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

Chair Parameswaran Ramanathan

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

Barmish, B. Ross - Professor

Control systems -- Robustness -- Optimization

Barner, James R. - Assistant Faculty Associate

Blick, Robert H. - Lynn H. Matthias Professor II 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

Booske, John H. - Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor

electromagnetic field interactions with materials -- microwave and RF processing of materials (e.g., ceramics, semiconductors); see Using microwaves to speed materials processing, UW-Madison College of Engineering Annual Report, 2000. -- rapid thermal annealing of silicon and wafer bonding -- microwave vacuum electronics (especially linearity and understanding mechanisms of nonlinear distortions) -- micromachined terahertz vacuum electronic devices -- innovative teaching methods, especially for electromagnetics -- computer visualization for teaching electromagnetics
Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing, 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

high-power,coherent semiconductor diode lasers -- semiconductor lasers based on active photonic crystals -- intersubband-transition, quantum-confinement emitters
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

Cerrina, Franco - Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering

Biotechnology: DNA synthesis, DNA microarrays, oligomer synthesis, synthetic biology, DNA arrays, stem cells, and gene synthesis -- Nanotechnology: nanostructure fabrications, processing, and patterning -- Lithography: Optical lithography, electron beam lithography, extreme ultraviolet lithography, modeling, masks, and imaging -- Optics: Modeling, design, analysis, systems and components, lithography, and imaging theory -- Semiconductors: Fabrication, process modeling, and process design -- X-rays: Optics, modeling, synchrotron radiation, applications to imaging, microscopy, lithography, and spectroscopy
Center for NanoTechnology, Genome Center, Materials Science Program

Cobb, Daniel - Associate Professor

analog and digital control theory -- robust control of high bandwidth systems -- singular perturbation theory -- singular dynamical systems

Compton, Katherine - Assistant Professor

reconfigurable computer architectures -- automated design and operating system support for reconfigurable computing -- systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) -- VLSI computer aided design

Davoodi, Azadeh - Assistant Professor

Design Automation of Deep Submicron VLSI circuits in the presence of manufacturing-induced variations: 1) robust analysis with incomplete variation/correlation information; 2) analysis with non-Gaussian variation modeling; 3) efficient analysis with high dimension of variation sources [collaboration with Statistics department]; 4) finding critical timing paths under variations and intersecting areas between testing and statistical static timing analysis. -- Physical synthesis: interactions between logic synthesis and physical domains: 1) for consideration of interconnect effects on delay and congestion; 2) for accounting for within-die variations and spatial correlations. -- Parallelism for IC-CAD: 1) studying advances in parallel optimization with application to IC-CAD problems [collaboration with ISyE department], 2) parallel IC-CAD for various computing environments (i.e., grid of heterogeneous multi-core machines), 3) studying advantages of parallelism: potential for generating optimal solution for NP-hard CAD problems, improve scalability with runtime and quality of solution. -- Power-awareness and power-management techniques.
Computer Engineering

DeMarco, Christopher L. - Professor

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

Dobson, Ian - Professor

complex systems -- self-organized criticality -- nonlinear dynamics -- cascading failure and risk analysis -- bifurcations -- electric power system stability -- oscillations -- blackouts
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

Gubner, John A. - Associate Professor

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

Hagness, Susan C. - Professor

computational electromagnetics -- FDTD modeling -- bioelectromagnetics -- microwave imaging, sensing, and therapeutic techniques for biological and medical applications -- ultrawideband microwave breast cancer detection -- wideband antennas -- dielectric spectroscopy -- time-domain inverse scattering -- biophotonics
Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center

Hiskens, Ian A. - Professor

Power system analysis; nonlinear and hybrid system dynamics and control; computational techniques for inverse problems.
Power Systems Engineering Research Center

Hitchon, William N. - Professor

plasma processing -- computational modeling -- semiconductors
Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing, Materials Science Program

Hu, Yu Hen - Professor

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 - Assistant 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, Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics

Knezevic, Irena - Assistant Professor

simulation of electronic and optoelectronic semiconductor devices; thermal transport and semiconductor-based thermoelectrics -- quantum transport theory: decoherence in nanostructures, transient and high-frequency behavior of nanostructures -- quantum information
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Materials Science Program

Kursun, Volkan - Assistant Professor

Low-power, low-voltage, and high-performance integrated circuit design -- Power density and reliability issues in scaled nanometer CMOS integrated circuits -- Self-sustaining integrated systems -- Energy harvesting power supplies -- On-chip noise analysis and noise suppression techniques -- Modeling of nanometer semiconductor devices -- Parameter variation tolerant integrated circuit design - design for manufacturability -- Emerging integrated circuit technologies
Computer Engineering

Lesieutre, Bernard - Associate Professor

Lipasti, Mikko H. - Associate Professor

computer architecture -- instruction-level parallelism -- compiler optimization -- runtime systems -- operating systems
Computer Engineering

Lipo, Thomas A. - Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines

power electronics -- adjustable speed drives -- electric machines -- ac motor drive systems
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium, Wisconsin Power Electronics Research Center

Ma, Zhenqiang (Jack) - Associate Professor

Fast/RF flexible electronics, high-speed thin film transistors, MMIC circuits transferrable to flexible or other foreign substrates for radar and communications, hybrid integration of organic and inorganic flexible electronics -- SiGe HBT and RF CMOS device physics and applications in high frequency/mm-wave power amplification -- Single-crystal and polycrystalline semiconductor nanomembrane physics and applications, including displays, flexible solar cells, energy conversion, environment protection, imaging, information storage, lighting, sensing, health care and bio devices -- Si nanophotonics, high-speed multispectral imaging -- CMOS-compatible optoelectronic devices and OEIC -- 3-D integration, heterogeneous integration, MEMS/NEMS integration with CMOS -- III-V heterostructure device and application -- Nanoscale SiGe bipolar transistors and quantum effect devices
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Materials Science Program, 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 -- Guided wave photonic devices and circuits -- Quantum optics -- Fiber optic mesh networks -- Far infrared (terahertz) generation and spectrocopy
Materials Science Program

Megerian, Seapahn - Assistant Professor

Networked Embedded Systems -- Wireless Sensor Networks -- Smart Spaces and Environment Control -- Automated Design Space Exploration -- Application Specific Compilation -- Watermarking and Computational Security

Milenkovic, Paul H. - Associate Professor

digital signal processing -- acoustic analysis of speech -- speech synthesis
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research, Waisman Center

Milicic, Srdjan - Assistant Faculty Associate

Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics

Morrow, Michael G. - Faculty Associate

Muetze, Annette - Assistant Professor

Electric machines -- Electric drives -- Power electronics

Nowak, Robert D. - McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering

statistical signal processing, machine learning, imaging, network science, and applications in computational biology, medicine and communications.

Saluja, Kewal K. - Professor

Design for testability -- Built-in self-test -- Computer architecture -- VLSI design and testing -- Fault-tolerant computing

Sayeed, Akbar M. - Associate Professor

wireless communications, multi-dimensional communication theory, statistical signal processing, time-frequency/time-scale signal representations, and applications in networks

Scharer, John E. - Professor

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

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 biocompatible surfaces and directed differentiation of stem cells
Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing, HSX Plasma Laboratory, Materials Science Program, Wisconsin Plasma Processing and Technology Research Consortium

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. - Professor

statistical signal processing algorithm development and analysis -- signal processing for sensor arrays -- biomedical applications of signal processing -- signal processing for study of brain electrical activity from scalp measurements of electric and magnetic fields -- signal processing for microwave breast cancer detection, monitoring, and treatment

Venkataramanan, Giri - Associate Professor

Electrical power conversion -- AC power flow control -- Design of power converters -- Distributed generation -- Power converter architecture -- power converter packaging
Center for Power Electronics Systems, Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium

Wendt, Amy E. - Professor, Co-chair

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

Wiley, John D. - Chancellor

metal films for semiconductors -- electrical properties of materials -- statistics of impurity clustering -- semiconductor devices -- X-ray lithography
Center for NanoTechnology

Adjunct or Faculty Affiliates

Bach, C. Eric - Professor

Banerjee, Suman - Assistant Professor

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

Blasko, Vladimir - Adjunct Professor

power electronics -- adjustable-speed drives -- control of power electronics/drives
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium

Hill, Mark D. - Professor

computer architecture -- performance evaluation -- computer memory system design -- parallel computing

Lorenz, Robert D. - Consolidated Papers Professor of Controls Engineering

Control of electromagnetic actuators and power electronics -- Integration of sensing and control in power conversion -- Design for sensing and control using multi-physics integration -- Physics-based multivariable control design methodologies
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium

Shkel, Yuri M. - Assistant Professor

field controllable "smart" materials -- macro- and micro- electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) -- electrostriction, magnetostriction in sensor and actuator applications -- rheology of composite materials in electromagnetic field
Polymer Processing Research Group, Rheology Research Center

Sohi, Gurindar S. - Professor

computer architecture -- non-numeric processing -- VLSI design -- parallel processing

Tompkins, Willis J. - Professor

microcomputer-based biomedical instrumentation -- real-time biomedical digital signal processing -- biomedical computing
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research

Wood, David A. - Professor

computer architecture -- performance evaluation -- VLSI systems design -- parallel processing -- computer memory system design

Emeritus

Alvarado, Fernando L. - Emeritus Professor

power systems -- computer applications -- power system security -- computational engineering -- sparse matrices
Power Systems Engineering Research Center

Lasseter, Robert H. - Emeritus Professor

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

Novotny, Donald W. - Emeritus Professor

industrial controls -- machine control concepts -- power electronics -- electrical machines -- motor drives
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium, Wisconsin Power Electronics Research Center

Smith, James E. - Emeritus Professor

Computer Architecture -- High performance processor and system implementations -- Virtual Machines -- Power efficient processors

Vernon, Ronald J. - Emeritus Professor

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

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