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Jeremy Allnut

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Expertise: Satellite Communications, Communications systems, Radiowave propagation, Fade mitigation techniques

Allnutt joined George Mason University in 2000 as the founding director of the MS in Telecommunications program after a research career in England, Canada and the U.S. with government agencies, private industry, an international organization, and universities in both the U.S. and England.  His research interests include all aspects of communications systems, in particular satellite communications and radiowave propagation, on which topics he has written three books and more than 100 refereed articles at conferences and in journals.  More recently, Allnutt has focused on techniques for minimizing the impact of propagation effects on satellite links, referred to generically as Fade Mitigation Techniques.  Allnutt is a fellow of the UK Institution of Technology and Engineering (formerly the IEE) and a fellow of the US Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Media Contact: Jennifer Edgerly, 703-993-8699, jedgerly@gmu.edu

Jesse Bockstedt

Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management

Expertise: Data mining and data visualization, digital information goods, electronic commerce, emerging technologies, IT ecosystems and IT evolution and online consumer behavior

Bockstedt is an assistant professor of management information systems in the School of Management at George Mason University. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on electronic commerce, Internet business and systems analysis and design. His research interests include the dynamics of information technology evolution, consumer adoption and use of internet technologies, data mining, electronic commerce and information visualization.

Bockstedt has worked as an information technology and management consultant at Accenture and in the business services group at IBM Research. He has experience in systems design and implementation, project management, business process management and redesign and business analytics.

Bockstedt has published research in Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Technology and Management, International Journal of Electronic Commerce and MIS Quarterly.

Media Contact: Jennifer Edgerly, 703-993-8699, jedgerly@gmu.edu

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Michael Bronzini

Department Chair and Dewberry Chair Professor of Civil Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering

Expertise: marine transportation and inland waterways, freight transportation, transportation education and training

Conducting research on transportation systems since 1970, Bronzini is continuing his career in research and teaching, with a focus on innovative solutions to complex multi-modal transportation systems problems. Prior to coming to Mason, Bronizi was director of the Center for Transportation Analysis at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, overseeing an interdisciplinary transportation research program with annual expenditures of $12.5 million. He is a registered professional engineer and is a member of the Transportation Research Board, where he has served on numerous committees and panels.

Media Contact: Jennifer Edgerly, 703-993-8699, jedgerly@gmu.edu

Gerald Cook

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Expertise: Automatic control sytems, Robotics, Estimation and Identification, Landmine detection

Cook is the Earle C. Williams Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Life Fellow of IEEE, a former President of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and a former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. His areas of interest include automatic control systems and robotics as well as signal processing. He has performed numerous research projects in these and other areas with well over 100 refereed publications. Recent research has been in the area of sensor-bearing vehicles used for remote sensing. Emphasis is on control and navigation of the vehicle, and geo-registration of the sensed objects of interest. Military applications include search for landmines and other types of strategic targets and may involve airborne as well as ground vehicles. Other potential non-military applications include search for survivors in disaster areas as well as exploration of various types in areas inaccessible to humans.

Media Contact: Jennifer Edgerly, 703-993-8699, jedgerly@gmu.edu

Kenneth De Jong

Professor of Computer Science

Expertise: Genetic algorithms, Evolutionary computation, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Complex adaptive systems

De Jong came to Mason in 1984. He is head of the Evolutionary Computation Laboratory and associate director of the Krasnow Institute. His research interests include genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, machine learning, and adaptive systems. He also is interested in experience-based learning in which systems must improve their performance while actually performing the desired tasks in environments not directly in their control or the control of a benevolent teacher. Support for these projects is provided by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Office of Naval Research, and the Naval Research Laboratory. A member of the evolutionary computation research community, De Jong has been involved in organizing many of the workshops and conferences in this area. He is the founding editor in chief of the journal Evolutionary Computation and a member of the board of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.

Media Contact: Jennifer Edgerly, 703-993-8699, jedgerly@gmu.edu

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Zoran Duric

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Expertise: Computer vision, Video image processing, Human-computer interaction, Information hiding

The central theme of Duric's computer vision research is understanding the motions of humans and of vehicles driven by humans. Application areas for this research include smart rooms, video surveillance and monitoring, human-computer interaction, secure driving/ intelligent highways, and video coding.

In his work he has been applying techniques from such domains as theoretical kinematics and dance notation to analyze physical and geometrical constraints on the motions of humans and vehicles. This research will result in methods that significantly improve on currently available techniques for computing human-generated motions of objects.

In his previous work he developed the Frenet-Serret and Darboux motion models to describe physically possible motions of tools and vehicles. In his current workhe is extending this research to understanding human motions. In particular Duric is investigating how dance notation can be used to describe human motions in such domains as gestures and sports.

In the domain of human motion understanding Duric is interested in gestures and simple activities performed by small numbers of humans. In the gesture domain a single human is viewed by one or more cameras. The human uses upper body gestures such as posture, head pose (nods, etc.), shoulder movements (shrugs, etc.), hand and arm movements, palm facings, finger pointings, and so on to convey a message. In the domain of "general'' human motions and sports Duric is interested in simple movements that are performed in an approximately upright position, such as walking, running, etc.

Media Contact: Jennifer Edgerly, 703-993-8699, jedgerly@gmu.edu

Donald Gantz

Professor and Chair, Department of Applied Information Technology

Expertise: Information technology, Forensics, Computer simulation, Handwriting analysis

Gantz has taught courses  on basic statistics, probability, stochastic systems, computer simulation, case studies in applied statisticsat the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests are mathematical economics, applied statistics, flight test analysis, computer performance engineering and capacity planning, computer simulation and management decision systems.

He is an active researcher and practitioner in the application of geographic information systems, modeling systems and decision support systems to transportation demand management and traffic mitigation. Throughout his years as an applied statistician, he has been involved with survey design, analysis and reporting. He has considerable experience in the development of management decision systems and in litigation related analyses. He has done research, published papers and made presentations about the relationship between tuberculosis and demographic and socioeconomic factors in Northern Virginia.

Media Contact: Jennifer Edgerly, 703-993-8699, jedgerly@gmu.edu

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Anup Ghosh

Research Professor and Chief Scientist in the Center for Secure Information Systems

Expertise: Computer security (including software and operating system security), Cyber security, Networking security, Malicious code and software, Virtualization

Ghosh is research professor and chief scientist in the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) at George Mason University. He is also the founder of Secure Command, LLC, a start-up developing next generation Internet security products. Ghosh's research focuses on combating malicious software. He has developed novel approaches for securing desktops using virtualization. He is also developing techniques for detecting malicious code within enterprise networks by classifying network traffic flows. 

Prior to joining Mason, Ghosh was senior scientist and program manager in the Advanced Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he managed an extensive portfolio of information assurance and information operations programs. He has served as principal investigator on contracts from DARPA, NSA, and NIST's Advanced Technology Program and has written more than 40 peer-reviewed conference and journal articles. Ghosh is also author of three books on computer network defense

Media Contact: Jennifer Edgerly, 703-993-8699, jedgerly@gmu.edu

Kenneth Hintz

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Expertise: Image processing, Information based sensor managment, Computer engineering, Marine science and engineering

Hintz received his PhD in electrical engineering in 1981 from the University of Virginia for his development of a new theory of information-based sensor management. In 1987, Hintz joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mason. His research is in the areas of information-based sensor management and image and ground-penetrating radar signal processing. He has several issued patents, pending applications, a book published by McGraw-Hill, and he recently conducted funded research on information-based sensor management for the next generation of sensing platforms. His current research is in landmine detection and modeling of improvised explosive device force interaction.

Media Contact: Jennifer Edgerly, 703-993-8699, jedgerly@gmu.edu

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Bijan Jabbari

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Expertise: Broadband communications, Wireless cellular networks, Video communications

Jabbari is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at George Mason University and an affiliated faculty with ENST- Paris, France. He has held industrial positions with major communications service providers and networking equipment organizations developing data communications products. Jabbari founded innovative laboratories for Internet and wireless communications research and is conducting research through funding provided by National Science Foundation and other funding organizations.

 

Media Contact: Jennifer Edgerly, 703-993-8699, jedgerly@gmu.edu

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