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  Graduate School–New Brunswick 2014–2016 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Electrical and Computer Engineering 332  

Electrical and Computer Engineering 332

Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Zoran Gajic, 134 Electrical Engineering Building, Busch Campus (848-445-2578)

Email: ece_grad@ece.rutgers.edu

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Ioannis P. Androulakis, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D, Purdue
Bioinformatics; systems engineering

Waheed Uz Zaman Bajwa, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
High-dimensional inference and inverse problems; compressed sensing; statistical signal processing; wireless communications; applications in biological sciences; complex networked systems; radar and image processing

Grigore C. Burdea, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., New York
Robotic complex sensors; assembly with task unknowns; compliance

Michael L. Bushnell, Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
Computer engineering; computer-aided design of VLSI integrated circuit: testing, formal verification, and low-power design

Michael Caggiano, Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
High performance and microwave IC device packaging; electronic circuits

Tapan J. Chakraborty, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Advanced Wireless Technology Laboratory, Alcatel-Lucent; Ph.D., Rutgers
Design, verification, and test of systems-on-a-chip for communications systems

Sang-Wook Cheong, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Experimental condensed-matter physics and material science

Manish Chhowalla, Professor of Materials Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Cambridge
Carbon nanotubes; amorphous carbon; nanotubes for field emission

Dorin L. Comaniciu, Siemens Corporate Technology; Ph.D., Rutgers
Medical imaging; scanner automation; cardiac modeling; image-guided surgery; biomedical informatics; computer vision; and machine learning

Kristin Dana, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Columbia
Computer vision and computer graphics; surface modeling and texture analysis

David G. Daut, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Communications and information processing: digital-communication system design and analysis; image coding and transmission

Leonard C. Feldman, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Gerald J. Foschini, Bell Laboratories; Ph.D., Stevens
Wireless and optical communications

Richard H. Frenkiel, Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; M.S., Rutgers
Wireless systems architectures

Zoran R. Gajic, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Michigan State
Systems and control; wireless communications

Larry J. Greenstein, Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology
Wireless communications

Marco O. Gruteser, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Colorado
Mobile computing; sensor networks; privacy and security

Stephen Jose Hanson, Professor of Psychology, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Learning theory and experiment; connectionist models of human categorization and object recognition

Medhi Javanmard, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Stanford
Nanobiotechnology; bioMEMS; point-of-care diagnostics; biomarker detection

Jaeseok Jeon, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Integrated circuit devices and technology

Shantenu Jha, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Syracuse
High-performance and distributed computing; computational science and engineering; data-intensive computing; software engineering and distributed cyber-infrastructure

Wei Jiang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Photonic crystals; silicon photonics; nanophotonics; nanoimprint

John K. Li, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Circulatory dynamics; instrumentation; physiological control

Janne Lindqvist, Assistant Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Helsinki University of Technology
Solving important societal problems by applying soft nudges to human behavior using computer systems; systems security and privacy, especially in usable security for mobile systems and pervasive computing; automotive computing

Michael Littman, Chair and Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
Machine learning; planning; artificial intelligence

Yicheng Lu, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Colorado
Metal-semiconductor contacts; thin dielectric files; VLSI processing

Anant Madabhushi, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Medical image analysis; machine learning; computer-aided diagnosis

Richard Mammone, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., CUNY
Digital signal processing: image restoration; speech recognition; medical imaging

Narayan B. Mandayam, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rice
Communication theory; spread spectrum; wireless systems; multiaccess protocols; wireless communications

Ivan Marsic, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Distributed systems for collaborative/information processing and learning; image reconstruction; machine vision

Richard Martin, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
High-performance network design and evaluation; parallel architecture and languages; high throughput I/O systems

Sigrid R. McAfee, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of New York
Solid-state electronics: deep levels in semiconductors; molecular beam epitaxy and MO-CVD Gallium Arsenide, AlGaAs, and GaAs on silicon

Peter Meer, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; D.Sc., Technion (Israel)
Computer vision; image processing; pattern recognition

Mor Naaman, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, SC&I; Ph.D., Stanford
Social media; interactive multimedia systems; mobile and ubiquitous information systems; location-aware computing

Laleh Najafizadeh, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Cognitive neuroscience; functional brain imaging; diffuse optical brain imaging; brain connectivity

Seongshik Oh, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Illinois
Experimental condensed-matter physics

Sophocles J. Orfanidis, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Yale
Adaptive signal processing; spectrum estimation; neural networks

Manish Parashar, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Syracuse
Parallel and distributed computing; software engineering

Athina Petropulu, Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Northeastern
Statistical signal processing; wireless communications; wireless networks; MIMO systems; MIMO radar; biomedical signal processing

Dario Pompili, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Sensor networks; wireless internet

Narindra N. Puri, Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Systems and controls; optimal adaptive control systems

Lawrence R. Rabiner, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Digital signal and speech processing; communications; networking

Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Architecture, design, and prototyping of future computing systems, both wired and wireless; mobile computing

Christopher Rose, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dynamic behavior of multielement networks: communications and neural

Anand Sarwate, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph. D., California (Berkeley)

Peddapullaiah Sannuti, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Illinois
Communication and control systems: singular perturbation analysis of Kalman filter with weak measurement noise

Kuang Sheng, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Heriot-Watt (UK)
Solid-state power ICs, electronics, and devices; novel devices and SOI technology

George K. Shoane, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Binocular vision; vergence; accommodation model; amblyopia

Deborah E. Silver, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Princeton
Visualization; computer graphics; computational geometry; numerical analysis

Edwardo D. Sontag, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Florida
Linear and nonlinear control; neural networks; feedback design

Predrag Spasojevic, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Texas A&M
Wireless communications; sequence estimation; multiple access; multiuser detection

Wade Trappe, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Maryland
Multimedia and multicast information security; signal, image, and video processing

Jeffrey Walling, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Washington
Circuit theory; analog/RF/digital integrated circuits; CMOS; biocompatible circuits

Joseph Wilder, Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Image processing; pattern recognition; machine vision

Rebecca Wright, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Director, DIMACS; Ph.D., Yale
Security; privacy; cryptography; fault-tolerant distributed computing

Roy D. Yates, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Data networks; queuing; stochastic processes

Jingang Yi, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Autonomous robotic systems; dynamic systems and control; mechatronics; automation science and engineering

Yangyong Zhang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Operating systems; parallel and distributed systems; networking

Jian H. Zhao, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
Semiconductor heteroepitaxial growth and optoelectronic devices

Saman Zonouz, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Security and privacy; cyber-physical systems; intrusion detection and response

Qingze Zou, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Washington
Precision positioning; inversion-based control theory; scanning probe microscopy; nanofabrication

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Vishwani D. Agrawal, Visiting Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Illinois
VLSI circuit spectral testing; built-in self-test; hardware verification

Hana Godrich, Instructor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Statistical and array signal processing; distributed detection and estimation with application to radar systems, wireless sensor networks, and smart power grids

Warren Yiu-Cho Lai, Associate Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Using micro/nanofabrication techniques for micro/nanostructures, devices, and systems in semiconductor, MEMS, and nanotechnology; process integration and material engineering

Ivan Rodero, Research Associate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Parallel and distributed computing; extreme-scale computing: energy/power efficiency, cloud and automatic computing, big data


 
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