Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty

  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

  • Electromagnetic Analysis
  • Image and Signal Processing
  • Novel Remote Sensing Concepts

Research Interests

  • Sleep Research
  • Research Engineer, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • PE Electrical Engineering

Areas of Expertise

  • Embedded and Real-Time Systems
  • Robotic Operating System (ROS)
  • Communication and Electronic Architectures
  • Microelectronic Design

Research Interests

  • Swarm Robotics
  • Cyber Physical Systems
  • Novel Robotics Design
  • Decentralized Systems
Thomas Daunais

Thomas Daunais

  • Founder/CTO, Hawk Semiconductor, LLC
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Chair, Department of Applied Computing
  • Dave House Professor of Computing
  • Affiliated Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Interest

  • Signal Processing 
Andrew Ginter

Andrew Ginter

  • VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security Solutions
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Interest

  • Cyber-security for industrial control systems
  • Operating system and network architectures
  • Director, Great Lakes Research Center
  • Director, Institute of Computing and Cybersystems
  • William and Gloria Jackson Professor

Links of Interest

Areas of Interest

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Signal and Image Processing
  • Sensor and Data Fusion
  • Heterogeneous Data Mining
  • Professor and Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering
  • Affiliated Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Affiliated Professor, Physics

Research Interests

  • Biomedical Optics and Photonics
  • Coherent Imaging and Light Scattering
  • Singular Optics
  • Biophysical Dynamics
  • Deputy Director, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
  • Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

Areas of Expertise

  • Statistical Signal Processing
  • Applied Nonconvex Optimization
  • EO/IR Imaging
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imaging

Research Interests

  • Information Theoretic Approaches to Inverse-Imaging
  • Computational Techniques For Solving Large Inverse Problems
  • Fundamental Limits of Sensing
  • Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Area of Expertise (CS)

  • High-performance computer architecture
  • Embedded systems
  • Design of multimedia systems
  • High-performance and low power computing systems
  • Information-processing systems
  • Embedded electronic systems

Areas of Interest (ECE)

  • VLSI information and multimedia processing
  • SoC design
  • Complex embedded electronic systems
  • Very Large Scale Intergradations (VLSI)
  • Digital architectures
  • Computer engineering
  • Professor, Computer Science
  • Affiliated Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Links of Interest

Faculty Webpage  
FAST
Sphinx

Area of Expertise

  • Computer Architecture
  • Programming Languages
  • Simulation
John Pakkala

John Pakkala

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Assistant Professor, Applied Computing
  • Affiliated Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Member, Institute of Computing and Cybersystems (ICC) and Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC)

Teaching Experience

  • Programmable Logic Control (PLC)
  • Digital Electronics
  • Analog Electronics
  • Image Processing
  • Automatic Control Systems
  • Instrumentation & Measurement
  • Mechatronics Senior Design
  • MATLAB Programming

Research Interests

  • Image Processing;
  • Autonomous Vehicles Perception;
  • Mobile Robot Applications;  
  • Mechatronics;
  • Applied Machine Learning.
George Semouchkin

George Semouchkin

  • Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Interest

  • Optics
  • Photonics
  • Signal and image processing
  • Professor, Applied Computing
  • Graduate Program Director, MS in Mechatronics
  • Director, FANUC Certified Industrial Robotics Training Center

Research Interests

  • Mechatronics Systems
  • Industrial Robotics
  • Industrial Robotic Vision Systems
  • Automation and Controls
  • Optics
  • Image Processing

Teaching Interests

  •  Real-Time Robotics
  • Industrial Robotic Vision Systems.
  • Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)
  • Electrical Machinery
  • Power Systems
  • Founding Institute Director (retired), Michigan Tech Research Institute
  • Sr. Scientist, Michigan Tech Research Institute
  • Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Expertise

  • SAR/EO Sensing Systems
  • Signal Processing
  • Computational Imaging

Research Interests

  • Distributed Sensing
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Waveform Design
  • Compressive Sensing
  • Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
  • Associate Chair for Curriculum, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
  • Affiliated Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Application computationally efficient and robust embedded algorithms for monitoring and protection of civil infrastructure assets such as buildings, bridges, pipelines, wind turbines, roadways, and railroads.
  • Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Affiliated Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of Interest

  • Power electronics systems
  • Microgrids
  • Non-linear and game theoretic controls
  • Distributed energy resources
  • Electric drives and machinery
  • Assistant Professor, Health Informatics, Applied Computing
  • Affiliated Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences

Teaching Interests

  • Medical Informatics
  • Medical Image Analysis

Areas of Expertise

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Health Informatics
  • Text Mining