People

Faculty

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Emrah Akyol

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Game theory
  • Communications
  • Control
  • Networks
  • Information processing
  • Socio-cyber-physical systems
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Indranil Bhattacharya

Professor and Department Chair

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Sodium and lithium-ion battery
  • Dynamic wireless charging
  • Battery management
  • III-V semiconductors
  • Electric vehicles
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Tan Chen

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Humanoid and legged robotics
  • Control theory
  • Learning-based control
  • Dynamical systems
  • Space robotics
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Yu Chen

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Smart cities
  • Intelligent surveillance
  • Edge-fog-cloud computing
  • Internet of Things
  • Security and privacy
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Seokheun (Sean) Choi

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Bioelectronics and microsystems
  • BioMEMS/NEMS
  • Microfluidics
  • Semiconductors
  • Biosensors and biofuel cells
  • Bioenergy
  • Nanotechnology
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Scott Craver

Associate Professor; Undergraduate Director

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

Information security,Cryptology,Steganography,Watermarking and DRM systems,Security engineering
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Pritam Das

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer 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
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Tara Dhakal

Director

Center for Autonomous Solar Power (CASP)

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Renewable energy (photovoltaics)
  • Energy storage
  • Thin film semiconductor devices
  • Atomic layer deposition
  • Transparent conductors
  • Spintronics (complex magnetic oxides and dilute magnetic semiconductors
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Anwar Elhadad

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Wireless sensors
  • Low-power IoT
  • Applied machine learning
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Jessica Fridrich

Distinguished Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

Steganography and steganalysis of digital images,Digital forensics,Signal estimation and detection,Machine learning
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Meghana Jain

Lecturer

Electrical and Computer Engineering
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David Klotzkin

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research 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
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Xiaohua (Edward) Li

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

​Signal processing in communications and wireless networks,Cognitive radio networks,Wireless information assurance,Blind equalization​
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Yukui Luo

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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
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Zixiao Ma

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Power and energy systems 
  • Microgrid 
  • Inverter-based resources 
  • Safety-critical control 
  • Load modeling
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Scott Mansfield

Lecturer

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lecturer

Engineering Design Division (EDD)
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Vladimir Nikulin

Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Programs

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Free-space laser communication
  • Quantum communication
  • Optical sensors
  • Holographic analysis and measurements
  • Electric drives
  • Energy systems
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Ziqi Niu

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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
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Jungwook (Jay) Paek

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Human organ-on-a-chip and organoid
  • BioMEMs and soft robotics
  • Microfabrication and biofabrication
  • Bio-optics and optofluidics
  • Bio-inspired engineering
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Ramesh Pokharel

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Douglas Summerville

Distinguished Teaching Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Computer engineering
  • Network security
  • Intrusion detection
  • Hardware security
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Pallavi Thakur

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research 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
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Jianming Wen

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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
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Ziang (John) Zhang

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Power system operation and control
  • Energy storage system operation
  • Microgrid
  • Distributed control
  • Complex network
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Wenfeng Zhao

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Neural engineering
  • Compressed sensing
  • Ultra-low power VLSI
  • In-memory computing
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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
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Contributing Service Instructors

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Carl Betcher

Contributing Service Instructor

Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Arthur Law

Contributing Services Instructor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Emeritus Faculty

James Constable

James Constable

Professor Emeritus
Electrical and Computer Engineering
fowler

Mark Fowler

Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Electrical and Computer Engineering
skormin

Victor Skormin

Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus

Electrical and Computer Engineering

eva wu

N. Eva Wu

Professor Emerita
Electrical and Computer Engineering
zahorian

Stephen A. Zahorian

Professor Emeritus
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Staff

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Sara Grills

Assistant to the Chair

Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Rachel Crisman

Department Administrative Assistant

Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Lynn Callahan

Graduate Administrative Assistant

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Ashley Misuraca

Senior Employer Relations Coordinator

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