FACULTY INTERESTED IN SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING
Students interested in Signal and Image processing can work with any faculty member in the department. Shown below is a partial list of faculty members who are interested in various aspects of signal and image processing research. For a complete list of faculty members and their research interests, please consult the ECE department homepage.


Paul M. Chau, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), Cornell University

Research Interests: VLSI digital signal processing (VLSI-DSP), VLSI circuit and system architectures, VLSI application or algorithm-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip design, computer-aided design (CAD) tools, adaptive signal processing, electronic neural networks, multiprocessor networks.

Current Research Topics: Multiprocessing DSP and CAD, adaptive processing for communication and DSP systems, computer-aided design tools for ASIC module generation, reduced complexity signal processing algorithms and architectures.


Pamela C. Cosman, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), Stanford University

Research Interests: Image processing, data compression, joint source-channel coding, medical image analysis and enhancement, image quality evaluation.

Current Research Topics: Region-based image compression, quality evaluation in mammography, wavelet vector quantization algorithms, tree-structured clustering methods applied to genetics.


Shaya Y. Fainman, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. (Electro-optics), Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Nonlinear optics; diffractive optics; optics and optical signal processing with ultra-short laser pulses; photonics in Bioengineering; photonic networks; optical image processing; pattern recognition and robotic vision.

Current Research Topics: Polarization selective diffractive optics; artificial dielectrics; photonic switching; dynamic optical interconnects and photonic networks; complex spatio-temporal optical processing; high resolution biomedical imaging; 3-D optical storage and display.


William S. Hodgkiss, Professor
Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), Duke University

Research Interests: Adaptive digital signal processing; adaptive array processing; data communications; applications of these to underwater acoustics; the propagation of acoustic energy in the ocean and its interaction with the sediments beneath the ocean and the sea surface; the statistical properties of ambient ocean noise.

Current Research Topics: Passive detection, localization, and tracking of low-level acoustic sources; the use of transiting surface ships as sources of opportunity for the purpose of array and environmental parameter characterization; shallow water ambient ocean noise; underwater data telemetry.


Ramesh Jain, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. (Computation and Controls), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Research Interests: Multimedia Information Systems, Visual Computing, Information Assimilation.

Current Research Topics: Content-based multimedia information systems; information assimilation for mobile robots; gesture based interfaces; machine vision systems.


Walter H. Ku, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York

Research Interests: Design and fabrication of submicron gatelength MOS and GaAs FETs, HEMTs and GaAlAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors, monolithic microwave and millimeter devices and ICs, phased array modules and digital signal processing (DSP) and adaptive image processing techniques and VLSI and VHSIC chip architectures, MMIC, and gigabit logic.

Current Research Topics: Design and fabrication of submicron VLSI and MMIC chips for signal processing and secure communication, image processing for target recognition and medical images, design of integrated circuits for wireless multimedia secure communications systems.


Elias Masry, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), Princeton University

Research Interests: Parametric and nonparametric time series analysis, particularly spectral, probability density, and regression estimation; adaptive filtering algorithms; sampled data systems; wavelet theory and applications.

Current Research Topics: Multivariate curve estimation using wavelet bases; local polynomial fitting; performance analysis of adaptive filtering algorithms; multiresolution approximation of multidimensional functions and processes; estimation and identification of nonlinear time series; neural networks and statistical function estimation.


Bhaskar D. Rao, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), University of Southern California

Research Interests: Digital signal processing, estimation theory and optimization theory.

Current Research Topics: Digital Signal Processing and Estimation theory, Analysis and Implementation of Array Processing and Spectral Estimation Algorithms, Adaptive Filtering, Numerically Robust algorithms and filters, Multirate Systems, Neural Networks and Speech Signal Processing (compression and recognition).


James R. Zeidler, Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. (Physics), University of Nebraska

Research Interests: Digital Signal and Image Processing; Adaptive Algorithms: Applications, Performance & Implementation.

Current Research Topics: Adaptive Interference Suppression and Capacity Enhancement Algorithms for Wireless Communications, Performance Analysis of Adaptive Signal and Image Processing Algorithms.