Faculty Listing
Ashok K. Ambardar
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Signal processing
- Medical imaging
Glen E. Archer
- Principal Lecturer and Associate Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Faculty Advisor, Blue Marble Security Enterprise
- Faculty Advisor, Robotic Systems Enterprise
Areas of Interest
- Image processing
- Undergraduate EE labs
- Counter-terrorism
- Electronic warfare
- Information operations
Mohsen Azizi
- Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Technology
- Affiliated Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Control systems and fault diagnosis techniques
- Power systems, microgrids, renewable energy systems
- Aerospace systems, unmanned vehicles, jet engines
- Industrial automation and mechatronic/robotic systems
Teaching Interests
- Industrial Control, Linear Control, Digital Signal Processing
- Robust Control, Nonlinear Control, Adaptive Control
- Decentralized Control of Large-Scale Systems
- Optimization Techniques
Paul L. Bergstrom
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Affiliated Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Micro-electromechanical systems
- Micromachining materials and process technologies
- Inertial pressure
- Nanoscaled technologies enabling banoelectronic devices
- Technologies for the monolithic integration of sensors and actuators with electronics
Leonard J. Bohmann
- Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Electric power systems analysis
- Utility applications of power electronics (HVDC, SVC, FACTS)
- Power system dynamics
- Power quality
- Power system transients
- Computer analysis and simulation of power systems
Jeremy P. Bos
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Atmospheric optics
- Statistical optics
- Quantum optics
- Image and Signal Processing
- Autonomous vehicles and vehicular networks
- Industrial automation and controls
Jeffrey B. Burl
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Control systems
- Development of a low cost collision avoidance system for general aviation (FAA)
- Intelligent control of automotive manufacturing systems (GM)
- Adaptive optics (AFOSR)
- Reentry body control (SSP)
- Image motion analysis and image based tracking systems (AFOSR)
- Control theory: extended H estimation; uncertainty reduction in µ-synthesis (SSP)
- Astronomy/observatory upgrades (fun)
Bo Chen
- Dave House Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Mechatronics and embedded systems
- Agent Technology
- Monitoring and control networks
- Hybrid electric vehicles
- Smart grid
Research Interests
- Modeling and control of hybrid electric vehicles
- EV-smart grid integration
- Distributed monitoring and control
- Battery control for HEV and energy storage systems
- IC engine management systems
- Sensor information fusion
Christopher (Kit) Cischke
- Senior Lecturer
- Faculty Advisor, Wireless Communication Enterprise
Areas of Interest
- Parallel computing and UPC
- Engineering education
Zhuo Feng
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Parallel CAD algorithms on heterogeneous manycore computing platforms
- Modeling, analysis and verification of large-scale power delivery networks (PDNs)
- 3D integrated circuit thermal modeling and analysis
- Statistical VLSI modeling, statistical static timing analysis (SSTA)
Daniel R. Fuhrmann
- Department Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Dave House Professor in Computer Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Signal processing
Lucia Gauchia
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
- Richard and Elizabeth Henes Assistant Professor of Energy Storage Systems
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Battery energy storage testing, and modeling. Battery aging testing and impedance extraction. Application to vehicle and grid applications.
- Non-traditional energy storage, such as hydraulic, mechanical or electrochemical for wave energy applications
Durdu Guney
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Metamaterials and Plasmonics
- Solar Cells
- Quantum Computing, Communications and Cryptography
- Photonic Bandgap Materials and Fibers
- Acoustic Bandgap Materials
Trever Hassell
- Academic Advisor
- Instructor
Areas of Interest
- Power Electronics Systems
- Electric Drives and Machinery
- Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Systems
- Microgrids
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—David Harsanyi
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Timothy Havens
- William and Gloria Jackson Associate Professor of Computer Systems
- Director, Center for Data Sciences
- Director, Data Science Graduate Program
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
- Signal and Image Processing
- Sensor and Data Fusion
- Heterogeneous Data Mining
- Explosive Hazard Detection
Roger M. Kieckhafer
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Areas of Interest
- Computer Engineering
Sean J. Kirkpatrick
- Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Affiliated Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Biomedical optics
- Lasers and other light sources for biology and medicine
- Non-contact measurement of tissue mechanics and fluid flows
- Coherent imaging
Anand K. Kulkarni
- Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Electronic materials
- A study of electrical, optical, chemical, and structural characteristics of indium-tin-oxide (ITO) deposited on glass and polymer substrates
- Characterization of diamond thin films grown on silicon substrates by hot filament chemical vapor deposition technique
- Electrical and structural characteristics of chromium thin films deposited on glass and alumina substrates
- Reliability of solder joints used in leadless surface mount devices
- Development of thin film ferroelectric memory devices
- Schottky and ohmic contacts to GaAs
John T. Lukowski
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Faculty Advisor, Automotive Computing Enterprise
- Co-Coordinator, Hybrid Electric Vehicle Enterprise
Areas of Interest
- Power
- Energy
- Factory automation
- Robotics
Christopher T. Middlebrook
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Affiliated Associate Professor, Physics
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Infrared detectors
- Optics
- Photonics
- Radiometry
Bruce A. Mork
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Dennis Wiitanen Professor of Electric Power Systems
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Smart Grid
- Power system protection
- Computer simulation
- Transients in electrical power systems
- Nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory
- Magnetic materials and saturation of transformers
- Power quality
- Renewable energy, wind energy, solar energy
- Photovoltaics
Saeid Nooshabadi
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Professor, Computer Science
Area of Expertise (CS)
- High-performance computer architecture
- Embedded systems
- Design of multimedia systems
- High-performance and low power computing systems
- Information-processing systems
- Embedded electronic systems
Areas of Interest (ECE)
- VLSI information and multimedia processing
- SoC design
- Complex embedded electronic systems
- Very Large Scale Intergradations (VLSI)
- Digital architectures
- Computer engineering
Aurenice M. Oliveira
- Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Faculty Advisor, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Vehicular Communications
- Hybrid Communications and Networking
- Application of Monte Carlo methods to communications systems
- Modeling of optical-fiber communications systems
- RF/Wireless Communications
Teaching Interests
- Digital, Analog, and Wireless Communications
- Probability and Stochastic Processes
- Industrial Communications Protocols
- In-Vehicle Communications
- Electronics
Soner Onder
- Professor, Computer Science
- Affiliated Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Area of Expertise
- Computer Architecture
- Programming Languages
- Simulation
Keat Ghee Ong
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Portage Health Foundation Endowed Professor of Technological Innovations in Health
- Affiliated Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Implantable sensors
- Wireless sensors
- Biomedical devices for human physiological measurements
- Regenerative medicine
Sumit Paudyal
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Distribution Grid Modeling and Optimization
- Building-to-grid (B2G) and Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) Integration
- Widea-area Control and Protection, Synchrophasor applications in Smart Grid
- Energy Hub, Distributed Energy Resources, Demand Response, and Demand Dispatch
- Distribution Level Energy Market
Joshua M. Pearce
- Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Faculty Advisor, Open Source Hardware Enterprise
Areas of Interest
- Photovoltaic Materials and Electronic Device Physics of Solar Photovoltaic Cells, Solar Energy Systems and Distributed Generation
- Green Engineering: Solar Energy, Sustainable Development, Open Source Appropriate Technology, Waste Recycling, Circular Economy, and Energy Policy
- Open Source Hardware, 3-D Printing, RepRap (self-replicating rapid prototyper), Low-cost Metal 3-D Printing, Distributed Manufacturing, Scientific Hardware
Warren F. Perger
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Theoretical atomic physics
- Electrophysics
Anthony (Tony) Pinar
- Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Senior Design Coordinator, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Research Engineer, Advanced Power Systems Research Center
Areas of Interest
- Machine Learning
- Signal and Image Processing
- Data Fusion
- Electronics
Michael C. Roggemann
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Optics
- Image reconstruction and processing
- Pattern recognition
- Adaptive and atmospheric optics
Timothy J. Schulz
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Statistical signal processing
George Semouchkin
- Part-time Instructor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Optics
- Photonics
- Signal and image processing
Elena Semouchkina
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Affiliated Associate Professor, Physics
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Areas of Interest
- Computational electromagnetic analysis
- Computer-aided design and development of microwave and photonic devices
- Dielectric metamaterials and photonic crystals
- Electromagnetic cloaking
- High-contrast materials integration
- Materials and device characterization at microwaves
Aleksandr V. Sergeyev
- Associate Professor, School of Technology
- Affiliated Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Optics
- Signal processing
- Image reconstruction and processing
- Adaptive and atmospheric optics
- Holography and laser spectroscopy
Teaching Interests
- Optics
- Electrical machinery
- Power systems
- Electronic devices and circuits
- Real-time robotics systems
Mahdi Shahbakhti
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering–Engineering Mechanics
- Affiliated Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Dynamic Systems Modeling and Control
- Powertrain/Vehicle Control
- Internal Combustion Engines
- Vehicular Emissions and Aftertreatment Systems
- Building Energy Controls
Research Interests
- Modeling and Control of Energy Systems
- Hybrid Electric Vehicles
- Connected Vehicles
- Advanced Combustion Engines
- Energy Control of Buildings in a Smart Grid
Martha E. Sloan
- Professor Emerita, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Computer security
- Computer networks
Min Song
- David House Professor and Chair, Computer Science
- Founding Director, Institute of Computing and Cybersystems
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Wireless Communication Networks and Systems
- Network Security
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Mobile Computing
R. Andrew Swartz
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Affiliated Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Application computationally efficient and robust embedded algorithms for monitoring and protection of civil infrastructure assets such as buildings, bridges, pipelines, wind turbines, roadways, and railroads.
Jinshan Tang
- Associate Professor, School of Technology
- Affiliated Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Affiliated Associate Professor, Computational Science & Engineering, and Data Science
Research Interests
- Image processing and pattern recognition
- Biomedical imaging and medical image analysis
- Medical informatics and intelligent medical diagnosis system
Teaching Interests
- Computer networking
- Advanced programming
- Medical information system
- Medical image analysis
Chee-Wooi Ten
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Power Infrastructure Cybersecurity and Protection
- Resilience Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies
- Future Control Center Framework
- SCADA/EMS/DMS Applications
- Power Systems Engineering
Zhaohui Wang
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Communications
- Signal processing
- Communication networks
- Network security
- Emphasis on underwater acoustic applications
Wayne W. Weaver
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Dave House Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Power electronics systems
- Microgrids
- Non-linear and game theoretic controls
- Distributed energy resources
- Electric drives and machinery
Dennis O. Wiitanen
- Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Electric power systems
Seyed A. (Reza) Zekavat
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Links of Interest
Areas of Interest
- Wireless localization systems
- Wireless power transfer
- Channel modeling
- Statistical signal processing
- Antenna and beamforming