2019 Swanson School Summary of Faculty Research

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ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING 1238D Benedum Hall | 3700 O’Hara Street | Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Chair Professor R&H Mickle Endowed Chair Director, NSF SHREC Center

P: 412-624-9664  alan.george@pitt.edu

Dr. George joined Pitt in January 2017 as Department Chair, R&H Mickle Endowed Chair, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is Founder and Director of the new NSF Center of Space, Highperformance Reconfigurable Computing (SHREC), a national research center and consortium founded in September 2017 and headquartered at Pitt. SHREC features 30 academic, industry, and government partners working on collaborative research in missioncritical computing. In this field, Dr. George’s research expertise and activities are in high-performance computer architectures, apps, networks, services, systems, and missions, featuring reconfigurable, parallel, distributed, and dependable computing, from satellites to supercomputers.

Alan D. George, PhD, FIEEE

Dr. George is Fellow of the IEEE for contributions in reconfigurable and high-performance computing. He was lead recipient of the 2012 Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technology Innovation by an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for leading the development of Novo-G, the most powerful reconfigurable supercomputer in the world at that time. Dr. George has won a variety of faculty awards, including college scholar and teacher of the year, university teacher of the year, college doctoral advisor of the year, college faculty mentor of the year, university service award, and university productivity award. He has served as principal investigator on research contracts and grants totaling well over $20M and, with his students, authored over 200 refereed journal and conference papers. During his 20 years on the faculty at the University of Florida, he established and led to prominence the computer engineering half of the ECE Department, and he led the university committee that founded the first supercomputer center in school history that has grown to become one of the largest campus facilities in the U.S. One of the hallmarks of Dr. George’s research is demonstrable impact from close collaboration with industry and government partners. His group works closely with NASA, AFRL, NSA, ONR, and other federal agencies, as well as Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Harris, Intel, and many other companies on research in mission-critical computing. One recent example is a novel form of hybrid and reconfigurable space computer (called CSP), invented by his group and then adopted by many of these partners. Computing in space is of critical need, since future spacecraft must achieve high performance and reliability in computing to fulfill mission parameters for autonomous sensor processing, guidance, and control. However, computing in space is a daunting challenge, due to the limited resources (power, size, weight) and the hazardous environment (radiation, temperature, vacuum, vibration) of spaceflight. In March 2017, a pair of these CSP space computers with high-resolution camera on the DOD STP-H5 mission became operational on the International Space Station (ISS) and will serve as a research testbed for several years under Pitt control. A second research experiment for Pitt on the ISS, featuring a cluster of CSP space computers and dual high-resolution cameras on the DOD STP-H6 mission, is scheduled for launch in early 2019. Moreover, a series of CSP-based satellites for Earth orbit and lunar flyby are slated for launch in the next few years.

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Wei Xiong, PhD, D.Eng

37min
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Jörg M.K. Wiezorek, PhD

2min
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Guofeng Wang, PhD

2min
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Jeffrey Vipperman, PhD

2min
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Albert C. To, PhD

1min
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Inanc Senocak, PhD

1min
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Patrick Smolinski, PhD

1min
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Jung-Kun Lee, PhD

3min
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Ian Nettleship, PhD

2min
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David Schmidt, PhD

2min
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Scott X. Mao, PhD

2min
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Tevis D. B. Jacobs, PhD

1min
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Katherine Hornbostel, PhD

1min
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Daniel G. Cole, PhD, PE

2min
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William W. Clark, PhD

2min
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Heng Ban, PhD, PE

2min
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Minking K. Chyu, PhD

2min
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Markus Chmielus, PhD

1min
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M. Ravi Shankar, PhD

2min
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Jayant Rajgopal, PhD

2min
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Paul W. Leu, PhD

1min
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Lisa M. Maillart, PhD

2min
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Amin Rahimian, PhD

1min
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Youngjae Chun, PhD

3min
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Renee M. Clark, PhD

2min
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Joel M. Haight, PhD, P.E., CIH, CSP

2min
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Daniel R. Jiang, PhD

1min
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Karen M. Bursic, PhD

1min
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Mary Besterfield-Sacre, PhD

2min
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Mostafa Bedewy, PhD

1min
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Minhee Yun, PhD

2min
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Gregory F. Reed, PhD

3min
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Feng Xiong, PhD

2min
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Jun Yang, PhD

3min
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Guangyong Li, PhD

2min
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Inhee Lee, PhD

2min
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Hong Koo Kim, PhD

2min
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Alexis Kwasinski, PhD

2min
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Alex K. Jones, PhD

3min
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Alan D. George, PhD, FIEEE

2min
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Masoud Barati, PhD

2min
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Brandon M. Grainger, PhD

2min
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Mai Abdelhakim, PhD

1min
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Radisav Vidic, PhD

2min
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Piervincenzo Rizzo, PhD

2min
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Aleksandar Stevanovic, PhD, P.E., FASCE

2min
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Carla Ng, PhD

2min
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Lei Fang, PhD

3min
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Alessandro Fascetti, PhD

2min
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Sarah Haig, PhD

2min
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Xu Liang, PhD

2min
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Jeen-Shang Lin, PhD, P.E

2min
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Andrew P. Bunger, PhD

2min
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Melissa Bilec, PhD

2min
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Judith C. Yang, PhD

2min
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Götz Veser, PhD

2min
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Jason E. Shoemaker, PhD

1min
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Tagbo Niepa, PhD

2min
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Christopher E. Wilmer, PhD

1min
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Sachin S. Velankar, PhD

2min
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Giannis Mpourmpakis, PhD

2min
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Badie Morsi, PhD

3min
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James R. McKone, PhD

1min
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Steve R. Little, PhD

2min
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J. Karl Johnson, PhD

2min
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John A. Keith, PhD

2min
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Susan Fullerton, PhD

2min
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Lei Li, PhD

1min
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Robert M. Enick, PhD

2min
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Eric J. Beckman, PhD

2min
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David A. Vorp, PhD

2min
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Jonathan Vande Geest, PhD

1min
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Justin S. Weinbaum, PhD

1min
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Ipsita Banerjee, PhD

2min
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George Stetten, MD, PhD

2min
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Savio L-Y. Woo, PhD, D.Sc., D.Eng

2min
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Gelsy Torres-Oviedo, PhD

3min
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Ioannis Zervantonakis, PhD

2min
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Mark Redfern, PhD

2min
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Spandan Maiti, PhD

2min
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Partha Roy, PhD

2min
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Sanjeev G. Shroff, PhD

2min
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Warren C. Ruder, PhD

1min
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Joseph Thomas Samosky, PhD

2min
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Patrick J. Loughlin, PhD

2min
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Prashant N. Kumta, PhD

2min
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Mangesh Kulkarni, PhD

1min
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Takashi “TK” Kozai, PhD

2min
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Alan D. Hirschman, PhD

1min
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Tamer S. Ibrahim, PhD

5min
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Mark Gartner, PhD

1min
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Bistra Iordanova, PhD

1min
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Richard E. Debski, PhD

1min
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Neeraj J. Gandhi, PhD

2min
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William Federspiel, PhD

2min
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Lance A. Davidson, PhD

2min
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Aaron Batista, PhD

4min
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Rakié Cham, PhD

2min
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Bryan N. Brown, PhD

1min
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Tracy Cui, PhD

2min
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Kurt E. Beschorner, PhD

2min
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Moni Kanchan Datta, PhD

2min
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Harvey Borovetz, PhD

1min
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Steven Abramowitch, PhD

2min
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