Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept.
 Dr.
Edl Schamiloglu
Director
Gardner-Zemke Professor
PhD, Cornell University
Office: UNM EECE Bldg, Room 323C, Phone: (505) 277-4423
Edl Schamiloglu
received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University,
New York, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in applied physics (minor in mathematics) from Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY, in 1988. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of New Mexico (UNM) in 1988. He is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and directs the
Pulsed Power, Beams, and Microwaves Laboratory at UNM. He lectured at the U.S. Particle Accelerator School, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, in 1990 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1997. He coedited
Advances in High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2001) (with R.J. Barker) and he is
coauthoring High Power Microwaves, 2nd Ed. (Bristol, U.K.: Inst. of Physics, 2004) (with J. Benford and J. Swegle).
He has authored or coauthored over 50 refereed journal papers, 100 reviewed conference papers, and one patent. His
research interests are in physics and technology of charged particle beam generation and propagation,
high power microwave sources and effects pulsed power science and technologies, plasma physics and diagnostics
electromagnetics and wave propagation, infrastructure surety and complex systems.
Dr. Schamiloglu
has received the Sandia National Laboratories Research Excellence Award as part of the Delphi/Minerva team in 1991, the
UNM School of Engineering Research Excellence Award twice (junior faculty in 1992 and senior faculty in 2001), the titles
of UNM Regents' Lecturer (1996) and Gardner-Zemke Professor (2000), and the Lawton-Ellis Award in 2004. He is a Fellow of
the IEEE, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, and has served on a National Academies Panel
on Directed Energy Testing (2003-2004).
edl@eece.unm.edu
Personal Webpage
 Dr.
Chaouki T. Abdallah
Gardner-Zemke Professor
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
Office: UNM EECE Bldg, Room 112, Phone: (505) 277-0298
Chaouki T. Abdallah
obtained his MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from GA Tech in 1982,
and 1988 respectively. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering
department at the University of New Mexico where he is currently professor,
associate chair, and the director of the graduate program. Professor Abdallah conducts research and teaches courses in the general area of
systems theory with focus on control and communications systems. His
research has been funded by national funding agencies (NSF, AFOSR, NRL),
national laboratories (SNL, LANL), and by various companies (Boeing, SVS).
He has also been active in designing and implementing various international
graduate programs with Latin American and European countries. He was a
co-founder in 1990 of the ISTEC consortium, which currently includes more
than 150 universities in the US, Spain, and Latin America. He has
published 4 books, and more than 150 peer-reviewed journals. His PhD
students hold academic positions in the USA and in Europe, and senior
technical positions in various US National Laboratories.
Professor Abdallah is a senior member of IEEE and a recipient of the IEEE
Millennium medal.
chaouki@eece.unm.edu
Personal Webpage
 Dr.
Christos Christodoulou
Professor
PhD, North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Office: UNM EECE Bldg, Room 125, Phone: (505) 277-6580
Christos G. Christodoulou
(Fellow, IEEE) received
the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering
from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, in
1985.
From 1985 to 1998, he was a Faculty Member,
University of Central Florida. In 1999, he joined
the faculty of the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque. He has published over
180 papers in journals and conferences, and
is the author of Neural Network Applications
in Electromagnetics (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 2001). He was a
Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Applications of Neural Networks in
Electromagnetics in the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society
Journal. His research interests are in the areas of modeling of electromagnetic
systems, machine-learning applications in electromagnetics, smart
antennas, and microelectromechanical systems.
He is a Member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
(Commission B). He served as the General Chair of the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society/URSI 1999 Symposium, Orlando, FL, and as a Cochair
of the IEEE 2000 Symposium on Antennas and Propagation for wireless
communications, Waltham, MA. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION and the IEEE Antennas
and Propagation Magazine.
christos@eece.unm.edu
Personal Webpage
 Dr.
Mark Gilmore
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of California at Los Angeles
Office: UNM EECE Bldg, Room 321B, Phone: (505) 277-2579
Mark Gilmore
has been involved in plasma research since 1986, when he received
the B.S. in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Boston University. From 1986 to
1990 he was an Associate Research Engineer at Delphax Systems (a Xerox company)
in Canton, MA, where he assisted in research in Delphax Ion Deposition
printing process. In 1992 he received the M.S. in EE from Northeastern
University in Boston, MA, where, as Graduate Student Researcher (1990-1992), he
utilized MEMS semiconductor processing techniques to develop an ionization
source based on arrays of micron-scale field emission cathodes. From 1992 to
1999 he was a Graduate Student Researcher at UCLA, where he received the Ph.D.
in EE in 1999. His dissertation involved detailed comparisons of probe and
microwave reflectometer measurements of plasma turbulence. Dr. Gilmore was an
Assistant Research Engineer and Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Dept. at
UCLA from July 1999 to Dec. 2002. In January 2003 he joined the Electrical and
Computer Engineering Dept. at the University of New Mexico as an Assistant
Professor.
gilmore@eece.unm.edu
Personal Webpage
 Dr. Majeed Hayat
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Office: UNM EECE Bldg, Room 323B, Phone: (505) 277-0297
Dr. Hayat received his Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude)
in Electrical Engineering
from the University of the Pacific
(in Stockton, CA) in 1985. He received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He worked
as a Research Associate in the ECE Department at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison from 1993 to 1996 where he also taught graduate and
undergraduate courses. In 1996, he joined the Electro-Optics Graduate Program
and the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at the University
of Dayton, where he was granted early tenure and promotion to Associate
Professor in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of New
Mexico. Dr. Hayat is a senior member of IEEE and a member of OSA and SPIE.
He is a recipient of a 1998 National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career
Award.
His research activities are in the
following areas: (i) Optical communication: modeling and optimization of
avalanche photodiodes, design and performance analysis of ultrafast optical
links; (ii) statistical communication theory: signal detection and estimation;
(iii) statistical image and signal processing: nonuniformity correction
algorithms for infrared focal-plane array sensors, imaging through turbulence;
(iv) communication networks: congestion modeling and control; and v) applied
probability theory and stochastic processes: photon statistics of squeezed
light, interaction point processes.
hayat@eece.unm.edu
Personal Webpage
 Dr. Gregory L. Heileman
Professor
PhD, University of Central Florida
Office: UNM EECE Bldg, Room 114, Phone: (505) 277-1413
Professor Heileman received the BS degree from Wake Forest University in 1982, the MS
degree in Biomedical Engineering and
Mathematics from the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill in 1986,
and the PhD degree in Computer
Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 1989. He is
currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
He is an associate editor for the ACM Journal of Experimental
Algorithmics, a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society, a member of
the Association for Computing Machinery
, and a member of the International Neural Network
Society.
In the Department, he teaches courses in algorithms and data structures, machine
learning, optimization theory, parallel computing, and information theory.
Professor Heileman is faculty advisor for the UNM student branch of the IEEE
computer society. He received the School of Engineering's Teaching Excellence
award in 1995.
heileman@eece.unm.edu
Personal Webpage
 Dr. J. Scott Tyo
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Office: UNM EECE Bldg, Room 321C, Phone: (505) 277-1412
J. Scott Tyo received the B.S.E., M.S.E., and
Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from
the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in
1994, 1996, and 1997, respectively.
From 1994 to 2001, he was an officer in the
U.S. Air Force, leaving service at the rank of
captain. From 1996 to 1999, he was a research
engineer in the Directed Energy Directorate of
the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. From
1999 to 2001, he was a member of the faculty
of the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. Since 2001, he has
been an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department at the University of New Mexico. Since joining UNM, his
research has focused on ultrawideband microwave radiating systems as
well as microwave and optical remote sensing.
Prof. Tyo is a member of the Optical Society of America, the International
Union of Radio Science (URSI) (Commissions B and E), SPIE, Tau Beta Pi,
and Eta Kappa Nu.
tyo@eece.unm.edu
Personal Webpage
 Dr. C. Jerald Buchenauer
Research Professor
PhD, Cornell University, Ithaca
Office: UNM EECE Bldg, Room 320C
C. Jerald Buchenauer received the A.B. degree
in physics from Franklin & Marshall College,
Lancaster, PA, and the Ph.D. degree in physics
from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Since 1975, he has been a Technical Staff
Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los
Alamos, NM, where he worked in the controlled
thermonuclear research program, optics, and
electromagnetic phenomenology. From 1991 to
1998, he was also an IPA at the Air Force Research
Laboratory, where he conducted research
on time-domain antennas and sensors and pulsed power phenomena. Since
2003, he has also been with the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
working on the Compact Pulsed Power Multidisciplinary University
Research Initiative program.
Dr. Buchenauer is a Member of the American Physical Society.
cjbuch@eece.unm.edu
Dr. David Dietz
Research Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington
Office: UNM EECE Bldg, Room 328, Phone: (505) 277-0808
David Dietz received a B.S. in Chemistry from UCLA and an M.S in Physics, an A.M. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from Indiana University, Bloomington. He then joined the Federal government where he served in several physics research and research leadership positions, his last position before recently leaving the Federal service to join the UNM ECE Department being Principal Research Physicist and Leader of the High Power Microwave Modeling & Simulation Team at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, NM. Concurrently with his government tenure he was a Guest Scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 3 years and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 5 years while also teaching as an adjunct faculty member at UNM at various times in the ECE, mathematics and physics departments. He has authored/co-authored over 75 refereed journal articles, technical reports, and meeting papers in the areas of statistical mechanics, radiation transport, plasma physics, electrodynamics, computational physics and electromagnetics. His current interests comprise mathematics applied to engineering problems including network behavior, complex system behavior, nonlinear dynamics and electromagnetics. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the American Physical Society.
dietzd@ece.unm.edu
Dr. Mikhail Isaakovich Fuks
Research Professor
Ph.D, Institute of Applied Physics (IAP), Russian Academy of Science
Office: UNM EECE Bldg.
Mikhail I. Fuks was born in Nizhny Novgorod (former Gorky), USSR. He received the PhD. Degree in physical electronics from the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP), Russian Academy of Science, Nizhny Novgorod. In 1963, he joined the Gorky Radiophysical Research Institute, Nizhny Novgorod, and, since 1977, he worked in IAP in field of high power microwave electronics as a Scientist and then as Senior Scientist and a Head of the Research Group. Since 1999 he worked in USA in radar technology sponsored by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organi-zation. In 2000, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Mexico as a Research Professor. His current research interests include forming and transportation of electron beams, the development and application of various types of high power microwave sources and electrodynamic systems.
fuks@ece.unm.edu
 Dr. John Gaudet
Research Professor
PhD, Air Force Institute of Technology
Office: UNM EECE Bldg, Room 320B
John Gaudet (M95) received the A. B. degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1969, the M.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1971, and the Ph.D. from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1981.
He was commissioned in the U. S. Air Force following graduation from Holy Cross. During his 22-year Air Force career, he conducted research on numerical modeling of nuclear electromagnetic pulse, developed space experiments to study the effects of ionized plasma on satellites, and held several key positions in pulsed power and high power microwave experiments. He also taught physics at the United States Air Force Academy.
From 1993 until 2001, he held the position of senior research scientist at the New Mexico Engineering Research Institute of The University of New Mexico (UNM) working on a number of narrow band and ultra-wide band high power microwave projects at the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate, including the application of chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics to high power microwave source design and effects on electronic circuits. In 2001, he joined the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at UNM as a Research Professor. He had continued to work with the High Power Microwave Division of AFRL, concentrating on nonlinear effects in circuits caused by RF interference. At UNM, he studies the electrical breakdown characteristics of advanced materials for use in compact pulsed power applications.
Dr. Gaudet is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a charter member of the Directed Energy Professional Society.
jgaudet@unm.edu
Computer Science Dept.
Dr. Terran Lane
Assistant Professor
PhD, Purdue University
Office: UNM Farris Engineering Bldg., Room 345b, Phone: (505) 277-9609
Interests: Machine learning, including applications to bioinformatics, information security, user and cognitive modeling, and neuroimaging; reinforcement learning, behavior, and control.
terran@cs.unm.edu
Personal Webpage
 Dr. Cris Moore
Assistant Professor
PhD, Cornell University
Office: UNM , Phone:
Interests: Phase transitions in NP-complete problems, computational complexity in statistical physics, analog computation, dynamical systems, cellular automata, recurrent neural networks, spin systems, potts models, random tilings, social networks, and "small worlds."
moore@cs.unm.edu
Personal Webpage
Dr. Jared Saia
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Washington
Office: UNM Farris Engineering Bldg. FEC 301H, Phone: (505) 277-5446
Interests: Designing provably good algorithms for practical problems. Theoretical interests include: approximation algorithms for NP-Hard problems, randomized algorithms, graph theory and online algorithms. Designing provably good algorithms for problems in peer-to-peer and distributed systems.
saia@cs.unm.edu
Personal Webpage
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
 Dr. Herbert Tanner
Assistant Professor
PhD, NTUA
Office: UNM MSC01 1150, Phone: (505) 277-1493
Herbert Tanner received his Diploma PhD in Mechanical Engineering from NTUA (Athens, Greece) in 1996 and 2001,
respectively.
From 2001 to 2003 he was a post doctoral fellow with the Department of Electrical and Systems
Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. As a member of the GRASP Laboratory at the University of
Pennsylvania, he was involved in research projects on cooperative control, multi-agent and hybrid systems.
In 2003, he joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico
where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He is a member of the Control Systems and Robotics and Automation
Societies of the IEEE and serves in the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board. He is also an
Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (effective Jan 05). His research interests include
cooperative planning and control of interconnected multi-agent systems, coordination of mobile sensor and actuators
networks, nonholonomic motion planning and control, hybrid modeling of embedded control systems, and mobile manipulation
of deformable material.
tanner@unm.edu
Personal Webpage
Civil Engineering Dept.
 Dr. Mahmoud Reda Taha
Assistant Professor
PhD, The University of Calgary
Office: UNM 124, Tapy Hall,Civil Engineering, Phone: (505) 277-1258
Mahmoud Reda Taha has been involved in structural health monitoring (SHM) research for the last four years. He is an assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of New Mexico. He is currently leading a research group for investigating the fundamental processes for developing intelligent damage diagnosis modules for civil infrastructures and examining uncertainties in damage diagnosis systems. Dr. Taha worked for four years as a structural consultant with Stantec Consulting Ltd. in Calgary, Canada where he designed a number of bridges and served as a specialist on intelligent monitoring systems. He has strong collaborations with international organizations concerned with intelligent sensing of structures such as ISIS Canada (Canada) and RILEM (France). He authored and co-authored over 60 publications in peer reviewed journals and international conferences. His research interests include structural health monitoring, biomechanics and the use of artificial intelligence in structural engineering. Dr. Taha has recently received Oak Ridge Associated Universities award (2004) and co-received the Institute of Navigation (ION) award for best paper on using fuzzy systems for inertial navigation (2003).
mrtaha@unm.edu
Personal Webpage
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
 Dr. Frank Gilfeather
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Office: UNM Office of Research Services, Phone: (505) 269-0346
Interests: High performance computing applications and functional analysis.
Dr. Frank L. Gilfeather is Executive Director of the High Performance Computing Education and Research Center (HPCERC) at UNM which administers to the Maui Scientific Research Center and the Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC). Frank is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UNM and currently is Special Assistant to the Dean of Arts and Sciences.
gilfeath@ahpcc.unm.edu
Personal Webpage
 Dr. Alexander P Stone
Professor
PhD, University of Illinois
Office: UNM HUM 430, Phone: (505) 277-5303
Interests: Differential geometry, differential equations, electromagnetic theory.
astone@math.unm.edu
Personal Webpage
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Dr. Douglas E. Fields
Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy/RIKEN-BNL and RBRC Fellow
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Phone: (505) 277-1466
Research Center Fellow (PhD, Indiana University) Nuclear/Particle physics,
nuclear instrumentation, sensor characterization, simulation.
fields@unm.edu
Personal Webpage
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