Mike Scarpulla


    • Phone: 801-585-1231
    • Email: scarpulla@eng.utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2138

    Semiconductors and photovoltaics: earth-abundant, benign compound semiconductors for thin film photovoltaics such as Cu2ZnSnS4. Other sulfide semiconductors for PV, light management for thin film PV, CIGS, laser processing of semiconductors, and the physics of semiconductor alloys and transition metal and rare earth additions to semiconductors.

    Mostafa Ardakani


    • Phone: 801-587-8883
    • Email: mostafa.ardakani@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2218

    Power and energy systems: electricity markets, energy economics, energy policy, power and energy systems, power system optimization, smart grid, transmission networks.

    Angela Rasmussen


    • Phone: 801-581-6952
    • Email: angela.rasmussen@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2268

    Microelectronics and VLSI Systems

    Masood Parvania


    • Phone: 801-585-0030
    • Email: masood.parvania@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2222

    Operation and planning of cyber-physical power and energy systems, with emphasis on the modeling and integration of distributed energy resources, as well as sustainable renewable energy integration

    John Palmer


    • Phone: 801-581-7350
    • Email: john.a.palmer@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2130

    Power System Protection: cause and origin analysis of electrical accidents, electrical equipment failures, electrical fires, structural fires, vehicle fires, and explosions

    Neda Nategh


    • Phone: 801-213-3675
    • Email: neda.nategh@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2220

    Visual computation and computational vision: Research in our lab employs an interdisciplinary approach to understand the real-time, robust, and efficient visual computations performed by our natural vision and to translate this knowledge into computational vision frameworks for machine vision applications, artificial vision solutions, and imaging systems.

    Carlos Mastrangelo


    • Phone: 801-587-7587
    • Email: carlos.mastrangelo@utah.edu

    Microfabricated systems that interface with biological structures at multiple scales. These include new microfluidics technologies, bioMEMS, novel detection microtechnologies and methods, cell and tissue level microinstruments and microsystems.

    Hanseup Kim



    Biological nano- and micro-systems in moving fluids for medical applications including micro- pumps and valves. System integration in robotics and energy harvesting for micro- robots, actuators, hydraulics, energy harvesting systems, and manufacturing technology

    Priyank Kalla



    VLSI systems: automated synthesis and optimization, validation and verification of digital VLSI systems, including: formal verification of RTL descriptions, new techniques to guide CNF-SAT search, using Groebner's proof systems for simplification of design verification and SAT solving, and design automation for optic/photonic logic

    Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon


    • Phone: 801-585-3422
    • Email: pierre-emmanuel.gaillardon@utah.edu
    • Office: SMBB 3745

    Development of reconfigurable logic architectures and digital circuits exploiting emerging device technologies and novel EDA techniques.