Faculty

Gilead Tadmor
CDSP Director
Professor
617-373-5277
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Gilead's present and past research activities include basic system theory, distributed parameter systems, discrete event control systems, robust and optimal control and system identification, nonlinear control, dynamic estimation, and reduced order models for complex systems. The development of new modeling, control and observer design methodologies for unsteady fluid flow is presently a central theme in my research. Similar ideas are applied in dynamic methods for bio-medical imaging. Driving applications in previous projects include control and estimation problems involving electric drives, power electronics and power systems.

Stefano Basagni
Professor
617-373-5277
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Stefano's current research interests concern research and implementation aspects of mobile networks and wireless communications systems, Bluetooth and sensor networking, definition and performance evaluation of network protocols and theoretical and practical aspects of distributed algorithms.

Dionisio Bernal
Associate Professor
617-373-4417
email

Dionisio is conducting research in: Extraction of information on physical parameters from system identification results. Damage localization using flexibility based procedures. Damage localization in output-only systems. Identification of the excitation. Transmissibility in damage detection applications. Instability of torsionally eccentric buildings subjected to large earthquakes. Hybrid methods in the analysis of nonlinear soil-structure interaction. Sequential collapse.

Dana H. Brooks
Professor
617-373-3352
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Dana's research interests focus primarily on biomedical applications of digital signal and image processing. His current projects in the area of electrocardiography include work on the inverse problem of electrocardiography, on quantification of multi-sensor time-varying electrical patterns on the heart and torso surface, on the development of realistic bounds on a large number of measures of these patterns, and on the use of the wavelet transform to study both these multi-sensor patterns as well as single-lead signals. He is also involved in a collaborative, multi-institution project on Diffuse Optical Tomography, associated with the newly-funded NSF Engineering Research Center at Northeastern, the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) as well as a collaborative project on fast, dynamic MRI imaging with Profs. Eric Miller and Hanoch Lev-Ari of the CDSP Center, Larry Panych of Brigham and Women's Hospital, and CDSP Ph.D. student W. Scott Hoge. He also has research interests in higher-order spectra, and digital signal processing with chaotic signals and systems.

Octavia Camps
Professor
617-373-4663
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Octavia's areas of research are in Computer Vision, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition.



Anthony Devaney
Professor
617-373-5284
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Electromagnetic wave propagation, Inverse scattering tomography.

Jennifer Dy
Professor
617-373-3062
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Jennifer's research interests include machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, image retrieval, and computer vision.



Michael Epstein
Assistant Professor
617-373-5176
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Michael directs the Auditory Modeling and Processing Laboratory (AMPLab). He leads research that seeks to build bridges between the understandings of physiological and psychological auditory processing and perception.



Deniz Erdogmus
Assistant Professor
617-373-3021
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Deniz research areas are statistical signal processing and machine learning; brain computer interfaces.



Miriam E. Leeser
Professor 617-373-3814
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Miriam's research focuses on mapping image and signal processing applications to reconfigurable hardware. There are two pieces to this research: mapping algorithms to hardware architectures and developing new tools for automatically generating hardware. Our aim is to provide tools and techniques that allow designers to focus on design tradeoffs, and to improve methods for automatically generating designs. In the lab we use a combination of research and commercial tools, as well as the hardware needed to map designs onto field programmable logic.

Hanoch Lev-Ari
Professor 617-373-3032
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Hanoch's research interests include model-based spectrum analysis and estimation for non-stationary signals, scale-recursive (multirate) detection and estimation of random signals, Markov renewal models for non-stationary signals, and adaptive linear and non-linear filtering techniques, with applications to channel equalization, over-the horizon (OTH) radar, automatic target detection and recognition, identification of time-variant systems, and adaptive compensation in polyphase power systems. His past research has involved a number of mathematical techniques and a variety of applications in signal processing and linear systems, including: lossless cascade models for multiple-input/multiple-output systems; extension of maximum-entropy techniques to multi-dimensional signal processing; and characterization of structured matrices.

John Makhoul
Adjunct Professor
617-873-3332
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John conducts research in speech analysis, synthesis and compression, speech enhancement, automatic speech recognition, neural networks, and digital signal processing, including linear prediction, spectral modeling, lattice structures and adaptive filtering.

Elias S. Manolakos
Adjunct Professor
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Elias is conducting research in:


Edwin A. Marengo
Assistant Professor
617-373-3358
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Edwin's research focuses on theoretical and computational aspects of a number of electromagnetic, imaging, signal processing, and wireless communication, wave-oriented applications. Among other areas, he works on electromagnetic theory, time-reversal imaging, inverse scattering, array signal processing, quantum photonic imaging and electromagnetic wave communication channels.


Mark Niedre
Assistant Professor
617-373-5410
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Marks's research focuses on Biomedical optics, diffuse fluorescence tomography, time-domain imaging and photodynamic therapys.

Rupal Patel
Associate Professor
617-373-2239
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Rupal directs the Communication Analysis and Design Laboratory (CadLab)www.cadlab.neu.edu which focuses on gaining a deeper understanding of the communicaiton capabilites of healthy and impaired speakers as well as designing novel interfaces to augment and enhance spoken interaction. Her research interests and expertise lie in neuromotor speech impairments, speech acoustics, prosodic analysis, speech signal processing, speech recognition and synthesis, and assistive communication technology including brain computer interfaces.

John G. Proakis
William Lincoln Smith
(Emeritus)Professor
617-373-4429
email

John's professional experience and interests are in the general areas of digital communications and digital signal processing and more specifically, in adaptive filtering, adaptive communication systems and adaptive equalization techniques, communication through fading multipath channels, radar detection, signal parameter estimation, communication systems modeling and simulation, optimization techniques, and statistical analysis.

Purnima Ratilal
Assistant Professor
617-373-8458
email

Underwater Acoustics, Acoustical Oceanograpy, Bioacoustics, Ultrasound Imaging, Seismics, Nonlinear Scattering, Wave Propagation in Random Media, Signal, Image and Array Processing, Statistical Inference Theory

Masoud Salehi
Associate Professor
617-373-2446
email

Masoud's main areas of research interest include network information theory, source-channel matching problems in single and multiple user environments, data compression, coding and capacity for storage media, turbo coding, and digital communications.

Bahram Shafai
Professor
617-373-2984
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Bahram works in the general areas of control systems and signal processing. His specific research interests include:

Milica Stojanovic
Professor
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Milica Stojanovic graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1988, and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, in 1991 and 1993. After a number of years with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a Principal Scientist, she joined the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University in 2008. She is also a Guest Investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and a Visiting Scientist at MIT. Her research interests include digital communications theory, statistical signal processing and wireless networks, and their applications to mobile radio and underwater acoustic communication systems. Milica is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and the IEEE Transactions on Signal processing.

Mario Sznaier
Dennis Picard Trustee
Professor
617-373-5364
email

Mario's research interest include Robust Control,Reduced Order Models,Video-based control, applications to dynamics in Imaging and videoprocessing, information extraction from high volume data streams.

ADMINISTRATIVE
COORDINATOR

Joan Pratt
617-373-2368
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