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Quantum computing: When the right direction is random

Christian Arenz wants to harness the yet untapped powers of quantum computing, an emerging field that sits at the intersection of computer science, physics and engineering.

The assistant professor of electrical engineering in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, is working to develop new algorithms to enable advanced quantum computing capabilities in collaboration with Sophia Economou, the T. Marshall Hahn professor of physics at Virginia Tech.

Economou is the senior principal co-investigator on an $800,000 National Science Foundation grant funding the researchers’ work on the advanced algorithms. The project, called ExpandQISE, also includes the development of a textbook and training programs for teachers to introduce quantum science topics to students through more beginner-friendly instruction.

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Ahmed Alkhateeb

Ahmed Alkhateeb

Ahmed Alkhateeb
Assistant Professor

Research interests
Millimeter wave and massive MIMO communication, vehicular and drone communication systems, machine learning-based wireless communication

[email protected]
Tempe campus, GWC 344

David Allee

David Allee

David Allee
Professor and Associate Director, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Research interests
Flexible electronics, large area sensing arrays, VLF electric and magnetic fields, fundamental and external electrical noise, nuclear amplifiers and nanometer scale devices and nanofabrication

[email protected]
(480) 965-6470
Tempe campus, GWC 347

Christian Arenz

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Christian Arenz
Assistant Professor

Research interests
Quantum control theory, quantum information science, quantum information theory, open quantum systems and variational quantum algorithms

[email protected]
Tempe campus, GWC 411B

Raja Ayyanar

Raja Ayyanar

Raja Ayyanar
Professor

Research interests
Power electronics, DC-DC converters, power management, power conversion and control for renewable energy interfaces, especially photovoltaics and wind, electric vehicles, motor drives and wide bandgap devices and applications

[email protected]
(480) 727-7307
Tempe campus, ERC 587

Bertan Bakkaloglu

Bertan Bakkaloglu

Bertan Bakkaloglu
Endowed Professor of ON Semiconductor

Research interests
Analog, RF and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, integrated power management circuits for high-reliability applications, frequency synthesizers and self-test and calibration of high-reliability analog and mixed-signal circuits

[email protected]
(480) 727-0293
Tempe campus, ISTB4 573

Constantine A. Balanis

Constantine A. Balanis

Constantine A. Balanis
Regents Professor Emeritus

Research Interests
Computational electromagnetic methods for antennas and scattering, flexible and conformal antennas, high impedance surfaces (HIS), RCS reduction techniques using EBG checkerboard surfaces, metasurfaces for antenna pattern beam forming, ferrite-loaded non-uniformly biased CBS antennas, smart/adaptive antennas for wireless communications

[email protected]
(480) 965-3909
Tempe Campus, GWC 452

Hugh Barnaby

Hugh Barnaby

Hugh Barnaby
IceMOS Professor

Research interests
Semiconductors for hostile environments, device physics and modeling, microelectronic device and sensor design and manufacturing and analog/RF/mixed-signal circuit design and test

[email protected]
(480) 727-0289
Tempe campus, ISTB4 561

Visar Berisha

Visar Berisha

Visar Berisha
Associate Professor, joint appointment with the College of Health Solutions

Research interests
Speech perception and processing, psychoacoustics and statistical signal processing

[email protected]
(480) 727-6455
Tempe campus, Coor Hall 3472

Mariana Bertoni

Mariana Bertoni

Mariana Bertoni
Hopkins Professor
Associate Professor

Research interests
Defect engineering of solar cell materials, transparent conducting oxides, synthesis, growth and deposition of semiconductors, electrical and optical characterization, defects in semiconductors and X-ray microscopy and spectroscopy

[email protected]
(480) 727-0755
Tempe campus, ERC 173

Daniel Bliss

Daniel Bliss

Daniel Bliss
Motorola Professor in RF Mixed Signal

Research interests
Adaptive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications, distributed cooperative communications, full-duplex relays, MIMO radar, information theory, estimation bounds, channel phenomenology and statistical signal processing for anticipatory medical applications

[email protected]
(480) 965-3913
Tempe campus, GWC 302D

John Brunhaver

John Brunhaver

John Brunhaver
Assistant Professor

Research interests
Very large-scale integration design, computer architecture, procedural hardware generation, computer vision accelerators and computer graphics hardware

[email protected]
Tempe campus, ISTB4 551C

Yu Cao

Yu (Kevin) Cao

Yu Cao
Professor

Research interests
Physical modeling of nanoscale technologies, design solutions for variability and reliability and neural-inspired hardware and algorithms for learning

[email protected]
(480) 965-1472
Tempe campus, ISTB4 563

Chaitali Chakrabarti

Chaitali Chakrabarti

Chaitali Chakrabarti
Professor

Research interests
VLSI architectures for media processing and wireless communications, algorithm-architecture co-design of signal processing systems, including medical imaging, low-power embedded systems and reliable memory system design

[email protected]
(480) 965-9516
Tempe campus, GWC 302B

Vidya Chhabria

Assistant Professor Vidya Chhabria

Vidya Chhabria
Assistant Professor

Research interests
Computer-aided design for very large-scale integrated systems, circuit design and machine learning for electronic design automation

 

[email protected]
Tempe campus, GWC 672

Jennifer Blain Christen

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Jennifer Blain Christen
Associate Professor

Research interests
Biocompatible integration techniques for CMOS electronics/sensors, microfluidics and soft lithography, bio-MEMS, low-power analog and mixed-mode circuits for biomedical/analytical instrumentation, systems engineering focusing on multi-physics/multi-modal and feedback, including neural, electrochemical and optical/fluorescence systems

[email protected]
(480) 965-9859
Tempe campus, GWC 334

Rudy Diaz

Rudy Diaz
Emeritus Professor

Research Interests
Analytic theory of natural and artificial media, measurement and design of the electromagnetic properties of materials, magneto-dielectric materials for broadband antennas and electromagnetic structures, optical scattering of sub-wavelength objects in complex environments and nanophotonics, time domain computational electromagnetics.

[email protected]
(480) 965-4281
Tempe Campus, GWC 369

Deliang Fan

Richard Kiehl

Deliang Fan
Associate Professor

Research interests
Energy-efficient and high-performance big data processing-in-memory circuits, architecture and algorithms with applications in deep neural networks, data encryption, graph processing and bioinformatics processing-in-memory system development

[email protected]
(480) 727-1922
Tempe campus, ISTB4 551D

Zhaoyang Fan

Zhaoyang Fan

Zhaoyang Fan
Professor

Research interests
Physical electronics and photonics, nanoscience and material physics, semiconductors and electrochemistry

[email protected]
(480) 965-2650
Tempe campus, ERC 537

David Ferry

David Ferry

David Ferry
Regents’ Professor Emeritus

Research Interests
Quantum effects in submicron semiconductor devices and nanostructures, general development of quantum transport in open systems

[email protected]
(480) 965-2570
Tempe Campus, ERC 559

Houqiang Fu

Sayfe Kiaei

Houqiang Fu
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconductors, III-nitrides, Gallium Oxide, power electronics and ICs, HEMTs, vertical power devices, extreme-environment devices, optoelectronics, RF/microwave devices, photonics, MOCVD growth, solid-state physics, device simulation and modeling, nanofabrication, nano-scale characterization, device reliability and failure analysis.

 

[email protected] 

 

Stephen Goodnick

Stephen Goodnick

Stephen Goodnick
David and Darleen Ferry Professor of Electrical Engineering

Research interests
Solid state device physics, transport in nanostructures, nanoelectronic devices and circuits, computational electronics, RF and microwave devices, optoelectronics and energy conversion devices

[email protected]
(480) 965-9572
Tempe campus, ERC 552

Michael Goryll

Michael Goryll

Michael Goryll
Associate Professor

Research interests
Surface and interface physics, new materials in CMOS processing, fabrication of nanoscale semiconductor devices, transport phenomena in nanopores, integration of biomineralized structures with silicon MEMS, electrophysiological properties of cell membrane ion channels, low-noise analog amplifier design and electronic instrumentation for biophysical measurements

[email protected]
(480) 965-9517
Tempe campus, ERC 255

Kory Hedman

Kory Hedman

Kory Hedman
Professor
Director, Power Systems Engineering Research Center
Advanced Energy Technology Endowed Chair

Research interests
Power and energy systems, operations research, renewable energy, power system economics, operations and planning, transmission engineering, mathematical programming, stochastic optimization, market design, energy economics and financial engineering

[email protected]
(480) 965-1276
Tempe campus, ERC 579

Gerald Heydt

Gerald Heydt

Gerald Heydt
Regents’ Professor Emeritus, Professor of Advanced Technology

Research Interests
Power engineering, electric power quality, distribution engineering, transmission engineering, computer applications in power engineering, power engineering education, power system sensors and instrumentation

[email protected]
(480) 965-8307
Tempe Campus, ERC 509

Josh Hihath

Professor Josh Hihath

Josh Hihath
Professor and Director, Biodesign Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors

Research interests
Nano/bioelectronics, biosensors and physical electronics and nanomaterials

[email protected]
(480) 965-1403

Keith Holbert

Keith Holbert

Keith Holbert
Associate Professor

Research interests
Nuclear engineering, process monitoring and diagnostics, sensor fault detection, instrumentation development and radiation effects on electronics

[email protected]
(480) 965-8594
Tempe campus, ERC 581

Zachary Holman

Zachary Holman

Zachary Holman
Hopkins Professor
Associate Professor

Research interests
Amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells, light management in solar cells, transparent conductive oxides, semiconductor nanoparticles, optical and electronic properties of nanoscale materials, plasma synthesis of powders and deposition of powders and thin films

[email protected]
(480) 965-9959

Nidhin Kurian Kalarickal

Nidhin Kurian Kalarickal

Nidhin Kurian Kalarickal
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Electronic materials, wide and ultra-wide band gap semiconductors, epitaxial growth using MOCVD and MBE, heterostructure engineering, semiconductor device physics, nanofabrication, device modeling, devices for power, high frequency, and extreme environments.  

[email protected]

Lina Karam

Lina Karam

Lina Karam
Emeritus Professor

Research Interests
Image and video processing, compression, and transmission, computer vision, visual quality assessment, human visual perception, multidimensional signal processing, digital filtering, source coding, and bio-medical imaging.

[email protected]
(480) 965-3694
Tempe Campus, GWC 430

Mojdeh Khorsand Hedman

Mojdeh Khorsand

Mojdeh Khorsand Hedman
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Power systems operations and planning, power systems restoration and cascading events, cyber-security for electric power systems, renewable energy, transient stability studies, protection systems, power flow control technologies, stochastic optimization, and electric energy markets

[email protected]
(480) 965-0787
Tempe Campus, ERC 525

Richard Kiehl

Richard Kiehl
Richard Kiehl
Adjunct faculty

Research Interests
Nanoelectronics: self-assembled nanostructures, novel nanodevice concepts, locally connected circuit architectures and non-Boolean computing paradigms.

 

Sayfe Kiaei

Sayfe Kiaei

Sayfe Kiaei
Motorola Professor in Wireless Communications

Research interests
Radio frequency and analog integrated circuits and integrated power management integrated circuits

[email protected]
(480) 727-8207
Tempe campus, ISTB4 591C

 

Richard R. King

Richard R. King

Richard R. King
Professor

Research interests
High-efficiency silicon and III-V photovoltaics, solid-state device physics, recombination at semiconductor defects and interfaces, multijunction solar cells and thin-film compound semiconductor growth and characterization

[email protected]
(480) 727-3698

Jennifer Kitchen

Jennifer Kitchen

Jennifer Kitchen
Associate Professor

Research interests
RF integrated transceivers on silicon and III-V materials (GaN), power management and distribution for high-frequency integrated circuits for consumer applications, low-power/long-term field deployment integrated circuits for the military and green energy (solar arrays) and programmable and broadband wireless transceivers for future-generation (5G) wireless communication systems

[email protected]
(480) 965-1857
Tempe campus, ISTB4 551D

Jaya Krishamurthy

Jaya Krishnamurthy

Jaya Krishnamurthy
Academic Success Advisor, Sr.

Jaya joined the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering advising team in 2022. As a graduate advisor, she advises and counsels graduate students with last names that begin with Q through Z regarding academics.

[email protected]
(480) 965-1729
Tempe campus, GWC 236

Ying-Cheng Lai

Ying-Cheng Lai

Ying-Cheng Lai
ISS Endowed Professor of Electrical Engineering
Regents Professor

Research interests
Nonlinear dynamics, complex networks, quantum transport in nanostructures, graphene physics, signal processing and biological physics

[email protected]
(480) 965-6668
Tempe campus, GWC 610

Qin Lei

Qin Lei

Qin Lei
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
High power converters for high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission/medium voltage direct current (MVDC) transmission, medium voltage drive, grid-integration of renewable energy sources, transportation electrification/electric vehicle/hybrid electric vehicle, power management for smart-grid/micro-grid, wide-band gap device application (SiC, GaN), energy storage

[email protected]
(480) 965-0013

Robert LiKamWa

Robert LiKamWa

Robert LiKamWa
Associate Professor, joint appointment with the School of Arts, Media and Engineering

Research interests
Mobile operating systems, mobile computer architecture, low-power mobile systems, computational imaging systems, computer vision systems, augmented reality systems, virtual reality systems and holographic computing

[email protected]
Tempe campus, STAUFFER B201

Gia McLaughlin

Gia McLaughlin

Gia McLaughlin
Manager, Academic Services

Gia was born in New York, raised in Southern California and has resided in Arizona since 2004. She holds a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and business and a master’s degree in higher education with an emphasis on adult learners.

Gia worked as an account manager in corporate travel management for 14 years before beginning work in education, her lifelong passion, in 2006. She enjoys working in higher education because it allows her to use her many years of corporate experience in tandem with educational theory to support the students she advises, many of whom are non-traditional.

Gia lives in Tempe with her proud Sun Devil alum husband Tim, and in their free time they enjoy global travel, live music, outdoor activities and exploring all that Arizona has to offer.  

“Lifelong education is a passion of mine,” Gia says. “Many of my students are returning to college as adults. Supporting non-traditional students is inspiring and proves it is never too late to learn something new!”

[email protected]
(480) 965-3424
Tempe campus, GWC 213

Deirdre Meldrum

Deirdre Meldrum

Deirdre Meldrum
Distinguished Professor of Biosignatures Discovery

Research interests
Automation in life sciences, automation, micro- and nanotechnologies, microscale systems, lab-on-a-chip, single cell, genomics, ecogenomics, robotics and control systems

[email protected]
(480) 727-9397
Tempe campus, BDA 110B

Toni Mengert

Toni Mengert

Toni Mengert
Academic Success Advisor, Coordinator

Toni Mengert joined the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering advising team in 2012. As a graduate advisor, Toni advises and counsels graduate students with last names beginning with I through P regarding academics.

[email protected]
(480) 965-3424
Tempe campus, GWC 234

Robert Monahan

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Robert Monahan
Assistant Director, Academic Services

Robert earned a BA in Psychology from DePaul University in Chicago, IL in 2000 and a MS in Counseling and Student Personnel from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2002. Being a college student can be one of the richest and most exciting times in life. Robert works here to help students connect to that excitement. When he’s not working with students at ASU, Robert spends time with his family and enjoys hiking and biking in the desert.

[email protected]
(480) 965-0789
Tempe Campus, GWC 248

Angelia Nedich

Angelia Nedich

Angelia Nedich
Professor

Research interests
Large-scale distributed systems, sensor networks and network science, data analytics and decision and control systems and operations research

[email protected]
(480) 965-9019
Tempe campus, GWC 311

Duong Nguyen

Ahmed Alkhateeb
Duong Nguyen
Assistant Professor

Research interests
Decision-Making, Market Design, Network Economics, Power System Economics, Cloud/Edge Computing, Power and Energy Systems, Operations and Planning, Applied Operations Research

[email protected]
Tempe Campus

Sule Ozev

Sule Ozev

Sule Ozev
Professor

Research interests
Self-test and self-calibration for wireless transceivers, analysis and mitigation of process variations for mixed-signal and digital circuits, fault-tolerant and reconfigurable heterogeneous systems and mixed-signal circuit testing

[email protected]
(480) 727-7547
Tempe campus, ISTB4 565

Anamitra Pal

Anamitra Pal

Anamitra Pal
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Power and energy systems, energy modeling and smart grids, wide-area monitoring, protection and control

[email protected]
(480) 965-2882
Tempe Campus, ERC 573

Joseph Palais

Joseph Palais

Joseph Palais
Professor Emeritus and Graduate Program Chair, Electrical Engineering
Academic Director, Online and Professional Programs for Global Outreach and Extended Education

Research interests
Fiber optic communications, holography and distance education

[email protected]
(480) 965-3757
Tempe campus, GWC 222

George Pan

George Pan

George Pan
Professor

Research interests
Computational electromagnetics, high-speed electronics packaging, magnetic resonant imaging RF coil design and analysis, inverse scattering, rough surface scattering and millimeter wave antenna systems

[email protected]
(480) 965-1732
Tempe campus, GWC 318

Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola

Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola

Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola
Professor

Research interests
Time-varying signal and system processing, statistical processing for detection, estimation and tracking, wireless communications applications and signal processing algorithm development for biomedical, biological and structural health monitoring

[email protected]
(480) 965-7881
Tempe campus, GWC 312

Joelina Peck

Joelina Peck

Joelina Peck
Associate Director, Research Administration​

Joelina is the Associate Director, Research Administration​ for the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. Her primary responsibility is to assist faculty and researchers in the development, preparation, and submission of sponsored project proposals to various federal and non-federal agencies as well as provide analytical and financial oversight of sponsored awards. She serves as a consultant to management on policies, plans and objectives. She interacts with senior internal and external personnel on significant technical matters. She represents the organization in providing solutions to difficult and technical issues associated with sponsored projects.  She interacts with faculty and staff across the seven schools of Engineering to provide support and effective management of sponsored projects.

Joelina received her Certification in Research Administration (CRA) in 2009 from the Research Administrators Certification Council (RACC). Joelina has been in the research administration field for 13 years. She joined ASU in 1999 and left for a brief period in 2010 to work as the Manager of the Sponsored Research Office for a non-profit Medical Research Institute in California. She returned to ASU in 2014.

[email protected]
(480) 965-8913
Tempe Campus, GWC 270

 

Stephen Phillips

Stephen Phillips

Stephen Phillips
Professor and Director, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Research interests
Applications and integration of microsystems, including microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microelectronics, microactuators, neural recording and neural stimulation; applications of systems and control, including adaptive control, control of microsystems, prosthetics and feedback control over nondeterministic networks

[email protected]
(480) 965-6410
Tempe campus, GWC 208

Lynn Pratte

Lynn Pratte

Lynn Pratte
Manager, Graduate Academic Advising

Lynn joined the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering advising team in 2014. She oversees the graduate advising team and works with students, staff and faculty to ensure students are able to successfully complete their degrees.

[email protected]
(480) 965-1729
Tempe campus, GWC 238

Tom Quinn

Tom Quinn

Tom Quinn
Academic Success Advisor, Sr.

Tom joined the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering advising team after seven years in higher education, most of which was spent as a financial aid advisor. He originally studied English education and served as a classroom teacher for two years before making the switch to serve post-secondary students.

Outside of work, Tom participates in community service with the Valley Alano Club in Tempe and Friends for Life Animal Rescue in Gilbert. He is an avid reader and active in the online Goodreads community, where he does an annual reading challenge and shares book reviews. The fastest way to get him talking is to ask what book he has been reading lately.

[email protected]
(480) 965-3424
Tempe campus, GWC 213

Sangram Redkar

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Sangram Redkar
Graduate Program Chair, Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Research interests
Nonlinear dynamics and control and inertial navigation and tracking

[email protected]
(480) 727-1129
Polytechnic campus, Technology Center 101B

Martin Reisslein

Martin Reisslein

Martin Reisslein
Professor and Graduate Program Chair, Computer Engineering

Research interests
Metro and access fiber/wireless networks, multimedia streaming, multimedia traffic characteristics, software defined networking and engineering education

[email protected]
(480) 965-8539
Tempe campus, GWC 411A

Lalitha Sankar

Lalitha Sankar

Lalitha Sankar
Associate Professor

Research interests
Cybersecurity and privacy in the smart grid, privacy of electronic data, information- theoretic privacy measures, applications of game theory for privacy problems, finite block-length source coding, distributed state estimation and optimal power flow with security and privacy guarantees in the smart grid

[email protected]
(480) 965-4953
Tempe campus, ERC 585

Jae-sun Seo

Jae-sun Seo

Jae-sun Seo
Associate Professor

Research interests
Digital/mixed-signal circuit design, very-large scale integration design for neuromorphic computing and machine learning, integrated voltage regulators and high-speed on-chip transceivers

[email protected]
(480) 727-2660
Tempe campus, ISTB4 551B

Jennie Si

Jennie Si

Jennie Si
Professor

Research interests
Reinforcement learning for control, approximate/adaptive dynamic programming and cortical neural decision and control

[email protected]
(480) 965-6133
Tempe campus, GWC 351

 

Brian Skromme

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Brian Skromme
Professor

Research interests
Compound semiconductor materials and devices, especially wide bandgap materials for optoelectronic high-frequency, high-power and high-temperature applications, optical characterization of semiconductor materials, development of GaN and SiC-based materials and devices, development of educational software for engineering courses and engineering education

[email protected]
(480) 965-8592
Tempe campus, ERC 155

Elizabeth Sowell

Elizabeth Sowell

Elizabeth Sowell
Manager, Academic Advising

Elizabeth joined the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering advising team in 2012. She has worked in the Fulton Schools of Engineering in student services and advising since 2007, and she has advised both undergraduate and graduate students. She earned her master’s degree in religious studies from Claremont Graduate University. She enjoys helping students reach their educational goals at ASU.

[email protected]
(480) 965-3424
Tempe campus, GWC 213

Andreas Spanias

Andreas Spanias

Andreas Spanias
Professor and Director, Sensor, Signal and Information Processing Center

Research interests
Digital signal processing (DSP), speech and audio coding, adaptive filters, real-time processing of sensor data and DSP for arts and media applications

 

[email protected]
(480) 965-1837
Tempe Campus, GWC 411E

 

Meng Tao

Meng Tao

Meng Tao
Professor

Research interests
Semiconductor surfaces, interfaces and thin films, terawatt-scale solar photovoltaics, chemical vapor deposition, solar photovoltaic systems and applications, electrochemistry in solar photovoltaics and two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides.

[email protected]
(480) 965-9845
Tempe campus, ERC 157

Konstantinos Tsakalis

James Aberle

Konstantinos Tsakalis
Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair, Electrical Engineering

Research interests
Applications of control, optimization and system identification theory to semiconductor manufacturing, chemical process control and prediction and control of epileptic seizures

[email protected]
(480) 965-1467
Tempe campus, GWC 358

Pavan Turaga

Pavan Turaga
Professor and joint appointment as Director, School of Arts, Media and Engineering

Research interests
Computer vision, human activity analysis, machine learning, rehabilitation and preventive interventions

[email protected]
(480) 965-3704
Tempe campus, STAUFFER B259

Daniel Tylavsky

Daniel Tylavsky

Daniel Tylavsky
Emeritus Professor

Research Interests
Electric power systems, applying social optimization to power system markets, numerical methods applied to large-scale system problems, parallel numerical algorithms, new educational methods and technologies, and transformer thermal modeling.

[email protected]

James VanderPloeg

James VanderPloeg

James (Jim) VanderPloeg
Academic Success Advisor

Jim advises and counsels School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering graduate students with last names beginning with A through H regarding academics.

He was born and raised in Michigan and loved experiencing the fall season there. In 2012, Jim and his wife decided to move to Arizona to be part of the ASU community.  Before joining the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering team in June 2022, he worked for six years as a social worker for the state of Arizona.

In Jim’s free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, watching baseball, hockey and college football.

[email protected]
Tempe campus, GWC 248

Dragica Vasileska

Dragica Vasileska

Dragica Vasileska
Professor

Research interests
Semiconductor device physics, semiconductor transport, quantum field theory and its application to real nanoscale device structures, heating effects in nanoscale devices, current collapse in GaN HEMTs, 1D to 3D device modeling and optoelectronics, including modeling of solar cells and photodetectors

[email protected]
(480) 965-6651
Tempe campus, ERC 555

Vijay Vittal

Vijay Vittal

Vijay Vittal
ASU Foundation Professor in Electric Power Systems
Ira A. Fulton Chair of Electrical Engineering
Regents Professor

Research interests
Electric power, power system dynamics and controls, nonlinear systems, computer applications in power, sustainable energy and modeling and simulation of complex systems

[email protected]
(480) 965-1879
Tempe campus, ERC 513

Allison Walls

Allison Walls

Allison Walls
Academic Success Coordinator, Retention and First-Year Student Initiatives

Allison was raised in Tempe, Arizona and holds a master’s degree in counseling from ASU. She worked in community mental health for two years before returning to ASU as an undergraduate academic advisor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. In her free time, Allison enjoys cooking, volunteering and spending time outdoors.

[email protected]
(480) 965-3424
Tempe campus, GWC 213

Chao Wang

Headshot of Chao Wang

Chao Wang
Associate Professor

Research interests
Nanostructures, nanoimprint lithography, nanooptics, biomolecular sensing, nanofluidics, DNA hydrodynamics and ferroelectrics

[email protected]
(480) 965-2056
Tempe campus, ERC 542

Yang Weng

Yang Weng

Yang Weng
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Power systems, machine learning, demand response, data analytics, cyber-physical systems, and convex optimization

[email protected]
(480) 965-8202

Meng Wu

Meng Wu
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Electric power systems, data analytics for power system planning and operations, modelling and stability assessment for renewable energy integration, optimization methods for smart grids and electricity markets.

[email protected]
(480) 965-8706

Yu Yao

Yu Yao

Yu Yao
Associate Professor

Research interests
Electronic transport and optic properties of semiconductor nanostructures, two-dimensional materials, nanophotonic structures and their applications in advanced optoelectronics and reconfigurable optical devices, mid-infrared technology and its application for infrared sensing and medical imaging

[email protected]
(480) 965-9208
Tempe campus, ERC 557

Hongbin Yu

ECEE Professor Hongbin Yu

Hongbin Yu
Professor

Research interests
Nanostructure and nanodevice fabrication and characterization, flexible, transparent and wearable electronics, wide bandgap semiconductor electronics and optoelectronics, integrated microwave and power devices and quantum size effect in metallic and semiconducting nanostructures

[email protected]
(480) 965-4455
Tempe campus, ERC 159

Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh

Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
High-frequency millimeter-wave, and terahertz integrated circuits; integrated photonics and electronics-photonics circuits; high-speed IC design for radiation-intensive space environments, and radiation hardening; IC design for robust operation over the temperature, down to cryogenic temperatures 

[email protected]