Asad A. Abidi, PhD (UC Berkeley, 1981)
High-performance analog electronics, device modeling
Abeer A.H. Alwan, PhD (MIT, 1992)
Speech processing, acoustic properties of speech sounds with applications to speech synthesis, recognition by machine and coding, hearing-aid design, and digital signal processing
Katsushi Arisaka, PhD (U. Tokyo, Japan, 1985)
High energy and astroparticle experiments
Danijela Cabric, PhD (UC Berkeley, 2007)
Wireless communications system design, cognitive radio networks, VLSI architectures of signal processing and digital communication algorithms, performance analysis and experiments on embedded system platforms
Robert N. Candler, PhD (Stanford, 2006)
MEMS/NEMS for compact free-electron lasers, miniature medical devices, nanoscale magnetic structures and devices, additive manufacturing, fundamental limits of micro- and nano-scale devices
M.-C. Frank Chang, PhD (National Chiao-Tung U., Taiwan, 1979)
High-speed semiconductor (GaAs, InP, and Si) devices and integrated circuits for digital, analog, microwave, and optoelectronic integrated circuit applications
Panagiotis D. Christofides, PhD (U. Minnesota, 1996)
Process modeling, dynamics and control, computational and applied mathematics
Jason (Jingsheng) Cong, PhD (U. Illinois, 1990)
Novel architectures and compilation for customizable computing, design automation for VLSI systems and other emerging technologies such as quantum computing and highly scalable algorithms
Suhas Diggavi, PhD (Stanford, 1999)
Wireless communication, information theory, wireless networks, data compression, signal processing
Lara Dolecek, PhD (UC Berkeley, 2007)
Information and coding theory, graphical models, statistical algorithms and computational methods with applications to large-scale and complex systems for data processing, communication and storage
Christina Fragouli, PhD (UCLA, 2000)
Network coding, algorithms for networking, wireless networks and network security
Bahman Gharesifard, PhD (Queen’s U., Canada, 2009)
Systems and controls, network optimization, distributed decision making, data-driven control, decentralization in machine learning, online optimization, social and economic networks, game theory, optimal transport theory, geometric control and mechanics
Puneet Gupta, PhD (UC San Diego, 2007)
CAD for VLSI design and manufacturing, physical design, manufacturing-aware circuits and layouts, design-aware manufacturing
Lei He, PhD (UCLA, 1999)
Artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) for health, transportation, and power and water sustainability; programmable logic (FPGA), reconfigurable computing, AI-on-a-chip, neuromorphic computing, and quantum computing; modeling, simulation, and computer-aided design of VLSI circuits and IoT systems
Subramanian S. Iyer, PhD (UCLA, 1981)
Heterogeneous system integration and scaling, advanced packaging and 3D integration, technologies and techniques for memory subsystem integration, medical electronics and neuromorphic computing
Bahram Jalali, PhD (Columbia, 1989)
RF photonics, integrated optics, fiber optic integrated circuits
Mona Jarrahi, PhD (Stanford, 2007)
Radio frequency (RF), microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz circuits, high-frequency devices and circuits, integrated photonics and optoelectronics
Chandrashekhar J. Joshi, PhD (U. of Hull, England, 1978)
Laser fusion, laser acceleration of particles, nonlinear optics, high-power lasers, plasma physics
Jia-Ming Liu, PhD (Harvard, 1982)
Nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, laser chaos, semiconductor lasers, optoelectronics, photonics, nonlinear and ultrafast processes
Dejan Markovic, PhD (UC Berkeley, 2006)
Implantable neuromodulation devices, domain-specific hardware accelerators, embedded systems, design methodologies
Warren B. Mori, PhD (UCLA, 1987)
Laser and charged particle beam-plasma interactions, advanced accelerator concepts, advanced light sources, laser-fusion, high-energy density science, high-performance computing, plasma physics
Stanley J. Osher, PhD (New York U., 1966)
Scientific computing, applied mathematics
Aydogan Ozcan, PhD (Stanford, 2005)
Computational imaging, deep learning optics, diffractive neural networks, optical computing microscopy, holography, sensing and diagnostics, biophotonics, mobile health, telemedicine, global health
Sudhakar Pamarti, PhD (UC San Diego, 2003)
Analog, mixed-signal, and RF-integrated circuit design; signal processing techniques to improve circuit design
Gregory J. Pottie, PhD (McMaster U., Canada, 1988)
Communication systems and theory with applications to wireless sensor networks
Yahya Rahmat-Samii, PhD (U. Illinois, 1975)
Satellite and ground communications antennas, personal communication antennas including human interactions, antennas for medical applications, cubesat and smallsat antennas, antennas for remote sensing and radio astronomy applications, advanced numerical and global optimization techniques in electromagnetics, frequency selective surfaces and electromagnetic band gap structures, novel integrated and fractal antennas, 3-D printed antennas, near-field antenna measurements and diagnostic techniques, electromagnetic theory
Behzad Razavi, PhD (Stanford, 1992)
Analog, RF, and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, dual-standard RF transceivers, phase-locked systems and frequency synthesizers, A/D and D/A converters, high-speed data communication circuits
Vwani P. Roychowdhury, PhD (Stanford, 1989)
Models of computation including parallel and distributed processing systems, quantum computation and information processing, circuits and computing paradigms for nano-electronics and molecular electronics, adaptive and learning algorithms, nonparametric methods and algorithms for large-scale information processing, combinatorics and complexity, and information theory
Henry Samueli, PhD (UCLA, 1980)
VLSI implementation of signal processing and digital communication systems, high-speed digital integrated circuits, digital filter design
Stefano Soatto, PhD (Caltech, 1996)
Computer vision, systems and control theory, detection and estimation, robotics, system identification, shape analysis, motion analysis, image processing, video processing, autonomous systems
Jason L. Speyer, PhD (Harvard, 1968)
Stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems; guidance, flight control, and flight mechanics
Mani B. Srivastava, PhD (UC Berkeley, 1992)
Wireless networking, embedded computing, networked embedded systems, sensor networks, mobile and ubiquitous computing, low-power and power-aware systems
Paulo Tabuada, PhD (Technical U. Lisbon, Portugal, 2002)
Real-time, networked, embedded control systems; mathematical systems theory including discrete-event, timed, and hybrid systems; geometric nonlinear control; algebraic/categorical methods
Lieven Vandenberghe, PhD (Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium, 1992)
Optimization in engineering and applications in systems and control, circuit design, and signal processing
Mihaela van der Schaar, PhD (Eindhoven U. Technology, Netherlands, 2001)
Multimedia processing and compression, multimedia networking, multimedia communications, multimedia architectures, enterprise multimedia streaming, mobile and ubiquitous computing
John D. Villasenor, PhD (Stanford, 1989)
Communications, signal and image processing, configurable computing systems, and design environments
Kang L. Wang, PhD (MIT, 1970)
Nanoelectronics and optoelectronics, nano and molecular devices, MBE and superlattices, microwave and millimeter electronics, quantum information
Yuanxun Ethan Wang, PhD (U. Texas Austin, 1999)
Smart antennas, RF and microwave power amplifiers, numerical techniques, DSP techniques for microwave systems, phased arrays, wireless and radar systems, microwave integrated circuits
Richard D. Wesel, PhD (Stanford, 1996)
Communication theory and signal processing with particular interests in channel coding, including turbo codes and trellis codes, joint algorithms for distributed communication and detection
Benjamin Williams, PhD (MIT, 2003)
Terahertz and mid-infrared photonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials; quantum-cascade lasers; intersubband devices; transport and optoelectronics in low-dimensional semiconductor and other quantum materials; terahertz spectroscopy and imaging
Chee Wei Wong, ScD (MIT, 2003)
Ultrafast and nonlinear optics, quantum communications and computing, chip-scale optoelectronics, precision measurements and sensing
Jason C.S. Woo, PhD (Stanford, 1987)
Solid-state technology, CMOS and bipolar device/circuit optimization, novel device design, modeling of integrated circuits, VLSI fabrication
C.-K. Ken Yang, PhD (Stanford, 1998)
High-performance VLSI design, digital and mixed-signal circuit design
Frederick G. Allen, PhD (Harvard, 1956)
Semiconductor physics, solid-state devices, surface physics
Francis F. Chen, PhD (Harvard, 1954)
Radio frequency plasma sources and diagnostics for semiconductor processing
Babak Daneshrad, PhD (UCLA, 1993)
Digital VLSI circuits: wireless communication systems, high-performance communications integrated circuits for wireless applications
Harold R. Fetterman, PhD (Cornell, 1968)
Optical millimeter wave interactions, high-frequency optical polymer modulators and applications, solid-state millimeter wave structures and systems, biomedical applications of lasers
Stephen E. Jacobsen, PhD (UC Berkeley, 1968)
Operations research, mathematical programming, nonconvex programming, applications of mathematical programming to engineering and engineering/economic systems
Rajeev Jain, PhD (Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium, 1985)
Design of digital communications and digital signal processing circuits and systems
William J. Kaiser, PhD (Wayne State, 1983)
Research and development of new microsensor and microinstrument technology for industry, science, and biomedical applications; development and applications of new atomic-resolution scanning probe microscopy methods for microelectronic device research
Alan Laub, PhD (U. Minnesota, 1974)
Numerical linear algebra, numerical analysis, condition estimation, computer-aided control system design, high-performance computing
Nhan N. Levan, PhD (Monash U., Australia, 1966)
Control systems, stability and stabilizability, errors in dynamic systems, signal analysis, wavelets, theory and applications
Dee-Son Pan, PhD (Caltech, 1977)
New semiconductor devices for millimeter and RF power generation and amplification, transport in small geometry semiconductor devices, generic device modeling
Izhak Rubin, PhD (Princeton, 1970)
Telecommunications and computer communications systems and networks, mobile wireless networks, multimedia IP networks, UAV/UGV-aided networks, integrated system and network management, C4ISR systems and networks, optical networks, network simulations and analysis, traffic modeling and engineering
Ali H. Sayed, PhD (Stanford, 1992)
Adaptive systems, statistical and digital signal processing, estimation theory, signal processing for communications, linear system theory, interplays between signal processing and control methodologies, fast algorithms for large-scale problems
Frederick W. Schott, PhD (Stanford, 1949)
Electromagnetics, applied electromagnetics
Oscar M. Stafsudd, PhD (UCLA, 1967)
Quantum electronics: IR lasers and nonlinear optics; solid-state: IR detectors
Gabor C. Temes, PhD (U. Ottawa, Canada, 1961)
Analog MOS integrated circuits, signal processing, analog and digital filters
Donald M. Wiberg, PhD (Caltech, 1965)1
Identification and control, especially of aerospace, biomedical, mechanical, and nuclear processes, modeling and simulation of respiratory and cardiovascular systems
Alan N. Willson, Jr., PhD (Syracuse, 1967)
Theory and application of digital signal processing including VLSI implementations, digital filter design, nonlinear circuit theory
Kung Yao, PhD (Princeton, 1965)
Communication theory, signal and array processing, sensor system, wireless communication systems, VLSI and systolic algorithms
Aydin Babakhani, PhD (Caltech, 2008)
Millimeter-wave/terahertz integrated circuits, wirelessly powered single-chip circuits
Sam Emaminejad, PhD (Stanford, 2014)
Biological and chemical sensors, wearable and flexible electronics, MEMS and NEMS fabrication microfluidics, Internet of Things devices, technology development for personalized/precision medicine
Alyson K. Fletcher, PhD (UC Berkeley, 2006)
Network neuroscience, machine learning, complex system theory, graphical models, statistical physics and inference, identification of neural systems
Clarice D. Aiello, PhD (MIT, 2014)
Experimental quantum sensing and control, experimental quantum biology, nanobioelectromagnetics
Sergio Carbajo, PhD (U. Hamburg, Germany, 2015)
Ultrafast and nonlinear optics, quantum optics, accelerators and X-ray free electron lasers, quantum electrodynamics, physical chemistry, light-matter interactions
Xiang Anthony Chen, PhD (Carnegie Mellon, 2017)
Human-computer interaction, sensing and interaction techniques, intelligent interactive systems, computational design and fabrication
Achuta Kadambi, PhD (MIT, 2018)
Computational imaging, computer vision, robotics, medical devices
Jonathan C. Kao, PhD (Stanford, 2016)
Computational neuroscience, neural engineering, machine learning
Ankur Mehta, PhD (UC Berkeley, 2012)
Robotics and electromechanical systems design, fabrication, and control; wireless sensor networks hardware and applications; systems integration
Nader Sehatbakhsh, PhD (Georgia Tech, 2020)
Security and privacy, computer architecture, embedded and IoT systems, hardware security, trustworthy AI/ML
Lin F. Yang, PhD (Johns Hopkins, 2017)
Foundations for AI, machine learning theories and applications, reinforcement learning, statistical learning, big data algorithms, optimization control
Yang Zhang (Carnegie Mellon, 2020)
Human-computer interaction, sensing and interaction techniques, Internet of Things (IoT), digital health, accessibility
Dariush Divsalar, PhD (UCLA, 1978)
Information theory, communication theory, bandwidth-efficient combined coding modulation techniques, spread spectrum systems and mutual user interference cancellation for CDMA, turbo codes, binary and nonbinary LDPC codes, iterative decoding
Dan M. Goebel, PhD (UCLA, 1981)
Electric propulsion, high-efficiency ion and Hall thrusters, cathodes, high-voltage engineering, microwave devices and microwave communications, pulsed power
Diana L. Huffaker, PhD (U. Texas Austin, 1995)
Solid-state nanotechnology, MWIR optoelectronic devices, solar cells, Si photonics, novel materials
Asad M. Madni, PhD (California Coast, 1987)
Development and commercialization of intelligent sensors and systems, RF and microwave instrumentation, signal processing
Ingrid M. Verbauwhede, PhD (Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium, 1991)
Embedded systems, VLSI, architecture and circuit design and design methodologies for applications in security, wireless communications and signal processing
Eli Yablonovitch, PhD (Harvard, 1972)
Optoelectronics, high-speed optical communications, photonic integrated circuits, photonic crystals, plasmonic optics and plasmonic circuits, quantum computing and communication
Chi On Chui, PhD (Stanford, 2004)
Nanoelectronic and optoelectronic devices and technology, heterostructure semiconductor devices, monolithic integration of heterogeneous technology, exploratory nanotechnology
Shervin Moloudi, PhD (UCLA, 2008)
Telecommunication analog and high-frequency circuit design
Zachary Taylor, PhD (UC Santa Barbara, 2009)
Biomedical optics, imaging system design, novel contrast-generation mechanisms
1. Also Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology