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.

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

Internet-of-Things (IoT), Wireless Networks, Mobile Systems, Software-Hardware Systems, Human-computer interaction (HCI)

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

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.

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

Electric propulsion, thermionic emission, microwaves, plasma-materials interactions, high voltage

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

Electromagnetics, guided wave structures, lower-power wireless electronics, integrated passive components in antennas, photonic bandgap structures and metamaterial applications, RF technologies, sensors and transponders

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 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

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

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

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

Natural and Artificial Intelligence

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

Medical Imaging, Machine Learning, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Biomedical Informatics, Brain Mapping, Computational Fluid Dynamic

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

Yang Zhang – joining the ECE Dept. July 2021
Human-computer interaction, sensing and interaction techniques, Internet of Things (IoT), digital health, accessibility