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Research Areas

Communications and Networking

Digital communications, computer networking, intelligent networks, multimedia communications, mobile computing, local area wireless networks (RF and IR), portable and mobile communications, optical fiber communications, optical networking, coding and information theory, satellite communications, propagation measurements and modeling

Control Systems

Multiobjective and probabilistic robust control, nonlinear systems, intelligent distributed control, adaptive control, active vision, and quantum control

Electromagnetics

Computational electromagnetics, wave scattering and propagation, interactions with complex media and novel materials, electrodynamics, antenna analysis and design, scattering cross section and antenna measurements, computer visualization, RF and microwave systems, MMIC, EMI, and EMC, and electronic packaging

Electronic Materials and Devices

Materials and devices for electronic, photonic, bioelectronic and MEMS applications: amorphous and crystalline silicon, III-V compounds, organic thin films, ferroelectric and piezo-electric; development of novel device structures and manufacturing methods, device and circuit simulation and modeling, device and material characterization

Electro-Optics

Electro-optics, photonic and nonlinear optical materials, devices and applications; tunable photonic crystals; laser switching and optical information processing; liquid crystalline materials and devices; fiber optics and waveguides, holography

Power Systems

Power system planning, operation, and control, intelligent system applications to power systems, computational tools for power electronic design, and quiet motor drives

Remote Sensing and Space Systems

Active (radar and lidar) and passive (radiometry) remote sensing of the atmosphere; radar, radiometer, and lidar systems; rocket and satellite instrumentation; atmospheric electrodynamics; meteoric effects in the ionosphere; modeling of atmospheric processes; plasma physics

Signal and Image Processing

Multidimensional signal processing, signal reconstruction theory and algorithms, signal compression, spectral estimation, image processing, medical image analysis, neural networks, multiple target tracking in clutter, adaptive filtering, and data fusion