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.
Internet-of-Things (IoT), Wireless Networks, Mobile Systems, Software-Hardware Systems, Human-computer interaction (HCI)
High-performance analog electronics, device modeling
Quantum sensing, Spin physics in “living sensors”, Bioimaging
Digital speech processing, noise robust speech recognition, models of speech production and perception
High-speed single photon detection and digitization, photon detection systems in bio-imaging and particle physics
Computational Radiology/Pathology, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Multi-scale Disease Modeling, Natural Language Processing
Millimeter-wave/THz Integrated Circuits and on-chip antennas, Wirelessly-powered CMOS sensors and actuators, Biomedical circuits
and medical implants
Information theory, channel coding and wireless communications
Wireless communications system design, machine learning for wireless communications, sensing and security, performance analysis and experiments on embedded platforms and software defined radios
MEMS and nanoscale devices, fundamental limitations of sensors, micromagnetic devices for advanced light sources, biological and chemical sensing
Ultrafast photon sciences and light-matter interactions, including quantum optics, ultrafast and nonlinear optics, and structured photonics, molecular dynamics, and particle accelerators and X-ray free-electron lasers
High-speed semiconductors devices, integrated circuits for digital, analog, microwave, mm-wave terahertz systems, RF/wireless interconnects
Human-computer interaction, sensing and interaction techniques, intelligent user interfaces, computational design and fabrication
Advanced materials processing, process modeling, dynamics and control, applied mathematics, desalination and water treatment
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
Information theory, wireless networks, cooperative information flow over wireless networks, network data compression, network secrecy, large-scale data analysis algorithms
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.
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
Network neuroscience, machine learning, complex system theory, graphical models, statistical physics and inference, identification of neural systems
Network coding, algorithms for networking, wireless networks and network security.
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
Electric propulsion, thermionic emission, microwaves, plasma-materials interactions, high voltage
Quantum Science and Engineering
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
Solid-state nanotechnology, plasmonically-coupled processes, optoelectronic devices, solar cell, si photonics, novel materials
System Scaling Technology, advanced packaging and 3D integration, technologies and techniques for the memory subsystem integration and neuromorphi computing
Mathematical programming with emphasis on non-convex and NP-hard problems and
the application of the latter to engineering and engineering/economic systems
Silicon Photonics, Cell imaging and screening, Physics-inspired Algorithms, Nonlinear Dynamics, Artificial Intelligence
Terahertz/millimeter-wave electronics and optoelectronics, microwave photonics, imaging and spectroscopy systems
Laser fusion, laser acceleration of particles, nonlinear optics, high-power lasers, plasma physics
Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, Medical Devices
Biomedical informatics, embedded systems, biomedical devices
Neural prostheses, brain-machine interfaces, computational and systems neuroscience, neural signal processing, machine learning, dynamical systems, recurrent neural networks, deep learning
Nanoelectronics, spintronics, nano-magnetism, nonvolatile memory and logic, and microwave magnetics
Numerical linear algebra, high-performance computing
Nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, laser dynamics and chaos, semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers, optoelectronics, photonics, microwave photonics, graphene photonics, nanophotonics
Neural prosthesis, bioelectronics, implantable microelectronics, high-speed transceiver design (wired and wireless), microelectronic sensors, timing/clock optimization, on-chip Interconnects, computer vision/image processing
Intelligent sensors, systems and instrumentation, wireless sensor networks, signal processing, and MEMS; applications for automotive safety, aerospace, radar, electronic warfare, and US combat readiness
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
Printable robotics, Rapid design and fabrication, Controls algorithms, Wireless sensor networks
Analog and RF integrated electronics, high speed data converters, and telecommunication circuits
Plasma physics, high energy density plasma science, high performance computing
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
Level set methods for computing moving fronts involving topological changes, hyperbolic conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations, optimization related to sparsity
Computational Imaging, Deep Learning Optics, Microscopy, Holography, Sensing, Biophotonics
Analog, mixed signal and RF IC design, signal processing
Communications/telecommunications, biomedical informatics, sensor networks
Electromagnetics, satellite communication antennas, personal communication antennas including human interaction, biotelemetry and RFID applications, antennas for remote sensing and radio astronomy applications
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
Bioimaging, Computational Imaging, Photonics
Communications/telecommunications, quantum computation and information processing, embedded systems, adaptive and learning algorithms, combinatorics and complexity, biomedical informatics
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
VLSI implementation of signal processing and digital communication systems, high-speed digital integrated circuits, digital filter design
Embedded systems, health analytics, biomedical systems, and algorithm design
Adaptation and learning, statistical signal processing, estimation and filtering theories, signal processing for communications, distributed processing, bio-inspired networks, system theory
Circuits and Embedded Systems
Computer vision, machine learning, robotics
Stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems; guidance, flight control, and flight mechanics
Embedded software, ubiquitous and mobile computing, human-cyber-physical systems, security and privacy, mobile health, internet of things, energy-aware computing
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
Advanced semiconductors, microelectronics, radar, communication and satellite payload electronics
Cyber-physical systems, cyber-physical systems security, control systems, smart grid
THz medical imaging and sensing, biomedical optics and biophotonics, submillimeter wave and THz quasioptics, diagnostic medical imaging
3D IC packaging and joule heating, metal-silicon interfaces, electromigration, pb-free solder joints
Game theory, network science, social networks, complex systems, machine learning, online learning, stream mining and Big data, medical informatics, networks
Engineering optimization, system theory and control, signal processing, machine learning
Embedded security, security of cyber physical systems, efficient and attack resistant implementations of cryptography, design methods
Electronics supply chain, digital media, technology and public policy
Nanoelectronics, spintronics and nanomagnetics, non-volatile electronics and low dissipation devices, quantum device and systems, frontier materials by molecular beam epitaxy, photonics and energy
Smart antennas, RF and microwave power amplifiers, numerical techniques, DSP techniques for microwave systems, phased arrays, wireless and radar systems, electromagnetics
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
Terahertz and mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers and photonic devices, low-dimensional semiconductor materials and intersubband
physics, terahertz and infrared plasmonics, waveguides, antennas
Theory and applications of digital signal processing including VLSI implementations, digital filter design, nonlinear circuit theory
Nonlinear optics, quantum optics, ultrafast optics, precision measurements
Solid state electronics, CMOS and bipolar device/circuit optimization, novel device design, modeling of integrated circuits, VLSI fabrication
Electronic devices, optoelectronics, high speed optical communications, optical antennas, solar photovoltaics, computational inverse electromagnetic design
High performance VLSI design, digital and mixed-signal circuit design
Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Optimization, Big-data Algorithms, Control
Communications/telecommunications, collaborative signal processing, sensor system, wireless communication systems, VLSI and systolic algorithms
Internet architecture and protocol designs, security and resiliency of large-scale systems
Human-computer interaction, sensing and interaction techniques, Internet of Things (IoT), digital health, accessibility