Research Faculty Interests

J. Robert Boston

Professor, PhD, Northwestern University

Biomedical signal processing, fuzzy signal detection, and intelligent control. Current projects include analysis of biomechanics of motion in patients with low back pain, physiologically motivated methods of speech enhancement, and development of control systems for heart assist devices. J. Robert Boston teaches courses in signals and systems, digital signal processing, and biomedical applications of signal processing.

J.T. (Tom) Cain

Professor, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

J.T. (Tom) Cain joined the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1966. His current research interests are in the System-on-a-Chip area with emphasis on embedded systems, real-time systems, and systems containing MEMS.

Luis Chaparro

Associate Professor, PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Luis Chaparro's research interests include statistical signal processing, time-frequency analysis, nonlinear image processing, and multidimensional system theory. He is a senior member of IEEE, associate editor of the Journal of the Franklin Institute, past associate editor of the IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, and member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Statistical Signal and Array Processing.

Kevin P. Chen

Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Toronto

Kevin P. Chen's research interests include planar lightwave circuits, optical integration and optical interconnection, application of fiber Bragg grating technology, micro-nano-fabrication and coating in confined space, and micro-fabrication technology using ultrafast and UV lasers (157-nm F2 and 248-nm KrF excimer lasers).

Allen Cheng

Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Michigan

Allen Cheng's research areas of interests include low-power, reliable, secure, and high-performance computer system architecture spanning application-specific architectures, reconfigurable architectures, embedded architectures and systems, system-on-a-chip (SoC), hardware/software co-designs, energy-efficient architecture for sensor networks; processor microarchitecture in multi-processor (MP), multi-core, and multi-threaded (MT) designs; architecture and design for next generation multimedia, high-definition graphics and display hardware; real-time computing (RTC) systems, memory hierarchies, storage systems, I/O subsystems, interconnection networks, network-on-a-chip (NoC); parallelism discovery, parallel processing and programming models; algorithms metrics, and tools for performance measurement and tuning, simulation, benchmarking; programming language semantics, design, and implementation for futuristic and specialized architectures.

Amro El-Jaroudi

Associate Professor, PhD, Northeastern University

Amro El-Jaroudi's research areas focus on signal processing. Interests include speech processing, time-varying spectral analysis, and signal processing applications.

Mahmoud El Nokali

Associate Professor, PhD, McGill University

Mahmoud El Nokali's current research interests focus on power electronics and semiconductor device modeling, with special emphasis on short-channel MOSFET, high electron mobility transistor (HEMT), and HBT and BiCMOS modeling.

Joel Falk

Professor, Chair, PhD, Stanford University

Joel Falk's current research efforts are principally concerned with (a) the use of semiconductor quantum-well materials for optical switches and modulators and (b) diode pumped solid-state lasers.

Ronald G. Hoelzeman

Associate Professor, Computer Engineering Program Director, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Ronald G. Hoelzeman teaches courses in systems, circuit analysis and design, digital design, computer organization, optimization, and computer design. His research is in the computer graphics, computer aided design, and several educational innovation areas.

Steven P. Jacobs

Visiting Assistant Professor, PhD, Washington University

Steven P. Jacobs' research areas include model-based estimation, automated systems for joint tracking and recognition, and high-resolution radar.

Alex K. Jones

Assistant Professor, PhD, Northwestern University

Alex K. Jones' interests focus on the area of electronic design automation. Specific interests include designing and compiling hardware descriptions from high-level languages, automated System-on-a-Chip design, hardware and software co-design methodologies, and hardware design automation for low-power. Other interests include digital system design for high-performance, FPGA architectures, and parallel computing.

Hong Koo Kim

Professor, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

Hong Koo Kim's research has been centered on developing new photonic and integrated optoelectronic/microelectronic devices based on various functional films such as erbium-doped oxides, self-organized nanostructures, ferroelectric films, and wide bandgap semiconductors.

George L. Kusic

Associate Professor, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

George L. Kusic's research is in real time analog and digital control of power systems. He specializes in the application of integrated circuit designs for controlling large electromechanical machinery such as synchronous generators of earth-based utilities, as well as space power systems that share load between batters, solar panels ,and solar dynamic machinery.

Heung-no Lee

Assistant Professor, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Heung-no Lee's current research focuses on communications theory, information theory, and signal processing theory for applications in future wireless networking systems, with special emphasis on iterative decoding and equalization, cross-layer ad hoc networking, and impulse radio networks.

Steven P. Levitan

John A. Jurenko Professor, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Steven P. Levitan's research interest include computer-aided design for optoelectronic computing systems consisting of very large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI), optical mechanical electrical micro-systems (OMEM), and optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEIC). His research focus is on the design and implementation of optoelectronic parallel computing systems for computation, communication, and storage.

Ching-Chung (C.C.) Li

Professor, PhD, Northwestern

Ching-Chung (C.C.) Li's research interests are in pattern recognition, computer vision, biomedical image processing, and applications of wavelet transforms. His current research projects are focused on wavelet-based video compression, image supersolution, and multiresolution statistical signal modeling and estimation.

Guangyong Li

Assistant Professor, PhD, Michigan State University

Dr. Li’s research interests include micro/nano robotics and systems to manipulate materials at nano scales; scanning probe microscopy; augmented reality interface to facilitate atomic force microscopy based nano-manipulation and nano-assembly; development of technology to study the structure and functionality of biological membrane and membrane proteins of living cells in situ as well as their roles in drug development; fabrication of MEMS/NEMS, nanodevices, biosensors; control theory and applications, real-time system design, implementation, and integration.

Patrick Loughlin

Professor, PhD, University of Washington

Patrick Loughlin's interests include signal processing methods and applications, systems analysis, and modeling.

Zhi-hong Mao

Assistant Professor, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Zhi-Hong Mao's interests include automatic control, signal processing, and optimization, neural signals and systems, robotics and multi-agent systems.

Marlin H. Mickle

Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Marlin H. Mickle's research areas include wireless networks, RF devices, energy harvesting, and single chip RF devices.

Marwan Simaan

Bell of PA/Bell Atlantic Professor, PhD, University of Illinois

William Stanchina

Professor and Chairman, PhD, University of Southern California

Bill Stanchina's research interests include high-frequency compound semiconductor devices and integrated circuits, and optoelectronic and quantum devices, novel sensors, and fabrication technologies.

Jun Yang

Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Arizona

Jun Yang's research interests are in computer architecture, especially microarchitectures and memory systems. Her expertise include low power, thermal-aware architecture design; thermal-aware task management; leakage reduction; secure processors and memory systems; security in sensor networks; network processor design; processor modeling and simulation; low power, high performance cache/memory design; and bus encoding for energy efficiency. Prof. Yang is also interested in recent emerging topics such as chip-multiprocessors, three-dimensional processor designs, hardware reliability and dependability. Prof. Yang's research is currently funded by NSF.

Minhee yun

Assistant Professor, PhD, Arizona State University

Minhee Yun's research is in the development of nano-structured materials such as nanowires and nanoparticles with an emphasis on chemical and biosensor applications. He is investigating the nanoscale low-dimensional materials including electrical phenomena and biocompatibility.