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Dr. Cantrell received his Bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1962 and his Ph.D. degree from Princeton in 1968. In 1967 he joined the faculty of Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. After he was awarded tenure at Swarthmore in 1973, he accepted a staff position at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in order to pursue research on laser applications to isotope separation and inertially confined fusion. In 1980 he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas, fulfilling a long-term plan to return to the academic world.
Dr. Cantrell is the author of over one hundred refereed/edited scientific and engineering publications, and is a co-inventor on three U.S. Patents. At Los Alamos, he was the principal inventor of a highly efficient method of laser wavelength conversion which made industrial-scale molecular uranium isotope separation feasible. His calculation of the frequencies and relative intensities of the vibration-rotation lines in the infrared spectrum of uranium hexafluoride made possible the identification of molecular energy levels and selective laser excitation that were required for the success of the Los Alamos approach to uranium isotope separation. For his work in support of the Los Alamos laser isotope separation program, he was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 1978, a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1980, and a Fellow of the IEEE in 1985.
At The University of Texas at Dallas, Dr. Cantrell has supervised 23 Ph.D. dissertations and has created many new courses, including computer organization and design, physical optics, nonlinear optics and numerical methods for engineering and physics. He is the author of a textbook on modern mathematical methods for engineering and physics, which is being published by the Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Cantrell is the Director of PhoTEC, the Photonic Technology and Engineering Center. His current research interests include laser-pulse propagation in strongly nonlinear media, designs for fiberoptic neural networks, nonlinear optical effects in optical fibers, semiconductors and microstructures, and the statistical properties of light.
Dr. Chung joined UTD in 1994, and currently is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1993 from the University of Toronto, where he had previously received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees. He stayed there as a Lecturer for a year.
His research and work experience include developing a framework and a tool for mapping object-oriented functional requirements into object-oriented designs, and compiling an object-oriented design language into a database programming language. His Ph.D. work on non-functional requirements has been applied by other researchers to performance engineering, project risk management and organizational modelling, and led to his brief participation in a Business Process Reengineering project at Andersen Consulting, Chicago. This work is the basis of his on-going research, namely, from object-oriented to goal-oriented analysis.
Dr. Cobb received his B.S. degree in 1987 from UT-El Paso, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1989 and 1996, respectively, from UT-Austin. His research focus is in the area of computer networking, with special emphasis on quality of service and mobile computing.
Dr. Dattatreya received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, M.E. in Electrical Communication Engineering, and Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1975, 77, and 81 respectively. During 1981-82, he was a Senior Scientist at the Scientific Analysis Group, Delhi, India, and worked on Pattern Recognition and Speech Processing problems. During 1983-85, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Machine Intelligence and Pattern Analysis Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland where he taught and conducted research in Information Processing. He joined UTD in January 1986 and is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. He is spending a year (1999-2000) as an International Visitor teaching and conducting collaborative research at the Center for Artificial Intelligence, ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico.
Dr. Fonseka received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 1980, the M.Eng. degree from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Arizona State University in 1988.
He joined the University of Texas at Dallas in August of 1988, where he is currently an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include combined coded modulation, signaling through bandlimited channels, coding theory, information theory, satellite mobile communications, telecommunication networks, and coherent optical communications.
Dr. Fumagalli received the Dr.Ing. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. He did postdoctoral research in the field of all-optical networks at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 1992 he joined the Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, as a Researcher. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX. His research interests include aspects of mobile and optical networks, related protocol design, and performance evaluation.
Dr. Kiasaleh received his B.S. (Cum Laude), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all in Electrical Engineering from the Communications Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, in 1981, 1982, and 1986, respectively. During his graduate study, he was a graduate assistant in the department of Electrical Engineering at USC. In 1986, he joined Teknekron Communication System, Berkeley, CA, where he was responsible for conducting research on the advanced telecommunications IC products, ASIC design (DS-1 Controller), and was involved in the development of network control management systems. He was also a lecturer in the department of Electrical Engineering at the San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, in 1986. Since 1987, he has been with the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Richardson, TX, where he is currently a Professor. From Dec. 1996 to Dec. 1997, Dr. Kiasaleh was on a special assignment with the DSP research and development center at Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX, where he conducted research on various aspects of the 3rd generation wireless communication systems.
Dr. Kiasaleh is the recipient of the Research Initiation Award (RIA) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). He was also the recipient of the NASA/ASEE faculty fellowship award at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 1992 where he participated in the Galileo Optical Experiment (GOPEX) demonstration, first successful demonstration of an optical communications link involving a deep-space vehicle. For his participation in this project, he received the NASA Group Achievement Award. In 1993, he was the recipient of NASA/ASEE faculty fellowship award at JPL where he participated in Compensated Earth-Moon-Earth Laser Link (CEMERLL) demonstration. Dr. Kiasaleh's research interests include synchronization, novel detection schemes for phase noise and fading impaired digital communication systems, optical communication systems, and wireless as well as optical CDMA systems.
Dr. Kiasaleh is an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters. He is also a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi. He was a faculty advisor to the student chapter of the IEEE Society at the University of Texas at Dallas and served as the Vice President and the President of the Optical Society of North Texas (OSNT) in 1990--1991 and 1991--1992, respectively.
Dr. Linebarger was born in Austin, TX in 1960. He received his BSEE (summa cum laude) from Southern Methodist University in 1981, his M.S. from Rice University in 1985 and his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1987. He joined the University of Texas at Dallas in 1987 and is now a professor and associate dept. head in the UTD department of electrical engineering. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas and a senior member of IEEE. Dr. Linebarger works in the area of digital signal processing and communications and has worked as a consultant for several companies in the Dallas based telecommunications industry.
Dr. Page obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at Brunel University, UK. He joined UT Dallas in 1981 and is Associate Professor of Computer Science. Currently he is College Master and Associate Dean in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Dallas.
He was Chair of the UT System Chancellor's Faculty Advisory Council, 1998-1999, Program Head of the Computer Science Department at UT Dallas, 1995-1997, and director of the Collegium V Honors Program, 1997-1998.
Dr. I-Ling Yen received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Houston in 1992 and is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Texas at Dallas.
Dr. Yen's research focus is on parallel and distributed computing, Internet and web technologies, E-commerce supporting environments, and high assuance systems. She has developed inherent fault tolerance approach to support fault-tolerant process control applications, multi-invariant systems approach that can be used for efficient atomic transaction processing for many E-commerce applications, and object-oriented NMR approach that provides customizable fault tolerance for a wide spectrum of applications with various fault tolerance requirements. She has also developed fault-tolerant resource allocation strategies, fault-tolerant locking algorithms, and several task allocation algorithms for various parallel architectures. She is also conducting research in the areas of reliability assessment for multi-agent systems and self-stabilizing systems. Dr. Yen has been very active in her research and had published over 40 technical papers, including journal publications and papers in high quality conference. She has also received many research awards from NSF, DOD, and several industry companies.
Before starting her academic career, Dr. Yen had worked in industry. She worked as a software engineer at Western Geophysical where she co-designed an interactive seismic data processing system (OMEGA); implemented a control program in OMEGA that coordinates and efficiently delivers a large amount of data traces among distributed components; and implemented a graphical user interface based on X-Window/Motif. Prior to that, she worked at Valid Logic Systems, Inc. as a software quality assurance engineer where she developed test tools for automated quality assurance and test coverage analysis.
Dr. Yen has also been very active in service to the profession. She has served as a reviewer for NSF and many high quality journals, including IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of Parallel, Distributed Computing, and Acta Informatica. She has served as Program Committee member for many conferences, Finance Chair for the 1994 Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Vice Chair for the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Tools with AI, and Vice General Chair for the 1996 IEEE High Assurance System Engineering Workshop. She has also served as Program Chair for the 1997 IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Workshop, 1999 IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Software and Systems Engineering & Technologies, and 1999 International Conference on Computer Software and Applications.
Dr. Yen has also been very active in service to the profession. She has as a reviewer for NSF and many high quality journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of Parallel, Distributed Computing, and Acta Informatica. She has been a program committee member for many conferences and served as Finance Chair for the 1994 Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Vice Chair for the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Tools with AI, and Vice General Chair for the 1996 IEEE High Assurance System Engineering Workshop. Recently, she served as the Program Chair for the 1997 IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Workshop, the 1999 Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering & Technologies, and the 1999 International Computer Software and Applications Conference. She also guest-edited a special issue (April 1998) for IEEE Computer devoted to High Assurance Systems.