- Last Name Starting With: P
Research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing.
Transport phenomena, polymer processing, rheology of polymers and suspensions, interfacial phenomena.
Semiconductors, dry etching, rapid thermal processing, ion
beam techniques, high b-field effects on materials, hydrogen in
electronic materials, physics of semi-conductor devices.
Computer graphics (models, animation, real time rendering, interaction) geometric algorithms (surface representation, applied differential geometry), medical modeling, visualization.
Computational materials science, Interfaces in materials, ferroelectrics, complex oxides, polycrystalline and nanocrystalline materials, thermal transport.
Energy and Resource Efficient Building and Process Systems; IEQ and Sick Building Investigations; Heat and Mass Transfer.
Laboratory management, development of analytical
instrumentation and procedures, powder processing, lab safety,
course development, particle science research, sol gel
processing.
Adaptive, non-Gaussian signal processing, nonlinear dynamical
systems, information-theoretic learning, applications to pattern
recognition and DSP systems, information technology in
education.
Bioprocess design, modeling, control and optimization; wastewater and solid waste management, treatment and disposal; environmental biotechnology