COSMO UT DALLAS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas
- Computer Science
Dr. Chung Hwan Kim is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas). Before joining UT Dallas in 2020, he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 2017 and worked at NEC Labs as a Researcher for three years. His research interest lies in solving security problems in modern computing systems, recently with more focus on the security (and safety) of autonomous vehicles, such as drones and self-driving cars. His research seeks to significantly improve autonomous vehicle security (and safety) by developing novel tools that automatically analyze vehicle software, find critical problems (e.g., safety-critical vulnerabilities), and fix them. In recent years, his team has discovered over 120 new critical vulnerabilities in popular drone control and self-driving software. His research on autonomous vehicle security has been published to top security conferences, such as USENIX Security, CCS, and NDSS. Dr. Kim is a recipient of the 2021 UT Dallas New Faculty Research Symposium Grant Award. His work has been nominated as a Top 10 Finalist for the CSAW Best Applied Research Paper Award in 2018.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Jie Zhang is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Affiliated) at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. (2012) in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA. His research expertise and interests are power & energy systems, electric cars and ships, renewable integration, big data analytics, machine learning, complex engineered systems, and multidisciplinary design optimization. His research has been funded by U.S. Department of Energy, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and energy industry. His major awards include: ONR's Young Investigator Award, ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award, SAS/IIF (International Institute of Forecasters) award, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, 9 best paper awards from Renewable Energy journal and multiple IEEE/ASME/AIAA conferences. ;
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Electrical Engineering
Dr. John H.L. Hansen serves as Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and also holds the Distinguished University Chair in Telecommunications Engineeringat the University of Texas at Dallas, where he founded the Center for Robust Speech Systems, overseeing (i) UTDrive Driver Modeling/Safety Lab, (ii) RSTL:Robust Speech Technologies Lab, and (iii) CILab: Cochlear Implant Processing Lab.
He was awarded thehonorary degree "Doctor Technices Honoris Causa" from Aalborg University (Aalborg, DK) (April 2016) in recognition of his contributions to advanced signal processing and machine learning for speech, hearing, and human-machine systems. He previously servedas ECE Dept. Head at UTDallas, Dept. Head of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences (Univ. of Colorado-Boulder). He was awarded 2021 IEEE Leo Beranek Meritorious Service Award "for exemplary service to and leadership in the IEEE Signal Processing Society", as well as IEEE Fellow (2007), Inter. Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Fellow (2010), and The Acoustical Society of America's 25 Year Award (2010). He has served as a technical program chair for IEEE ICASSP-2010, general chair for (ISCA) INTERSPEECH 2002, as well as serving as elected President of ISCA (2018-21), and Technical Advisor to the U.S. Delegate for NATO (IST/TG-01).
He has supervised 99PhD/MS thesis candidates (58 PhD, 41 MS/MA), was recipient of 2020 Univ. of Texas-Dallas Provost's Award for Graduate Student Mentorship, 2005 Univ.of Colorado Teacher Recognition Award, author of +830journal &conference papers including 13 textbooks in the field of digital signal processing, speech processing, machine learning, and driver distraction modeling/detection. As PI, he has overseen +$28M in external funded research projects, including lead for DARPACommunicator program:"In-Vehicle Speech Processing, Recognition, and Vehicle Interface Systems." He has served as organizer/contributor for the Biennial Workshop on DSPfor In-Vehicle Systems and Safety (2003-2022), as well as the corresponding edited textbook series on driver modeling and safety. He overseesthe CRSS-UTDrive lab, which supports fully instrumented vehicle platform for driver modeling, smart vehicle systems, and ADAS sensor integration.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor With Appointments in Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
Justin Ruths is an assistant professor with appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Systems Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. He joined UTD in 2016 after spending five years as an assistant professor and part of the founding faculty at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. His research includes studying the fundamental properties of controlling networks, bilinear systems theory, security of cyber-physical control systems, with applications in neuroscience, social systems, and autonomous driving. As part of his ongoing work on the physical side of security, he supports the Nova project within his lab, which is an all-undergraduate team that is building an open source autonomous stack meant for research purposes.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Computer Science at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering
Dr. Rym Zalila-Wenkstern is a Professor of Computer Science at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Texas at Dallas. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Wenkstern is the Director of the Multi-Agent and Visualization Systems lab. Her research focuses on all aspects of engineering large, complex, real-world systems using the autonomous agent paradigm, with an emphasis on Smart Cities challenges. She has served on several international conference organizing committees and numerous program committees. She has also worked as a consultant for U.S. and European organizations.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor in MechanialEngineering at the University of Texas
- Mechanical Engineering
Tyler Summers is an associate professor in MechanialEngineering at the University of Texas at Dallas.Prior to joining UT Dallas, he was an ETH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich from 2011 to 2015. He received a PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010. He was a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia in 2007-2008. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2021 and a Young Investigator Program award from the USArmy Research Office in 2017. His research interests are in feedback control, optimization, and learning in complex dynamical networks, with applications in multi-robot systems and electric power networks.