Faculty

- Cristinel Ababei, Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- Design Automation for VLSI and FPGA circuits, Design methodologies for network-on-chip based systems-on-chip, Analysis and optimization of power systems, Reconfigurable and parallel computing.

- Stella N. Batalama, Professor and Chair
- Ph.D., University of Virginia
- Wireless communications, statistical and adaptive signal processing, and covert communications. Specific current interests include cognitive radio networks, sensor networks, steganography, steganalysis, watermarking, compressed sensing, code division multiple access communications, and small sample support optimization of adaptive systems.

- Alexander N. Cartwright, Professor
- Ph.D., University of Iowa
- Ultrafast Optical Properties of III-Nitride materials and devices, Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Hybrid Inorganic:Organic materials and devices, Biophotonics: Biological and Chemical Sensors, Optical Non-Destructive Testing of Stress and Strain for Device Reliability, Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics.

- Kevin Burke, Teaching Assistant Professor
- (Ph.D., University of Buffalo)
- Power and Energy Management, Power Transmission and Distribution, Dielectric Phenomena, Pulsed Power, Insulation Performance/Reliability.

- Ping-Chin Cheng, Professor
- Ph.D.,University of Illinois at the Medical Center
- Confocal Microscopy, Biomedical imaging, X-ray microscopy, microtomography, and lithography.

- Alexander Domijan, James Clerk Maxwell Professor
- Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington
- Energy Systems, power infrastructure, smart grids, electric power quality, electrical measurements, demand response and demand side management, and Flexible-Reliable-Intelligent-Electrical-eNergy-Delivery-Systems.

- Steven Durbin, Associate Professor
- Ph.D.,Purdue University
- Oxide and nitride semiconductors, Shottky diodes, Electrical characterization of semiconductors, Metamaterials for visible wavelengths, Nanoelectronics, Photovoltaic devices, Nanoengineering for thermoelectronic device applications, Ultraviolet wavelength optoelectronic devices.

- Adly T. Fam, Professor
- Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
- Digital Signal Processing,Algorithms and Architectures for Arithmetic Intensive Computing, Waveform Design for Good Correlation

- Edward P. Furlani, Professor
- Ph.D., University at Buffalo, SUNY
- Computational physics/multidisciplinary modeling: Nanophotonics, plasmonics and metamaterials, Optofluidics, MEMS/MOEMS simulation, Microfluidics, Computational fluid dynamics, Inkjet systems, Applied magnetics, Biomagnetics

- Pao-Lo Liu, Professor
- Ph.D., Harvard University
- Computational photonics, Photonic bandgap materials and devices, Quantum information processing.

- Nicholas Mastronarde, Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
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Energy-efficient multimedia systems, resource allocation and scheduling in wireless networks and systems, parallel video encoding and decoding, dynamic power management, cross-layer design and optimization, Markov decision processes, Reinforcement learning.

- Tommaso Melodia, Associate Professor
- Ph.D.,Georgia Institute of Technology
- Modeling and Optimization of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Wireless Sensor and Actor networks, Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks, Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks, Cognitive Radio Networks, Wireless Mesh Networks.

- Vladimir Mitin, SUNY Distinguished Professor
- Ph.D., Institute of Semiconductors, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine
- Nanoelectronic, Microelectric and Optoelectronic Devices and Materials; Transport and Noise in Heterostructures, Thin Films, Quantum Wells and Quantum Wires; Material Characterization, Heat Dissipation in Low-Dimensional Structures and Devices; Particle, Molecular Dynamics, and Monte Carlo Methods of Simulation of Thyristors, Three-Terminal Lasers, Photodetectors, Terahertz Generators and Devices Based on Quantum Wells, Quantum Wires and Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors.

- Kwang W. Oh, Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Cincinnatii
- LOC (lab-on-a-chip), MicroTAS (Micro Total Analysis Systems), BioMEMS (Bio Micro Electro Mechanical Systems), SANS (Sample-to-Answer Nano/microfluidic Systems), Nanobiosensors for bio/chemical/environmental applications, World-to-chip interfacing and packaging, Single cell manipulation, sorting, detection; Microvalves, Micropumps, Microfluidics.

- Dimitris A. Pados, Professor
- Ph.D., University of Virginia
- Communication theory and systems; coding and sequences; adaptive signal processing. Applications to compressed sensing, sensor networks, airborne networks, spread-spectrum communications, signature waveform design, CDMA systems and multi-user detection, steganography and steganalysis, antenna arrays and array radar, neural networks.

- W.J. Sarjeant, Professor Emeritus
- Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
- Aging in Complex Insulation Systems, Power Conditioning and Generation, High Power Electronics, Mobile and Mobility Power.

- Gesualdo Scutari, Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Variational Inequality Methods for Multiuser Systems; Game Theory for Communications, Networking, and Cognitive Radio Systems; Nonconvex Games and Applications; Distributed Signal Processing for Sensor Networks; Cooperative Communications

- David T. Shaw, Professor
- Ph.D., Purdue
- Carbon nanotubes, High temperature superconductivity and super conducting power systems, Thin films, Plasma dynamics, Aerosol mechanics.

- Uttam Singisetti, Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
- Nano-structured semiconductor devices, ultra-high frequency novel GaN devices, emerging III-N devices, transport and device physics in semiconductor hetero-structures.

- Mehrdad Soumekh, Professor
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota
- Signal and image processing, Medical and radar imaging, Inverse scattering.

- Weifeng Su, Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Delaware
- Wireless communications and networking, MIMO Systems and Space-Time Coding, MIMO-OFDM Systems, Cooperative Communications for Wireless Networks.

- Zhi Sun, Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
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Magnetic Induction-based Wireless Communications, Wireless Sensor Networks in Challenged Environments, Wireless Intra-Body Networks, Cyber Physical Systems in Challenged Environments.

- Albert H. Titus, Professor
- Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
- Analog VLSI Design, Silicon-based neuromorphic visual processing systems, Neural networks, Electronic routing and packaging design, Electron beam lithography, Sensors, Optoelectronics.

- Chu Ryang Wie, Professor
- Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
- Semiconductor devices - device reliability under voltage/current stress, radiation (gamma-ray, proton, x-ray) effect, X-ray analysis of semiconductor materials such as metamorphic buffer materials using reciprocal space mapping and other x-ray methods, Semiconductor nanodevice visual simulation.

- Leslie (Lei) Ying, Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Compressed sensing and its applications, Magnetic resonance imaging,
Image reconstruction, Phase unwrapping, Photoacoustic imaging