ECE Faculty Directory


The University of Utah Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty directory.

Mostafa Ardakani



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

Habtamu Aycheh



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

Evan Benoit



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

Muhammad Bhutta



Brain computer interface, fNIRS based functional neuroimaging, embedded systems

Simon Binder



Micromechanical sensors, instrumentation engineering, microfabrication, smart hydrogels, biomedical sensors, environmental sensors, neural implants.

Steve Blair



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



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

Richard Brown



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

Ryan Brown



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

Rong Rong Chen



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



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



Neural networks

Jon Davies



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

Daniel Drew



Design of autonomous millimeter-scale robots, including MEMS microactuators, mesoscale manufacturing techniques, and electronic system integration.

Behrouz Farhang



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

Kai Fu



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



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

Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon



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

Weilu Gao



Photonics, optoelectronics, nanomaterials, and nanostructures

Jacob George



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

Mingyue Ji



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



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



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

Mingxi Liu



Power and control systems: control and optimization theories and their applications in power and energy systems

Fatemeh Mahalian



Neural networks and signal processing

Carlos Mastrangelo



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



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



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.

Moses Seungbeom Noh



Micro/nano sensor, in vitro BBB model and lung model, and carbon sequestration.

John Palmer



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

Masood Parvania



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

Angela Rasmussen



Microelectronics and VLSI Systems

Benjamin Sanchez



Applied bioelectromagnetics for health measurement and monitoring

Mike Scarpulla



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



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



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

Jamesina Simpson



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



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



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

Arn Stolp



Circuits

Gerald Stringfellow



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

Massood Tabib-Azar



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

Armin Tajalli



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



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



Engineering Education, Optics

Yu Xiang



Statistical signal processing and information theory

Heayoung Yoon



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



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

Yi Zhou



Machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming, deep learning theory, stochastic and nonconvex optimization, reinforcement learning, distributed machine learning system, statistical signal processing

Yantao Fan



Hybrid systems biology, biosensors, microfluidic devices, lab-on-a-chip technology, 3D tissue engineering and organoid etc.

Jairo Giraldo



Designing the next generation of resilient and sustainable power and energy systems that integrates emerging energy technologies and distributed energy

Lars Laurentius



Biosensors and nanotechnology: modification of nanostructures, spectroscopy, polymer chemistry, and the development of sensors for the detection of biomarkers for healthcare-related challenges

Apratim Majumder



Diffractive flat optics, holograms, nanophotonics, metamaterials, hyperspectral imaging, photolithography

Christopher Reiche



Biomedical sensors and MEMS/NEMS

Rajmohan Bhandari



Design and fabrication of implantable devices, materials science and system integration

Erik Brunvand



Computer architecture and VLSI

Edward Dibella



Advanced MRI imaging, positron emission tomography (PET), image processing, computer-assisted dynamic imaging

Bruce Gale



MEMS

Tridib Ghosh



Developing autofocus eyewear

Bishnu Gogoi



MEMS sensors, multi-sensor integration, MEMS-CMOS integration, CMOS and discrete transistor technologies, microfluidics, biotech devices, passives, chip-scale packaging and custom package development

Joel Harley



Signal processing for complex wave propagation, cyber-physical systems, structural health monitoring, compressed sensing, matched field processing, machine learning, statistical signal processing, big data, transform theory

Sneha Kasera



Julia Kőrner



Micro- and nanomechanical oscillation-based sensors, biomedical sensors

Sriram Krishnamoorthy



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

Paul Kuhn



PK Consulting LLC: Electromagnetic and ultrasonic reflectometry imaging, neural networks and machine learning, biomedical sensors and instrumentation, signal and image processing, and reconfigurable electronic architectures

John Mathews



Nonlinear and adaptive signal processing and machine learning, with applications in audio and communication systems, neural engineering, biomedicine, and structural health management

Hyde Merrill



Cascading blackouts of the electric power system

Glen Morrell



Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research: Medical imaging, specifically MRI

Chris Myers



Asynchronous circuit design, formal verification of analog/mixed signal circuits and cyber-physical systems, and modeling, analysis and design of genetic circuits

Sandeep Negi



Develop and test (in-vivo) a chronically implantable neural recording array and provide the device to the neuroscience community upon completion of the initial technical development phase for experimental use and evaluation

Frederic Noo



Radiology

Shadrach Roundy



Inventions for wireless networks which improve their security, reliability, self-awareness, and sensing capabilities; research applies statistical signal processing, networking, and radio propagation techniques

Steven Smith



Computational electromagnetics (e.g. Stochastic-FDTD), RF-Microwave circuit design and optimization.

Prashant Tathireddy



Micro integration, interfacial science, biosensors, medical microsensors

Ross Walker



Mixed-signal circuits for sensor systems

Jeffrey Walling



Silicon based analog/RF circuits for high-efficiency, high performance transceivers; Ultra low power circuits for wireless sensor networks; Reconfigurable circuits for software defined radio

Yunshan Wang



Inventions for wireless networks which improve their security, reliability, self-awareness, and sensing capabailities; research applies statistical signal processing, networking, and radio propagation techniques

David Warren