Henry Baird
is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.  Prof. Baird is reknowned for his work in document image analysis and digital libraries.  Previously, he was a Principal Scientist at PARC (formerly the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center), and a department head at Bell Labs Research in Murray Hill, New Jersey.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Mooi Choo Chuah
is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.  Prof. Chuah was previously a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and Technical Manager at Bell Labs, Murray Hill.  Her work focuses on network protocols, architecture, and security, areas in which she holds 24 patents plus over 40 patents pending, and in which she has published nearly 50 journal or conference papers.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

James Gilchrist
is Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering.  His research interests investigate particle self-organization across many length scales including colloidal interactions in microfluidic devices and the interplay between chaotic mixing and segregation of flowing granular materials.  He received his B.S. (1997) in Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, MO and his Ph.D. (2003) in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University.  His post-doctoral research at University of Illinois in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering studied the phase behavior and 3D structure of self-assembled microsphere-nanoparticle mixtures.

Ian J. Laurenzi
is Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering.  He earned bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering from the University at Albany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. respectively.  In 2002, he completed his Ph.D. dissertation in chemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania on the subjects of statistical and stochastic approaches to aggregation and chemical kinetics and biochemical engineering. He comes to Lehigh after postdoctoral investigation of gene regulation networks (and the chemical and statistical elucidation thereof) and microarray data processing at Yale University. Treating gene expression as a chemical process, the first objective of Dr. Laurenzi’s current research is to employ a “physical chemical” paradigm to model the fluctuations of gene expression over time and elucidate (1) kinetic relationships between genes and (2) kinetic properties of RNA synthesis and decomposition. 

Padma Rajagopalan
is Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering.  She received her B.S. at Indian Institute of Technology and her Ph. D. from Brown University.  Prior to joining Lehigh, she worked as a research associate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University and at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.  Her post-doctoral research at the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her subsequent research at General Electric Co. focused on polymer surface modification and composite materials.  Her research interests include the design of polymer scaffolds for multi-cellular architectures, cell-substratum interactions, stem cell differentiation, and the study of stress-response metabolic pathways.

Eugenio Schuster
is Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering. He holds undergraduate degrees in Electronic Engineering (Buenos Aires University, Argentina, 1993) and Nuclear Engineering (Balseiro Institute, Argentina, 1998), as well as M.Sc. (2000) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from University of California San Diego. His research interests are focused on Mechatronics and Control Systems. He is particularly interested in the application of nonlinear control techniques to complex physical systems such as fusion reactors, plasmas, magnetohydrodynamic flows, and particle accelerators.

Aurélie Thiele
is Assistant Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering. She holds a "diplôme d'ingénieur" from the Ecole des Mines de Paris in France (1999, summa cum laude) as well as a M.Sc. (2000) and a Ph.D. (2004) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003, she was awarded the first prize in the George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS). Her research interests are in optimization under uncertainty, in particular in the application of robust optimization techniques to the modelling of randomness for operations management problems such as supply chains and revenue management.

Samir Ghadiali
is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering.  He received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 1994 and M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in 1998 and 2000. He served as a research assistant professor in the Pediatric Otolaryngology department at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh where he developed a multi-disciplinary bioengineering research program. Interests include biofluid and biosolid mechanics, chemical transport phenomena and the development of advanced computational models that can be used to improve and evaluate medical treatment therapies. Specific areas of research include surfactant transport dynamics, drug-delivery in the pulmonary system, biomechanical analysis of tissue engineering therapies, fluid-structure interactions, cellular adhesion dynamics and multi-scale modeling of microbiological systems. Awards and honors include the Louisiana Board of Regents scholarship and competitive research grants from the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the National Institutes of Health.

Anand Jagota
is a professor in Chemical Engineering, and will join Lehigh in January, 2004.  He will also direct the Bioengineering & Life Sciences program.   He received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1983, and studied at Cornell University from 1983-88, working on metal and ceramic powder deformation and sintering, and on ultrasonic welding of polymers.  From 1988-1994 he worked as a Senior Research Scientist at the DuPont company on a variety of problems in Materials Science including ceramic processing and mechanical properties, polymer sintering, and composites.  He taught in the department of Applied Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (India) from 1994-96, and then returned to the DuPont company as a research scientist, working on mechanical properties of glass-polymer laminates and their use in automotive and architectural applications.  Over the last several years he launched and led a group at DuPont pursuing biological and chemical routes to nanoelectronic devices.  This group has pioneered the use of biological molecules for the manipulation of molecule-scale objects for electronics. 

Kristen Jellison
is the P.C. Rossin Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering.  She received her B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University (1997) and her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003).  Jellison was the recipient of graduate research fellowships from both the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  Her research interests focus on the prevention of waterborne disease through both improved water treatment technology and a better understanding of microbial pathogen ecology.

Daniel Lopresti
is Associate Professor in Computer Science & Engineering. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1987. Prior to joining Lehigh, Dr. Lopresti taught computer science at Brown University for a number of years. He also helped found the Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory in Princeton, NJ, and later served as a researcher in multimedia communications at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. His research interests range broadly and have included work in VLSI systems, document analysis, pen computing, bioinformatics, speech, security, and user interfaces and visualization techniques. He has published nearly 100 papers and holds 20 patents.

Boon-Siew Ooi
is Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Ph.D in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Glasgow (Scotland) in 1994. Prior to joining Lehigh, he was Vice President of Technology at Phosistor Technologies (California) and was Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). His research interests are primarily in developing monolithic integration process for semiconductor photonic integrated circuits, particularly, using quantum well intermixing and nanofabrication technology. Dr. Ooi holds several patents in photonic integration, and has authored or co-authored over 70 papers.

Lawrence Snyder
is Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.  He received a B.A. in mathematics from Amherst College (1996) and an M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2003) from Northwestern University.  His research interests include supply chain management, logistics, facility location theory, and applied optimization.  Currently he studies supply chain optimization models under uncertainty, focusing on problems in which components of a system can fail or are otherwise unreliable.  Larry has worked as a supply chain consultant at Motorola and LogicTools, a software company based in Chicago.  At Northwestern, he was a Cabell scholar and a Transportation Center dissertation-year fellow and in 2002 was named as the Midwest Regional Transportation Center’s student of the year.

John Spletzer
is a Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering.  John is currently completing his Ph.D. in Computer & Information Science (CIS) at the University of Pennsylvania, from where he received his CIS M.S. degree in 1999.  He also received a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 1993.  John worked as a test engineer for the U.S. Army Test & Evaluation Command (TECOM) from 1989-98, where he was responsible for  laboratory and field testing of both active LIDAR and passive infrared detection systems.  His researchinterests include autonomous robots and sensor planning. 

Nelson Tansu
is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also a faculty member in the Center for Optical Technologies at Lehigh University since July 2003. He received the B.S degree in Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, and Physics (AMEP) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, in May 1998. He received his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2003. He is also a recipient of the Bohn Scholarship, the WARF Graduate University Fellowship, the Vilas Graduate University Fellowship, and the Graduate Dissertator Travel Funding Award at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also received the 2003 Harold A. Peterson Best ECE Research Paper Award (1st Prize) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Zhiyuan Yan
is Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering. He is expected to receive his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during the summer of 2003. He received his B.E. and M.S. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign respectively. Current research interests include: coding and modulation, wireless communications, VLSI design and implementation for communication and digital signal processing systems, cryptography.

Tom Koch
is Professor in Electrical Engineering, and the Daniel E. '39 and Patricia M. Smith Endowed Chair of Director, Center for Optical Technologies. Dr. Koch received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1982.  Most recently he served as Vice President, Technology Platforms at Agere Systems. His research interests have included speed and improved spectral properties required for optoelectronic components to deliver their potential in high capacity optical fiber transmission,  high-performance DFB lasers with record-setting transmission rates, basic advances in tunable lasers, and semiconductor photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Dr. Koch holds 32 patents and has authored 130 journal publications, 147 conference presentations, and several book chapters. 

Mark Arnold
is Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering.  Dr. Arnold received his Ph.D. in Computation from the University of Manchester, UK in 2002, and the M.S and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Wyoming.  Current research includes VLIW Architecture to exploit parallelism in LNS arithmetic.  He has been widely published in IEEE Transactions on Computers, VLSI Signal Processing, and in several other journals.  Books include:  Verilog Digital Computer Design:  Algorithms into Hardware (Prentice-Hall, 1999.)

Rosemary Berger
is Assistant Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering.  She completed her B.S. (1992) in Mathematics at the College of William and Mary and earned her M.S. (1993) and Ph.D. (1997) in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University.  Prior to joining Lehigh, Rosemary worked for five years in the telecommunications industry, first at U S WEST Advanced Technologies and most recently at Level 3 Communications.  In her research, Rosemary blends aspects of mathematics, engineering and information technology in modeling and analyzing data  communications networks and transportation and logistics systems.  Her current research focuses on developing effective methods for topology design, capacity assignment and traffic routing for both high-capacity backbone networks and metropolitan access networks.

Liang Cheng 
is Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering.  He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in May 2002, and his dissertation was "Network Awareness for Heterogeneous Data Networks." His research interests span from network design and performance evaluation to middleware architecture and software frameworks capable of supporting various types of quality of service, as well as tools and analytical models for managing and analyzing heterogeneous data networks. Dr. Cheng has published numerous refereed journal and conference papers in the areas of communications-oriented service protocols and architectures in heterogeneous and ubiquitous networking and distributed environments.

Christopher Kiely
is Professor in Materials Science & Engineering.  Dr. Kiely received his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Bristol in 1986.  Formerly professor of materials chemistry at the University of Liverpool, his research interests include the application and development of transmission electron microscopy techniques for the study of mixed oxide catalysts, self-assembled arrays of nanoparticles, fullerene-like carbon thin films and microelectronic devices.  he is credited with over 180 publications, and has participated in extensive industrial and academic research partnerships, including Dupont, Unilever research, The Insitut de Recherche sur la Catalyse (IRC-CNRS, Lyon) and numerous Universities.

Jeff Linderoth
is Assistant Professor in Industrial & Systems Engineering.  He has research interests in the computational and theoretical aspects of large-scale mathematical optimization.  He received a B.S. in General Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.  From 1998-2000, Dr. Linderoth was employed with the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory.  Prior to joining Lehigh, he was a Senior Consultant with the optimization-based financial products firm of Axioma Inc.  In 1999, Dr. Linderoth was named the Enrico Fermi Scholar at Argonne National Lab, and in 2002, he was awarded the SIAM/Activity Group on Optimization Prize.

Andrey Soukhojak
is Assistant Professor in Materials Science & Engineering.  He received his Ph. D. from M.I.T. where he concentrated on design, synthesis, characterization and modeling of electromechanically active single crystal and polycrystalline ceramic materials.  Current research interests include:  processing and physical properties of ceramics; design, synthesis and characterization of ferroelectric and electromechanically active materials; piezoelectrics and electrostrictors; modeling of time dependent response of active materials; oxide single crystal growth, and optical and electron microscopy of materials.  he was a recipient of the Soros Scholarshio, the MIT Graduate Research Award (1997-2000) and an ISEE-ISAF grant.

Svetlana Tatic-Lucic
is Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering.
She received her Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in silicon micromachined devices for In Vitro and In Vivo studies of neural networks.  She was a Consulting Engineer at Coventor, where she analyzed, simulated and modeled a variety of MEMS structures, including micro-mirrors for fiber-optic communications and residual stress pointers.  As a Research Engineer at Ford Microelectronics, she developed anti-stiction processes for fabrication of microstructures, performed characterization of deep-silicon etching processes, and developed a single-crystal silicon accelerometer based on the dissolved wafer process, deep silicon etching and anodic bonding. 

Tiffany Jing Li
 is Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering.  She received the B.S. degree in computer science (with honors) from Beijing University, China, in 1997, and the M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, in 1999. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering in Texas A&M University. She is expected to graduate in December,2002. She was a research assistant with Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX,in 1998. Since 1999, She has been a Research/Teaching Assistant with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University. She spent the summer of 2000 and 2001 with Seagate Research Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, and with Tyco Telecommunications Laboratory, Eatontown, NJ, conducting DSP and coding research for magnetic/magneto-optical recording channels and for long-haul optical fiber communication channels, respectively. Her research interests fall in the general area of wireless/wireline communication, optical fiber communication and digital data storage systems, with focus on coding and information theory, advanced error correction coding techniques and code graph, iterative decoding and equalization. Ms Li is the recipient of the Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Research (2001) and the J W Van Dyke Memorial Award for Academic Excellence (2001).

Shalinee Kishore
is Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering.  She received her B.S. and M.S. from Rutgers University in 1996 and 1999, respectively.  She will receive her Ph.D. from Princeton University in the fall of 2002.  Her research interests include digital communications, communication theory, and signal processsing, with special emphasis in wireless communication systems. She has interned numerous times at AT&T Labs-Research performing research in such fields as microelectronics, energy efficient communication protocols, and wireless networks.  She holds three patents in the area of wireless communications and is a recipient of the prestigious AT&T Labs Fellowship.

Henry Korth
is Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.  In two decades as a teacher, researcher and industry leader, Dr. Korth has established himself as an expert in the areas of database systems, information systems and distributed systems.  His extensive publications include three books, one of which, Database Systems Concepts, is now in its fourth edition; over 100 journal articles, conference publications and other technical papers; and eight book chapters.  Dr. Korth also holds eight patents.

Anthony McHugh
is Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering.  Dr. McHugh has gained an international reputaion for his studies of polymer materials and engineering, including polymer colloids, polymer processing rheology, and polymer solutions with applications in membrane formation and controlled drug-delevery systems.  he has published more than 150 articles in referred journals and delivered more than 200 seminars at national and international conferences.  In 1988, he received the Senior U.S Scientist Award from Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.  Dr. McHugh's numerous research grants and contracts include 14 from the National Science

Derick Brown
is the P.C. Rossin Assistant Professor of  Civil & Enviromental Engineering.  He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University.  Brown, who served as a research associate at Princeton, studies enviromental engineering and bioengineering.  He has worked as a technical specialist for McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company in Huntington Beach and a senior project engineer for Multimedia Enivornmental Technology Inc.  Brown's awards include the Princeton Environmental Institute Research Initiative in Science and Engineering Fellowship, and a  recent CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, NSF's most prestigious award for new faculty members.

Brian D. Davison
is Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering.  He comes to Lehigh from Rutgers, where he served as a research assistant and taught undergraduate courses in artificial intelligence, data structures, and digital system design, and where he is completing his Ph.D.  Davison studies Web caching, prefetching and evaluation; information retrieval on the Web, and machine learning for interface personalization.  He won first place in the Ph.D division in an AT&T Student research Symposium in 1998.

Jeff Heflin
is Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering. After completing his B.S. in computer science at the College of William and Mary, he worked for five years in the computer consulting industry. Subsequently, he attended the University of Maryland, where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science. His research interests lie in artificial intelligence and the World Wide Web, and in particular how these two areas intersect in a new field called the "Semantic Web." Dr. Heflin has been an active participant in the design of languages for the Semantic Web, including SHOE, DAML+OIL, and the Web Ontology language currently under development in a W3C working group. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.

Hector Munoz-Avila
 is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.  He studies intelligent decision support systems, particularly those involving casee-based reasoning, interactive and mixed-initiative planning and knowledge maintenance.  Munoz-Avila has a doctorate from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany and master's degree and two bachelor's degrees from the University of the ANdes in Colombia.  he co-chaired and American ASssociation for Artificial Interlligence workshop on "Exploring Synergies of Knowledge Management and Case-Based Reasoning."

Dr. Yunfeng Zhang
is Assistant Professor of Civil Environmental Engineering.  He was awarded his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mechanics from Caltech in 2001. He also holds a BS degree in Structural Engineering from Tongji University (Shanghai, China), and a MS degree in Civil Engineering from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). Dr. Zhang’s research interests include structural control, condition monitoring of large-scale structures using advanced sensor technology and vibration-based techniques, smart material, and earthquake engineering. Current projects include development of piezoelectric sensors for real-time monitoring of structural health conditions, a novel metallic-fiber reinforced concrete composite with a damage monitoring capability, and numerical algorithms for real-time pseudo-dynamic testing use. His teaching interests are related to structural dynamics, structural analysis, engineering mathematics, and intelligent civil structures.

Eugene Prevalov
is Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.  He has served as a postdoctoral associate in mathematics at Harvard and in operations research and management science at M.I.T.  he holds a Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, where he won a include the interface of finance and computer science, wireless communication, information theory, e-commerce, and the application of fluid methods to solve problems.

Yujie Ding
is Associate Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering.  His research interests include efficient generation, amplification, and detection of electromagnetic waves in the range from mid-infrared to millimeters (2-2000 microns).  The research utilizes novel nanostructures including quantum wells, self-assembled quantum wires and quantum-well dots, as well as nonlinear optical materials. He has also been working on the design, growth, fabrication, and testing of nanodevices based on novel structures. These are high-power semiconductor lasers and amplifiers, blue-light converters, ultrabroad-bandwidth modulators, ultrastable mid-IR sources, frequency shifters, and power limiters with dramatically-improved performance.These devices can be eventually used to implement various systems for target acquisition as well as tracking and pointing. They also have applications in pollution monitoring, identifying toxic chemicals, remote sensing, remote biological agent detection, mine detection, molecular spectroscopy, bio-medical imaging, security screening, satellite communication, protection of optical sensors, and optical communication.

Clay J. Naito
is Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.  He researches the effects of seismic activity on reinforced concrete structures, concrete-steel composite components and residential wood frame construction.  naito served as a researcher in the Earthquake Engineering Research Center at the University of California-Berkeley, where he earned a Ph.D and master's.  He earned a bachelor's from the University of Hawaii.  His awards include a NSF grand for research in Japan.

Andrew Ross
is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, specializing in queueing theory applications for telecommunications (especially customer-service call centers) and logistics.  This involves simulation, forecasting, and heuristics for queue design.   He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, and his MS from Harvey Mudd College. He has worked as a consultant for WebTV Networks, optimizing their Internet-access