Members
Faculty
Dr. Chen Liu
Dr. Liu currently is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York.
He received his B. E. in Electronics and Information Engineering in 2000 from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), M. S. in Electrical Engineering in 2002 from University of California, Riverside (UCR), and Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2008 from University of California, Irvine (UCI), respectively. From 2008 to 2012, Dr. Liu was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University (FIU).
Dr. Liu's research interests include: multi-/many-core architecture, multi-threading architecture, the interaction between system software and microarchitecture, power-aware computing, hardware acceleration techniques, and virtual machine management.
Dr. Liu is a senior member of IEEE and ACM. He is also a member of IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGARCH, and ACM SIGMICRO.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Chutitep Woralert
Chutitep Woralert received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering in December 2024 from Clarkson University. His research focuses on cybersecurity and malware detection.
Zander Blasingame
Zander Blasingame received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering in May 2025 from Clarkson University. He also recieved his B.Sc. (Honors) in Computer Engineering in 2018 and his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2020 from Clarkson University. His research focuses on theoretical machine learning, specifically generative models, novelty detection, deep learning, and natural language processing.
Graduate Students
Mark Southcott (Ph.D Student)
Mark Southcott received his B.Sc. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University. His research focuses on radar mapping for autonomous driving.
Sean Willis (Ph.D Student)
Sean Willis received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in May 2023 and his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2025 from Clarkson University. His research focuses on regenerative braking system design.
Richard Neddo (M.S. Student)
Richard Neddo received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in May 2023 from Clarkson University. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning.
Robert Arcate (M.S. Student)
Robert Arcate received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering in December 2024 from Clarkson University. His research focuses on GPS based navigation.
Gianna Capoccia (M.S. Student)
Gianna Capoccia received her B.Sc. in Data Science in December 2024 from Clarkson University. Her research focuses on combining contrastive learning and topological data analysis for robust object classification in autonomous systems.
Undergraduate Students
Elizabeth Swartz (B.Sc. Student)
Elizabeth Swartz will receive her B.Sc. in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering in May 2027 from Clarkson University. She currently is the webmaster for the CAMEL website and her research focuses on LiDAR-based navigation for autonomous systems.
Seth King (B.Sc. Student)
Seth King will receive his B.Sc. in Computer Science in May 2027 from Clarkson University.
Alumni
Zander Blasingame
Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2025
Dissertation: On Guided and Reversible Solvers for Neural Differential Equations
Chutitep Woralert
Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2024
Dissertation: A Kernel Module Based Framework Towards Malware Detection Utilizing Low-Level Hardware Information
Zhiliu Yang
Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2021
Dissertation: Learning Geometry and Semantics Via Deep Nets Towards Global Localization and Mapping
Xuan Qi
Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2020
Dissertation: A Deep Dive Into Face in Video Recognition: Approaches and Applications
Gildo Torres
Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2018
Dissertation: Towards Monitoring and Detection of Data-Only Manipulation Attacks Using Low-level Hardware Information
Lichen Weng
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, FIU, 2012
Dissertation: A Hardware and Software Integrated Approach for Adaptive Thread Management in Multicore Multithreaded Microprocessors
Sean Willis
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2025
Giovanne Pinto
M.S. in Computer Science, Clarkson University, 2025
Rod Izadi
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Clarkson University, 2022
Xueyan Li
M.E. in Electrical Engineering, Clarkson University, 2016
Laura Pritchard
M.B.A., Clarkson University, 2015
Pedro Bello Maldonado
M.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2013
Kenneth Berry
M.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2012
Rolando Duarte
M.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011
Kamak Ebadi
M.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2012
Pollawat Thanarungroj
M.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2012
Thomas Bondurak
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, Clarkson University, 2025
Lindsey Hassett
B.S. (Honors) in Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2025
Josh Frank
B.S. in Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2021
James Bruska
B.S. in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Clarkson, 2018
Charlie McGuffey
B.S. (Honors) in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Clarkson University, 2015
Ben Petroski
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Clarkson University, 2014
Marvin Forbes
B.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011
Emmanuel Sacristan
B.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011
Carlos Davila
B.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011
Johnathan Reyes
B.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011
Juan Medina
B.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011
Jiewen Li
B.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011
Jie Tang
Visiting Scholar, Clarkson, 2015