Professor Cassara is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University. His primary research interests include electronic circuits and wireless communication systems.

Professor Chao is a Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Polytechnic University . His research interests include Network Security, High Performance Switching, Quality of Service Control, and VLSI Implementations.

Professor Czarkowski is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Polytechnic University His research involves Power Electronics and Power Quality.

Professor Goodman is a Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Polytechnic University. He has also served Director of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB). In 1997, he was Chairman of the National Research Council Committee studying "The Evolution of Untethered Communications." He has made fundamental contributions to digital signal processing, speech coding, and wireless information networks.

Professor Khorrami is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnic University, where he is Director of the Control/Robotics Research Laboratory. His research has been supported by ARO, NSF,ONR, Department of the Army, and NYSERDA.

Professor Lu is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at the Long Island campus of Polytechnic University. His specialties include wireless communication, acoustics, and electromagnetics.

Professor Panwar is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University. He is the Course Director for EL536 (Principles of Communications) and EL537 (Internet Architecture and Protocols). In addition to teaching graduate courses on Computer Communication Networks, Algebraic Coding Theory, and Analog Communications, he has developed graduate courses in Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, Analog Communications and Internet Architecture & Protocols.

Ivan Selesnick

Professor Selesnick is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Polytechnic University. His research interests are in digital signal processing and wavelet-based image/video processing.

Professor Voltz is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at the Long Island campus of Polytechnic University His primary areas of interest include communications and signal processing.

Professor Kang Xi is an Industry Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University. His research interests include network survivability, network architecture, high-speed networks and optical networks.

Barry Blecherman

Professor Blecherman is an Assistant Professor of Management and Program Director of the MS Management Degree Program. His interests include quantitative aspects of management science, behavioral decision theory, information strategy, game theory, and judgment bias in managerial decisions.

Mr. Coleman is Vice President of Education/Talent/Performance Management at Chase Manhattan. His professional background is primarily in HRM specifically in Communication, Performance Management and Learning Management Systems. His academic interests lie in the area of Transformative Learning Theory and Cultural Constructs of Career Management

Matt DeLuca

Mr. Deluca is an HR practitioner who has served as a senior HR professional for a wide range of employers, including the WWE, Vivendi Universal, and the Bank of Tokyo. In addition to teaching at Poly, he has also served as HR consultant for a variety of organizations (including Lifetime Television and Montefiore Medical Center) and is a published author as well as a columnist for HRO Today magazine.

Professor Kaufman is a Professor of Management at Polytechnic University.

Richard Walton

Professor Walton is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Management at Poly.

Lawrence O'Gorman was at Bell Labs as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff from 1984 to 1997. From 1997 to 2001, he was chief scientist for Veridicom, a maker of fingerprint capture chips, and is currently a Research Scientist at Avaya Labs in the area of multimedia security. He has published over 70 refereed papers, has 16 patents, and has been a contributor to 4 biometrics standards. He has served on US government scientific panels to NIST, NSF, and NAE, and to France’s INRIA. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Nalini Ratha is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne where he leads the biometrics research activities. He has published more than 60 referenced journal and conference papers and is a co-inventor on 11 issued patents. He is an Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition journal and IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics part B. He has co-chaired several biometrics conferences in recent years including IEEE AutoID, AVBPA, ICPR and BTAS. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (class of 2007). He graduated with a Ph. D. degree in computer science from Michigan State University

Professor Memon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, Polytechnic University. His specialties include Data Compression, Image and Video Processing, Computer Security, Multimedia Computation and Communication. He is also Director - Information Systems and Internet Security Laboratory (ISIS).

Professor Ross is the Leonard J. Shustek Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, Polytechnic University. His specialties include Computer Networking, Internet Research, Multimedia Networking, and Stochastic Modeling.

Professor Strauss is an Industry Associate Professor and Director of CIS Programs at the Long Island Graduate Center. His primary interests lie in Software Engineering, Project Management, and Distributed Systems.

James Gergel received his M.S. in Chemistry from Polytechnic University, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Genetics at SUNY Stony Brook. His research, conducted at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, focuses on plant evolutionary genomics and rice genome annotation.

Professor Teraoka is an Associate Professor in the Chemical and Biological Sciences and Engineering Department at Polytechnic University. His primary interests lie polymer solution dynamics, fractionation of polymers, and high osmotic pressure chromatography.

I received my Ph.D. degree from the Moscow State University in 1996. Presently I have a position of Senior Researcher at Polymer Science Division of Moscow State University. From 2001 I’m teaching a course of Polymer Chemistry (with essential part devoted to polyelectrolytes) for biologist students of Moscow State University. My primary interests lie in self-assembly of complex nanoparticles with participation of synthetic and biological polyelectrolytes and their application for pharmaceutical needs. Beyond my job hours, I’m interesting in cross-country skiing, swimming and traveling.

I gained my MD degree in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, in 1982 and my Ph D degree in chemical kinetics and catalysis from the Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University, in 1985. At present I am the Head of a research group at the A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology and a professor of the Kolmogorov Research Center (both are the departments of Moscow State University). My present research interests encompass the role of signaling lipids in regulation of inflammatory processes, system biology of lipids and bioinformatical approaches to system biology.