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New Mexico State University
Office of the Vice President for Research

Computer Science and Computer and Electrical Engineering

NMSU's Research Areas
NMSU professors of Computer Science Enrico Pontelli and Son Cao Tran (seated) explain their researching techniques to students. They recently received a $340,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study artificial intelligence specifically related to research on the planning and development of intelligent software agents.

Major research in this area includes work of the Army high-performance computing center; Department of Defense (DoD) funded development of laser based navigation and geolocation; technologies for those with visual or hearing impairment; a partnership with the University of California at Davis to develop advanced sensing and control technologies for crop resource management; and the Department of Energy (DOE) funded development of an all sky camera network to monitor atmospheric meteor events.

Major Projects

Researchers

Department of Computer Science
  • Huiping Cao Databases, data mining
  • Jonathan Cook, Software engineering
  • Yuho Jin, Computer architecture: on-chip interconnection networks, multicore architecture, memory systems, parallel computing, energy-efficient design
  • Hing Leung, Automata theory
  • Satyajayant Misra, Computer networks, wireless networks, sensor networks, social networks
  • Inna Pivkina, Computer science education, data mining, AI: knowledge representation and reasoning, logic and constraint programming
  • Enrico Pontelli, Parallel computing, bioinformatics, computer science education, artificial intelligence (AI): assistive technologies, knowledge representation and reasoning, logic and constraint programming, autonomous agents, web agents, robotics, control theory, reasoning about actions and changes, planning, scheduling
  • Joe Song, Bioinformatics, computer vision & image processing, statistical computing, data mining
  • Son Tran, Artificial intelligence: reasoning about actions and changes, planning, scheduling, autonomous agents, web agents, robotics, control theory, knowledge representation and reasoning, logic programming
  • Karen Villaverde, Interval computations, fuzzy logic, educational computing gaming, computer science education
  • William Yeoh, Multi-agent systems, distributed constraint reasoning, heuristic search, and planning with uncertainty
Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Photonics and Electromagnetics

  • Charles Boehmer, Satellite design and systems engineering
  • Jeanine Cook, Microarchitecture simulation techniques, performance modeling and analysis and Microarchitectural power optimizations
  • Paul M. Furth, Analog and mixed-signal VLSI, CMOS image sensors and power management circuits
  • Hong Huang, Wireless networks, sensor networks and optical networks
  • Vojin G. Oklobdzija VLSI, Low-Power and Design, Microprocessor Design, Computer Arithmetic, Computer Architecture
  • Krist A. Petersen Computers
  • Jaime Ramirez-Angulo Design and test of high performance and low voltage analog and mixed signal VLSI Systems
  • Steven J. Stochaj, Particle astrophysics and computer performance
  • Wei Tang, Analog, mixed signal and RF Integrated circuits and systems for biomedical applications, wireless sensor and communication systems

Signals and Systems

  • Deva K. Borah, Digital communications, RF and optical wireless communications, detection and estimation techniques
  • Laura Boucheron, Signal and image processing, pattern classification, applications of signal and image processing, medical image analysis, bioinformatics
  • Charles D. Creusere,Distributed audio and video coding, polarimetric image processing, audio quality analysis
  • Phillip De Leon, Speech processing, pattern classification/machine learning, Embedded systems
  • Jorg Kliewer, Error correcting codes, network coding and network information theory, joint source channel coding, signal processing for communications applications

Power and Control

  • Sukumar Brahma, Power system protection, digital relaying, energy distribution systems and distributed generation
  • Wenxin Liu, Intelligent control of power systems, control and optimization of microgrids, computational intelligence and fault detection and diagnosis
  • Robert Paz, Robust control design, robotics and reduced gravity simulation
  • Nadipuram Prasad, Control Systesm
  • Satishkumar J. Ranade, Power system modeling and control, power electronics applications, renewable energy and microgrids

Photonics and Electromagnetics

  • Sang-Yeon ChoPhotonic microcavities, surface plasmon polaritons, photonic sensors, optoelectronics and nanophotonics
  • Muhammad DawoodUWB Radar/SAR systems, phased array antennas, and advanced signal processing techniques for radar/SAR data
  • Kwong T. NgBioelectromagnetics, biomedical computing and electromagnetic source imaging
  • David VoelzSpectral/polarization sensing, laser communication and sensing systems
  • Xifeng XiaoWave optics and modeling of deep atmospheric turbulence; liquid-crystal polarization; acousto-optic imaging spectrometer design and polarimetric imaging

Major Units