The University of Utah’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering warmly welcomes two new faculty members who will greatly enhance our research in the areas of power systems and communications. Both arrived July 1.
Assistant professor Mingyue Ji was a system design scientist at Broadcom Corp. in San Diego before coming to the U. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 2015 and a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also received a master’s in electrical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
His research involves a wide array of interests including communication and information theory, distributed storage and computing, wireless communications, signal processing, content delivery networks and machine learning. He currently is studying the joint design of (large-scale, distributed) information storage, computing and communication.
Assistant professor Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani comes from Arizona State University where he was a post-doctoral scholar. Prior to that he was a data analyst for California-based Seven Lakes Technologies, a software developer for the oil and gas industries. He received his doctorate in energy engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 2013 and a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran.
Sahraei-Ardakani’s research is focused on energy economics and policy, electricity markets and power system optimization.