Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Zoran Gajic, 134 Electrical Engineering Building, Busch Campus (732-445-2578)

Email: ece_grad@ece.rutgers.edu

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Haim Baruh, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Structural dynamics; control of vibration; smart structures

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 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

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

Kristin Dana, Assistant 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

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

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

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

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

Michael T. Klein, Board of Governors Professor of Engineering, SE; Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kinetics, catalysis, and reaction engineering; automated kinetic modeling; hydrocarbon conversion; reactions in supercritical fluids

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

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

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

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

Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Syracuse
Visual-pattern recognition; evoked potentials; image quality

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

Paul Panayotatos, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Eng.Sc.D., Columbia
Solid-state electronics; organic semiconductor p-n heterojunction solar cells

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

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

Narindra N. Puri, Professor 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

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, Assistant 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

Moncef B. Tayahi, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Connecticut
Solid-state and optical devices for wireless and wireline communication and sensor systems

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

Marilyn M. Tremaine, Research Professor of Advanced Information Processing, CAIP; Ph.D., Southern California
Human-computer interaction; user interfaces; visualization

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

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

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

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