Faculty

GTSI prides itself on its global, top-notch faculty team, which includes world-class instructors selected from Georgia Tech's main campus in Atlanta, USA. Many of them are IEEE fellows, members of the National Academy of Engineering or the National Academy of Sciences, recipient of endowed chairs and professorships, or masters in their respective field of research. Meanwhile, GTSI also recruits outstanding faculty from all over the world in accordance with standards not lower than those of Georgia Tech. Building on the first-class faculty team and recruitment system of Georgia Tech, GTSI now has a diverse team of outstanding instructors. Moving forward, GTSI will continue to provide all students with rich educational opportunities with  top-level faculty.

Students of dual master’s degree programs are also assisted by experienced academic advisors from Tianjin University (TJU). Please click here for the full list of TJU advisors.

 

Faculty List

  • Dr. Yuang Chen
    Assistant Professor
    Analytics
    Research interest：
    Stochastic optimization
  • Dr. Stephen Chininis
    Professor of Practice
    Industrial Design
  • Dr. Alka Citrin
    Adjunct Lecturer
    College of Business
    Research interest：
    Interactivity and its role in improving information use by organizations & consumers Outsourcing and Offshoring and its impact on customer relationships, firm innovativeness, and performance Organizational marketing responses to changes in the environment
  • Dr. David S Citrin
    Professor
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Research interest：
    Terahertz nondestructive testing of materials Terahertz characterization of art and cultural heritage Chaos and nonlinear dynamics in external-cavity semiconductor lasers Nanophotonics High-speed electronic, photonic, and optoelectronic devices Nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor materials and devices
  • Dr. Shijie Deng
    Associate Professor
    Industrial and Systems Engineering
    Research interest：
    Financial Asset Pricing and Real Options Valuation; Financial Engineering Applications in Energy Commodity Markets; Transmission Pricing in Electric Power Systems; Applications of Contract Theory in Supply Chain Modeling.
  • Dr. Hang Dong
    Assistant Professor
    Environmental Engineering
    Research interest：
    CO2  capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) Resource recovery Water treatment
  • Dr. Changlai Du
    Assistant Professor
    Computer Science
    Research interest：
    Privacy Protection in Wireless Networks Mobile Network Security and Privacy Wireless Sensing Internet of Things (IoT) Security
  • Dr. Gregory David Durgin
    Professor
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Research interest：
    Backscatter and Low-Power Radio; Propagation and Channel Modeling; Wireless Power Transfer and Harvesting; Radiolocation.
  • Dr. Faramarz Fekri
    Professor
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Research interest：
    Compression; Social Computing; Molecular Communications; Biomarker Sensing; Neural Computing; Wireless Communications; Coding and Information Theory.