2022-2023 Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Areas of Thesis Guidance

Professors

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

Corey W. Arnold, PhD (UCLA, 2009)

Computational medical imaging, machine learning, quantitative phenotyping, disease prediction, graphical modeling, natural language processing, data visualization

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)

Information theory and its applications to learning, security and privacy, cyber-physical systems, wireless networks, bioinformatics, and neuroscience

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)

Coding theory and algorithms with applications including network security and privacy, learning over networks, network coding, wireless networks, and bioinformatics

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, machine learning systems in emerging technologies

Lei He, PhD (UCLA, 1999)

Artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) for health, transportation, and power and water sustainability; programmable logic (FPGA), re-configurable 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

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

Wentai Liu, PhD (U. Michigan, 1983)

Neural engineering

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

Ali Mosleh, PhD, NAE (UCLA, 1981)

Reliability engineering, physics of failure modeling and system life prediction, resilient systems design, prognostics and health monitoring, hybrid systems simulation, theories and techniques for risk and safety analysis

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)

Causal modeling and machine learning for dynamical and interactive systems such as education and Internet of Things

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, 3D 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

Majid Sarrafzadeh, PhD (U. Illinois, 1987)

Computer engineering, embedded systems, VLSI CAD, algorithms

Stefano Soatto, PhD (Caltech, 1996)

Computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomy, augmented reality, and medical data analysis

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

Dwight C. Streit, PhD, NAE (UCLA, 1986)

Properties of electronic materials, characterization techniques, correlation of material and device performance

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

John D. Villasenor, PhD (Stanford, 1989)

Communications, signal processing, networking, computing, and cybersecurity

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

Lixia Zhang, PhD (MIT, 1989)

Computer network, Internet architecture, protocol designs, security and resiliency of large-scale systems

Professors Emeriti

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

Bahram Jalali, PhD (Columbia, 1989)

RF photonics, integrated optics, fiber optic integrated circuits

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

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

Gabor C. Temes, PhD (U. Ottawa, Canada, 1961)

Analog MOS integrated circuits, signal processing, analog and digital filters

Donald M. Wiberg, PhD (Caltech, 1965)*

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

Associate Professors

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

Assistant Professors

Omid Abari, PhD (MIT, 2018)

Internet of Things (IoT), wireless networking, mobile systems, software-hardware systems, human-computer interaction (HCI)

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

Yuan Tian, PhD (Carnegie Mellon, 2017)

Security and privacy, cyber-physical systems, machine learning security and privacy, human-centered security and privacy

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

Adjunct Professors

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

Mark F. Gyure, PhD (University of Colorado, 1990)

Statistical mechanics, phase transitions, inhomogeneous materials, dielectric breakdown

Asad M. Madni, PhD (California Coast, 1987)

Development and commercialization of intelligent sensors and systems, RF and microwave instrumentation, signal processing

Adjunct Associate Professor

Chi On Chui, PhD (Stanford, 2004)

Nanoelectronic and optoelectronic devices and technology, heterostructure semiconductor devices, monolithic integration of heterogeneous technology, exploratory nanotechnology

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Shervin Moloudi, PhD (UCLA, 2008)

Telecommunication analog and high-frequency circuit design

*Also Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology