ICES Senior Faculty

The ICES senior faculty include former ICES and EDRC directors active at Carnegie Mellon, research cluster and center directors at a rank of Professor (tenure track) or Research Professor (research track), and all ICES Research Professors. The senior faculty provides insight to the director, oversees the progress of research centers and clusters, and participates in strategic planning. The members also review research proposals submitted yearly to the PITA program.

Tenure-track faculty members are not hired within the institute. Research-track faculty members hired through ICES are reviewed by the senior faculty according to the University’s promotion clock. The current senior faculty members are listed below.




Amit Acharya Photo Amit Acharya
Professor - Civil and Environmental Engineering; Materials Science Engineering
Crystal dislocation mechanics and plasticity from the atomic to macroscopic scales; averaging of nonlinear, time-dependent material behavior for engineering applications; computational solid mechanics; general continuum mechanics.
acharyaamit@cmu.edu | 412-268-4566 | 101 PH


Phil Campbell Photo Phil Campbell
Research Professor - ICES
Bioavailability of growth factors, growth factor association and dissociation with various interstitial components, proteolytic processing, biomimetic tissue engineered materials, musculoskeletal tissue repair and regeneration.
pcampbel@cs.cmu.edu | 412-268-4126 | 1213 HBH


Gary Fedder Photo Gary Fedder
Director - ICES; Director - CIMM; Howard M. Wilkoff Professor - Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics
Professor Fedder's research centers on the design and behavioral modeling of microsensors and microactuators and on the fabrication of integrated MEMS with electronic circuits using post-CMOS processing. This approach makes it possible to build complex systems-on-chip for multiple applications including accelerometers, gyroscopes, mirror scanners, probe nanomanipulators, chemical sensor arrays, embedded stress sensors, radio-frequency resonant mixer filters and tunable capacitors.
fedder@cmu.edu | 412-268-8443/5352 | 1201 HBH


Susan Finger Photo Susan Finger
Professor - Civil and Environmental Engineering

sfinger@cmu.edu | 412-268-8828 | 123B BP


Jim Jim Garrett
Professor and Head - Civil and Environmental Engineering; Co-Director - CenSCIR
Applications of sensors and sensor systems to civil infrastructure condition assessment; mobile hardware/software systems for field applications; representations and processing strategies to support the usage of engineering codes, standards, and specifications; and knowledge-based decision support systems
garrett@cmu.edu | 412-268-2941 | 119D PH


Ignacio Grossman Photo Ignacio Grossmann
Director - CAPD; R.D. University Professor of Chemical Engineering
Our aim is to develop novel discrete/continuous optimization models and techniques for problems in process systems engineering, with special emphasis on planning, scheduling, and more broadly, enterprise-wide optimization. Our techniques, which include mixed-integer and disjunctive programming for handling discrete and continuous decisions, and stochastic programming for incorporating uncertainty issues, are applied to batch and continuous processes, process supply chains, and to energy systems, including gas and oil, IGCC, and biomass.
grossmann@cmu.edu | 412-268-3642 | 4210D DH


Jose Jose Moura
Professor - ECE; Co-Director - CenSCIR
Professor Moura's research interests are in the areas of statistical and algebraic signal and image processing. Current projects include distributed detection in sensor networks, time reversal imaging, bioimaging, SMART, and SPIRAL.
moura@ece.cmu.edu | 412-268-6341 | B20 PH


Todd Todd Przybycien
Professor and Head - Biomedical Engineering
Professor Przybycien's research interests include Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology: protein adsorption and aggregation phenomena in bioprocessing environments, protein structure characterization, PEGylated protein delivery, MEMS-based biosensors.
todd@andrew.cmu.edu | 412-268-3857 | 2100 DH


Dan Dan Siewiorek
Director - HCII; Buhl University Professor - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor Siewiorek's research interests are Design Automation, Reliable Computing, and Context Aware Mobile Computing.
dps@ece.cmu.edu | 412-268-2570 | 3519 NSH


Asim Asim Smailagic
Director - LINCS; Research Professor - ICES
Wearable computers; mobile computing; pervasive computing; reliable computing; audio and visual interfaces to computers. Director of LINCS (Laboratory for Interactive Real-Time Computer Systems).
asim@cs.cmu.edu | 412-268-7863 | 1217 HBH


Eswaran Eswaran Subrahmanian
Research Professor - ICES
Under Dr. Subrahmanian's direction, the n-dim group is interested in designing information systems that support the social processes that are integral to design. The group studies engineering work processes in order to create methods for managing knowledge in engineering design. They consider an understanding of work processes to be an integral part of system's development. In order to analyze work processes the n-dim group has researched and developed methods for studying the flow and use of information in design organizations. They then use an evolutionary prototyping method build and test design applications that support engineering knowledge management.
sub@edrc.cmu.edu | 412-268-5221 | 1209 HBH


Elias Towe Photo Elias Towe
Professor - Electrical & Computer Engineering
Towe's group pursues research in basic optical and quantum phenomena in materials for applications in novel photonic devices that enable a new generation of information processing systems for communication, computation, and sensing. The group is also interested in understanding new pathways and fundamental mechanisms for solar energy conversion devices. Current focus is on the use of phenomena (such as three-dimensional quantum-confinement effects in nanometer-scale structures) in the study of novel devices. Examples include: quantum-dot infrared detectors and imaging sensors, electrically-pumped photonic crystal micro-cavity lasers with quantum-dot active regions, multi-spectral solar energy conversion devices, plasmonic bio-sensors, and fluorescence bio-sensing devices.
towe@cmu.edu | 412-268-8091 | 147 REH


Lee Weiss Photo Lee Weiss
Research Professor - Robotics Institute
Lee Weiss is interested in the application of advanced manufacturing processes to create technology-based solutions to challenging problems in health care delivery. His current research interests include: tissue engineering; biological patterning of hormones using inkjet printing; biodegradable implantable electronics; computer vision-based cell tracking; and, digital fabrication.
lew@andrew.cmu.edu | 412-268-7657 | 3113 NSH