Key Personnel, Resumes
Andrzej Rucinski, Ph.D. , is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, the Space Science Center, and is Director of the Critical Infrastructure Dependability Laboratory (CIDLab), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, as well as Chief Scientist of the National Infrastructure Institutes Center for Infrastructure Expertise (NI2CIE), Portsmouth, NH.
Professor Rucinski received his M.Sc. from the Technical University of Odessa, USSR, and his Ph.D. in Technical Sciences from the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland. He has more than thirty years of teaching and research experience at Polish, Hungarian, French, Russian, Ukrainian, and American Universities. He spent a semester in 1993 with the Texas Instruments' FPGA Department in Dallas, Texas.
Since 1983 Dr. Rucinski has been a Professor at the University of New Hampshire where his research interests include:
Critical Infrastructure, Collaborative Engineering, CAD, Computer Architecture, Design Methodologies, Distributed Computers, Engineering Curricula Development, Fault-Tolerant Computing and Networking, Knowledge Technology Transfer, Microelectronic Systems Design, Microelectronic Systems Testing, Technologies for Homeland Security and VLSI. He has more than 100 publications, including two edited and two written books. He organized numerous workshops and symposia in the US and abroad, e.g. he serves as the Program Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics Systems Education. He organized and supervises a successful academic exchange program with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. He has been a Senior IEEE member and the Event Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Design Automation. The CIDLab has grown out of a previous facility run by Dr. Rucinski, UNH's Design Automation Laboratory (DAL).
Thaddeus P. Kochanski, SB, Ph.D. , (Ted), an Affiliate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Hampshire, is an experimental physicist, systems engineering consultant and entrepreneur, with a passion for informal education, walking, and history. He has contributed to wired and wireless sensor networks, soft x-ray, VUV, IR and cosmic-ray muon imaging, Giga-scale IC's, radar propagation, Ground Penetration Radar, data acquisition, signal processing and interactive multimedia. His career spans: Tokamaks, University of Texas at Austin; Defense System Analysis, MIT Lincoln Laboratory; founder of Sensors Signals Systems and co-founder of several companies. He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and the Gold award with Sapphire Gem of the Service League of the Boston Museum of Science.
Dr. Kochanski has been Program Chair 2002 - 2007 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security. In May, 2006, he was invited presenter of "Sensor Networking and Synthetic Reality: from Air Defense Radars to Virtual Experimental Mine" at the 4th Conference on Information Technology Gdansk, Poland. He recently launched the Critical Infrastructure Dependability Initiative under the auspices of the IEEE Boston Section. He is senior past-Chair of the IEEE Boston Section, and permanent Chair of the Local Conferences Committee, Chair of the New Initiatives Committee and Chair of the Web subcommittee and member of the Publications Committee.
Dr. Henk Spaanenburg is an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of New Hampshire, as well as the President and Chief Scientist of Heterogeneous Computing, LLC located in Durham, NH. He has more than 25 years of experience in the development of high-performance computing architectures at Mercury Computer Systems, at Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, at Honeywell Technology Center (HTC), and at GE Aerospace Electronics Systems.
Dr. Spaanenburg's current interest/mission is to realize the proper implementation/tooling of heterogeneous computing systems that include general-purpose computers, digital signal processors (DSP), reconfigurable computing (FPGAs) and fixed resources (ASICs). Most recently, as a Chief Technology Strategist at Advanced Principles Group of Manchester, NH, he has been responsible for tracking relevant technology developments and for developing new research funding opportunities, many of them related to Homeland Security (border surveillance, stowaway detection, responder 3-D locator, and container security).