Faculty Research Areas

Faculty in Physical and Wave Electronics

	Robert Candler, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006 MEMS and NEMS devices, micro/nanoscale technology development, and the interface of physical microsystems with biology. Office: TBD, Phone: 310.TBD.TBDD, Email
	M.C. Frank Chang, Professor Ph.D., National Chiao-Tung University, 1979 CMOS RF design, high speed analog integrated circuit design, data conversion, and other techniques of analog signal processing. Fellow, IEEE, 1996  Office: 7440C Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.794.1633, Email
	Chi On Chui, Assistant Professor Ph.D, Stanford University, 2004 Heterostructure semiconductor devices and technology involving the application of novel device concepts and fabrication techniques to explore the quantum and strain effects at the nanoscale. Office: 6730B Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.267.4786, Email
	Harold Fetterman, Professor Ph.D, Cornell University, 1968 Optical millimeter wave interactions, femtosecond evaluation of high-frequency devices and circuits, solid state millimeter wave structures and systems, biomedical applications of lasers. Fellow, IEEE, 1990 Fellow, Optical Society of America, 1980  Office: 66-147J Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.3431, Email
	Warren Grundfest, Professor M.D., Columbia University, 1980 Lasers for minimally invasive surgery, magnetic resonance-guided interventional procedures, laser lithotripsy, micro-endoscopy, spectroscopy, photodynamic therapy, optical technology, biologic feedback control mechanisms. Fellow, SPIE, 1996 Fellow, American Institute of Medical & Biologic Engineers, 1996  Office: 7532 Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.795.5550, Email
	Diana Huffaker, Associate Professor Ph.D, UT Austin, 1994 Directed and self-assembled nanostructure solid-state epitaxy, optoelectronic devices including solar cells and III-V/Si photonics. Office: 66-127A Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.9786, Email
	Tatsuo Itoh, Professor Ph.D, UI Urbana-Champaign, 1969 Microwave and millimeter wave electronics, guided wave structures, low power wireless electronics, integrated passive components and antennas. National Academy of Engineering, 2003 Fellow, IEEE, 1982  Office: 66-147A Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.4821, Email
	Bahram Jalali, Professor Ph.D, Columbia University, 1989 RF photonics, fiber optic integrated circuits, and Datacom systems. Fellow, Optical Society of America, 2004 Fellow, IEEE, 2003 Office: 68-109 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.9655, Email
	Chandrashekar Joshi, Professor Ph.D, Hull University, England, 1979 Laser fusion, laser acceleration of particles, nonlinear optics, high-power lasers, plasma physics. Fellow, IEEE, 1993 Fellow, Institute of Physics (U.K.), 1998 Fellow, American Physical Society, 1990 Office: 66-147D Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.7279, Email
	Jack W. Judy, Associate Professor Ph.D, UC Berkeley, 1996 MEMS, microsensors, micro-actuators, microsystems and micromachining; magnetism and magnetic materials; neuro-engineering and neuro-silicon interfaces; distributed sensors, actuators, and information. Office: 6731E Boelter Hall,Phone: 310.206.1371, Email
	Jia-Ming Liu, Professor Ph.D, Harvard University, 1982 Nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, semiconductor lasers, photonic devices, optical wave propagation, nonlinear laser dynamics, chaotic communications, chaotic radar, nanophotonic imaging, and biophotonics. Fellow, IEEE, 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, 2006 Fellow, American Physical Society, 2003 Fellow, Optical Society of America, 1990 Office: 66-147K Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.2097, Email
	Warren Mori, Professor Ph.D, UCLA, 1987 Laser plasma interactions, advanced accelerator concepts, advanced light sources. Fellow, IEEE, 2007 Fellow, American Physical Society, 1995 Office: 66-127L Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.6709, Email
	Christoph Niemann, Assistant Professor Ph.D, University of Technology, Darmsstadt, 2002 Laser-plasma interactions, high-energy density physics, and inertial confinement fusion. Office: 68-121 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.8656, Email
	Aydogan Ozcan, Assistant Professor Ph.D, Stanford University, 2005 Photonics and its applications to nano and bio-technology. Office: 66-127D Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.0915, Email
	Dee Son Pan, Professor Ph.D, California Institute of Technology, 1977 New semiconductor devices for millimeter-and submillimeter-wave generation and amplifi cation, transport in small geometry semiconductor devices, generic device modeling. Office: 56-147B Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.1123, Email
	C. Kumar Patel, Professor Ph.D, Stanford University, 1961 Condensed matter physics, especially the structure and dynamics of “interesting systems”, broadly defi ned; spectroscopic techniques and detection methods; development of new laser systems. National Medal of Science, 1996 National Academy of Engineering, 1978 Fellow, IEEE, 1975 National Academy of Sciences, 1974 Office: 6-130H Knudsen Hall, Phone: 310.794.1613, Email
	Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Professor Ph.D, UI Urbana-Champaign, 1975 Satellite, personal communications, microstrip, fractal, remote sensing, and radio astronomy antennas; electromagnetic bandgap structures; computational and optimization techniques, measurement and diagnostic techniques. National Academy of Engineering, 2008 Fellow, IEEE, 1985 Office: 6731K Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.2275, Email
	Oscar M. Stafsudd, Professor Ph.D, UCLA, 1967 Quantum electronics, especially IR lasers and nonlinear optics; solid-state IR detectors. Office: 58-113 Engr. IV,Phone: 310.825.4360, Email
	Kang L. Wang, Professor Ph.D, MIT, 1970 Nanoelectronics and optoelectronics, MBE and superlattices, microwave and millimeter electronics/optoelectronics, quantum computing. Fellow, IEEE, 1992  Office: 66-147B Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.1609, Email
	Yuanxun (Ethan) Wang, Assistant Professor Ph.D, UT Austin, 1999 High performance antenna array and microwave amplifier systems for wireless communication and radar; numerical modeling techniques; fusion of signal processing and circuit techniques in microwave system design. Office: 56-147K Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.5670, Email
	Benjamin Williams, Assistant Professor Ph.D, MIT, 2003 Quantum cascade lasers in the terahertz frequency range, and the development of terahertz components based on subwavelength dimension for use in beam control, sensing, and imaging. Development of inter-subband and inter-sublevel based devices in low-dimensional nanostructures for electronic and optoelectronic applications. Office: 68-117 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.6961, Email
	Jason C.S. Woo, Professor & Area Director Ph.D, Stanford University, 1987 Solid state technology, CMOS and bipolar device/circuit optimization, novel device design, modeling of integrated circuits, VLSI fabrication. Fellow, IEEE, 2005 Office: 56-147J Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.3279, Email