Profiles

Leadership Team

Ahmed Eltawil

Associate Dean for Research, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

low power digital circuit Signal processing mobile systems embedded systems Wireless Communications

Atif Shamim

Associate Dean for Special Projects, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Antennas sensors Microwave circuits additive manufacturing

Basem Shihada

Program Chair, Computer Science

Data Networks Network Systems Wireless Systems

Daniele Boffi

Associate Dean for Faculty, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

mixed finite elements fluid dynamics eigenvalue approximation numerical PDEs Finite elements

Diogo Gomes

Associate Dean for Students, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

mean-field games Hamilton-Jacobi equations nonlinear PDEs

Haavard Rue

Program Chair, Statistics

Bayesian computational statistics bayesian methodology latent Gaussian models spatial statistics

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Matteo Parsani

Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Structure-Preserving Algorithms fluid dynamics High Performance Computing Numerical Optimization aeroacoustics

Omar Knio

Vice President, Academic Affairs

uncertainty quantification bayesian inference computational fluids mechanics combustion High Performance Computing

Xiaohang Li

Program Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering

wide bandgap semiconductor optoelectronics power electronics

Ying Wu

Program Chair, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

phononics metamaterials wave propagation Acoustics

Faculty

Abdulrahman Alhamed

Ibn Rushd Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits wireless transceivers system on chip phased-arrays Satellite Communications

Ahmed Eltawil

Associate Dean for Research, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

low power digital circuit Signal processing mobile systems embedded systems Wireless Communications

Alessandro Astolfi

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Andrea Fratalocchi

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

photonics energy harvesting imaging apparatus intelligent lasers

Athanasios Tzavaras

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

mathematical modelling Partial Differential Equations nonlinear PDEs continuum physics

Atif Shamim

Associate Dean for Special Projects, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Antennas sensors Microwave circuits additive manufacturing

Basem Shihada

Program Chair, Computer Science

Data Networks Network Systems Wireless Systems

Bernard Ghanem

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

semantic analysis UAV artificial intelligence machine learning

Boon Ooi

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

optics photonics

Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

power systems cybersecurity cyber-physical systems resiliency industrial control systems power systems stability energy flexibility

Daniele Boffi

Associate Dean for Faculty, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

mixed finite elements fluid dynamics eigenvalue approximation numerical PDEs Finite elements

David Bolin

Professor, Statistics

mathematical statistics random fields stochastic partial differential equations computational statistics stochastic processes

David Ketcheson

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

numerical methods numerical analysis PDE nonlinear waves heterogenouse media dispersive waves optimization software development

David Keyes

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

parellel computing numerical analysis computational science and engineering Partial Differential Equations spatial statistics machine learning quantum computing High Performance Computing scalable solvers software development

Di Wang

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

machine learning data mining privacy security

Diogo Gomes

Associate Dean for Students, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

mean-field games Hamilton-Jacobi equations nonlinear PDEs

Dominik L. Michels

Associate Professor, Computer Science

algorithmics machine learning numerical simulations scientific computing visual computing

Eric Feron

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

control systems aerospace software system optimization robotics

Francesco Orabona

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Online learning optimization machine learning Statistical learning theory

Haavard Rue

Program Chair, Statistics

Bayesian computational statistics bayesian methodology latent Gaussian models spatial statistics

Hakan Bagci

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

computational electromagnetics numerical methods large-scale simulation High Performance Computing electromagnetics photonics optics

Hernando Ombao

Professor, Statistics

Time Series Spectral Analysis Wavelets Longitudinal Models Mixed Effects Models Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Electroencephalograms

Ivan Viola

Professor, Computer Science

visual computing multi-scale 3D visualization modeling nanovisualization biology

Jian Weng

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

compilation techniques software/hardware co-design Computer architecture

Jinchao Xu

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

applied mathematics deep learning PDEs

Jürgen Schmidhuber

Professor, Computer Science

artificial intelligence machine learning

Katerina Nik

Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Partial Differential Equations free boundary problems calculus of variations Mathematical Biology Microelectromechanical fluid dynamics mean curvature flow

Khaled Salama

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

sensors lab-on-a-chip antenna arrays nonlinear models

Marc Dacier

Adjunct Professor, Computer Science

network security cybersecurity threat intelligence fraud detection intrusion tolerance intrusion detection

Marc G. Genton

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Visiting Professor, Statistics

mathematical modelling visualization computational predictions spatio-temporal data analysis applied statistics

Marco Canini

Professor, Computer Science

machine learning artificial intelligence distributed systems large-scale computing cloud computing programmable networks

Markus Hadwiger

Professor, Computer Science

visualization visual computing

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Matteo Parsani

Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Structure-Preserving Algorithms fluid dynamics High Performance Computing Numerical Optimization aeroacoustics

Maurizio Filippone

Associate Professor, Statistics

Bayesian Statistics Deep learning Gaussian processes

Miguel Urbano

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

nonlinear PDEs free boundary problems regularity theory

Mikhail Moshkov

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

machine learning data mining discrete optimization algorithmic complexity

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Mohamed Elhoseiny

Associate Professor, Computer Science

artificial intelligence Computer Vision ChatGPT MiniGPT

Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

FD-MIMO communications cognitive radio systems modulation schemes optical wireless communication systems

Nazek El-Atab

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

In-memory computing in-memory sensing

Omar Knio

Vice President, Academic Affairs

uncertainty quantification bayesian inference computational fluids mechanics combustion High Performance Computing

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Panagiotis Kalnis

Professor, Computer Science

supercomputing infoclouds

Paula Moraga

Associate Professor, Statistics

Spatial and spatio-temporal statistics geospatial modeling Spatial epidemiology Bayesian disease mapping point processes Public health surveillance

Peter Richtarik

Professor, Computer Science

optimization machine learning big data algorithms

Peter Wonka

Professor, Computer Science

Deep learning Computer Vision computer graphics machine learning remote sensing

Rabab Alomairy

Ibn Rushd Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Performance optimization dense linear algebra High Performance Computing

Raphaël Huser

Associate Professor, Statistics

Statistics of extremes extreme-value theory spatio-temporal statistics data science machine learning copulas Environmental Statistics geostatistics applications to finance applications to neuroscience

Raul Tempone

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

numerical analysis Computational finance computational statistics stochastic differential equations uncertainty quantification bayesian inference data assimilation hierarchical and sparse approximation optimal control optimal experimental design stochastic optimization

Robert Hoehndorf

Associate Professor, Computer Science

artificial intelligence bioinformatics biomedical data knowledge representation Neuro-Symbolic AI neuro-symbolic methods

Roberto Di Pietro

Professor, Computer Science

cybersecurity Critical Infrastructure Protection Distributed Systems Security On-line Social Networks privacy preserving techniques

Shehab Ahmed

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

power conversion mechatronic systems smart grids intelligent oil fields

Shinkyu Park

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

robotics intelligent systems

Suhaib Fahmy

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Computer architecture reconfigurable computing

Tao Ni

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Cyber Security AI Safety and Reliability Cyber attacks and defenses resilient cyber-physical mobile computing

Tareq Al-Naffouri

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

statistical signal processing communications tracking wireless networks Localization

Wedyan Babatain

Ibn Rushd Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

sensors Actuators flexible electronics stretchable electronics wearables Human-Machine Interfaces microfabrication

Wolfgang Heidrich

Professor, Computer Science

Computational Photography computer graphics optics inverse methods

Xiaohang Li

Program Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering

wide bandgap semiconductor optoelectronics power electronics

Xin Gao

Professor, Computer Science

bioinformatics Computational biology machine learning big data

Yating Wan

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

photonics Optical Wireless Communication on-chip light sources heterogeneous integration CMOS-compatible photonics semiconductor optoelectronics integrated photonics

Ying Wu

Program Chair, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

phononics metamaterials wave propagation Acoustics

Affiliate Faculty

Derya Baran

Associate Professor, Material Science and Engineering

printed electronics functional materials for agriculture energy materials sustainability resource conservation

Husam N. Alshareef

Dean, Physical Science and Engineering

nanoelectronics Localization semiconductors renewable energy technologies energy storage

Ibrahim Hoteit

Professor, Earth Science and Engineering

climate and environmental modeling data assimilation The Red Sea and Arabian Gulf global climate dynamics sustainable environmental management

Jesper Tegnér

Professor, Bioscience

living systems machine learning machine intelligence systems medicine genomics artificial intelligence brain-inspired computation Systems neuroscience algorithmic information theory Dynamical Systems spatial transcriptomics single cell biology

Osman M. Bakr

Professor, Material Science and Engineering

infrared imaging renewable energy technologies optoelectronics solar cells photodetectors

Peter Schmid

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

quantitative flow analysis applied mathematics Earth systems aerospace design energy efficiency

Sahika Inal

Associate Professor, Bioengineering

bioelectronics Biosensors biostimulation organic electronics conjugated polymers

Research Faculty

Instructional Faculty

Ahmed Sultan Salem

Instructional Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

energy harvesting Cognitive radio network Cooperative communications

Alexandra Aguiar Gomes

Instructional Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

optimization decision making sustainability artificial intelligence

Ali Hassan

Instructional Professor, Computer Science

cybersecurity malware

David Pugh

Instructional Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Joaquin Ortega Sanchez

Instructional Professor, Statistics

Stochastic processes Gaussian processes functional data analysis

Malek Smaoui

Instructional Associate Professor, Computer Science

Parallel and Distributed Computing nature-inspired algorithms Computer science education

Sabine El Khoury

Instructional Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

machine learning mathematics

Simon Nik

Instructional Assistant Professor, Statistics

discrete time series Dynamical Systems

Talal Al Attar

Instructional Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

microwave devices microstrip path antenna on-chip analog design optimization LDMOS

Research Scientists

Abla Kammoun

Senior Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wireless Communications machine learning