Tenured and tenure-track faculty
Regents Professors
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
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
Named professors
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
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
Mariana Bertoni
Mariana Bertoni
Hopkins Professor
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
Motorola Professor in Communications
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
Krishnendu Chakrabarty
Krishnendu Chakrabarty
Fulton Professor of Microelectronics
Research interests
Integrated circuit/system design, design for test, emerging semiconductor technologies, hardware security, AI accelerators, microfluidic biochips and AI for health care
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
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
Zachary Holman
Zachary Holman
Professor and Vice Dean for Research and Innovation
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
Sayfe Kiaei
Sayfe Kiaei
Motorola Professor in RF Mixed Signal
Research interests
Radio frequency and analog integrated circuits and integrated power management integrated circuits
[email protected]
(480) 727-8207
Tempe campus, ISTB4 591C
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
Professors
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
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
Chris Bailey
Chris Bailey
Professor
Research interests
Electronics packaging, multiphysics modeling and reliability
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
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
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
Christiana Honsberg
Christiana Honsberg
Professor
Research interests
Ultra-high efficiency solar cells and silicon solar cells
[email protected]
(480) 965-2831
Tempe campus, ERC 179
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
Michael Kozicki
Michael Kozicki
Professor and Graduate Program Chair, Electrical Engineering
Research interests
Nanoionics, dendritic/fractal structures and low-energy resistive memory (CBRAM, RRAM)
[email protected]
(480) 965-2572
Tempe campus, ERC 107
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
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
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
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
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
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
Marco Saraniti
Marco Saraniti
Professor
Research interests
Computational electronics and biophysics
[email protected]
(480) 965-2650
Tempe campus, ERC 537
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
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
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
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
Trevor Thornton
Trevor Thornton
Professor
Research interests
Silicon-on-insulator MESFETs, molecular electronics and sensors and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
[email protected]
(480) 965-3808
Tempe campus, ERC 565
Konstantinos Tsakalis
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
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
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
Yanchao Zhang
Yanchao Zhang
Professor
Research interests
Network and distributed system security, wireless networking and mobile computing
[email protected]
(480) 727-0039
Tempe campus, GWC 456
Yong-Hang Zhang
Yong-Hang Zhang
Professor
Research interests
Optoelectronic materials and devices such as solar cells, laser diodes and photodetectors
[email protected]
(480) 965-2562
Tempe campus, ERC 161
Associate professors
James Aberle
James Aberle
Associate Professor
Research interests
Microwave and RF electronics, signal and power integrity and antennas
[email protected]
(480) 965-8588
Tempe campus, GWC 326
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
Umberto Celano
Umberto Celano
Associate Professor
Research interests
Nanoelectronics, materials characterization and semiconductor metrology
[email protected]
Tempe campus, ERC 585
Jennifer Blain Christen
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
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
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
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
Oliver Kosut
Oliver Kosut
Associate Professor
Research interests
Information theory, cybersecurity, smart grids and active adversaries
[email protected]
(480) 727-6020
Tempe campus, GWC 454
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
Matthew J. Marinella
Matthew J. Marinella
Associate Professor
Research interests
Microelectronic devices and circuits, energy-efficient computing, memory technologies, neuromorphic computing and radiation effects
[email protected]
(602) 543-5331
Tempe campus, GWC 347
Nicolo Michelusi
Nicolo Michelusi
Associate Professor
Research interests
Design and analysis of distributed wirelessly connected systems using methods from stochastic optimization and machine learning
Anamitra Pal
Anamitra Pal
Associate Professor
Research interests
Power and energy systems, energy modeling and smart grids, protection and control and wide-area monitoring
[email protected]
(480) 965-2882
Tempe campus, ERC 573
Cihan Tepedelenlioglu
Cihan Tepedelenlioglu
Associate Professor
Research interests
Wireless communications, statistical signal processing and data mining for photovoltaic systems
[email protected]
(480) 965-6623
Tempe campus, GWC 411D
Georgios C. Trichopoulos
Georgios C. Trichopoulos
Associate Professor
Research interests
Millimeter wave (mmW) and terahertz (THz) frequency circuits and sensors, focal plane arrays, on-chip THz antennas, imaging systems and mmW wireless communications
[email protected]
Tempe campus, ISTB4 555D
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
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
Assistant professors
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
Christian Arenz
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
Ying-Chen Chen
Ying-Chen “Daphne” Chen
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Nanotechnology, microelectronics, emerging memory, neuromorphic computing, oxide semiconductors, defect analysis, semiconductor device physics, metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors and in-space manufacturing
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
Gautam Dasarathy
Gautam Dasarathy
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Machine learning, statistics, signal processing, networked systems and information theory
[email protected]
(480) 965-5035
Tempe campus, GWC 324
Ivan Sanchez Esqueda
Ivan Sanchez Esqueda
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Carbon-based nanoelectronics, reliability physics of nanoscale transistors and emerging nanotechnologies for novel computing architectures
[email protected]
(480) 727-3759
Tempe campus, ERC 163
Houqiang Fu
Houqiang Fu
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconductors, III-nitrides, gallium oxide, power electronics and integrated circuits, high-electron mobility transistors, vertical power devices, extreme environment devices, optoelectronics, RF/microwave devices, photonics, MOCVD growth, solid-state physics, device simulation and modeling, nanofabrication, nanoscale characterization, device reliability and failure analysis
Jiaqi Gu
Jiaqi Gu
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Emerging artificial intelligence hardware design, hardware and algorithm co-design, photonic neuromorphic computing, electronic design automation and efficient AI and machine learning algorithms
[email protected]
Tempe campus, ISTB4 465
Yoon Hwa
Yoon Hwa
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Material and device design for energy storage and conversion systems, advanced 3D manufacturing and laser powder bed fusion
[email protected]
(602) 543-3490
Tempe campus, ERC 529
Leslie Hwang
Leslie Hwang
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Applied machine learning for physical design in electronics and advanced semiconductor packaging
[email protected]
(480) 965-6500
Seyedmohammadreza Faghih Imani
Seyedmohammadreza Faghih Imani
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Metamaterials, metasurfaces, antenna design, microwave and millimeter imaging, wireless communication, synthetic aperture radar, wireless power transfer, computational imaging, wireless sensing, non-destructive evaluation and testing and complex scattering media
[email protected]
Tempe campus, ISTB4 555D
Suren Jayasuriya
Suren Jayasuriya
Assistant Professor, joint appointment with the School of Arts, Media and Engineering
Research interests
Computational imaging and photography, computer vision and sensors
[email protected]
Tempe campus, STAUFFER B252
Nidhin Kurian Kalarickal
Nidhin Kurian Kalarickal
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Electronic materials, wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconductors, epitaxial growth using MOCVD and MBE, heterostructure engineering, semiconductor device physics, nanofabrication, device modeling and devices for power, high frequency and extreme environments
[email protected]
Tempe campus, ERC 523
Mojdeh Khorsand Hedman
Mojdeh Khorsand Hedman
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Power system operations and planning, power system restoration and cascading events, cybersecurity 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
Kexin “Kathy” Li
Kexin “Kathy” Li
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Physics-based modeling of semiconductor devices and technology computer-aided design simulation
Duong Nguyen
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]
(602) 496-6771
Tempe campus, GWC 438
Amarsagar Reddy Ramapuram Matavalam
Amarsagar Reddy Ramapuram Matavalam
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Electric power systems, power system dynamics and control, data-driven modeling and simulations of power systems, data analytics and machine learning for power grid analysis and operation, transmission and distribution interactions in power systems, cyber-physical systems and dynamical systems
Mike Ranjram
Nick Rolston
Nick Rolston
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Photovoltaics, renewable energy harvesting and storage materials
Arindam Sanyal
Arindam Sanyal
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Mixed-signal integrated circuits and neuromorphic computing
[email protected]
Tempe campus, ISTB4 555B
Kanu Sinha
Kanu Sinha
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Quantum optics, open quantum systems and quantum information
[email protected]
Tempe campus, GWC 328
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, modeling and stability assessment for renewable energy integration and optimization methods for smart grids and electricity markets
[email protected]
(480) 965-8706
Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh
Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh
Assistant Professor
Research interests
High-frequency millimeter-wave and terahertz integrated circuits, integrated photonics and electronics-photonics circuits, high-speed integrated circuit design for radiation-intensive space environments and radiation hardening, integrated circuit design for robust operation over a range down of temperatures down to cryogenic
[email protected]
(480) 727-1900
Tempe campus, ISTB4 555C
Jeff (Jun) Zhang
Jeff (Jun) Zhang
Assistant Professor
Research interests
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer systems and architecture and VLSI chip design