Visiting Professionals

The Department is host to many professionals - visiting researchers, scientists, and engineers - who are involved in research projects with our faculty.

Below are the names of individuals participating in projects with our department and the area of research in which they are involved:

• A.A. (Louis) Beex, Professor of EE and Director DSP Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Digital signal processing, stochastic signals and systems, linear systems, spectral estimation, adaptive signal processing, system identification.
  Dates of visit: spring 2002
• Yngve Birkelund, PhD-student of physics, University of Tromso, Norway
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Multitaper and adaptive polyspectrum estimators.
  Dates of visit: fall 2001
• Timothy X. Brown, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications, ECE, and CS, University of Colorado, Boulder.
  Sponsor: Edwin Chong
  Research area: Communication networks, machine learning, neural networks.
  Dates of visit: spring 2002
• Christos G. Cassandras, Professor of Manufacturing Engineering, Professor of ECE, Boston University.
  Sponsor: Edwin Chong
  Research area: Discrete event and hybrid systems, stochastic control and optimization, manufacturing systems, computer/communication networks, transportation systems.
  Dates of visit: spring 2003
• Doug Cochran, Professor of ECE, Arizona State University
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Mathmatical signal analysis, detection theory, robust communication systems.
  Dates of visit: spring 2003
• Tim Davidson, Assistant Professor of ECE, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Signal processing, communications and control.
  Dates of visit: spring 2003
• David C. Farden, Professor of ECE, North Dakota State University
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Coded OFDM for frequency selective channels.
  Dates of visit: spring 2002, summer 2003, summer 2004, summer 2005
• Daniel R. Fuhrmann, Associate Professor of EE, Washington University - St. Louis
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Genomic signal processing and array processing.
  Dates of visit: spring 2002, fall 2004
• Hongya Ge, Associate Professor of ECE, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Statistical and array signal processing, detection and estimation theory, communications, MIMO system for broadband wireless access, transceiver design for DS-CDMA systems, numerical analysis, and approximation theory.
  Dates of visit: fall 2003
• Dr. Eugenio Gorgucci, National Research Council, Italy
  Sponsor: V. Chandrasekar
  Research and/or Teaching area: Polarimetric radar
  Dates of visit: On-going
• John Gubner, Professor of ECE, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research and/or Teaching area: Detection and estimation in the linear statistical model, with applications to multi-access communication.
  Dates of visit: summer 2001, summer 2003, summer 2005
• Xavier Hachair, Graduate Student, Institute Non-Lineare Optics, University of Nice, France
  Sponsor: Carmen Menoni
  Research and/or Teaching area: Semiconductor materials and devices characterization.
  Dates of visit: fall 2001
• KyoYong Han, Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Yeungnam University
  Sponsor: Kevin L. Lear
  Research and/or Teaching area: Semiconductor devices and processing
  Dates of visit: fall 2003
• Alfred Hanssen, Professor of Physics, University of Tromso, Norway
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research and/or Teaching area: Time-frequency distributions, channel modeling, bi-spectrum estimation, and subspace modulation for multi-access communication.
  Dates of visit: academic year 2001/2002
• Alfred Hero, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering and Statistics, Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research and/or Teaching area: Medical imagin, bioinformatics, statistical communications, signal processing and image processing
  Dates of visit: spring 2003
• Shawn Kraut, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's Univeristy
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research and/or Teaching area: Adapative detectors
  Dates of visit: spring 2002
• Jeffrey Krolik, Professor of EE, Duke University
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Signal processing using computational physical models with applications in sonar and communications, sensor array design and analysis, adaptive filtering and spectrum analysis.
  Dates of visit: spring 2002
• Sanjeev Kulkarni, Associate Professor of EE, Princeton University.
  Sponsor: Edwin Chong
  Research area: Adaptive and learning systems, image/video processing, information theory, nonparametric statistics.
  Dates of visit: spring 2003
• Hanna Larsson, Visiting MSc student, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research Area: Statistical and array signal processing with applications to radar detection.
  Dates of visit: fall 2004
• Magnus Lundberg, Post-doc, Chalmers University of Technology.
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research and/or Teaching area: Statistical signal processing with applications on radar, digital communications, and land mine detection. Specific focus on Bayesian treatment of nuisance parameters.
  Dates of visit: fall 2003 - fall 2004
• L.T. McWhorter, Research Scientist, Mission Research Corp., Fort Collins, CO.
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research and/or Teaching area: Multi-sensor array processing, and teaching EE721 - Advanced Topics in Communication Theory.
  Dates of visit: fall 2001
• Mario C. Marconi, Professor of Physics, University of Buenos Aires
  Sponsor: Jorge Rocca
  Research and/or Teaching area: Lasers, plasmas, quantum electronics.
  Dates of visit: spring 2002
• Peter Mathys, Associate Professor of ECE, University of Colorado
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research and/or Teaching area: Multiuser information theory and coding, data networks, communication theory, analysis of algorithms, and cryptography.
  Dates of visit: fall 2001
• C.T. Mullis, Professor of ECE, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research and/or Teaching area: Time-frequency localization and related topics in multi-sensor array processing.
  Dates of visit: summer 2001
• H.V. Poor, Professor of EE, Princeton University
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research and/or Teaching area: Signal processing and communication theory.
  Dates of visit: fall 2001
• Giuseppe Ricci Professor of ECE, University of Lecce, Italy
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Statistical signal processing with applications to radar detection and multiuser detection for CDMA systems.
  Dates of visit: summer 2003, summer 2005
• Arnt-Borre Salberg,PhD-student of physics, University of Tromso, Norway
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Subspace modulation and OFDM for secure multi-access communication.
  Dates of visit: spring 2002
• Youn Hee Sang, Researcher, Hoseo University, South Korea
  Sponsor: George Collins
  Research: Power Electronics
  Dates of visit: summer 2001
• Peter J. Schreier, Post-Doc, University of Colorado
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Statistical signal processing and communicatins.
  Dates of visit: spring 2004
• Steven Smith, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Adaptive signal processing, computational architectures.
  Dates of visit: spring 2003
• Dr. Chad Spooner,Mission Research Corp.
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research area: Statistical signal processing, higher order statistics.
  Dates of visit: fall 2003
• Barry Van Veen, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf
  Research: Statistical signal processing algorithm development,signal processing for sensor arrays, biomedical, acoustical, and communication systems applications of signal processing nonlinear signal processing.
  Dates of visit: spring 2002, summer 2005
• I-Jeng Weng, Sr. Reserach Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
  Sponsor: Edwin Chong
  Research: Stochastic optimization and control, resource allocation, wireless networking, Bayesian modeling and inference, and bioinformatics.
  Dates of visit: fall 2003
  
• Birsen Yazici, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf and Edwin Chong
  Research: Statistical signal and image processing, pattern recognition, noncommutative harmonic analysis, inverse problems in radar and medical imaging, in particular optical and X-ray imaging and breast cancer.
  Dates of Visit: summer 2005
• Zhi (Gerry) Tian, Associate Professor, Michigan Technological University
  Sponsor: Louis Scharf