FACULTY DIRECTORY

Mostafa Ardakani

Associate Professor

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

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

Habtamu Aycheh

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Utah Asia Campus

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• Email: habtamu.aycheh@utah.edu

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Artificial intelligence (AI)/ machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, bioinformatics and computational neuroscience

Evan Benoit

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Utah Asia Campus

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• Email: evan.benoit@utah.edu

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Electromagnetics, spread spectrum and sequence time domain reflectometry for impedance measurements.

Raheel Bhutta

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Utah Asia Campus

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• Email: raheel.bhutta@utah.edu

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Brain computer interface, fNIRS based functional neuroimaging, embedded systems

Steve Blair

Professor

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

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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

Marc Bodson

Professor

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

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

Richard Brown

Distinguished Professor

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

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

Ryan Brown

Instructor (Lecturer)

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

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

Rong Rong Chen

Associate Professor

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

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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.

Douglas Christensen

Professor

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

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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.

Neil Cotter

Professor (Lecturer)

Advisor: Transfer Information / Honors Thesis

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

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Neural networks

Jon Davies

Engineer / Instructor

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

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

Behrouz Farhang

Professor

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

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

Morteza Fayazi

Assistant Professor

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• Phone: 801-585-9906
• Email: m.fayazi@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2124

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Electronic Design Automation (EDA), application of Machine Learning (ML) on RF/analog/mixed-signal circuit design, System-on-Chip (SoC) design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), analog circuit design, digital circuit design, data retrieval.

Kai Fu

Assistant Professor

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• Phone: 801-581-8566
• Email: kai.fu@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2136

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Semiconductor devices, wide bandgap semiconductors (GaN, AlN, Ga2O3, BN, diamond), material epitaxy science, nanofabrication, semiconductor characterization, reliability, heterogeneous integration, power electronics, high-temperature electronics

Cynthia Furse

Director of Graduate Studies, ACES Fellow

Distinguished Professor

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• Phone: 801-585-7234
• Email: cfurse@ece.utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2280

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Electromagnetics, Intermittent fault location for aircraft wiring, antenna design and optimization, communications, bioelectromagnetics, and engineering education.

Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon

Associate Chair, Professor

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

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

Weilu Gao

Assistant Professor

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• Phone: 801-581-7054
• Email: weilu.gao@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2122

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Photonics, optoelectronics, nanomaterials, and nanostructures

Jacob George

Assistant Professor

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• Phone: TBD
• Email: jake.george@utah.edu
• Office: Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital Room 2125B

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Brain-computer interfaces, rehabilitation robotics, neural engineering, bioinspired artificial intelligence, intelligent prostheses and exoskeletons

Priyank Kalla

Professor

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• Phone: 801-587-7617
• Email: kalla@ece.utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2260
• Website: https://my.ece.utah.edu/~kalla/

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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

Hanseup Kim

Department Chair; Director, Utah Nanofab; H. Kent Bowen Endowed Professor

USTAR Professor

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• Phone: 801-587-9497
• Email: hanseup.kim@utah.edu
• Office: SMBB 3709

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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

Fatemeh Mahalian

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Associate Director, ECE at Utah Asia Campus

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• Email: fatima.mahalian@utah.edu

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Neural networks and signal processing

Carlos Mastrangelo

USTAR Professor

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

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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.

Rajesh Menon

USTAR Professor

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

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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

Neda Nategh

Associate Professor

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

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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.

John Palmer

Associate Professor (Lecturer)

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

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

Masood Parvania

Roger P. Webb Endowed Associate Professor

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

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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

Neal Patwari

Professor

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• Phone: 801-581-8282
• Email: neal.patwari@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2126
• Website: https://patwarilab.com/

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Wireless technologies which improve the security, reliability, and sensing capabilities of future generation networks; and equitable design of automated/AI decision systems.

Angela Rasmussen

Director of Mentoring & Advising

Professor (Lecturer)

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

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Microelectronics and VLSI Systems

Mike Scarpulla

Professor

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

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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.

David Schurig

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor

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

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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.

Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

Associate Professor

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• Phone: 801-585-5657
• Email: berardi.sensale@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2134

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EM and optics: terahertz technology, high frequency electronics, two dimensional materials, active metamaterials, plasmonics, and nanophotonics

Jamesina Simpson

Associate Chair

Professor

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• Phone: 801-585-6929
• Email: jamesina.simpson@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2278

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Computational electromagnetics theory and applications; finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solutions to Maxwell's equations from near-DC to light; electromagnetic propagation in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide; electromagnetic compatibility; plasmonics; biophotonics

Florian Solzbacher

Gerald and Barbara Stringfellow Endowed Professor

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

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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

Ken Stevens

Professor

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• Phone: 801-585-9176
• Email: kstevens@ece.utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2254

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VLSI, asynchronous circuit design and architecture, timing analysis, and formal verification

Gerald Stringfellow

Distinguished Professor

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• Phone: 801-581-8387
• Email: stringfellow@ece.utah.edu
• Office: MEB 3110

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Advanced materials and microelectronics: ceramics, advanced materials, microelectronics, and a broad range of topics related to materials science and electronics

Massood Tabib-Azar

USTAR Professor

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• Phone: 801-581-8775
• Email: azar.m@utah.edu
• Office: SMBB 3737

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Nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS), nano devices and molecular electronics, metrology tools, microwave-AFM for bio-nano-info, and novel fabrication techniques

Armin Tajalli

Associate Professor

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

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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

Tolga Tasdizen

Associate Chair, USTAR Professor

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

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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

Amy Verkler

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

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• Phone: 801-581-6490
• Email: amy.verkler@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2260

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Engineering Education, Optics

Yu Xiang

Assistant Professor

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• Phone: 801-587-5223
• Email: yu.xiang@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 3104

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Statistical signal processing, information theory, and machine learning: learning under distribution shifts, representation learning, recourse-constrained distributed signal processing

Heayoung Yoon

Associate Professor

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• Phone: 801-585-0334
• Email: heayoung.yoon@utah.edu
• Office: MEB 2136

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Solar energy conversion, NanoEngineering: Engineering micro/nanomaterials to enhance device performance and functionality in the fields of solar energy conversion, advanced nanoelectronics, and 3D hybrid imaging at nanoscale

Darrin Young

USTAR Associate Professor

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

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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