Tenured and tenure track faculty
Regents Professor
Ying-Cheng Lai
Ying-Cheng Lai
ISS Professor
Regents Professor
Research Interests
Nonlinear dynamics, complex networks, quantum transport in nanostructures, graphene physics, signal processing, 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, 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 IC design, integrated power management circuits for high reliability applications, self-test and calibration of high reliability analog and mixed signal circuits, frequency synthesizers
[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, analog/RF/mixed signal circuit design and test
[email protected]
(480) 727-0289
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 561
Mariana Bertoni
Mariana Bertoni
Hopkins Professor
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Defect engineering of solar cell materials, transparent conducting oxides, defects in semiconductors, synthesis, growth and deposition of semiconductors, electrical and optical characterization, X-ray microscopy and spectroscopys
[email protected]
(480) 727-0755
Tempe Campus, ERC 173
Daniel Bliss
Daniel Bliss
Motorola Professor in Radio Frequency and 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, statistical signal processing for anticipatory medical applications
[email protected]
(480) 965-3913
Tempe Campus, GWC 302D
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, optoelectronic, energy conversion devices
[email protected]
(480) 965-9572
Tempe Campus, ERC 552
Kory Hedman
Kory Hedman
Professor
Director, PSERC
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, financial engineering
[email protected]
(480) 965-1276
Tempe Campus, ERC 579
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, deposition of powders and thin films
(480) 965-9959
Sayfe Kiaei
Sayfe Kiaei
Motorola Professor in Wireless Communications
Research Interests
Radio frequency and analog integrated circuits, integrated power management IC.
[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-achip, single cell, genomics, ecogenomics, robotics, control systems
[email protected]
(480) 727-9397
Tempe Campus, BDA A 110B
Professors
David Allee
David Allee
Professor, Associate Director
Research Interests
Flexible electronics, large area sensing arrays, VLF electric and magnetic fields, fundamental and external electrical noise, nuclear amplifiers, nanometer scale device 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 interface, especially PV and wind, electric vehicles, motor drives, wide bandgap devices and applications
[email protected]
(480) 727-7307
Tempe Campus, ERC 587
Chris Bailey
Chris Bailey
Professor
Research Interests
Electronics packaging, multi-physics modeling, reliability
Yu 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
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, 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, Electrochemistry
[email protected]
Tempe Campus, ECG
Josh Hihath
Josh Hihath
Professor
Research Interests
Nano/bioelectronics, biosensors, physical electronics and nanomaterials
Christiana Honsberg
Christiana Honsberg
Professor
Research Interests
Ultra-high efficiency solar cells, 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, thin-film compound semiconductor growth and characterization.
[email protected]
(480) 727-3698
Michael Kozicki
Professor
Research Interests
Nanoionics, dendritic/fractal structures, low-energy resistive memory (CBRAM, RRAM)
Angelia Nedich
Angelia Nedich
Professor
Research Interests
Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Sensor Networks and Network Science, Data Analytics, Decision and Control Systems, Operations Research
[email protected]
(480) 965-9019
650 E Tyler Mall GWC Rm 311 Tempe
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, mixed signal circuit testing
[email protected]
(480) 727-7547
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 565
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, millimeter-wave antenna systems
[email protected]
(480) 965-1732
Tempe Campus, GWC 318
Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola
Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola
Professor
Research Interests
Time-varying signal and system processing; statistical processing for detection, estimation and tracking; signal processing algorithm development for biomedical, biological and structural health monitoring; wireless communications applications
[email protected]
(480) 965-7881
Tempe Campus, GWC 312
Stephen Phillips
Professor, 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, feedback control over nondeterministic networks
[email protected]
(480) 965-6410
Tempe Campus, GWC 208
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, engineering education
Marco Saraniti
Marco Saraniti
Professor, Vice Dean of Faculty Administration
Research Interests
Computational electronics, biophysics
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(480) 965-2650
Tempe Campus, ERC 537
Jennie Si
Jennie Si
Professor
Research Interests
Reinforcement learning for control, approximate/adaptive dynamic programming, cortical neural decision and control
[email protected]
(480) 965-6133
Tempe Campus, GWC 351
Brian Skromme
Brian Skromme
Professor, Assistant Dean
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, engineering education
[email protected]
(480) 965-8592
Tempe Campus, ERC 155
Andreas Spanias
Andreas Spanias
Professor, Director, SenSIP Center
Research Interests
Digital signal processing (DSP), speech and audio coding, adaptive filters, real-time processing of sensor data, DSP for arts and media applications
[email protected]
(480) 965-1837
Tempe Campus, GWC 411E
Meng Tao
Professor
Research Interests
Semiconductor surfaces, interfaces and thin films; terawatt-scale solar photovoltaics; chemical vapor deposition; electrochemistry in solar photovoltaics; solar photovoltaic systems and applications; and two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides.
Trevor Thornton
Professor
Research Interests
Silicon-on-insulator MESFETs, molecular electronics and sensors, microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
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
Joint appointment with the School of Arts, Media and Engineering
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
STAUFFER B-259 950 S. Forest Mall Tempe
Dragica Vasileska
Dragica Vasileska
Professor
Research Interests
Semiconductor device physics, semiconductor transport, 1-D to 3-D device modeling, quantum field theory and its application to real nanoscale device structures, heating effects in nano-scale devices, current collapse in GaN HEMTs, 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 nano device fabrication and characterization; flexible, transparent and wearable electronics; wide bandgap semiconductor electronic and optoelectronics; quantum size effect in metallic and semiconducting nanostructures; integrated microwave and power devices
[email protected]
(480) 965-4455
Tempe Campus, ERC 159
Yanchao Zhang
Yanchao Zhang
Professor
Research Interests
Network and distributed system security, wireless networking, mobile computing
[email protected]
(480) 727-0039
Tempe Campus, GWC 456
Yong-Hang Zhang
Professor
Research Interests
Optoelectronic materials and devices such as solar cells, laser diodes and photodetectors
Associate Professors
James Aberle
James Aberle
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Antennas, microwave and RF electronics, signal and power integrity
[email protected]
(480) 965-8588
Tempe Campus, GWC 326
Visar Berisha
Visar Berisha
Associate Professor
Joint appointment with Speech and Hearing
Research Interests
Statistical signal processing, speech perception and processing, psychoacoustics
[email protected]
(480) 727-6455
Tempe Campus, Coor Hall 3472
Umberto Celano
Umberto Celano
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Nanoelectronics, materials characterization, semiconductor metrology
Jennifer Blain Christen
Jennifer Blain Christen
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Bio-compatible integration techniques for CMOS electronics/sensors, microfluidics and soft lithography, bio-MEMS, low power analog and mixed-mode circuits for bio-medical/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
Deliang Fan
Deliang Fan
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Energy Efficient and High Performance Big Data Processing-In-Memory Circuit, Architecture and Algorithm, with applications in Deep Neural Network, Data Encryption, Graph Processing and Bioinformatics Processing-in-Memory system development
[email protected]
Tempe Campus, ISTB4, 551D
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, 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, 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 ICs for the military and green energy (solar arrays), 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, cyber-security, smart grids, 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; 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
Lalitha Sankar
Lalitha Sankar
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Cyber-security and privacy in the Smart Grid, privacy of electronic data, information- theoretic privacy measures, applications of game theory to 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
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Digital/mixed-signal circuit design, VLSI design for neuromorphic computing and machine learning, integrated voltage regulators, high-speed on-chip transceivers
[email protected]
(480) 727-2660
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 551B
Cihan Tepedelenlioglu
Cihan Tepedelenlioglu
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Wireless communications, statistical signal processing, data mining for PV 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, 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, 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, medical and 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
Christian Arenz
Christian Arenz
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Quantum control theory, quantum information science, quantum information theory, open quantum systems, variational quantum algorithms
John Brunhaver
John Brunhaver
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
VLSI design, computer architecture, procedural hardware generation, computer vision accelerators, computer graphics hardware
[email protected]
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 551C
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
Gautam Dasarathy
Gautam Dasarathy
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Machine learning, statistics, signal processing, networked systems, and information theory
[email protected]
(480) 965-5035
Ivan Sanchez Esqueda
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Carbon-based nanoelectronics, reliability physics of nanoscale transistors, emerging nanotechnologies for novel computing architectures
Tempe Campus, ERC 163
Houqiang Fu
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.
Yoon Hwa
Yoon Hwa
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Material and Device Design for Energy Storage and Conversion Systems; Advanced 3D Manufacturing; Laser Powder Bed Fusion
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Seyedmohammadreza Faghih Imani
Assistant Professor
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
Suren Jayasuriya
Suren Jayasuriya
Assistant Professor
Joint appointment with the School of Arts, Media and Engineering
Research Interests
Computational Imaging and Photography, Computer Vision, Sensors
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.
Mojdeh Khorsand Hedman
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
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
Nicolo Michelusi
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
Tempe Campus
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
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 & distribution interactions in power systems, cyber-physical systems, dynamical systems
Mike Ranjram
Nick Rolston
Nick Rolston
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Renewable energy harvesting and storage materials, photovoltaics
Arindam Sanyal
Arindam Sanyal
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Mixed-signal integrated circuits and neuromorphic computing
Kanu Sinha
Kanu Sinha
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Quantum optics, open quantum systems, quantum information
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
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
Jeff (Jun) Zhang
Jeff (Jun) Zhang
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer systems and architecture, VLSI chip design