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	Asad A. Abidi, Professor Ph.D, UC Berkeley, 1981 CMOS RF design, high speed analog integrated circuit design, data conversion, and other techniques of analog signal processing. National Academy of Engineering, 2007 Fellow, IEEE, 1996 Office: 56-122 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.9490, Email

	Abeer Alwan, Professor and Area Director Ph.D, MIT, 1992 Speech processing, acoustic properties of speech sounds with applications to speech synthesis, recognition by machine and coding, hearing aid design, digital signal processing. Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 2003 Office: 66-147G Engr. IV, Phone 310.206.2231, Email

	A.V. Balakrishnan, Professor Ph.D, University of Southern California, 1954 Laser beam distortion in atmospheric turbulence, control design for smart structures, and flight systems applications of adaptive control, nonlinear aeroelasticity, and wind power. Life Fellow, IEEE, 1996 Office: 56-147G Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.2180, Email

	Danijela Cabric, Assistant Professor Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2007 Wireless communications system design; Cognitive radio networks; VLSI architectures of signal processing and digital communication algorithms; Performance analysis and experiments on embedded system platforms. Office: 56-147C Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.8856, Email

	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: 56-147M Engr. IV, 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

	Paganiotis Christofides, Professor Ph.D, University of Minnesota, 1996 Process control, dynamics and optimization, computational modeling and simulation of complex systems, and mathematics with the central objective of development of novel methods for the systematic and rigorous solution of complex process control and systems. Office: 5532F Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.794.1015, Email

	Babak Daneshrad, Professor Ph.D, UCLA, 1993 Digital VLSI circuits: wireless communication systems, high-performance communications integrated circuits for wireless applications. Office: 6731G Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.825.7792, Email

	Deborah Estrin, Professor Ph.D, MIT, 1985 Wireless sensor networks, environmental monitoring, participatory mobile sensing. National Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007 Fellow, IEEE, 2004 Fellow, AAAS, 2001 Fellow, ACM, 2000 Office: 3531H Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.3923, 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

	Puneet Gupta, Assistant Professor Ph.D, UC San Diego, 2007 Manufacturing, device, circuit and CAD techniques to enable design aware manufacturing and manufacturing aware design. Test structure design for generating abstracted process and variation models. Techniques for leakage power modeling and reduction. Office: 44-123A Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.1376, Email

	Mark Hansen, Associate Professor Ph.D, MIT, 1992 Statistical analysis of large complex data. Statistical methods for embedded sensing. Streaming data analysis. Text mining and information retrieval. Information theory and its applications to statistics. Fellow, SPIE, 1996 Fellow, American Institute of Medical & Biologic Engineers, 1996 Office: 8591 Math Sciences, Phone 310.206.8375, Email

	Lei He, Associate Professor Ph.D, UCLA, 1999 Computer-aided design of VLSI circuits and systems, interconnect modeling and design, power-effi cient computer architectures and systems, and numerical and combinatorial optimization. Office: 6731D Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.2037, 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: 310.206.4820, Email

	Rajeev Jain, Professor and Vice Chair Ph.D, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, 1985 Embedded hardware/software design for signal processing systems-on-a-chip; CAD tools for design of high-performance signal processing architectures and development of ASICs for spread-spectrum modems and image compression. Fellow, IEEE, 1999 Office: 6731J Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.3179, 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

	William J. Kaiser, Professor Ph.D, Wayne State University, 1984 Development of distributed networked, embedded computing for linking the Internet to the physical world: applications include distributed systems for factory automation, biomedical research, health care, space science, security, and defense. Fellow, American Vacuum Society, 1994 Office: 56-147L Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.3236, Email

	Alan J. Laub, Professor Ph.D, University of Minnesota, 1974 Numerical linear algebra, numerical analysis, high-end scientific computation, and computer-aided control system design, especially algorithms for control and filtering. Fellow, IEEE, 1986 Office: 44-123B Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.7221, 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

	Dejan Markovic, Assistant Professor Ph.D, UC Berkeley, 2006 Power/area-efficient digital integrated circuits, VLSI architectures for wireless communications, optimization methods and supporting CAD flows. Office: 56-147E Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.8656, 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: 310.794.4251, Email

	Stanley Frank Osher, Professor Ph.D, Courant Institute, New York University, 1966 Innovative numerical methods for applications ranging from image science to control to electromagnetics to computational physics and beyond. National Academy of Sciences, 2005 Office: 7617F Math Sciences, Phone: 310.825.7158, 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

	Sudhakar Pamarti, Assistant Professor Ph.D, UC San Diego, 2003 Mixed-signal IC design, signal processing and communication theory, especially the design of highly integrated wireless and wireline communication systems with particular emphasis on lowering cost and power consumption; design, silicon IC implementation, and verifi cation of mixed-signal blocks. Office: 6731F Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.825.2657, 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 defined; 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

	Gregory J. Pottie, Professor and Associate Dean Ph.D, McMaster University, 1988 Communication systems and theory, with applications to personal communications, channel coding, and wireless sensor networks. Fellow, IEEE, 2005 Office: 56-147G Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.8150, 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. Fellow, IEEE, 1985 Office: 6731K Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.2275, Email

	Behzad Razavi, Professor Ph.D, Stanford University, 1992 Analog, RF, and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, dual-standard RF transceivers, phase-locked systems and frequency synthesizers, A/D and D/A converters, high-speed data communication circuits. Fellow, IEEE, 2003 Office: 56-147D Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.1633, Email

	Vwani Roychowdhury, Professor Ph.D, Stanford University, 1989 Models of computation: parallel systems, quantum information processing, nanoscale and molecular electronics, statistical algorithms for large-scale information processing, combinatorics and complexity and information theory, bioinformatics, cryptography. Office: 6731C Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.4975, Email

	Izhak Rubin, Professor Ph.D, Princeton University, 1970 Telecommunications and computer communications systems/networks; mobile wireless, optical, multimedia IP, ATM, satellite, and CATV networks; queueing systems, C3 systems/networks, network simulations and analysis, traffic modeling/engineering. Fellow, IEEE, 1987 Office: 58-115 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.2326, Email

	Henry Samueli, Professor Ph.D, UCLA, 1980 Digital signal processing, communications systems engineering, and CMOS integrated circuit design for applications in highspeed data transmission systems. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004 National Academy of Engineering, 2003 Fellow, IEEE, 2000 Office: 58-121 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.2647, Email

	Majid Sarrafzadeh, Professor Ph.D, UI Urbana-Champaign, 1987 Embedded and reconfigurable computing; VLSI CAD; design and analysis of algorithms. Fellow, IEEE, 1996 Office: 3532C Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.825.7158, Email

	Ali H. Sayed, Professor and Chairman Ph.D, Stanford University, 1992 Adaptive and statistical signal processing, distributed processing, filtering and estimation, signal processing for communications, wireless networks, algorithms for large-scale structured computations. Fellow, IEEE, 2001 Office: 58-121 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.267.2142, Email

	Stefano Soatto, Professor Ph.D, Caltech, 1996 Shape analysis, motion analysis, visual textures, image analysis and processing, nonlinear system theory. Office: 3531D Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.825.4840, Email

	Jason Frank Speyer, Professor Ph.D, Harvard University, 1968 Stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems; guidance, flight control,and flight mechanics. National Academy of Engineering, 2005 Life Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AIAA, 1985 Office: 38-137O Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.4451, Email

	Mani B. Srivastava, Professor and Vice Chair Ph.D, UC Berkeley, 1992 Mobile and multimedia networked computing systems, design and synthesis of DSP systems, and low-power systems. Office: 6731H Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.267.2098, 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

	Paulo Tabuada, Professor Ph.D, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2002 Design of networked embedded control systems. Modeling, analysis and design of discrete-event, timed and hybrid systems. Hierarchical and distributed control design, geometric and algebraic control theory for nonlinear and Hamiltonian control systems, categorical systems theory. Office: 66-147F Engr. IV, Phone: 310.794.4266, Email

	Lieven Vandenberghe, Professor and Vice Chair Ph.D, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, 1992 Optimization in engineering, applications in systems and control, circuit design, and signal processing. Office: 68-119 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.1259, Email

	Mihaela van der Schaar, Associate Professor Ph.D, University of Technology, Eindhoven, 2001 Theory and design of novel algorithms, standards and systems for multimedia coding, processing and ubiquitous communication over Internet and wireless networks. Office: 66-147E Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.5843, Email

	John D. Villasenor, Professor Ph.D, Stanford University, 1989 Communications, signal and image processing, joint source and channel coding, lattice vector quantization, wavelet filter design, wireless multimedia communications, and low complexity image and video coding architectures and algorithms. Office: 56-147H Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.0228, 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

	Richard D. Wesel, Professor and Associate Dean Ph.D, Stanford University, 1996 Communication theory with a particular interest in coded modulation including trellis codes and turbo codes for applications including mobile wireless communication systems, multiple antenna systems, and satellite communication systems. Office: 7440B Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.267.2150, 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

	Alan N. Willson, Professor Ph.D, Syracuse University, 1967 Theory and application of digital signal processing including VLSI implementations, digital filter design, nonlinear circuit theory. Fellow, IEEE, 1996 Office: 66-147H Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.7400, Email

	Jason C.S. Woo, Professor and 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

	Chih-Kong Ken Yang, Professor and Area Director Ph.D, Stanford University, 1998 High-speed data and clock recovery circuits for large digital systems, low-power, high-performance functional blocks and clock distribution for high-speed digital processing, and low-power high-precision capacitive sensing interface for MEMS. Office: 56-147A Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.3665, Email

	Kung Yao, Professor Ph.D, Princeton University, 1965 Communication theory, signal, acoustic, and array processing, wireless communication systems, sensor networks, chaos system theory, and VLSI and systolic algorithms and architectures. Fellow, IEEE, 1994 Office: 68-113 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.8885, Email