ECE Faculty Directory
The University of Utah Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty directory.
Florian Solzbacher
Department Chair
Professor
- Phone: 801-587-0641
- Email: florian.solzbacher@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2110C
- Website: Prof. Solzbacher's Profile
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
Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon
Associate Chair
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-3422
- Email: pierre-emmanuel.gaillardon@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3745
- Website: Prof. Gaillardon's Profile
Development of reconfigurable logic architectures and digital circuits exploiting emerging device technologies and novel EDA techniques.
Masood Parvania
Associate Chair
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-0030
- Email: masood.parvania@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2222
- Website: Prof. Parvania's Profile
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
Steve Blair
Professor
- Phone: 801-585-6157
- Email: blair@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3236
- Website: Prof. Blair's Profile
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
- Phone: 801-581-8590
- Email: bodson@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3230
- Website: Prof. Bodson's Profile
Modeling, identification, and control, with applications to aerospace and electromechanical systems
Richard Brown
Dean of Engineering
Professor
- Phone: 801-581-6912
- Email: brown@utah.edu
- Office: WEB 1650
- Website: Dean Brown's Profile
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)
- Phone: 801-587-7208
- Email: ryan.blaine.brown@utah.edu
- Office: WEB 2897
Patent law, Entrepreneurial Strategy, Communication, CLEAR—Communication, Leadership, Ethics and Research
Rong Rong Chen
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-7367
- Email: rchen@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3106
- Website: Prof. Chen's Profile
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
- Phone: 801-581-7859
- Email: christechristen@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2456
- Website: Prof. Christensen's Profile
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
Associate Professor (Lecturer)
Transfer Course Evaluations
- Phone: 801-581-8566
- Email: necotter@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2270
- Website: Prof. Cotter's Profile
Neural networks

Jon Davies
Instructor (Lecturer)
- 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.
Daniel Drew
Assistant Professor (Fall 2021)
- Email: daniel.drew@utah.edu
- Website: Prof. Drew's Profile
Design of autonomous millimeter-scale robots, including MEMS microactuators, mesoscale manufacturing techniques, and electronic system integration.
Behrouz Farhang
Professor
- Phone: 801-587-7959
- Email: farhang@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3240
- Website: Prof. Farhang's Profile
Filter bank multicarrier communications for underwater acoustic channels, cognitive radios, and multiple access networks; detection algorithms for MIMO and OFDM; implementations on hardware platforms.
Cynthia Furse
Professor
- Phone: 801-585-7234
- Email: cfurse@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2280
- Website: Prof. Furse's Profile
Electromagnetics, Intermittent fault location for aircraft wiring, antenna design and optimization, communications, bioelectromagnetics, and engineering education.
Weilu Gao
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-7054
- Email: weilu.gao@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2122
- Website: Prof. Gao's Profile
Photonics, optoelectronics, nanomaterials, and nanostructures
Jacob George
Assistant Professor
- Phone: TBD
- Email: jake.george@utah.edu
- Office: Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital Room 2125B
- Website: Prof. George's Profile
Brain-computer interfaces, rehabilitation robotics, neural engineering, bioinspired artificial intelligence, intelligent prostheses and exoskeletons
Tsung-Wei Huang
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-585-9906
- Email: tsung-wei.huang@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2124
- Website: Prof. Huang's Profile
Software systems, parallel processing, design automation: developing large-scale and resilient software systems with a specific focus on parallel processing, programming models, VLSI design automation, and machine learning
Mingyue Ji
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-587-7255
- Email: mingyue.ji@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3108
- Website: Prof. Ji's Profile
Information theory, communications, signal processing, storage, distributed computing, fundamental limits, code design and algorithms of caching networks with various structures, channel models and communication schemes. Distributed storage for big data and interaction between distributed (cloud) storage and content delivery networks. Fundamental theory and algorithms of distributed computing for big data
Priyank Kalla
Director, Computer Engineering
Professor
- Phone: 801-587-7617
- Email: kalla@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2260
- Website: Prof. Kalla's Profile
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
Director, Utah Nanofab
USTAR Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-587-9497
- Email: hanseup@ece.utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3709
- Website: Prof. Kim's Profile
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
Sriram Krishnamoorthy
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-213-3678
- Email: sriram.krishnamoorthy@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2132
- Website: Prof. Krishnamoorthy’s Profile
Semiconductors-based nanoscale electronic/optoelectronic devices, with focus on material synthesis, electronic transport, design/modeling, nanoscale fabrication, and characterization of devices and materials. Specifically, wide band gap oxide/nitride semiconductor devices for a wide range of applications such as power electronics, ultra-violet optoelectronics, vacuum electronics, and high temperature electronics
Mingxi Liu
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-585-5953
- Email: mingxi.liu@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2250
- Website: Prof. Liu's Profile
Power and control systems: control and optimization theories and their applications in power and energy systems

Carlos Mastrangelo
USTAR Professor
- 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.
Rajesh Menon
USTAR Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-1058
- Email: rmenon@eng.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2256
- Website: Prof. Menon's Profile
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
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-213-3675
- Email: neda.nategh@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2220
- Website: Prof. Nategh's Profile
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)
- Phone: 801-587-9710
- 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
Angela Rasmussen
Director of Mentoring & Advising
Professor (Lecturer)
- Phone: 801-581-6952
- Email: angela.rasmussen@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2268
- Website: Prof. Rasmusssen's Profile
Microelectronics and VLSI Systems
Daniel Reed
Senior VP for Academic Affairs
Professor
- Phone: 801-581-5057
- Email: dan.reed@utah.edu
- Office: 205 Park Building
- Website: Prof. Reed's Profile
High-performance computing, computational science, cloud computing, and science and technology policy
Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-587-8883
- Email: mostafa.ardakani@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2218
- Website: Prof. Ardakani's Profile
Power and energy systems: electricity markets, energy economics, energy policy, power and energy systems, power system optimization, smart grid, transmission networks.
Benjamin Sanchez
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-585-9535
- Email: benjamin.sanchez@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3721
- Website: Prof. Sanchez's Profile
Applied bioelectromagnetics for health measurement and monitoring
Mike Scarpulla
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-1231
- Email: scarpulla@eng.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2138
- Website: Prof. Scarpulla's Profile
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
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-503-9415
- Email: david.schurig@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2274
- Website: Prof. Schurig's Profile
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
Director of Graduate Programs
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-5657
- Email: berardi.sensale@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2134
- Website: Prof. Sensale's Profile
EM and optics: terahertz technology, high frequency electronics, two dimensional materials, active metamaterials, plasmonics, and nanophotonics
Jamesina Simpson
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-6929
- Email: jamesina.simpson@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2278
- Website: Prof. Simpson's Profile
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

Ken Stevens
Professor
- Phone: 801-585-9176
- Email: kstevens@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2254
VLSI, asynchronous circuit design and architecture, timing analysis, and formal verification
Arn Stolp
Instructor (Lecturer)
- Phone: 801-581-4205
- Email: arnstolp@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2262
- Website: Prof. Stolp's Profile
Circuits
Gerald Stringfellow
Distinguished Professor
- Phone: 801-581-8387
- Email: stringfellow@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3110
- Website: Prof. Stringfellow's Profile
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
- Phone: 801-581-8775
- Email: azar.m@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3737
- Website: Prof. Tabib-Azar's Profile
Nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS), nano devices and molecular electronics, metrology tools, microwave-AFM for bio-nano-info, and novel fabrication techniques
Armin Tajalli
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-4840
- Email: armin.tajalli@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2224
- Website: Prof. Tajalli's Profile
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
USTAR Professor
- Phone: 801-581-3539
- Email: tasdizen@ece.utah.edu
- Office: WEB 4893
- Website: Prof. Tasdizen's Profile
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
Ross Walker
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-1494
- Email: ross.walker@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3729
- Website: Prof. Walker's Profile
Mixed-signal circuits for sensor systems
Yu Xiang
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-587-5223
- Email: yu.xiang@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3104
- Website: Prof. Xiang's Profile
Statistical signal processing and information theory
Heayoung Yoon
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-585-0334
- Email: heayoung.yoon@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2136
- Website: Prof. Yoon's Profile
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
- Phone: 801-581-6512
- Email: darrin.young@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3741
- Website: Prof. Young's Profile
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
Cunxi Yu
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-8282
- Email: cunxi.yu@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2126
- Website: Prof. Yu's Profile
Formal methods, design automation, AI/ML, Novel algorithms, design methodologies, and automation systems for computing and security
Yi Zhou
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-5917
- Email: yi.zhou@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3102
- Website: Prof. Zhou's Profile
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming, deep learning theory, stochastic and nonconvex optimization, reinforcement learning, distributed machine learning system, statistical signal processing