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Emad Aboelela


Teaching Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Embedded Systems, Quality-of-Service for Multimedia Networking, Computer Networks Management and Design.

Gregory D. Abowd


Dean of the College of Engineering, 
Office of the Dean

Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Software Engineering

Ali Abur


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Power system monitoring, estimation and optimization, fault location and identification in power grids
Derya Aksaray

Derya Aksaray


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Autonomous systems, control theory, formal methods, machine learning, and aerospace systems
Arwa Alkhateeb

Arwa Alkhateeb


Associate Co-op Coordinator, 
Cooperative Education

Christopher Amato


Affiliated Faculty, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics
Mahshid Amirabadi

Mahshid Amirabadi


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Design, modeling and control of power converters, power electronics for renewable energy systems, microgrids, variable speed drives and wireless power transfer

Joseph Ayers


Affiliated Faculty, 
Bioengineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Development of underwater robots for civil infrastructure and explosive sensing; neurophysiology and behavior biomimetics
Omar Badreldin

Omar Badreldin


Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director, 
Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs

predicting software evolution using a variety of approaches, including software quality predictive analysis, with the goal of enhancing upfront software designs, and enabling effective continuous design refactoring

Stefano Basagni


Professor and Director of Global Programs, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wireless networks; ad hoc networks; underwater and terrestrial sensor networking; protocol design and testing

Timothy Bickmore


Affiliated Faculty, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Human-Computer Interaction, Health Informatics, Dialog systems, Conversational agents

Dana Brooks


Research Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Biomedical signal and image processing; medical imaging; statistical signal processing; inverse problems; electrocardiography; bio-optical imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; transcranial neuromodulation; estimation of protein conformations from Xray scattering; regularization; optimization

Ahmed Busnaina


WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Nanomanufacturing; nano and microscale printing of sensors and electronics; nano and micro-scale defects in semiconductor manufacturing; high rate nanomanufacturing; power electronics, RF, NEMS devices and nanomaterials based nanoelectronics, flexible and hybrid electronics

Octavia Camps


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Rachael Cancian

Rachael Cancian


Director – Institute Research & Operations, 
Institute for Experiential Robotics

Cristian Cassella

Cristian Cassella


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Acoustic resonators, nonreciprocal components, zero-power sensors for IoT, nonlinear dynamics, ultrasonic transducers

Kaushik Chowdhury


Associate Dean for Research, 
Office of the Dean

Dynamic spectrum access; energy harvesting sensor networks; 5G technology; intra-body communication; protocol design for wireless; internet; wireless

Pau Closas


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Statistical and array signal processing; estimation and detection theory; Bayesian inference; stochastic filtering; robust statistics; and game theory, with applications to positioning systems (GNSS and indoor technologies); wireless communications, and mathematical biology
Marco Colangelo

Marco Colangelo


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Applied superconductivity, single-photon detectors, cryogenic devices, and nanofabrication technology

Sally Conant


Senior Co-op Coordinator, Global Engineering & Associate Director, Global, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering, 
Global Engineering Co-op

Gene Cooperman


Affiliated Faculty, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computer systems, high-performance computing, transparent checkpoint-restart, model checking
Ravinder Dahiya

Ravinder Dahiya


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Flexible printed electronics, robotics (soft robotics), electronic skin, tactile sensing, haptics, intelligent interactive systems, wearable systems
Mallesham Dasari

Mallesham Dasari


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Immersive media, XR systems, networks, mobile, wireless, and wearable computing
Benyamin Davaji

Benyamin Davaji


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Integrated microsystems, data-guided design and nanofabrication, ultrasound microsystems for sensing and computation, and MEMS calorimetry for microbiology and biosensor development

Anthony Devaney


COE Distinguished Professor Emeritus, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electromagnetic wave propagation, inverse scattering tomography

Charles DiMarzio


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Optics, microscopy, coherent detection, interaction of light and sound waves, hyperspectral imaging, diffusive optical tomography multi-model imaging and remote sensing. Activities include computer modeling, designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the resulting data
Kristen Dorsey

Kris Dorsey


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences

Soft robotics, wearable devices, active and multifunctional materials, flexible electronics
Ken Duffy

Ken Duffy


Professor and Interim ECE Chair, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Mathematics

Algorithms for communication systems, the life sciences, and DNA forensics. Primary focus currently on new approaches to forward error correction.

Jennifer Dy


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Machine learning; data mining; statistical pattern recognition; computer vision and image processing
Najme Ebrahimi

Najme Ebrahimi


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Broadband, energy-efficient, reconfigurable, and high data rate RF, mm-wave, and THz integrated circuits and systems; and security, connectivity, and localization of IoTs

Deniz Erdogmus


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Statistical signal and image analysis, machine learning, neural interfaces, biomedical data analysis, human-intent inference for CPS

Ozlem Ergun


COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Design and management of large-scale networks, supply chain design and resilience, collaboration and crowdsourcing in logistics, humanitarian logistics
Michael Everett

Michael Everett


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Robotics, motion planning, control theory, neural network verification, reinforcement learning
Qianqian Fang

Qianqian Fang


Associate Professor, 
Bioengineering

Innovations in translational medical imaging devices to better diagnose cancers, low-cost point-of-care diagnostic tools to delivery life-saving medicines to the resource-poor regions, and high performance computing tools to facilitate the development of the next-generation imaging methods

Amir Farhat


Associate Teaching Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Integrated circuits, solid state devices

Yunsi Fei


Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, 
Office of the Dean

Hardware-oriented security, computer architecture, embedded systems, design automation, IoT and cyber physical systems

Yunume Fitchorova


Senior Research Scientist, 
Kostas Research Institute

Kevin Fu

Kevin Fu


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Protecting emerging sensor technology in biomedical engineering and cyber-physical systems

Yun Raymond Fu


COE Distinguished Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Big Data Mining and Social Media Analytics
Canek Fuentes-Hernandez

Canek Fuentes Hernandez


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Flexible and stretchable organic microelectronics and optoelectronics, device physics and engineering for sensing and energy generation, high throughput manufacturing and heterogeneous integration

Rajeev Gangula


Assistant Research Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

signal processing, physical layer and protocol aspects, prototyping with software-defined radios and connected robotics

Siddhartha Ghosh


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, integrated photonics, piezoelectric MEMS, oscillator-based computing, nanofabrication techniques and heterogeneous material integration

Manu Gosain


Senior Director - Technical Programs (PAWR & WIoT), 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Vincent G. Harris


University Distinguished Professor and William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Functional materials used in high frequency applications such as sensors, radar, and communication platforms, and nanotechnology, power electronics, and medical diagnostics and therapeutics
Cydney Hodder

Cydney Hodder


Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 
Cooperative Education

David Horsley

David Horsley


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS), design and manufacturing of microfabricated sensors and actuators, mechatronics and control systems.
Mahdi Imani

Mahdi Imani


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Machine Learning, Control/Learning Theory, Bayesian Statistics, Signal Processing

Vinay Ingle


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Multidimensional signal processing and Hyperspectral imaging

Stephen Intille


Affiliated Faculty, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Applying pattern recognition and sensor-driven healthcare technologies to measure physical activity and promote behavior changes that improve health; human-in-the-loop activity recognition See: https://www.mhealthgroup.org/
Stratis Ioannidis

Stratis Ioannidis


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Distributed systems, networking, machine learning, big data, and privacy

Holly Jimison


Affiliated Faculty, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Technology-based health interventions for successful aging and scalable remote care
Kristina Johnson

Kristina Johnson


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Communication Sciences and Disorders

Intersection of neuroscience, engineering, and autism

Steven Johnson


Associate Co-op Coordinator, 
Cooperative Education

Josep M Jornet


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things

Terahertz communications for 6G systems, wireless nano-bio-communication networks, Internet of Nano-Things
Swapna Joshi

Swapna Joshi


Postdoctoral Research Associate, 
Institute for Experiential Robotics

Automotive User-Interface Design, AV / PDDs and Pedestrian Interactions, Public and Community Robotics, Human Robot Interaction, Community AI Interaction, Aging and Intergenerational Interactions, Urban Design.
Jackie Josselyn

Jackie Josselyn


Associate Co-op Coordinator, 
Cooperative Education

David Kaeli


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computer architecture; GPUs; heterogeneous computing; performance analysis; security, data privacy and encryption; hardware reliability and recovery; simulation; and workload characterization

Yong-Bin Kim


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Integrated circuit design and for nanoelectronics and nano technology, high speed system integration for signal processing and communication applications, bio-chip and bio-sensor interface circuit design, electronic neuron circuit design, low power adaptive robot controller circuit design; high performance and low power vlsI design, system-on-chip (soc), and Physical VLSI CAD

John K. Kimani


Associate Teaching Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Semiconductor devices, Biosensors and bioelectronics, and Hardware/software design for sensor circuits and systems.

Engin Kirda


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Malware analysis and detection; web security; social network security; reverse engineering; intrusion detection

Mieczyslaw Kokar


Professor Emeritus, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Software Engineering, Cognitive Radios, Information Integration and Fusion

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Experimental wireless networking and mobile computing, with a current focus on millimeter wave networking, high-bandwidth applications (VR, 360° video streaming) over wireless networks, LTE/WiFi coexistence, energy-aware protocol design for smartphones, and wireless sensing

Dmitri Krioukov


Affiliated Faculty, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Big data analytics and practical applications, mathematical physics of networks.

Perry Lee


Associate Director - IT Infrastructure & Architecture, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Miriam Leeser


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Accelerators for computer intensive applications from the edge to the cloud. Applications of FPGAs including wireless communications, machine learning and data privacy

Bradley Lehman


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Power electronics, dc-dc converters, pulse width modulation, motion control, electric motor drives, analog circuits, control theory, differential equations, time delays, nonlinear systems and control, industrial control
Laurent Lessard

Laurent Lessard


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Control theory, linear systems, optimization algorithms, machine learning

Hanoch Lev-Ari


Professor Emeritus, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Adaptive filtering, Statistical signal processing, spectrum analysis and estimation, networked dynamic state estimation.

Xue "Shelley" Lin


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Robust and Secure Machine Learning; Deep Learning on the Edge; Cyber-Physical Systems

Yongmin Liu


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nano optics, nanoscale materials and engineering, nano devices, plasmonics, metamaterials, and applied physics

Carol Livermore


Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Operations, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

MEMS-enabled actuator systems (assistive technologies, energy harvesting, and flow control); origami-enabled microfluidics and tissue engineering; carbon nanomaterials

Fabrizio Lombardi


ITC Endowed Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Fault-tolerant computing, VLSI CAD, testing, configurable computing, distributed systems
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Maria LoSurdo


Director of Administration and Finance, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Hessam Mahdavifar

Hessam Mahdavifar


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Coding and information theory, wireless communications, data privacy and security, privacy-preserving computing and learning

Bala Maheswaran


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering and First Year Engineering Program

Current Research: Experiential Engineering Education via Innovation and Invention. Focus on the Technical Design, Energy System, and Medical Engineering (MedEng) Design Innovations via Prototyping and Proof of Concept. Past Research: High-Temperature Superconductors, Two-Dimensional Electron Gas, and Engineering Physics Education.
Lee Makowski

Lee Makowski


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Bioengineering & Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Image and signal processing as applied to biophysical data designed to answer fundamental questions about the molecular basis of living systems, and progression of Alzheimer's Disease

Michael Marcus


Principal Research Scientist, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Spectrum policy to encourage technical innovation Terahertz spectrum technology and spectrum policy technology for spectrum monitoring and spectrum enforcement

Edwin Marengo


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Theoretical and applied electromagnetics, theoretical and applied optics, scattering theory, wave inverse problems, noniterative inverse scattering, physics-based signal processing and imaging, change detection theory and applications, compressive sensing, electromagnetic information theory, analysis and design of optical and quantum holographic detectors

Julius Marpaung


Teaching Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computer Architecture, Engineering & Law, Torts, Intellectual Property Law

Jose Martinez Lorenzo


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Devices, circuits and sensing; antenna analysis, modeling, design, and optimization; subsurface scattering analysis; computational methods of electromagnetics; novel radar system specification and design; explosives detection

Nicol McGruer


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

MEMS, NEMS, RF MEMS; nanotechnology; micro/nanofabrication; microsystems; microrelay; nanoswitch; microspectrometer; microfluidics; organic FETs, organic solar cells

Stephen W. McKnight


Professor Emeritus, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Submillimeter devices and materials, optical and infrared materials and systems, magnetic materials, engineering education.

Iraz Medhi


Senior Co-op Coordinator and Associate Director, 
Cooperative Education

Waleed Meleis


Vice Provost for Graduate Education, 
Office of the Provost

Combinatorial optimization, function approximation for large-scale machine learning, platforms for large-scale social experimentation, assistive technology

Tommaso Melodia


William Lincoln Smith Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things

Modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of wireless networked systems; Networked implantable medical systems; Multimedia sensor networks; Secure tactical cognitive radio networks; Underwater networks; Mobile cloud computing

Ningfang Mi


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Capacity planning; Resource Management; Storage Systems; NVMe Flash Memory Devices; Distributed Data Processing Scheduling; Cloud Computing; Performance Evaluation; Workload Characterization; Simulation

Ennio Mingolla


Affiliated Faculty, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Development and empirical testing of neural network models of visual perception, notably the segmentation, grouping, and contour formation processes of early and middle vision in primates, and on the transition of these models to technological applications
Sunil Mittal

Sunil Mittal


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Quantum photonics, topological photonics, nonlinear photonics, two-dimensional materials

Hossein Mosallaei


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electromagnetics and optics, quantum systems, nanoscale materials and metamaterials, nanoantennas, THz-IR Devices, multiscale computation and mathematical-numerical models

Lorraine Mountain


Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator, 
Cooperative Education

Departmental Programs: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Analytics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Engineering Public Policy, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Robotics, and Sustainable Building Systems.

Amy Mueller


Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences

Biogeochemistry of natural and engineered systems; in-situ sensors and instrumentation for high-resolution process characterization; remediation and sustainability in natural and built coastal environments; sensor-driven closed-loop controls for resource optimization in engineered systems; signal processing and machine learning, embedded systems, and sensor networks

Sarma Mulukutla


Professor Emeritus, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electric Machines; Energy Conversion; Electromagnetic Fields in Electrical Devices; Power Systems: Simulation, Analysis, and Optimum Control

Yousof Naderi


Assistant Research Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

AI-powered Cyber-physical Systems, Intelligent Surfaces for 6G and Beyond, and Self-powered Networked Robotics

Marvin Onabajo


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Design of analog, radio frequency, and mixed-signal integrated circuits; built-in test and calibration techniques for systems-on-a-chip; on-chip temperature sensors for thermal monitoring and built-in testing; integrated circuits for medical applications

Sarah Ostadabbas


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Augmented Cognition with Medical Applications; Augmented/Virtual Reality
Taskin Padir

Taskin Padir


Director, 
Institute for Experiential Robotics

Experiential robotics, human-robot teaming at the extremes, embodied artificial intelligence

Rupal Patel


Affiliated Faculty, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Speech acoustics, Speech signal processing, AI Voice, voice analytics

Misha Pavel


Affiliated Faculty, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Multi-scale computational modeling of complex behaviors of biological systems applied in healthcare, engineering, and augmentation of human performance
Michele Polese

Michele Polese


Assistant Research Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things

5G/6G wireless networks, mmWave and terahertz mobile networks, performance evaluation of end-to-end, complex networks, open source networking software
Victoria Preston

Victoria Preston


Future Faculty Fellow, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

embodied intelligence, planning under uncertainty, scientific machine learning, model-based learning, environmental sampling, applied ocean engineering

John G. Proakis


Professor Emeritus, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Digital Communications and Digital Signal Processing
Alireza Ramezani

Alireza Ramezani


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Design and development of robots with nontrivial morphologies; Analysis and closed-loop feedback design of nonlinear systems; Robot locomotion (legged & fluidic-based); Robotics-inspired biology

Carey Rappaport


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electromagnetics, antennas, computational modeling, imaging radar hardware and alogorithms, bioelectromagnetic sensing and treatment

Purnima Ratilal-Makris


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Remote sensing, underwater acoustics, acoustical oceanography, bioacoustics, ultrasound imaging, nonlinear scattering, wave propagation in random media, signal, image and array processing, statistical inference theory
Francesco Restuccia

Francesco Restuccia


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mobile computing, machine learning, wireless communications, embedded systems

Matteo Rinaldi


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Understanding and exploiting the fundamental properties of micro/nanomechanical structures and advanced nanomaterials to engineer new classes of micro and nanoelectromechanical systems (M/NEMS) with unique and enabling features applied to the areas of chemical, physical and biological sensing and low power reconfigurable radio communication systems

Wil Robertson


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Trustworthy computing architectures, web security, statistical machine learning for anomaly detection, malware analysis using adversarial program analysis, reverse engineering, intrusion detection
David Rosen

David M. Rosen


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Mathematics

Robotics, computer vision, machine learning, optimization, geometry and topology, probability and statistics

Masoud Salehi


Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies , 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Error correcting codes; information theory; digital communications
Mauricio Santillana

Mauricio Santillana


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Physics & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Modeling of geographic patterns of population growth, modeling fluid flow to inform coastal floods simulations and atmospheric global pollution transport models, and design and implementation of disease outbreaks prediction platforms and mathematical solutions to healthcare
Gunar Schirner

Gunar Schirner


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Embedded computer systems; novel architectures for embedded vision; cyber-physical systems; system-level design and methodologies; hardware/software co-design

Bahram Shafai


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Control Systems and Signal Processing; Robust and Optimal Control, Positive Dynamic Systems, Fault Detection, Observer Theory, Robotics and Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems, Control of Biological Systems
Shahin Shahrampour

Shahin Shahrampour


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Machine learning, optimization and control, distributed and sequential learning, with a focus on developing computationally efficient methods for data analytics

Aatmesh Shrivastava


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ultra-low Power Circuits and Systems, Analog Computing, Precision Circuits, Hardware Security

Milad Siami


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sparse Sensing and Control in Cyber-Physical Networks and Robotics; Distributed Systems Theory and Applications; Network Optimization and Control; Hard Limits and Tradeoff s in Large-Scale Dynamical Networks

Michael B. Silevitch


Robert D. Black Professor, COE Distinguished Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Subsurface sensing and imaging systems, detection of explosives-related anomalies, engineered system development and engineering leadership

Hanumant Singh


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Machine Learning for Fisheries, SLAM in the presence of Dynamic Moving Objects, Counter UAS methodologies , Manipulation Underwater, and Imaging in Visually Degraded Environments including underwater and in polar regions
Soner Sonmezoglu

Soner Sonmezoglu


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Integrated Circuits, Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (M/NEMS), Implantable and Wearable Medical Devices and Systems, Neural Interfaces

Eduardo Sontag


University Distinguished Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering

Feedback control theory, systems biology, cancer, and biomedicine
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Michael Stahl


Postdoctoral Research Associate, 
The Roux Institute

Dagmar Sternad


University Distinguished Professor, 
jointly appointed in Biology & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Motor control and learning, variability and stability, virtual rehabilitation, dynamic modeling, rhythmic and discrete movements as primitives for action

Milica Stojanovic


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wireless communications and networks, underwater acoustic transmission, statistical system characterization, adaptive signal processing

Lili Su


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Distributed machine learning, security and fault-tolerance, neural computation, bio-inspired distributed algorithms, blockchains, autonomous cars, algorithm design
Nian Sun

Nian X. Sun


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

New magnetic and magnetoelectric materials and device physics; integrated magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials and microsystems for sensing, memory, power, RF and microwave electronics; novel electrochemical sensors for sensing different pathogens and biomarkers for the diagnosis of various diseases, including COVID-19, Alzheimer’s disease, lung cancer, drug abuse, diabetes, etc.

Mario Sznaier


Dennis Picard Trustee Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dynamics-enabled machine learning, robust control, control oriented identification, semi-algebraic optimization, dynamic computer vision
Srinivas Tadigadapa

Srinivas Tadigadapa


Senior Vice Provost for Institutes, Centers, and Impact Engines, 
Office of the Provost

Sensor Devices and Smart Sensor Systems realized through interdisciplinary field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); including the design, optimization, fabrication, testing, and networking of such transducers; fabrication of novel micro and nano-sensors and actuators by integrating non-traditional materials using silicon planar microfabrication techniques and exploring phenomenon at the micro-nano interfaces; development of sustainable sensing solutions for biomedical applications including investigation of robust magnetic technologies for interfacing to the brain

Gilead Tadmor


Professor Emeritus, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Control systems; dynamical systems; low order modeling and estimation in complex systems; medical imaging

Devesh Tiwari


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Large scale high-performance computing systems; Data-intensive computing; cloud computing; machine learning and big data analytics; quantum computing

Eugene Tunik


Affiliated Faculty, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Human motor control / learning, neurorehabilitation neuroscience, brain stimulation, brain imaging, virtual reality

Josie Unger Flanagan


Associate Co-op Coordinator, 
Cooperative Education

Carmine Vittoria


COE Distinguished Professor Emeritus, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Elemagnetic wave propagation in anisotropic media, physics of magnetism, high tc superconductors and weak link devices, and ferrites and composites magnetic metal alloys and magnetic superlattices miniature microwave circuits.

Yanzhi Wang


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Real-time and energy-efficient deep learning and artificial intelligence systems, model compression of deep neural networks (DNNs), neuromorphic computing and non-von Neumann computing paradigms
Mingzhong Wu

Mingzhong Wu


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Physics & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Topological quantum materials, magnetic thin films, spin transport, spin torque, spin waves, and ferromagnetic resonance

Xiaolin Xu


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Security, Machine Learning, AI Security/Privacy, Energy-efficient Deep Learning, Computer Architecture, FPGA, Embedded Systems, VLSI
Mathew Yarossi

Mathew Yarossi


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Movement neuroscience, motor physiology, clinical research, physiological signal processing, and biomechanics
Yasin Yazicioglu

Yasin Yazicioglu


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Control theory, robotics, multi-agent systems, networks

Edmund Yeh


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Networked machine learning; networking and systems for data-intensive engineering, science, health applications; caching, edge computing; wireless network optimization; coding for low latency, network coding, polar codes; interdependent networks, cascading failure, information dissemination; network economics.
Sze Zheng Yong

Sze Zheng Yong


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Control, estimation, planning, learning and analysis of hybrid systems, with applications to autonomous, robotic and cyber-physical dynamic systems and their safety, robustness and resilience.

Victor Zappi


Affiliated Faculty, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computational Acoustics, Digital Musical Instruments, Speech Synthesis, Virtual Reality

Wenjun Zhang


Assistant Director of Finance & Administration, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Xuan (Silvia) Zhang

Xuan (Silvia) Zhang


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Artificial intelligence (AI) hardware, machine vision sensors, machine learning for electronic design automation, efficiency/security/privacy for autonomous systems, computer architecture, integrated circuits/VLSI design
Xufeng Zhang

Xufeng Zhang


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Spin wave dynamics; magnon-based coherent information processing; quantum hybrid magnonics; integrated microwave, photonic, magnonic, and mechanical devices