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. Chair (INTERIM)

John C. "Jack" Wolfe

Ph.D., University of Rochester.
Materials research, electron and ion-beam devices, microfabrication.

   

. Professors

E. Joe Charlson

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University; PE.
Solid state devices; integrated circuits; VLSI CAD.

Frank J. "Fritz" Claydon

Ph.D., Duke University.
Bioelectric signals, cardiac mapping, mechanisms of defibrillation, education issues involving freshman students in engineering.

Ovidiu Crisan

Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara (Romania).
Power system operation, control and optimization, electric machine modeling, electric utilities deregulation.

John R. Glover

Ph.D., Stanford University.
Adaptive systems, digital signal processing, biomedical signal processing, expert systems applications, educational software.

David Jackson

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Applied electromagnetics, microstrip antennas, leaky-wave antennas, leakage and radiation effects in microwave integrated circuits, periodic structures, and bioelectromagnetics.

Ben Jansen

Ph.D., Free University (Amsterdam).
Biomedical signal analysis, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, complex dynamic systems modeling, nonlinear dynamics, and self-organizing systems.

Han Q. Le

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Semiconductor optoelectronics, lasers, detectors, waveguide devices, spectroscopic sensing, photonics systems and applications.

Dmitri Litvinov

Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Novel magnetic materials and devices at nanoscale dimensions, micro- and nanomagnetic materials and devices related to the current and future magnetic storage technologies, disk drive storage, probe storage based on MEMS and MRAM.

 
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C. Richard Liu

Ph.D., Jiaotong University, Xian (China).
Subsurface sensing, well logging, RF and microwave circuits, wireless telecommunications, ground-penetrating radar, and EM tomography.

Stuart A. Long

Ph.D., Harvard University. PE.
Applied electromagnetics, microstrip and millimeter-wave antennas, high temperature superconducting materials and devices.

Haluk Ogmen

Ph.D., Université Laval (Quebec); PE.
Neuro-engineering, vision, visual psychophysics, sensory-motor control, computational neuroscience.

Shin-Shem Steven Pei

Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Heterostructure FETs and heterojunction bipolar transistors based on wide bandgap III-V compounds, optoelectronic ICs.

Leang-San Shieh

Ph.D., University of Houston; PE.
Control systems; model reduction, identification, and design; optimal control; adaptive control; digital control; multivariable control systems.

Jeffery T. Williams

Ph.D., University of Arizona.
Applied electromagnetics, antenna design, microstrip antennas, high frequency measurements, RF and microwave circuits, propagation on planar structures, computational electromagnetics.

Donald R. Wilton

Ph.D., University of Illinois.
Electromagnetic theory, mathematical methods, numerical techniques.


. Associate Professors

Betty Barr

Ph.D., University of Houston.
Applied Mathematics.

Ji Chen

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Microprocessor full chip-level interconnect extraction, wireless communication system on chip (SOC) interconnect characterization, computer system EMC/EMI modeling, signal integrity analysis, bioelectromagnetics with applications to MRI systems, computational electromagnetics.

Thomas J. Hebert

Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Image processing, digital video, medical imaging, image analysis, tomography, computer vision, Bayesian solutions.

Pauline Markenscoff

Ph. D., University of Minnesota.
Cellular automata, parallel processing, computer architecture.

 
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Paul Ruchhoeft

Ph.D., University of Houston.
Nanolithography and nanofabrication, modeling of resist exposure and development, etching and thin-film deposition.

David P. Shattuck

Ph.D., Duke University; PE.
Acoustic imaging and well logging.

Leonard P. Trombetta

Ph.D., Lehigh University.
Electrical properties of semiconductors and insulators, high-k dielectrics, physics and characterization of the metal-insulator-semiconductor system.

Wanda Zagozdzon-Wosik

Ph.D., Warsaw University of Technology.
Semiconductor integrated circuit processing technology, electron devices.


. Assistant Professors

Jiming Bao

Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Semiconductor nanowire optoelectronics, silicon photonics and metallic nanostructures for plasmonics.

Stanko Brankovic

Ph.D., Arizona State University.
Electrochemical Thin Film Growth, Magnetic Materials and Nanostructures, Nanofabrication, Electrocatalysis, Sensors, Physics and Thermodynamics of Electrified Interfaces.

Yuhua Chen

D.Sc., Washington University in St. Louis.
Sensor Networks, Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (SoC), Networks-on-Chip (NoC), Reconfigurable Systems, Optical Networks, Heterogeneous Networks, Quality-of-Service (QoS), High Performance Routers, System Prototyping.

Zhu Han

Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park.
Collaborative transmission networks, cognitive radios, compressed sensing, sensor network design, security, biosignal processing and MIMO wireless communications

 

 
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Valery Kalatsky

Ph.D., Texas A&M University.
Neuro-engineering, Optical Imaging of Intrinsic Signals, Neuro-biology, Neuroimaging, Brain Mapping, Representation of Sensory Modalities (Vision, Hearing, Somatosensation) in Mammalian Neocortex.

Bhavin R. Sheth

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Visual Perception,Multisensory Integration, Functions of Sleep, Autism and Related Developmental Disorders, Neural Basis of Insight.

Shih, Wei-Chuan

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Optical sensing and imaging, Spectroscopy, Microscopy, N/MEMS, Microfluidics

 


. Research Professor

Jarek Wosik

Ph.D., The Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Superconducting thin films. Microwave characterization.

 
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. Research Assistant Professor

M. Amin Kayali

Ph.D., Texas A&M University.
Neural Correlates of Behavior and Decision Making both in healthy and psychiatric populations using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Electroencephalography (EEG), Computational Neuroscience, Statistical Learning Theory, Neuroinformatics and Game Theory.

 
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Qingkai Yu

Ph.D., University of Houston.
Synthesis of Nanomaterials, including graphene, carbon nanotubes, tungsten nanowires and Si nanowires; Nano-fabrication; Nanodevices and nanosensors.


. JOINT APPOINTMENTS, LECTURERS, PART-TIME FACULTY

David Baskin

MD, Mt Sinai School Of Medicine.
Minimally invasive spine and brain surgery, including neural navigation using virtual reality systems, developing technology for 3D endoscopy, as well as studying the effects of novel ways to deliver radiation to the brain to treat tumors, vascular abnormalities, and pain.

Abdelhak Bensaoula

Ph.D., University of Houston.
In-situ thin film monitoring probes, epitaxial growth and processing of wide band gap semiconductor materials, and nanostructures and nanodevices fabrication.

Edgar Bering

Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley.
Atmospheric Physics.

Diana de la Rosa-Pohl

MS Physics, University of Texas at Austin; ME Electrical Engineering, University of Houston.
Engineering education, distance learning, computer vision systems.

Alex Ignatiev

Ph.D., Cornell University.
Surface physics, Biological & Medical Physics.

Anne J. Jacobson

D. Phil, Oxford University.
Philosophy of Mind, History of Modern Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology.

Lennart Johnsson

Ph.D., Chalmers Institute of Technology.
Parallel Computer Systems Architecture, Run-Time Systems, Data Parallel Programming and Large-Scale Applications.

Ioannis Kakadiaris

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
Biomedical Image Analysis, Modeling and Simulation; Computational Biomedicine; Biometrics; Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition.

 

 
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Kirill Larin

Ph.D., University of Texas, Medical Branch.
Director, Biomedical Optics Laboratory. Biomedical optics; nanophotonics.

Heldar Malki

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Applications of neural networks, fuzzy logic controllers, and design of fuzzy logic controllers for industrial applications.

Karen (Ken) Martirosyan

Research Assistant Professor, ISMAN-Russian Academy of Sciences and SEUA.
Novel nanostructured systems and devices for energy, environmental and biomedical applications.

Wajiha Shireen

Ph.D., Texas A&M University.
Power Electronics, Power Quality, DSP-based control for motor drives, power supplies and alternate energy systems.

Jaspal Subhlok

Ph.D., Rice University.
Compiler and RunTime Support for Parallel and Distributed Systems, Network Based Computing, Scientific and Stream Processing Applications.

Rong Zheng

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Wireless Networking, Distributed Systems, Network Simulation and Performance Modeling.

George Zouridakis

Ph.D., University of Houston.
Medical Imaging and Computational Biomedicine.


. ADJUNCT APPOINTMENTS

Bilgen, M.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Boukadoum, A.

Adjunct Professor

Brandt, M.

Adjunct Professor

Capolino, F.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Hartley, C.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Lee, H.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

 
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Narayana, P.

Adjunct Professor

Ophir, J.

Adjunct Professor

Ortiz, J.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Tripathy, S.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Yin, H.

Adjunct Professor


. Emeritus Faculty

Ktonas, P.

Paskusz, G.

 
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Schneider, W.

Shen, L.

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