People at ISS

Management Team and Advisory Board

Randolph L. (Randy) Moses, Director, ISS, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering. The Ohio State University, 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210 USA, Phone: (614) 292-1325, Fax: (614) 292-7596, email: moses.2 (at) osu.edu, WWW: http://www.ece.osu.edu/~randy/

Research interests: stochastic digital signal processing; spectral estimation; time series analysis; parameter estimation; statistical properties of algorithms; array signal processing.

Anish Arora: Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Address: 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210 USA, Phone: (614) 292-1836, Fax: (614) 292-2911, email: anish (at) cse.ohio-state.edu, WWW: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~anish/

Dr. Arora leads a research group on Dependable Distributed and Networked Systems (DDNS).  The DDNS group works on the foundations of fault-tolerance, security, and timeliness properties,   develops design, verification, and implementation methods,   and builds prototypes of dependable systems for new application areas. 

This DDNS group is especially interested in discovering new methods for scalable dependability,  as well as in characterizing the differences between reasoning about system correctness versus reasoning about systems dependability. Their methods draw from the theory of self-stabilization, and exploit formal specifications of and "white box" knowledge about the system. Demonstrations of his work are presently focused on embedded sensor network applications and internet services.

In the last few years, DDNS has collaborated actively with colleagues at UT at Austin, Iowa, Michigan State, Kent State, UC Berkeley, and MIT, as well as other university and industry partners (research resulting from our DARPA NEST project may be found in the Stabilization in NEST page) and with members of the Systems and Networking Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA  (research resulting from the MSR Aladdin Home Networking Project may be found in the Publications page). In 2003, the group completed a smart-dust sensor network field experiment on A Line in the Sand for DARPA and a demonstration of continuous self-maintenance at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.

Dr. Arora's most notable recent accomplishment is ExScal which demonstrated a perimeter security application with over 1000 sensor nodes and over 200 802.11b backbone nodes spread over a 1.3km by 300m area. As of December 2004, ExScal is the largest wireless sensor network deployed and likely also the largest 802.11b peer-to-peer ad hoc network deployed. The research has also motivated the development of Kansei, which is an interactive, heterogeneous, large-scale wireless sensor network environment for testing anddevelopment. The stationary array of Kansei presently contains 210 motes and 210 Stargate nodes.

Dorota A. Grejner Brzezinska, Professor in Geodetic Science, and leader of the Satellite Positioning and Inertial Navigation (SPIN) Laboratory at The Ohio State University. Her research interests cover GPS/GNSS algorithms, in particular, high precision positioning and navigation, such as DGPS and RTK, sensor modeling and integration of GPS, inertial and other sensors for navigation in GPS-challenged environments, sensors and algorithms for indoor and personal navigation, integrated navigation systems using Kalman filter and non-linear filtering. She is vice-President of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) Commission 4, Positioning and Applications, and chair of the Sub-Commission 4.1, Multi-sensor Systems, and is an IAG Fellow; she serves as Eastern Region Vice-presiden at the Institute of Navigation (ION) Council. She published over 140 peer reviewed journal and proceedings papers, numerous technical reports and three book chapters on GPS and navigation, and led over 20 research projects sponsored by DOD, NASA, NGS, NGA, NSF, Federal DOT, Ohio DOT, with a total budget of over ten million USD. She is the recipient of the 2005 ION Thomas Thurlow Award, the 2005 United States Geospatial Information Foundation (USGIF) Academic Research Award, and ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Systems published in 2004. PhD 1995, The Ohio State University. email: grejner-brzezinska.1 (at) osu.edu ,Telephone: 614-292-8787.

James W. Davis,  Ph.D. MIT, 200, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, 491 Dreese Laboratories, 2015 Neil Avenue, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, Office: 614-292-1553 (Lab: 614-247-6095) Fax: 614-292-2911, jwdavis (at) cse.ohio-state.edu, http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~jwdavis, Prof. Davis conducts research on developing an advanced video surveillance system that uses computers equipped with video cameras to not only detect the presence of people, but also to track them and identify their activities. The research has broad implications for Homeland Security as well as search and rescue, border patrol, law enforcement and many other types of military applications (persistent, layered sensing). The current system combines a optical and thermal (EO-IR) cameras (at building-level and aerial heights) with machine learning methods, enabling the computer to perform the kind of visual recognition that seems effortless for humans. Prof. Davis' work in investigating computer vision methods has been recognized by the National Science Foundation with the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and an NSF ITR grant. Support for this research (past and present) has been provided by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army Night Vision Laboratory, Intel, and Ohio Board of Regents.

Rongxing Li, Lowber B. Strange Professor, Civil, Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING  220A BOLZ HALL, 2036 NEIL AVE MALL, COLUMBUS, OH  43210, phone 614 292 6946,  email: li.282 (at) osu., Webpage: http://www.ceegs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/rli/index.shtml, Research and Teaching Interests, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Land Information Systems (LIS), Mobile mapping systems,Photogrammetry, Ocean mapping, Environmental research

Ümit Özgüner, Professor, Ph.D., 1975, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, office: 412 DL, ph: 614.292.5940, fax: 614.292.7596, email:umit (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/ozguner_u.html  Areas of interest: Intelligent control of large, decentralized systems, automotive control, intelligent vehicle highway systems, vibration damping in flexible structures.

Rajiv Ramnath: Associate Director, ISS, Assistant Professor of Practice, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Director Center for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation (CETI), Address: 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210 USA, Phone: (614) 292-9358, Fax: (614) 292-2911, email: ramnath (at) cse.ohio-state.edu, WWW: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~ramnath

Dr. Ramnath has a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University (1988) and is the Associate Director of ISS, as well as Director of Practice at the Collaborative for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation (CETI, http://www.ceti.cse.ohio-state.edu) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at The Ohio State University (OSU). He was formerly a Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Concentus Technology Corp. and involved in government-funded R&D programs such as the National Information Infrastructure Integration Protocols (NIIIP) project. He is currently engaged in industry-facing programs of applied R&D, education, technology transfer and practice. His expertise and research interests range from wireless sensor network and pervasive computing applications in the enterprise, to the alignment of business strategy and processes with information technology, enterprise architecture, technology management and integration and software engineering, e-Government, collaborative environments, configurable enterprise systems, workflow, and work-management systems. Dr. Ramnath teaches graduate and under-graduate research, technology strategy and software engineering courses at the Ohio State University.

Ness Shroff, Communications, and Professor of CSE and ECE,764 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210,office: 764 DL, ph: 614.247.6554, fax: 614.292.7596, email: shroff (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/shroff.html, Areas of interest: Wireless communication networks, high-speed wireline networks, sensor networks, mesh networks, ad hoc networks, P2P networks, resource allocation, cross-layer design and control, wireless network security, network design, network control, network coding, performance evaluation, queueing theory, non-linear optimization, pricing, and game theory.

David Woods, Professor, Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering, Office: 290 Baker, Phone: (614) 946-0123, Fax: (614) 292-7852, Email: woods.2 (at) osu.edu. http://csel.eng.ohio-state.edu/woods/. David Woods is a professor at Ohio State University in the Institute for Ergonomics and Past-President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. From his initial work following the Three Mile Island accident in nuclear power, to studies of coordination breakdowns between people and automation in aviation accidents, to his role in today's national debates about patient safety, he has studied how human and team cognition contributes to success and failure in complex, high risk systems. Areas of Interest: Data overload and designing computer-based visualizations, How to make intelligent and automated systems team players, Human-robot coordination, Automation and coordination surprises, Team work in anomaly response, diagnosing faults, and re-planning, How complex systems fail and cognitive factors behind human error, Resilience Engineering and management, How to study cognitive work in context, Foundations of Cognitive Systems Engineering.

ISS Affiliated Faculty

Sheikh Akbar, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, 477 Watts Hall, 2041 College Rd., Columbus, OH 43210, Office: 295B Watts Hall, Tel. (614)292-6725, kbar.1 (at) osu.edu, http://www.mse.eng.ohio-state.edu/faculty/akbar/index.htmlx, Founder of the NSF Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements (CISM), General Chair, International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS12)

Doug Alsdorf, Associate Professor, Earth Science, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, 125 S. Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210, Office: ML 383, Phone: (614) 247-6908, E-mail: alsdorf.1 (at) osu.edu, swot satellite mission web page: http://bprc.osu.edu/water/ Areas of Research: Hydrology, Tropical Wetlands, Geophysics

Paul Berger, Professor, Ph.D. 1990, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, office: 201 CL, ph: 614.247.6235, fax: 614.292.7596 Prof. Berger's email: pberger (at) ieee.org, Areas of interest: Nanoelectronics, Si-based tunneling junctions, optoelectronic devices and integrated circuits, polymer-based photonics and electronics and semiconductor materials. http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/berger.html.

Steven Bibyk, Associate Professor,Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, office: 381 CL, ph: 614.292.1300, fax: 614.292.7596, email: bibyk (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/bibyk.html, Areas of interest: Electronics, communication systems, parallel computation for signal processing, solid-state device theory and measurements.

Paolo Bucci, Senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Ohio State University and a member of the Reusable Software Research Group (RSRG)., Ph.D., Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, The Ohio State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 395 Dreese Labs, 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1277, USA - Office: Dreese Labs 672, Phone: (614) 292-0066, CSE Dept: (614) 292-5813, Fax: (614) 292-2911, email: bucci (at) cse.ohio-state.edu, http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bucci/, Current research interests include component-based software engineering, programming environments, programming languages, and education.

Noel A. Cressie,  Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The Ohio State University, Director, Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Sciences (SSES), ncressie (at) stat.osu.edu, http://www.stat.osu.edu/~ncressie/.

Kaichang Di, Research Scientist,Civil, Envir Engr & Geod Sci,COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, 220B BOLZ HALL 2036 NEIL AVE,COLUMBUS, OH  43210 Phone +1 614 292 4303 email di.2 (at) osu.edu, http://shoreline.eng.ohio-state.edu/dkc/index.htm, I am a research scientist at GIS & Mapping Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, The Ohio Sate University. My current research areas are Mars rover localization and landing site mapping, high resolution satellite image processing, and shoreline mapping.

Prabir Kumar Dutta, Fox Professor, Professor of Chemistry, Email: dutta (at) chemistry.ohio-state.edu, Phone: (614) 292-4532, http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/~dutta/.

Eylem Ekici, Assistant Professor,Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210,office: 756 DL, ph: 614.292.0495, fax: 614.292.7596, email: ekici (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/ekici.html,  Areas of interest: Computer networks, wireless and satellite systems, routing protocols, and QoS provisioning.

Emre Ertin, Research Scientist, ISS and ECE. The Ohio State University, 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210 USA, Phone: (614) 688-3928,Fax: (614) 292-7596, email: ertin.1 (at) osu.edu, WWW: http://www.ece.osu.edu/~ertine/. Research interests: Statistical Signal Processing, game theory and machine learning with applications to Synthetic aperture radar, Sensor networks, Software defined radar and Smart biomedical sensors

Atilla Eryilmaz, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2005, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, office: 760 DL, ph: 614.292.7464, fax: 614.292.7596, email: eryilmaz (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/eryilmaz.html, Areas of interest: Sensor and wireless communication networks, distributed and randomized algorithms, network coding, and the application of optimization theory to network design and analysis.

Diane Foster, Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH  43210, phone:  614-292-6420, Fax:  614-292-3780, E-mail:  foster.316 (at) osu.edu, Webpage:   http://cumin.ceegs.ohio-state.edu/~cstl/dfoster/index.shtml, Research and Teaching Interests, Small scale dynamics of waves and currents, Dynamics of bottom boundary layers, Suspension of sediment, Dissipation of energy over a variety of substrates,

Hesham El Gamal, Associate Professor,Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, office: 620 DL, ph: 614.292.4374, fax: 614.292.7596, email: helgamal (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/elgamal.html, Areas of interest: Information Theory; Coding Theory, Wireless Communication; and DNA Self Assembly.

Joel Johnson, Professor, Ph.D. 1996, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, office: 452 DL, ph: 614.292.1606, fax: 614.292.7596, Prof. Johnson's email: johnson (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/johnson.html. Areas of interest: Microwave sensing, rough surface scattering, random medium theory, numerical methods for electromagnetics.

Can Emre Koksal, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2002, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, office: 712 DL, ph: 614.688.4369, fax: 614.292.7596, Prof. Koksal's email: koksal.2 (at) osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/koksal.html. Areas of interest: Wireless communication and networking, time-varying wireless networks, information theory, queueing and switching theory, financial economics.

Wu Lu, Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1994, Southeast University, China,Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, office: 215 CL, ph: 614.292.3462, fax: 614.292.7596, email: lu (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/lu.html, Areas of interest: Nanofabrication and nanoelectronics, chemical/biosensors and bioelectronics, III-nitride high power and low noise electronics, high speed III-V compound semiconductor devices and circuits for microwave, mixed signal, and optoelectronic applications.

Patricia A. Morris, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, 477 Watts Hall 2041 College Rd.Columbus, OH 43210, Office: 281 Watts Hall, Tel. (614) 247-8873, morris.692 (at) osu.edu, http://www.mse.eng.ohio-state.edu/faculty/morris/index.htmlx, Research and teaching interests are in the areas of: chemical sensors,electrical and optical properties of materials,surface characteristics of ceramics, and the processing methods used to obtain the specific properties of interest.

Füsun Özgüner, Professor, Ph.D., 1975, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, office: 652 DL, ph: 614.292.3039, fax: 614.292.7596, email: ozguner (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/ozguner_f.html. Areas of interest: High performance parallel computing, fault tolerance in parallel architectures, communication hardware and algorithms for massively parallel structures, multiprocessor architectures.

Lee Potter, Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1990, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,Areas of interest: Statistical signal processing; inverse problems; detection and estimation; applications to radar imaging and ultra wide-band systems.Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, office: 716 DL, ph: 614.292.5605, fax: 614.292.7596, email: potter (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/potter.html.

Ronald M. Reano, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2004, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, office: 213 CL, ph: 614.247.7204, fax: 614.292.7596, email: reano (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/reano.html, Areas of interest: Micro/nano-fabrication of wireless/terahertz/optical devices, bionanotechnology, nanoimprint lithography, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), polymer and semiconductor nonlinear/ultrafast electro-optics.

Keith A. Redmill, Ph.D. Research Scientist,Campus Address: Office: The Ohio State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Laboratory, 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210 USA 364 Caldwell Lab, Phone: (614) 292-5216, FAX: (614) 292-7596, EMAIL: redmill (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/~redmill/, Research and Technology Interests: Autonomous Vehicles and Robots; Intelligent Transportation Systems;Vehicle and Bus Tracking, Wireless Data Communication, CDPD; GPS and GIS Technologies;Large Hierarchical Systems;Real-Time and Embedded Systems;Hybrid Systems;Control Theory;Dynamical Systems Theory;Cognitive Science;Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation; Computer Engineering.

Alan Saalfeld, Associate Professor, Earth Science, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, 125 S. Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210, Office: ML 223, Phone: (614) 292-6665, E-mail: saalfeld.1 (at) osu.edu, Web : www.earthsciences.osu.edu/~saalfeld.1, Areas of Research:Geodetic Science, Computational Geometry, Mathematical Cartography, Computational Geospatial Science

Philip Schniter, Associate Professor, Ph.D. 2000, Cornell University, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 205 Dreese Labs; 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, office: 616 DL, ph: 614.247.6488, fax: 614.292.7596, email: schniter (at) ece.osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/schniter.html, Areas of interest: Signal processing for communication systems, adaptive filtering, estimation theory, blind equalization and identification.

Halil Sezen, P.E., Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH  43210, phone: 614-292-1338, Fax:  614-292-3780, E-mail:  sezen.1 (at) osu.edu,Web Site: http://www.ceegs.ohio-state.edu/~sezen, Research and Teaching Interests, Design and behavior of reinforced concrete structures, Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics, Evaluation, analysis, and rehabilitation of bridges and buildings, Nonlinear structural analysis, Prestressed and precast concrete structures;

C. K. Shum, Professor, Earth Science, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, 125 S. Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210, Office: ML 221B, Phone: (614) 292-7118, E-mail: ckshum (at) osu.edu, Web: http://geodesy.geology.ohio-state.edu, Areas of Research: Satellite Geodesy, Sea Level, Geodynamics

Prasun Sinha, Assistant Professor, 791 Dreese Labs, 2015 Neil Avenue, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1277,  phone: 614-292-1531, email: prasun (at) cse.ohio-state.edu, http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~prasun/, Scalable Sensor Networking How can senor networks be designed to operate in harsh conditions under constrained resources in real deployments? Can we build reliable and energy efficient protocols for large scale sensor networks? Can the networks self-heal in presence of node failures? These are some of the questions that I am currently investigating. In the ExScal project, (funded by DARPA/NEST) a 1000 node sensor network was demonstrated in operation for the purpose of detection, classification and tracking in Avon Park, Florida in December 2004. My role was to design network protocols for a multi-hop mesh network of 200 nodes that formed the backbone of the sensor network. Both these networks were world's largest at that time.Efficient Wireless Mesh Networking: How can we transmit data over time-varying channels to obtain high throughput? How can we optimize routing and association in a mesh network while considering multicast traffic? These questions are becoming more important with increasing number of deployments of mesh networks around the world,

Charles Toth, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at The Center for Mapping, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH  43210, phone: 614-292-7681, e-mail:  toth.2 (at) osu.edu; research expertise: spatial information systems, laser scanning, high-resolution imaging, surface extraction and modeling, integrating and calibrating of multi-sensor systems, multi-sensor geospatial data acquisition systems, terrain-based navigation and mobile mapping technology.

John Volakis, Professor and Director of the OSU ElectroScience Laboratory, Ph.D. 1982, The Ohio State University, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 227A ElectroScience Lab; 1320 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH 43212 or Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 360 Dreese Laboratory, 2015 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, ph: 614.292.5846, fax: 614.292.7297, email: volakis.1 (at) osu.edu, http://www.ece.osu.edu/aboutus/indiv_faculty/volakis.html, Areas of interest: Antennas, Computational Methods for Electromagnetics, Novel Radio Frequency Materials and Metamaterials, Propagation and Coupling in Wireless Systems, Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference, Radar Scattering, Optimization Methods for Antennas and RF Systems, Finite Element and Integral Analysis Methods, High Frequency and Hybrid Methods for Large Scale Computing. The link to the personal web page of Prof. Volakis is http://www.ece.osu.edu/~volakis/

Gregory Nathaniel Washington, Associate Dean of Research, COE Research,COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,167 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Ave. COLUMBUS, OH  43210,Phone: (614) 292-2986, Fax: (614) 292-9615, email: washington.88 (at) osu.edu, http://www.eng.ohio-state.edu/faculty/people/ washington_gregory.php