Faculty
Research Interests
- Game theory
- Communications
- Control
- Networks
- Information processing
- Socio-cyber-physical systems
Indranil Bhattacharya
ibhattachary1@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Sodium and lithium-ion battery
- Dynamic wireless charging
- Battery management
- III-V semiconductors
- Electric vehicles
Research Interests
- Humanoid and legged robotics
- Control theory
- Learning-based control
- Dynamical systems
- Space robotics
Research Interests
- Smart cities
- Intelligent surveillance
- Edge-fog-cloud computing
- Internet of Things
- Security and privacy
Research Interests
- Bioelectronics and microsystems
- BioMEMS/NEMS
- Microfluidics
- Semiconductors
- Biosensors and biofuel cells
- Bioenergy
- Nanotechnology
Scott Craver
scraver@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
Information security,Cryptology,Steganography,Watermarking and DRM systems,Security engineering
Research Interests
- Wide-band gap devices-based integrated power converter topologies and printable high-frequency magnetic components for solid state transformer
- Energy storage integration in smart grid
- Reliable and high efficiency high-power LED drives for smart commercial lighting
- Electrified transportation
- Single high-frequency stage, high slew rate 48 volts to sub-1 volt point-of-load converters
- Data centers
- Modeling and control of flow batteries
Tara Dhakal
tdhakal@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Renewable energy (photovoltaics)
- Energy storage
- Thin film semiconductor devices
- Atomic layer deposition
- Transparent conductors
- Spintronics (complex magnetic oxides and dilute magnetic semiconductors
Anwar Elhadad
aelhada1@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Wireless sensors
- Low-power IoT
- Applied machine learning
Jessica Fridrich
fridrich@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
Steganography and steganalysis of digital images,Digital forensics,Signal estimation and detection,Machine learning
David Klotzkin
klotzkin@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- High-speed telecommunications lasers
- Free space modulating retroreflectors
- Integrated opto-electronic devices
- Quantum dot lasers and laser dynamics
- Photonic-band-gap based devices
- Organic luminescent devices
Xiaohua (Edward) Li
xli@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
​Signal processing in communications and wireless networks,Cognitive radio networks,Wireless information assurance,Blind equalization​
Research Interests
- Hardware-oriented security and trust
- FPGA-based virtualization system and security
- Trustworthy Internet of Things (IoT)
- Trustworthy AI acceleration and optimization
- Hardware-based accelerator design
Research Interests
- Power and energy systems
- Microgrid
- Inverter-based resources
- Safety-critical control
- Load modeling
Vladimir Nikulin
vnikulin@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Free-space laser communication
- Quantum communication
- Optical sensors
- Holographic analysis and measurements
- Electric drives
- Energy systems
Research Interests
- Nonlinear and quantum optics in atomic media
- Quantum sensing, metrology, and imaging
- Quantum information science and networking
- Non-Hermitian physics
- Optical neural networks and photonic information processing
Jungwook (Jay) Paek
jpaek@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Human organ-on-a-chip and organoid
- BioMEMs and soft robotics
- Microfabrication and biofabrication
- Bio-optics and optofluidics
- Bio-inspired engineering
Ramesh Pokharel
rpokharel@binghamton.edu
Douglas Summerville
dsummer@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Computer engineering
- Network security
- Intrusion detection
- Hardware security
Pallavi Thakur
pthakur@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Electrochemical energy storage and next-generation batteries
- Lithium-metal, sodium-ion, zinc–air, and solid-state battery technologies
- Electrode and electrolyte materials
- Electrochemical interfaces, degradation, and failure mechanisms
- Nanomaterials for energy-storage applications
- Sustainable, safe, and scalable batteries for transportation and grid storage
Research Interests
- Distributed quantum computing and networking
- Quantum sensing, metrology and imaging
- Quantum nonlinear optics (including entanglement generation)
- Super-resolution optical imaging
- Non-Hermitian physics
- Integrated photonics and 2D materials
Ziang (John) Zhang
zhangzia@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Power system operation and control
- Energy storage system operation
- Microgrid
- Distributed control
- Complex network
Research Interests
- Neural engineering
- Compressed sensing
- Ultra-low power VLSI
- In-memory computing
Ning Zhou
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Admissions
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Power system dynamic performance
- Phasor measurement unit (PMU) application
- Signal processing/system identification/control system and their application in power systems
- Smart grid
- Integration of renewable generation
- Smart appliances
- Real-time voltage security analysis
Contributing Service Instructors
Carl Betcher
cbetcher@binghamton.edu
Contributing Service Instructor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Emeritus Faculty
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James ConstableProfessor EmeritusElectrical and Computer Engineering
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Mark FowlerDistinguished Teaching Professor EmeritusElectrical and Computer Engineering
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Victor SkorminDistinguished Service Professor EmeritusElectrical and Computer Engineering |
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N. Eva WuProfessor EmeritaElectrical and Computer Engineering
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Stephen A. ZahorianProfessor EmeritusElectrical and Computer Engineering
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