Regular Faculty

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
	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 Silicon-based Integrated Sensors, On-chip Antennas, mm-Wave and THz Integrated Systems and Sensors
	Danijela Cabric Wireless communications system design, cognitive radio networks, VLSI architectures of signal processing and digital communications, performance analysis and experiments on embedded platforms
	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
	Panagiotis Christofides Advanced materials processing, process modeling, dynamics and control, applied mathematics, desalination and water treatment
	Chi On Chui Semiconductor and electronic devices, integrated circuit manufacturing technology, bioelectronics and medical device technology, heterogeneous integration and exploratory nanotechnology
	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
	Babak Daneshrad MIMO enabled wireless networks, experimental wireless, VLSI architectures for wireless systems, digital VLSI and integrated circuits for wireless applications
	Suhas N. Diggavi Information theory, wireless networks, cooperative information flow over wireless networks, network data compression, network secrecy, large-scale data analysis algorithms
	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.
	Warren Grundfest Image-guided procedures, minimally invasive surgery, medical applications of terahertz, surgical robots, biologic spectroscopy, excimer laser applications, photodynamic therapy, ultrasound technologies, FDA regulatory affairs
	Puneet Gupta Design-technology co-optimization, physical design, variability and reliability aware computer architectures
	Lei He 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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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 Bioimaging, nano-photonics, nonlinear optics
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	C.-K. Ken Yang High performance VLSI design, digital and mixed-signal circuit design
	Lixia Zhang Internet architecture and protocol designs, security and resiliency of large-scale systems