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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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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, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Resilient Autonomous Systems; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Conexant-Broadcom Endowed
Chair; 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Ph.D.
Dean's 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, 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, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Teaching of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: E-learning, data analysis, autonomous vehicle racing, cyberphysical systems
Email: qpdang@uci.edu
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, 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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Salma Elmalaki, Ph.D.
Associate 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 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, 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, 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, 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, Ph.D.
Chancellor's Professor and Henry Samueli Faculty Excellence Professor, 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, 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, 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, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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, 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
Dion Khodagholy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Henry Samueli Faculty Excellence; Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
Research Interests: Bioelectronics, Neural Interface device, Conducting polymers, Systems Neuroscience
Email: dkhodagh@uci.edu
Fadi Kurdahi, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Embedded Computer Systems and Distinguished 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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G.P. Li, Ph.D.
Director of the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility and Distinguished 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, Ph.D.
Associate 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, Ph.D.
Director, UCI Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information
Technology (Calit2), and 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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Fabio Pasqualetti, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Control and network systems, machine learning and computational neuroscience
Email: fabiopas@uci.edu
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, 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, 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, Ph.D.
Associate 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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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, 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, 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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Boris Vaisband, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging, neuromorphic circuits and systems,
and design and optimization methodologies, including power delivery and thermal management,
communication, and floorplanning
Email: boris.vaisband@uci.edu
Zhiying Wang, Ph.D.
Associate 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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Fei Xia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Optical microscopy and sensing, biophotonics and neurophotonics, computational optics,
neuromorphic optical processors and computation, AI for Optics
Email: fei.xia@uci.edu
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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