Research Interests

Here is a listing of Faculty research interests:

Faculty

Michael Adams, Ph.D. (British Columbia)

Digital signal processing; image/video/audio processing and coding; digital geometry processing; wavelets, subdivision, and filter banks; algorithms; multimedia systems; data compression; computer graphics.

Panajotis Agathoklis, Dr. Sc. Tech. (Swiss Fed. Inst. of Tech.)

Digital signal processing, multidimensional systems, control systems.

Andreas Antoniou, Ph.D. (London)

Analog and digital filter design, digital signal processing, electronic circuits, optimization methods.

Amirali Baniasadi, Ph.D. (Northwestern)

Low-power design, power-aware architectures, VLSI, interconnect, high-performance processors.

Ashoka K. S. Bhat, Ph.D. (Toronto)

Power electronic controls, high-frequency link power conversion-resonant and pulse with modulation, power converters for alternative energy sources, design of electronic circuits for power control.

Jens Bornemann, Dr.-Ing. (Bremen)

RF/wireless/microwave/millimeter-wave components for antennas feed systems, ultra-wideband and multi-band RF systems in modern integrated circuits, EM-based computer-aided antenna and component design.

Alexandra Branzan Albu, Ph.D. (Bucharest)

Computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, human computer interaction.

Lin Cai, Ph.D. (Waterloo)

Wireless networks and mobile computing, resource and mobility management, flow and congestion control, medium access control, multimedia services, cross-layer design.

David W. Capson, Ph.D. (McMaster)

Computational vision, algorithms and architectures for accelerated and embedded image analysis, vision-based applications in robotics, metrology, inspection, and servo systems.

Thomas E. Darcie, Ph.D. (Toronto)

Optical systems, optical communications, fiber-optic systems and technology, broadband networks, microwave/terahertz photonics, optical imaging and image processing systems, broadband applications.

Nikitas J. Dimopoulos, Ph.D. (Maryland)

Computer architecture, power aware computing, neural networks.

Xiaodai Dong, Ph.D. (Queen's)

Wireless communications systems, ultra-wideband communications, multicarrier and multiple antenna communication systems, radio propagation, cooperative communications, cognitive radio.

Peter F. Driessen, Ph.D. (British Columbia)

Audio and video signal processing, computer music, sound recording, wireless communications, radio propagation.

Fayez Gebali, Ph.D. (British Columbia)

Parallel algorithms, computer communications, computer architecture, computer arithmetic, multicore systems.

Reuven Gordon, Ph.D. (Cambridge)

Nanophotonics, plasmonics, biophotonics, biosensors, optical trapping, lab-on-chip devices, nanotechnology and nanofabrication.

T. Aaron Gulliver, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Wireless communications, ultra-wideband systems, wireless networks, cross-layer design, optical wireless, cognitive radio, OFDM and MIMO systems, secure communications, algebraic coding theory, information theory, cryptography and computer security, software radio, communications algorithms.

Wolfgang J.R. Hoefer, Dr.-Ing. (Grenoble)

Microwave, millimeter wave, optical theory and applications, computational electromagnetics and numerical field modelling, high speed circuit analysis and synthesis, metamaterials, superresolution imaging.

R. Lynn Kirlin Ph.D. (Utah State)

Statistical signal processing: sonar, HF radar, seismic, sensor array processing; adaptive filters, parameter estimation, noise suppression; pattern recognition, clustering and classification; wavelet and time-frequency analysis, data compression, blind separation of signals and blind deconvolution, spectral design of randomized switching in dc/dc and dc/ac converters, radar.

Harry H.L. Kwok, Ph.D. (Stanford)

Advanced materials, electronic devices and IC design, mixed-mode circuits.

Kin Fun Li, Ph.D. (Concordia)

Web mining and computer architecture.

Warren D. Little, Ph.D. (British Columbia)

Microcomputer architecture and applications; image processing; computer vision and automatic product identification; logic design.

Tao Lu, Ph.D. (Waterloo)

Photonic devices, bio-photonics, nano-photonics, optical device fabrication and modelling.

Wu-Sheng Lu, Ph.D. (Minnesota)

Design and analysis of digital filters, wavelets and filter banks, DSP for telecommunications, numerical optimization and applications.

Eric G. Manning, Ph.D. (Illinois)

Computer networks, distributed computing, multimedia.

Michael McGuire, Ph.D. (Toronto)

Model-based and adaptive filtering, digital signal processing and wireless network control.

Subhasis Nandi, Ph.D (Texas A&M)

Electric machine control and drives, fault diagnosis of electric machines, power electronics.

Stephen W. Neville, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Computer and network security, artificial intelligence, statistical signal processing, pattern recognition, fault detection and diagnosis, distributed systems, decision support systems.

Chris Papadopoulos, Ph.D. (Brown)

Nanomaterials, nanofabrication and self-assembly, nanoelectronics.

Daler N. Rakhmatov, Ph.D. (Arizona)

Energy-efficient computing, dynamically reconfigurable systems, electronic design automation.

Mihai Sima, Ph.D. (Bucharest), Ph.D. (Delft)

Computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, circuit design, embedded systems, digital signal processing, speech recognition.

Poman P. M. So, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Object-oriented computational electromagnetics, biomedical electromagnetics and instrumentation, computer-aided microwave circuit analysis and synthesis.

Maria A. Stuchly, Ph.D. (Warsaw)

Applied electromagnetics, numerical modelling of interactions of electromagnetic fields with biological systems.

Thomas Tiedje, Ph.D. (British Columbia)

Epitaxial semiconductor and oxide film growth by molecular beam epitaxy; modeling of thin film growth by computational and analytic methods; electronic, optical and structural properties of expitaxial films; optical device fabrication.

Issa Traoré, Ph.D. (Institut National Polytechnique, Toulouse)

Secure information systems, distributed systems, formal methods, requirements specification, object-oriented design and programming.

Hong-Chuan Yang, Ph.D. (Minnesota)

Wireless communications and networks, diversity techniques, performance analysis, cross-layer design, and energy efficient communications.

Adam Zielinski, Ph.D. (Wroclaw)

Underwater acoustic systems; acoustic communications, telemetry and navigation; application of acoustics, ocean electronic instrumentation, signal acquisition and processing, electronic circuits and sensors.

Adjunct Faculty

Mostafa I. H. Abd-El-Barr, Ph.D. (Toronto)

Parallel processing, computer architecture, reliable and fault tolerant computer systems design, digital systems testing, networks optimization, multiple-valued logic systems design.

Nainesh Agarwal, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Architectural level power estimation, analysis, design, and optimization, low power circuit design, system level design languages, reconfigurable computing, embedded systems and DSP architectures.

Ahmad Almulhem, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Computer and network security, digital forensics, applications of data mining in computer and network security, visualization of security related data.

Turki Al-Somani, Ph.D. (KFUPM)

Elliptic curve cryptosystems, side channel attacks, normal basis arithmetic, pipelined and parallel cryptographic architectures.

Andrea Basso, Ph.D. (Swiss Fed Inst of Tech)

Multimedia networked services, including speech and video coding, media adaptation and transcoding, multimedia delivery for broadband and wireless networks, caching, scalability and interworking aspects of multimedia.

Stuart Bergen, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Digital signal processing, time series analysis, digital filters and filter banks, optimal filtering and inversion, seismic and genomic signal processing.

Leonard Bruton, Ph.D. (Newcastle Upon Tyne)

Theory and implementation of real-time analog and digital filters; multidimensional filtering in space-time; 2D, 3D and 4D array processing for the directional filtering of wireless, audio, video and image signals.

Krzysztof Caputa

Stéphane Claude, Ph.D. (London)

RF/microwave/millimeter-wave components and systems design for radio astronomy and earth atmospheric detection.

James S. Collins, Ph.D. (Washington)

Underwater robotics and autonomous vehicles; underwater acoustical and optical sensors and communications.

M. Watheq El-Kharashi, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC), Networks-on-Chip (NoC), networking processing units (NPU’s), multi-core systems, advanced microprocessor design, computer architecture and computer networks education.

Morteza Esmaeili, Ph.D. (Carleton)

Information theory, public-key cryptography, algebraic coding theory, graphical representation of codes, LDPC codes, iterative decoding algorithms, linear programming decoding, combinatorics (graph theory, finite geometry, design theory), combinatorial and linear optimization.

Peter Fox

Abolfazl Ghassemi, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Smart grid communications, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multicarrier systems, cognitive radios, energy-efficient design and implementation of wireless sensor networks, adaptive modulation and coding, relay assisted and cooperative communications.

Mazen Hasna, Ph.D.

Digital communication theory and its application to performance evaluation of wireless communication systems over fading channels, cooperative communications, ad hoc networks, cognitive radio, network coding.

Jeremiah F. Hayes, Ph.D. (Calif, Berk)

Michael Horie, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Computer security, spam and phishing countermeasures, mobile and electronic commerce, security education, protocol validation, network traffic analysis, security testbeds and other tools.

Atef Ibrahim

Digital VLSI design, System on Chip design, Embedded hardware systems for cryptosystems, Computer arithmetics (addition, multiplication, division), Hardware Implementation for modular arithmetic, parallel algorithms, Reconfigurable computing, Parallel computing and Multicore design.

Frank Nianhua Jiang, Ph.D. (Tohoku)

Young-Chai Ko, Ph.D. (Minnesota)

Wireless communication system design, cooperative systems, MIMO systems, wireless personal area network.

Paul H. Kraeutner, Ph.D. (Simon Fraser)

Array signal processing, underwater acoustic imaging and mapping, medical ultrasound, ocean based alternative energy systems, analog and digital electronics design for signal acquisition and processing, DSP’s and FPGA’s.

Henry Jong-Hyeon Lee, Ph.D. (Cambridge)

Information security, security engineering, security architecture, security governance, security risk management, security standards, network security, application security, privacy, cryptography.

Wei Li, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Wireless communications, spread spectrum systems, ultra-wideband transmission, wireless sensor network, DSP for wireless communication.

Wei Lu, Ph.D. (Victoria)

System and network security, pattern recognition.

Rajeev Nongpiur, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Signal processing for digital communications, speech, audio, and biomedical applications; digital signal processing, adaptive filtering, wavelets, array signal processing, optimization techniques, statistical signal processing, and pattern classification.

Rafael Parra-Hernandez, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Hari C. Reddy, Ph.D. (Osmania)

Dale J. Shpak, Ph.D. (Victoria)

Voice and audio signal processing, digital filter design and implementation, digital signal processing for wireless and wireline systems, embedded and distributed systems.

Andrew Truman, Ph.D. (Southhampton)

Gamma cameras, medical imaging, telenuclear medicine.

Issac Woungang, Ph.Di (Toulon & Var)

Network security, computer communication networks, mobile communication systems, secure information systems.

Hao Zhang, Ph.D (Victoria)

Wireless communications, ultra-wideband systems, wireless sensor network, cognitive radio, OFDM and MIMO systems, secure communications, internet of things, underwater communications, GPS, compass, satellite communications, 60GHz, underwater vehicle.

Cross-Listed Faculty

Sudhakar Ganti, Ph.D. (Ottawa)

Trends in data networking, traffic management, quality of service, protocols, routing, traffic engineering, network design, switching architectures, optical networks, performance evaluation, queueing theory.

George Tzanetakis, Ph.D. (Princeton)

Audio signal processing, computer music, machine learning, human computer interaction.