SEECS New Faculty Members

Talented New Faculty Enhance Curriculum and Research

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During his doctoral studies, he completed two internships with AT&T Labs in San Jose, California. He was also the founder and administrator of Avantgarde Software LLC of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
    Bölöni’s current research includes work on distributed systems, scheduling and planning in a grid, ubiquitous computing, ad-hoc networks, network agents, traffic engineering and network optimization. He is a member of the ACM and UPE Honorary Society. During the Fall 2002 semester, he is teaching EEL 5708 High Performance Computer Architectures. He adds, “I am glad to be here, and I am really enjoying the environment and working with new colleagues.”

Mainak Chatterjee
Dr. Mainak Cahtterjee has joined the school as an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering. His Ph.D. in computer science and engineering is from University of Texas at Arlington, in May 2002. While completing his doctoral studies, he was a research intern both at Nokia Research Center and at Tektronix. Chatterjee earned his M.E. in electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science and his B.S. in physics from Presidency College, Calcutta.
    Chatterjee received the “Outstanding Research by a Ph.D. Candidate” award from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UT Arlington in 2002. He was recognized as a University Scholar at the President’s Convocation for Academic Excellence in 2001 and 2002. Also, he was named the best intern at Nokia Research Center in 2001 and was the recipient of a Texas Telecommunication Consortium (TxTEC) Fellowship (1999-2000) and the Rudolf Hermann’s Graduate Fellowship (1999-2000).
    Among his other professional activities, Chatterjee has been the reviewer for several conferences and journals in the field of networking and mobile computing. He is a member of the technical program committee for ICC 2003. Chatterjee’s research interests include cellular and ad hoc networks, resource management and QoS provisioning in wireless data networks, 3G/4G systems, CDMA and GPRS, Internet traffic and applied game theory. He is teaching EEL 6785 Computer Network Design this fall.
     “I am very happy and proud to join UCF’s School of EECS. I could not have made a better decision,” Chatterjee concludes.

Hassan Foroosh
Dr. Hassan Foroosh received his Ph.D. in computer science from University of Nice and INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, and he has joined us as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He also received his M.S. in robotics and computer vision from University of Nice and INRIA and earned his M.S. and B.S. in electrical engineering at Kingston University, United Kingdom.
    Previously, Foroosh served as an Assistant Research Scientist at University of Maryland, College Park, and as a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of EE and CS at University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a Research Consultant for ImageCorp, Inc., Sigma Vision, Inc. and INRIA-France, and he was a co-founder of Sigma Vision, which specialized in medical imaging and instrumentation.
    Foroosh has two patents on the “SURPRISE” (Super-Resolution of Photometry and Radiometry of Interlaced Satellite images) and “PERSIA” (Phase-Based Estimation and Registration for Subpixel Image Alignment) software packages, both of which were transferred to the French national space agency (CNES) and to the remote sensing center of the Western European Union.
    In 1996, Foroosh received the INRIA Fellowship award for post-doctoral research, an extremely competitive national award in France. He also received an Academie de Nice Fellowship Award for doctoral research in 1993 and a Foundation de France Fellowship Award in 1992 for pre-doctoral research.
    His research is concentrated in computer vision, computer graphics, visualization, video interpretation and pattern recognition, among other interests. He is a member of IEEE Computing Society and serves on the organization’s Workshop on Motion and Video Computing Committee 2002 and Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision Committee 2002. This fall, he is teaching CDA 3103 Computer Organization.

Mark Heinrich
Joining SEECS in January as an Associate Professor of Computer Science is Dr. Mark Heinrich. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1998 and 1993 respectively. In 1991, Heinrich graduated Summa Cum Laude and first in his class from Duke University, earning a B.S. as a double major in electrical engineering and computer science.
    In 1997, he founded and was Chief Scientist at Flashbase, Inc., a database-backed Web forms and sweepstakes engine acquired by DoubleClick Inc. in 2000. He was a Teaching Fellow while at Stanford and is now concluding a position at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received Cornell’s College of Engineering Michael Tien ’72 Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001 and earned Cornell’s IEEE Teacher of the Year Award in 1999-2000.
    Heinrich was granted the National Science Foundation Career Award, 2000-2004 for his work in “Flexible Architectures for Data-Intensive Computing.” His research also focuses on active memory and I/O systems, parallel computer architecture, novel architectures, system-area networks, scalable distributed shared-memory cache coherence protocols, hardware/software co-design, multiprocessor performance evaluation and simulation methodology. Among his activities are various committee positions and membership in IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and ACM.
    “I am excited about joining the UCF SEECS faculty and the opportunity to help build a strong program in computer systems research,” says Heinrich. “In the classroom, I will expand the offerings in computer architecture and multiprocessor systems, and I hope to continue to meaningfully interact with inquisitive undergraduate and graduate students — the most rewarding aspect of academia.”

Joohan Lee
Dr. Joohan Lee comes to SEECS from the Center for Systems Assurance at Syracuse University and is now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Syracuse in 2001 and was the Syracuse Doctoral Prize Winner for his Thesis, “Computational Resiliency: Heterogeneous Reliable Applications.” Lee attended Sogang University in Seoul, Korea, where he earned a M.S. and a B.S., Cum Laude, in computer science.
    Among his research interests are the subjects of fault-tolerant distributed computing, high performance parallel distributed processing, high speed networks and communication protocol, computer/network security and Web/Internet technologies. Lee is conducting research for Wetstone Technologies Inc. and Datum Inc. in the area of secure timestamping, and he works on computational resiliency research for DARPA.
    Lee states, “My research focus will be primarily secure and reliable distributed computing.” He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGCOMM. He is currently teaching COP 4600 Operating Systems.

Erik Reinhard
Dr. Erik Reinhard studied at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, where he earned two degrees, a B.S. and a TWAIO diploma, which is the Dutch equivalent of a Chartered CS Design Engineer. He then received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Bristol and later served as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Utah. Reinhard is now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at SEECS.
    His primary research interests include computer graphics, realistic rendering, parallel processing and the human visual system. Reinhard is the program co-chair for the 2002 EG Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, and he serves on several other program committees including EG Symposium on Rendering 2003 and Volume Visualization 2003.
    Reinhard also reviews several journals, including Siggraph, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Graphics Interface and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. He is a guest editor for a forthcoming special issue of the journal of Parallel Computing devoted to parallel graphics and visualization. Reinhard also has been a presenter in Siggraph courses for several years, most recently for Practical Parallel Rendering in 2002. His “Computer Graphics” entry, written with assistance from Bruce Gooch and Chris Johnson, is published in the 2002 Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. This semester, Reinhard is teaching COP 4520 Concepts of Parallel and Distributed Processing.

Damla Turgut
Dr. Damla Turgut is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at SEECS. She received her Ph.D. in computer science and engineering this past May from the University of Texas, Arlington, where she also earned her M.S. and B.S. in computer science and engineering. She has taught several classes in computer science and engineering as an Assistant Instructor.
    In 2002, Turgut received the “Outstanding Research” Award at the UT Arlington Graduate Student Research Symposium and the “Excellence in Teaching” Award from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She was recognized as the recipient of WHO’S WHO Among Students in American Universities and Colleges Award at the President’s Convocation for Academic Excellence at UT Arlington in 2002. She was also awarded the TxTEC Fellowship for the period of 1999-2001. In addition, Turgut is a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Computing Sciences Honor Society.
    Turgut’s research interests include mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc and sensor networks, security, mobile agents, data management and QoS provisioning in wireless networks among other subjects. As part of her professional activities, Turgut has been a reviewer for various journals and conferences in the areas of mobile computing and wireless networking such as Journal of Cluster Computing, Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, MobiCOM, GLOBECOM and ICC. She is on the Technical Program Committee for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2003. This semester, she is teaching EEL 5881 Software Engineering.
     “It is an honor to join the UCF SEECS faculty that embodies such an exceptional group of educators and researchers,” Turgut adds. “I very much look forward to exciting and productive collaborations for many years to come.”

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During his doctoral studies, he completed two internships with AT&T Labs in San Jose, California. He was also the founder and administrator of Avantgarde Software LLC of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Bölöni’s current research includes work on distributed systems, scheduling and planning in a grid, ubiquitous computing, ad-hoc networks, network agents, traffic engineering and network optimization. He is a member of the ACM and UPE Honorary Society. During the Fall 2002 semester, he is teaching EEL 5708 High Performance Computer Architectures. He adds, “I am glad to be here, and I am really enjoying the environment and working with new colleagues.”
Mainak Chatterjee Dr. Mainak Cahtterjee has joined the school as an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering. His Ph.D. in computer science and engineering is from University of Texas at Arlington, in May 2002. While completing his doctoral studies, he was a research intern both at Nokia Research Center and at Tektronix. Chatterjee earned his M.E. in electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science and his B.S. in physics from Presidency College, Calcutta. Chatterjee received the “Outstanding Research by a Ph.D. Candidate” award from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UT Arlington in 2002. He was recognized as a University Scholar at the President’s Convocation for Academic Excellence in 2001 and 2002. Also, he was named the best intern at Nokia Research Center in 2001 and was the recipient of a Texas Telecommunication Consortium (TxTEC) Fellowship (1999-2000) and the Rudolf Hermann’s Graduate Fellowship (1999-2000). Among his other professional activities, Chatterjee has been the reviewer for several conferences and journals in the field of networking and mobile computing. He is a member of the technical program committee for ICC 2003. Chatterjee’s research interests include cellular and ad hoc networks, resource management and QoS provisioning in wireless data networks, 3G/4G systems, CDMA and GPRS, Internet traffic and applied game theory. He is teaching EEL 6785 Computer Network Design this fall. “I am very happy and proud to join UCF’s School of EECS. I could not have made a better decision,” Chatterjee concludes.
Hassan Foroosh Dr. Hassan Foroosh received his Ph.D. in computer science from University of Nice and INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, and he has joined us as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He also received his M.S. in robotics and computer vision from University of Nice and INRIA and earned his M.S. and B.S. in electrical engineering at Kingston University, United Kingdom. Previously, Foroosh served as an Assistant Research Scientist at University of Maryland, College Park, and as a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of EE and CS at University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a Research Consultant for ImageCorp, Inc., Sigma Vision, Inc. and INRIA-France, and he was a co-founder of Sigma Vision, which specialized in medical imaging and instrumentation. Foroosh has two patents on the “SURPRISE” (Super-Resolution of Photometry and Radiometry of Interlaced Satellite images) and “PERSIA” (Phase-Based Estimation and Registration for Subpixel Image Alignment) software packages, both of which were transferred to the French national space agency (CNES) and to the remote sensing center of the Western European Union. In 1996, Foroosh received the INRIA Fellowship award for post-doctoral research, an extremely competitive national award in France. He also received an Academie de Nice Fellowship Award for doctoral research in 1993 and a Foundation de France Fellowship Award in 1992 for pre-doctoral research. His research is concentrated in computer vision, computer graphics, visualization, video interpretation and pattern recognition, among other interests. He is a member of IEEE Computing Society and serves on the organization’s Workshop on Motion and Video Computing Committee 2002 and Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision Committee 2002. This fall, he is teaching CDA 3103 Computer Organization.
Mark Heinrich Joining SEECS in January as an Associate Professor of Computer Science is Dr. Mark Heinrich. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1998 and 1993 respectively. In 1991, Heinrich graduated Summa Cum Laude and first in his class from Duke University, earning a B.S. as a double major in electrical engineering and computer science. In 1997, he founded and was Chief Scientist at Flashbase, Inc., a database-backed Web forms and sweepstakes engine acquired by DoubleClick Inc. in 2000. He was a Teaching Fellow while at Stanford and is now concluding a position at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received Cornell’s College of Engineering Michael Tien ’72 Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001 and earned Cornell’s IEEE Teacher of the Year Award in 1999-2000. Heinrich was granted the National Science Foundation Career Award, 2000-2004 for his work in “Flexible Architectures for Data-Intensive Computing.” His research also focuses on active memory and I/O systems, parallel computer architecture, novel architectures, system-area networks, scalable distributed shared-memory cache coherence protocols, hardware/software co-design, multiprocessor performance evaluation and simulation methodology. Among his activities are various committee positions and membership in IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and ACM. “I am excited about joining the UCF SEECS faculty and the opportunity to help build a strong program in computer systems research,” says Heinrich. “In the classroom, I will expand the offerings in computer architecture and multiprocessor systems, and I hope to continue to meaningfully interact with inquisitive undergraduate and graduate students — the most rewarding aspect of academia.”
Joohan Lee Dr. Joohan Lee comes to SEECS from the Center for Systems Assurance at Syracuse University and is now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Syracuse in 2001 and was the Syracuse Doctoral Prize Winner for his Thesis, “Computational Resiliency: Heterogeneous Reliable Applications.” Lee attended Sogang University in Seoul, Korea, where he earned a M.S. and a B.S., Cum Laude, in computer science. Among his research interests are the subjects of fault-tolerant distributed computing, high performance parallel distributed processing, high speed networks and communication protocol, computer/network security and Web/Internet technologies. Lee is conducting research for Wetstone Technologies Inc. and Datum Inc. in the area of secure timestamping, and he works on computational resiliency research for DARPA. Lee states, “My research focus will be primarily secure and reliable distributed computing.” He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGCOMM. He is currently teaching COP 4600 Operating Systems.
Erik Reinhard Dr. Erik Reinhard studied at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, where he earned two degrees, a B.S. and a TWAIO diploma, which is the Dutch equivalent of a Chartered CS Design Engineer. He then received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Bristol and later served as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Utah. Reinhard is now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at SEECS. His primary research interests include computer graphics, realistic rendering, parallel processing and the human visual system. Reinhard is the program co-chair for the 2002 EG Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, and he serves on several other program committees including EG Symposium on Rendering 2003 and Volume Visualization 2003. Reinhard also reviews several journals, including Siggraph, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Graphics Interface and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. He is a guest editor for a forthcoming special issue of the journal of Parallel Computing devoted to parallel graphics and visualization. Reinhard also has been a presenter in Siggraph courses for several years, most recently for Practical Parallel Rendering in 2002. His “Computer Graphics” entry, written with assistance from Bruce Gooch and Chris Johnson, is published in the 2002 Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. This semester, Reinhard is teaching COP 4520 Concepts of Parallel and Distributed Processing.
Damla Turgut Dr. Damla Turgut is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at SEECS. She received her Ph.D. in computer science and engineering this past May from the University of Texas, Arlington, where she also earned her M.S. and B.S. in computer science and engineering. She has taught several classes in computer science and engineering as an Assistant Instructor. In 2002, Turgut received the “Outstanding Research” Award at the UT Arlington Graduate Student Research Symposium and the “Excellence in Teaching” Award from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She was recognized as the recipient of WHO’S WHO Among Students in American Universities and Colleges Award at the President’s Convocation for Academic Excellence at UT Arlington in 2002. She was also awarded the TxTEC Fellowship for the period of 1999-2001. In addition, Turgut is a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Computing Sciences Honor Society. Turgut’s research interests include mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc and sensor networks, security, mobile agents, data management and QoS provisioning in wireless networks among other subjects. As part of her professional activities, Turgut has been a reviewer for various journals and conferences in the areas of mobile computing and wireless networking such as Journal of Cluster Computing, Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, MobiCOM, GLOBECOM and ICC. She is on the Technical Program Committee for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2003. This semester, she is teaching EEL 5881 Software Engineering. “It is an honor to join the UCF SEECS faculty that embodies such an exceptional group of educators and researchers,” Turgut adds. “I very much look forward to exciting and productive collaborations for many years to come.”