Faculty and Staff Directory

Dean of the College of Engineering, 

Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Software Engineering

University Distinguished Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

Robotics, control theory, formal methods, machine learning, and aerospace systems

Associate Professor, 

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

Associate Dean of the Global Engineering Campus, 

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

Professor, 

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

Associate Professor, 

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

Associate 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

Assistant Professor, 

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

Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

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

Assistant Professor, 

Quantum networking and quantum computing with atoms in optical tweezer arrays, cavity QED, many-body states

Associate Professor, 

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

Professor, 

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

COE Distinguished Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

COE Distinguished Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, 

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

Associate Professor, 

Quantum technologies such as quantum sensing, quantum network, and quantum computation using lowdimensional quantum materials and applying quantum sensors to investigate novel physics phenomena

Professor, 

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

COE Distinguished 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

Assistant Professor, 

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

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

Professor, 

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

Professor, 

Robotics: planning, sensing, control, human-robot interaction, bio-inspired robotics, multi-robot systems

Assistant Professor, 

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

Associate Professor, 

Multidimensional signal processing and Hyperspectral imaging

Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

Intersection of neuroscience, engineering, and autism

Associate Dean of Research, 

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

COE Distinguished Professor, 

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

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

Professor, 

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

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

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, 

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

Professor, 

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