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Faculty & Areas of Interest

Communications and Networking

Lynn A. Carpenter , P.E., Ph.D. (University of Illinois) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Microwave systems, MIC, MMIC design, CAD optimization, automated measurements, electrical safety and automotive radar.

John F. Doherty , Ph.D. (Rutgers University) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Signal processing applied to digital communication systems.

Mohsen Kavehrad , Ph.D. (Polytechnic University) W.L. Weiss (Ameritech-Sponsored) Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering / Director: Center for Information and Communications Technology Research (CICTR). Wireless communications, optical communications and network systems, mobile multimedia computing.

George Kesidis , Ph.D. (University of California-Berkeley) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering. High-speed communication/computer networks; traffic engineering including shaping, routing and scheduling; network security; overlay systems; performance evaluation including modeling, simulation and emulation.

John J. Metzner , Ph.D. (New York University) Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Data and computer communication, error correcting codes, information theory.

David J. Miller , Ph.D. (University of California-Santa Barbara) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Data compression, signal processing, pattern recognition, and statistical estimation.

Aylin Yener , Ph.D. (Rutgers University) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Wireless communications and networking, communication theory, information theory

Control Systems

Nirmal K. Bose , Ph.D. (Syracuse University) HRB-Systems Professor of Electrical Engineering/Director of Spatial and Temporal Signal Processing Center. Multidimensional systems and signal processing, robust system design, and neural network design.

Constantino M. Lagoa , Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Application of probability to robustness analysis and control; robustness analysis and control of nonlinear systems; discrete event dynamical systems; signal compression.

Ji-Woong Lee , Ph.D. (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor) Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. Analysis and synthesis of hybrid, stochastic, and decentralized systems.

Jeffrey Schiano , Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Control systems, feedback control of quantum mechanical processes.

Electromagnetics

Kultegin Aydin , Ph.D. (METU, Ankara) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Radar remote sensing, radar meteorology, radiowave propagation, electromagnetic scattering and computational modeling.

James K. Breakall , Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Antenna modeling and design, numerical modeling, computational and experimental electromagnetics and ionospheric radio wave propagation and probing.

Raj Mittra , Ph.D. (University of Toronto) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Senior Research Scientist at the Applied Research Laboratory. Computational electromagnetics, EMI/EMC electromagnetic modeling and simulation of electronic packages, RF and wireless systems analysis and design, communication antenna design.

Ram M. Narayanan , Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Antenna characterization and measurements, microwave system design and development, radar remote sensing theory and applications, remote sensing image analysis

C. Russell Philbrick , Ph.D. (North Carolina State University) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Atmospheric/ ionospheric properties using remote sensing (Lidar), rocket/satellite techniques, optical propagation and electro-optics.

Douglas H. Werner , Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Theoretical and computational electromagnetics, antenna analysis and design, electromagnetic wave interaction with complex materials, fractal and knot electrodynamics, and genetic algorithms in electromagnetics.

Electro-Optics

Ruyan Guo , Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Dielectric ferroelectric, electrooptic, nonlinear optical and frequency agile materials and devices; electronic and photonic crystals and fiber optic communications.

Thomas Jackson , Ph.D. (University of Michigan) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Exploratory devices and micro-fabrication of high-speed devices, ultra-small and quantum devices.

Timothy Kane , Ph.D. (University of Illinois) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Optical remote sensing (specifically laser radar, or Lidar), atmospheric and oceanic measurements and modeling, data analysis and interpretation.

Iam-Choon Khoo , Ph.D. (University of Rochester) Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering. Theory and experiment in quantum electronics, nonlinear optics, liquid crystals and lasers.

Zhiwen Liu , Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology) Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. Optical phenomena happening in short time (femtosecond) and/or short spatial (nanometer) scales and their applications in information technology (communication, memory, sensors), femtosecond pulse propagation in photonic crystal fiber, femtosecond camera, coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) imaging sensor, data storage in nanostructures, and applications of holography.

Theresa S. Mayer , Ph.D. (Purdue University) Professor of Electrical Engineering. III-V and novel semiconductor material systems, molecular beam epitaxy, device fabrication and modeling.

Shizhuo Yin , Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Massive optical memories, medical optics, photo refractive materials, optical computing, and fiber-optic communications.

Electronic Materials and Devices

Larry C. Burton , Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University) Associate Dean for Administration and Planning and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Electronic materials, photovoltaics and engineering education.

Craig A. Grimes , Ph.D. (University of Texas-Austin) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Wireless, passive environmental sensor platforms, nano-dimensional transducers, wave propagation of energy.

Heath F. Hofmann , Ph.D. (University of California-Berkeley) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Power electronics, design and control of electrical machiney, numerical simulation techniques.

Thomas Jackson , Ph.D. (University of Michigan) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Exploratory devices and micro-fabrication of high-speed devices, ultra-small and quantum devices.

Iam-Choon Khoo , Ph.D. (University of Rochester) Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering. Theory and experiment in quantum electronics, nonlinear optics, liquid crystals and lasers.

Theresa S. Mayer , Ph.D. (Purdue University) Professor of Electrical Engineering. III-V and novel semiconductor material systems, molecular beam epitaxy, device fabrication and modeling.

Joan M. Redwing , Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Professor of Electrical Engineering. III-V compound semiconductors, metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy, wide bandgap materials, heterostructure fabrication and characterization.

Jerzy Ruzyllo , Ph.D. (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Semiconductor materials and devices, integrated circuits manufacturing science and engineering.

Research Projects: 2009 NSF GOALI Award

Srinivas Tadigadapa , Ph.D. (Cambridge University) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Design, fabrication, and characterization of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), integration of smart materials into MEMS devices, biological MEMS, inertial MEMS and RF MEMS devices.

Kenji Uchino , Ph.D. (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Dielectrics/ferroelectrics/piezo-electrics, device design/fabrication, solid state actuators, transducers, positioners, ultrasonic motors.

Qiming Zhang , Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Ferroelectric actuators, sensors and transducers, new transducer materials and smart materials & structures.

Power Systems

Jeffrey S. Mayer , P.E., Ph.D. (Purdue University) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Power system dynamics, electric machinery, drive systems, energy conversion and controls.

Remote Sensing and Space Systems

Kultegin Aydin , Ph.D. (METU, Ankara) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Radar remote sensing, radar meteorology, radiowave propagation, electromagnetic scattering and computational modeling.

Sven G. Bilén , Ph.D. (University of Michigan) Associate Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering. Electrodynamic tethers, plasma diagnostics, spacecraft�plasma interactions, spacecraft systems, software-defined radio, wireless sensor networks, innovation in engineering design, and systems engineering.

Charles L. Croskey , Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Electronics, instrumentation and microwave remote sensing.

John D. Mathews , Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University) Professor of Electrical Engineering/Director, Communications and Space Sciences Laboratory. Radar remote sensing, digital signal processing, ionospheric physical and chemical processes, radar codes.

John D. Mitchell , Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Electronics, instrumentation and aeronomy.

Victor P. Pasko , Ph.D. (Stanford University) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Atmospheric electrodynamics, gas discharge phenomena, computational plasma physics and electromagnetics.

Signal and Image Processing

William E. Higgins , Ph.D. (University of Illinois) Professor of Electrical Engineering. Image processing, computer vision, scientific visualization, computer graphics, medical imaging and graphical user interfaces.

W. Kenneth Jenkins , Ph.D. (Purdue University) Department Head/ Professor of Electrical Engineering. Digital filtering, signal processing algorithms, multidimensional array processing, computer imaging, one and two-dimensional adaptive digital filtering, VLSI architecture for signal processing.

Yanxi Liu , Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts - Amherst) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Computational Symmetry Group Theory and Applications, Machine Learning (particularly low-dimensional subspace learning from very large, multi-modality feature set), Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Biomedical Image Analysis/Indexing/Retrieval, Robotics.