Electrical & Computer Engineering

College of Engineering

Areas of research

Faculty members in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering conduct cutting-edge research in the following areas:

Micro-/Nano-electronics and Photonics

  • Gary M. Atkinson, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Micro and nanofabrication, sensors and actuators, energy conversion devices. Device Test and Characterization Laboratory
  • Vitaliy Avrutin, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: III-Nitride epitaxy, semiconductor optoelectronic devices.
  • Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Straintronics, coherent spin transport in nanowires for sensing and information processing, nanowire-based room-temperature infrared detectors. Quantum Device Laboratory
  • Michael J. Cabral, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Engineering education, nanofabrication techniques, molecular electronics
  • Nathaniel Kinsey, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Nanophotonics and plasmonics, nonlinear and integrated optics, optical materials.
  • Hadis Morkoç, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Group III-IV semiconductors, light emitting diodes, nitride semiconductor heterostructures. Microelectronic Materials and Device Laboratory
  • Ümit Özgür, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Group III-nitride and zinc oxide optoelectronics, ultrafast optical spectroscopy, semiconductor heterostructures.

Power, Energy, and Controls

  • Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: STEM education, medical image and signal processing, artificial neural networks
  • Ashok Iyer, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: GPS applications, neural networks, linear and nonlinear control theory
  • Yuichi Motai, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: sensory intelligence, medical imaging, computer vision.
  • Zhifang Wang, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Electrical power system modeling and optimization, renewable integration, demand management in smart grids.

Signal Processing and Communications

  • Alen Docef, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Medical image processing, signal processing architectures, document compression for archiving
  • Afroditi V. Filippas, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Microwave and RF modeling and simulation, signal processing, medical devices
  • Ruixin Niu, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Statistical signal processing, information fusion in sensor networks, wireless communications
  • Erdem Topsakal, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Microwave hyperthermia and ablation, wireless medical telemetry, computational electromagnetics

Computer Architecture and Cyber-Physical Systems

  • Sherif Abdelwahed, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Autonomic computing, model based design and analysis of cyber-physical systems, formal verification, system diagnosis and fault analysis, model-integrated computing.
  • Carl Elks, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Embedded systems design and analysis, dependability analysis of safety critical systems, cyber-physical systems. Dependable Cyber-Physical Systems Lab
  • Robert H. Klenke, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Collaborative unmanned aerial vehicles, cyber-physical systems security, hardware/software codesign. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Laboratory
  • R. Daniel Resler, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: Programming languages, compiler design, automatic generation of software
  • Weijun Xiao, Ph.D.
    Specialization Areas: GPU and heterogeneous computing, emerging memory and storage technologies, embedded systems