Drones — ϲ Tue, 06 Oct 2020 14:51:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Pramod K. Varshney /faculty-experts/pramod-k-varshney/ Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:14:03 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=155736 Pramod K. Varshney is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering & Computer Science. Professor Varshney also serves as the Director of CASE: Center for Advanced Systems and Engineering. He has expertise in distributed sensor networks and data fusion, detection and estimation theory, wireless communications, physical layer security, image processing, and radar.

Professor Varshney has two broad areas of current research. The first deals with fusion of information from a variety of heterogeneous sources, and the second area deals with cognitive networks where network throughput is to be maximized via active sensing and control under a number of system constraints. Professor Varshney also leads theSensor Fusion Lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, where he is currently working with a group of students on drone use research.

Varshney also serves as an Adjunct Professor for the Department of Radiology at Upstate Universiry. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

]]> William Banks /faculty-experts/william-banks/ Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:21:16 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=110699 A highly regarded andinternationally recognized scholar,topics of Banks’ wide-ranging research include national security and counterterrorism law; laws of war and asymmetric warfare; drones and targeted killing; transnational crime and corruption; cybersecurity, cyberespionage, and cyber conflict; human security; emergency and war powers; emergency preparedness and response; prosecuting terrorists; civilian-military relations; and government surveillance and privacy.Banks is most recently the co-author (with Stephen Dycus) of(Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2016). He is the author, co-author, and/or editor of numerous other titles, including National Security Law (Aspen, 2016) and Counterterrorism Law (Aspen, 2016)—books that havehelped set the parameters for these fields of study—as well asCounterinsurgency Law: New Directions in Asymmetric Warfare(Oxford UP, 2012) and New Battlefields/Old Laws: Critical Debates on Asymmetric Warfare (Columbia UP, 2011).

The subjects of Banks’ more than 100 publishedbook chapters and articles range from the military use of unmanned aerial vehicles, to terrorism in South America, to the role of the military in domestic affairs. Recent writing includes “Regulating Cyber Conflict;” “Regulating Drones: Military Law and CIA Practice and the Shifting Challenges of New Technologies;” “Exceptional Courts in Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA);” and “Programmatic Surveillance and FISA: Of Needles in Haystacks.”Additionally, Banks has spearheaded numerous interdisciplinary research projects for INSCT, including ; ; and , a collaboration with the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (UN CTED).

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