Tenured and tenure track faculty
Regents Professor
Vijay Vittal
Vijay Vittal
ASU Foundation Professor in Electric Power Systems
Ira A. Fulton Chair
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
vijay.vittal@asu.edu
(480) 965-1879
Tempe Campus, ERC 513
Named Professors
Bertan Bakkaloglu
Bertan Bakkaloglu
On Semiconductor Professor
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
bertan.bakkaloglu@asu.edu
(480) 727-0293
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 573
Zachary Holman
Trustee 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 Chair
Research Interests
Radio frequency and analog integrated circuits, integrated power management IC.
sayfe@asu.edu
(480) 727-8207
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 591C
Ying-Cheng Lai
Ying-Cheng Lai
ISS Professor
Research Interests
Nonlinear dynamics, complex networks, quantum transport in nanostructures, graphene physics, signal processing, biological physics
Ying-Cheng.Lai@asu.edu
(480) 965-6668
Tempe Campus, GWC 610
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
deirdre.meldrum@asu.edu
(480) 727-9397
Tempe Campus, BDA A 110B
Vijay Vittal
Vijay Vittal
ASU Foundation Professor in Electric Power Systems
Ira A. Fulton Chair
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
vijay.vittal@asu.edu
(480) 965-1879
Tempe Campus, ERC 513
Junshan Zhang
Junshan Zhang
Ira. A Fulton Chair Professor
Research Interests
Wireless networks, mobile social networks, privacy and security, information theory, optimization and control in cyber-physical systems and smart grid
junshan.zhang@asu.edu
(480) 727-7389
Tempe Campus, GWC 440
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
allee@asu.edu
(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
rayyanar@asu.edu
(480) 727-7307
Tempe Campus, ERC 587
Hugh Barnaby
Hugh Barnaby
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
hbarnaby@asu.edu
(480) 727-0289
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 561
Daniel Bliss
Daniel Bliss
Professor
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
d.w.bliss@asu.edu
(480) 965-3913
Tempe Campus, GWC 302D
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
ycao@asu.edu
(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
chaitali@asu.edu
(480) 965-9516
Tempe Campus, GWC 302B
Zhaoyang Fan
Zhaoyang Fan
Professor
Research Interests
Physical Electronics and Photonics, Nanoscience and Material Physics, Semiconductors, Electrochemistry
Zhaoyang.Fan@asu.edu
Tempe Campus, ECG
Stephen Goodnick
Stephen Goodnick
Professor
Research Interests
Solid state device physics, transport in nanostructures, nanoelectronic devices and circuits, computational electronics, RF and microwave devices, optoelectronic, energy conversion devices
stephen.goodnick@asu.edu
(480) 965-9572
Tempe Campus, ERC 552
Christiana Honsberg
Christiana Honsberg
Professor
Research Interests
Ultra-high efficiency solar cells, silicon solar cells
christiana.honsberg@asu.edu
(480) 965-2831
Tempe Campus, ERC 179
Lina Karam
Lina Karam
Professor, Graduate Program Chair of Computer Engineering
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.
karam@asu.edu
(480) 965-3694
Tempe Campus, GWC 430
Richard Kiehl
Richard Kiehl
Adjunct faculty
Research Interests
Nanoelectronics: self-assembled nanostructures, novel nanodevice concepts, locally connected circuit architectures and non-Boolean computing paradigms.
Richard.Kiehl@asu.edu
(480) 727-7905
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.
Richard.R.King@asu.edu
(480) 727-3698
Michael Kozicki
Michael Kozicki
Professor
Research Interests
Nanoionics, dendritic/fractal structures, low-energy resistive memory (CBRAM, RRAM)
michael.kozicki@asu.edu
(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, Decision and Control Systems, Operations Research
Angelia.Nedich@asu.edu
(480) 965-9019
650 E Tyler Mall GWC Rm 311 Tempe
Cun-Zheng Ning
Cun-Zheng Ning
Professor
Research Interests
Nanophotonics, nanowires, nanolasers, surface plasmonic enhanced light emitters, nanomaterials based solar cells
cning@asu.edu
(480) 965-7421
Tempe Campus, GWC 614
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
sule.ozev@asu.edu
(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
george.pan@asu.edu
(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
Papandreou@asu.edu
(480) 965-7881
Tempe Campus, GWC 312
Stephen Phillips
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
Stephen.phillips@asu.edu
(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, engineering education
reisslein@asu.edu
(480) 965-8539
Tempe Campus, GWC 411A
Armando Rodriguez
Armando Rodriguez
Professor
Research Interests
Control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, approximation theory, sampled data and multi-rate control, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, modeling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART) of Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment (FAME), integrated real-time health monitoring, modeling, and reconfigurable fault-tolerant controls; control of bio-economic systems, renewable resources, and sustainable development; control of semiconductor, (hypersonic) aerospace, robotic and low power electronic systems
aar@asu.edu
(480) 965-3712
Tempe Campus, GWC 352
Marco Saraniti
Marco Saraniti
Professor, Vice Dean of Faculty Administration
Research Interests
Computational electronics, biophysics
marco.saraniti@asu.edu
(480) 965-2650
Tempe Campus, ERC 537
Anna Scaglione
Anna Scaglione
Professor
Research Interests
Statistical signal and array processing, sensor networks and network science, communication and information theory, energy delivery and power systems.
Tempe Campus, GWC 310
Jennie Si
Jennie Si
Professor
Research Interests
Learning and approximate dynamic programming, estimation and filtering of stochastic processes, neural networks, neurophysiological basis for learning and cognitive processing, cortical neural information processing
si@asu.edu
(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
skromme@asu.edu
(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
spanias@asu.edu
(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; electrochemistry in solar photovoltaics; solar photovoltaic systems and applications; and two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides.
meng.tao@asu.edu
(480) 965-9845
Tempe Campus, ERC 157
Trevor Thornton
Trevor Thornton
Professor
Research Interests
Silicon-on-insulator MESFETs, molecular electronics and sensors, microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
t.thornton@asu.edu
(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
tsakalis@asu.edu
(480) 965-1467
Tempe Campus, GWC 358
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
vasileska@asu.edu
(480) 965-6651
Tempe Campus, ERC 555
Yanchao Zhang
Yanchao Zhang
Professor
Research Interests
Network and distributed system security, wireless networking, mobile computing
yczhang@asu.edu
(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
yhzhang@asu.edu
(480) 965-2562
Tempe Campus, ERC 161
Associate Professors
James Aberle
James Aberle
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Antennas, microwave and RF electronics, signal and power integrity
aberle@asu.edu
(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
visar@asu.edu
(480) 727-6455
Tempe Campus, Coor Hall 3472
Mariana Bertoni
Mariana Bertoni
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
Mariana.Bertoni@asu.edu
(480) 727-0755
Tempe Campus, ERC 173
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
jennifer.blainchristen@asu.edu
(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, electronic instrumentation for biophysical measurements
michael.goryll@asu.edu
(480) 965-9517
Tempe Campus, ERC 255
Kory Hedman
Kory Hedman
Associate Professor
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
khedman@asu.edu
(480) 965-1476
Tempe Campus, ERC 579
Keith Holbert
Keith Holbert
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Nuclear engineering, process monitoring and diagnostics, sensor fault detection, instrumentation development, radiation effects on electronics
holbert@asu.edu
(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
kitchen.jennifer@asu.edu
(480) 965-1857
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 551D
Oliver Kosut
Oliver Kosut
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Information theory, cyber-security, smart grids, active adversaries
okosut@asu.edu
(480) 727-6020
Tempe Campus, GWC 454
Christ D. Richmond
Christ D. Richmond
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Statistical, sensor, and multichannel signal processing, detection and parameter estimation, information theory (and ties to estimation theory and machine learning), performance bounds and analysis, random matrix theory, radar/sonar, communications, cooperative radar-communications, robust adaptive filtering/beamforming/spectral analysis, interference/jammer mitigation techniques, and RF emitter passive geolocation.
christ.richmond@asu.edu
(480) 965-3182
Tempe Campus, GWC 316
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
Lalitha.Sankar@asu.edu
(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
jaesun.seo@asu.edu
(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
cihan@asu.edu
(480) 965-6623
Tempe Campus, GWC 411D
Pavan Turaga
Pavan Turaga
Associate Professor
Joint appointment with the School of Arts, Media and Engineering
Research Interests
Computer vision, human activity analysis, machine learning, rehabilitation and preventive interventions
pturaga@asu.edu
(480) 965-3704
STAUFFER B-259 950 S. Forest Mall Tempe
Daniel Tylavsky
Daniel Tylavsky
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Electric power systems, numerical methods applied to large-scale system problems, parallel numerical algorithms, new educational methods and technologies, applying social optimization to power system markets, and transformer thermal modeling
tylavsky@asu.edu
(480) 965-3460
Tempe Campus, ERC 517
Hongbin Yu
Hongbin Yu
Associate 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
yuhb@asu.edu
(480) 965-4455
Tempe Campus, ERC 159
Yuji Zhao
Yuji Zhao
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Electronics and photonics; MOCVD growth and device applications of GaN wide bandgap semiconductors, including LEDs, lasers, solar cells, and power transistors; nanofabrication and nanoscale characterizations; new physics, materials, devices for future solid-state electronics
Yuji.Zhao@asu.edu
(480) 727-4450
Tempe Campus, ERC 531
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
John Brunhaver
John Brunhaver
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
VLSI design, computer architecture, procedural hardware generation, computer vision accelerators, computer graphics hardware
John.Brunhaver@asu.edu
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 551C
Gautam Dasarathy
Gautam Dasarathy
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Machine learning, statistics, signal processing, networked systems, and information theory
gautamd@asu.edu
(480) 965-5035
Ivan Sanchez Esqueda
Ivan Sanchez Esqueda
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Carbon-based nanoelectronics, reliability physics of nanoscale transistors, emerging nanotechnologies for novel computing architectures
isesqueda@asu.edu
Tempe Campus, ERC 163
Deliang Fan
Deliang Fan
Assistant 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
dfan@asu.edu
Tempe Campus, ISTB4, 551D
Yoon Hwa
Seyedmohammadreza Faghih Imani
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
Mojdeh Khorsand
Mojdeh Khorsand
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
mojdeh.khorsand@asu.edu
(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
qin.lei@asu.edu
(480) 965-0013
Robert LiKamWa
Robert LiKamWa
Assistant 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
likamwa@asu.edu
Tempe Campus, Stauffer B201
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
anamitra.pal@asu.edu
(480) 965-2882
Tempe Campus, ERC 573
Jiangchao Qin
Jiangchao Qin
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Power electronics, power electronics-based power systems, high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission and DC grids, WBG-based converters, grid integration of renewable energy resources, microgrids, energy storage systems, hybrid electric vehicles and transportation electrification, electric drives
jqin@asu.edu
(480) 965-7672
Georgios C. Trichopoulos
Georgios C. Trichopoulos
Assistant 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
Georgios.Trichopoulos@asu.edu
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 555D
Chao Wang
Chao Wang
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Nanostructures, nanoimprint lithography, nanooptics, biomolecular sensing, nanofluidics, DNA hydrodynamics, ferroelectrics.
wangch@asu.edu
(480) 965-2056
Tempe Campus, ERC 542
Yang Weng
Yang Weng
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Power systems, machine learning, demand response, data analytics, cyber-physical systems, and convex optimization
yang.weng@asu.edu
(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.
mwu@asu.edu
(480) 965-8706
Yu Yao
Yu Yao
Assistant 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
yuyao@asu.edu
(480) 965-9208
Tempe Campus, ERC 557
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
