Active Faculty
CASE works with research faculty in many disciplines throughout Syracuse University’s diverse schools and colleges. If you don’t find the information systems expertise you need among the researchers listed below, please call and we will help you find what you need.
Big Data: turning data into knowledge.
The faculty members listed below work in data analytics, data fusion, data mining, social media, predictive analysis, machine learning, and more – any subject that involves large data sets.
Bei Yu
Social Media Mining; Text Mining; Intelligent Agents; Multi-Agent Systems.
Britton Plourde
Quantum information science with superconducting circuits (quantum computing).
Can Isik
Controls; Robotics; Neural networks and fuzzy systems; Signals and systems; Digital circuits; Analog circuits; ECS ethics.
Carsten Oesterlund
Medical informatics; Distributed and virtual work; Organizational learning; Knowledge management; Game design.
Chilukuri K. Mohan
Artificial intelligence; Neural networks; Evolutionary algorithms; Uncertainty optimization; Pattern recognition.
Jae Chan Oh
Multi-Agent systems; Internet information retrieval; Resource sharing and allocation.
Jeff Stanton
Research methods, psychometrics, and statistics with a particular focus on self report techniques such as surveys.
Jeffrey Saltz
Structuring big data teams and projects; Entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Human interaction with and through digital technologies.
Kevin Crowston
Managing coordination problems; Design and evaluation of systems to support collaboration; Open source software development projects; Research data management.
Lixin Shen
Wavelet analysis, Image and signal processing.
Makan Fardad
Optimal sparse network design in large-scale dynamical systems.
Pramod Varshney
Communications; Signal and image processing; Multisensor data/information fusion.
Prasanta Ghosh
Smart grid; Sensors and measurement; High speed electronic devices and integrated circuits; Power engineering; Power electronics.
Qinru Qiu
Dynamic power; Thermal and performance management of multiprocessor system-on-chip.
Sara Eftekharnejad
Integration of renewable energy into power systems; Power system stability and control; Power system reliability and security; Phasor Measurement Units (PMU) in smart grids.
Sucheta Soundarajan
Data mining; Social network analysis; Community detection; Applications to social and life sciences.
Vir Phoha
Cyber security; Machine learning; Smart phones and tablets security; Biometrics.
Yuzhe (Richard) Tang
System security; Big-data systems; Performance.
Cybersecurity: keeping data and networks safe.
The faculty members listed below focus on keeping data safe, and systems up and running. Their expertise includes data security and assurance, resilience, malware and intrusion detection, and all aspects of cybersecurity research.
Carlos Caicedo
Computer networking; Mobile application development and design; Telecommunications technologies (wired and wireless); Network Security.
Jeffrey Saltz
Structuring big data teams and projects; Entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Joon Park
Information and systems security.
Kevin Du
Computer system and network security; Data mining; Distributed computing.
Pramod Varshney
Communications; Signal and image processing; Multisensor data/information fusion.
Qinru Qiu
Dynamic power; Thermal and performance management of multiprocessor system-on-chip.
Shiu-Kai Chin
Formal methods; Information assurance; Security; Software engineering.
Susan Older
Semantics of programming languages; Concurrency, fairness, logics of programs; Formal methods.
Vir Phoha
Cyber security; Machine learning; Smart phones and tablets security; Biometrics.
Yuzhe (Richard) Tang
System security; Big-data systems; Performance.
Communications Systems: advancing knowledge of digital communications.
The researchers in this section include leaders in the fields of wireless spectrum, cognitive radio, distributed communications systems, signal processing, MIMO and all aspects of networked communications.
Biao Chen
Wireless Communications.
Carlos Caicedo
Computer networking; Mobile application development and design; Telecommunications technologies (wired and wireless); Network Security.
Kevin Du
Computer system and network security; Data mining; Distributed computing.
Lee McKnight
Wireless grids, nomadicity and mobility; The convergence of the Internet and telecommunications industries.
Lixin Shen
Wavelet analysis, Image and signal processing.
Makan Fardad
Optimal sparse network design in large-scale dynamical systems.
Mustafa Cenk Gursoy
Wireless communications; Info theory; Signal processing; Wireless networks.
Pramod Varshney
Communications; Signal and image processing; Multisensor data/information fusion.
Senem Velipasalar
Computer vision; Video/image processing, Signal processing.
Younes Ra’di
Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics, Antennas and Propagation, Electromagnetics of Artificial Materials and Surfaces
Modeling and Simulation: visualizing data to advance understanding.
These faculty members create advanced computer models and visualizations for a range of complex data types, enabling industry to predict how processes, materials, fluids, and even groups of humans are likely to behave in the real world.
Britton Plourde
Quantum information science with superconducting circuits (quantum computing).
Can Isik
Controls; Robotics; Neural networks and fuzzy systems; Signals and systems; Digital circuits; Analog circuits; ECS ethics.
Dacheng Ren
Systems biology and biotechnology.
Ed Lipson
Medical imaging and nuclear medicine (MRI, PET, SPECT).
John D. Dannenhoffer, III
Applied computational geometry; Computational fluid dynamics; Computer-based engineering education; Collaborative design.
Lixin Shen
Wavelet analysis, Image and signal processing.
Makan Fardad
Optimal sparse network design in large-scale dynamical systems.
Ping Zhang
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in various contexts.
Pramod Varshney
Communications; Signal and image processing; Multisensor data/information fusion.
Prasanta Ghosh
Smart grid; Sensors and measurement; High speed electronic devices and integrated circuits; Power engineering; Power electronics.
Sara Eftekharnejad
Integration of renewable energy into power systems; Power system stability and control; Power system reliability and security; Phasor Measurement Units (PMU) in smart grids.
Senem Velipasalar
Computer vision; Video/image processing, Signal processing.
Quantum Computing: computing that uses quantum physics to store and process information.
The faculty researchers below work on different aspects of quantum computing, including research topics on development of computing hardware and middleware for gravitational-wave astrophysics and management of large-scale scientific workflows.
Britton Plourde
Quantum information science with superconducting circuits (quantum computing).
Duncan Brown
Covers a broad range of topics in the new field of gravitational-wave astronomy (quantum computing).
Jay Hubisz
Applications of Quantum Computation to Particle Theory.
Matthew Rudolph
Hardware and software development for high energy physics
Mitchell Soderberg
Neutrino flavor oscillations using long-baseline experiments. Development of noble liquid detectors for neutrino physics, Development of data-analysis techniques for noble liquid detectors.
Pankaj K. Jha
Quantum information science, Quantum sensing and metrology, Quantum nano- and meta-photonics, Bio-inspired materials
Simon Catterall
Theoretical and computational studies of quantum field theory, quantum gravity and string theory.
Tomasz Skwarnicki
Computing and instrumentation for high energy physics.