Rajesh Menon

    USTAR Professor

    • Phone: 801-585-1058
    • Email: rmenon@eng.utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2256

    Optics and nanotechnology: absorbance modulation optical lithography, patterning via optical saturable transitions, optical nanoscopy, and ultra-high frequency solar energy via a nanostructured polychromatic concentrator

    Darrin Young

    USTAR Associate Professor

    • Phone: 801-581-6512
    • Email: darrin.young@utah.edu
    • Office: SMBB 3741

    Low-power integrated circuits design coupled with MEMS-based sensing systems for wearable sensing, biomedical implant, environmental sensing, power transfer, RF communication, and general industrial sensing applications

    Tolga Tasdizen

    Associate Chair, USTAR Professor

    • Phone: 801-581-3539
    • Email: tasdizen@ece.utah.edu
    • Office: WEB 4893

    Image processing and pattern recognition, specifically: geometry-based and statistics-based methods for image filtering, segmentation and feature extraction using high-order partial differential equations for image and surface reconstruction; applying these methods to problems in biomedical imaging, particularly neural circuit reconstruction from very large-scale microscopy image datasets

    Armin Tajalli

    Associate Professor

    • Phone: 801-581-4840
    • Email: armin.tajalli@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2224

    Integrated wireline and wireless systems, energy-efficient integrated systems, high-speed wireline systems, RF circuits, data converters, phase-locked loops and frequency synthesisers, analog integrated circuits, extremely low power integrated systems

    Florian Solzbacher

    Gerald and Barbara Stringfellow Endowed Professor

    • Phone: 801-581-6942
    • Email: florian.solzbacher@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2110C

    Harsh Environment MEMS, including: materials (SiC (on Si), SOI, GaN), metallisation systems for high temperatures and aggressive ambient conditions, and silicon fusion bonding and packaging issues

    David Schurig

    Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor

    • Email: david.schurig@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2274

    Metamaterials: Design, analysis and fabrication of metamaterials in frequency ranges from megahertz to petahertz. Transformation design of devices implementable with metamaterials. Applications include: remote sensing, near-field imaging, biological imaging, implantable devices, electro-mechanical devices and invisibility cloaking.

    Mike Scarpulla

    Professor

    • 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.

    Masood Parvania

    Roger P. Webb Endowed Associate Professor

    • 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

    Associate Professor (Lecturer)

    • 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

    Associate Professor

    • 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.