This directory includes regular Electrical and Computer Engineering Department faculty, adjunct faculty, and faculty
with joint appointments. Click on faculty names to see their personal web pages.
Asad A. Abidi
High-performance
analog electronics, device modeling
Clarice D. Aiello
Quantum sensing, Spin physics in “living sensors”, Bioimaging
Abeer Alwan
Digital speech processing, noise robust speech recognition, models
of speech production and perception
Omid Abari
Internet-of-Things (IoT), Wireless Networks, Mobile Systems, Software-Hardware Systems, Human-computer interaction (HCI)
Katsushi Arisaka
High-speed single photon detection and digitization, photon detection systems in bio-imaging and particle physics
Corey Arnold
Computational Radiology/Pathology, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Multi-scale Disease Modeling, Natural Language Processing
Aydin Babakhani
Millimeter-wave/THz Integrated Circuits and on-chip antennas, Wirelessly-powered CMOS sensors and actuators, Biomedical circuits
and medical implants
Ezio Biglieri
Information theory, channel coding and wireless communications
Danijela Cabric
Wireless communications system design, machine learning for wireless communications, sensing and security, performance analysis and experiments on embedded platforms and software defined radios
Robert N. Candler
MEMS and nanoscale devices, fundamental limitations of sensors, micromagnetic devices for advanced light sources, biological and chemical sensing
M. C. Frank Chang
High-speed semiconductors devices, integrated circuits for digital, analog, microwave, mm-wave terahertz systems, RF/wireless interconnects
Xiang Anthony Chen
Human-computer interaction, sensing and interaction techniques, intelligent user interfaces, computational design and fabrication
Panagiotis Christofides
Advanced materials processing, process modeling, dynamics and control, applied mathematics, desalination and water treatment
Jason Cong
Computer system architecture,
energy-efficient computing, reconfigurable computing, electronic design automation, fault-tolerant
design of VLSI systems, design for nanotechnologies, design and analysis of algorithms
Suhas N. Diggavi
Information theory, wireless networks, cooperative information flow over wireless networks, network data compression, network secrecy, large-scale data analysis algorithms
Dariush Divsalar
Information theory, communication theory, bandwidth efficient combined coding modulation techniques, CDMA, turbo codes, LDPC codes, iterative decoding
Coding and information theory, statistical algorithms, and machine learning with applications to various traditional and emerging technologies 1) in data storage, including memories (Flash, DRAM, DNA storage, etc.), and dense, large-scale, and distributed storage, and 2) in data processing, including blockchain, quantum computing, and distributed computing.
Sam Emaminejad
Biological and Chemical Sensors,
Wearable and Flexible Electronics, Microfluidics, MEMs and NEMs Fabrication and Modeling, Internet
of Things Devices, Technology Development for Personalized/Precision Medicine
Alyson Fletcher
Network neuroscience, machine learning, complex system theory, graphical models, statistical physics and inference, identification of neural systems
Christina Fragouli
Network coding, algorithms for networking, wireless
networks and network security.
Bahman Gharesifard – joining the ECE Dept. July 2021
Systems and controls, network
optimization, distributed decision making, data-driven control, decentralization in machine learning, online optimization, social and economic networks, game theory, optimal transport theory, geometric control and mechanics
Dan M. Goebel
Electric propulsion, thermionic
emission, microwaves, plasma-materials interactions, high voltage
Puneet Gupta
Design-technology co-optimization, physical design, variability and reliability aware computer architectures
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) for Education, Health, Transportation,
and Power and Water Sustainability; Programmable Logic (FPGA), Re-Configurable Computing, AI-on-A-Chip, Neuromorphic Computing, and Quantum Computing; Modeling, Simulation and Validation for VLSI Circuits, Software, and IoT Systems
Diana L. Huffaker
Solid-state nanotechnology,
plasmonically-coupled processes, optoelectronic devices, solar cell, si photonics, novel materials
Tatsuo Itoh
Electromagnetics, guided wave structures, lower-power wireless electronics, integrated passive components in antennas, photonic bandgap structures and metamaterial applications, RF technologies, sensors and transponders
Subramanian S. Iyer
System Scaling Technology, advanced packaging and 3D integration,
technologies and techniques for the memory subsystem integration and neuromorphic
computing
Stephen E. Jacobsen
Mathematical programming with emphasis on non-convex and NP-hard problems and
the application of the latter to engineering and engineering/economic systems
Bahram Jalali
Silicon photonics and fiber optic communication, real-time streaming data acquisition and processing, biophotonics, rare cell detection, blood screening,
nondestructive material testing and characterization, rogue wave phenomena
Mona Jarrahi
Terahertz/millimeter-wave electronics and optoelectronics, microwave photonics, imaging and spectroscopy systems
Chan J. Joshi
Laser fusion, laser acceleration of particles, nonlinear optics, high-power lasers, plasma physics
Achuta Kadambi
Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, Medical Devices
William J. Kaiser
Biomedical informatics, embedded systems, biomedical devices
Jonathan Kao
Neural prostheses, brain-machine interfaces, computational and systems neuroscience, neural signal processing, machine learning, dynamical systems, recurrent neural networks, deep learning
Pedram Khalili
Nanoelectronics, spintronics, nano-magnetism, nonvolatile memory and logic, and microwave magnetics
Alan J. Laub
Numerical linear algebra, high-performance computing
Kuo-Nan Liou
Atmospheric radiative transfer and remote
sensing, clouds and aerosols, climate change, regional climate modeling in mountains and snow, light scattering by ice crystals and aerosols
Jia-Ming Liu
Nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, laser dynamics and chaos, semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers,
optoelectronics, photonics, microwave photonics, graphene photonics, nanophotonics
Wentai Liu
Neural prosthesis, bioelectronics, implantable microelectronics, high-speed transceiver design (wired and wireless), microelectronic sensors, timing/clock optimization, on-chip Interconnects, computer vision/image processing
Asad M. Madni
Intelligent sensors, systems and instrumentation, wireless sensor networks, signal processing, and MEMS; applications for automotive safety, aerospace, radar, electronic warfare, and US combat readiness
Dejan Markovic
Integrated circuits for emerging radio and healthcare systems, energy-efficient flexible digital integrated circuits, circuit and architecture design with
post-CMOS devices, optimization methods and CAD flows
Ankur Mehta
Printable robotics, Rapid design and fabrication,
Controls algorithms, Wireless sensor networks
Mayank Mehta
Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Shervin Moloudi
Analog and RF integrated electronics, high speed data
converters, and telecommunication circuits
Warren B. Mori
Plasma physics, high energy density plasma science, high performance computing
Ali Mosleh
Reliability engineering, physics of failure modeling and system life prediction, resilient systems design, prognostics and health monitoring, hybrid systems simulation, theories and techniques for risk and safety analysis
Stanley Osher
Level set methods for computing moving fronts involving topological changes, hyperbolic conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations,
optimization related to sparsity
Aydogan Ozcan
Computational Imaging, Deep Learning Optics, Microscopy, Holography, Sensing, Biophotonics
Sudhakar Pamarti
Analog, mixed signal and RF IC
design, signal processing
Gregory Pottie
Communications/telecommunications, biomedical informatics, sensor networks
Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Electromagnetics, satellite communication antennas, personal communication antennas including human interaction, biotelemetry and RFID applications, antennas for remote sensing and radio astronomy applications
Behzad Razavi
Analog, RF, 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
Yair Rivenson
Bioimaging, Computational Imaging, Photonics
Vwani P. Roychowdhury
Communications/telecommunications, quantum computation and information processing, embedded systems, adaptive and learning algorithms, combinatorics and complexity, biomedical informatics
Izhak Rubin
Communications/telecommunications, computer networks, multimedia IP networks, UAV/UGV-aided networks, integrated system and network management, C4ISR systems and networks, optical networks, network simulations and analysis
Henry Samueli
VLSI implementation of signal processing and digital communication systems, high-speed digital integrated circuits, digital filter design
Majid Sarrafzadeh
Embedded systems, health analytics, biomedical systems, and algorithm design
Ali H. Sayed
Adaptation and learning, statistical signal processing, estimation and filtering theories, signal processing for communications, distributed processing, bio-inspired networks, system theory
Fabien Scalzo
Medical Imaging, Machine Learning, Biomedical
Engineering, Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Biomedical Informatics, Brain Mapping, Computational Fluid Dynamic
Nader Sehatbakhsh
Circuits and Embedded Systems
Stefano Soatto
Computer vision, machine learning, robotics
Jason Speyer
Stochastic and deterministic optimal control and
estimation with application to aerospace systems; guidance, flight control, and flight mechanics
Mani B. Srivastava
Embedded software, ubiquitous and mobile computing, human-cyber-physical systems, security and privacy, mobile health, internet of things,
energy-aware computing
Oscar M. Stafsudd, Jr.
Quantum electronics, solid state lasers and laser media, infrared detectors (semiconductor and pyroelectric), opto-electronics, terahertz devices and systems, crystal growth, photovoltaics, optical applications for medical use
Dwight Streit
Advanced semiconductors, microelectronics, radar, communication and satellite payload electronics
Paulo Tabuada
Cyber-physical systems, cyber-physical systems security, control systems, smart grid
Zachary Taylor
THz medical imaging and sensing, biomedical optics and biophotonics, submillimeter wave and THz quasioptics, diagnostic medical imaging
King-Ning Tu
3D IC packaging and joule heating, metal-silicon interfaces, electromigration, pb-free solder joints
Mihaela van der Schaar
Game theory, network science, social networks, complex systems, machine learning, online learning, stream mining and Big data, medical informatics, networks
Lieven Vandenberghe
Engineering optimization, system theory and control, signal processing, machine learning
Ingrid Verbauwhede
Embedded security, security of cyber physical systems, efficient and attack resistant implementations of cryptography, design methods
John D. Villasenor
Electronics supply chain, digital media, technology and public policy
Kang L. Wang
Nanoelectronics, spintronics and nanomagnetics, non-volatile electronics and low dissipation devices, quantum device and systems, frontier materials by molecular beam epitaxy, photonics and energy
Yuanxun Ethan Wang
Smart antennas, RF and microwave power amplifiers, numerical techniques, DSP techniques for microwave systems, phased arrays, wireless and radar systems,
electromagnetics
Richard Wesel
Information theory/communication theory, communication with feedback, coding and optimization for flash memory, optimization of
communication systems, low-density parity-check codes and turbo codes, trellis codes and convolutional codes
Benjamin Williams
Terahertz and mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers and photonic devices, low-dimensional semiconductor materials and intersubband
physics, terahertz and infrared plasmonics, waveguides, antennas
Alan N. Willson, Jr.
Theory and applications of digital signal processing including VLSI implementations, digital filter design, nonlinear circuit theory
Chee Wei Wong
Nonlinear optics, quantum optics, ultrafast optics, precision measurements
Jason C. S. Woo
Solid state electronics, CMOS and bipolar device/circuit optimization, novel device design, modeling of integrated circuits, VLSI fabrication
Eli Yablonovitch
Electronic devices,
optoelectronics, high speed optical communications,
optical antennas, solar photovoltaics, computational inverse electromagnetic design
C. K. Ken Yang
High performance VLSI design, digital and mixed-signal circuit design
Lin F. Yang
Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Optimization, Big-data Algorithms, Control
Kung Yao
Communications/telecommunications, collaborative signal processing, sensor system, wireless communication systems, VLSI and systolic algorithms
Lixia Zhang
Internet architecture and protocol designs, security and resiliency of large-scale systems
Yang Zhang – joining the ECE Dept. July 2021
Human-computer interaction, sensing
and interaction techniques, Internet of Things (IoT), digital health, accessibility