Faculty

Research Interests
- Game theory
- Communications
- Control
- Networks
- Information processing
- Socio-cyber-physical systems

Research Interests
- Smart cities
- Intelligent surveillance
- Edge-fog-cloud computing
- Internet of Things
- Security & Privacy

Research Interests
- Bioelectronics and Microsystems
- BioMEMS/NEMS
- Microfluidics
- Semiconductors
- Biosensors and Biofuel cells
- Bioenergy
- Nanotechnology

Scott A. Craver
Associate Professor; Undergraduate Director
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Information security
- Cryptology
- Steganography
- Watermarking and DRM systems
- Security engineering

Research Interests
- Wide-band gap devices-based integrated power converter topologies and printable high-frequency magnetic components for solid state transformer
- Energy storage integration in smart grid
- Reliable and high efficiency high-power LED drives for smart commercial lighting
- Electrified transportation
- Single high-frequency stage, high slew rate 48 volts to sub-1 volt point-of-load converters
- Data centers
- Modeling and control of flow batteries

Tara Dhakal
Associate Professor; Director
Electrical and Computer Engineering; Center for Autonomous Solar Power (CASP)
Research Interests
- Renewable energy (photovoltaics)
- Energy storage
- Thin film semiconductor devices
- Atomic layer deposition
- Transparent conductors
- Spintronics (complex magnetic oxides and dilute magnetic semiconductors

Anwar Elhadad
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Wireless sensors
- Low-power IoT
- Applied machine learning

Mark L. Fowler
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Emitter location
- Estimation theory
- Data compression
- Sensor networks
- Electronic warfare systems

Jessica J. Fridrich
Distinguished Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Steganography and steganalysis of digital images
- Digital forensics
- Signal estimation and detection
- Machine learning

David J. Klotzkin
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- High-speed telecommunications lasers
- Free space modulating retroreflectors
- Integrated opto-electronic devices
- Quantum dot lasers and laser dynamics
- Photonic-band-gap based devices
- Organic luminescent devices

Xiaohua (Edward) Li
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Signal processing in communications and wireless networks
- Cognitive radio networks
- Wireless information assurance
- Blind equalization

Research Interests
- Power and energy systems
- Microgrid
- Inverter-based resources
- Safety-critical control
- Load modeling

Vladimir V. Nikulin
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Programs
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Free-space laser communication
- Quantum communication
- Optical sensors
- Holographic analysis and measurements
- Electric drives
- Energy systems

Jungwook (Jay) Paek
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Human organ-on-a-chip and organoid
- BioMEMs and soft robotics
- Microfabrication and biofabrication
- Bio-optics and optofluidics
- Bio-inspired engineering

Ramesh Pokharel
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Douglas H. Summerville
Professor; Department Chair
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Computer engineering
- Network security
- Intrusion detection
- Hardware security

Mengen Wang
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Density functional theory computation
Quantum defects
Energy conversion
Wide-bandgap semiconductors
Quantum materials

Research Interests
- Fault tolerant control

Ziang "John" Zhang
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Power system operation and control
- Energy storage system operation
- Microgrid
- Distributed control
- Complex network

Research Interests
- Neural engineering
- Compressed sensing
- Ultra-low power VLSI
- In-memory computing

Ning Zhou
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Admissions
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Power system dynamic performance
- Phasor measurement unit (PMU) application
- Signal processing/system identification/control system and their application in power systems
- Smart grid
- Integration of renewable generation
- Smart appliances
- Real-time voltage security analysis
Contributing Service Instructors

Carl Betcher
Contributing Service Instructor
Electrical and Computer Engineering


Jack Maynard
Contributing Service Instructor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Emeritus Faculty
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James ConstableProfessor EmeritusElectrical and Computer Engineering
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Victor SkorminDistinguished Service Professor EmeritusElectrical and Computer Engineering |
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Stephen A. ZahorianProfessor EmeritusElectrical and Computer Engineering
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Staff

Sara Grills
Assistant to the Chair
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rachel Crisman
Department Administrative Assistant
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lynn Callahan
Graduate Administrative Assistant
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Senior Employer Relations Coordinator
Watson Career and Alumni Connections