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Ahmed El-Amawy obtained his Ph.D in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University in 1983. His current research interest include parallel processing, neural networks, computer architecture, and clock distribution in very large systems. For example, currently he is working on the theoretical aspects of a novel clock distribution scheme that he invented recently. He is also working on fault-tolerant training of neural networks and their efficient mapping into massively parallel architectures. These projects are funded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. El-Amawy holds two U.S. Patents and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
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Charles Harlow is a Professor who received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1967. His research interests include digital systems, image analysis, and software engineering.
Subhash Kak is a Professor who received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) in 1970. His research interests include aspects of neural computing including applications to AI, vision, and financial data.
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David M. Koppelman is an Assistant Professor. He received his B.S. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interests include parallel processing, coherent shared memory, interconnection networks, and computer architecture.
Dr. Koppelman is currently conducting research in parallel-computer communication patterns and will soon start a project on parallel-computer cache memories. Both projects make use of a parallel-computer simulator. In the first project, a simulated parallel computer runs standard benchmark programs. The communication in the simulated computer is analyzed for patterns. New interconnection-network designs will be developed to exploit these patterns. In the second project, a new kind of parallel-computer cache-memory system will be developed. Unlike current systems, where cache memory management decisions are based upon memory addresses, the new system to be investigated will base decisions on the machine-language instructions which access the memory.
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Suresh Rai is an Associate Professor who is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Reliability. His research interests include Digital logic testing and neural models, Reliability evaluation of multiprocessor and distributed networks, Mutation resting and fault injection for software reliability, Local and metropolitan area networks, and Fault tolerant computing. His research on the topic ``Neural network approach towards logic testing and design-for-testability'' is currently supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Dr. Rai has taught and researched in the area of reliability engineering, fault diagnosis, and parallel and distributed processing. He is a co-author of the book Waveshaping and Digital Circuits, and tutorial texts Distributed Computing Network Reliability and Advances in Distributed System Reliability. He has guest edited a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Reliability on the topic ``Reliability of Parallel and Distributed Computing Networks.'' Dr. Rai has worked as program committee member for IPCCC '91 (Phoenix) conference.
Dr. Rai received his BE degree from B.H.U., Varanasi in 1972, ME from University of Roorkee in 1974, and his PhD from Kurukshetra University in 1980. He joined the Regional Engineering College at Kurukshetra in 1974 and worked there for six years. After a brief stay at MMM Engineering College, Gorakhpur, he transferred to the University of Roorkee in 1981 as an Associate Professor. He also worked for two years at the School of Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Dr. Rai is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and member of the ACM.
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Jagannathan Ramanujam received a B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1983, his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Ohio State University in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor. He is a recipient of an NSF Young Investigator Award in 1994. His research interests are in the area of parallelizing compilers, operating systems and programming environments for parallel computing, and computer architecture.
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Alexander Skavantzos received the B.S. degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, the M.S. degree from the University of Cincinnati, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Florida, all in electrical engineering, in 1980, 1982, and 1987, respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Louisiana State University in 1987 where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include computer arithmetic, application-specific processor technology and design, parallel processing, computer architecture, and VLSI signal processing.
His research projects include the following:
Residue Arithmetic for Digital Signal Processing -- This project deals with the study and use of modular and residue arithmetic as well as transformations in modular fields and rings in order to design very high performance digital signal processors.
Multiplierless Signal Processing -- This project deals with the study of some new algorithms that can result in hardware efficient implementations of digital signal processing functions. These new algorithms rely on squaring operations rather than multiplications.
On-line Arithmetic for Digital Signal Processing -- This project deals with the study of digit serial on-line arithmetic and its application in hardware efficient implementations of digital signal processing functions.
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Jerry L. Trahan is an Associate Professor who received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988. His research interests include theory of computation, models of parallel computation, reliability evaluation of multiprocessor networks, computational complexity, and algorithm design and analysis.
His research projects include the following.
Reliability and Performance Evaluation of Multistage Interconnection Networks (MINs) -- MINs connect multiple processors to multiple memory modules in distributed memory multiprocessors. This project focuses on the effects of the failure of MIN components and the overall reliability of the MIN on its performance.
Reconfigurable Multiple Bus Machines (RMBMs) -- With advances in communication technology (especially optical) and the development of algorithms on reconfigurable bus-based models of computation, these models form one of the most promising directions for parallel computing. This project is developing a body of algorithms for fundamental problems on the RMBM and investigating its inherent strengths and limitations.
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R. Vaidyanathan is an Associate Professor who received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1990. He works on synchronous bus-based models of parallel computation. These models combine traditional and new parallel computing techniques with emerging technologies (such as optical communication). He is involved with a project for studying algorithmic scalability of reconfigurable bus-based models. His other research interests include, parallel algorithms and interconnection topologies.
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Pratul K. Ajmera is a Professor who received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 1975. His research interest include semiconductor materials and devices, photovoltaics, material processing.
Jack C. Cho is an Associate Professor who received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1967. His research interest include magnetic devices and magnetic bubble memory.
Martin Feldman is a Professor who received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1962. His research interest include applied optics, X-ray lithography, and micromachining.
Kiki Ikossi-Anastasiou is an Assistant Professor who received her degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1986. Her research interest include semiconductor heterostructure material and devices, molecular beam epitaxy, measurement techniques for device characterization.
Gil Sik Lee - Associate Professor
B.S. Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Korea, 1975; M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1983; Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1987.
Dr. Lee has extensive experience with the growth of ternary III-V materials by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) process. He was the first to observe negative differential resistance in MBE grown pseudomorphic AlGaAs/InGaAs double barrier resonant tunneling devices. He was also the first person to grow and examine InSb/InAsSb superlattice structures by MBE, and to calculate the band structure of InSb/InAsSb strained layer superlattices.
Dr. Lee's research interests include semiconductor material properties, the physics of semiconductor devices, fabrication of devices and integrated circuits, and the measurement and characterization of semiconductor device. His recent research activities include the following: (a) infrared detection and magneto-resistance of InSb, and (b) low temperature deposition of silicon dioxide with fluorine for low-k dielectrics.
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Alan H. Marshak is a Professor who received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. His research interest include semiconductor device physics, device analysis, transport theory, and heterojunctions.`
Ashok Srivastava is an Associate Professor who received his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. His research interest include semiconductor device modeling, VLSI design and fabrication.
Leszek S. Czarnecki is an Associate Professor who received his Ph.D. from Silesian Tech. University, Poland in 1969 and his D.Sc. from Silesian Tech. University, Poland in 1984. His research interest include power electronics, non-sinusoidal systems, network analysis and synthesis.
Owen T. Tan is a Professor who received his Ph.D. from Eindhoven University, The Netherlands in 1961. His research interest include electric energy systems control, machine dynamics, harmonics.
Jorge L. Aravena received the degree of Civil Electrical Engineer from the University of Chile at Santiago, and the PhD in Computer, Information and Control Engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Currently he is the Graduate Studies Coordinator for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University.
Dr. Aravena is frequent reviewer for IEEE transactions in Circuit and Systems, Signal Processing, Parallel and Distributed Processing. He also reviews proposals for NSF and has been invited as national panel member to review Research Initiation Awards in Microelectronics Information Processing.
His current areas of research include digital signal and image processing, m-D system theory, computer based control, and parallel algorithms and computing structure. His research in non-planar computing structures and fast parallel representation of filtering algorithms has been supported by the State of Louisiana. He has published over 30 refereed journal papers and 100 conference papers.
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Guoxiang Gu graduated from Electrical Engineering with Ph.D degree from University of Minnesota. His research interests include identification and control of uncertain systems, nonlinear robust control for bifurcated systems with industrial applications, and multirate digital signal processing. He has published 29 journal papers, and his work has been supported by National Science Foundation, Air Force Office for Scientific Research, and Army Research Office.
Current Research Projects: Modeling and Control of Uncertain Systems with Applications to Air Force Problems (supported by AFOSR), System Identification and Robust Control Design (supported by ARO), A Bifurcation Approach to Rotating Stall and Surge Control (supported by AFOSR). The focus of these research projects is identification and control of uncertain nonlinear systems with applications to active control of axial flow compressors in aeroengines, and of nonlinear flexible structures. Future possible research projects include design of multirate filter banks for speech and image processing.
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Ralph A. Kinney is a Professor who received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1967. His research interest include field theory, fiber optics and computer applications.
Prof. Mort Naraghi-Pour received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he worked on differential pulse code modulation of autoregressive and composite random processes.
His current research interests are focused on switching, traffic and network management issues in integrated broadband networks. He is currently involved in developing routing and admission control strategies for broadband ATM networks, and in the design and analysis of multicast switch architectures.
Prof. Naraghi-Pour's other areas of interest include data compression, coding theory, modulation, information theory and neural networks.
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Kemin Zhou received a B.S. degree in Automatic Control and Fluid Dynamics from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, in 1982, the M.S.E.E. and the Ph.D. degrees from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1986 and 1988, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include robust control, H-2 optimal control, H-infinity control, and multi-objective optimal control, nonlinear control, model/controller approximation, signal processing, and industrial applications of control theory. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation. He is a frequent reviewer for more than 10 journals. He has published over 20 refereed journal papers and many refereed conference papers. He is the principle author of the book ROBUST AND OPTIMAL CONTROL, to be published by Prentice-Hall in early 1995.
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Jianchao ``Jim'' Zhu is an Assistant Professor who received his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama, Huntsville. His research interest include control and system theory, communications, artificial intelligence, digital signal processing and analog/digital computers.
Dr. J. Jim Zhu's main research area and contribution is in linear time-varying (LTV) systems theory. It is well known that the spectral (eigenvalue) theory is instrumental for the analysis of linear time-invariant systems. However, its extension to LTV systems has eluded researchers for more than a century. Dr. Zhu developed a unified spectral theory for LTV systems which holds promising potentials in the analysis, modeling and control of time-varying or nonstationary dynamic system/process. This ground breaking work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command. In addition to LTV systems, Dr. Zhu's broad research interests and activities include linear and nonlinear dynamic and control systems theory and applications, signal processing, communication, remote sensing and computer applications. He has served as PI or Co-PI on research projects funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on database development, and the Louisiana
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