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Ravi P. Ramachandran received the B. Eng degree (with great distinction) from Concordia University in 1984, the M. Eng degree from McGill University in 1986 and the Ph.D. degree from McGill University in 1990. From October 1990 to December 1992, he worked at the Speech Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. From January 1993 to August 1997, he was a Research Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. He was also a Senior Speech Scientist at T-Netix from July 1996 to August 1997. Since September 1997, he is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University where he has been a Professor since September 2006. He has served as a consultant to T-Netix, Avenir Inc., Motorola and Focalcool. From September 2002 to September 2005, he was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and was on the Speech Technical Committee for the IEEE Signal Processing society. Since September 2000, he has been on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine. Since May 2002, he has been on the Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee for the IEEE Circuits and Systems society. His research interests are in digital signal processing, speech processing, biometrics, pattern recognition and filter design.

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Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. from WPI in 1992 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1998. He co-authored the book "Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance," published in 2007, with his father Donald Dahm. His second book, "Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics," a collaboration with Donald Visco of the University of Akron, is expected to be released by January 10, 2014. Kevin has received the 2002 PIC-III Award, the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award, the 2004 Raymond W. Fahien Award and the 2005 Corcoran Award from ASEE.

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Richard J. Kozick received the B.S. degree from Bucknell University in 1986, the M.S. degree from Stanford University in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, all in electrical engineering. From 1986 to 1989 and from 1992 to 1993 he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Since 1993, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department at Bucknell University, where he is currently Professor. His research interests are in the areas of statistical signal processing and communications. Dr. Kozick received a "2006 Best Paper Award" from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence from Bucknell University in 1999. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Franklin Institute and the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

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Robert M. Nickel received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 1994, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2001. During the 2001/2002 academic year he was an adjunct faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. From 2002 until 2007 he was a faculty member at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. Since the fall of 2007 he is a faculty member at the Electrical Engineering Department of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. During the 2010/2011 academic year he was a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow at the Institute of Communication Acoustics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. His main research interests include speech signal processing, general signal theory, and time-frequency analysis.

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Sachin Shetty is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tennessee State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Modeling and Simulation from Old Dominion University in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Min Song. His research interests lie at the intersection of computer networking, network security and machine learning. Recently, he has been working on security issues in cloud computing, cognitive radio networks, and wireless sensor networks. Over the years, he has secured funding over $3 million from NSF, AFOSR, DOE, DHS, TBR and local industry for research and educational innovations. He has authored and coauthored over 30 technical refereed and non-refereed papers in various conferences, international journal articles, book chapters in research and pedagogical techniques. He is the director of the Cyber Defense and Security Visualization Laboratory (http://cyberviz.tnstate.edu/)

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Robi Polikar received his B.Sc. degree in electronics and communications engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1993, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees co-majoring in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA, where he is currently serving as the department chair. His current research interests include incremental and online learning, learning in nonstationary and evolving environments, ensemble based systems, and various applications of computational intelligence in bioinformatics and biomedical engineering. He has over 140 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Polikar is a senior member of IEEE, and member of ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu. His recent and current works are funded primarily through NSF’s CAREER and Energy, Power and Adaptive Systems Programs. He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

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Ying Tang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Northeastern University, P. R. China, in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and Ph. D degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in 2001. She is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. Her research interests include virtual reality and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and modeling and scheduling of computer-integrated systems. Dr. Tang is very active in adapting and developing pedagogical methods and materials to enhance engineering education. Her most recent educational research includes the collaboration with Tennessee State University and local high schools to infuse cyber-infrastructure learning experience into the pre-engineering and technology-based classrooms, the collaboration with community colleges to develop interactive games in empowering students with engineering literacy and problem-solving, the integration of system-on-chip concepts across two year Engineering Science and four year ECE curricula, and the implementation of an educational innovation that demonstrates science and engineering principles using an aquarium. Her work has resulted in over 90 journal and conference papers and book chapters.

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Steven H. Chin is currently the Associate Dean of Engineering at Rowan University. He has been in this position since 1997, while serving as Interim Dean from 2010-2012. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. from Rutgers University, and Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. His specialization areas are in signal processing and communication system. His current interests include STEM education, and academic partnerships.

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