| First Name | Last Name | Department | Title | Phone Extension | Office Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holly | Ault | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Associate Professor | drb@wpi.edu | x 5351 | Atwater Kent Laboratories, 313 |
| Xinming | Huang | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Associate Professor | bralexw@wpi.edu | x 5061 | Atwater Kent Laboratories, 230 |
| Alexander | Smith | Social Science & Policy Studies | Assistant Professor | adksmith@wpi.edu | x 6543 | Salisbury Laboratories, 310B |
| Alexander | Wyglinski | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Associate Professor | alexw@wpi.edu | x 5061 | Atwater Kent Laboratories, 230 |
Craig E Wills
Department Head & Professor
Department Head
Email: cew@wpi.edu
Office: Fuller Labs 234
Phone: 508-831-5357, 508-831-5622
My research has primarily focused on Internet application performance and measurement with more recent work examining issues related to Internet privacy. This work has led to a number of research publications and presentations as well as visibility in venues such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and NPR Science Friday. WPI is a great place for me to be a faculty member as I have the opportunity to teach and advise top-quality students as well as pursue interesting directions of research. ... View Profile
The common thread running through my teaching and research is the use of mathematical methods---especially methods based on logic---in designing and building systems. Interesting systems are too complex to be understood by informal intuitions, and it can be very powerful to use formal tools to help understand whether the system we are actually building really fulfills our ideas about what it is supposed to do. Tools based on logic can help people build things in a way guided by specification, and indeed they can help people arrive at the right formal specification in the first place. ... View Profile
Thomas Eisenbarth
Associate Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Email: teisenbarth@wpi.edu
Office: Atwater Kent Laboratories 307
Phone: 508-831-5914
Data and network security have become of utmost importance in today's highly interconnected world. Embedded systems security is a great research area at the core of any secure cyber-infrastructure, with unique challenges: Besides classical problems found in security, systems must meet tough constraints on power consumption, interoperability and cost. At the same time, adversaries may have physical access to the system, allowing them to perform a whole new class of attacks. The sum of these challenges is what makes work in embedded systems security so fascinating. ... View Profile
In both teaching and research, I'm fascinated by how people understand systems and concepts. I love teaching introductory courses, with their challenge to help students gain the perspective of a new field. My research touches on various topics at the intersection of people and how they understand computational systems. ... View Profile
Bill Martin's goal is to find mathematical research projects that lie between beautiful and powerful mathematical theory, on the one hand, and pressing technological applications, on the other. This effort requires one to keep abreast of both mathematical developments and applications in computer science and engineering. Professor Martin's mathematical research is in the area of algebraic combinatorics, where tools from linear and abstract algebra are applied to problems in discrete math. ... View Profile
Suzanne I Mello-Stark
Associate Teaching Professor
CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service Program Manager
Email: simellostark@wpi.edu
Office: Fuller Laboratories, 21B
My current research focuses on digital forensics, cryptography, security and networking implementations in current election technologies. Each election, voters rely on machines from proprietary vendors to carry out democracy. We cast our vote and walk away with no evidence that our vote has become part of the official tally. One important characteristic of teaching computer science successfully is exposing students to real world problems. In my opinion, this is an exciting real world problem that has not been solved. Join me! ... View Profile
I am interested in computer networking and security. Given the significance of the Internet in our economy and society, I am interested in improvements and studies that can have a real-world impact. My recent work has focused on how to make both enterprise and residential networks more secure. In my research work, I am exploring ways to change the traditional computer network communication model using techniques such as software-defined networking and network function virtualization. ... View Profile
Berk Sunar
Professor, Dean’s Excellence and Joseph Samuel Satin Fellow
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Email: sunar@wpi.edu
Office: Atwater Kent 302
Phone: 508-831-5494
I received my PhD in ECE from Oregon State University in December 1998 and worked briefly as a member of the research faculty at OSU's Information Security Laboratory. In 2000 I joined WPI as an assistant professor. My research interests include cryptography and data security; I head the Cryptography and Information Security Laboratory, whose mission is to address security problems and develop new security technologies to ensure the safety of all facets of the communication and computing infrastructure. View Profile
Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian
Assistant Professor
Collaborative Appointment with ECE Department
Email: kven@wpi.edu
Office: Fuller Laboratories, 137
Phone: 508-831-6571
My research interests are in Security for Medical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT). I am particularly interested in preserving user safety in the presence of malicious actors, for a variety of CPS and IoT applications. My current work is focused on mitigating sensory-channel attacks on wearable systems; transparent authentication for AR head-mounted displays; environment-coupled information security solutions for body area networks; developing an alarm system for interoperable medical device systems; and building secure residential IoT systems. ... View Profile
Dr. Walls' research interests lie at the intersection of security and digital forensics. In part, he seeks to analyze and secure the large-scale, complex, inter-connected systems underpinning critical internet services. His past efforts have focused on multiple aspects of this problem, including the development of novel data collection methodologies, the analysis of partially structured data, and the transition of research results into practical tools and techniques. Before joining WPI, Dr. Walls worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State University. ... View Profile