Faculty Directory

Levent Acar
Dr. Levent Acar

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Intelligent control of functional systems; neural networks applied to control; hierarchical design and control of large-scale systems; optimal and suboptimal control for interconnected systems; distributed computational methods of optimal control strategies.

Ahmad Alsharoa
Dr. Ahmad Alsharoa

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Machine learning and artificial intelligence, Data science and big data, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), Smart systems and smart cities, Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. Edge computing. Wireless networks, Optical wireless. Spectrum sharing.

Daryl Beetner
Dr. Daryl Beetner

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

electromagnetic immunity and emissions from the integrated circuit to the system level

Rui Bo
Dr. Rui Bo

associate professor

Research Interests

computation, optimization and economics in power system operation and planning; high performance computing; electricity market simulation, evaluation and design.

Minsu Choi
Dr. Minsu Choi

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Computer architecture & VLSI; embedded systems; fault tolerance; testing; quality assurance.

Kristen Donnell
Dr. Kristen Donnell

Woodard Associate Professor of Excellence

Research Interests

Embedded sensors; modulated antennas/scatterers; microwave/millimeter wave engineering; microwave material characterization; terahertz methodologies.

Rohit Dua
Dr. Rohit Dua

Associate Teaching Professor

Research Interests

Engineering & K-12 Education, OURE

Kelvin Erickson
Dr. Kelvin Erickson

Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, EE Undergraduate Coordinator

Research Interests

Control Systems, Factory Automation, Programmable Logic Controllers, Advanced Process Control

Mina Esmaeelpour
Dr. Mina Esmaeelpour

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

fiber optic sensors, microwave photonics, fiber optic lasers, ultrafast imaging and spectroscopy

Mehdi Ferdowsi
Dr. Mehdi Ferdowsi

Schlumberger Endowed Professor, Associate Dean for Research in CEC

Research Interests

power electronics, energy storage technologies, smart grids, transportation electrification, and wide bandgap devices

Rex Gerald
Dr. Rex Gerald

Research Professor

Research Interests

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, RF EM Resonators, Nanostructrued Materials, Optical Fiber Sensors, Pathogen Sensors, Blunt- and Blast- Force Sensors, Process of Innovation, Patent Process

Jie Huang
Dr. Jie Huang

Roy A. Wilkens Endowed Associate Professor

Research Interests

Fiber optic sensors; Sensors and instrumentation for applications in harsh environments; Optical sensors for biomedical applications.

Ali Hurson
Dr. Ali Hurson

Professor

Research Interests

High performance computers, Pervasive computing, Mobile databases, Personalized education, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems, Big Data, Recommender Systems.

Chulsoon Hwang
Dr. Chulsoon Hwang

Woodard Associate Professor for Excellence

Research Interests

High-speed Digital System Design, RF/digital Integration (RF Desensitization), Machine Learning in Hardware Design, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI), Hardware Security/Intentional EMI, and Electromagnetics

Lijun Jiang
Dr. Lijun Jiang

Kummer Endowed Professor

Research Interests

Applied heterogeneous electromagnetics for signal integrity (SI), power integrity (PI), EMC, and EMI in IC,
package, PCB, and systems.
Advanced SI/PI/EMC/EMI EDA solutions by machine learning, computational physics, and numerical methods.
Antenna and microwave material engineering for IoT, wearable devices, imaging, etc.
Multiphysics researches toward intelligent artificial materials, THz, optics, etc. 

Victor Khilkevich
Dr. Victor Khilkevich

Research Professor

Research Interests

Electromagnetic compatibility

Chang-Soo Kim
Dr. Chang-Soo Kim

Professor, ECE Graduate Coordinator

Research Interests

Bioinstrumentation, Sensors, Solid-state devices, Microsystems, MEMS, 3D-printed devices, Nanotechnology applications

DongHyun (Bill) Kim
Dr. DongHyun (Bill) Kim

Assistant Professor, and College of Engineering and Computing Dean’s Scholar

Research Interests

Signal Integrity (SI), Power Integrity (PI), and Temperature Integrity (TI); Electrostatic Discharge (ESD); High-speed SerDes Channel Modeling; High-speed Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Material Characterization; Particle Simulation on Semiconductor Devices.

Jonathan Kimball
Dr. Jonathan Kimball

Department Chair and Fred W. Finley Distinguished Professor

Research Interests

Microgrids, renewable energy, energy storage, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, power electronics.

Tayo Obafemi Ajayi
Dr. Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi

Associate Professor, Mace/Turblex Professor of Engineering

Research Interests

Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Control Systems, Bioinformatics, Data Mining

Theresa Odun-Ayo
Dr. Theresa Odun-Ayo

Director, Cooperative Engineering Program

Research Interests

STEM Education Pedagogy, K-12 STEM pipelines, social and gender issues in STEM, Institutional Research, Power systems stability, Smart grid.

Dr. Jag Sarangapani

Curators’ Distinguished Professor and William A. Rutledge - Emerson Electric Co. Chair

Research Interests

Learning, adaptation and control, neural networks, secure cyber-physical-human systems, big data prognostics, robotics/autonomous systems.

Dr. Sahra Sedigh Sarvestani

Associate Professor and Distance Coordinator for ECE, S&T Faculty Ombuds

Research Interests

Stochastic modeling of complex systems, dependability and security, failure propagation, cyber-physical systems, critical infrastructure, educational technology.

Pourya Shamsi
Dr. Pourya Shamsi

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Power electronics, motor drives, control, micro grid, renewable energy, energy management, battery chargers, grid interfaces, medium voltage

Bijaya Shrestha
Dr. Bijaya Shrestha

Associate Teaching Professor

Research Interests

Algorithm development for feature extraction towards helping diagnose cancerous lesions, signal and image processing, statistical physics, particle transport, radiation shielding, Monte Carlo techniques, stochastic events, Markov chain models, simulation of physical processes, optimization techniques.

Joe Stanley
Dr. Joe Stanley

Professor, Associate Chair, Academic Affairs and Computer Engineering Coordinator

Research Interests

Computational Intelligence, Biomedical Image and Signal Processing, Data Fusion, Machine and Deep Learning, Medical Informatics, Precollege STEM Education Outcomes.

Theresa Swift
Dr. Theresa Swift

Teaching Professor, Laboratory Coordinator

Research Interests

Engineering education

Steve Watkins
Dr. Steve E.Watkins

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering HKN & TBP Faculty Advisor

Research Interests

Smart Sensor Systems, fiber optics, UAV instrumentation, engineering education, and pre-college education

Robert Woodley
Dr. Robert Woodley

Associate Teaching Professor, Advising and Recruiting Specialist, CEC dean’s educator.

Research Interests

Computational intelligence; embedded systems; digital logic; control systems

Cheng-Hsiao Wu
Dr. Cheng-Hsiao Wu

Professor

Research Interests

Nonlocal Quantum Parallel Computing Theory; Time crystals, Quantum teleportation; Discrete time and perpetual motion; New kind of science and origin of life.

Donald Wunsch II
Dr. Donald Wunsch II

Mary Finley Professor and Director, Kummer Institute Center for AI and Autonomous Systems

Research Interests
Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Evolutionary Computing, Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Unsupervised Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Applications, Entrepreneurship, and Policy.
Maciej Zawodniok
Dr. Maciej Zawodniok

Research Professor

Research Interests

Wireless sensor networks; wireless ad-hoc networks; passive FRID systems; energy-efficient protocols; RF-based localization.

Jiangfan Zhang
Dr. Jiangfan Zhang

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Statistical Signal Processing, Wireless Communications, Internet of Things, Cybersecurity

Bohong Zhang
Dr. Bohong Zhang

Assistant Research Professor

Research Interests

Fiber Optic Sensors; Optical Sensing, Imaging, and Spectroscopy; Characterization of Micro/Nano Material Structures; Sensors and Instrumentation for Applications in Harsh Environments; Ultrafast Laser Machining and Processing

Farhan Mumtaz
Dr.Farhan Mumtaz

Assistant Research Professor

Research Interests

Fiber optic sensors; Novel micro/nano materials, structures, devices and sensors; Micro-machining, processing, and characterization of Optical Design; Harsh environment Sensing and instrumentation; Fiber optic SPR, Chemical and Bio-Sensors.