Electrical and Computer Engineering

Faculty and Instructional Staff

Booske, John H. - Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor
Electromagnetic fields and waves -- Microwave sources -- Microwave effects -- Electric fields in biology -- Effective teaching and learning
Materials Science Program
Wisconsin Collaboratory for Enhanced Learning (WisCEL), Director
John H. Booske
Chair
John H. Booske

Allie, Mark C. - Associate Faculty Associate

Anderson, David T. - Professor
Plasmas and Controlled Fusion -- Electromagnetic Fields and Waves -- Magnet Design -- Plasma transport and heating in toroidal systems
HSX Plasma Laboratory

Armstrong, Carter - Professor (Adjunct)

Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi - Professor (Affiliate)

Bach, C. Eric - Professor (Affiliate)

Banerjee, Suman - Associate Professor (Affiliate)
Networking and Distributed Systems; protocols, algorithms and architectures of such systems, peer-to-peer systems, multicast services, network security, services for mobile and wireless networks and network measurements

Barmish, B. Ross - Professor
Control Theory in Financial Markets, Financial Engineering, Robust Systems, Applied Functional Analysis and Probability, Optimization and Convex Analysis

Behdad, Nader - Assistant Professor
Applied Electromagnetics and RF/Microwaves -- Biomedical Applications of RF/Microwaves -- Biomimetic Concepts in Applied Electromagnetics -- Antennas, Periodic Structures, Frequency Selective Surfaces, and Phased Array Antennas

Blick, Robert H. - Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering
Electro-mechanical structures on the micro- and nanoscale (NEMS & MEMS) -- Single electron, single spin circuits and devices -- Information processing in quantum and biofunctionalized circuits
Genome Center, Materials Science Center, Materials Science Program

Boston, Nigel - Professor
Cryptography -- Coding theory -- Biometrics -- Digital watermarking -- Applications of algebra to EE, CS, and Math Dept.

Botez, Dan - Philip Dunham Reed Professor
Active Photonic Crystal semiconductor lasers -- Quantum-cascade lasers and intersubband quantum-box lasers -- High-power, spatially coherent semiconductor lasers
Materials Science Program, Reed Center for Photonics

Bucklew, James A. - Professor
Simulation of communication systems and networks; rare event simulation; digital and wireless communication systems

Cobb, Daniel - Associate Professor
analog and digital control theory -- robust control of high bandwidth systems -- singular perturbation theory -- singular dynamical systems

Davoodi, Azadeh - Associate Professor
Automation techniques for post-silicon debug of timing errors -- Improving IC-CAD via algorithmic parallelism -- Design Automation in the presence of manufacturing-induced variations -- Physical design and synthesis for optimizing timing, power and manufacturability
Computer Engineering

DeMarco, Christopher L. - Grainger Professor of Power Engineering
control systems, power systems -- electric power system stability -- nonlinear dynamics -- computational complexity in computer-aided control analysis
Power Systems Engineering Research Center, Wisconsin Power Electronics Research Center

Draper, Stark C - Assistant Professor
signal processing, communications, code design, biometrics, security, streaming media, estimation, information theory, queuing, networking

Fredette, Steven - Assistant Professor (Adjunct)
Power electronics hardware and control -- Electric machines and control -- Alternative energy such as wind and solar PV

Gubner, John A. - Professor
Ultra-wideband communications, point processes and shot noise, subspace methods in statistical signal processing, information theory.

Hagness, Susan C. - Philip Dunham Reed Professor
bioelectromagnetics -- computational electromagnetics -- dielectric spectroscopy -- FDTD theory and applications -- microwave diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for biological and medical applications -- microwave inverse scattering -- nanoelectromagnetics -- wideband and multi-band antennas -- ultrawideband microwave breast imaging -- STEM outreach -- first-year engineering education (see the video about our Grand Challenges course posted on Science360)
Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center

Han, Yehui - Assistant Professor
Power Electronics and Renewable Energy -- Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) -- Electromechanical Energy Conversion -- RF, Analog and Digital Electronics
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium

Hill, Mark D. - Professor (Affiliate)
computer architecture -- performance evaluation -- computer memory system design -- parallel computing

Hitchon, William N. - Professor
plasma processing -- computational modeling -- semiconductors
Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing, Materials Science Program

Hu, Yu Hen - Professor, Vice Chair of Operations
Multimedia signal processing: fast algorithms, parallel VLSI architectures, and multi-processor synthesis methodology, artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic applications, computer-aided design, parallel processing
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research

Jahns, Thomas M. - Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines
power electronics -- electric machines and actuators -- adjustable-speed drives -- brushless motor drives and generators -- automotive and aerospace electric systems
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium

Jiang, Hongrui - Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
MicroElectroMechanical Systems -- Microsensors and microactuators -- BioMEMS and micro-optics -- Microfluidics -- Lab on chips -- Biomimetics and bioinspiration
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research, Materials Science Program, UW Eye Research Institute

Kim, Nam Sung - Assistant Professor
Reliable, Process-Variation Tolerant, and Low-Power Computer Architecture and VLSI Computing System Design -- Nanoscale Fault-Tolerant Digital Circuits -- Circuit-Microarchitecture Co-Design -- Biomimetic Circuits

Knezevic, Irena - Associate Professor
Simulation of electronic and optoelectronic semiconductor devices -- Nanowire thermoelectrics. Heat transport on the nanoscale -- Decoherence and relaxation in nanostructures; transient and high-frequency response -- Transport in curved 2D electron systems -- Solid-state-based quantum information processing
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Materials Science Program

Krachey, Joseph S. - Assistant Faculty Associate
Embedded Systems Design I am not currently involved in research.

Lesieutre, Bernard - Professor

Lipasti, Mikko H. - Philip Dunham Reed Professor
computer architecture -- instruction-level parallelism -- compiler optimization -- runtime systems -- operating systems
Computer Engineering

Ludois, Daniel - Assistant Professor
Power electronics -- Electric machines -- Non-contact power transfer -- Sustainable engineering technologies and practices

Ma, Zhenqiang (Jack) - Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
High-speed RF devices and circuits, optoelectronic devices and nanophotonics -- Semiconductor materials processing and heterogeneous integration -- Flexible electronics, flexible optoelectronics and flexible photonics -- Energy conversion semiconductor devices -- Bioelectronics and biomimetics -- Semiconductor device physics -- Power electronics
Materials Science Program, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, UW Energy Institute, Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics

Mawst, Luke J. - Professor
III/V compound semiconductor materials and devices -- metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) growth of semiconductors -- semiconductor lasers
Materials Science Program, Reed Center for Photonics

McCaughan, Leon - Professor
Nonlinear optics -- Far infrared (terahertz) generation and spectrocopy -- Guided wave photonic devices and circuits -- Quantum optics
Materials Science Program

Milenkovic, Paul H. - Associate Professor
digital signal processing -- acoustic analysis of speech -- speech synthesis
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research, Waisman Center

Milicic, Srdjan - Associate Faculty Associate

Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics

Morrow, Katherine L. - Associate Professor
reconfigurable computer architectures -- automated design for reconfigurable computing -- operating system support for heterogeneous computing -- systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) -- VLSI computer aided design

Morrow, Michael G. - Faculty Associate

Nowak, Robert D. - McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering
statistical signal processing, machine learning, imaging, network science, and applications in computational biology, medicine and communications.

Ramanathan, Parameswaran - Professor, Vice Chair of Infrastructure
Wireless and Wireline Networks -- Mobile Computing -- Real-time Systems -- Fault-tolerant Computing -- Parallel Processing -- Distributed Systems

Recht, Benjamin - Assistant Professor (Affiliate)

Saluja, Kewal K. - Professor
Design for testability -- Built-in self-test -- Computer architecture -- VLSI design and testing -- Fault-tolerant computing

Sanders, Scott T. - Associate Professor (Affiliate)
swept-wavelength sources -- advanced spectrometers -- hyperspectral imaging -- optical sensors -- piston and aeropropulsion engines
Engine Research Center

Sankaralingam, Karthikeyan - Assistant Professor (Affiliate)

Sarlioglu, Bulent - Assistant Professor (Affiliate)
Electric machines, drives, power electronics -- Electric actuation systems -- Automotive, aerospace, naval and renewable energy applications -- Complex and interdisciplinary power system architectures
Engineering Professional Development, Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium

Sayeed, Akbar M. - Professor
wireless communications, wireless sensing, multipath channels, multi-dimensional communication theory, multi-dimensional signal representations, statistical signal processing, information theory, learning theory, and applications in networked communication and sensing

Schulte, Michael J. - Associate Professor
Embedded Systems -- Computer Architecture -- Computer Arithmetic -- Reconfigurable Computing -- Domain-Specific Processor Design
Computer Engineering

Sethares, William A. - Professor
modeling and adaptation in signal processing, acoustics, and control

Shohet, J. Leon - Professor
plasma-aided manufacturing -- controlled fusion -- nonlinear science -- effects of vacuum ultraviolet radiation on the processing of electronic materials -- biotechnology, especially biomaterials and directed differentiation of stem cells
Biotechnology Training Program, Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing, HSX Plasma Laboratory, Materials Science Center, Materials Science Program, Plasma Processing and Technology Laboratory, Synchrotron Radiation Center

Sohi, Gurindar S. - Professor (Affiliate)
computer architecture -- non-numeric processing -- VLSI design -- parallel processing

Tompkins, Willis J. - Associate Chair of the BME Undergraduate Program and Professor (Affiliate)
microcomputer-based biomedical instrumentation -- real-time biomedical digital signal processing -- biomedical computing
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research

van der Weide, Daniel - Professor
Multifunctional scanned probe microscopy -- Localized spectroscopy of biological and low-dimensional electronic systems -- Terahertz circuits and devices
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research, Materials Science Program

Van Veen, Barry D. - Lynn H. Matthias Professor
statistical signal processing algorithm development and analysis -- signal processing for sensor arrays -- biomedical applications of signal processing -- signal processing for study of brain networks from electric and magnetic field measurements -- signal processing for microwave breast cancer detection, monitoring, and treatment

Varghese, Tomy - Professor (Affiliate)
Elastography -- In-vivo strain imaging -- Signal & Image Processing Applications in Medical Imaging -- Ultrasound Tissue Characterization
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research

Venkataramanan, Giri - Professor
Electrical power conversion -- AC power flow control -- Design of power converters -- Distributed generation -- Power converter architecture -- power converter packaging
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium

Wendt, Amy E. - Professor
plasma processing of materials -- thin-film deposition -- plasma etching -- plasma source design -- modeling and diagnostics -- plasma-aided manufacturing -- plasma generation -- plasma-surface interaction
Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing, Materials Science Program

Wood, David A. - Professor (Affiliate)
computer architecture -- performance evaluation -- VLSI systems design -- parallel processing -- computer memory system design

Yu, Zongfu - Assistant Professor

Zhang, Li - Assistant Professor (Affiliate)

Zhang, Xinyu - Assistant Professor
Wireless networking -- Mobile systems and applications -- MAC/PHY cross-layer design -- Software radio -- Smart grid networking and communications -- Network modeling, analysis and optimization


Emeritus Faculty


Alvarado, Fernando L. - Professor Emeritus
power systems -- computer applications -- power system security -- computational engineering -- sparse matrices
Power Systems Engineering Research Center

Lasseter, Robert H. - Professor Emeritus
Distributed resources -- Restructuring of electrical power system -- Application of power electronics to utility systems -- Simulation methods -- Power electronic circuits and control -- HVDC, SVC, FACTS and custom power applications
Power Systems Engineering Research Center, Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium

Lipo, Thomas A. - Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines Emeritus
power electronics -- adjustable speed drives -- electric machines -- ac motor drive systems
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium, Wisconsin Power Electronics Research Center

Lumelsky, Vladimir J. - Professor Emeritus
robotics -- pattern recognition -- kinematics -- human spatial reasoning and motion planning -- sensor-based intelligent systems -- sensor-based navigation and localization -- Sensor-based navigation and localization -- control theory, industrial automation -- computer vision

Novotny, Donald W. - Professor Emeritus
industrial controls -- machine control concepts -- power electronics -- electrical machines -- motor drives
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium, Wisconsin Power Electronics Research Center

Scharer, John E. - Professor Emeritus
Electromagnetic wave propagation and antennas for communications -- Free-electron and excimer lasers -- Microwave and millimeter wave amplifiers -- Computer simulation of and experiments on plasma waves and radiofrequency plasma sources for materials processing -- Radiofrequency wave antenna coupling, heating and current drive in fusion plasmas
Center for Plasma Theory and Computation

Smith, James E. - Professor Emeritus
Computer Architecture -- High performance processor and system implementations -- Virtual Machines -- Power efficient processors

Vernon, Ronald J. - Professor Emeritus
electromagnetic fields and waves, microwaves -- high-power microwave transmission and mode conversion systems -- Vlasov converters -- antennas -- propagation in anisotropic media -- interaction of microwaves with materials -- semiconductor physics