Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. Dr.
Edl Schamiloglu 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.
Chaouki T. Abdallah 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. Dr.
Christos Christodoulou Christos G. Christodoulou (Fellow, IEEE) received
the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering
from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, in
1985. Dr.
Mark Gilmore 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. Dr. Majeed Hayat 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. Dr. Gregory L. Heileman 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. Dr. J. Scott Tyo 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. Dr. C. Jerald Buchenauer 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. Dr. David Dietz 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. Dr. Mikhail Isaakovich Fuks 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. Dr. John Gaudet 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. Dr. Terran Lane 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 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." Dr. Jared Saia 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 Dr. Herbert Tanner Herbert Tanner received his Diploma PhD in Mechanical Engineering from NTUA (Athens, Greece) in 1996 and 2001,
respectively. Dr. Mahmoud Reda Taha 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). Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Dr. Frank Gilfeather 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. Dr. Alexander P Stone Interests: Differential geometry, differential equations, electromagnetic theory. Department of Physics & Astronomy Dr. Douglas E. Fields Research Center Fellow (PhD, Indiana University) Nuclear/Particle physics, nuclear instrumentation, sensor characterization, simulation. fields@unm.edu Personal Webpage |