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.
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 | Abeer Alwan Digital speech processing, noise robust speech recognition, models of speech production and perception |
 | Katsushi Arisaka High-speed single photon detection and digitization, photon detection systems in bio-imaging and particle physics |
 | 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 |
 | Lara Dolecek Information and coding theory, graphical models and statistical algorithms, computational methods and algorithms with applications to large-scale and complex systems for data processing, communications and storage |
 | 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 |
 | Lei He
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 | 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 |
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 | 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, optoelectronics, photonics, nonlinear and ultrafast processes |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
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 | 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 |
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 | 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 – joining the ECE
Dept. July 2020 Security and Privacy, Computer Architecture, IoT/Embedded Systems Security, and Side-Channels |
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 | 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 |
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 | 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. |
