Murat Tanik, Ph.D.
 | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB School of Engineering BEC 261 C Birmingham, AL 35294 Phone: (205) 934-8440 E-mail: mtanik@uab.edu Home page at Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Experience
Dr. Tanik joined the UAB School of Engineering in 1998 as a professor. Prior to joining the UAB faculty, he was an associate professor and the director of Electronic Enterprise Engineering at NJIT and the director of Software Systems Engineering Institute (SSEI) at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also the director and chief scientist of Process Sciences Laboratory, a think-tank of process-centered knowledge integration. Dr. Tanik has worked on related projects for NASA, Arthur A. Collins (developer of Apollo moon missions' tracking and communications systems), and ISSI. He was an associate professor and the director of the Software Systems Engineering Technology (SEK) research group at SMU. Dr. Tanik is co-founder of the interdisciplinary and international society, Society for Design and Process Science. His publications include co-authoring six books, co-editing eight collected works, and more than 100 journal papers, conference papers, book chapters, and reports funded by various government agencies and corporations. Under his direction, 15 Ph.D. dissertations and 20 M.S. theses have been completed.
Research Interest
Dr. Tanik's research interests include philosophy of science, software systems engineering, embedded and intelligent software systems, wireless and time-critical software support, collaborative computing for domain specific applications, and integrated systems design and process engineering.
Current Research
Dr. Tanik is collaborating with scholars in the Section on Statistical Genetics on the analysis and interpretation of microarray data.