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C. A. Shue, Professor and Department Head; Ph.D., Indiana University, 2009. Computer networking, security, distributed systems.
E. O. Agu, Harold L. Jurist ('61) and Heather E. Jurist Dean's Professor; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2001. Computer graphics, wireless networking, mobile computing and mobile health.
M. Ahrens, Assistant Teaching Professor; Ph.D., Tufts University, 2022. Programming languages and CS education.
T. Andrews, Instructor; MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. Systems software engineering and cloud computing.
S. Arslan Ay, Associate Teaching

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E. A. Rundensteiner, The William Smith Dean's Professor, Computer Science and Program Head, Data Science Program. Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1992. Big data systems, big data analytics, visual analytics, machine learning/deep learning, health analytics, AI and fairness.
F. Emdad, Teaching Professor, Data Science Program. Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2007. Business analytics, computational and applied mathematics.
W. Gerych, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department. Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2023. Trustworthy machine learning.
T. Ghoshal, Assistant

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D. R. Brown, Professor and Department Head; Ph.D., Cornell University. Signal processing, synchronization, control systems, inference, and wireless networks.
M. M. Asheghan, Assistant Teaching Professor, PhD. University of Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. Robust control, statistical shape analysis, complex networks' synchronization, chaotic systems, convex optimization, soft robotics, machine mearning. 
S. V. Bhada, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Huntsville. Modeling and Analysis of Policy Content and Systems Engineering.
E. A. Clancy, Professor; Ph.D

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A. Simeoni, Professor and Department Head, Ph.D., University of Corsica; modeling, simulation and experiments of wildfires, heat and mass transfer, fire fighting and land management.
N. A. Dembsey, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Fire properties of materials and protective clothing via bench-top scale experimentation; compartment fire dynamics via residential scale experimentation, evaluation, development and validation of compartment fire models, performance fire codes, engineering design tools, and engineering forensic tools.
K. A. Notarianni, Associate

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E. O. Agu, Professor; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2001. Computer graphics, wireless networking, and mobile computing.
S. Barton, Associate Professor; Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2012. Human-robot interaction in music composition and performance, design of robotic musical instruments, music perception and cognition, audio production.
S. Bhada, Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering; Ph.D., University of Alabama. Modeling based systems engineering (MBSE), engineering education and team mental models.
F. J. Chery, Assistant Teaching Professor; M.F.A., FullSail University

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Individually Designed Ph.D. Degrees

Students who have been admitted to a Ph.D. program at WPI may design their own interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in consultation with faculty members relevant to the proposed project.

Individually designed Ph.D. degrees are initiated by a student with the support of groups of at least three

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S. Olson, William Steur Professor and Department Head; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2008. Mathematical biology, computational biofluids, scientific computing. 

J. Abraham, Senior Instructor and Actuarial Mathematics Coordinator; Fellow, Society of Actuaries, 1991; B.S., University of Iowa, 1980. 

A. Arnold, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2014. Inverse problems, uncertainty quantification, scientific computing, Bayesian inference, parameter estimation in biological and medical applications. 

F. Bernardi, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of

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R.W. Hyers, George I. Alden Professor and Department Head, Ph.D. MIT 1998. High-temperature materials and materials processing, including both modeling and experiments. Properties of liquids and solids at high temperature. Computer-aided experiments, including on the International Space Station
M. Bhatia, Associate Teaching Professor, Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2014. Understanding the effect of 1D, 2D and 3D defects on structure-property relationships in advanced materials such as magnesium and titanium alloys related to the aerospace, automotive and nuclear industries at different

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D. T. Petkie, Department Head and Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State University. Photonic Integrated Circuits, Millimeter-wave and Terahertz sensing, spectroscopy, electromagnetic scattering and propagation, photonics, optics and imaging.
P. K. Aravind, Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern University. Quantum information theory.
N. A. Burnham, Professor; Ph.D., University of Colorado. Mechanical properties of nanostructures, instrumentation for nanomechanics.
G. S. Iannacchione, Professor; Ph.D., Kent State University. Soft condensed matter physics/ complex fluids, liquid-crystals, calorimetry, and