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  Graduate School-New Brunswick 2017 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)

Website: http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/degree_options

Members of the Graduate Faculty 

Ioannis P. Androulakis, 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

Haim Baruh, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Structural dynamics; control of structures using piezoelectric component; impact dynamics; control of systems describing constrained coordinates; autonomous vehicle control; structural damage detection

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

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

Maryam Mehri Dehnavi, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., McGill
Numerical analysis; machine learning; high-performance computing; compiler and library design; cloud computing

Thomas N. Farris, Dean of the School of Engineering; Ph.D., Northwestern
Aerospace structures and materials; tribology; manufacturing;fatigue and fracture

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, 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, 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

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 and Chair 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, Associate Professor of Information Science, Cornell, 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, Associate 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, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Syracuse
Parallel and distributed computing; software engineering

Vishal M. Patel, Assistant Professor of Digital Signal Processing and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Maryland
Computer vision; signal, image, and video processing; biometrics; pattern recognition; mobile security and privacy; radar imaging; computational imaging; compressive sampling; image reconstruction

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

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

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

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

Emina Soljanin, Professor of Communications and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Texas A&M
Mathematics of distributed systems, in particular concerning mechanisms for efficient, reliable, and secure distributed data storage that provide fast access, download, and streaming of big data files; coding, information, and queuing theory; applications of probability, algebra, graph and number theory, and combinatorics to distributed systems.

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

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, Associate 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, 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, 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

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

Naghmeh Karimi, Assistant Teaching Professor Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Tehran
VLSI testing and design-for-testability; fault tolerance and design-for-reliability; hardware security and design-for-trust; microprocessor testing; computer architecture; computer-aided design

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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