Research Talents
Ronald Barnes, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 2005. Computer micro-architecture; compilers; computer hardware and software design and co-design. E-mail: ron@ou.edu
Samuel Cheng, Assistant Professor, TCOM, Tulsa; Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2004. Information theory, image and signal processing for medical application, pattern recognition. E-mail: samuel.cheng@ou.edu
Sesh Commuri, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Texas-Arlington, 1996. Intelligent systems, robotics, embedded real-time control. E-mail: scommuri@ou.edu
Jerry E. Crain, Professor, ECE; Ph.D., Colorado, 1970. Phased array radar, weather radar, electromagnetic compatibility. E-mail: crain@ou.edu
J. R. Cruz, Professor and Tilley Chair; Ph.D., Houston-University Park, 1980. Digital communications, signal processing. E-mail: jcruz@ou.edu
Lei Ding, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007. Biomedical imaging, neural engineering. E-mail: leiding@ou.edu
M. Y. El-lbiary, Professor; Ph.D., Imperial College (London), 1954. Microwaves, optical communications. (Not actively engaged in funded research) E-mail: melibiary@ou.edu
John E. Fagan, David Ross Boyd Professor; Ph.D., Texas-Arlington, 1977. Alternative energy transportation systems, GPS and DGPA navigation systems, control systems. E-mail: jfagan@ou.edu
Joseph Havlicek, Professor; Ph.D., Texas-Austin, 1996. Signal and image processing, multimedia communications, nonlinear and AM-FM signal models, Kalman filtering, intelligent transportation systems. E-mail: joebob@ou.edu
Tamer Ibrahim, Associate Professor; Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2002. ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Biomedical engineering, computational electromagnetics for bio applications, mathematical modeling.
John (Ning) Jiang, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas, 2005. Estimation, analysis, control of physical and financial risks for deregulated energy industry. E-mail: jnjiang@ou.edu
Matthew Kane, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. Semiconductor spin electronics; wide bandgap semiconductors; semiconductor nanostructures and thin films; magneto-optical effects and magneto-photonics; novel functionalities in oxide and nitride materials. E-mail: mhkane@ou.edu
Stamatios Kartalopoulos, Williams Professor of Telecommunications Networking, TCOM, Tulsa; Ph.D., University of Toledo, 1978. Optical communications networks, SONET/SDH, ATM, DWDM, fuzzy logic, neural networks. E-mail:
kartalopoulos@ou.edu
Samuel C. Lee, Professor; Ph.D., Illinois, 1965. Medical imaging, computer disease diagnosis, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, computer expert systems, signal and image processing, fuzzy logic systems, neural networks. E-mail: samlee@ou.edu
Hong Liu, Charles & Jean Smith Chair of Bioengineering/Professor, Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Inst., 1990. Biomedical imaging/biomedical engineering. E-mail: liu@ou.edu
Patrick J. McCann, George Lynn Cross Research Professor; Ph.D., MIT, 1990. IV-VI semiconductor lasers, tunable diode laser spectroscopy, optoelectronic integrated circuits. E-mail: pmccann@ou.edu
Hazem Hejjo Refai, Associate Professor, TCOM, Tulsa; Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1999. Modeling and simulation in wireless telecommunication, VoIP, network design and optimization, network traffic modeling. E-mail: hazem@ou.edu
Thordur Runolfsson, Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1988. Systems and control, complex dynamical systems, uncertainty analysis, modeling and simulation, power systems and energy efficiency. E-mail: runolfsson@ou.edu
Zhisheng Shi, Professor; Ph.D., Freiburg (Germany), 1995. Semiconductor thin film growth, optoelectronic devices
(lasers and detectors), broadband integrated circuits. E-mail: shi@ou.edu
James J. Sluss Jr., Morris R. Pitman Professor, ECE/TCOM, and ECE Director; Ph.D., Virginia, 1989. Fiber-optic transmission systems, intelligent transportation systems, telecommunications, broadband networks. E-mail: sluss@ou.edu
Choon Yik Tang, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2003. Wireless communications and networking (link adaptation, resource allocation, protocol design, distributed estimation/control/optimization), systems and control theory. E-mail: cytang@ou.edu
Monte Tull, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1980. Reconfigurable computing and computer architecture,
multiple-valued logic, neuro-fuzzy computation, evolutionary computation. E-mail: tull@ou.edu
Pramode Verma, Williams Professor and TCOM Director, Tulsa; Ph.D., Concordia University (Montreal), 1970.
Telecommunication networks, networking technology, interoperability. E-mail: pverma@ou.edu
Rui Yang, Professor; Ph.D., Nanjing University, 1987. Solid state devices; interband cascade structures for lasers and detectors. E-mail: rui.q.yang@ou.edu
Mark Yeary, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Texas A & M, 1999. Digital signal processing, as applied to radar signal
processing, digital communications, image processing, adaptive filter design, and customized embedded DSP
systems. E-mail: yeary@ou.edu
Tian-You Yu, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2000. Remote sensing, radar signal processing. E-mail: tyu@ou.edu
Yan (Rockee) Zhang, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2004. Intelligent radio and radar sensing, RF-microwave systems and instrumentation, random signal and Low-Probability-of-Intercept (LPI) radar, real-time system implementation on FPGA and DSP. E-mail: rockee@ou.edu
Adjunct Faculty and Their Research
Phillip Chilson, Associate Professor, Meteorology; Ph.D., Clemson, 1993. Atmospheric layered phenomena and their interactions with background wind field using profiling atmospheric radars; development of spatial and frequency interferometry. E-mail: chilson@ou.edu
Robert Palmer, Professor, Meteorology; Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1989. Array processing techniques for weather radar, meteorological phenomena using Doppler radar, development of innovative radar interferometric techniques, adaptive array applications for wireless communications. E-mail: rpalmer@ou.edu
Jinsong Pei, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Ph.D., Columbia, 2001. System identification, simulation and control of linear and nonlinear systems, neural networks, digital signal processing and numerical analysis. E-mail: jspei@ou.edu
Guifu Zhang, Associate Professor, Meteorology; Ph.D., Washington, 1998. Radar polarimetry and interferometry for weatherquantification and forecasting, wave interactions propagation with geophysical media. E-mail: guzhang1@ou.edu