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Main Research Areas

Biomedical Engineering

Full-time Faculty
Matthew Kay
Murray H. Loew
Thomas J. Manuccia
Jason M. Zara
Vesna Zderic

Research Topics
Pattern recognition, image processing, medical engineering, computer-assisted radiology, applications of mems devices in medicine, ultrasound imaging , optical coherence tomography (OCT), Hardware, Algorithms and Software tools for basic and applied neuroscience, Microelectrode arrays for biological neuronal networks, development of algorithms and software to understand neural firing patterns, simulation of very large biologically realistic neuronal networks, optically switched analog multiplexers, microelectrode array applications in high throughput drug development & toxicology screening, spectroscopy (including nonlinear, photoacoustic, ultra-high resolution, etc.), laser induced chemical processes, novel laser applications in chemistry and biology, laser microscopy, ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery, application of high-intensity focused ultrasound in tumor treatment and hemorrhage control, electrophysiology, cardiac arrhythmias, numerical modeling of cardiac tissue, electrophysiological signal and image processing, and general biophysics and biomedical engineering.

Communications and Networks

Full-time Faculty
Milos Doroslovacki
Hermann J. Helgert
Suresh Subramaniam
Branimir Vojcic

Research Faculty

Neil R. Helm
Joseph N. Pelton

Adjunct Faculty
David Smith

Research Topics
Channel coding for satellite telemetry, integrated modulation and coding schemes, data communication protocol design and verification, optical networks, secure communications, spread spectrum and CDMA, multiuser detection and interference cancellation, MIMO systems, performance and design of wireless networks, cooperative communications, mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks, communication signals and systems, discrete-time signal and system theory

Computer Architecture and Networking

Full-time Faculty
Tarek A. El-Ghazawi

Research Topics
High-Performnace Computing, Reconfigurable Computing, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Advanced Processors, Parallel Computer Architecture, Parallel Programing, Parallel Input/Output, and Experimental Computer Performance Evaluations.

 

Electromagnetics

Full-time Faculty
Edward Della Torre
Walter K. Kahn
Can E. Korman
Roger H. Lang
Martha Pardavi-Horvath
Wasyl Wasylkiwskyj

Research Faculty

Lawrence H. Bennett

Research Topics
Remote sensing, EM propagation in random media, antennas for wirless communications, emitter range and bearing estimation, phased array antennas, numerical electromagnetics, conductivity contrast sensors for mine detection, magnetic devices, magnetic recording, magneto-optical recording ,Preisach modeling, micromagnetic modeling, size and shape dependent effects in magnetism, high frequency properties of nanomagnets, preparation and properties of magnetic nanocomposites, nonlinear effects in ferrite loaded waveguide and resonator structures, magnetic refrigeration.


Microelectronics, VLSI Systems and MEMS

Full-time Faculty
Can E. Korman
Mona E. Zaghloul
Jason M. Zara

Research Faculty
Shahrokh Ahmadi
David J. Nagel

Research Topics
Analog and digital VLSI, MEMS sensors, Chemical Gas Sensors and Biosensors, thin-film surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors and devices, noise in semiconductor devices, numerical modeling of SAW devices, MEMS actuators in medicine and high-resolution medical imaging

Multimedia Processing

Full-time Faculty
Kie-Bum Eom

Research Topics
Speech processing and language identification, texture synthesis for multimedia applications, radar processing, and random field models.

Signal Processing, Systems, and Control

Full-time Faculty
Robert L. Carroll, Jr.
Milos Doroslovacki
Kie-Bum Eom
Nicholas Kyriakopoulos
Ting N. Lee

Research Faculty

Research Topics
Neural networks for signal classification, performance characterization and dependability of complex systems, modeling and performance evaluation of arms control treaties, adaptive control of linear discrete-time nonminimum-phase systems, adaptive inverse control and filtering using wavelets, observer for 2-D non-separable systems, systems theory and network synthesis.