Dynamics and Control - Faculty

	Sattish Bukkapatnam Dr. Bukkapatnam is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from S.V. University (Tirupati, India) in 1992, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1994 and 1997, respectively. His research interests include Sensor-based process modeling and control, nonlinear dynamics, wavelet theoretic methodologies and machining dynamics. Dr. Bukkapatnam was designated a Zumberge Fellow in 1998 by the University of Southern California.
	Hsien K. Cheng Dr. Cheng's research interests include theoretical aerodynamics and gas dynamics, transonic flows, sonic boom propagation, rarified hypersonic gas dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, flying and swimming in nature.
	Rahman Davoodi Dr. Davoodi is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His main interest is the use of functional electrical stimulation (FES) to restore activities of normal daily living to the paralyzed such as standing, reaching, grasping, and exercise. Dr. Davoodi's other interests include reinforcement learning, genetic algorithms, collaborative learning, microcontroller programming, sensory measurements, real-time control, and development of assistive devices to improve the quality of life of the disabled.
	Henryk Flashner Dr. Flashner is an Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research interests include dynamics and control of systems, control of structurally flexible systems, and analysis of nonlinear systems.
	Petros Ioannou Dr. Ioannou is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Director of the Center of Advanced Transportation Technologies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia in the Fall of 1988, the Technical University of Crete in summer of 1992 and served as the Dean of the School of Pure and Applied Science at the University of Cyprus in 1995. . His research interests are in the areas of adaptive control, neural networks, vehicle dynamics and control and intelligent vehicle and highway systems. Dr. Ioannou is the recipient of a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award for his research in Adaptive Control. Dr. Ioannou is a fellow of IEEE, a member of the AVCS Committee of ITS America and a Control System Society member on IEEE TAB Committee on ITS.
	Edmond Jonckheere Dr. Jonckheere is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and an Associate Member of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received the Electrical Engineer degree from the Universite de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1973; the Doctor in Engineering degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, in 1975; and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1978. Dr. Jonckheere is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and an Associate Member of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received the Electrical Engineer degree from the Universite de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1973; the Doctor in Engineering degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, in 1975; and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1978.
	Erik Johnson Dr. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Previously, he had faculty positions at Lund University in Sweden, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received the B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988, 1993 and 1997, respectively. His research interests include structural dynamics, structural control, computational stochastic dynamics, muliobjective optimal control, system identification, structural health monitoring and structural optimization. Dr. Johnson is a member of the AIAA, and an associate member of the ASCE and ASME.
	Vincent W. Lee Dr. Lee is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1973 and 1976, respectively, and the Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1979. Dr. Lee's research interests include earthquake engineering, computer numerical methods and computer aided design.
	Gerald Loeb Dr. Loeb is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Medical Device Development Facility of the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Previously, he conducted research in the Laboratory of Neural Control at the NIH and was a Professor of Physiology and Director of the Bio-Medical Engineering Unit at Queen's University. He received the B.A. and M.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University in 1969 and 1972, respectively, and trained in Surgery at the University of Arizona. His research interests include constructing interfaces between electronic devices and the nervous system that are used to replace sensory and motor functions and correct dysfunctions in people with neurological problems. Dr. Loeb has published over 190 journal articles and chapters, a book on electromyography, and holds 23 patents.
	Sami Masri Dr. Masri is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1960 and 1961, respectively, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1962 and 1965, respectively. His interests include the modeling and control of nonlinear dynamic systems.
	James Moore Dr. Moore is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Urban Planning at the University of Southern California. He received the BS degrees in Industrial Engineering and Urban Planning in 1981 from the Technological Institute at Northwestern University and the MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University in 1982, as well as his Masters of Urban and Regional Planning degree from Northwestern in 1983, and his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering (Infrastructure Planning and Management) from Stanford in 1986. Professor Moore does fundamental research on the engineering economic aspects of large-scale transportation and land use systems, including seismic risk analysis for transportation networks. His research interests include transportation systems analysis, discrete facility location, optimal control of congestible transportation networks.
	Paul Newton Dr. Newton is Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received his B.S. degree (cum laude) in Applied Mathematics and Physics at Harvard University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics at Brown University. Before joining USC, he was a tenured Professor of Mathematics at University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) and has held visiting research appointments at Stanford University (1985-1987), Brown University (1989), the Center for Complex Systems Research (Beckman Institute 1989-1993), Caltech (2000), and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara (2000). His research areas include the control and dynamics of N-body problems (both constrained and unconstrained), including the development of symplectic and energy-preserving numerical algorithms for Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, the dynamics of discrete vortex models for fluid turbulence, multi-scale methods for nonlinear partial differential equations and weak turbulence models, scaling laws and the asymptotics of nonlinear eigenvalue problems.
	Robert Nigbor Dr. Nigbor is a Research Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received the B.A. degree in 1978 from Pomona College, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1987 and 1989, respectively, from the University of Southern California. Dr. Nigbor's research interests include structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, advanced technologies in structural engineering, large-scale experimental studies, ground motion measurements, applications of geophysical measurements to civil engineering and seismic performance of nonstructural elements.
	Larry Redekopp Dr. Redekopp is a Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research interests include fluid dynamics, linear and nonlinear waves, and stability of fluid motion.
	M. Oussama Safadi Dr. Safadi is an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research interests include structural dynamics, finite element, stress analysis and fracture mechanics.
	Michael Safonov Dr. Safonov is a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He has been a consultant to The Analytic Sciences Corp., Honeywell Systems and Research Center, Systems Control, Systems Control Technology, Scientific Systems, United Technologies, TRW, Northrop Aircraft, Hughes Aircraft and others. His consulting and university research activities have involved him in flight control system design studies in which modern robust multivariable control techniques were applied to a variety of aircraft including the CH-47 Chinook helicopter (Analytic Sciences Corp., 1976), the NASA HiMAT aircraft (Honeywell/USC, 1980) and the F/A-18 Hornet (Northrop, 1987-1991). He has authored or co-authored more than one hundred and fifty journal and conference papers and the book Stability and Robustness of Multivariable Feedback Systems (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980). Additionally, he is co-author of the MATLAB Robust Control Toolbox (Natick, MA: MathWorks,), a software package for use with MATLAB.
	Geoffrey Shiflett Dr. Shiflett is an Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include kinematics and dynamics of mechanical systems, computer-aided design, optimal design techniques, and microelectromechanical systems.
	Leonard Silverman (on sabbatical) Dr. Silverman is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research interests include multivariable system theory, control, estimation, image processing and circuit theory.
	Maria Todorovska Dr. Todorovska is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She received the B.Sc. (Physics) in 1982, Univ. St. Cyril & Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia, the M.Sc. (Civil Engineering), Ph.D. (Civil Engineering), M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics) and M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) from the University of Southern California in 1985, 1988, 1988 and 2001 respectively. Her research interests include seismic wave propagation, dynamic soil-structure interaction, probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, passive control of structural response via wave scattering and radiation, seismic data processing, and assessment of damage and losses from earthquakes. Dr. Todorovska is a member of Seismological Society of America, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, Society for Industrial Applications of Mathematics, and Indian Society of Earthquake Technology.
	Mihailo Trifunac Dr. Trifunac is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received his Dipl. Ing. from the University of Belgrad in 1965, the M.S. degree from Princeton University in 1966 and the Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1969. His research interests include strong motion seismology, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, wave propagation, random vibrations, instrumentation and measurement, and passive control of structural response through absorption by scattering and reflection of the incident wave motion. Trifunac is a member of the American Geophysical Union, American Society of Civil Engineers, Seismological Society of America, and Indian Society of Earthquake Technology. Dr. Trifunac is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received his Dipl. Ing. from the University of Belgrad in 1965, the M.S. degree from Princeton University in 1966 and the Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1969. His research interests include strong motion seismology, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, wave propagation, random vibrations, instrumentation and measurement, and passive control of structural response through absorption by scattering and reflection of the incident wave motion. Trifunac is a member of the American Geophysical Union, American Society of Civil Engineers, Seismological Society of America, and Indian Society of Earthquake Technology.
	Firdaus Udwadia Dr. Udwadia is a Professor of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Operations and Information Management at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received the B.S. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, and the M.S. degree and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include control of nonholonomic dynamical systems, lyapunov theory, active control of structural systems, multicriterion optimization, applications of fuzzy logic to management decisions and crisis management.   Dr. Udwadia is a Professor of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Operations and Information Management at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received the B.S. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, and the M.S. degree and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include control of nonholonomic dynamical systems, lyapunov theory, active control of structural systems, multicriterion optimization, applications of fuzzy logic to management decisions and crisis management.
	Hung L. Wong Dr. Wong is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received the B.S. degree in 1972 from the University of Utah, the M.S. degree and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technolgy, in 1973 and 1975, respectively. Dr. Wong's research interests include wave propagation in solids, soil-structure interaction, earthquake engineering and computation methods.
	Bingen Yang Dr. Yang is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Yang has 20 years of research experience in dynamics and controls of flexible mechanical systems, vibrations, and applied mechanics. His current research projects include: position and motion control of computer servo systems; dynamics and control of highway bridge-vehicle systems for life extension; deployment dynamic and control of space inflatable structures; MEMS in minimally or non- invasive surgical devices; and interactive and integrated software packages for higher education in mechanical engineering. He has authored or co-authored over one hundred journal, conference papers and book chapters. Dr. Yang was a recipient of the 1995 Northrop Grumman Corporation Excellent Research Award. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.
	Yannis Yortsos Dr. Yortsos is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Senior Associate Dean, Academic Affairs for the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received the B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece in 1973, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1979. His research interests include fluid flow, transport, and reaction in porous media, viscous flows in porous media geometries, phase change in porous media and applications to the recovery of subsurface fluids (oil recovery, soil remediation).

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