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, 

Senior Research Scientist, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics

Associate Professor, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Research Assistant Professor, 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Postdoctoral Research 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, 

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

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

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

Associate Research Scientist, 

Associate Co-op Coordinator Global Engineering & Assistant Director, Global and Civil & Environmental Engineering, 

Facilities Manager, 

Teaching Professor, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Research Assistant Professor, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

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 multi-model imaging and remote sensing. Activities include computer modeling, designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the resulting data

Provost Emeritus, 

Student Services & Data Manager, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

Professor and Vice Chair of Research, 

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

Professor, 

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

Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Affairs, 

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

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

Professor, 

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

Associate Professor, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Professor, 

Acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, integrated photonics, piezoelectric MEMS, oscillator-based 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, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

Associate Research Scientist, 

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; human-in-the-loop activity recognition See: https://www.mhealthgroup.org/

Associate Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Senior Research Engineer, 

Principal 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, 

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 Emeritus, 

Software Engineering, Cognitive Radios, Information Integration and 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 computer intensive applications from the edge to the cloud. Applications of FPGAs including wireless communications, machine learning and data privacy

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, 

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

Associate Professor, 

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

Associate Professor, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

ITC Endowed Professor, 

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

Director of Administration and Finance, 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

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

Principal Research Scientist, 

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

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

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 & Assistant Director, 

Associate Dean for Graduate Education, 

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

William Lincoln Smith 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; Resource Management; Storage Systems; NVMe Flash Memory Devices; Distributed Data Processing Scheduling; Cloud Computing; 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

Assistant Professor, 

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

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; integrated circuits for medical applications

Assistant Professor, 

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

Associate Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

Principal 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

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

COE Distinguished Professor, 

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

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

Associate Director, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

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

Robert D. Black Professor, COE Distinguished Professor, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Professor, 

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

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, 

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.

Dennis Picard Trustee Professor, 

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

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

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

Associate 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.

Marketing & Communications Coordinator, 

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, 

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

Assistant Director of Finance & Administration, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Research Assistant Professor, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate,