Faculty and Staff | School of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering | SIU

Nathan Carroll
Office Administrator

Office: Engineering E202A  Phone: (618) 453-2120
Email:nathan.carroll@siu.edu

Nathan is the office administrator for the School. He is currently working on his MBA at Southern Illinois University.

Shannon Oxendine
Office Manager

 Office: Engineering E202A
Phone: (618) 453-2110
Email: shannon.oxendine@siu.edu

Shannon is the program admissions coordinator for the graduate program and assists in managing the ECBE office. 

Kang Chen, PH.D

Areas of Interest: Dr. Chen's interests are broadly in mobile and computer networks, with current emphasis on software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), connected vehicle networks and applications, and mobile opportunistic networking and computing.

 Selected Publications:

1. [9-TPDS] H. Shen, Z. Li and K. Chen, Social-P2P: An Online Social Network Based P2P File Sharing System, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, to appear, accepted on Sep. 12, 2014.
2. [8-TPDS] K. Chen, H. Shen, K. Sapra and G. Liu, A Social Network based Reputation System for Cooperative P2P File Sharing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, to appear, accepted on June. 28, 2014.
3. [7-TPDS] K. Chen, H. Shen and L. Yan, Multicent: A Multifunctional Incentive Scheme Adaptive to Diverse Performance Objectives for DTN Routing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, to appear, accepted on April. 28, 2014.
4. [6-TC] K. Chen and H. Shen, Maximizing P2P File Access Availability in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Though Replication for Efficient File Sharing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, to appear, accepted on Jan. 24, 2014.
5. [5-TON] K. Chen and H. Shen, DTN-FLOW: Inter-Landmark Data Flow for High-Throughput Routing in DTNs, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, to appear, accepted on Nov. 30, 2013.
6. [4-TC] H. Shen, J. Liu, K. Chen, J. Liu and S. Moyer, SCPS: A Social-aware Distributed Cyber-Physical Human-centric Search Engine, IEEE Transactions on Computers, to appear, accepted on Oct. 10, 2013.
7. [3-TON] K. Chen and H. Shen, SMART: Utilizing Distributed Social Map for Lightweight Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, to appear, accepted on Aug. 21, 2013.
8. [2-TPDS] H. Shen, Z. Li and K. Chen, A Scalable and Mobility-Resilient Data Search System for Large-Scale Mobile Wireless Networks, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems , Vol. 25, No. 5, May 2014.
9. [1-TMC] K. Chen, H. Shen, H. Zhang, Leveraging Social Networks for P2P Content-based File Sharing in Disconnected MANETs, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing , Vol. 13, No. 2, February 2014.

Michael Davis, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgeon

Areas of Interest: In Vivo Real Time Biometric Acquisition of Human Skeletal Muscle Flexibility.

Selected Publications:

“Total Wrist Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Study.” J. Ollie Edmunds, M.D., Peter Cimino, M.D., Michael Davis, M.D., Daniel C. Riordan, M.D., Michael E. Brunet, M.D., and Ray J. Haddad, Jr., M.D. Paper presented at Louisiana Orthopaedic Association’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans, October 1984; and Southern Orthopaedic Association Spring Meeting in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, March 1985. Published Orthopaedics, February 1987 – Vol. 10.2, Pages 337-341.

“Operative Treatment of the Degenerative Segment Above a Lumbar Fusion.” Whitecloud, Davis. Presented at North American Spine Society Annual Meeting in Monterey, California, August 1990. Accepted for publication: “Spine”.

Clinical Trials:

Novel Stretching Device Versus Night Splints, ClinicalTrials.gov

Themistoklis Haniotakis, PH.D

Areas of Interest: VLSI design, fault-tolerant computing, VLSI testing and design for testability, and RF IC design and test

Nazeih Botros
Professor Emeritus

Email: botrosn@siu.edu

Areas of Interest: Digital hardware design, digital signal processing, digital instrumentation, neural networks, robot sensing, bioengineering, smart devices, ultrasound tissue differentiation, ultrasound registration.

Morteza Daneshdoost
Professor Emeritus

Email: daneshdo@siu.edu

Areas of Interest: Electric power systems, linear systems and circuits, control systems, optimization techniques, expert systems, computer graphics, MMI.

Lalit Gupta
Professor Emeritus

Email: lgupta@siu.edu

Areas of Interest: Dr. Gupta's research interests are in pattern recognition, neural networks, and signal processing.

Frances Harackiewicz
Professor Emeritus

Email: fran@engr.siu.edu

Areas of Interest: (a) Electromagnetics, (b) antenna theory and design, (c) microwaves, (d) microstrip phased arrays and anisotropic materials, (e) small multiband and broadband antennas, (f) PIFAs, (g) loops, (h) printed and dielectric antennas.

Constantine Hatziadoniu
Professor Emeritus

Email: hatz@siu.edu

Areas of Interest: Dr. Hatziadoniu's research interests are in: (a) Power systems modeling, (b) simulation and control, (c) high voltage, (d) DC transmission, (e) power electronics, and (f) power systems transient.

Farzad Pourboghrat
Professor Emeritus

Email: pour@siu.edu

Areas of Interest: Systems control, robust and adaptive control, neural control, DSP-based embedded control, robotics and mechatronics, smart structures and MEMS.

Ramanarayanan Viswanathan
Professor Emeritus

Email: viswa@olemiss.edu  Website: Google Scholar

Areas of Interest: Distributed detection, radar, CFAR detection, statistical signal processing, wireless communcations