CSA Current Center Faculty

The following faculty are currently associated with CSA. We are strongly interested in participation of and collaboration with additional faculty working in areas related to System Assurance.

Dr. Howard Blair [blair@ecs.syr.edu]
Dr. Blair is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Syracuse University. He recieved his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1980. His research interests linclude Logic in Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, and Complex Systems.

Dr. Steve Chapin, Director [chapin@ecs.syr.edu]
Dr. Steve Chapin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in the area of distributed computing, where he worked under the direction of Eugene Spafford and was an original member of the COAST laboratory. His research interests are in the broad area of distributed systems, including distributed operating systems, metacomputing, distributed resource management, networking, and security. Prior to joining Syracuse University, Dr. Chapin was on the faculty at the University of Virginia, where he was a co-investigator on the Legion metacomputing project.

Dr. Shiu-Kai Chin [skchin@syr.edu]
Dr. Shiu-Kai Chin is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is Director of the NY State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE). He is a Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence¾Syracuse University’s highest award for teaching. His areas of expertise include high-assurance design methods for very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits and software, computer-aided design, and information security. Prior to joining Syracuse University, Dr. Chin was at General Electric for eleven years. At GE he was a senior engineer and program manager. From 1995 to 1999, Dr. Chin was a member of the Defensive Information Warfare Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Rome Research Site. His duties included fundamental and applied research in high-confidence system design and helping organize research programs in network security and computer forensics. He is on the Advisory Board of the Computer Forensics Research and Development Center at Utica College.

Dr. Wenliang (Kevin) Du [wedu@ecs.syr.edu]
Dr. Kevin Du is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2001 from Purdue University in the area of computer and information security, where he worked in the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). His research interests include a broad range of security issues in information, system and network security.

Dr. Kamal Jabbour [jabbour@syr.edu]
Dr. Kamal Jabbour is Director of the Central New York Advanced Course in Engineering, and an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at Syracuse University. He is currently on assignment to the Defensive Information Warfare Branch of the Air Force Research Lab in Rome, NY. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Salford, England, in 1982. His areas of expertise include Computer Networks and Computer Architecture. He received the General Electric Award for Teaching Excellence in 1987, and the Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor Award in 1997 from the Gamma Eta Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the International Honor Society for Electrical Engineers.

Dr. Nazanin Mansouri [namansou@ecs.syr.edu]
Dr. Mansouri is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Syracuse University. She recieved her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 2000. Her research interests inlcude VLSI Design and CAD, High-Level Synthesis, Logic Systhesis, Formal Methods, Reconfigurable Computing, and Rapid Prototyping.

Dr. Roman Markowski [roman@webwisdom.com]
Dr. Roman Markowski is a Research Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and IS Manager in the Center for Systems Assurance. Roman also holds two other management positions, the first at WebWisdom.com, Inc (dba Collabworx), and the second in Red Team Consulting Company, LLC. At the same time Roman teaches graduate courses at Syracuse University focused on Computer Network Design, Network Security and E-commerce Infrastructures. Roman holds MSc in theoretical astrophysics and PhD in computational solid-state physics from the Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland, where he worked as a Director of the University Computer Center. Roman joined Syracuse University in 1993.

Dr. Susan Older, Education Director [sueo@ecs.syr.edu]
Dr. Susan Older is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science with a Ph.D. in Pure and Applied Logic in 1996. Her research areas include the semantics of concurrency and mobility, logics of programs, security, and formal methods.

Dr. Lisa Osadciw [laosadci@syr.edu]
Dr. Osadciw is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Syracuse University. She recieved a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1998. Her research interests include Spread Spectrum Signal Design, Wireless Communications and Radar Systems, Radar Signal Processing, Multi-sensor Fusion Processing, Digital Receivers, Adaptive and Statistical Signal Processing, and Tracking.

Dr. Leonard Popyack [Leonard.Popyack@rl.af.mil]
Dr. Popyack is a Research Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Syracuse University. He recieved his Ph.D. from Binghamton University in 1998. His research interests include Watermarking, Steganography, Information Attack Detection, and Information Security System Architectures.

Dr. James Royer [royer@ecs.syr.edu]
Dr. Royer is a Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Syracuse University. He recieved his Ph.D. from SUNY/Buffalo in 1984. His research interests include Theory of the Computational Complexity of Higher-Type Functionals, Structural Computational Complexity Theory, Computational Learning Theory, and Biological Computing.

Dr. Pramod Varshney [varshney@syr.edu]
Mr. Pramod Varshney has been a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University since 1976. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science (with highest honors), and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1972, 1974, and 1976 respectively. At present, he is the research director of The New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE). His current research interests are in distributed sensor networks and data fusion, detection and estimation theory, wireless communications, image processing, radar signal processing and parallel algorithms.

Dr. Junseok Hwang [Jshwang@syr.edu]
Junseok Hwang is an Assistant Professor of School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. His research focuses generally on two areas: the region where telecommunication technology and public policy meet and where the telecommunication market driver and structures are enabled with technologies. Previously, Professor Hwang has been working in IP telephony, PSTN and Internet Integration, and Economic and QoS Issues of the next generation Internet. His recent research areas cover p2p networking, middleware networks and network generation numbering and signaling systems. He holds a BS in Mathematics and Economics from Yonsei University, an MS in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a PhD in Information Sciences and Telecommunications from University of Pittsburgh.

Liz Liddy [liddy@syr.edu]
Liz Liddy teaches courses in Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Data Mining. She frequently serves as the Academic Supervisor for graduate internships. In September 1999, Liz was named Director of Syracuse University's Center for Natural Language Processing. The Center's mission is to advance the development of human-like language understanding software capabilities for government, commercial, and consumer applications. Liz's main research focus is Natural Language Processing (NLP), an area of research in which she has been active since her dissertation research which culminated in her award winning dissertation in 1988, one of the first to prove the utility of NLP for Information Science. Since that time Liz has led 30 research projects, all based on the use of NLP for improved information access and analytics.

Dave Molta [djmolta@syr.edu]
As Assistant Professor of Information Studies at Syracuse University, Dave Molta teaches classes on information technology and information systems, drawing on over 15 years of experience in managing computer and network systems. Molta also holds two other positions, the first as Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing magazine, and the second as Director of Syracuse University's Center for Emerging Network Technologies (CENT). He received his Bachelors degree in education from the State University of New York at Oswego before earning a Masters Degree in Public Administration at the University of North Texas.

Dr. Milton Mueller [mueller@syr.edu]
Milton Mueller teaches and does research on telecommunications and information policy. He uses the theoretical tools of property rights analysis, institutional economics and historical analysis. He has a longstanding interest in the history of communication technologies and has recently begun to focus on international governance and institutions. Mueller received the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. Mueller's most recent book is Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002). He has also published books and scholarly journal articles on telecommunications development in China, digital convergence, and numerous research papers on radio spectrum property rights, interconnection, and telecommunications liberalization.

Pat Longstaff [phlongst@syr.edu]
Longstaff is an educator and analyst specializing in the business and public policy issues affecting the communications industry in the US and internationally. Her teaching assignments at Newhouse include classes on current trends in the communications industry, global communication issues and communications law/policy. She is also a Research Associate at Harvard University's Center for Information Policy Research where she works on issues of global communications policy.
In addition to a law degree and a master's degree in mass communication form the University of Iowa, she received a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard in 1994. She has also received extensive training in business management, finance, and marketing. She practiced communication and corporate law for 18 years, representing newspapers, broadcasters, advertising agencies, and telephone companies. She is the co-author of two books on communication law and has written for many mass media and trade publications on her research topics.

Dr. Stu Thorson [thorson@syr.edu]
Dr. Stu Thorson is a professor of International Relations and Political Science. He is the Director of Information Technology. Thorson recieved his Ph.D.from the University of Minnesota in 1972.

Dr. Dana Hall, Associate Director [dlhall03@syr.edu] Phone: (315) 443-3684
Dr. Hall is a staff member within the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Systems Assurance at Syracuse University. Prior to joining SU, Dr. Hall was a Senior Vice President at Science Applications International Corporation where he was responsible for a $100M annual revenue organization providing systems integration services to federal, state, and local government customers. Dr. Hall has three engineering degrees from Purdue University, has published more than twelve papers for technical journals, and has developed two software engineering courses. Prior to his career with SAIC, Dr. Hall served as a member of the Senior Executive Service with NASA.