Faculty Participants
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Sam A. Kiger, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman
and C. W. La Pierre Professor of Civil Engineering.
Blast resistant structural design and analysis,
shock isolation, dynamic soil-structure interaction,
forensic analysis of accidental explosions, materials
science, blast door and blast valve design, development
and teaching of training courses on explosion effects
and blast resistant design.
- Zhen
Chen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Civil
Engineering. Experimental, analytical and computational
aspects of failure simulation, failure waves and
material phase transition under impact loading,
soil-structure interaction, computer test bed and
virtual reality modeling, blast resistant composite
materials
- Hani
A. Salim, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Civil Engineering. Advanced composite materials
and structures, retrofitting of structures with
composite materials, characterization and design
optimization of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) structural
shapes, analysis and design of FRP bridges, fiber
reinforced concrete, structural analysis, thin-walled
structures, cold-formed steel, blast-retrofit and
design of structural components and systems, bridge
engineering.
- Chang-Wen
Chen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Electrical
Engineering. Image processing and analysis, computer
graphics, scientific visualization, finite element
analysis for biomechanics, image and video coding,
telecommunications, wireless communication.
- William
Likos, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Civil
Engineering. Earthquake engineering, geotechnical
engineering, soil testing, seismic hazard analysis,
condition indexing, seismic hazard mitigation, earthquake
retrofit techniques.
- Vellore
S. Gopalaratnam, Ph.D., P.E., Associate
Professor of Civil Engineering. Fracture and failure
of composites materials, impact and strain-rate
behavior of cement-based composites, high performance
hybrid composite systems, interface mechanics, residual
stresses in composites, numerical modeling in multiphase
composites, fiber reinforced concrete and similar
brittle-matrix composites, instrumentation and experimental
investigations on structural composites.
- Su-Shing
Chen, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Engineering
& Computer Science. Sensor fusion, pattern recognition,
target recognition, computer simulation, physical
modeling, database and visualization.
- Dominic
Ho, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Electrical
Engineering. Passive localization, geolocation,
time delay and Doppler estimation, wavelet transforms,
adaptive signal processing, telecommunications.
- Anupam
Joshi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer
Engineering & Computer Science. Distributed
and networked systems, HPCC/scientific computing,
multiagent systems, mobile computing, neuro-fuzzy
systems.
- Jim
Keller,
Ph.D., Professor of Computer Engineering & Computer
Science. Image processing, pattern recognition,
computer vision, fractal geometry, fuzzy logic,
neural networks, automatic target recognition, sensor
fusion/ATR.
- Bill
Plummer, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Engineering
& Computer Science. Scientific computing, scientific
visualization, virtual reality and other approaches
to 3D-time-dependent data sets, synthetic environments,
classical database theory.
- Yi
Shang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer
Engineering & Computer Science. Nonlinear optimization,
computational science, machine learning data mining,
parallel/ distributed processing, signal processing.
- Hongchi
Shi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer
Engineering & Computer Science. Parallel and
distributed computing, image processing and computer
graphics.
- Marge
Skubic, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer
Engineering & Computer Science. Robotics, virtual
reality, human-machine interaction, fuzzy logic,
neural networks, sensor-based real-time computing,
geometric modeling, visualization.
- Robert
D. Tzou, Ph.D., Professor of Mechanical
& Aerospace Engineering. Thermal localization
and phase-change in high speed metal-to-metal penetration,
propagation of failure zones in metal-to-concrete
penetration, thermal/mechanical shock formation
in high-speed penetration, prediction of ballistic
limit for metal plates, effect of caliber-radius-head
on the depth of penetration
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