Faculty Directory

Specialty/Research Focus: Nanoelectronics and mesoscopic physics: fundamental investigations of quantum phenomena; explorations of new device and sensing paradigms; electrical properties of novel nanomaterials

Specialty/Research Focus: Power and energy management; dielectric phenomena; pulsed power; insulation performance/reliability

Specialty/Research Focus: Confocal microscopy; biomedical imaging; x-ray microscopy; microtomography; lithography

Specialty/Research Focus: Microwave circuits and systems; antennas and antenna arrays; periodic structures; metamaterials

Specialty/Research Focus: Synthesis of low-dimensional materials such as graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes; materials characterization; THz applications of nanoscale materials

Specialty/Research Focus: Digital signal processing; arithmetic intensive computing; communications and radar

Specialty/Research Focus: Materials design and innovation; technology transfer cycle optimization; nanostructured magnetic materials and spin-electronic devices; data storage; random access memories; access and participation in STEM

Specialty/Research Focus: Nano-optics and nanoplasmonics for optoelectronics and energy; biosensing and environmental sensing

Specialty/Research Focus: Network Design Automation, New Spectrum Technologies, Wireless Network Security

Specialty/Research Focus: Power electronics control; ​dc microgrid; power system optimization

Specialty/Research Focus: Information theory; coding theory; network communication and network coding; 'Big Data' in the form of succinct data representation via geometric clustering; probabilistic methods in combinatorics

Specialty/Research Focus: Nano-scale electronics and optoelectronics based on low-dimensional materials

Specialty/Research Focus:: Computational photonics; photonic bandgap materials and devices; quantum information processing

Specialty/Research Focus: Mid-infrared and THz optoelectronics and photonics; graphene and other 2D materials based devices and systems; strongly correlated electron materials; quantum optics; quantum cascade lasers; chemical and biological sensing

Specialty/Research Focus: Internet of things; wireless communications; cellular networks (4G/5G); network performance analysis and simulation; communications for the smart grid; optimization; machine learning

Specialty/Research Focus: Energy-efficient multimedia systems; resource allocation and scheduling in wireless networks and systems; parallel video encoding and decoding; dynamic power management; cross-layer design and optimization; Markov decision processes; reinforcement learning

Research Topics: High-performance computing; parallel algorithms and architectures; cyberinfrastructure; grid and cloud computing; computational crystallography; molecular structure determination; computational geometry

Specialty/Research Focus: Nanoelectronic, microelectric and optoelectronic devices and materials; transport and noise in heterostructures, thin films, quantum wells and quantum wires; simulation, design and testing of photodetectors, terahertz sensors and solar cells

Specialty/Research Focus: LOC (lab-on-a-chip); MicroTAS (Micro Total Analysis Systems); BioMEMS (Bio Micro Electro Mechanical Systems); SANS (Sample-to-Answer Nano/microfluidic Systems); nanobiosensors for bio/chemical/environmental applications; world-to-chip interfacing and packaging; single cell manipulation, sorting, and detection; microvalves; micropumps; microfluidics

Specialty/Research Focus: Theory and modelling of electrical and optical properties of low dimensional materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, and other 2D materials

Specialty/Research Focus: Magneto-spectroscopy in the visible and near-infrared of semiconductor nanostructures and devices

Specialty/Research Focus: Preparation, processing and theoretical modeling of nanostructured photonic materials; biophotonics; nonlinear optical processes; metamaterials

Specialty/Research Focus: Analog, mixed-signal integrated design; time-domain ADC design; mismatch and ISI shaping in DACs; analog circuit design for biomedical applications

Specialty/Research Focus: Advanced GaN and novel III-N devices for THz electronics; transport in III-N hetero-structures; novel devices utilizing new materials functionalities; energy-efficient, nano-electronics in emerging materials

Specialty/Research Focus: Signal processing; machine learning; big data analytics; (stochastic) optimization; online learning; adaptive signal processing; dimensionality reduction; clustering; image processing; communications

Research Topics: Computer architecture; embedded technologies; VLSI circuits and systems; wireless networks and security

Research Topics: Information extraction; information retrieval; multimedia information retrieval; text mining

Specialty/Research Focus: Wireless communications and networking; MIMO systems and space-time coding, MIMO-OFDM systems; cooperative communications for wireless networks

Specialty/Research Focus: Wireless communications and networking, especially wireless communications in extreme environments; wireless sensor networks; wireless underground networks; wireless intra-body networks; cyber physical systems

Specialty/Research Focus: Analog VLSI Design; silicon-based neuromorphic visual processing systems; neural networks; electronic routing and packaging design; electron beam lithography; sensors; optoelectronics

Specialty/Research Focus: Material characterization; terahertz spectroscopy; and metrology

Specialty/Research Focus: Semiconductor devices - device reliability under voltage/current stress; radiation (gamma-ray, proton, x-ray) effect; X-ray analysis of semiconductor materials such as metamorphic buffer materials using reciprocal space mapping and other x-ray methods; semiconductor nanodevice visual simulation; quantum entanglement and visualization

Specialty/Research Focus: Power electronics; microgrid control and protection; high voltage dc transmission, high voltage engineering

Specialty/Research Focus: Compressed sensing; magnetic resonance imaging; image reconstruction

Research Topics: Novel techniques for advanced MRI instrumentation; multi-modal biomedical imaging; novel MR imaging formation technology; MR imaging at high and ultrahigh fields; novel device and method development for structural, functional and metabolic imaging using proton and heteronuclear MRI; parallel imaging and compressed sensing based fast imaging methodology; new hardware technology for MR imaging, microimaging, cancer imaging, fetal and neonatal imaging; interventional MRI; PET-MRI in health and cancerous conditions; technical development of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) or magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) in small animal models and humans

Specialty/Research Focus: Energy storage/conversion materials and devices; nano-materials and devices fabrication and characterization; solid-state thin film deposition and optoelectronic devices; nonlinear optics

Specialty/Research Focus: Insulation coordination; energy systems; mobility platforms; nano-dielectrics

Specialty/Research Focus: Statistical signal processing; statistical learning theory; information theory; sensor networks; cyber-physical systems and wireless networks