I-Tai Lu

General Info
107, Long Island Campus
LC250, Brooklyn Campus
Phone: 718-260-3041
631-755-4226
E-mail: itailu@rama.poly.edu

Interests:
Wireless Communications

Current Courses:
EL546, EL571, EL671, EL675, EL6023, EL6033, EL630

Educational Background:
Ph.D. E.E.  Polytechnic Institute of New York, June 1985
M.S.E.E.  National Taiwan University, Taiwan, June 1978
B.S.E.E.  National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, June 1976

Accomplishment / Publication:
Prof. Lu has published over 50 journal papers, 10 book chapters/technical reports, 120 proceeding papers and 3 patents. He has given over 40 invited lectures and conducted over 200 conference/workshop/seminar presentations.

Jonathan Chao

General Info
Office: LC 206
Tel: (718) 260-3302
Fax: (718) 260-3906
E-mail:chao@poly.edu

Interests
Network Security
High Performance Routers

Current Courses
EL6383 Broadband Networks
EL6393 Advanced Network Secutiry
EL7373 Broadband Packet Switching Sytems

Personal WebPage
http://eeweb.poly.edu/cha

Educational Background:
1985 PhD in EE of Ohio State Univ

Accomplishment / Publication:

• Broadband Packet Switching Technologies – A Practical Guide to ATM Switches and IP Routers,    H. J. Chao, C. Lam, and E. Oki, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc, in Sep. 2001.
• Quality of Service Control in High-Speed Networks, H. J. Chao and X. Guo, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc, in Nov. 2001.
• High Performance Switches and Routers, H. J. Chao and B. Liu, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc, in April 2007.

X K Chen

General Info
Office: LC205
Tel: (718) 260-3056
E-mail:xkchen@poly.edu

Interests:
Control Theory, Signal Analysis

Current Courses:
EL6113; EL6303

Educational Background:
Ph.D. Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY

Frank Cassara

General Info
Room: LI 111
Phone: 4360
E-mail: cassara@rama.poly.edu

Interests:
Electronic Circuits and Wireless Communications

Current Courses:
EL6413 (Analog and High Frequency Amplifier Design)
EL6423 (RF Electronics for Wireless Applications)
EL6433 (Digital Integrated Circuit Design)
EL5023 (Wireless Information Systems Lab I)

Educational Background:
BSEE-Rutgers University 1966
MSEE-Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn 1968
Ph.D. (EE) - Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn  1971

Accomplishment / Publication:
Polytechnic Distinguished Teacher Award 1984
Jacobs Award for Excellence in Education 2003
IEEE Long Island Section Athanasios Papoulis Education Award 2007

Shivendra Panwar

General Info
Room: LC 218
Phone: (718)260-3740
E-mail: panwar@catt.poly.edu

Interests:
Network Design and Performance

Current Courses:
EL 5363, EL 5373, EL 6373, EL 7353

Educational Background:
PhD, University of Massachussetts, Amherst

Accomplishment / Publication:
Book: TCP/IP Essentials: A Lab-based Approach, Cambridge University Press

Dariusz Czarkowski

General Info
Room: LC 254
Telephone: (718)260-3256
Email: dcz@pl.poly.edu

Interests:
Power Electronics and Power Quality

Current Courses:

El5673 Electronic Power Supplies

Ivan Selesnick

General Info
Room: LC 207
Phone: 3416
E-mail: selesi@taco.poly.edu

Interests:
Signal Processing

Current Courses:
Signals, Systems, and Transforms
Digital Signal Processing
Wavelets and Filter Banks
Biomedical Signal Processing

Educational Background:
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering - Rice University, Houston, TX

Accomplishment / Publication:
I. W. Selesnick. Wavelets, a modern tool for signal processing. Physics Today. 60(10):78-79, October 2007.
I. W. Selesnick. A higher-density discrete wavelet transform. IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 54(8):3039-3048, August 2006.
I. W. Selesnick, R. G. Baraniuk, and N. Kingsbury. The dual-tree complex wavelet transform - A coherent framework for multiscale signal and image processing. IEEE Signal Processing
Magazine, 22(6):123-151, November 2005.

Website:
http://taco.poly.edu/selesi/

Peter Voltz

General Info
Room: 109
Melville Graduate Center
Phone: (631)755-4251
E-mail: voltz@rama.poly.edu

Interests:
Communication Theory and Signal Processing

Current Courses:
Modulation and Coding (EL6013),
Signals, Systems and Transforms (EL6113)

Educational Background:
PhD Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Electrical Engineering

Accomplishment / Publication:
I. Chia-Pang Yen and Peter Voltz, “Direct Location Estimation Using Indoor Wireless Communication Systems.”
I. F.A. Cassara, and P. Voltz, “Probability of Error for MB-OFDM System in the Presence of Mulitpath Fading and Multi-User Interference.”
I. G. Zeng, P. Voltz, and F. A. Cassara, “Analytical Model for Interference Effect from UWB Sources to Narrowband Users.“
I. Benjamin Bekritsky and Peter Voltz, “Improving Inventory Round Times in EPC Gen2 RFID by Utilizing Doubly Collided Slots.”
I. P. Voltz, H. Teng, I. Lu, Y. Yang and R. Olesen, “Frequency Domain Re-Sampler for Clock Sampling Offset in MIMO OFDM Systems.” I. P. Voltz and D. Hernandez, “Maximum Likelihood Time of Arrival Estimation for Real-Time Physical Location Tracking of 802.11a/g Mobile Stations in Indoor Environments,”
I. Peter J. Voltz, “Characterization of the Optimum Transmitter Correlation Matrix for MIMO with Antenna Subset Selection.”
I. Yang-Seok Choi, Peter Voltz, and Frank A. Cassara, “On Channel Estimation and Detection for Multicarrier Signals in Fast and Selective Rayleigh Fading Channel“

Kang Xi

General Info
Room: LC 112
Phone: (718)260-3504
E-mail: kxi@poly.edu

Interests:
Internet Architecture, Network Survivability, Routing, High Speed Networks

Current Courses:
EE136 Communication Network
EL5363 Principle of Communication Networks
EL6383 High Speed Networks

Educational Background:
Ph.D. Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) 2003

Accomplishment / Publication:
I. Book: High Speed Networking Technologies (authoring)

I. Kang Xi and H. Jonathan Chao, "ESCAP: Efficient SCan for Alternate Paths to Achieve IP Fast Rerouting"

I. Kang Xi, Shin`ichi Arakawa and Masayuki Murata, "Virtual Fully Connected WDM Network: A High Performance Single-Hop Architecture for Metropolitan Area Networks"

I. Kang Xi, Shin`ichi Arakawa, and Masayuki Murata, "An efficient algorithm for converter placement in dynamic WDM networks".

Henry L Bertoni

General Info
Room: LC 219
Phone: (718)260-3478
E-mail: hbertoni@poly.edu

Interests:
UHF Propagation in Man-Made Environments, Electromagnetic Diffraction

Current Courses:
EL 675: UHF Propagation for Modern Wireless Applications

Educational Background:
1967    Ph.D. in Electrophysics; Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn     
1962    M.S. in Electrical Engineering; Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
1960   B.S. in Electrical Engineering; Northwestern University

Accomplishment / Publication:
I. Author of Radio Propagation for Modern Wireless Applications, Prentice Hall, PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000, editor of five books and author or co-author of over 160 articles in books, journals, and conference proceedings.

Garrett S. Ross

General Info
Room: LC 259
Phone: (718)260-3218
E-mail: grose@poly.edu

Interests:
VLSI Circuit Design,Nanoelectronics, Low-Power Circuit Techniques, System-on-Chip, Chip Multiprocessing, Network-on-Chip

Current Courses:
EL5473, EE3193 : Intro. to VLSI
EL6443: VLSI Systems and Architectures

Educational Background:
B.S., Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2001
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, 2003
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, 2006

Accomplishment / Publication:
I. G. S. Rose and M. R. Stan, "A Programmable Majority Logic Array using Molecular Scale Electronics,"
I.  S. Das, A. J. Gates, H. A. Abdu, G. S. Rose, C. A. Picconatto and J. C. Ellenbogen, "Designs for Ultra-Tiny, Special-Purpose Nanoelectronic Circuits,"
I. P. C. Paliwoda, D. S. Maragal, and G. S. Rose, "Testing Molecular Devices in CMOS/Nano Integrated Circuits,"
I. N. Gergel-Hackett, G. S. Rose, P. Paliwoda, C. A. Hacker, and C. A. Richter, “On-Chip Characterization of Molecular Electronic Devices: The Design and Simulation of a Hybrid Circuit Based on Experimental Molecular Electronic Device Results,”

Lawrence O`Gorman

General Info
Phone: 908-696-5211
E-mail:logorman@avaya.com

Interests:
Image processing, signal processing, pattern recognition, multimedia security

Current Courses:
CS 9094 Biometrics

Educational Background:
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University, M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, B.A.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Ottawa

Accomplishment / Publication:
• Co-authored 3 books including, Practical Algorithms for Image  Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition (2007)
 • Authored over 75 refereed journal and conference papers and 9 book chapters.
 • Member of biometric standards teams: AAMVA/ANSI Common Minutia Template Format, ISO/ANSI Common Biometric Exchange Format (NIST CBEFF)  and contributor to ANSI BioAPI and ANSI X9.84.
 • 15 patents
 • IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow (Int’l Association of Pattern Recognition)