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TASI Faculty


Director, Yaobin Chen

Yaobin Chen, Ph.D., Director

Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Dr. Chen's areas of expertise include modeling, control, optimization, and simulation of advanced transportation and vehicle systems, power and energy systems, and biological systems, as well as computational intelligence and its applications.

Associate Director, Sarah Koskie

Sarah Koskie, Ph.D., Associate Director

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Current research interests include pattern recognition and sensor data fusion; system identification for simulation, modelling, and control design; and fault detection, isolation, and accomodation.

Associate Director, Paul Ainslie

Paul Ainslie, Ph.D., Associate Director

Chief Engineer, Advanced Product and Business Development, Delphi Electronics & Safety, Kokomo, Indiana; Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Research interests include active safety, sensing systems, integrated circuits, bioengineering and technology strategy.

Russ Eberhart

Russ Eberhart, Ph.D., Simulator Lab Director

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Research Interests: Computational intelligence concepts, paradigms, and implementations, especially swarm intelligence. (Co-developer of particle swarm optimization.) Sensing, analysis, and countermeasures for sleepy or inattentive driving. Human tremor measurement and analysis. Extended and evolutionary extended analog computing.

Sohel Anwar

Sohel Anwar, Ph.D., P.E.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Current research interests include fault-tolerant control of drive-by-wire systems, sensor data fusion, detection/diagnosis systems, alcohol sensor development, vehicle dynamics and control, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) control, modeling and simulation, micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS).

Ed Berbari

Ed Berbari, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Current research includes biomedical instrumentation, biosignal processing, cardiac electrophysiology, sudden cardiac death, arrhythmias.

Anthony D. Cox

Anthony D. Cox, Ph.D.

Professor of Marketing and Chancellor's Faculty Fellow, Kelley School of Business

Current research examines how consumers evaluate the risks of using (and not using) medical products; how message framing influences health-related behaviors; and how measuring intentions and attitudes influences subsequent behavior.

Yingzi (Eliza) Du

Yingzi (Eliza) Du, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Current research interests include pattern recognition, image processing, biometrics, and their applications.

Vincent Duffy, Ph.D.

Vincent Duffy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, School of Industrial Engineering; Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Purdue University

Current research interests include human factors, digital human modeling, safety engineering, work methods and measurement, and ergonomics. Dr. Duffy has participated regularly in various SAE related conferences. He is editor of the books titled Digital Human Modeling (2007, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4561) and Handbook of Digital Human Modeling (2009; Taylor & Francis).

Anthony Faiola

Anthony Faiola, Ph.D., M.F.A.

Associate Professor, Director, Media Arts and Science, Director, Human-Computer Interaction, Executive Associate Dean, Indiana University - School of Informatics at IUPUI; Associate Professor - Adjunct, Purdue University - School of Engineering and Technology

Dr. Faiola's research includes the broader domains of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Usability Engineering, with a specific interest in the interplay between human-centricity and system design. Applied research interests include: 1) Computer-Mediated Communication and the impact of cultural cognition on interactive system design, and 2) Medical Informatics related to the design and testing of medical product and information systems.

David Good, Ph.D.

David Good, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University; Director, IU Transportation Research Center

Current research interests include quantitative policy modeling, productivity measurement in public and regulated industries and urban policy analysis.

Xiaohui Hu

Xiaohui Hu, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Current research interests are in the areas of biomedical data analysis, sleep research, automatic control, signal processing, embedded system design, and computational intelligence.

Michael Justiss, Ph.D., OTR/L

Michael Justiss, Ph.D., OTR/L

Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Current research efforts focus on assessment strategies to identify deficits in driving-related skills and driving performance; rehabilitation and intervention strategies to maintain driving independence; and alternative transportation strategies to maintain community mobility and participation when driving is no longer a safe option.

Steven Landry, Ph.D.

Steven Landry, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Current research interests include human factors, air transportation systems engineering, flight deck human factors, safety in human-integrated systems, and human performance modeling.

Karl MacDorman, Ph.D

Karl MacDorman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Program, Indiana University School of Informatics; Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Current research interests include android science, human-robot interaction, symbol emergence, sensorimotor representation, and cognitive neuroscience.

Sean O'Connor, M.D.

Sean O'Connor, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering, Indiana University School of Medicine and Purdue University; Director, Substance Abuse Treatment Section, RLR VAMC; Scientific Co-Director, Indiana Alcohol Research Center

Current projects include intravenous infusion to control the human brain's exposure to alcohol, development of physiologically-based models of alcohol pharmacokinetics, identification of phenotypes of risk for alcoholism and development of an implantable alcohol biosensor.

Paul Salama, Ph.D.

Paul Salama, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Current research interests include image and video compression, image processing, biomedical image analysis, secure and reliable transmission of compressed video and images, and their applications.

Glenn R. Widmann, Ph.D.

Glenn R. Widmann, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Dr. Widmann's areas of expertise include advanced transportation and vehicle systems, active safety systems and its applications and sensors (lidar, radar and vision), control system design, system engineering, modeling and simulation, data fusion, as well as robotics.


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