Endowed chairs and professorships are reserved for distinguished scholars and teachers. An endowed chair or professorship provides funds to a chair holder in support of his or her teaching, research and service.
Wintek Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering
High-speed semiconductors devices, integrated circuits for digital, analog, microwave, mm-wave terahertz systems, RF/wireless interconnects
William D. Van Vorst Chair in Chemical Engineering Education
Control of nonlinear and hybrid process networks
Distributed and economic model predictive control
Fault-tolerant control and process safety
Water and energy system modeling and control
Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence
Electronic design automation, customized computing for machine learning and big-data applications, quantum computing, and highly scalable algorithms
Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering
System Scaling Technology, advanced packaging and 3D integration, technologies and techniques for the memory subsystem integration and neuromorphic computing
Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering
Terahertz/millimeter-wave electronics and optoelectronics, microwave photonics, imaging and spectroscopy systems
Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering
Nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, laser dynamics and chaos, semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers, optoelectronics, photonics, microwave photonics, graphene photonics, nanophotonics
J.M. Maguire Term Chair in Engineering
Neuroengineering, bioelectronics, invasive and non-invasive neural prosthesis, bio-signal processing, brain-machine interface, personalized learning
Mukund Padmanabhan Term Chair in Electrical Engineering
Implantable neuromodulation systems
Domain-specific compute architectures
Design methodologies
Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering
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.
Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation
Computational Imaging, Deep Learning Optics, Diffractive Neural Networks, Optical Computing, Microscopy, Holography, Sensing and Diagnostics, Biophotonics, Mobile Health, Telemedicine, Global Health
Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering/Electromagnetics
Electromagnetics, satellite communication antennas, personal communication antennas including human interaction, biotelemetry and RFID applications, antennas for remote sensing and radio astronomy applications
Levi James Knight, Jr. Term Chair for Innovation
Data Science, Health analytics, Embedded Systems, Algorithm design
The Ronald and Valerie Sugar Endowed Chair in Engineering
Stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems; guidance, flight control, and flight mechanics.
Mukund Padmanabhan Term Chair
Data Science, Embedded software, Ubiquitous and mobile computing, Human-cyber-physical systems, Security and privacy, Mobile health, Internet of things, Energy-aware computing
Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering
Cyber-physical systems, cyber-physical systems security, control systems, smart grid
Raytheon Company Chair in Electrical Engineering
Nanoelectronics, spintronics and nanomagnetics, non-volatile electronics and low dissipation devices, quantum device and systems, frontier materials by molecular beam epitaxy, photonics and energy
Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr. Endowed Term Chair in Engineeringy
Nonlinear optics, quantum optics, ultrafast optics, precision measurements
Tatsuo Itoh Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
High-performance VLSI design, digital and mixed-signal circuit design, high-performance data communications and networking.
Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Computer Systems
Cybersecurity and future internet
Internet architecture and protocol designs
Security in large scale and open systems
Named data networking