeling, classification modeling, text data mining and bioinformatics. Domains: Insurance, medicine, health care, genomics and economics.
Travis Doom, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5105 Email: travis.doom@wright.edu Research Interests: Engineering education, data science, digital/computer systems performance/automation, identification, retrieval, classification, simulation, characterization and data analysis. Domains: Bioinformatic, heath care, forensic DNA sequence/mixture, genomic, protein and metabolite.
Sherif Elbasiouny, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-2492 Email: sherif.elbasiouny@wright.edu Research Interests: Neuroengineering and computational neuroscience for analysis of disease mechanisms and identification of drugs targets, neurorehabilitation and sensorimotor control of neural prostheses after peripheral or spinal cord injury and investigation of neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., ALS).
Marty Emmert, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5023 Email: marty.emmert@wright.edu Research Interests: Field programmable and very large scale integrated circuit (IC) design, BIST, fault tolerance, security and trust for IC design, VHDL and verilog system design, GPS, EW, and radar receiver design. asynchronous circuit design and algorithms for IC CAD.
Amir Farajian, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-2619 Email: amir.farajian@wright.edu Research Interests: Nanoscience and nanotechnology with emphasis on computational modeling, sensors, materials for renewable energy, inelastic response,nano and molecular-electronics, nanoelectromechanical systems, electronic and thermal quantum transports.
Mary Fendley, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-4939 Email: mary.fendley@wright.edu Research Interests: Cognitive engineering, modeling, decision analysis, human factors engineering, metrics development within the intelligence analysis domain, decision aiding for multimodal information processing, modeling from human-in-the-loop testing, cognitive workload evaluation and decision support for cognitive biases.
Zachariah Fuchs, Ph.D.
Arthur Goshtasby, Ph.D.
Jack Jean, Ph.D.
Meilin Liu, Ph.D.
Phone: 937-775-4464 Email: zachariah.fuchs@wright.edu Research Interests: Game-theoretic control in adversarial environments, cooperative control, optimal control, robotics and autonomous systems. Domains: control theory, robotics, autonomous systems and robust sensing.
Phone: 937-775-5170 Email: arthur.goshtasby@wright.edu Research Interests: Computer vision, 3D reconstruction, image volume registration, geometric modeling and medical image analysis.
Phone: 937-775-5106 Email: jack.jean@wright.edu Research Interests: RIFD and embedded systems in health care, processor array design, adaptive computing, parallel and disturbed processing, machine learning, neural networks.
Phone: 937-775-5061 Email: meilin.liu@wright.edu Research Interests: Embedded Systems, loop transformation techniques, compiler, computer architecture, information security.
John Gallagher, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-3929 Email: john.gallagher@wright.edu Research Interests: Deep learning, neuromorphic computation and metaheuristic search methods, cyber-physical systems, robotics, adaptive systems and engineering education.
Jennie Gallimore, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-4901 Email: jennie.gallimore@wright.edu Research Interests: Human Performance, systems engineering analysis, system engineering design and development for health care, aviation (manned and unmanned), trust in complex systems, autonomy, interactive visualization for complex interfaces and data integration, training, and neuroengineering.
Subhashini Ganapathy, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5044 Email: subhasini.ganapathy@wright.edu Research Interests: Mobile computing, decision making, user-experience assessment and human factors engineering. Domains: Engineering education, consumer products, military operations, supply chain and healthcare.
Fred Garber, Ph.D. Phone: 937-369-0243 Email: fred.garber@wright.edu Research Interests: Wireless communication, information theory, signal processing and image processing.
Joy Gockel, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-4656 Email: joy.gockel@wright.edu Research Interests: Additive manufacturing process modeling, process monitoring, thermal stress and distortion and processing microstructure-property relationships in fracture mechanics and fatigue.
Tarun Goswami, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5120 Email: tarun.goaswami@wright.edu Research Interests: Design and development of orthopedic-related devices and biomaterials, injury (traumatic brain injury and cervical spinal injury) and device biomechanics, durability and biocompatibility assessment. Probabilistic and deterministic design and failure analyses of medical and engineering components.
Ping He, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5069 Email: ping.he@wright.edu Research Interests: Ultrasound tissue characterization, ultrasound image acquisition and processing, biomedical instrumentation and EEG signal processing and analysis.
Pascal Hitzler, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-4879 Email: pascal.hitzler@wright.edu Research Interests: Semantic web, ontology modeling, data sharing, integration and reuse, knowledge representation and reasoning and applications in the earth sciences.
George Huang, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5040 Email: george.huang@wright.edu Research Interests: Computation fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, high performance computations, modeling and design and understanding of complex transport processes.
Hong Huang, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-3982 Email: hong.huang@wright.edu Research Interests: Advanced multifunctional materials for applications to energy, environment, and health, nanomaterial/thin film processing, microstructure/nanostructure characterizations, interface science, thin film devices, electronic/electrochemical/catalytic properties and education in multidisciplinary engineering.
Nasser Kashou, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5279 Email: nasser.kashou@wright.edu Research Interests: Neuroimaging analysis, specifically in magnetic resonance imaging, including functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging and volumetric analysis. Domains: segmentation of brain regions for traumatic brain injury, nystagmus syndrome, convergence insufficiency and effect of anesthesia on adolescents.
Marian Kazimierczuk, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5059 Email: marian.kazimierczuk@wright.edu Research Interests: Switching-mode pwm converters, resonant dc/dc power converters, resonant rectifiers, RF power amplifiers and oscillators, HF magnetic devices, electronic ballasts, lighting systems, modeling and controls of power converters, wireless power transfer, energy harvesting/scavenging and renewable energy.
Nathan Klingbeil, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5007 Email: nathan.klingbeil@wright.edu Research Interests: Fracture mechanics and fatigue crack growth, mechanics and materials issues in additive manufacturing, engineering education.
Sheng Li Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-3211 Email: sheng.li@wright.edu Research Interests: Multi-scale computational mechanics, Tribology and surface engineering, power loss and efficiency, contact fatigue and thermal failures. Domains: Power transmission and gearing in automotive, aerospace, heavy machinery and wind turbine designs and applications.
Junghsen Lieh, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5086 Email: junghsen.lieh@wright.edu Research Interests: Design and manufacturing, control systems, nonlinear dynamics, electric cars, hybrid electric UAV, vehicle engineering, biomechanics, symbolic computation, humanpowered vehicles.
Prabhaker Mateti, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5114 Email: prabhaker.materi@wright.edu Research Interests: Exploit detection and prevention, secure software development, and hardening of operating systems.
James Menart Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5145 Email: james.menart@wright.edu Research Interests: Modeling and simulation of renewable and clean energy processes and systems with specialties in solar energy and ground source geothermal energy. Domains: renewable energy, solar energy, geothermal energy, ground source heat pumps, heat transfer and thermal sciences.
Ahsan Mian, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5143 Email: ahsan.mian@wright.edu Research Interests: Design for Additive Manufacturing (e.g., 3D printed electronics, meta-materials for RF applications, and energy absorbing lattice structures). Laser micro-processing, Silicon sensors, Electronic and MEMS Packaging, experimental and computational techniques in solid mechanics.
Pradeep Misra, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5062 Email: pradeep.misra@wright.edu Research Interests: Cooperative, antagonistic consensus; Computational control; Variable Structure Control; Multivariable PID control, Control theory, Multivariable systems.
Sharmila Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5092 Email: sharmila.mukhopadhyay@wright.edu Research Interests: Nanotechnology, nanobiosciences. Design of safe and sustainable nanomaterials for energy, environment, and biomedical applications; fundamental investigation of surface and interface phenomena. Novel bio-mimetic hierarchical structures that utilize the benefits of nanomaterials while minimizing their environmental risks.
Luther Palmer Ph.D.
Jaime Ramirez-Vick, Ph.D.
Rory Roberts, Ph.D.
Philippe Sucosky, Ph.D.
Phone: 937-775-3984 Email: luther.palmer@wright.edu Research Interests: Mobile robotics, biologically-inspired systems (primarily legged robots), intelligent algorithms for control and optimization. Domains: Time-critical search and rescue, planetary exploration and military reconnaissance.
Phone: 937-775-5044 Email: jaime.ramirez-vick@wright.edu Research Interests: Adult stem cell research for tissue engineering applications using biophysical stimulation of neural, bone and cardiac tissue. Development of nanotechnologies for the treatment and detection of cancer, and development of various types of electrochemical biosensors.
Phone: 937-775-4856 Email: rory.roberts@wright.edu Research Interests: Multi-disciplinary system design, design optimization, integration, transient analysis and optimal control. Domains: Propulsion, power and thermal management, aerospace systems, fuel cells, gas turbines, and solar, wind, hydrogen fuel processing.
Phone: 937-775-4650 Email: philippe.sucosky@wright.edu Research Interests: biofluid mechanics, biotransport phenomena, mechanobiology., cardiovascular and neurovascular medicine, heart valve disease, aneurysms, congenital cardiovascular disorders, medical devices, tissue engineering and bioreactors.
Pratik Parikh, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5150 Email: pratik.parikh@wright.edu Research Interests: Healthcare systems engineering (patient flow analysis, staff scheduling, readmission prediction), supply chain and distribution network design and analysis, warehouse design, retail layout, stochastic modeling/simulation of complex systems.
Yong Pei, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5111 Email: yong.pei@wright.edu Research Interests: Information theory, communication Systems and networks, distributed signal Processing and communications, multimedia representation, processing and networking, organism and human cellular networks.
T.K. Prasad, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5109 Email: t.k.prasad@wright.edu Research Interests: Big data: social and sensor data analytics, web 3.0, information retrieval, trust networks, knowledge representation and reasoning, programming languages and compilers. Domains: medical informatics, mobile health, traffic, weather, disaster, depression.
Nikolai Priezjev, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5040 Email: nikolai.priezjev@wright.edu Research Interests: Molecular simulations of complex fluids and amorphous materials, nanoparticles, fluid transport in micro- and nanofluidic systems, slip boundary conditions, microfiltration of oil-in-water emulsions, tribology, hybrid multi-scale methods, liquid crystals, polymers, lipid membranes, and statistical mechanics.
Michael Raymer, Ph.D.
Michael Saville, Ph.D.
Phone: 937-775-5107 Email: michael.raymer@wright.edu Research Interests: Computer Science and Engineering. Pattern recognition, evolutionary algorithms, and machine learning in exploratory data analysis, analytics and bioinformatics. Domains include genomics, metabolomics, structural biochemistry, molecular evolution, and forensic DNA evidence.
Phone: 937-775-5169 Email: michael.saville@wright.edu Research Interests: Computational electromagnetics and electromagnetics applications in radar simulation and processing, radar imaging, and radar measurement methods. Domains: aerospace defense and education.
Saiyu Ren, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5051 Email: saiyu.ren@wright.edu Research Interests: Microelectronic design from modeling to tape out and final chip test, radio frequency mixed signal integrated circuit, transceiver, GPS. Domains: Aerospace, UAV, Health Care, hardware security, Low SWaP Application Specific IC.
Mateen Rizki, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5134 Email: mateen.rizki@wright.edu Research Interests: Machine learning, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, evolutionary computation, neural networks and data mining. Domains: human-aided target recognition, bioinformatics, modeling and simulations with military and industrial applications.
Brian Rigling, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5037 Email: brian.rigling@wright.edu Research Interests: Sensor signal and image processing, stereo height estimation, interferometric height estimation, motion compensation, flight path design for 3-D reconstruction, and 3-D canonical scattering models. synthetic aperture projects for sonar, radar, and ladar. SAR autofocus, SAR image speckle reduction and multi-look processing.
Arnab Shaw, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5064 Email: arnab.shaw@wright.edu Research Interests: Array signal processing, sensor signal and image processing, automatic target recognition, hyperspectral image processing, spectrum estimation, high resolution angles of arrival estimation and vibrometry based target recognition.
Amit Sheth, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5203 Email: amit.sheth@wright.edu Research Interests: Big & smart data science, physical cyber social computing, web 3.0, semantic web, semantic cognitive perceptual computing, digital health and health informatics.
Joseph Slater, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5005 Email: joseph.slater@wright.edu Research Interests: Dynamics, finite element modeling, control and model identification and validation. Domains: UAV control, turbomachinery fatigue, aeroelasticity, spacecraft dynamics and control and vibration damping.
Raghu Srinivasan, Ph.D. P.E. Phone: 937-775-5093 Email: raghavan.srinivasan@wright.edu Research Interests: Mechanical behavior and testing of materials, phase transformations, microstructure and texture evolutions during thermomechanical processing in the domains of materials for aerospace and commercial applications, compositionally complex alloys, thermoelectric materials, and additive manufacturing processes.
Ulas Sunar, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-4236 Email: ulas.sunar@wright.edu Research Interests: Quantitative imaging of diseases and brain function. Muti-modal imaging-guided intervention and therapy optimization with focus on multi-spectral diffuse optical imaging, fluorescence tomography, photoacoustic imaging with blood flow, oxygenation and drug concentration as biomarkers.
Scott Thomas, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5142 Email: scott.thomas@wright.edu Research Interests: Heat transfer, fluid dynamics, performance enhancement of revolving heat pipes using helical grooves, numerical modeling of fully developed fluid flow in axial grooves and thermal management of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS).
Bin Wang, Ph.D Phone: 937-775-5115 Email: bin.wang@wright.edu Research Interests: Wireless communication, mobile networking, and sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, layered sensing/trusted query, information assurance, open spectrum access, cognitive radio networks, game theory, RFID and health informatics, organism and human cellular networks, dense wavelength division multiplexing, optical networks and grid computing.
Thomas Wischgoll, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5057 Email: thomas.wischgoll@wright.edu Research Interests: Scientific visualization, biomedical visualization, feature segmentation and detection, flow visualization, computer graphics, computer vision, information visualization, and parallel computing.
Mitch Wolff, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5141 Email: mitch.wolff@wright.edu Research Interests: Modeling and simulation of complex electo-mechanincal systems, hardware in the loop, propulsion, thermal management, CFD, system integration, unsteady aerodynamics, aeromechanics, fluids/heat transfer, instrumentation, thermal management and high speed flows
Zhiqiang (John) Wu, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5060 Email: zhiqiang.wu@wright.edu Research Interests: Wireless communication, RF signal processing, cognitive radio, cognitive network, multi-carrier transmission technologies, joint communication/ radar waveform design, spread spectrum, underwater acoustic signal processing, statistical signal processing, RF watermarking and wireless security.
Jiafeng Xie, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5161 Email: jiafeng.xie@wright.edu Research Interests: Very large scale integration (VLSI), digit signal processing systems design, field programmable gate array design, hardware security, VLSI cryptographic circuits, embedded systems and obfuscation circuits design.
Zifeng Yang, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5091 Email: zifeng.yang@wright.edu Research Interests: Experimental aerodynamics, thermal fluids engineering. Domains: Development of advanced fluid diagnostic techniques, biological fluid velocity measurement, hemodynamics, wind turbine technology, film cooling of gas turbine blade and micro-air vehicles.
Dan Young, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5027 Email: henry.young@wright.edu Research Interests: Materials printing and rapid prototyping. Printing of fuel cell materials and structures, laser-based materials modification and fabrication, polymeric and ceramic fibers and nanofibers.
Junjie Zhang, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5015 Email: junjie.zhang@wright.edu Research Interests: Systems and network security, intrusion detection, malware detection and analysis, cyber-physical system security and vulnerability assessment.
Frank Zhang Ph.D Phone: 937-775-4463 Email: frank.zhang@wright.edu Research Interests: Intelligent control systems, fault diagnosis and prognosis, contingency management and fault-tolerant, distributed cooperative agents, verification and validation of complex control systems and unmanned systems.
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Xinhui Zhang, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-5151 Email: xinhui.zhang@wright.edu Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, simulation, optimization in manufacturing, logistics and transportation, media management and service operations. Domains: Airline crew recovery, advertising allocation, production planning, staff scheduling, vehicle routing, inventory simulation optimization, marketing research, enrollment management and optimization.
Yan Zhuang, Ph.D. Phone: 937-775-4556 Email: yan.zhuang@wright.edu Research Interests: Nano electronics, and RF/Microwave technology. Domains: 2D materials, multifunctional materials, materials characterization, micro/ nano fabrication, MEMs/NEMs, artificial cochlea, micro-battery, semiconductors, chemical/biological sensors, RF electronic devices, RF/Microwave characterization, micro-aerial vehicle, microwaves and terahertz.
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