Faculty

Research Areas Interests
Tor Aamodt
Associate Professor 		Computer and Software Systems Computer architecture: microarchitecture for general purpose computing on graphics processing hardware (GPGPU), rapid prototyping of processor microarchitecture via analytical performance modeling, helper threads for instruction and data prefetching, heterogenous multicore processor microarchitecture.
Purang Abolmaesumi
Associate Professor 		Biomedical Technologies Biomedical Engineering with emphasis on computer-assisted surgery, image-guided therapy and medical image analysis.
Tyseer Aboulnasr
Professor 		Communication Systems Digital signal processing.
Rafeef Abugharbieh
Associate Professor 		Biomedical Technologies Medical image computing
Farshid Agharebparast
Instructor 		Wireless and data networking technologies.
Konstantin Beznosov
Associate Professor 		Computer and Software Systems Usable security, design of security mechanisms, distributed systems, security, access control, engineering secure software.
Vijay Bhargava
Professor 		Communication Systems Green communications, cognitive and cooperative wireless systems, MIMO-OFDM systems, cross-layer analysis.
Jesús Calviño-Fraga
Senior Instructor 		Microprocessors and Microcontrollers, Assemblers and Compilers, Embedded Systems, Power System Simulations, Voltage Stability.
Karen Cheung
Assistant Professor 		Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies Biomedical microsystems for diagnostic and therapeutic applications, dielectric spectroscopy for flow cytometry, implantable polymer-based microelectrode arrays, integrated cell culture systems.
Lukas Chrostowski
Associate Professor 		Communication Systems, Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies Semiconductor lasers, optical communications, high-speed laser modulation, VCSELs, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), biophotonics.
Edmond Cretu
Assistant Professor 		Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies Microsystems, adaptive MEMS, micro-instrumentation, nonlinear signal processing, BioMEMS.
Paul Davies
Senior Instructor 		Design and development of safety critical, real-time systems, software engineering principles, computer architecture and the application of FPGA technologies for use with soft-core processors.
Guy Dumont
Professor 		Biomedical Technologies Adaptive control, predictive control, control of distributed parameters systems, advanced process control, applications of wavelet analysis, biomedical applications of control, pulp and paper process control.
William Dunford
Associate Professor 		Energy Systems Power electronics, power supplies, motor controls, energy management.
Sid Fels
Professor 		Computer and Software Systems, Biomedical Technologies Human computer interaction, neural networks, artificial intelligence, interactive arts and music.
Sathish Gopalakrishnan
Assistant Professor 		Computer and Software Systems Real-time systems, distributed systems, resource management.
Andre Ivanov
Professor and Head 		Computer and Software Systems, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies System-on-Chip technology, integrated circuit design, integrated circuit testing and design for testability.
Carol Jaeger
Senior Instructor and Associate Dean, Undergraduate Engineering Programs 		Electronics, electromagnetics, signal processing, speech and hearing, biomdical engineering, assorted sensors, product design.
Nicolas Jaeger
Professor 		Communication Systems, Energy Systems, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies Integrated-optics, fiber-optics, optical sensors, optical measurement of voltage and current in power substations, ultrahigh-speed electro-optic modulators, ultrahigh-speed measurement techniques.
Juri Jatskevich
Associate Professor 		Energy Systems Power and energy systems, smart energy grids, power electronic systems and converter circuits, electrical machines and drives, controls, electromagnetic transients, computer modeling and simulation, distributed and parallel simulation
Vikram Krishnamurthy
Professor 		Communication Systems, Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies Control and estimation of biological nanotubes (ion channels), wireless sensor networks, cross-layer wireless communications, statistical signal processing, hidden markov models, target tracking, radar processing and network centric warfare, game theory.
Philippe Kruchten
Professor 		Computer and Software Systems Architecture of large-scale, software-intensive systems. Software development processes. Software project management.
Lutz Lampe
Professor 		Communication Systems Communication and information theory, Ultra-wideband (UWB), Wireless sensor networks, Localization and tracking, RFID, Cognitive radio, Power line communications, Compressed sensing, Machine Learning
Guy Lemieux
Associate Professor 		Computer and Software Systems Programmable logic and computing systems, multiprocessor and computer architecture.
Cyril Leung
Professor 		Communication Systems Wireless communications, cellular systems, multihop mobile networks.
Victor Leung
Professor 		Communication Systems Telecommunications and computer networks, wireless and mobile networking, network architectures and protocols, network management techniques, performance evaluations.
Luis Linares
Senior Instructor 		Modeling and simulation of engineering systems, and their computer implementation.
John Madden
Associate Professor 		Energy Systems, Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies Artificial muscle and application to medical devices, photosynthetic photovoltaics, super-capacitors, batteries, sensors, carbon nanotube devices.
José Martí
Professor 		Energy Systems Real-time simulation of electric power systems using multi-computer networks, partitioning techniques for the solution of large systems, multirate hybrid systems, signal propagation in distributed parameter and frequency dependent systems, switched devices and nonlinear elements.
Ali Mesbah
Assistant Professor 		Computer and Software Systems software engineering, software testing and dynamic analysis, web-based systems, software evolution, Web 2.0 and social software engineering
David Michelson
Associate Professor 		Communication Systems Propagation and channel modeling, low profile antenna design, wireless communication system performance, EMI/EMC.
Shahriar Mirabbasi
Associate Professor 		Computer and Software Systems, Communication Systems Analog and mixed-signal intergrated circuits and systems design, intergrated circuit design with an emphasis on high-speed data communication and signal processing applications.
Panos Nasiopoulos
Professor 		Computer and Software Systems, Communication Systems Interactive multimedia (e.g., iDTV, DVD), video broadcasting and streaming, multimedia middleware, video indexing and retrieval, digital video watermarking, next generation video and audio processing and compression
Alireza Nojeh
Associate Professor 		Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies Nanostructures (esp. based on carbon nanotubes), controlled nanofabrication, electron emission phenomena, electron microscopy, modeling and simulation of nanoscale systems.
Karthik Pattabiraman
Assistant Professor 		Computer and Software Systems Fault-tolerant and secure systems, programming languages and compilers, web applications.
Matei Ripeanu
Associate Professor 		Computer and Software Systems distributed systems, peer-to-peer systems, high-performnace computing
Robert Rohling
Professor 		Biomedical Technologies Medical imaging, medical information systems, robotics, ultrasound imaging in both 2D and 3D.
Tim Salcudean
Professor 		Biomedical Technologies Haptic interfaces, teleoperation and simulators, medical robotics, imaging and interfaces, optimization-based design.
Robert Schober
Professor 		Communication Systems Wireless communications (physical layer), detection, modulation, coding, CDMA, equalization, multiuser detection, space-time coding and processing, fading channels.
Peyman Servati
Associate Professor 		Energy Systems, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies Low-cost and flexible photovoltaic (PV) devices, Flexible electronics, Semiconductor nanowires (NWs), Nanostrucutured electronic films, Nanostructure growth and synthesis, Nanocomposite electronics
Leo Stocco
Senior Instructor 		Biomedical Technologies Medical robotics, haptic interfaces, electro-mechanical optimization.
Boris Stoeber
Associate Professor 		Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microfluidics, sensor technology, integrated microsystems for biomedical applications and for environmental control.
Kenichi Takahata
Assistant Professor 		Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies Micromachined sensors and actuators, MEMS, implantable micro devices, micro-scale wireless sensing/control, 3-D micro fabrication techniques, micro electrodischarge machining and control.
Shuo Tang
Assistant Professor 		Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies Biophotonics, biomedical optics, optical tissue imaging instrumentation, optical coherence tomography, multiphoton microscopy.
Robin Turner
Professor 		Biomedical Technologies Raman and resonance raman spectroscopy of biomolecules, fiber-optic-linked ultraviolet optical spectroscopies, spectroscopic signal processing and analysis.
Konrad Walus
Associate Professor 		Computer and Software Systems, Biomedical Technologies, Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies Nanoelectronic devices and circuits, quantum-dot cellular automata, single-electron transistors, quantum mechanical simulations
Jane Z. Wang
Associate Professor 		Communication Systems, Biomedical Technologies Multimedia security, statistical signal processing, biomedical information, genomic signal processing and statistics, and wireless communications.
Rabab Ward
Professor 		Communication Systems, Biomedical Technologies Signal processing, image processing.
Steve Wilton
Professor 		Computer and Software Systems Field programmable gate array architectures and CAD tools.
Vincent Wong
Associate Professor 		Communication Systems Protocol design, optimization, wireless networks, RFID, smart grid, cognitive radio, and intelligent transportation systems.
Joseph Yan
Senior Instructor and Associate Head, Undergraduate Academic Programs 		Micromechatronics, microfabrications, microassembly and biomimetic robotics.
Matthew Yedlin
Associate Professor 		Communication Systems, Energy Systems Acoustic wave propagation, including acoustic diffraction, asymptotic expansions, numerical wave modeling, laboratory wave modeling and source signature generation for seismic cross-well tomography. Applied digital signal processing.

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