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.

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Bei Yu

Social Media Mining; Text Mining; Intelligent Agents; Multi-Agent Systems.

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Britton Plourde

Quantum information science with superconducting circuits (quantum computing).

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Can Isik

Controls; Robotics; Neural networks and fuzzy systems; Signals and systems; Digital circuits; Analog circuits; ECS ethics.

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Carsten Oesterlund

Medical informatics; Distributed and virtual work; Organizational learning; Knowledge management; Game design.

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Jae Chan Oh

Multi-Agent systems; Internet information retrieval; Resource sharing and allocation.

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Jeff Stanton

Research methods, psychometrics, and statistics with a particular focus on self report techniques such as surveys.

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Jeffrey Saltz

Structuring big data teams and projects; Entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Jennifer Stromer-Galley

Human interaction with and through digital technologies.

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Kevin Crowston

Managing coordination problems; Design and evaluation of systems to support collaboration; Open source software development projects; Research data management.

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Lixin Shen

Wavelet analysis, Image and signal processing.

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Pramod Varshney

Communications; Signal and image processing; Multisensor data/information fusion.

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Prasanta Ghosh

Smart grid; Sensors and measurement; High speed electronic devices and integrated circuits; Power engineering; Power electronics.

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Qinru Qiu

Dynamic power; Thermal and performance management of multiprocessor system-on-chip.

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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.

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Sucheta Soundarajan

Data mining; Social network analysis; Community detection; Applications to social and life sciences.

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Vir Phoha

Cyber security; Machine learning; Smart phones and tablets security; Biometrics.

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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.

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Carlos Caicedo

Computer networking; Mobile application development and design; Telecommunications technologies (wired and wireless); Network Security.

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Jeffrey Saltz

Structuring big data teams and projects; Entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Joon Park

Information and systems security.

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Kevin Du

Computer system and network security; Data mining; Distributed computing.

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Pramod Varshney

Communications; Signal and image processing; Multisensor data/information fusion.

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Qinru Qiu

Dynamic power; Thermal and performance management of multiprocessor system-on-chip.

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Shiu-Kai Chin

Formal methods; Information assurance; Security; Software engineering.

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Susan Older

Semantics of programming languages; Concurrency, fairness, logics of programs; Formal methods.

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Vir Phoha

Cyber security; Machine learning; Smart phones and tablets security; Biometrics.

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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.

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Biao Chen

Wireless Communications.

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Carlos Caicedo

Computer networking; Mobile application development and design; Telecommunications technologies (wired and wireless); Network Security.

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Kevin Du

Computer system and network security; Data mining; Distributed computing.

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Lee McKnight

Wireless grids, nomadicity and mobility; The convergence of the Internet and telecommunications industries.

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Lixin Shen

Wavelet analysis, Image and signal processing.

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Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

Wireless communications; Info theory; Signal processing; Wireless networks.

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Pramod Varshney

Communications; Signal and image processing; Multisensor data/information fusion.

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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.

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Britton Plourde

Quantum information science with superconducting circuits (quantum computing).

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Can Isik

Controls; Robotics; Neural networks and fuzzy systems; Signals and systems; Digital circuits; Analog circuits; ECS ethics.

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Dacheng Ren

Systems biology and biotechnology.

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Lixin Shen

Wavelet analysis, Image and signal processing.

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Ping Zhang

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in various contexts.

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Pramod Varshney

Communications; Signal and image processing; Multisensor data/information fusion.

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Prasanta Ghosh

Smart grid; Sensors and measurement; High speed electronic devices and integrated circuits; Power engineering; Power electronics.

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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.

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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.

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Britton Plourde

Quantum information science with superconducting circuits (quantum computing).

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Duncan Brown

Covers a broad range of topics in the new field of gravitational-wave astronomy (quantum computing).

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Jay Hubisz

Applications of Quantum Computation to Particle Theory.

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Matthew Rudolph

Hardware and software development for high energy physics

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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.

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Pankaj K. Jha

Quantum information science, Quantum sensing and metrology, Quantum nano- and meta-photonics, Bio-inspired materials

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Simon Catterall

Theoretical and computational studies of quantum field theory, quantum gravity and string theory.

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Tomasz Skwarnicki

Computing and instrumentation for high energy physics.