Faculty and Staff Directory

Associate Teaching Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education, 

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

Dean of the College of Engineering, 

Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Software Engineering

Professor, 

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

Associate Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director, 

Associate Research Scientist, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

Associate Research Scientist, 

Associate Research Scientist, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Marketing and Communications Coordinator, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Teaching Professor, 

Research Professor, 

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

WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor, 

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

Professor, 

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

Assistant Professor, 

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

Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Facilities Manager, 

Teaching Professor, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

High-performance computing and large applications in computational algebra

Research Assistant Professor, 

Research Assistant Professor, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

COE Distinguished Professor Emeritus, 

Electromagnetic wave propagation, inverse scattering tomography

Associate Professor, 

Optics, microscopy, coherent detection, interaction of light and sound waves, hyperspectral imaging, diffusive optical tomography and ultrasound, landmine detection, magneto-optic sensors, and multi-model imaging. Activities include computer modeling, designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the resulting data

Provost Emeritus, 

Student Services & Data Manager, 

Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

Professor and Vice Chair of Research, 

machine learning, signal and image analytics, cyber-human systems

Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

neural interfaces, biomimetic electronics, electronic materials & organisms

Associate Professor, 

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

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Integrated circuits, solid state devices

Professor, 

Computer architecture, embedded systems, hardware-oriented security, design automation, mobile computing, underwater sensor networks

Affiliated Faculty, 

Professor, 

Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Big Data Mining and Social Media Analytics.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

Senior Technical Program Director, 

University Distinguished Professor and William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, 

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

Program Manager, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Financial Operations Coordinator, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Professor, 

Multidimensional signal processing and Hyperspectral imaging

Affiliated Faculty, 

Applying pattern recognition and sensor-driven healthcare technologies to measure physical activity and promote behavior changes that improve health

Associate Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Associate Research Scientist, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Administrative Assistant, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Computer architecture; GPUs; heterogeneous computing; performance analysis; security and information assurance; hardware reliability and recovery; Big Data analytics; workload characterization

Lab Technician, 

Professor, 

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

Associate Teaching Professor, 

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

Professor, 

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

Professor, 

Cognitive radio; software engineering-self-controlling software; information fusion

Associate Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Professor, 

Accelerators for compute intensive applications: reconfigurable hardware and graphics processing units (GPUs). Applications including biocomputing, machine learning, software-defined radio. Uses and implementations of computer arithmetic.

Professor, 

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.

Associate Professor, 

control theory, linear systems, optimization algorithms, machine learning

Professor Emeritus, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

Adversarial machine learning; deep learning acceleration and hardware implementation; cyber-physical systems

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Associate Professor, 

MEMS-enabled systems for assistive technologies, energy harvesting, and microscale vacuum applications; origami-enabled microfluidics and tissue engineering; carbon nanomaterials

ITC Endowed Professor, 

Fault-tolerant computing, VLSI CAD, testing, configurable computing, distributed systems.

Director of Administration and Finance, 

Teaching Professor, 

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.

Professor and Chair, 

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

Associate Professor, 

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

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Computer Architecture, Applying Machine Learning Algorithms in ASIC design using FPGA, Law & Policy, Engineering related Supreme Court cases, Immigration related cases

Associate Professor, 

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.

First-Year & Electrical and Computer Engineering (A-I) Academic Advisor, 

Operation & Tech Manager, 

Professor, 

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

Professor Emeritus, 

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

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Associate Dean for Graduate Education, 

Combinatorial optimization, algorithm design and analysis, scheduling, machine learning, parallel computing.

William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, 

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

Associate Professor, 

Capacity planning; NVMe Flash Memory Devices, MapReduce/Hadoop scheduling; cloud computing; resource management; performance evaluation; workload characterization; simulation

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Program Manager, 

Professor, 

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

Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator, 

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.

Assistant Professor, 

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

Professor Emeritus, 

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

Research Assistant Professor, 

Research Assistant Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

Associate Professor, 

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.

Assistant Professor, 

Machine learning/pattern recognition; computer vision, affective computing, human-machine interaction

Associate Professor, 

Humanoid robots, dexterous manipulation, model-based robot design, human-supervised robot autonomy, medical cyber-physical systems

Affiliated Faculty, 

Speech communication and human computer interfaces

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Technical Project Manager, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Associate Research Scientist, 

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

Professor Emeritus, 

Digital Communications and Digital Signal Processing

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Research Assistant Professor, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

Research Assistant Professor, 

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Bioelectromagnetics, microwave tissue imaging, electromagnetic breast cancer detection and treatment, cardiac ablation therapy, microwave assisted balloon angioplasty, catheter-based sensing. Antennas, electromagnetic computation, subsurface sensing and imaging, explosives detection, security system conceptualization and design.

Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

Next-generation wireless communications, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, wireless security

Professor, 

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

First-Year & Electrical and Computer Engineering (J-L) Academic Advisor, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies , 

Error correcting codes; information theory; digital communications

Associate Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Robert D. Black Professor, COE Distinguished Professor, 

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

Professor, 

Robotic sensors, systems, platforms, and algorithms including high resolution optical and acoustic sensing; underwater vehicles (AUV, ROV, towed and manned vehicles), unmanned surface vehicles, and unmanned aerial systems; system architectures for navigation, docking and power; and the interactions between these subsystems

Administrative Assistant, 

University Distinguished Professor, 

Feedback control theory, systems biology, cancer, and biomedicine

University Distinguished Professor, 

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

Professor, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

Professor, 

Magnetic, ferroelectric and magnetoelectric materials; RF/microwave magnetic and magnetoelectric devices design, fabrication and testing; materials properties at RF/microwave frequency; range self-assembly of magnetic nanostructures

Dennis Picard Trustee Professor, 

Robust control, control oriented identification, semi-algebraic  optimization, information extraction from high volume data streams, dynamics-enabled machine learning

Professor and Chair, 

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

Professor Emeritus, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

Assistant Director of Graduate Programs, 

Assistant Business Manager, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

COE Distinguished Professor Emeritus, 

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.

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

Administrative Assistant, 

Assistant Professor, 

Hardware security, VLSI, Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems

Professor, 

Networking and systems for data-intensive engineering, science, health applications; caching, fog/edge computing, networked distributed learning; wireless network optimization, coding for low latency, network coding, polar codes; interdependent networks, cascading failure, information dissemination; network economics.

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Assistant Director of Finance & Administration, 

Associate Professor, 

Nanoscale thermal transport; Nanoengineered materials; Multifunctional composites; Microfluidics; Chemical and biological nanosensors; Renewable energy harvesting; Thermophotovoltaics; Photon-based radiative cooling

Postdoctoral Research Associate,