Satish 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.

Zonghui Chen
Dr. Chen is Research Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his B.S. (1991) in Semiconductor Physics and Devices from Nanjing University, China; studied in Semiconductor Physics and Optoelectronics at Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991-1995. He received his Ph.D. in Semiconductor Materials and Surface Science in 1999 from Wuerzburg University, Bavaria, Germany. He received C.S. Wu Experimental Physics Prize in China in 1991. He received the VolksWagen Fellowship (1995-1999, Germany) for outstanding Chinese graduate students. His researchexpertise includes semiconductor optical spectroscopy, surface analysis of semiconductor structure and chemistry, and semiconductor nanostructure materials and devices. His recent research interests at USC are focused on i) optical, structural, electrical and opto-electronic studies of materials and quantum nanostructure devices with novel functions, ii) synthesis of novel semiconductor hetero-structures and nano-structures via epitaxical and self-assembly approaches, and iii) their applications in novel quantum devices and bio-technology.

Solomon Golomb
Dr. Golomb is a University Professor and the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Communications in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Previously, he had a full-time position with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1956-1963. He received his B.A. degree from John Hopkins University in 1951 and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1953 and 1957, respectively. His research interests include signal design for communications and radar, coding theory and cryptography, combinatorial analysis, number theory and mathematical game theory. Dr. Golomb is the recipient of two honorary doctorate degrees, won the Shannon Award of the Information Theory Society of the IEEE in 1985, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of both the IEEE and AAAS.

John Heidemann
Dr. Heidemann is a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received the Ph.D. from UCLA in 1995. At USC,s Information Sciences Institute (ISI), he is currently active on three projects; SCADDS (large-scale sensor network configuration using data diffusion and other techniques), SAMAN (rapidly generating representative traffic models for network simulation and applying analytic techniques to speed simulation), and CONSER (network simulation for education). His research interests include embedded sensor networking, network robustness, network simulation and operating systems. Dr. Heidemann is a member of ACM, ISEE, and Usenix.

 

Tzung Hsiai
Dr. Hsiai is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received the B.S. from Columbia University, the M.D. from the University of Chicago and the Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the UCLA Cardiology Fellowship Program. His research interests include nanotechnology and microfabrication, bio-MEMS sensors, hemodynamic regulation of coronary artery disease/acute heart attack and molecular imaging. He has received grants from both DARPA and the NIH. Dr. Hsiai is diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Cardiovascular Disease, as well as a member of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology Council as well as the Biomedical Engineering Society.

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.

 

Vijay Kumar
Dr. Kumar is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He received the B. Tech and M. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1977 and 1979, respectively, and the Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1983. His research interests include error-correcting codes including codes on graphs, space-time codes, algebraic-geometric codes and low correlation sequence design. Dr. Kumar is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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.

 

Viktor Prasanna
Dr. Prasanna is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is also a member of the NSF supported Integrated Media Systems Center and an associate member of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences at USC. He received his BS in Electronics Engineering from the Bangalore University, MS from the School of Automation, Indian Institute of Science and Ph.D in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include High Performance Computing, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Network Computing and Embedded Systems. He is the Steering Committee Co-Chair of the International Parallel & Distributed Processing, and the Steering Committee Chair of the International Conference on High Performance Computing. Dr. Prassana is a Fellow of the IEEE, and was founding chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing.

 

Cauligi Raghavendra
Dr. Raghavendra is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Engineering Division in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Southern California , Los Angeles. Previously, he was a faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems at USC from 1982-1992, as Boeing Chair Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Washington State University in Pullman, from 1992-1997, and with The Aerospace Corporation from August 1997-2001. He received the B.Sc (Hons) physics degree from Bangalore University in 1973, the B.E and M.E degrees in Electronics and Communication from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in 1976 and 1978 respectively. He received the Ph.D degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1982.His research interests include routing, multicasting in networks, Active Networks, energy efficient protocols for wireless networks, and fault tolerant networks. His reserach is funded by DARPA PAC/C, SensIT, Active Networks, and FTN programs. Dr. Raghavendra is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award for 1985 and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

 

Robert Scholtz
Dr. Scholtz is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Cincinnati where he received the Electrical Engineer degree as a Sheffield Scholar. He was a Hughes Master and Doctoral Fellow while obtaining his M.S. (1960) and Ph.D. (1964) degrees at USC and Stanford University, respectively. His research interests include spread-spectrum communications, ultrawideband and impulse radio, synchronization techniques, adaptive arrays and filters, pseudo-noise generators, communication networks. In 1980, Dr. Scholtz was elected to the grade of Fellow in the IEEE, "for contributions to the theory and design of synchronizable codes for communications and radar systems."

 

Guarav Sukhatme
Dr. Sukhatme is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California and the associate director of the Robotics Research Laboratories. His research interests include embedded systems, mobile robot coordination, sensor fusion for robot fault tolerance, and human-robot interfaces. He has served as PI or CoPI on several NSF, DARPA and NASA grants and contracts. Dr. Sukhatme is a member of AAAI, IEEE and the ACM and has served on several conference program committees, and was recently awarded the prestigious NSF Young Investigator Award.

 

 

 

Ramakant Nevatia