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Lee Swindlehurst

A. Lee Swindlehurst, Ph.D.

Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Signal processing, estimation and detection theory, applications in wireless communications, geo-positioning, radar, sonar, biomedicine
Email: swindle@uci.edu
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Hamid Aghasi

Hamidreza Aghasi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Analog circuit design, mm-wave and terahertz integrated circuits, high resolution integrated sensing and imaging, neuromorphic computation, emerging device technologies
Email: haghasi@uci.edu
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Mohammad Al Faruque

Mohammad Al Faruque, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Emulex Career Development Chair
Research Interests: Cyberphysical systems, internet of things, embedded systems, cyberphysical systems security
Email: alfaruqu@uci.edu
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 Ender Ayanoglu

Ender Ayanoglu, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Communication systems, communication theory, communication networks
Email: ayanoglu@uci.edu
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Nader Bagherzadeh

Nader Bagherzadeh, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Computer Science
Research Interests: Parallel processing, computer architecture, computer graphics, memory systems, 3D integrated circuits, heterogeneous computing, low-power processing
Email: nader@uci.edu
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Ozdal Boyraz

Ozdal Boyraz, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Integrated optics, silicon photonics, optical communications systems and microwave photonics
Email: oboyraz@uci.edu
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Peter Burke

Peter Burke, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Nano-electronics, bio-nanotechnology
Email: pburke@uci.edu

Hung Cao

Hung Cao, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Biosensors and bioelectronics, cardiovascular engineering, neural engineering
Email: hungcao@uci.edu
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Filippo Capolino

Filippo Capolino, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Optics/electromagnetics in nanostructures and sensors, antennas/microwaves, radio frequency and wireless systems
Email: f.capolino@uci.edu
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Aparna Chandramowlishwaran

Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: High-performance computing, domain-specific compilers, algorithm-architecture co-design, data analysis, scientific computing
Email: amowli@uci.edu
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Quoc-Viet Dang

Quoc-Viet Dang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Teaching of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: E-learning, data analysis, autonomous vehicle racing, cyberphysical systems
Email: qpdang@uci.edu

Franco De Flaviis

Franco De Flaviis, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Microwave systems, wireless communications, electromagnetic circuit simulations
Email: franco@uci.edu
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Rainer Doemer

Rainer Doemer, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: System-level design, embedded computer systems, design methodologies, specification and modeling languages, advanced parallel simulation, integration of hardware and software systems
Email: doemer@uci.edu
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Magnus Egerstedt

Magnus Egerstedt, Ph.D.

Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Control theory and robotics, control and coordination of complex networks, multirobot systems, mobile sensor networks and cyber-physical systems
Email: magnus@uci.edu

Salma Elmalaki

Salma Elmalaki, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Teaching Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Mobile computing, pervasive autonomous systems, personalized computing, and internet-of-things (IoT)
Email: salma.elmalaki@uci.edu

Rahim Esfandyarpour

Rahim Esfandyar-Pour, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Nanotechnology & nanoscience, microelectromechanical systems & nanoelectromechanical systems, flexible electronics & wearables, sensors & microfluidics, microelectronics circuits & systems, internet of things biodevices, personalized medicine, point-of-care diagnostics
Email: rahimes@uci.edu
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Jean-Luc Gaudiot

Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Parallel processing, computer architecture, processor architecture
Email: gaudiot@uci.edu
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Michael Green

Michael Green, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit design, broadband circuit design, theory of nonlinear circuits
Email: mgreen@uci.edu
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Glenn Healey

Glenn Healey, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning, data science, sabermetrics, physical modeling, computer vision, image processing
Email: ghealey@uci.edu

Payam Heydari

Payam Heydari, Ph.D.

Chancellor's Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Design and analysis of analog, radio-frequency, millimeter-wave and terahertz integrated circuits
Email: payam@uci.edu
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Sitao Huang

Sitao Huang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Hardware accelerators, programming languages and compilers for accelerators, high-level synthesis, heterogeneous computing
Email: sitaoh@uci.edu
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Syed Jafar

Syed Jafar, Ph.D.

Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Wireless communication and information theory
Email: syed@uci.edu
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Hamid Jafarkhani

Hamid Jafarkhani, Ph.D.

Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Conexant-Broadcom Endowed Chair
Research Interests: Communication theory, signal processing and machine learning with emphases on coding, wireless communications, image processing and wireless networks
Email: hamidj@uci.edu
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Pramod Khargonekar

Pramod Khargonekar, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Systems and control theory, learning and intelligent systems, applications to renewable energy and smart grid, neural engineering and economics, leadership and creativity, technology and society
Email: pramod.khargonekar@uci.edu

Fadi Kurdahi

Fadi Kurdahi, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Embedded Computer Systems and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Computer Science
Research Interests: Embedded and cyber-physical systems, very-large-scale integration system design, design automation of digital systems
Email: kurdahi@uci.edu
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Hyoukjun Kwon

Hyoukjun Kwon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: computer architecture, machine learning, hardware accelerator for deep learning, compiler for accelerators, mapping and dataflow optimization on accelerators, cross-stack optimization of AI systems, network-on-chips
Email: hyoukjun.kwon@uci.edu

G.P. Li

G.P. Li, Ph.D.

Director of the UCI Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), Director of the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Micro/nano technology for sensors and actuators, internet of things (IoT), smart manufacturing, biomedical devices and millimeter-wave wireless communication
Email: gpli@uci.edu
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Zhou Li

Zhou Li, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Data-driven security analytics, internet measurement, side-channel analysis, internet of things security
Email: zhou.li@uci.edu

Athina Markopoulou

Athina Markopoulou, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Information and Computer Sciences
Research Interests: Networking: including network protocols, network measurement and analysis, mobile systems and mobile data analysis, network security and privacy
Email: athina@uci.edu
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Henry Samueli

Henry Samueli, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Digital signal processing, communications systems engineering, complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor integrated circuit design for applications in high-speed data transmission systems
Email: engineeringdean@uci.edu

Terry Sanger

Terry Sanger, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, CHOC; Vice Chair of Research for Pediatrics, UCI School of Medicine, Staff Physician CHOC department of Neurology
Research Interests: Computational neuroscience, machine learning, failure models of biological network computing, robotic models of neurological disorders, dystonia, childhood movement disorders, biological signal processing, adaptive control, stochastic systems
Email: tsanger@uci.edu

Maxim Shcherbakov

Maxim Shcherbakov, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, nonlinear and quantum optics, optics-based telecommunications and computing, laser physics
Email: maxim.shcherbakov@uci.edu
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Yanning Shen

Yanning Shen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning, data science, network science and statistical-signal processing
Email: yannings@uci.edu
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Phillip Sheu

Chen-Yu (Phillip) Sheu, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering; Computer Science
Research Interests: Semantic computing, robotic computing, artificial intelligence, biomedical computing, multimedia computing
Email: psheu@uci.edu
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Yasser Shoukry

Yasser Shoukry, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Resilience, safety, security and privacy of artificial intelligence (AI), controlled cyber-physical systems (CPS), internet-of-things (IoT), and robotic systems
Email: yshoukry@uci.edu
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Keyue Smedley

Keyue Smedley, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Power electronics, renewables, energy storage and grid stabilization
Email: smedley@uci.edu
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Peter Tseng

Peter Tseng, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Microelectromechanical systems, wearable technology, materials-by-design, bioelectromagnetism, nanotechnology
Email: tsengpc@uci.edu
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Zhiying Wang

Zhiying Wang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Information theory, coding theory for data storage, compression and computation for genomic information
Email: zhiying@uci.edu
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Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh

Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Communications networks
Email: hyousefi@uci.edu
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