Principal Investigators

Project Descartes is supported by a National Research and Training award from the National Science Foundation. The investigators on this award are:

Narayana Prasad Santhanam (Principal Investigator) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii.

June Zhang (Co-Principal Investigator) is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii.

Nori Tarui (Co-Principal Investigator) is a Professor of Economics in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaii.

Dan Port (Co-Principal Investigator) is an Associate Professor of Information Technology Management in the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii.

Philip Johnson (Co-Principal Investigator) is a Professor of Information and Computer Sciences in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Hawaii.

External Evaluation

Mary Lee is the Executive Director of Pacific Policy Research Center.

Cooperating Faculty

Gurdal Arslan is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii.

Andras Bratincsak is an Associate Professor Pediatric Cardiology / Cardiology in John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii.

Shirley Daniel is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting in the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii.

Yuanzhang Xiao is an Assistant Professor from Hawaii Advanced Wireless Technologies Institute at University of Hawaii.

Yao Zheng an Assistant Professor of Electical Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii.