Members of the Graduate Faculty

Brandon L. Alderman, Assistant Professor of Exercise Science and Sport Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Arizona State
Effects of exercise on cardiovascular and mental health

Clinton J. Andrews, Professor of Planning and Public Policy, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Energy and environmental planning; regulatory reform; planning methods

Haim Baruh, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Structural dynamics; control systems; smart structures

Karen Bemis, Research Associate, IEOAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Marine geophysics; hydrothermal plume behavior; volcano morphology; visualization

Nada N. Boustany, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Cell analysis; optical imaging and spectroscopy; apoptosis; morphological phenotypes and patterns of gene expression during early cancer development

David W. Coit, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Reliability; optimization and energy systems modeling

Rong Di, Assistant Research Professor of Biotechnology, SEBS; Ph.D., Iowa State
Mechanisms of shiga-like toxins produced by E. coli 0157:H7; development of molecular techniques for food safety

Zoran Gajic, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Michigan
Controls systems; energy systems (fuel and solar cells, wind, smart grids); wireless communications; networking

Spencer Kimball, Associate Director of Oncology Chemistry, Bristol-Myers Squibb; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Inhibition of cyclin-dependent kineases; discovery of mechanism-based anticancer drugs

John Kolassa, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Series approximation methods to probability distributions and their roles in statistical inference

Uta Krogmann, Associate Extension Specialist of Environmental Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (Germany)
Solid-waste management and engineering; sustainability engineering; recycling; waste minimization; composting; bioreactor landfills; biosolids; life-cycle assessment

Adam Kustka, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, FAS-N; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Phytoplankton trace metal physiology and biogeochemistry

Richard Lathrop, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, SEBS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Remote sensing and spatial modeling of terrestrial aquatic ecosystems

Michael Lawton, Associate Professor of Plant Science, SEBS/BCAE; Ph.D., Oxford
Plant defense responses; signal transduction

Michael E. Lesk, Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Harvard
Digital libraries; digital preservation and the economics of digital information

Richard Mammone, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., CUNY
Digital signal processing: image restoration; speech recognition; medical imaging

Benjamin Melamed, Professor of Management Science and Information Systems, RBS/RUTCOR; Ph.D., Michigan
Stochastic processes; modeling and simulation; telecommunications modeling; programming languages

Hani H. Nassif, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Michigan; P.E.
Analysis and design of bridges; reliability analysis; structural modeling and analysis

Daniel L. Ocone, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stochastic processes; stochastic control; filtering

Manish Parashar, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, SAS/SE/CINJ; Director, Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute; Associate Director, Rutgers Center for Information Assurance; Director, The Applied Software Systems Laboratory (TASSL); Ph.D., Syracuse
Parallel and distributed computing; software engineering

Hoang Pham, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, SE; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
System reliability modeling; maintenance; software reliability

William M. Pottenger, Associate Research Professor of Computer Science, SAS/DIMACS; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Statistical relational learning; online learning; sense making; privacy

Mark Robson, Professor of Entomology, SEBS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Public health; agrochemical toxicology

Ivan Rodero, Research Associate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Parallel and distributed computing; extreme-scale computing: energy/power efficiency, cloud and automatic computing, big data

Charles M. Roth, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Delaware
Molecular bioengineering; gene-based technologies; cell systems engineering

David I. Shreiber, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
CNS injury mechanics; tissue engineering; nerve and spinal cord regeneration; acupuncture; microfluidics

Ralf Warmuth, Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität (Germany)
Design and synthesis of conformationally constrained peptides and of ion channels

Lyna Wiggins, Associate Professor of Planning and Public Policy, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
GIS; computer applications in planning

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

David Kimball, Research Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Cardiovascular disease; metabolic disease; inflammation; oncology and neuroscience; pain

Paul Meers, Undergraduate Program Director of Biotechnology, Rutgers; Ph.D., Cornell
Biochemistry; lipid membranes; biopharmaceutical delivery; nanotechnology

Dipanjan Nag, President, Prediqtus; Ph.D., M.B.A., Nebraska (Lincoln)
Chemistry; intellectual property

Michael Shakarjian, Assistant Professor of Medicine, RWJMS; Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth
Drug discovery and development

Matthew Sills, Instructor, PSM; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
GLP toxicology; safety pharmacology; genotoxicity; drug metabolism

Sangya Varma, COO, NJ Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers; Ph.D., Southern Mississippi
Chemistry; polymer chemistry