Graduate Handbook - 8. Faculty Research Interests
Jacques Beneat (Post. Doc.)
Circuit and systems, fundamental theory and applications for lumped and distributed networks. Microelectronic and digital circuits, microwave structures for communication systems.
Richard Campbell (Adjunct)
Aeroacoustics, architectural acoustics, noise, signal processing, acoustic measurements, speech communication, transducers, musical acoustics.
Large Scale and Nonlinear systems, Power Systems.
Peter Cukor (Adjunct)
Telecommunications policy, video conferencing, telemedicine distancing learning, university/industry collaborations.
Robot vision, pattern recognition, automatic target recognition, data conversion, digital signal processing, global optimization.
Control systems design and analysis, computer-assisted instruction.
Parallel computation, computer architecture, real-time systems and distributed computer.
Power electronics, electromagnetic design, high-voltage technology.
Thomas Gannon (Adjunct)
Computer networks, computer architecture, operating systems, compilers, fault tolerant systems, microprocessor system design, fault diagnosis of digital systems, and parallel processing architectures.
Digital Signal Processing, power system analysis, and system engineering.
Robert Labonte (Professor of Practice)
Digital and Analog systems, signal processing, propagation of electromagnetic waves, Model-based diagnostics.
Digital and Analog systems, signal processing, biomedical engineering, biomedical sensory systems analysis, microprocessor systems and architectures.
Computational acoustic and electromagnetic wave Modeling, linear and nonlinear, inverse methods piezoelectric transducer characterization for medical diagnostics and nondestructive evaluation.
Semiconductor processing, phonon focusing and low-temperature thermal transport, elastic anisotropy, piezoelectricity, phonon-phonon interactions.
Analog and mixed signal integrated circuit design, electronics for high speed imaging.
Satellite navigation systems, system simulation and Modeling, and high performance computer systems.
Ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation, signal processing, scaling and fractal properties of signals.
Leslie Novak (Adjunct)
Signals and systems (inc. DSP), probability random variables, and random processes, radar systems, statistical pattern recognition, and estimation theory.
Image processing, digital signal processing, power quality, and engineering education.
Cryptography and date security, its application to network security and electronic banking, VLSI arithmetic architectures, channel coding.
Wireless local networking, personal and mobile communication, communication over fading multipath channels, adaptive filtering, spectral estimation.
Ultrasound measurement techniques, doppler flow measurements, inverse methods in ultrasonics, biomedical engineering.
Robert Swarz (Adjunct)
Fault-tolerant computers, software reliability, digital system testability, physics of microelectronic failures, digital signal processing,.
Machine vision, signal analysis, communications.
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