Behrouz Farhang


  • Phone: 801-587-7959
  • Email: farhang@ece.utah.edu
  • Office: MEB 3240

Filter bank multicarrier communications for underwater acoustic channels, cognitive radios, and multiple access networks; detection algorithms for MIMO and OFDM; implementations on hardware platforms.

Neil Cotter


  • Phone: 801-581-8566
  • Email: necotter@ece.utah.edu
  • Office: MEB 2270

Neural networks

Douglas Christensen


  • Phone: 801-581-7859
  • Email: christen@ece.utah.edu
  • Office: MEB 2456

Fiberoptic and guided-wave sensors, especially those applicable to biomedical sensing, such as fluorescent immunosensors; numerical modeling of optical devices using finite-difference time-domain techniques, and ultrasound bioinstrumentation.

Rong Rong Chen


  • Phone: 801-585-7367
  • Email: rchen@ece.utah.edu
  • Office: MEB 3106

Signal processing and communication systems: efficient utilization of multiple antennas for high-rate communications in wireless networks, statistical detection methods for underwater acoustic communications, and other fields related to communication systems and statistical signal processing.

Ryan Brown


  • Phone: 801-587-7208
  • Email: ryan.blaine.brown@utah.edu
  • Office: WEB 2897

Patent law, Entrepreneurial Strategy, Communication, CLEAR—Communication, Leadership, Ethics and Research

Richard Brown


  • Phone: 801-581-6912
  • Email: brown@utah.edu
  • Office: WEB 1650

Integrated circuits and solid-state sensors, chemical sensors, neural interfaces, electronic circuit clocking, circuit design, high performance microprocessors, and mixed signal microprocessors

Marc Bodson


  • Phone: 801-581-8590
  • Email: bodson@ece.utah.edu
  • Office: MEB 3230

Modeling, identification, and control, with applications to aerospace and electromechanical systems

Steve Blair


  • Phone: 801-585-6157
  • Email: blair@ece.utah.edu
  • Office: MEB 3236

Optics and photonics: physics and applications of resonance phenomena and linear and nonlinear optical phenomena, specifically; resonance enhancement in fluorescence-based molecular transduction, kinetics of bi-molecular interactions, microfabricated optical biosensor array systems, design of periodic and aperiodic systems of artificial resonators, and plasmonics-nanophotonic systems based on metallic structures

Jon Davies


  • Phone: (801) 585-9764
  • Email: jon.davies@utah.edu
  • Office: MEB 2236

Designing and implementing instructional labs for students, supporting lab coursework, and providing design and technical support for departmental research labs and faculty.