Faculty Listing

Areas of Interest

• Image processing
• Undergraduate EE labs
• Counter-terrorism
• Electronic warfare
• Information operations

Areas of Interest

• Micro-electromechanical systems
• Micromachining materials and process technologies
• Inertial pressure
• Nanoscaled technologies enabling nanoelectronic devices
• Technologies for the monolithic integration of sensors and actuators with electronics

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

Areas of Interest

• Atmospheric optics
• Statistical optics
• Quantum optics
• Image and Signal Processing
• Autonomous vehicles and vehicular networks
• Industrial automation and controls

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

Areas of Interest

• Parallel computing and UPC
• Engineering education

Areas of Interest

• Metamaterials and Plasmonics
• Solar Cells
• Quantum Computing, Communications and Cryptography
• Photonic Bandgap Materials and Fibers
• Acoustic Bandgap Materials

Areas of Interest

• Infrared detectors
• Optics
• Photonics
• Radiometry

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

Areas of Interest (ECE)

• VLSI information and multimedia processing
• SoC design
• Complex embedded electronic systems
• Very Large Scale Intergradations (VLSI)
• Digital architectures
• Computer engineering

Areas of Interest

• Vehicular Communications: inter-vehicle (VANETs, V2X) and intra-vehicle (CAN, Automotive Ethernet, LIN, FlexRay, MOST)
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Communication Networks and Systems
• Wireless Communications
• Network Security
• Signal Processing

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

Areas of Interest

• Optics
• Image reconstruction and processing
• Pattern recognition
• Adaptive and atmospheric optics

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

Areas of Research Interest

Discipline: Power systems engineering

• Security protection for power substations
• Cyber-physical system of critical infrastructure systems
• Anomaly detection of synchrophasor patterns
• Future control center framework
• Distribution management and automation
• Smart home technologies
• Geographic information system

Areas of Interest

• Communications
• Signal processing
• Communication networks
• Network security
• Emphasis on underwater acoustic applications

Areas of Interest

• Wireless Communications (e.g., RIS, mmWave, CPS, industrial-IoT )
• Big Data (e.g., machine learning, smart transportation, eHealth)
• Cybersecurity and Privacy (e.g., IoT/CPS, learning pipeline, blockchain)