School of Engineering Faculty

Professor Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and Automatic Control from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Information Science from the School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He is currently the Senior Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, Dean of the School of Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Bridgeport (UB), Connecticut; the Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Robotics, Intelligent Sensing, and Control (RISC) laboratory; the Founder of the High-Tech Business Incubator at UB (CTech IncUBator), and a Professor of Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

He was Vice President from 2008-2014, Vice Provost from 2006-2008, Interim Dean of the School of Business, Director of External Engineering Programs, Interim Chairman of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and Chairman of the Department of Technology Management at the University of Bridgeport. He was an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at the University of Bridgeport from 1995-1999, a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, University of Utah from 1992-1995, and a Research Fellow at the General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania from 1989-1991. He was the Founding Chairman of the Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 1992-1999, and the Founding Chairman of the Prototyping Technical Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 1999-2001.

His background is in the fields of computer science and engineering, control theory, robotics, automation, manufacturing, AI, computer vision and signal processing.

Education:
Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1991
M.S., Engineering, Computer and Information Science, (GPA 4.0), School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1989.
P.E. Licensed Professional Electrical Engineer, State of Utah, 1994
CMfgE, Certified Manufacturing Engineer, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1997.
C.R.E., Certified Reliability Engineer, American Society of Quality Control, 1996
C.M., Certified Professional Manager, Institute of Certified Professional Managers, James Madison University, 1996
B.Sc., Engineering (with Honors), Computer Science and Automatic Control, School of Engineering, Alexandria University, 1988
General Certificate of Education, 5 Advanced and 8 Ordinary Level Subjects, With Distinction, University of London, England, 1985

Courses Taught:
CpE/CS 460 Introduction to Robotics
CpE/CS 560 Advanced Robotics
CPSE 692/693 Advanced Topics / Ph.D. Seminar in Robotics and Automation

Publications:
Last 5 years Journal Publications only – full list available on tareksobh.org

Abrar Alajlan, Khaled Elleithy, Marwah Almasri and Tarek Sobh,"An Optimal and Energy Efficient Multi-Sensor Collision-Free Path Planning Algorithm for a Mobile Robot in Dynamic Environments", Robotics, Vol.6, No.2, pp1-18, 31 March 2017. doi:10.3390/robotics6020007

Almat Raskaliyev, Sarosh Patel and Tarek Sobh,"A dynamic model for GPS based attitude determination and testing using a serial robotic manipulator", Journal of Advanced Research, Vol.8, No.4, pp333-341, October, 27 March 2017. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.jare.2017.03.005

Madhav Patil, Tamer Abukhalil, Sarosh Patel, and Tarek Sobh,"Deployment Environment for a Swarm of Heterogeneous Robots", International Journal of robotics, Vol.5, No.4, pp1-21, October, 2016. DOI: 10.3390/robotics5040022

Alsahafi, Hesham, Majed Almaleky, and Tarek M. Sobh,"Design and Implementation of Metallic Waste Collection Robot", Journal of Transactions on Techniques in STEM Education, Vol.1 No.4, pp 86-95, September, 2016. ISSN: 2381-649X

Munoz, Carlos, Patel, Sarosh, and Sobh, Tarek M.,"Object Tracking Using Autonomous Quad Copter", Journal of Transactions on Techniques in STEM Education, Vol.1 No.4, pp 9-15, September, 2016. ISSN: 2381-649X

Madhav Patil, Tamer Abukhalil, Sarosh Patel, and Tarek Sobh,"UB Swarm: hardware implementation of heterogeneous swarm robot with fault detection and power management", International Journal of Computing, Vol.15, No.3, pp162-176, September 2016. ISSN 2312-5381

Peter J. Zeno, Sarosh Patel, and Tarek M. Sobh,"Review of Neurobiologically Based Mobile Robot Navigation System Research Performed Since 2000", Journal of Robotics, vol. 2016, Article ID 8637251, 17 pages, August, 2016. DOI:10.1155/2016/8637251

Alshibli, Mohammad, Ahmed El Sayed, Elif Kongar, Tarek M. Sobh, and Surendra M. Gupta," Disassembly Sequencing Using Tabu Search", Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, ISSN 1573-0409, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 69-79, April 2016

Patel, Sarosh, and Tarek Sobh, "Task based synthesis of serial manipulators", Journal of advanced research, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 479-492, May 2015.

Abuzneid, Abdel-Shakour, Tarek Sobh, Miad Faezipour, Ausif Mahmood, and John James, "Fortified anonymous communication protocol for location privacy in WSN: a modular approach", Journal of Sensors, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 5820-5864, March 2015.

Sarosh Patel and Tarek Sobh, " Manipulator Performance Measures; A Comprehensive Literature Survey", In Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Volume 77, Issue 3, pp 547-570, March 2015.

Abuzneid, Abdel-Shakour, Tarek Sobh, and Miad Faezipour, "An enhanced communication protocol for location privacy in WSN", International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks vol. 2015, pp. 62, January 2015.

Ayssam Elkady, Jovin Joy, Tarek Sobh and Kimon Valavanis, "Modular Design: A Plug and Play Approach to Sensory Modules, Actuation Platfroms and Task Descriptions for Robotics and Automation Applications", in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer, Volume 72, No.2, pp 271-289, August 2014

Ayssam Elkady, Jovin Joy, Tarek Sobh and Kimon Valavanis, “Modular Design: A Plug and Play Approach to Sensory Modules, Actuation Platforms and Task Descriptions for Robotics and Automation Applications”, in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer, Volume 72, Number 1, pp 5-19, 7 October 2013.

Tamer Abukhalil, Tarek Sobh and Madhav Patil, “Survey on Decentralized Modular Swarm Robots and Control Interfaces”, International Journal of Engineering (IJE), Volume 7, Number 2, pp 44-73, 30 June 2013."

Madhav Patil, Tamer Abukhalil and Tarek Sobh, “Hardware Architecture Review of Swarm Robotics System: Self-Reconfigurability, Self-Reassembly, and Self-Replication”, in the ISRN Robotics, Volume 2013, 24 April 2013

Gad Selig, Elif Kongar, Neal Lewis, Christian Bach and Tarek Sobh, “The Proposed Ph.D. in Technology Management at the University of Bridgeport: A Case Study”, International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education (IJIOME), Volume 5, Number 2, February 2013.

Khaled Elleithy, Jeongkyu Lee, Tarek Sobh, Ali El-Rashedy, Jovin Joy, and Leon Manole, “Design and Implementation of Wireless Camera, Communication and Control Modules for a Transformable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”, in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer, Volume 66, Number 3, Pages 401-414, 2012.

Ayssam Elkady and Tarek Sobh, “Robotics Middleware: A Comprehensive Literature Survey and Attribute-Based Bibliography”, in the Journal of Robotics, 2012.

Ahmed ElSayed, Elif Kongar, Surendra M. Gupta and Tarek Sobh, “A Robotic-Driven Disassembly Sequence Generator for End-Of-Life Electronic Products”, In the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Volume 68, Number 1, Pages 43-52, 2012.

Madhav Patil, Jack Toporovsky, Lawrence Hmurcik and Tarek Sobh, “Integration of Vision System, Intelligent Robo-Actuator, HMI and PLC to Design a Universal Quality Inspection or Control Machine”,I-Manager” Journal on Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 3, pages 5-13, June 2012.

Ahmed ElSayed, Elif Kongar, Surendra Gupta and Tarek Sobh, “Robotized End-of-Life Product Disassembly”, Robotics News, June 2012.

Ayssam Elkady, Jovin Joy,Tarek Sobh and Kimon Valavanis, “Structured Approach for Modular Design in Robotics and Automation Environments”, in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Volume 72, Number 1, May 2012.

Honors and Awards:
Full list available on tareksobh.org
Gold CQIA Innovation Prize, 29th Annual Conference, The CQIA innovation prize, a division of the Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Inc., for CISSE: First Online Research Engineering Conference in the World, June, 2015.
Entrepreneur Innovation Award, CTNext, Connecticut’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, 2015.
ASEE Northeast Section Engineering Professor of the year 2015 Award, February, 2015.
Member, IBM Partner World – Global Entrepreneur, October, 2014.
2013 Tech Company to Watch Award, 7th Annual Connecticut Innovation Summit Awarded to Facechecks, A Connecticut Startup Company [Founding Partner] November, 2013.
Silver Medal Award, The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award; Awarded to Facechecks, A Connecticut Startup Company [Founding Partner] June, 2013.
Commendation, University of Bridgeport Board of Trustees, May 2013.
Member, The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, elected in February 2011.
Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Computer Science. Unanimously named by the University of Bridgeport Board of Trustees, February 2010.
Fellow, African Academy of Sciences, elected in December 2009
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2008 – Professional Regional Award.
Named Director, Connecticut Center for Advanced Technologies (CCAT) Center for Robotic Simulation (2008)

Grants:
Sample of recent grants only – full list available on tareksobh.org
“Facial Recognition for Security Applications II”, State of CT SBIR Award with UB Incubator, $25,000, [10/2012 – present], Current.
Innovation Places Planning Grant, Developing strategic plans and applications for an Innovation Places Implementation, CTNext, $50,000, 2016, current.
Eigel Scholarship fund. $15,000, Current.
National Institute of Health Grant, "Enhancing Research Administration at an Emerging Research Institution in Urban, Southwest Connecticut" project, $447,252 grant, current.
Department of Education grants, improving retention and graduation for deserving students, $220,000 grant, 2015-2020
Student Travel grant for the ICDL-EPIROB 2016, $5,000 grant, July, 2016.
Society of Women Engineers Scholarship Fund, 2 scholarships, $40,000, May 2014.
AWS in Education Research, $10, 000 grant in AWS credits, 2014.
Delmia Software grant, $68,000, 2014.
Unitronics PLC equipment grant, $950, 2014.
Standard Oil Scholarship fund $10,000, 2014.
“Facial Recognition for Security Applications I”, State of CT SBIR Award with the UB Incubator, $25,000, [4/2012 – 9/2012], Funded.
“Graduate Visiting Scholar Research Program – Online Robotics”, U.S.A. – Austria Marshall Plan program, Graduate Scholar Support for 1 year, $25,000, Funded, [3/1/2010 – 2/28/2011].
“Advanced Technology in Support of Hybrid Projectiles”, FY 2010 Defense Appropriation Request, $2.4 million, Funded. [1/1/2010 – 1/7/2011]
Hybrid Projectile Vision System, Imperial Machine and Tool Company, $30,000; April 2010 – July 2010 – Funded.
Development of a travel grant, U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC), $5,000, Funded. [1/2010]
“Hybrid Projectile Design,” U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC), $57,688, Funded. [8/1/2008 – 5/31/2009]
Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Grant for project entitled: “Center for Simulation, Modeling and Analysis for Robotic Applications”, 1/1/08-12/31/08, $40,000, Funded.

Dr. Elleithy is the Associate Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Bridgeport. He is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, mobile communications, network security, quantum computing, and formal approaches for design and verification. He has published more than three hundred fifty research papers in national / international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr. Elleithy is the editor or co-editor for 12 books published by Springer.

Dr. Elleithy received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and automatic control from Alexandria University in 1983, the MS Degree in computer networks from the same university in 1986, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from The Center for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana – Lafayette in 1988 and 1990, respectively.

Prof. Elleithy has more than 30 years of teaching experience. He is the recipient of the “Distinguished Professor of the Year”, University of Bridgeport, academic year 2006-2007. He supervised hundreds of senior projects, MS theses and Ph.D. dissertations. He developed and introduced many new undergraduate/graduate courses. He also developed new teaching / research laboratories in his area of expertise. His students have won more than twenty prestigious national / international awards from IEEE, ACM, and ASEE.

Dr. Elleithy is a member of the technical program committees of many international conferences as recognition of his research qualifications. He served as a guest editor for several international journals. He was the chairperson of the International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation. Furthermore, he is the co-Chair and co-founder of the Annual International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering virtual conferences 2005 – 2014.

Dr. Elleithy is a member of several technical and honorary societies. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE computer society. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1990, member of ACM SIGARCH (Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture) since 1990, member of the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi University of South Western Louisiana Chapter since April 1989, member of IEEE Circuits & Systems society since 1988, member of the IEEE Computer Society since 1988, and a lifetime member of the Egyptian Engineering Syndicate since June 1983.

Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1990
M.S., Computer Science, The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1988
M.S., Computer Science and Automatic Control, Computer Science and Automatic Control Dept., University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1986
B.S., Computer Science and Automatic Control, Computer Science and Automatic Control Dept., University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1983

Courses Taught:
CPEG 481: Mobile Communications
CPEG 387/587: Embedded Systems Design
CPEG 572: Data Communications
CPEG 561: Network Security
CPEG 606: Quantum Computing
CPEG 691: Advanced Wireless Sensor Networks

Publications:
Abdulbast Abushgra and Khaled M. Elleithy, “ A Shared Secret Key Initiated by EPR Authentication and Qubit Transmission Channels,” IEEE Access Journal, Vol. 5, September 2017, pp. 17753 – 17763.

Ramadhan Mstafa, Khaled Elleithy and Eman Abdelfattah, “A Robust and Secure Video Steganography Method in DWT-DCT Domains Based on Multiple Object Tracking and ECC,” IEEE Access Journal, Vol. 5, April 2017, pp. 5354 – 5365.

Reem Mahjoub and Khaled Elleithy, “Efficient Actor Recovery Paradigm for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks,” Sensors, Vol. 17, No. 4, April 2017, pp. 1-30.
Sumaya Abusaleh, Ausif Mahmood, Khaled Elleithy and Sarosh Patel, “A Novel Vision-Based Classification System for Explosion Phenomena,” Journal of Imaging, 3, No. 2, April 2017, pp. 2-18.

Samir Hamada, Ibrahim Alkore, Khaled Elleithy, Ioana Badara, and Saeid Moslehpour, “Updating Student Profiles in Adaptive Mobile Learning using ASP.net MVC, dotNetRDF, Turtle, and the Semantic Web.” International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), Vol. 11, Number 1, April 2017, pp. 16-38.

Abrar Alajlan, Khaled Elleithy, Marwah Almasri and Tarek Sobh, “An Optimal and Energy Efficient Multi-Sensor Collision-Free Path Planning Algorithm for a Mobile Robot in Dynamic Environments,” Robotics,” Vol. 6, No. 2, March 2017, pp. 1-18.

Wafa Elmannai and Khaled Elleithy, “Sensor-Based Assistive Devices for Visually-Impaired People: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Directions,” Sensors, Vol. 17, No. 3, March 2017, pp. 1-42.

Remah Alshinina and Khaled Elleithy, “Performance and Challenges of Service-Oriented Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Sensors, Vol. 17, No. 3, March 2017, pp. 1-39.

Ramadhan Mstafa and Khaled M. Elleithy, “Compressed and raw video steganography techniques: a comprehensive survey and analysis,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, November 2016, pp. 1-38.

Bandar Alotaibi and Khaled Elleithy, “Rogue Access Point Detection: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Future Directions,” Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, October 2016, pp. 5021- 5028.

Adwan Alanazi and Khaled Elleithy, “An Optimized Hidden Node Detection Paradigm for Improving the Coverage and Network Efficiency in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks,” Sensors,” Vol. 16, No. 9, September 2016, pp. 1-19.

Abdulbast Abushgra and Khaled Elleithy, “Simultaneous Initiating EPR and Quantum Channel by Quantum Key Distribution Protocol,” Global Journals Inc., Vol.16, Issue 5, July2016, pp. 1-5.

Marwah Almasri, Abrar Alajlan, and Khaled Elleithy, “Trajectory Planning and Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Mobile Robotics System,” IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 16, June 2016, pp. 5021- 5028.

Laiali Almazaydeh, Khaled Elleithy, and Maid Faezipour, “A highly Reliable and Fully Automated Classification System for Sleep Apnea Detection”, International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2016, pp. 66-70.

Laiali Almazaydeh, Khaled Elleithy, Maid Faezipour, and H. Ocbagabir, “SVM-Based Sleep Apnea Identification Using Optimal RR-Interval Features of the ECG Signal”, International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2016, pp. 1-4.

Bandar Alotaibi and Khaled Elleithy, “A New MAC Address Spoofing Detection Technique Based on Random Forests,” Sensors, vol. 16, February 2016, pp. 1-14.

Abdul Razaque, Khaled M Elleithy, “Mobility-Aware Pheromone Termite (PT) Analytical Model to Support Robust Routing over Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs),” Engineering Structures, accepted for publication.

Abdul Razaque, Khaled M Elleithy, “Energy-efficient boarder node medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks,” Sensors, Vol 14, No. 3, pp. 5074-5117, January 2014.

Muhammad Shoaib Khan, Khaled Elleithy, “Robust Heterogeneous Network to Support Multitasking,” International Journal of Computers and Technology, Vol 6, No 4, 2014.

Abdul Razaque and Khaled Elleithy, “Automatic Energy Saving (AES) Model to Boost Ubiquitous Wireless Sensor Networks,” International Journal of Computers and Technology, Vol. 10 , No. 5, pp. 1569-1579, 2013.

Abrar Alajlan, Khaled Elleithy, and Varun Pande, “A New Programming Model to Simulate Wireless Sensor Networks : Finding The Best Routing Path,” International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC, Vol. 5., No. 4, pp. 1 – 14, July 2013.

Ibrahim Alkore Alshalabi, Samir Hamada, Khaled Elleithy, “Research Learning Theories that Entail M-Learning Education Related to Computer Science and Engineering Courses,” International Journal of Engineering Sciences, Vol 2. No. 3., pp. 88-95, March 2013.

Wafa Elmannai, Abdul Razaque, Khaled Elleithy, “Deployment of TCP University of Bridgeport (UB) to Control Law Enforcement Department over Wireless Mesh Network,” Journal of Communications and Computer Engineering, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 40-47, 2013.

Zyad Nossire, Khaled Elleithy, and Boraq Ammourah, “A New Improved Storage Model of Wireless Devices using the Cloud,” International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications(IJCNC), Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 69 – 80, January 2013.

Abdul Razaque and Khaled Elleithy, “Controlling Attacks of Rogue Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to Improve Pedagogical Activities in Mobile Collaborative Learning (MCL) Environment, “International Journal of Communication and Computer Engineering, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 15-29, 2013.

Abrar Alajlan, Benjamin Dasari, Zyad Nossire, Khaled Elleithy and Varun Pande, “Topology Management in Wireless Sensor Networks: Multi-State Algorithms,” International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks (IJWMN) Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 17-25, December 2012.

Honors and Awards:

Honors
Recipient of the 2015 Connecticut Quality Improvement Award (CQIA) Gold Innovation Prize.
Distinguished Professor of the Year, University of Bridgeport, academic year 2006-2007.

Awards
Eugene Gerety and Khaled Elleithy, Best Student Poster Award, ASEE American Society Engineering Education North East Conference, University of Lowell, Lowell, MA, May 2017.
Wafa Elmannai and Khaled Elleithy, Best Graduate Student Poster Award, Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics & Optoelectronics, University of Connecticut, CT, April 2017.
Reem Mahjoob and Khaled Elleithy, Best Graduate Student Poster Award, Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics & Optoelectronics, University of Connecticut, CT, April 2017.
Eugene Gerety and Khaled Elleithy, Best Graduate Student Poster Award, Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics & Optoelectronics, University of Connecticut, CT, April 2017.
Razan Abdulhammed and Khaled Elleithy, First Place Best Doctoral Student Poster Award, Faculty Research Day, Bridgeport, CT, March 2017.
Eugene Gerety and Khaled Elleithy, Second Place Best Doctoral Student Poster Award, Faculty Research Day, Bridgeport, CT, March 2017.
Naser M. Alajmi and Khaled Elleithy, Best Paper in the Technology Track, Best paper in Technology track, IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference, May 2016.
Zakareya Lasefr and Khaled Elleithy, First Place, Student Poster Award for Doctoral Category, Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2016.
Marwah Almasri and Khaled Elleithy, Student Poster Award for Doctoral Category, Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2016.
Abrar Alajlan, Marwah Almasri and Khaled Elleithy, Fourth place Poster award, ASEE Conference, Rhode Island, 2016.
Zakareya Lasefr and Khaled Elleithy, Honorable mention, ASEE Conference, Rhode Island, 2016.
Abrar Alajlan, Marwah Almasri and Khaled Elleithy, Best paper in Applications track, IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference, 2015.
Abdulbast Abushgra and Khaled Elleithy, Best Student Poster Award for Doctoral Category, Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2015.
Wafa Elmannai: Advisor – Khaled Elleithy, $20,000 award, Association of University Women International Fellowship for 2015-16, 2015.
Mostafa Ramadhan and Khaled Elleithy, Fourth place honorable mention Poster award, ASEE Conference, Boston, 2015.
Wafa Elmannai and Khaled Elleithy, Third Place, Student Poster Award for Doctoral Category, Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2015.
Muneer Alshowkan and Khaled Elleithy, Second Place, Student Poster Award for Doctoral Category, Faculty Research Day, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2014.
Wafa Elmannai and Khaled Elleithy, Best Professional Paper Award, ASEE Conference, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2014.
Tamer Youssef and Khaled Elleithy, Second Place Student Poster Award, ASEE Conference, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2014.
Laiali Almazaydeh and Khaled Elleithy, Best Graduate Paper Award, ASEE Conference, Norwich University Northfield, VT, 2013.
Sumaya Abusaleh and Khaled Elleithy, Fourth place honorable mention Poster award, Faculty Research Day, Bridgeport, CT, 2012.
Laiali Almazaydeh and Khaled Elleithy, Fourth place honorable mention Poster award, ASEE Conference, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, 2012.
Eugene Gerety and Khaled Elleithy, Second Place, Student Poster Award, ASEE Conference, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2011.
Eugene Gerety and Khaled Elleithy, Best Student Poster Award, Faculty Research Day, Bridgeport, CT, 2011.
Syed Rizvi and Khaled Elleithy, Best Poster Award, ASEE Conference, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 2009.
Syed Rizvi and Khaled Elleithy, Best Paper Award, 13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’08), Marrakech, Morocco, 2008.

Grants:
Principal Investigator, Cisco Networking Academy, Equipment Grant, $16,000, Funded, November 2014.
Co-Investigator, Advanced Technology in Support of Hybrid Projectiles, FY 2010 Defense Appropriation Request, $2.4 million; 1/1/2010 – 7/1/2012.
Co-Investigator, Hybrid Projectile Vision System, Imperial Machine and Tool Company, $30,000; April 2010 – July 2010.
Co-Investigator, Development of a travel grant, U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC), $5,000, Funded. [1/2010]
Co-Investigator, Hybrid Projectile Design, U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC), $57,688, Funded. [8/1/2008 – 5/31/2009]
Principal Investigator, Mobile Content Manager, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Transfer of Knowledge through Expatriate Nationals (TOTKEN) Fund, $3,500, June 2001, Funded.
Co-Investigator, Security Implementation and Evaluation of Aramco Enterprise Network, Saudi Armco, SR 200,000, May 1999- May 2000, Funded.
Principle Investigator, A Formal Methodology for Parallel VLSI Algorithm Design, Jan. 1993- Dec. 1995. King Abdul Aziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), SR 293,000, Funded.

Dr. Selig came to the University of Bridgeport in 2002 into the School of Business. In 2005, he was promoted to the Director of Technology Management Department in the School of Engineering. In 2011, he was instrumental in setting up the CTech IncUBator at UB. In 2012, he was promoted to Associate Dean, Business Development for the Graduate Studies Division, and developed a proposal to offer a Ph.D. in Technology Management that commenced as a degree program in Fall 2014. In 2015, Dr. Selig was promoted to Dean of Industry Outreach.

Dr. Selig has been very active in multiple committees both in the School of Business and the School of Engineering. He has written 6 books and over 50 published articles and/or conference proceedings.

Education:
D.P.S., Pace University (accredited by AACSB), Information Technology, Marketing and Management
P.I.E., Columbia University, Professional Degree (Post-Masters), Industrial and Information Engineering
M.B.A., Baruch College, City University of New York, Management and Marketing
B.A., City College of New York, Economics

Courses Taught:
TCMG 595- Technology Capstone
TCMG 505- Global Program & Project Management
TCMG 645 – Technology New Venture Creation
TCMG 534- Strategic Sourcing and Outsourcing
MGMT 580 – New Product Development
Entrepreneurship
Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation
Entrepreneurship

Publications:
Books:
Selig, Gad J., Implementing IT Governance: A Practical Guide to Global Best Practices in IT Management – 2nd Edition, Van Haren Publishing, 2015, ISBN 9789401800082.
Selig, Gad, Bullen, Christine and Lefave, Richard, Implementing Strategic Sourcing: A Manager’s Guide to World Class Best Practices for Sourcing and Outsourcing, Van Haren Publishing, 2011, ISBN # 978-8753-611-4.  

Chapters in Books:
Selig, G., “The Impact of Threats and Catastrophes on Corporate Governance: How to Minimize Disruption, Mitigate Risks and Manage Business Recovery and Continuity Proactively,” David H. McIntyre and William Hancock, Editors, Business Continuity and Homeland Security, Edward Elgar Publishers, London, England, 2012.

Conference proceedings and Journal Articles:
1) Selig, Gad J., “ IT Governance – An Integrated Framework and Roadmap – How to Plan, Deploy and Sustain for Competitive Advantage,”  Paper accepted for presentation and publication at PICMET Annual Conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 19 - August 24, 2018.
2) Selig, Gad J., “IT Governance – An Integrated Framework and Roadmap: How to Plan, Deploy and Sustain Improved Effectiveness,” Journal of International Technology & Information Management, Vol. 25, Issue 1, 2016.
3) Selig, Gad J., “IT Governance – An Integrated Framework and Roadmap based on Case Studies,” Paper presented and published in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Management of Technology, May 15 – 19, 2016, Wyndham Hotel, Orlando, FL.
4) Selig, Gad J., “Implementing Successful Enterprise Growth Strategies Based on Best Practice Portfolio and Project Management Disciplines and Tools,” Proceedings of Southern New England Chapter of the Project Management Institute – 2015 Annual Conference, Hartford Convention Center, Hartford, CT, April 27, 2015.
5) Selig, Gad J., “Critical Success Factors for Winning Entrepreneurs and the Role of an Incubator in Accelerating the Growth of Start-ups and Early Stage Companies,” ASEE Zone 1 Conference, Bridgeport, CT, April 3-5, 2014, IEEE Explore Proceedings, Editor, Kongar, E.
6) Selig, Gad J., Kongar, Elif, Lewis, Neal and Bach, Christian, “The Proposed Ph.D. in Technology Management at the university of Bridgeport: A Case Study of Why, What and How?” International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2013.
7) Selig, Gad J., “Critical Success Factors for Winning Entrepreneurs: Do You Have What It Takes to be Become a Bill Gates?” Edith Wheeler Memorial Library Presentation, May 14, 2013.
8) Selig, Gad J., “Excellence in Program, Project and Portfolio Management: Lessons learned and Critical Success Factors from World Class Case Study Companies,” SNEC PM Annual Conference, Hartford, CT, April 29, 2013.
9) Selig, Gad J. “Achieving and Measuring IT Value to the Business: Why, What, How Much and How? (Based on Current and Emerging Best Practices and Case Studies), Webinar for Computer Aid (CAI), Inc, March 27, 2013.
10) Selig, Gad J., “Successful Business/IT Alignment, Execution and Governance Best Practices: Why, What and How?” Webinar for Computer Aid (CAI), Inc, October, 9, 2012.
11) Selig, Gad J., “New Service Delivery Model Strategy and Implementation: How to Minimize Risk and Maximize Opportunity,” Proceedings of World BPO/ITO Forum, New York Athletic Club, New Your City, June 26-27, 2012.
12) Selig, Gad J., “An Overview of Current and Emerging Program and Project Management Best Practices and Lessons learned,” Webinar for Citibank, NA, May 15, 2012.
13) Selig, Gad J., “Implementing a Winning IT Governance Strategy and Program,” Webinar for Computer Aid (CAI), Inc, February 29, 2012.
14) Selig, Gad J., “Winning Risk Management Strategies in Program and Project Management: Lessons Learned From the Real World,” Westchester PMI Chapter Dinner Meeting Presentation, Westchester, NY, October 11, 2011.
15) Selig, Gad J., “Implementing Winning Strategic Sourcing and Outsourcing Initiatives Using Project Management Leadership Skills and Disciplines,” Proceedings of Southern New England Chapter of the Project Management Institute – 2011 Annual Conference, Hartford Convention Center, Hartford, CT, April 29, 2011.
16) Selig, G., Bullen, C. and LeFave, R., “Client-Vendor Relationship Management in Global Sourcing,” S. C. J. Palvia and P. Palvia, Editors, Global Sourcing of Services – Strategies, Issues and Challenges, World Scientific Publishers, Singapore, 2017.
17) Selig, Gad J. “IT Governance – An Integrated Framework and Roadmap: How to Plan, Deploy and Sustain for Improved Effectiveness,” Journal of International Technology & Information Management, Vol. 25, Issue 1, 2016.
18) Selig, Gad J., “IT Governance – An Integrated Framework and Roadmap based on Case Studies,” Paper presented and published in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Management of Technology, May 15-19, 2016, Wyndham Hotel, and Orlando, FL.
19) Selig, Gad J., “Implementing Successful Enterprise Growth Strategies Based on Best Practice Portfolio and Project Management Disciplines and Tools,” Proceedings of Southern New England Chapter of the Project Management Institute – 2015 Annual Conference, Hartford Convention Center, Hartford, CT, April 27, 2015.
20) Selig, G., Implementing IT Governance: A Practical Guide to Global Best Practices in IT Management – 2nd Edition, Van Haren Publishing, 2015, ISBN # 9789401800082.
21) Selig, Gad J., “Critical Success Factors for Winning Entrepreneurs and the Role of an Incubator in Accelerating the Growth of Start-ups and Early Stage Companies,” ASEE Zone 1 Conference, Bridgeport, CT, April 3-5, 2014, IEEE Explore Proceedings, Editor, Kongar, E.
22) Selig, Gad J., Kongar, Elif, Lewis, Neal and Bach, Christian, “The Proposed Ph.D. in Technology Management at the university of Bridgeport: A Case Study of Why, What and How?” International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2013.
23) Selig, G., “The Impact of Threats and Catastrophes on Corporate Governance: How to Minimize Disruption, Mitigate Risks and Manage Business Recovery and Continuity Proactively,” David H. McIntyre and William Hancock, Editors, Business Continuity and Homeland Security, Edward Elgar Publishers, London, England, 2012.

Honors and Awards:
Won IBM Best Teacher Award, 2013
Member of the Board of Directors for the New Haven, CT Chapter of the Crossroads Venture Group (CVG – Formerly Connecticut Ventures Group), 2012 – Present
IBM Faculty Excellence Award – 2012 – received the coveted IBM Faculty Award with a colleague. It is a competitive worldwide program intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations; and to promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM.
Co-Chair of the Board of the CTech IncUBator @ University of Bridgeport, 2010 – Present
Member, American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE), 2008 – Present
Member, International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT), 2008 – Present
COP Certification – Awarded the “Certified Outsourcing Professional (COP)” certificate by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, December 2006
Member, International Association of Outsourcing (IAOP) Professionals, 2006 – Present
Elected into Delta Mu Delta, the National Honor Society in Business Administration, June 2004
Certified as a “Project Management Profession (PMP),” by PMI (Project Management Institute) and member of PMI, January 2003 – Present
Member, Society of Information Management (SIM), June 2003 – Present. Mentor a group of CIOs and potential CIOs that meet on a monthly basis and discuss relevant topics for advancement, career development strategies, executive management, and the relationship to IT and other key issues and opportunities.

Grants:
Assisted with NCIAA Grant, $35,000
CTNEXT higher education fund grant was awarded to UB in January, 2018 to establish an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional network of small, medium and large institutions consisting of select private and public colleges and universities for improving entrepreneurship and innovation collaboration amongst partner institutions to facilitate the growth of new business/technical ventures in Connecticut for a $360,000 grant which would be matched by CTNEXT for a three year total grant of $720,000.

Shakour A. Abuzeid received B.S. in engineering degree with honors in Computer and Control Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Yarmouk University, and M.S. Degree in Computer Engineering from the School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Bridgeport. He is currently the Director of Systems and Engineering Laboratories and the Associate Dean for international initiatives at the University of Bridgeport. His background is in the fields of computer science and engineering, computer communications, networks, computer and networks security, wireless and mobile communications, could computing and virtualization, control theory, robotics, and automation.

Education:
Ph.D., Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bridgeport
M.S., Computer Engineering, University of Bridgeport
B.S., Computer and Control Engineering, Yarmouk University

Courses Taught:
CS 101 Introduction to Computing
CS102 Data Structures
CS 400 Object Oriented Programming Using C++
CPE 371 Data and Computer Communications
CPE 472 Computer Networks
CPE 473 Local Area Networks
Cpe 572 Advanced Data and Computer Communications
CPe 481 Mobile Communications
CPE 561 Network Security
CS 450 Database design
CpE/CS 460 Introduction to Robotics
CS 435 UNIX Systems Programming
CPE 410 introduction to Computer Architecture
CS442 Python Programming
CPE 577 Internet of Things

Publications:
Journal Articles:

1) Bushnag, Anas; Abuzneid, Abdelshakour; Mahmood, Ausif. 2016. " Source Anonymity against Global Adversary in WSNs Using Dummy Packet Injections a Survey." Sensors, Under Review.

2) Bushnag, Anas; Abuzneid, Abdelshakour; Mahmood, Ausif.           2016. "Source Anonymity in WSNs against Global Adversary Utilizing Low Transmission Rates with Delay Constraints." Sensors 16, no. 7: 957.

3) Abuzneid A., Sobh, T., Faezipour, M., Mahmood A., James J., Fortified Anonymous Communication Protocol for Location Privacy in WSN: A Modular Approach, Sensors 2015, 15, 5820-5864, MDPI. 

4) Abuzneid, A., Sobh, T., and Faezipour, M., "An Enhanced Communication Protocol for Location Privacy in WSN," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 697098, 15 pages. 

5) Tarek M. Sobh, Abdelshakour A. Abuzneid, and R. Mihali, "A PC-Based Simulator/Controller/Monitor Software for Manipulators and Electromechanical Systems.'' In the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 31: 355-377, 2001.

6) Amer A. Al-Rahayfeh, Muder M. Almi’ani, and Abdelshakour A. Abuzneid, “Parameterized Affect of Transmission-range on Lost o Network Connectivity (LNC) of Wireless Sensor Networks.” International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks (IJWMN) Vol.2, No.3, August 2010.

Book Chapters:

7) Tarek M. Sobh and Abdelshakour A. Abuzneid, ``A Generic Simulator/Controller for Robot Manipulators.'' In Recent Advances in Mechatronics, Springer Verlag, pp. 575-589, 1999.

Conference Papers:

8) Bushnag, A., Abdelshakour, A., Mahmood, A. An Efficient Source Anonymity Technique based on Exponential Distribution against a Global Adversary Model using Fake Injections. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks. 2017. ACM. Accepted.

9) Ali Al Essa; Xuan Zhang; Peiqiao Wu; Abdelshakour Abuzneid, ZigBee network using low power techniques and modified LEACH protocol, 2017 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology Conference (LISAT).

10) Abul Hasan Fazulullah; Purva Vansia; Kartavi Patel; Dipesh Patel; Abdel-shakour A. Abuzneid, Secure transmission with matrix encryption and data compression mechanism, 2017 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology Conference (LISAT).

11) Bushang, A. Abuzneid and A. Mahmood, "Source anonymity in WSNs against global adversary based on low rate fake injections," 2016 IEEE/ACES International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES), Honolulu, HI, 2016, pp. 1-2. doi: 10.1109/ROPACES.2016.7465306

12) V. Gudipati, M. Gaffoor, O. Barman, and A. Abuzneid, " Efficient Facial Expression Recognition Using Adaboost and Haar Cascade Classifiers," Annual IEEE Connecticut Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation (CT-IETA 2016), Bridgeport, CT, October 14 - 15, 2016.

13) Vamshi Krishna Gudipati, Aayush Vetwal, Varun Kumar, Anjorin Adeniyi, and Abdelshakour Abuzneid, Detection of Trojan Horses by the Analysis of System Behavior and Data Packets, 2015 IEEE LISAT, Long Island, NY.

14) Jasim Almotir, Johnu Celestine, Tushar Vinayaraj, Keerthi Vallepalli & Abdelshakour Abuzneid, An Energy-Efficient Flooding Protocol for Enhanced Security in Wireless Sensor Networks, 2015 IEEE LISAT, Long Island, NY.

15) Abuzneid, A., Sobh, T., and Faezipour, M., An Enhanced Communication Protocol for Anonymity and Location Privacy in WSN, in IEEE WCNC 2015. 2015.  

16) Abuzneid, A., Sobh, T., and Faezipour, M., Temporal Privacy Scheme for End-to-End  Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks in Electrical, Electronics, Signals, Communication & optimization EESCO-2015. 2015. p. 2476-2481. 

17) Abuzneid, K. Elleithy, M. Abuzneid,” Using Available Wireless / Wired Network Infrastructure for Public Safety and Emergency Early Response”. In the proceedings of ASEE08 West Point, NY, March 2008. 

18) A.  Abuzneid, M. Abuhelaleh, T. Mismar,” Armor-LEACH – Energy Efficient, Secure Wireless Networks Communication.” In Proceedings of Proceedings of the 17TH International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, August 2008 St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands.

19) Abuzneid, K. Elleithy, M. Abuzneid,” Using Available Wireless / Wired Network Infrastructure for Public Safety and Emergency Early Response.” In the proceedings of ASEE08 West Point, NY, March 2008.

20) Abuzneid, M. Abuhelaleh, T. Mismar,“Armor-LEACH for Wireless Sensor Network.” In the proceedings of ASEE08 West Point, NY, March 2008.

21) Elleithy, A. Abuzaghleh, A. Abuzneid,” A New Mechanism to Solve IEEE 802.16 Authentication Vulnerabilities”. In the proceedings of ASEE08 West Point, NY, March 2008.

22) Sarosh Patel, Abdelshakour Abuzneid, Viqar U.Mohammed, Varun Kumar Godula, “TDM & FDM Multiplexing Overlays on Bluetooth”. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 07), December 3-12, 2007.

23) Abdelshakour Abuzneid, Moeen Uddin, Shaid Ali Naz, Omar Abuzaghleh,” An Algorithm to Remove Noise from Audio Signal by Noise Subtraction”. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 07), December 3-12, 2007.

24) Abdelshakour Abuzneid, Florina Ochis, Rashmi Bajracharya, Lisa Rajbhandari, Shailaza Shrestha,” Using DES in a Modified Design to Keep it from Oblivion”. In Proceedings of Proceedings of the International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 07), December 3-12, 2007.

25) T. Sobh, A. Abuzneid, B. Ghimire, K. Vovk, G. Gosine, P. Batra, A. Singh, S. Pathak, T. Tomas, A. Rosca and R. Mihali, "Case Studies in Web-based Robotics, Automation and Prototyping," In proceedings of the AMSE Conference on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Washington, D.C., October 2000.

26) Tarek M. Sobh and Abdelshakour A. Abuzneid, "A Generic Simulator/Controller for Robot Manipulators." In Proceedings of the IEEE 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechatronics, Istanbul, Turkey, May 1999.

27) Tarek M. Sobh and Abdelshakour A. Abuzneid, "A PC-Based Simulator/Controller/Monitor Software for Manipulators and Electromechanical Systems." In Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Robotics with Applications (ISORA '98), Alaska, May 1998. 

Posters:

28) Anas Bushnag, Abdulshakour Abuzneid, and Ausif Mahmood, “An Efficient Source Anonymity Technique based on Exponential Distribution against a Global Adversary Model using Fake Injections.” The 13th ACM Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks. 2017. ACM.

29) Komareddy Anusha, Neha Nomula, Neha Panuganti, Niharika Chitumadugula, Satya Sai Charan Pusapati, Srividya Ranganthan and Shakour Abuzneid, “Authentication Using Voice Recognition and Timestamp OTP.” ASEE 2017.

30) Muhammad Bahauddin Khan, Nitish Makam Prashanth, Neha Nomula, Prachi Pathak,  Ajay Menon Muralidhar and Shakour Abuzneid, “Auto Student Attendance System Using Student ID Card via Wi-Fi.” ASEE 2017.

31) Meghana Ajith Prasad, Namrata Jagannath, Sumantha D Shivalingu and Shakour A. Abuzneid, “Data Privacy- AES Using Secure Hashing.” ASEE 2017.

32) Amulya Chava, Bhargava Chithanya Kumar Gunde, Divya Sree Pothireddy, Naresh Chalivendra, Naveen Cheldhi, and Sai Charitha Nallaguntla and Shakour Abuzneid, “Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Access to Sensor Data for the Internet of Things (IoT) based services.” ASEE 2017.

33) Bodapati Navya Mounica, Pooja Challa, Devi rajyalakshmi, Siva Peddi, Pradeep Kumar, Charan Laddu and Shakour Abuzneid,” Security Management in Wireless Sensor Network in the presence of Dumb Node.”FRD 2017.

34) Shakour Abuzneid, “Fortified End-To-End Anonymity and Location Privacy Using IoT.” FRD 2017.

35) Ajay Menon Muralidhar, Muhammad Bahauddin Khan, Nitish Makam Prashanth, Neha Nomula, Prachi Pathak and Shakour Abuzneid, “Heating Oil Level Detection and Assistance Using Amazon Alexa.” ASEE 2017.

36) Abul Hasan Fazulullah, Kartavi Patel, Dipesh Patel, Purva Vansia and Shakour A. Abuzneid, “Secure Transmission with Matrix Encryption and Data Compression Mechanism.” ASEE 2017.

37) Muhammad Bahauddin Khan, Nitish Makam Prashanth, Neha Nomula, Prachi Pathak,  Ajay Menon Muralidhar and Shakour Abuzneid, “Auto Student Attendance System Using Student ID Card via Wi-Fi.” ASEE 2017.

38) Ajay Menon Muralidhar, Muhammad Bahauddin Khan, Nitish Makam Prashanth, Neha Nomula, Prachi Pathak and Shakour Abuzneid, “Heating Oil Level Detection and Assistance Using Amazon Alexa.” FRD 2017.

39) Abul Hasan Fazulullah, Kartavi Patel, Dipesh Patel, Purva Vansia and Shakour A. Abuzneid, “Secure Transmission with Matrix Encryption and Data Compression Mechanism.” FRD 2017.

40) Bodapati Navya Mounica, Pooja Challa, Devi rajyalakshmi, Siva Peddi, Pradeep Kumar, Charan Laddu and Shakour Abuzneid, “Security Management in Wireless Sensor Network in Presence of Dumb Node.” ASEE 2017.

41) Sai Teja Kadiyala, Anusha Sowdhari, Sowmya Valina, Sajeesh Pandhaloor, Harrison Osula and Shakour Abuzneid, “Security/Privacy in Health Care Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks.” RFD 2017.

42) Mohan Raju Anga, Kotaiah Tellagorla, Mohammad Z Farooqui and Shakour Abuzneid, “A novel mechanism for Cheiloscopy Authentication using the Bio-hashing technique.” ASEE 2016.

43) Srinivas Kaluri, RaviTeja Katheti, Lakshmi Mogilineedi and Shakour Abuzneid, “Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Using Perturbation for Wireless Sensor Networks.” ASEE 2016.

44) Rajesh Aglawe, Department of Computer Science, Shirdi Nagaraju Mudunuri, Deon Taylor and Shakour Abuzneid, “Cloud Computing Security: Vulnerabilities And Countermeasures.” ASEE 2016.

45) R.S.N.V. Durga Bai, B.Pravallika, K.Prathyusha and Shakour Abuzneid, “Data Anonymization for Preserving Data Privacy in Cloud Computing.” ASEE 2016.

46) Harender Singh Bisht, Mengdi Liu, Italo Guedes Almeida Silva, and Shakour A. Abuzeid, “Video Analysis using Content-based Video Retrieval and Artificial Neural Network for Government Censorship.” ASEE 2016.

47) Mofica Gaffoor, Oindrila Ray Barman, Harshagandha Patki, and Shakour Abuzneid, “Facial Expression Recognition Using ADABOOST Algorithm.” ASEE 2016.

48) Srikanth Reddy Enugu, Vinay Peddireddy, Akhilesh RVN and Shakour Abuzneid, “Pre-Login Authentication of Nodes in MANETs Using SHA-1 Hash Key”. ASEE 2016.

49) Goutham Siddharthan Balu, Shakour Abuzneid, Ganga Nidhi Gaddam and Vishal Singh, “Ensuring Distributed Accountability for Data Sharing in the Cloud.” ASEE 2016.

50) Venkatesh Konada, Rakesh Yadav, Pavan Kumar, and Shakour Abuzneid, “Defend and Detect SSL Strip Attacks.” ASEE 2016.

51) Meet Patel, Tahr Daduch , Shamili Galla and Shakour Abuzneid, “Risk Evaluation Based on Reliable Trust and Reputation Management Scheme in Wireless Sensor Network.” ASEE 2016.

52) Moin Ali Syed, Amreen Sultana, Nishanth kumar, and Shakour Abuzneid, “Remote Attestation Scheme using Camenisch Dynamic Accumulator with Certificate Generation.” ASEE 2016.

53) Vamshi Krishna Gudipati, Varun Kumar, Aayush Vetwal, Anjorin Adeniyi and Shakour Abuzneid, “Detection of Trojan horse by Analysis of System Behavior and Data Packets.” ASEE 2015.

54) Sean Laurel Rex Bashyam, Karthik Shankar, Sai Theja kadiyala and Abdelshakour Abuzneid, “Hybrid Cryptography using symmetric key Encryption.” ASEE 2015.

55) Devon Thomas, Alex Isaac, Majdi Alharthi, Ali Albatainah and Abdelshakour Abuzneid, “Improving Security Over Ipv6 Authentication Header Protocol using IP Traceback and TTL”. ASEE 2015.

56) Chen Fan, Long Tan, Rawad Felimban and Abdelshakour Abuzneid, “A Classification for Access Control List To Speed Up Packet-Filtering Firewall.” ASEE 2015.

57) Afroz Babu Patnam , Rohit Ramesh Dalvi, Dhruv Minesh thakkar  and  Abdelshakour Abuzneid, “Overview of Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Security.” ASEE 2015.

58) Saeed Aldawsri, Ahmed Alamri, and Abdelshakour Abuzneid, “Secure Modules in TinyOS.” ASEE 2015.

59) Vamshi Krishna Gudipati, Varun Kumar, Aayush Vetwal, Anjorin Adeniyi and Shakour Abuzneid, “Detection of Trojan horse by Analysis of System Behavior and Data Packets.” RFD 2015.

Honors and Awards:
Yarmouk University Computer and Control Engineering Academic Achievement Award. 
High School Academic Achievement Award. Ranked #2 in Yarmouk High School 1990 & #10 nationwide in National High School Exam.
Best Employee for the year 1993 in Andalus Corporation, Jordan.
Awardee for International Engineering Training (1 out of 4 ) at Hajjjawi College.
Rank #1 student in Computer and Control Engineering from Yarmouk University in 1994.
Best poster in Faculty development day, 2014.
Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Computer Science Honor Society
Member of Phi Kappa Phi, Honor Society
Member of SIGMA XI The Scientific Research Honor Society
Member of IEEE Communications Society
Member of the IEEE Computer Society
Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Member of the Jordanian Engineering Society

Grants:
University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $15,000) Jan. 2018-Dec. 2018
- Principal Investigator, Dynamic Intrusion Detection System for the Internet-of-Things Using Machine Learning

ASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium  (Funded: $5,000) Dec. 2017-May 2018

NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium (Funded: $27,300) Jun. 2017-May 2018
- Principal Investigator, Computer-Aided Simulator and Benchmark Testbed for the Internet of WSNs Using Satellite Link Communications. UB' matching fund: $17,300

Dr. Abuzaghleh is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Technology and the Computing Laboratories System Manager at the University of Bridgeport. His research interests are in the areas of Image Analysis, High Performance Computing, Big Data, Network Security, Blockchain and Cloud Computing. He is a member of several professional organizations and specialty labs, including ACM, IEEE, International Honor Society for The Computing and Information Disciplines (UPE), and Digital/Biomedical Embedded Systems and Technology (D-BEST) Lab

Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bridgeport, 2014
M.S., Computer Science, University of Bridgeport, 2007
B.S., Computer Science and Applications, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan, 2004

Courses Taught:
CPEG-371 Computer Communication I
CPEG-572 Data and Computer Communication
MATH-105 Intermediate Algebra
MATH-110 Calculus I
CPSC-551 Advance Database
CPEG-481 Mobile Communications

Publications:
Abuzaghleh, Omar, Miad Faezipour, and Buket D. Barkana. “SkinCure: An Innovative Smart Phone Based Application to Assist in Melanoma Early Detection and Prevention.” Signal & Image Processing: An International Journal (SIPIJ), 2014.

Abuzaghleh, Omar, Kathleen Goldschmidt, Yasser Elleithy, and Jeongkyu Lee. “Implementing an affordable high-performance computing for teaching-oriented computer science curriculum.” ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) 13, no. 1 (2013): 3.

Abuzaghleh, Omar, Buket D. Barkana, and Miad Faezipour. “Automated skin lesion analysis based on color and shape geometry feature set for melanoma early detection and prevention.” In Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT), 2014 IEEE Long Island, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2014.

Abuzaghleh, Omar, Buket D. Barkana, and Miad Faezipour. “SKINcure: A real time image analysis system to aid in the malignant melanoma prevention and early detection.” In Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI), 2014 IEEE Southwest Symposium on, pp. 85-88. IEEE, 2014.

Abuzaghleh, Omar, Miad Faezipour, and Buket D. Barkana. “Skinaid: A virtual reality system to aid in the skin cancer prevention and pain treatment.” In Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT), 2013 IEEE Long Island, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2013.

Omar Abuzaghleh and Miad Faezipour. “A Novel Virtual Reality System for Skin Cancer Prevention Aid” In proceeding of: American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Northeast Regional Conference, 2013, pp. 1-5. ASEE, 2013.

Al-okaily, Anas, Qassim Bani Hani, Laiali Almazaydeh, Omar Abuzaghleh, and Zenon Chaczko. “Designing and Integrating a New Model of Semi-Online Vehicle’s Fines Control System.” In Innovations and Advances in Computer, Information, Systems Sciences, and Engineering, pp. 1205-1217. Springer New York, 2013.

Jeongkyu Lee, Omar Abuzaghleh “Implementing an Affordable High Performance Computing for Teaching-oriented Computer Science Curriculum”, 2011 National ASEE conference, Vancouver, BC; 06/2011

Abuzneid, Abdelshakour, Moeen Uddin, Shaid Ali Naz, and Omar Abuzaghleh. “An Algorithm to Remove Noise from Audio Signal by Noise Subtraction.” In Advances in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering, pp. 5-10. Springer Netherlands, 2008.

Honors and Awards:
Best Paper Award in the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Implementing an Affordable High Performance Computing Platform for Teaching-Oriented Computer Science Curriculum. Proc. of the 2011 National ASEE conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2011.

Received Full Graduate scholarship Award from CPSC department at UB for Jan. 2006-May 2006 and Sep. 2006 – Dec. 2006 and Jan. 2007 – May 2007.

Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (The National Honor Society for the Computing Sciences, Connecticut Delta Chapter.)

ASEE Award, Campus Representative, (2007)

Grants:
Principal Investigator, Computer-Aided Simulator and Benchmark Testbed for the Internet of WSNs Using Satellite Link Communications. UB matching fund: $17,300

Dr. Elif Kongar is a Professor at the University of Bridgeport. During her tenure in the Departments of Technology Management and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bridgeport (UB), she established research and graduate concentrations and coursework in several areas, including simulation and modeling, service management and engineering, and economic / environmental sustainability. She is also serving as the Director of the Technology Management Ph.D. program while leading the development of blended and distance learning curricula at the department.

Her main area of research is economically and environmentally sustainable waste recovery systems and operations. She has founded the Sustainable Energy and Environment Laboratory. While the laboratory is used to research alternative energy and best practices in environment sustainability, the laboratory serves as a model in green engineering, integrating state-of–the art practices of sustainable engineering. She supervises several M.S. and Ph.D. students who participate in the research conducted in the Laboratory. Her service as a Faculty fellow on the School of Engineering Industry Advisory Board (IAB) has provided an opportunity to integrate best industry practices and problem solving paradigms in the curriculum and research endeavors supported by the laboratory.

Dr. Kongar is the author of numerous journal and conference papers, and has presented her work at various national and international conferences. She is a member of the ASEE, SWE, Scientific Research Society, Sigma Xi, the Industrial Engineering Honor Society, Alpha Pi Mu, the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society and the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

Education:
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, 2003
M.S., Industrial Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, 1997
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, 1995

Courses Taught:
Statistical Process Control
Supply Chain Management
Principles of Logistics
Simulation and Modeling
Service Management and Engineering

Publications:
Kongar, E., Haznedaroglu, E., and Abdelghany, S., “A Novel IT Infrastructure for Reverse Logistics Operations of End-of-life Pharmaceutical Products, Information Technology & Management (ITEM), Manuscript Number: ITEM-D-13-00146, Submitted: August 2013.

Selig, G.J., Kongar, E., Lewis, N., Bach, C., and Sobh, T., “The Proposed Ph.D. in Technology Management at the University of Bridgeport: A Case Study”, International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education, Special Issue on PhD Education in Information and Operations Management and Related Areas, Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 172-189, 2013.

El Sayed, A., Kongar, E., and Gupta, S.M., “An Evolutionary Algorithm for Selective Disassembly of End-of-Life Products”, Ashdin Publishing, International Journal of Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 1 (2012), Article ID Z110601, 7 pages, doi:10.4303/ijsiec/Z110601, Received 2 June 2011; Revised 28 September 2011; Accepted 2 October 2011.

El Sayed, A., Kongar, E., Gupta, S.M., and Sobh T., “A Robotic-Driven Disassembly Sequence Generator for End-Of-Life Electronic Products”, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, September 2012, Volume 68, Issue 1, pp 43-52. Springer.

Kongar, E., “My grandma has a lot of candies in her medicine box”, Invited Paper, Logistics Magazine, pp: 20-21, Issue: November-December, 2011.

Kongar, E., & Rosentrater, K. “Data envelopment analysis approach to compare the environmental efficiency of energy utilization”, International Journal of Green Computing, 1(2), 2010.

Rosentrater, K., Kongar, E., “Greening the curriculum: Augmenting engineering and technology courses with sustainability topics”, Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (JEAS), 5(6), 370-381, 2010.

Kongar, E., Pallis, J., Sobh, T., “Non-parametric Approach for Evaluating the Performance of Engineering Schools”, International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE), 26(5), 1210-1219, 2010.

Kongar, E. and Gupta, S. M., “A Multiple Objective Tabu Search Approach for End-of-Life Product Disassembly”, International Journal of Advanced Operations Management (IJAOM), Vol. 1, No.2/3, pp. 177 – 202, 2009.

Kongar, E. and Gupta, S. M., “Solving the Disassembly-To-Order Problem Using Linear Physical Programming”, International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research (IJMOR), Vol. 1, No. 4, 504-531, 2009.

Kongar, E., Sobh, T., Baral, M. “Two-Step Data Envelopment Analysis Approach for Efficient Engineering Enrollment Management”, International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE), Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 391±402, 2009.

Kongar, E., Kontogiorgis, P., Russo N., Sobh, T., “Women in Science, Engineering and Technology: Changing Roles and Perception within the Technical Services Industries”, Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences [Medwell], 4 (1): 46-50, ISSN: 1816-949X, 2009.

Honors and Awards:
Nominee, Northeast Council of Graduate School (NAGS), Outstanding Graduate Professor Award, 2014.
Connecticut Technology Council 2014 Women of Innovation® award recipient, March 27, 2014.
2013 Petit Foundation, Women of Science award finalist.
Best Students Poster Competition, Honorable Mention, Haznedaroglu, E., Gulcihan, C.O.,“Reverse Logistics Operation Management via Radio Frequency Identification-based (RFID-based) Information Network for End-of-life Pharmaceutical Products”, Authors: Haznedaroglu, E., Gulcihan, C.O., Advisor: Elif Kongar, 2013 ASEE NE Conference, Norwich University, VT, March 14-16, 2013.
Best Students Poster Competition, 1st Place, Greenwood, R., [Advisor: Elif Kongar], “Using Quality Mechanisms to Solve a Practice Service Business Problem of Reducing Delinquent Payments”, The ASEE-NE Section Conference 2011, April 29-20, 2011, Hartford, CT.
Best Poster Competition, 3rd Place, “Reverse Logistics of Pharmaceutical Products”, Shroff, N., [Advisor: Elif Kongar], Faculty Research Day, February 11, 2010, Bridgeport, CT.
Best Poster Competition, Honorable Mention Award, Greenwood, R., [Advisor: Elif Kongar],“Using Quality Mechanisms to Solve a Practice Service Business Problem of Reducing Delinquent Payments”, Faculty Research Day, February 11, 2010, Bridgeport, CT.
Best Poster Competition, Honorable Mention Award, Ozenc, I., [Advisor: Elif Kongar], “Establishing an Environmental Sustainability Program at the University of Bridgeport”, Faculty Research Day, February 11, 2010, Bridgeport, CT.
Best Poster Competition, Honorable Mention Award, “Dorm E-territory”, Poster, R. Shah, [Advisor: Elif Kongar], Remote Engineering & Virtual Instrumentation, Bridgeport, CT, June 22-25, 2009.
Best Poster Competition, Honorable Mention Award, “e-nemy of the State,” Poster, Rahman A., and Thompson S., [Advisor: Elif Kongar], Remote Engineering & Virtual Instrumentation (REV), Bridgeport, CT, June 22-25, 2009.

Grants:
PI, ABB Group, Ltd. – Automation and Power Technologies, $ $60,756, Software grant. Full version of ABB’s RobotStudio Premium Functionality Suite; including all available PowerPacs, to support ongoing research at the Center for Sustainability at the School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport, within the area of developing heuristic methodologies for automated disassembly processes using robotics applications, Funded, April 2014-March 2015.
Co-PI, Fairchild Wheeler STEM High School Development Grant; with the Bridgeport School District. Department of Education, University of Bridgeport sub-contract, $672,000, Funded, 1/14-12/17.
PI, IBM Faculty Award, IBM, $5,000, Accepted, June 2012.
PI (with Dr. Bajwa), Security-based research and course development proposals, IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Award, app. $8,000, Accepted, 7/11
PI, Establishing an Environmental Sustainability Program at the University of Bridgeport SOE Seed money grant, $10,000, $7,000, Accepted, 9/9-9/10
Research Associate (RA), Service Lifetimes of Mineral End Uses (Yale University award number P00247), USGS Mineral Resources External Research Program 2006, $75,000, $16,459, Funded, 11/06 – 6/07.

Education:
Ph.D. Information Science, University at Albany SUNY, 2004
eMBA, University at Albany SUNY, 2002
M.S. Biochemistry, Albert-Ludwig University, Germany 1993

Dr. Nasir Sheikh is a tenure-track Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Management at University of Bridgeport. Dr. Sheikh was a founding tenure-track faculty in the Department of Technology and Society, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at State University of New York, Korea from 2013 to 2017. He is teaching courses such as data science, entrepreneurship, leadership, computer networking, strategic marketing, technology assessment, and quality management. He has taught over twenty-five graduate and undergraduate courses. His research interests include technological innovation and commercialization, technology assessment, decision modeling, and analytics and has over twenty publications. Dr. Sheikh has over thirty-five years of industry experience in building global information and communications technologies (ICT) businesses as an executive in technology management, sales, and marketing. He has served in business leadership roles at Atlas Telecom, UshaComm, CenterSpan Communications, and ACD Systems. Prior to that Dr. Sheikh had technology management and operational roles at AT&T Labs, NorTel, Philips Electronics, and Schlumberger. Prior to academia he was engaged in management consulting on next-generation renewal energy and healthcare technologies. Simultaneously, he was an adjunct professor for teaching courses in international business and marketing and a teaching assistant for courses such as new product development, total quality management, project management tools, science and technology policy, competitive strategies in technology management, strategic planning in engineering management, and intrapreneurship. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Technology Management from Portland State University, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, and B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University. 

Education:
Ph.D./Technology Management, Portland State University, USA
M.Sc./Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
B.Sc./Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Dr. Junling (Joyce) Hu came to the University of Bridgeport in 2005 from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Her research has been focused on solving problems that involve transport of heat, mass and momentum and thermal stresses in a wide range of applications, including manufacturing and materials processing, fuel cell design, thermal management of electronics, wellbore circulation in drilling operation, and vehicle aerodynamics. Her work on multiphysics modeling and simulation of gas metal arc welding process and laser welding process has been published in prestigious journals and conferences. She is the Director of the Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Laboratory at UB. She has also established a Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and Rapid Prototyping Laboratory which enables research on reverse engineering and engineering analysis using commercial CAE tools, including CFD, finite element analysis (FEA), multibody dynamics (BMD), and optimization.

Education:
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2005
M.E. in Thermal Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 1999
B.E. in Thermal Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 1996

Courses Taught:
MEEG 453 Finite Element Methods
MEEG 452 Advanced Vibrations
MEEG 429 Electronics Cooling
MEEG 512 Computational Fluid Dynamics
MEEG 505 Welding Engineering
MEEG 426 Materials Selection for Mechanical Engineers
MEEG 410 Advanced Fluid Dynamics
MEEG 463 Advanced Heat Transfer
MEEG 223 Material Science for Engineers
ENGR 111 Introduction to Engineering
ELEG 317 Control Systems

Publications:
 X. Zhang, Y. Chen and J. Hu, “Recent Advances in the Development of Aerospace Materials”, Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 97 (2018) 22-34. 

J. Hu, Z. Rao and H.L. Tsai, “A Comprehensive Model of the Transport Phenomena in Gas Metal Arc Welding”, Joining Technologies, Mahadzir Ishak, ed. Intech, ISBN 978‐953‐51‐4777‐0, 2016, Chapter 5. 

G. Xu, J. Hu and H. L. Tsai, “Modeling 3D Plasma Arc in Gas Tungsten Arc Welding”, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 134 (2012) 031001 (13 pages) (Top 10 Most Downloaded Articles in May 2012).

H. Guo, J. Hu and H. L. Tsai, “Three-Dimensional Modeling of Gas Metal Arc Welding of Aluminum Alloys”, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 132 (2010) 021011 (10 pages). (Top 10 Most Downloaded Articles in May 2010).

G. Xu, J. Hu and H. L. Tsai, “Three-dimensional modeling of arc plasma and metal transfer in gas metal arc welding”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 52 (2009) 1709-1724.

G. Xu, J. Hu and H. L. Tsai, “Three-Dimensional Modeling of the Plasma Arc in Arc Welding”, Journal of Applied Physics, 104, 103301 (2008) (9 pages).

J. Hu and H. L. Tsai, “Modeling of Transport Phenomena in 3D GMAW of Thick Metal with V-Groove”, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 41 (2008) 065202 (10pp).

J. Hu, H. Guo and H. L. Tsai, “Weld Pool Dynamics and the Formation of Ripples in 3D Gas Metal Arc Welding”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 51 (2008), 2537-2552.

J. Hu and H. L. Tsai, “Metal Transfer and Arc Plasma in Gas Metal Arc Welding”, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, 129 (2007) 1025-1035.

J. Hu and H. L. Tsai, “Heat and Mass Transfer in Gas Metal Arc Welding, Part I: the Arc”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 50 (2007), 833-846.

J. Hu and H. L. Tsai, “Heat and Mass Transfer in Gas Metal Arc Welding, Part II: the Metal”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 50 (2007), 808-820.

J. Hu and H. L. Tsai, “Effects of Welding Current on Droplet Generation and Arc Plasma in Gas Metal Arc Welding”, Journal of Applied Physics, 100, 053304 (2006).

Honors and Awards:
Dr. Hu is a member of ASME, ASEE, and AWS.
Excellent Reviewer for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 2012
Advanced Communicator Bronze, Toastmasters International, 2006

Grants:
M. Omidora, N. Guputa, and J. Hu, “Energy Losses from Failed Steam Traps”, United Illuminating Company, $11,020, February 2018 to August 2018, funded.
L. Zhang, J. Hu, and D. Cote, “Feasibility Study of the District Heating System at the University of Bridgeport”, Ramboll Foundation, $14,316, and $3,919 UB matching fund, January 2017 to March 2018, funded.
J. Hu and X. Xiong, “Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow of Non-Newtonian Drilling Fluids”, Pegasus Vertex, Inc., $10,000, January 2016 to December 2017, funded.
X. Xiong, P. Patra, and J.Hu, “Biochip with Graphene-based Nanosensor for Non-invasive Glucose Sensing”, University of Bridgeport Seed Grant, Office of Sponsored Research at UB, $10,000, January 2016 to December 2016, funded.
J.Hu, M. Faezipour and N. Gupta, “Engaging Students: Everyday Examples in Engineering (E3s)” Mini-Grant Application, NSF ENGAGE, $2,000, March 2013 to March 2014, funded.
J. Hu, “Numerical Modeling of Temperature Profiles in Drilling Wells – Phase II”, Pegasus Vertex, Inc., $5,741, December 2011 to May 2012, funded.
J. Pallis and J. Hu, “Multiphysics Modeling of Gas Tungsten Arc Welding”, CT Space Grant College Consortium, $6,000 and $9,707 UB Matching Fund, June 2011 to May 2012, funded.
J. Hu, “Numerical Modeling of Temperature Profiles in Drilling Wells”, Pegasus Vertex, Inc., $20,001, July 2010 to December 2010, funded.
J. Hu and H.L. Tsai, “Modeling Transport Phenomena and Shielding Gas Effects in Gas Metal Arc Welding”, University of Bridgeport Seed Grant, Office of Sponsored Research at UB, $7,000, January 2009 to December 2009, funded.
J. Hu, “CFD Validation and Simulation of Airfoil Characteristics”, CT Space Grant College Consortium, $6,000 and $12,000 in UB Matching Funds, January 2008 to December 2008, funded.
J. Hu, NSF-TRUST Women’s Institute in Summer Enrichment (WISE) fellowship, $2,500, 2006, funded.
J. Hu, travel grant to NSF TRUST WISE summer program, $1,000, 2006, funded.
J. Hu, travel grant to Integration of Simulation Technology into the Engineering Curriculum (ISTEC) 2008 Conference, Cornell University, $1,393, July 2008, funded.
J. Hu, Travel grant, invited seminar, Pegasus Vertex, Inc., $696, December 2010, funded

Dr. Zheng (Jeremy) Li is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Engineering in University of Bridgeport. Before joining UB as a full time associate professor in 2007, Dr. Li worked about 14 years as full time scientist and senior research and design engineer in several different U.S. industries. He was also involved in U.S. Air force/Military research contracts and taught UB as adjunct faculty from 1999 to 2007. Dr. Li has published 2 books, 6 book chapters, 34 journal papers, and 44 conference papers since joining UB in 2007. He also got one grant award directly from NASA and one grant from NASA-funded Connecticut Space grant.

Education:
Ph.D., Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1994
M.S. Automation and Control Engineering, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, 1987
B.S. Power Engineering, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, 1984

Courses Taught:
MEEG425 Machine and Mechanical System
MEEG508/BMEG508 Biomechanics
MEEG 572/TCMG572 Production Technology and Technique
MEEG424 Advanced CAM and Automation
MEEG421 Computer Aided Engineering Design
Computer Aided Manufacturing and CNC Machining
Machinery and Mechanical System Design
Advanced Computer Aided Project Design
Advanced Computer Aided Manufacturing and Automation
Manufacturing Strategy and Lean Manufacturing
Production Technology and Technique
Mechanism Design

Publications:

Selected Books/Book Chapters:
J. Z. Li, “CAD, 3D Modeling, Engineering Analysis, and Prototype Experimentation: Industrial and Research Applications”, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-319-05920-4 (Print) 978-3-319-05921-1 (Online), Aug, 2014.

J. Z. Li, “Biomedical Instrument and Robotic Surgery System: Design and Development for Biomedical Applications”, Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-659-41085-7, June, 2013.

J, Z, Li, “Prototyping of Robotic Systems in Surgical Procedures and Automated Manufacturing Processes” (Chapter 12 for book titled “Prototyping of Robotic Systems: Applications of Design and Implementation”), IGI Global Publisher, ISBN: 978-1-4666-0176-5, pp. 356-378, May, 2012.

J. Z. Li, “The Principles, Development and Applications of Surgical Instruments in Biomedical Engineering” (Chapter 4 for book titled “Principles and Applications of Biomedical Engineering”), Academic Publisher, ISBN: 978-0-9835850-4-6, pp. 118-133, March, 2012.

J. Z. Li, “Applications of Computer-aided Design Technology in Research, Engineering and Industry” (Chapter 4 for book titled “Computer Aided Design: Technology, Types and Practical Applications”), Nova Science Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-62257-355-4, pp. 87-102, Jan, 2012.

Selected Journal Papers:
J. Z. Li, “Study and Analysis of a New Automated and High Speed Mechanical System for Computer Mouse Assembly”, in Journal of Mechatronics. Vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 109-112, June, 2014.

J. Z. Li, “Computational Simulation and Experimental Study of A Biogas Reactor”, in Journal of Mechanical Engineering (i-manager’s research Network), Vol. 4, pp. 17-20, March, 2014.

J. Z. Li, “Computer Aided Design and Development of a New Solar Panel Tracking System”, in Journal of Mechatronics, Vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-5, Feb, 2014.

J. Z. Li, “Computational Simulation and Prototype Testing of Nanocoated Materials for Jet Engine Blades in Aerospace Industry”, in Journal of Applied and Industrial Science, Vol. 1, pp.36-38, Nov, 2013.

J. Z. Li, “Numerical simulation and prototype testing of gas turbine with hot spinning process”, in Scientific Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 204-211, Sep, 2013.
 

Grants:
Jeremy (Zheng) Li, Principal Investigator (PI), 2012-2013, “Computer-aided Analysis and Experimental Study of Nano-Coating Technology Applied to NASA and US Aerospace Industry,” $20,000.00 has been awarded by NASA funded Connecticut Space Grant Consortium,
Jeremy (Zheng) Li, Principal Investigator (PI), 2011-2012, “NASA Geo-Lab reduced gravity sample holders/manipulator,” $28,500.00 has been awarded by NASA funded National Space Grant Foundation.
Jeremy (Zheng) Li, Principle Investigator (PI), 2011-2012, “Computer Aided Modeling and Analysis of Nanocoating to prevent Aerospace Product from Corrosion,” $6,776.00 (Seeds Grant) has been awarded by UB.

An aerodynamicist specializing in Computational Fluid Dynamics with a background in biomedical industrial, mechanical and aeronautical engineering, Dr. Pallis specializes in fluid dynamics, with an emphasis on air, space and marine vehicles, sports equipment, the relationship between athletic injuries and equipment, and engineering outreach education.

Most recently, she and her students are involved in small satellite development, in particular the launching of DiscoSat-1 with the Discovery Museum and Planetarium.

Education:
Ph.D., 1996, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of California, Davis
M.S., 1991, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
M.S., 1997, Health Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S., 1975, Health Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S., 1977, Health Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology

Courses Taught:
BMEG/MEEG 567X Physiological Fluid Mechanics (Fall 2014)
CPEG/CPSC 300 Economics and Management of Engineering Projects (Spring 2014)
MEEG 410 Advanced Fluid Dynamics (Fall 2013, Fall 2014)
MEEG 454 Advanced Dynamics (Fall 2013, Fall 2014)
MEEG 463 Advanced Heat Transfer (Spring 2014)
MEEG 510X Aircraft and Spacecraft Design (Summer 2013, Spring 2014)
TCMG 410 Survey of Technology (Fall 2013)

Publications:
Bach, C., Sherman, W., Pallis, J. M., Patra, P., & Bajwa, H. (2014). Evaluation of Novel Design Strategies for Developing Zinc Finger Nucleases (ZFNs) Tools for Treating Human Diseases. Biotechnology Research International.

Pallis, J. M., “A Tale of Three Engineers”, in Chapter 17 – Accounting and Engineering Economy, in Engineering Economic Analysis 12th Edition, Newman, D., Lavelle, J. P., and Eschenbach, T. G., Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-933927-3.

Bach C, Patra P, Pallis J, Sherman W, and Bajwa H (2013) Strategy for Naturelike Designer Transcription Factors with Reduced Toxicity. IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2013.107.

Sobh, T.M., Pallis, J., Gupta, N., “Recent Directions in Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation”, International Journal of Online Engineering, August 2009, 5(S1):4-7. DOI:10.3991/ijoe.v5s1.1032.

Pallis, J.M. “Synopsis of Current Developments: Water Sports”, in E. Moritz and S. Haake The Engineering of Sport 6, New York: Springer, 2006.

Safran, M., Pallis, J., Workman, K., “Validation of Questionnaire for the Epidemiology of Sports Injuries in Wheelchair Athletes”, Medicine and Science in Tennis, April, 2005.

Hubbard, M., Mehta, R., Pallis, J.M. (editors), 5th Engineering of Sports, International Sports Engineering Association, 2004.

Hung, G., Pallis, J.M. (editors), Biomedical Engineering Principles In Sports, Kluwer/Plenum Academic Publishers, 2004.

Mehta, R. D. and Pallis, J. M. The aerodynamics of a tennis ball, Sports Engineering, 4: 177-189, 2001.

Pallis, J.M., Banks, D.W. and Okamoto, K.K., “3D Computational Fluid Dynamics in Competitive Sail, Yacht and Windsurf Design, in A. Subic and S, Haake, Engineering of Sport 3, Sheffield: Blackwell, 2000.

Pallis, J.M., Editor, The Big Book of Air and Space Flight Activities, McGraw-Hill, January, 2000.

Pallis, J.M. and Burns, I., “Numerical Simulations For An America’s Cup Challenger”, Maui High Performance Computing Center 1999 Application Briefs, 1999.

Honors and Awards:
Connecticut Space Grant Consortium Campus Director of the Year 2013
Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity, Gamma Phi Chapter, Georgia Institute of Technology, received Arc of Epsilon Pi for continued service, October, 2012.
Distinguished Citizen (first individual in the field of Engineering), Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity, July, 2010, (Notable Alumnae: Jani Macari Pallis, Alpha Gamma Delta, Wikipedia)
Connecticut Technology Council, Women in Innovation, Finalist, 2009.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Distinguished Alumni Department of Industrial Engineering
Franklin Institute and Science Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Plaque installed in Aviation Hall as a woman engineer involved in aerodynamics Connecticut Technology Council’s Women of Innovation Award for Academic Innovation and Leadership, 2016

Grants:
Development of a Satellite Design, Fabrication, Integration and Testing Course, Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium, PI: Jani M. Pallis, Ph.D., Co-PI: Hassan Bajwa, Ph.D., Christian Bach, Ph.D., awarded Feb., 25, 2014.
Servo-Flap Rotor Blade Design and Wind Tunnel Test, Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium,  PI: Alfred Gates, Ph.D., Co-PI: F-S Wei, Co-PI: J.M. Pallis, Ph.D., awarded Oct., 2013.
NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative (CLI): NNH12SOMD001L, “DISCOvery Museum Satellite: Measurement of small-scale debris flux from orbit”, David Mestre and Alan Winick (PIs), B. Hermalyn and J.M. Pallis, Technical Advisor.
University of Bridgeport, Seed Money Grant “DNA Scaffold Based Nanoscale Antenna”, Dr. Jani Pallis (PI) and Dr. Hassan Bajwa (Co-PI).
Principal Investigator with Dr. Joyce Hu (Co-PI), Connecticut Space Grant Consortium, “Multiphysics Modeling of Gas Tungsten Arc Welding”.
Principal Investigator, The Bridge Project, Manufacturers Association of Southern Connecticut, 2010.
Principal Investigator, Wright Again (www.wrightagain.com), K-12 web-based project commemorating the centennial of Flight, Grant with National Business Aviation Association. Collaboration with High Performance Computing, Education, and Research Center at the University of New Mexico for CFD.
Principal Investigator, Cooperative Agreement with NASA for K-8 Aeronautics Internet Activity Center, web-based lesson plans, curriculum bridges and online text in multiple reading levels in English and Spanish, animations of scientific American Sign Language terms.
Principal Investigator - UB , NASA Undergraduate Student Instrument Program, 2016 - 2019
Principal Investigator - High Altitude Student Platform, Louisiana State Grant, 2016 and 2017
Project Management - Total Solar Eclipse Project, 2016 - 2017
Co-Director, STEM on Wheels

Dr. Navarun Gupta is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Bridgeport. He served as the Department Chair from 2013-2018. Dr. Gupta received his Ph.D. from Florida International University in Miami. He has two master’s degrees – one in Physics from Georgia State University and another in Electrical Engineering from Mercer University. Dr. Gupta’s research interests lie in signal processing, and its applications in audio and bio signals. 

Education:
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Florida International University, 2003
M.S. Physics, Georgia State University, 1992
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Mercer University, 1998

Courses Taught:
Biosignal Processing
Communication Lab
Pattern Recognition
Satellite Communication
Introduction to Engineering
Fiber Optics Lab
Digital Signal Processing (both lab and lecture)
Senior Project
Signals and systems
Controls Lab

Dr. Hmurcik came to the University of Bridgeport in 1983 from Diamond Shamrock Corporation. He was Chairman for the Department of Electrical Engineering from 2001 to 2013, and he remains active as a teacher and researcher and committee member. He has 96 publications. He has almost 350 consulting cases to his credit, including 20 court appearances in which he is an expert witness. Dr. Hmurcik has obtained 5 major grants while at UB, and he continues to publish in many fields — Solar Energy, Accident Reconstruction, Medical Machines, radiation shielding plastics, electronic circuit simulation, programmable logic controls (PLC’s), and carbon nano-tubes. Hmurcik is licensed as a professional engineer (LLC and PE) in Connecticut.

Education:
Ph.D., Solid-State Electronics, Clarkson University, 1980
M.S., Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Clarkson University, 1976
B.S., Integrated Circuits Design, Fairfield University, 1974

Courses Taught:
ELEG 233, 234, 235, 236 – Network Analysis I and II, lecture and lab

Other courses taught: 
ELEG 337 Electronics Lab
ELEG 348/417 Modern Electronics 
ELEG 447 Semiconductors
ELEG/BMEG 510 Medical Machines
ELEG 315/415 Fiber Optics
ELEG 316/416 Fiber Optics Lab
ELEG 482 Analog Integrated Circuits Design
ELEG 483 Digital Integrated Circuits Design
ELEG 443 DSP - Digital Signal Processing
ELEG 317/460 Controls 
ELEG 333 Signals and Systems
ELEG 444 Power Electronics 
ELEG 247 Electronics Materials
Electromagnetic Fields and Waves 
Advanced DSP
Digital Filters
Pulse Circuits

Publications:
Borui Li, Xiaowei Yu, Bo Zhang, Xingguo Xiong, and Lawrence Hmurcik, “Implementation of an 8-bit low-power multiplier based on reversible gate technology”, Transactions on Techniques in STEM Education, vol. 1, no. 3, page 84 (April-June 2016).

Sarosh Patel and Lawrence V. Hmurcik, “The case of the computer room fire”, EC&M p10 (June 2016).

Sarosh Patel and Lawrence Hmurcik, “Preventable ground wire accidents and fires”, Proc. of the IEEE EEEIC2016, Florence, Italy (June 7-10, 2016).

Sarosh Patel and Lawrence Hmurcik, “The case of the malfunctioning sandblaster”, Proc. of the IEEE EEEIC2016, Florence, Italy (June 7-10, 2016).

Gupta, S. Patel, and L. Hmurcik, “Common Engineering mistakes in the analysis of aquarium fires”, Proc. Of 2016 ASEE NE Conf., Kingston, RI, OT-64 (April 30).

Sarosh H. Patel and Lawrence V. Hmurcik, “The case of the machine mutilation”, EC&M p12 (Mar 2016).

Hmurcik, B.D. Barkana, N. Gupta, “Two case studies: real-life fatal burn case including smoke inhalation and fatal high-voltage burn”, International Journal of Advanced Research volume 3, issue 11, p 318 (November 2015).

Sarosh H. Patel and Lawrence V. Hmurcik, “The case of the non-electric sign electrocution”, EC&M p10 (June 2015).

Sarosh H. Patel and Lawrence V. Hmurcik, “The case of the VFD clock culprit”, EC&M p 10 (April 2015).

Lawrence V. Hmurcik and Sarosh H. Patel, “The case of the multimeter meltdown”, EC&M p 10 (August 2014).

Borui Li, Xiaowei Yu, Bo Zhang, Xingguo Xiong, Lawrence Hmurcik, “Implementation of an 8-bit low power multiplier, based on reversible gate technology”, 2014 ASEE Zone I Conf., University of Bridgeport, CT (April 3-5, 2014).

Lawrence V. Hmurcik and Sarosh H Patel, “The case of the hurried electrician”, Electrical Construction and Maintenance page 10 (March 2014).

V. Umamaheswari, K. Venkatasubramanian, Lawrence V. Hmurcik, “Different structures for micro-nano-electrode arrays for measurement of surface potential from any localized part of the brain”, American Patent and International Patent pending (February 2014).

Linfeng Zhang, Nicolae Gari, and Lawrence V. Hmurcik, “Energy measurement in a micro-grid with distributed energy resources”, Energy Conversion and Management, volume 78, 297-305 (January 2014).

(4) Manan Joshi, Navarun Gupta, and Lawrence V. Hmurcik, “Modeling of Pina-Related Transfer Functions using a finite-element-method”, COMSOL conference Boston (October 10, 2013).

Lawrence V. Hmurcik and Sarosh H. Patel, “The case of the mis-identified pump switches”, Electrical Construction and Maintenance p 8, (May 2013).

Bhushan Dharmadhikari, Navarun Gupta, Manan Joshi, and Lawrence V. Hmurcik, “Surge Suppressors–hidden dangers”, 2013 ASEE NE Conference, Norwich, VT April 16.

B. V. Dharmadhikari, L. V. Hmurcik, P. K. Patra, N. A. Mohammed, and D. Gondi, “In silico simulation of carbon nanotube and pulmonary surfactant protein binding”, Biomedical Engineering Society 2012 Conference, Atlanta p 131 (October 26).

Madhav Patil, Jack Toporovsky, L. Hmurcik, Tarek Sobh, “Integration of a vision system, an intelligent robot actuator, HMI (human-machine-interface), and PLC (programable logic control) to design a universal quality inspection or control machine”, i-managers Journal on Mechanical Engineering, v 2, no. 3, (May-June 2012).

Navarun Gupta, Sarosh Patel, Manan Joshi, Bhushan Dharmadhikari, and Lawrence V. Hmurcik, “Real-life high voltage accident cases — teaching electrical safety”, 2012 ASEE NE Conference, Lowell, MA (April 28, 2012)

Lawrence V. Hmurcik, M. Joshi, B. Dharmadhikari, and N. Gupta, “Aquarium fires — why water and electricity do not mix”, 2012 ASEE St. Lawrence Conference, Potsdam, NY (March 23-24).

Honors and Awards:
Service award for 30 years of service as a Faculty member of the University of Bridgeport (April 2014)
Keynote speaker at Bridgeport Hospital/Southern Connecticut State University’s graduation ceremony for Nurse Anesthetists, held at Bridgeport Hospital (May 2004)

Grants:
Lawrence V. Hmurcik, “High temperature superconductor characterization”, UI-EnerTech Grant, 1998-1999. $5,000
Abe Bidarian, Lee Mathews, Rocky Trembly, and Lawrence Hmurcik, “Characterization of polycrystalline high-temperature superconductors,” Charles Goodyear Cooperative Research and Development Grant sponsored by the state of Connecticut, 1994-1996. $120,000.
Steve Grodzinsky and Lawrence Hmurcik, “Mixed analog-digital signals laboratory”, NSF ILI Grant, 1995. $56,000.
Steve Grodzinsky and Lawrence Hmurcik, “Design and fabrication of micro-electronic/opto-electronic circuits,” consortium Grant with the University of Connecticut, Yale, and Trinity, sponsored by the state of Connecticut (1989-1991). $100,000.
Dhan Sethi and Lawrence Hmurcik, “Photo-conductive polymer composites analysis,” Charles Goodyear grant sponsored by the state of Connecticut, 1986-1988. $60,000.

Xingguo Xiong is an associate professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Bridgeport, CT. He obtained his B.S. in Physics in 1994 from Wuhan University, China. He obtained his first Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in July 1999 from Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He obtained his second Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in July 2005 from University of Cincinnati, OH, USA. His research areas include MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems), nanotechnology, as well as low power VLSI design and VLSI testing. He is the recipient of the 2009 Northeast ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Outstanding Teacher Award.

Education:
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, University of Cincinnati, August 2005
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, July 1999
B.S., Physics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, July 1994

Courses Taught:
BME/EE 547: BioMEMS (BioMicroelectromechanical Systems)
BME/EE-451: Introduction to Nanotechnology
EE-548: Low Power VLSI Circuit Design
EE-404: Digital VLSI
EE-458: Analog VLSI Circuit Design
EE-549: VLSI Testing
EE-550: Digital VLSI System Design
EE-448: Microelectronic Fabrication
EE-447: Semiconductors
EE-460: Control Theory
CPE/EE-286: Introduction to Microprocessors
EE348: Electronics

Publications:
BOOK CHAPTERS
Nicolae Gari, Xingguo Xiong, “Prototyping of UB Excavator for NASA Lunabotic Competition”, a chapter in the book, “Prototyping of Robotic Systems: Applications of Design and Implementation”. (ISBN10: 1466601760), Feb. 29, 2012, IGI Global publishing company.

Ramesh Ramadoss, Robert Dean, Xingguo Xiong, Chapter 13: “MEMS Testing”, in book: Laung-Terng Wang, Charles Stroud, and Nur A. Touba (Editors), “System-on-Chip Test Architectures (Systems on Silicon)”, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2008, ISBN: 0123-73973-X, ISBN 13: 978-0123-73973-5, pp. 591-651.

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTIVE)
Nicolae Gari, Xingguo Xiong, “Prototyping of UB Excavator for NASA Lunabotic Competition”, a chapter in the book, “Prototyping of Robotic Systems: Applications of Design and Implementation”. (ISBN10: 1466601760), Feb. 29, 2012, IGI Global publishing company.

Xingguo Xiong, Hanyu Xie, “MEMS Dual-mode Electrostatically Actuated Micromirror”, Professional Paper in 2014 ASEE (The American Society for Engineering Education) Zone 1 Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT.

Xingguo Xiong, Lidong Qiang, Linfeng Zhang, Junling Hu, “MEMS Dual Axis Accelerometer with H-T Shape Structure”, Proc. of IEEE International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE’13), Dec. 12-14, 2013.

Umatri Pradhananga, Xingguo Xiong, Linfeng Zhang, “PSPICE Implementation of Block-wise Shut-down Technique for 8×8 bit Low Power Pipelined Booth Multiplier”, Proc. of IEEE International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE’13), Dec. 12-14, 2013.

Xingguo Xiong, Huanyu Li, “High-Linearity MEMS Accelerometer with Lateral Comb Finger Groups”, Proc. of IEEE International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE’13), Dec. 12-14, 2013.

Xingguo Xiong, Haifeng Dong, “Design of a MEMS Gyroscope with Glass-Silicon-Glass Sandwich Structure”, Journal of Micro and Nanosystems, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2011.

X. Xiong, Y. Wu, and W. Jone, “Material Fatigue and Reliability of MEMS Accelerometers”, Proc. of 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT’08), Cambridge (MA), USA, Oct. 1-3, 2008.

Honors and Awards:
Wei Zhan, Xingguo Xiong, Prabir Patra, Junling Hu, Chengsi Li, “COMSOL Simulation of MEMS Piezoelectrically Actuated Micropump”, 1st prize of Graduate Student Poster in 2014 University of Bridgeport Faculty Research Day, March 28, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT.
Ruoxu Jia, Junling Hu, Xingguo Xiong, Linfeng Zhang, “Shape optimization design and material selection for a fitness equipment”, Honorable Mention award of Student Poster in 2014 ASEE (The American Society for Engineering Education) Zone 1 Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT.
Vinothini Velusamy, Xingguo Xiong, “Design of 8-bit Carry-Skip Adder Using Reversible Gates”, “Design and Simulation of an 8-bit Memory-less Pipelined Full Adder”, honorable mention award in 2011 ASEE (The American Society for Engineering Education) Northeast Section Conference, April 29-30, 2011, Hartford, CT.
Ming Xia, Xingguo Xiong, “Theoretical Analysis of a Nanosensor based on WO3-coated Carbon Nanotube for Ultra-high Sensitive Breath Acetone Sensing”, honorable mention award in 2011 ASEE (The American Society for Engineering Education) Northeast Section Conference, April 29-30, 2011, Hartford, CT.
Recipient of 2009 Northeast ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Outstanding Teacher Award, Apr. 3, 2009.
Recipient of honorable mentions award for research paper in ASEE’09 conference: Hassan Bajwa, Prabir Patra, Xingguo Xiong, “Nanotechnology Curriculum Initiative in Connecticut”, 2009 Northeast ASEE Conference, Bridgeport, CT, Apr. 3-4, 2009.
2nd place prize winner in ASEE’09 student best poster competition: Yang Yang, Xingguo Xiong, “Gated clock technique for low power VLSI design”, 2009 Northeast ASEE Conference, Bridgeport, CT, Apr. 3-4, 2009.
8. Honorable mention award winner in ASEE’09 student best poster competition: Vignesh Veerapandian, Xingguo Xiong, “Design of Efficient SOC-Based Multi-Core System Using NOC”, 2009 Northeast ASEE Conference, Bridgeport, CT, Apr. 3-4, 2009.
2nd place prize winner in ASEE’08 student best poster competition: Bhushan V. Dharmadhikari, Xingguo Xiong, “Stiction Fault Simulation of MEMS Comb Accelerometer”, ASEE Zone 1 Conference 2008, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, Mar. 28-29, 2008.
3rd place prize winner in ASEE’08 student best poster competition: Haifeng Dong, Xingguo Xiong, “Design and Fabrication of a Bulk-micromachined MEMS Accelerometer”, ASEE Zone 1 Conference 2008, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, Mar. 28-29, 2008.
Honorable mentions award in ASEE’08 student best poster competition: Xiaoping Li, Xingguo Xiong, “Power Comparison of CMOS and Domino Full-adders”, ASEE Zone 1 Conference 2008, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, Mar. 28-29, 2008.

Grants:
Xingguo Xiong, Gould K450B Logic Analyzer (ERLE Item Control Number: 89514103420083), Energy-Related Laboratory Equipment (ERLE) grant by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), 01/16/2011. Status: approved, original acquisition cost of the received equipment: $20,016.77.
Class-on-a-chip MEMS education kit received from Texas Tech University (Dr. Tim Dallas) as part of a research collaboration. Received on 09/01/2010.
Funding from US Department of Energy (DoE) under program of Strategic Training and Education in Power Systems (STEPS – Topic A), Funding Opportunity Number: DE-FOA-0000152 entitled Workforce Training for the Electric Power Sector. The proposal was submitted by a Nationwide Consortium of Universities, led by the University of Minnesota, to Revitalize Electric Power Engineering Education by State-of-the-Art Laboratories, of which Prof. Linfeng Zhang and Prof. Xingguo Xiong are joint representatives of University of Bridgeport as a member of the consortium. Status: funded on 04/08/2010 for 3 years, Recovery Act Funding received: $2,500,000. Total project value including cost share: $4,175,423, funds received from University of Bridgeport (Prof. Xingguo Xiong and Professor Zhang): $37,500 ($25,000 from the consortium and $12,500 matching fund from University of Bridgeport).
ESMD (Exploration Systems Mission Directorate) National Design Challenge Project Grant from NASA Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium. The grant was awarded to UB excavator team for NASA 1st lunabotics mining competition in Kennedy Space Center, FL on May 27-28, 2010. Status: funded, Funding amount: $8776.42 (Among it, $4500 was from NASA CT Space consortium, and $4276.42 from UB School of Engineering).
Xingguo Xiong (PI), Linfeng Zhang (co-PI), Hassan Bajwa (co-PI), “A Bulk-micromachined MEMS Comb Vibratory Gyroscope”, UB seed money grant proposal, funding agency: University of Bridgeport, Period: 05/2009 – 05/2010, funding: $6930.00.
Hassan Bajwa (PI), Xingguo Xiong (co-PI), “Dynamically Configured, Low Power SRAM Design”, UB seed money grant proposal, funding agency: University of Bridgeport, Period: 05/2009 – 05/2010, funding: $6650.00.
Linfeng Zhang (PI), Angela Santiago (co-PI), Xingguo Xiong (co-PI), “Integration of the platinum nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes in silicon-based micro fuel cell and silicon-based chemical/biological sensor”, UB seed money grant proposal, funding agency: University of Bridgeport, Period: 05/2009 – 05/2010, funding: $6864.00
Xingguo Xiong, HP/Agilent 3457A Digital Multimeter (ERLE Item Control Number: 89480891310015), Energy-Related Laboratory Equipment (ERLE) grant by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), 08/04/2009. Status: approved, original acquisition cost of the received equipment: $10,000.00.

Buket D. Barkana is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. She is also the Director of the Signal Processing Research Group (SPRG) Laboratory in the School of Engineering, University of Bridgeport. A member of IEEE, Dr. Barkana received her B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Anatolia University, Eskisehir, Turkey in 1994, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the ESOGU, Eskisehir, Turkey in 1997 and 2005, respectively. She worked as a full-time faculty member at Anatolia University from 1995-1999, and as a Research Assistant at the ESOGU from 1999-2001 in Turkey. Dr. Barkana joined the University of Bridgeport in January 2007.

Dr. Barkana’s research interests include digital signal and image processing, innovations in engineering education, and STEM education in K-12 schools. Besides teaching, she supervises Master and Ph.D. students. Along with Dr. Ngoh and Dr. Cook, Dr. Barkana developed a project-based STEM course titled “STEM for Teacher Educators” for the School of Education students at UB in 2010.

Dr. Barkana works with local K-12 schools to advertise and improve their science and pre-engineering education. She has internal and external funded grants.

Education:
Ph.D., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ESOGU, Eskisehir, Turkey, 2005
M.Sc., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ESOGU, Eskisehir, Turkey, 1997
B.S., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Anatolia University, Eskisehir, Turkey, 1994

Courses Taught:
ELEG 443/ BME443: Digital Signal Processing
ELEG 459/BMEG459: Audio Signal Processing Lab
ELEG 442: Digital Communications
ELEG 543/BMEG543: Digital Signal Processing Lab
ELEG 513/BMEG513: Biomedical Image Processing
ELEG: Communications Lab
EDMM-600D-BR1 STEM for Teacher Educators

Publications:
Mohammad Daneshzand, Miad Faezipour, Buket D. Barkana, Hyperbolic Modeling of Subthalamic Nucleus cells to investigate the effect of Dopamine Depletion, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Volume 2017 (2017), Article ID 5472752, https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/5472752.

Mohammad Daneshzand, Miad Faezipour, Buket D. Barkana, Computational stimulation of the basal ganglia neurons with cost effective delayed Gaussian waveforms, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, August 2017 https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2017.00073

Arafat Abu Mallouh, Zakariya Qawaqneh, B.D. Barkana, Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Age Estimation based on VGG-Face Model, arXiv:1709.01664 [cs.CV], 2017

Zakariya Qawaqneh, Arafat Abu Mallouh, B.D. Barkana, Age and gender classification from speech and face images by jointly fine-tuned deep neural networks, Expert Systems with Applications, vol.85, pp: 76-86, November 2017.

Buket D. Barkana, Inci Saricicek, Evaluation of SVM, ANN, and classifier-fusion based CAD systems in benign and malignant breast lesion classification using digital mammography images. Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, vol.7, no.7, pp.1566-1571, November 2017, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1166/jmihi.2017.2167

Arafat Abu Mallouh, Zakariya Qawaqneh, B.D. Barkana, New Transformed Features Generated by Deep Bottleneck Extractor and a GMM-UBM Classifier for Speaker Age and Gender Classification. Neural Computing & Applications, 2017, DOI: 10.1007/s00521-017-2848-4.

D. Barkana, Inci Sariciek, Burak Yildirim, Performance analysis of descriptive statistical features in retinal segmentation via fuzzy, ANN, SVM, and classifier fusion. Knowledge Based Systems, Volume 118, 15 February 2017, Pages 165–176.

Zakariya Qawaqneh, Arafat Abu Mallouh, B.D. Barkana, Deep Neural Network Framework for Speaker′s Age and Gender Classification using I-Vector. Knowledge Based Systems, Volume 115, 1 January 2017, Pages 5–14. 10.1016/j.knosys.2016.10.008.

D. Barkana, Jingcheng Zhou, A new pitch-range based feature set for speakers age and gender classification. Applied Acoustics, Volume 98, Pages 52-61, November 2015.

Hmurcik, B.D. Barkana, N. Gupta, Two Case Studies: Real-life fatal burn case including smoke inhalation and fatal high-voltage electrical burn. International Journal of Advanced Research, 3(11):318-321, 2015.

Abuzaghleh, Omar, Buket D. Barkana, and Miad Faezipour, Noninvasive Real-Time Automated Skin Lesion Analysis System for Melanoma Early Detection and Prevention. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM), 10.1109/JTEHM.2015.2419612, 2015.

Buket D. Barkana, Isam Hameed, Helen Ocbagabir, Burak Yildirim, Unsupervised blood vessel segmentation in retinal images by a novel vessel strengthening method and by a pixel tracking algorithm. Journal of Innovative Computing Information and Control (IJICIC), Vol.11 (1), pp.189-201, February 2015.

Abuzaghleh, Omar, Miad Faezipour, and Buket D. Barkana, Skincure: An Innovative Smart Phone-Based Application to Assist In Melanoma Early Detection and Prevention. Signal and Image Processing: An International Journal (SIPIJ), Vol.5, No.6, December 2014.

D. Barkana, N. Ngoh, A. Cook, Case Study: Development and Assessment of a STEM-Based Course for Teacher Educators. Education, Vol.3, No.3, 2013

D. Barkana, B. Uzkent, I. Saricicek, Normal and Abnormal Non-Speech Audio Event Detection Using MFCC and PR-Based Feature Sets. Advanced Materials Research, Management, Manufacturing, and Materials Engineering II, Vol. 601, 2013

B.D. Barkana, B. Uzkent, H. Cevikalp, Non-speech environmental sound classification using SVMs with a new set of feature parameters to improve recognition rates. Int. Journal of Innovative Computing Information and Control (IJICIC), 2012, Volume 8, Number 5(B), May 2012

Honors and Awards:
Best Faculty Poster Award, 2017: Ioana A. Badara, Shobhitha Sarab, Abhilash Medisetty, Allen P. Cook, Joyce Cook, & Buket D. Barkana, “The Influence of Emotional States on Short-Term Memory Retention by Using Electroencephalography (EEG) Measurements: A Case Study”, University of Bridgeport, Faculty Research Day, March 24, 2017.
Best Faculty Poster Award, 2016: Omar Abuzaghleh, Miad Faezipour, and Buket D. Barkana, SKINcure: An innovative Smart phone-based application to assist in melanoma early detection and prevention, Faculty Research Day, April 2016, University of Bridgeport, CT, USA.
Best Paper Award, 2015: M.M. Almi’ani, B.D. Barkana, “A Modified Region Growing Based Algorithm to Vessel Segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Angiography,” the 11th IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (IEEE LISAT2015), May 1, 2015, NY, USA.
Best Student Poster Award: Second Place, 2013: Isam Hameed, Helen Ocbagabir Sama Abdulmalik, B.D. Barkana, “Blood Vessel Segmentation in Retinal Images with a Novel Network Tracking Algorithm”, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Northeast Section Conference, David Crawford School of Engineering, Norwich University, March 14-16, 2013.
Best Student Poster Award: Third Place, 2012: Tariq Abuzaghleh, B.D. Barkana, “A Computer-Aided Method for the Cobb Angle Measurement”, Poster Presentation, 2012 American Society of Engineering Education – Northeast Section Conference, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, April 28, 2012.
Best Student Paper Honorable Mention Award, 2009: Stark B., Advisor: BD Barkana, “Dual Architecture Implementation of Acoustic Echo Cancellation”, Advisor: Barkana B.D., Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE NE American Society for Engineering Education Conference, April 3-4, 2009.
Best Paper Nominee, 2009: B.D. Barkana, S. Patel, N. Gupta, and L. V. Hmurcik, “Using real-life cases to teach students about electric burns: Part 1 Secondary burns”, The Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE NE American Society for Engineering Education Conference, April 3-4, 2009.
Best Student Paper Nominee, 2009: Zheng M., Xeing W., Barkana B.D., An automatic text-dependent speaker verification system design using MATLAB”, The Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE NE American Society for Engineering Education Conference, April 3-4, 2009.
Best Student Paper Nominee, 2009: Yu L., Barkana B.D., “Speech Disorders: An analysis of hypernasal speech using signal processing techniques”, The Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE NE American Society for Engineering Education Conference, April 3-4, 2009.
Best Student Paper Award, Second Place, 2008: Bachu R., Adapa B.K., Kopparthi S., Barkana B.D., “Separation of Voiced and Unvoiced Speech Signals using Energy and Zero Crossing Rate”, ASEE Regional Conference, West Point, March 2008.
Honorable Mention Award, 2008: Bachu R., Deepawale D.S, “Emotional Speech Detection”, Advisor: Barkana B.D., ASEE Regional Conference, West Point, Poster Presentation, March 2008.
Best Student Poster Honorable Mention Award, 2009: Hirani N., Suhagiya V., “Speaker Identification System”, Advisor: Barkana B.D., ASEE NE Conference, Bridgeport, Poster Presentation, April 3-4, 2009.

Grants:
“Investigation of the influence of emotional states on memory retention, concentration, and learning by using Electroencephalograpgy (EEG) measurements”, PI: B. D. Barkana, Co-PIs: Joanna Badara, Allen Cook, Funding agency: University of Bridgeport Seed Grant, 2016. Amount: $6400.
“Planning for a Teacher Fellowship/Master Teacher Fellowship Program to serve high-Need Schools in Urban Southwestern Connecticut”. PI: I. Badara, Co-PIs: B. D. Barkana, N. Gupta, N. Ngoh, M. Gherasimova, Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF), Robert Noyce Teacher Preparation Program, 2013. Amount: $192,347.
“SkinAid: A Real time image analysis system to aid in the malignant melanoma prevention and early detection”, PI: B. D. Barkana, Co-PI: Miad Faezipour, Funding agency: University of Bridgeport Seed Grant, 2013. Amount: $6000.
“K-12 STEM Teacher Program”, PI: B. D. Barkana; Co-PIs: Nelson Ngoh, Allen Cook, and Joanna A. Badara. Funding Agency: University of Bridgeport Seed Grant, 2012. Amount: $5,900.

Dr. Hassan Bajwa received his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University of New York in 1998. From 1998 to 2001 he worked for Software Spectrum and IT Factory Inc, NY. He received his MS from the City College of New York in 2003, and his Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from City University of New York in 2007. Currently he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bridgeport. His research interests are low power VLSI, Nano-circuit fabrics and nano-technology. His research interests include modeling and simulation of nano-electronic architectures, flexible electronics, RF circuit design, bio-electronics, nanostructured and nanoscale antennas for biomedical applications.

Education:
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, City University of New York, 2007
M.S., Electrical Engineering, City College of New York, 2003
BSc, Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University, 1998

Courses Taught:
RF Circuits
Electronics
VLSI

Publications:
Journal Publications
Sardaraz, Muhammad, Muhammad Tahir, Ataul Aziz Ikram, and Hassan Bajwa. “SeqCompress: An Algorithm for Biological Sequence Compression.” Genomics (2014).

Bach, C., Patra, P., Pallis, J., Sherman, W., & Bajwa, H. (2013). Strategy for Naturelike Designer Transcription Factors with Reduced Toxicity. IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2013.107

Muhammad Sardaraz, Muhammad Tahir, Ataul Aziz Ikram and Hassan Bajwa, “Review of Genome Sequence Short Read Error Correction Algorithms”, American Journal of Bioinformatics Research 2013,  3(1): Pages 1-9

Muhammad Sardaraz, Muhammad Tahir, Ataul Aziz Ikram and Hassan Bajwa, “Applications and Algorithms for Inference of Huge Phylogenetic Trees: a Review”, American Journal of Bioinformatics Research 2012, 2(1): Pages 21-26

Ali Elrashidi, Khaled Elleithy, and Hassan Bajwa, “Performance Analysis of a Microstrip Printed Antenna Conformed on Cylindrical Body at Resonance Frequency 4.6 GHz for TM01 Mode,” Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier, Volume 10, 2012, Pages 775–784.

A. Elrashidi, K. Elleithy, and Hassan Bajwa, “Input Impedance, VSWR and Return Loss of a Conformal Microstrip Printed Antenna for TM01 mode Using Two Different Substrates,” International Journal of Networks and Communications, 2012, 2(2):  Pages 13-19

Ali Elrashedi, Khaled Elleithy, and Hassan Bajwa, “The Effect of Curvature on the Return Loss and Mutual Coupling Coefficient of a Microstrip Printed Antenna Array Conformed on a Cylindrical Body for TM10 Mode,” International Journal of Electromagnetics and Applications, May 2012, vol. 2: Pages. 25-32.

A. Elrashidi, K. Elleithy, and Hassan Bajwa, “The Fringing Field and Resonance Frequency of Cylindrical Microstrip Printed Antenna as a Function of Curvature,” International Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking (IJWCN), Dec. 2011, Vol.3 No.2: Pages 155-162

A. Elrashidi, K. Elleithy, and Hassan Bajwa, “Effect of Curvature on the Performance of a Microstrip Printed Antenna Conformed on Cylindrical Body Using Epsilam-10 Ceramic-Filled Teflon as a Substrate,” American Journal of Materials Science, Nov. 2011: Pages 8-17.

Elrashidi, A., K. Elleithy, and H. Bajwa, The Performance of a Microstrip Printed Antenna Conformed on Cylindrical Body as a Function of Curvature at 4.6 GHz for TM01 Using RT/duroid-5880 PTFE as a Substrate. International Journal of Electromagnetics and Applications: p. 58-67.

Honors and Awards:
Selected Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the University of Bridgeport 2011-2012.
Nominated for 2011 ASEE-NE Region Outstanding Teacher Award.
Honorable Mention Award, 2009, “Nanotechnology Curriculum Initiative in Connecticut,” Hassan Bajwa, Prabir Patra, Xingguo Xiong, Northeast American Society of Engineering Education Conference (ASEE’09), Bridgeport, CT, Apr. 3-4, 2009.

Grants:
“Nanoscale Antennas for Power Harvesting Applications in Space” ” PI: Hassan Bajwa, Co-PI: Jani Pallis, Christian Bach. Status: Awarded $11000/1 year, Agency: NASA-CT Space Grant
“DNA Scaffold based Nanoscale Antenna, PI:Hassan Bajwa Status: Approved. There is no direct funding out of the project. UB team is granted free access to nanofabrication lab facilities at Brookhaven national Lab to conduct research
“IUAV,” Project funding approval received by TANC (the advanced nanotechnology consortium) via CCAT (The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology), Connecticut, of which PI is a team member. Status: Approved, Funding amount $2.4mil, Agency: US Army Joint Munitions and Lethality Center at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ.
“DNA Affinity Patterns of Zinc Finger Proteins, PI:  Christian Bach, Prabir Para and Hassan Bajwa Status: Approved. There is no direct funding out of the project. UB team is granted free access to nanofabrication lab facilities at Brookhaven national Lab to conduct research.
“Graphene Nanoribbon (GNR)-DNA Self Assembly” PI:  Prabir Patra, Saion Sinha, Hassan Bajwa, Christian Bach and Ashish Aphale. Status: Approved. There is no direct funding out of the project. UB team is granted free access to nanofabrication lab at BNL to conduct research on  GNR-DNA Self Assembly.”
ABulk-micromachined MEMS Comb Vibratory Gyroscope,” PI: Xingguo Xiong, Co-PI: Hassan Bajwa. Status: Awarded $6900/1 year, Agency: Seed money grant awarded by University of Bridgeport. 

Education:
Ph.D., Washington State University
M.S., Washington State University
B.S., University of Lahore, Pakistan

Dr. Linfeng Zhang came to the University of Bridgeport in 2007.

Education:
Ph.D., Wayne State University, 2006

Courses Taught:
Power Electronics, Sustainable Energy Lab, Controls, Data Acquisition and Virtual Instrumentation, Fuel Cells

Publications:
“The performance of a grid-tied microgrid with hydrogen storage and a hydrogen fuel cell stack”, Energy Conversion and Management, 2014, 79, P. 421-427

“Energy management in a microgrid with renewable energy resources”, Energy Conversion and Management, 2014, 78, P. 297-305

“Sensing mechanism of the metal/insulator/semiconductor hydrogen sensor”, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2009, 9(10), P. 1196-1201

“Dual-Mode Operation of a Pd/AlN/SiC Device for Hydrogen Sensing” Sensors and Actuators B, 2008, 129(1), P. 35-39

“Characteristic jump in the electrical properties of a Pd/AlN/Si-based device on exposure to hydrogen” Phys. Rev. B 2007(75), 075308

“Reverse Response Transients in a Pd-Ni/AlN/n-Si Hydrogen Sensor” Sensors and Actuators B, 2007. 123(1), P. 277-282

“Response to Hydrogen of a metal/AlN/Si thin film structure: effects of composition and structure of a combination Pd-Cr gate” Sensors and Actuators B, 2006. 113(2): p. 843-851

Grants:
1. Americanizing European hot water technology, Ramboll fundation, Linfeng Zhang, Junling Hu, David Cote, funded$19,000, 2017
2. Solar instructor training network, Department of Energy, Subaward, Linfeng Zhang, $17,000, 2015
3. A Nationwide Consortium of Universities to Revitalize Electric Power Engineering Education by State-of-the-Art Laboratories, U.S. Department of Energy and UB match fund, funded $37,000, 2010
4. Cameca Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (SIMS), Department of Energy, ERLE (Grant # 8982A3 9092 0055)
5. A Bulk-micromachined MEMS Comb Vibratory Gyroscope, UB seed money grant, Xingguo Xiong (PI), Linfeng Zhang (co-PI), Hassan Bajwa (co-PI), funded: $6,930, 2010
6. Integration of the platinum nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes in silicon-based micro fuel cell and silicon-based chemical/biological sensor, Linfeng Zhang (PI), Angela Santiago (co-PI), Xingguo Xiong (co-PI), UB seed money grant, funded $6864.00, 2010
7. Software, ETAP power lab $300,000 from ETAP

Dr. Jeongkyu Lee is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Bridgeport. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2006 under Dr. JungHwan Oh’s supervising. Previously, he received a B.S. from Sungkyunkwan University in Mathematic Education and an M.S. from Sogang University in Computer Science, both of South Korea. Before he pursued his doctorate, he worked as a database administrator for seven years with companies including Boram Bank, Hana Bank and IBM Korea.

Dr. Lee’s primary research area is in the multimedia database management system and analytics. Research interests include graph-based multimedia data modeling, indexing structure, query processing, content/semantic based multimedia retrieval, and summary. In addition, his interests include big data system/analytics, social media data mining, and user profiling. His research works utilize various techniques, such as multimedia data mining, video processing, multimedia ontology, medical imaging/video, and natural user interface.

Education:
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 2006
M.S. in Computer Science, Graduate School Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, 2001
B.S. in Mathematics Education, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, 1996

Courses Taught:
CPSC 651: Big Data Systems and Analytics (Graduate Course)
CPSC 592: Parallel and Distributed Databases (Graduate Course)
CPSC 550: Multimedia Database Systems (Graduate Course)
CPSC 556: Data Mining (Graduate Course)
CPSC 551: Advanced Database Design (Graduate Course)
CPSC 540: Image Processing (Graduate Course)
CPSC 503: Operating Systems (Graduate Course)
CPEG 408: Operating Systems (Undergraduate Course)
CPSC 450: Database Design (Graduate Course)

Publications:
Hau-Wen Chang, Dongwon Lee, Mohammed Eltaher, Jeongkyu Lee, “@Phillies Tweeting from Philly? Predicting Twitter User Locations with Spatial Word Usage,” In IEEE/ACM Int’l Conf. on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Istanbul, Turkey, 111-118, August 2012.
Yingju Chen, Jeongkyu Lee, “Ulcer detection in wireless capsule endoscopy video”. ACM Multimedia 2012: 1181-1184, Nara, Japan, 2012.
Skander Benayed, Ali Eltaher Mohammed, and Jeongkyu Lee. “Developing Kinect-Like Video Motion Detection using Canny Edge Detector,” Proceeding of 2012 New England American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Lowell, MA, April 27-28, 2012.
Jeongkyu Lee, and Omar Abuzaghleh. Implementing an Affordable High Performance Computing Platform for Teaching-oriented Computer Science Curriculum. Proc. of the 2011 National ASEE conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2011. [Award the Best Paper]
Yingju Chen, Ahmad Abushakra and Jeongkyu Lee. “Vision-based Horizon Detection and Target Tracking for UAVs,” In the 7th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, NV, September 2011.
Ying-ju Chen, and Jeongkyu Lee, Bleeding Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Videos using Temporal Features, In the 15th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA 2010), Cambridge, MA, November 2010.
Hau-Wen Chang, Hung-sik Kim, Shuyang, Li, Jeongkyu Lee, and Dongwon Lee, Comparative Study on Subject Classification of Academic Videos using Noisy Transcripts, In IEEE Int’l Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC), Pittsburgh, PA, September 2010.
Omar Abuzaghleh, Kathleen Goldschmidt, Yasser Elleithy, Jeongkyu Lee. Implementing an Affordable High-performance Computing for Teaching-oriented Computer Science Curriculum, ACM Transaction on Computing Education (TOCE) Vol. 13(1): 3, 2013.
Yingju Chen and Jeongkyu Lee, “A Review of Machine-Vision-Based Analysis of Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Video,” Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy, vol. 2012, Article ID 418037, 9 pages, 2012.
Khaled Elleithy, Jeongkyu Lee, Tarek Sobh, Ali El-Rashedy, Jovin Joy, and Leon Manole, “Design and Implementation of Wireless Camera, Communication and Control Modules for a Transformable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”, the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 66(3), 401-414, Springer, 2012.

Honors and Awards:
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Doctoral Research and Assistant Fellowship, University of Texas at Arlington, $6,000/y, 2005 – 2006.
J. T. Hermann Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Texas at Arlington, $1,000/y, 2002–2006.
Outstanding Master Thesis Award, Sogang University, 2001.
Student Scholarship Award, Sungkyunkwan University, 1991 – 1992.

Grants:
2010 – 2011: Advanced Technology in Support of Hybrid Projectiles, FY 2010 Defense Appropriation Request, $2.4 million (Senior Investigator: Jeongkyu Lee, Funded)
2009: Development of a travel grant, U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC), $900.00 (Jeongkyu Lee, Funded)
2009: JusTDo: Developing Automatic Judging System for Taekwondo Poomsae Videos, Seed money grant at University of Bridgeport, $10,000 (PI: Dr. Jeongkyu Lee, Completed)
2008 – 2009: Hybrid Projectile Design, U.S. Army Armament, Research Development & Engineering Center (ARDEC), $57,688 (Co-PI: Dr. Jeongkyu Lee, Completed)
2008 – 2009: A Proposal for the Developing Smart View Module in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Videos, IntorMedic Co., Ltd., $65,000 (PI: Dr. Jeongkyu Lee, Completed).

Education:
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
M.S., University of New Haven
B.S., University of New Haven

The focus of Dr. Patra’s research is to understand the fundamentals of biophysical science processes at a nano-scale and apply their underlying principles to develop hybrid material structure, properties, and arrangement through growth and modification for novel biomedical engineering applications. Keeping this as the central theme, his research is directed toward two major areas. The first area involves continued research efforts on polymer nanomaterials that emphasize creativity and collaboration in developing a new understanding on fundamentals and technology of multifunctional polymer nanocomposite materials and biologically inspired nanomaterials. The second area involves ranges of biomaterials and tissue engineered structures using extensive experience in synthesis-structure-property-function relationships. In essence, his group focuses on the application of evolving nanotechnologies in health and health-based devices, diagnostic tools, and sensing for improving the quality of human life.

Education:
B.S. in Chemistry, Burdwan University, India
M.S. in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Ph.D. in Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Courses Taught:
Biomedical Materials and Engineering
Tissue Engineering
Nanofabrication with Soft materials
Polymer Nanocomposites
Instrumental Analysis of Nanomaterials
Advanced Materials in Engineering

Miad Faezipour is an associate professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bridgeport, CT, and the founder and director of the Digital/Biomedical Embedded Systems & Technology (D-BEST) research laboratory since July 2011. Prior to joining UB as an assistant professor, she has been a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Texas at Dallas collaborating with the CICS and QoLT laboratories. She received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research interests lie in the broad areas of biomedical signal processing and behavior analysis techniques, machine learning/classification, high-speed packet processing architectures, and digital/biomedical embedded systems. She is a member of IEEE, EMBS and IEEE Women in Engineering.

Education:
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, 2010
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, 2006
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2002

Courses Taught:
CPEG 210 Digital Systems Design I
CPEG 315 Digital Systems Design II with Lab
CPEG/BMEG 387/587 Embedded Systems Design
CPEG 447 Logic Synthesis Using FPGAs
CPEG/BMEG 415/515 Advanced Digital Systems

Publications:
M. Daneshzand, M. Faezipour and B. D. Barkana, "Towards Frequency Adaptation for Delayed Feedback Deep Brain Stimulations",   Neural Regeneration Research Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3, Mar. 2018.

A. Alessa and M. Faezipour, "A Review of Influenza Detection and Prediction through Social Networking Sites",   BioMed Central Theoretical Biology and Medical Modeling Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 1-27, Feb. 2018.

M. Daneshzand, M. Faezipour and B. D. Barkana, “Computational Stimulation of the Basal Ganglia Neurons with Cost Effective Delayed Gaussian Waveforms”, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Vol. 11, No. 73, pp. 1-16, Aug. 2017.

M. Daneshzand, M. Faezipour and B. D. Barkana, “Hyperbolic Modeling of Subthalamic Nucleus Cells to Investigate the Effect of Dopamine Depletion”, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2017.

K. A. I. Aboalayon, M. Faezipour, W. S. Almuhammadi and S. Moslehpour, “Sleep Stage Classification Using EEG Signal Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey and New Investigation”, Entropy, Special Issue in Entropy and Electroencephalography II, Vol. 18, No. 9, 272, pp. 1-31, Aug. 2016.

O. Abuzaghleh, B. D. Barkana and M. Faezipour, “Noninvasive Real-Time Automated Skin Lesion Analysis System for Melanoma Early Detection and Prevention”, IEEE Journal on Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (IEEE J-TEHM), Vol. 3, No. 4300212, pp. 1-12, Apr. 2015. RANKED TOP #3 MOST ACCESSED ARTICLES IN MARCH 2017.

A. Abuzneid, T. M. Sobh, M. Faezipour, A. Mahmood and J. James, “Fortified Anonymous Communication Protocol for Location Privacy in WSN: A Modular Approach”, Sensors Journal, Vol. 15, pp. 5821-58642, Mar. 2015.

O. Abuzaghleh, M. Faezipour and B. D. Barkana, “SkinCure: An Innovative Smart Phone Based Application to Assist in Melanoma Early Detection and Prevention”, Signal & Image Processing : An International Journal (SIPIJ) Vol.5, No.6, pp. 1-15, Dec. 2014.

A. Abushakra and M. Faezipour, “Augmenting Breath Regulation Using a Mobile Driven Virtual Reality Therapy Framework”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 746-752, May 2014.

A. Al-Rahayfeh and M. Faezipour*, “Eye Tracking and Head Movement Detection: A State-of-Art Survey”, IEEE Journal on Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, Vol. 1, pp. 1-12, Nov. 2013. RANKED TOP #1 MOST ACCESSED ARTICLES IN MARCH 2017.

A. Abushakra and M. Faezipour*, “Acoustic Signal Classification of Breathing Movements to Virtually Aid Breath Regulation”, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine (TITB), newly named as IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 493-500, March 2013.

S. Ostadabbas, R. Yousefi, M. Nourani, M. Faezipour, L. Tamil and M. Pompeo, “A Resource-Efficient Planning for Pressure Ulcer Prevention,” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (TITB), Vol.16, No. 6, pp. 1265-1273, Nov. 2012.

M. Faezipour*, A. Saeed, M. Nourani and S. Addepalli, “Progress and Challenges in Intelligent Vehicle-Area-Networks”, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 90-100, Feb. 2012.

M. Faezipour*, A. Saeed, S. C. Bulusu, M. Nourani, H. Minn and L. S. Tamil “A Patient-Adaptive Profiling Scheme for ECG Beat Classification”, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 1153-1165, Sep. 2010. RANKED TOP 10 ACCESSED ARTICLES IN DECEMBER 2010.

M. Faezipour*, M. Nourani and R. Panigrahy, “A Hardware Platform for Efficient Worm Outbreak Detection”, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, pp. Vol. 14, No. 4, Article 49, pp. 49-67, Aug. 2009.

A. Saeed, M. Faezipour, M. Nourani, S. Banerjee, G. Lee, G, Gupta, L. S. Tamil, “A Scalable Wireless Body Area Network for Bio-Telemetry”, Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 77-86, Jun. 2009.

M. Faezipour* and M. Nourani, “Wire-Speed TCAM-Based Architectures for Multi-Match Packet Classification”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 5-17, Jan. 2009.

Honors and Awards:
Honored Certificate of Appreciation & Recognition: Contributing Women Faculty, We L.E.A.D & Student Programming Board, March 2017.
Honored Certificate of Appreciation: Scientific Efforts on IEEE International Conference on Multidisciplinary in IT and Communication Science Technologies, May 2016.
Awarded Recognized Reviewer, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control Journal, Feb. 2016
Recipient of the Best Faculty Poster Award, Faculty Research Day, Bridgeport, CT, Mar. 2014.

Grants:
University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $15,000) Jan. 2018-Dec. 2018
Co-Principal Investigator, Dynamic Intrusion Detection System for the Internet-of-Things Using Machine Learning

NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium (Funded: $27,300) Jun. 2017-May 2018
Co-Principal Investigator, Computer-Aided Simulator and Benchmark Testbed for the Internet of WSNs Using Satellite Link Communications
UB’ matching fund: $17,300

University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $9,975) Jan. 2016-Dec. 2016
Co-Principal Investigator, Automatic Gait Balance Detection: Hardware/Software and Mobile Application Design

University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $6,000) Feb. 2015-Feb. 2016
Principal Investigator, Histogram Analysis for Automatic Blood Vessels Detection: First Step of Intraocular Pressure (IOP)

University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $6,000) Feb. 2014-Feb. 2015
Principal Investigator, Efficient EEG Analysis for Seizure Monitoring in Epileptic Patients

University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $6,000) Feb. 2014-Feb. 2015
Co-Principal Investigator, SKINaid: A Real-Time Image Analysis System to Aid in the Malignant Melanoma Prevention and Early Detection

National Science Foundation (NSF) (Funded: $2,000) Mar. 2013-Mar. 2014
Co-Principal Investigator, Engaging Students: Everyday Examples in Engineering (E3s)
NSF E3s Minigrant

NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium (Funded: $5,000) 2013-May 2013
Investigator/Supervisor, Identifying Breathing Movements to Aid Breath Regulation
Undergraduate Fellowship Awarded to Sarah Michels

University of Bridgeport Seed Money Grant (Funded: $6,000 Ranked:#1 Mar. 2012-Mar. 2013
Principal Investigator, Breathing Movement Classification for Lung Cancer Patients

Abhilasha Tibrewal is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. She currently teaches courses in programming languages, algorithms and computer ethics. In addition, she serves as the ABET coordinator for the department; the faculty advisor to the UB chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon; and, the Co-Director of Grand Challenges Scholar Program. In the past, she has been the recipient of the "Distinguished Professor of the Year", University of Bridgeport, academic year 2008-2009. 

Education:
M.S. Computer Science University of Bridgeport
M.S. Education University of Bridgeport
M.S. Home Science (Textiles & Clothing) Lady Irwin College, Delhi University, India
B.S. Home Science (Textiles & Clothing) Lady Irwin College, Delhi University, India

Grants:
ASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium
(Funded: $5,000)
Dec. 2017-May 2018

Grants:
NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium
(Funded: $27,300)
Jun. 2017-May 2018