Electrical and Computer Engineering
FACULTY DIRECTORY
Mostafa Ardakani
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-587-8883
- Email: mostafa.ardakani@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2218
- Website: Prof. Ardakani's Profile
Power and energy systems: electricity markets, energy economics, energy policy, power and energy systems, power system optimization, smart grid, transmission networks.
Habtamu Aycheh
Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
Utah Asia Campus
- Email: habtamu.aycheh@utah.edu
Artificial intelligence (AI)/ machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, bioinformatics and computational neuroscience
Evan Benoit
Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
Utah Asia Campus
- Email: evan.benoit@utah.edu
Electromagnetics, spread spectrum and sequence time domain reflectometry for impedance measurements.
Muhammad Bhutta
Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
Utah Asia Campus
- Email: raheel.bhutta@utah.edu
Brain computer interface, fNIRS based functional neuroimaging, embedded systems
Steve Blair
Professor
- Phone: 801-585-6157
- Email: blair@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3236
- Website: Prof. Blair's Profile
Optics and photonics: physics and applications of resonance phenomena and linear and nonlinear optical phenomena, specifically; resonance enhancement in fluorescence-based molecular transduction, kinetics of bi-molecular interactions, microfabricated optical biosensor array systems, design of periodic and aperiodic systems of artificial resonators, and plasmonics-nanophotonic systems based on metallic structures
Marc Bodson
Professor
- Phone: 801-581-8590
- Email: bodson@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3230
- Website: Prof. Bodson's Profile
Modeling, identification, and control, with applications to aerospace and electromechanical systems
Richard Brown
Distinguished Professor
- Phone: 801-581-6912
- Email: brown@utah.edu
- Office: WEB 1650
- Website: Dean Brown's Profile
Integrated circuits and solid-state sensors, chemical sensors, neural interfaces, electronic circuit clocking, circuit design, high performance microprocessors, and mixed signal microprocessors
Ryan Brown
Instructor (Lecturer)
- Phone: 801-587-7208
- Email: ryan.blaine.brown@utah.edu
- Office: WEB 2897
Patent law, Entrepreneurial Strategy, Communication, CLEAR—Communication, Leadership, Ethics and Research
Rong Rong Chen
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-7367
- Email: rchen@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3106
- Website: Prof. Chen's Profile
Signal processing and communication systems: efficient utilization of multiple antennas for high-rate communications in wireless networks, statistical detection methods for underwater acoustic communications, and other fields related to communication systems and statistical signal processing.
Douglas Christensen
Professor
- Phone: 801-581-7859
- Email: christen@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2456
- Website: Prof. Christensen's Profile
Fiberoptic and guided-wave sensors, especially those applicable to biomedical sensing, such as fluorescent immunosensors; numerical modeling of optical devices using finite-difference time-domain techniques, and ultrasound bioinstrumentation.
Neil Cotter
Professor (Lecturer)
Advisor: Transfer Information / Honors Thesis
- Phone: 801-581-8566
- Email: necotter@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2270
- Website: Prof. Cotter's Profile
Neural networks
Jon Davies
Engineer / Instructor
- Phone: (801) 585-9764
- Email: jon.davies@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2236
Designing and implementing instructional labs for students, supporting lab coursework, and providing design and technical support for departmental research labs and faculty.
Behrouz Farhang
Professor
- Phone: 801-587-7959
- Email: farhang@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3240
- Website: Prof. Farhang's Profile
Filter bank multicarrier communications for underwater acoustic channels, cognitive radios, and multiple access networks; detection algorithms for MIMO and OFDM; implementations on hardware platforms.
Morteza Fayazi
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-585-9906
- Email: m.fayazi@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2124
- Website: Prof. Fayazi’s Profile
Electronic Design Automation (EDA), application of Machine Learning (ML) on RF/analog/mixed-signal circuit design, System-on-Chip (SoC) design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), analog circuit design, digital circuit design, data retrieval.
Kai Fu
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-8566
- Email: kai.fu@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2136
- Website: Prof. Fu's Profile
Semiconductor devices, wide bandgap semiconductors (GaN, AlN, Ga2O3, BN, diamond), material epitaxy science, nanofabrication, semiconductor characterization, reliability, heterogeneous integration, power electronics, high-temperature electronics
Cynthia Furse
Director of Graduate Studies, ACES Fellow
Distinguished Professor
- Phone: 801-585-7234
- Email: cfurse@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2280
- Website: Prof. Furse's Profile
Electromagnetics, Intermittent fault location for aircraft wiring, antenna design and optimization, communications, bioelectromagnetics, and engineering education.
Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon
Associate Chair, Professor
- Phone: 801-585-3422
- Email: pierre-emmanuel.gaillardon@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3745
- Website: Prof. Gaillardon's Profile
Development of reconfigurable logic architectures and digital circuits exploiting emerging device technologies and novel EDA techniques.
Weilu Gao
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-7054
- Email: weilu.gao@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2122
- Website: Prof. Gao's Profile
Photonics, optoelectronics, nanomaterials, and nanostructures
Jacob George
Assistant Professor
- Phone: TBD
- Email: jake.george@utah.edu
- Office: Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital Room 2125B
- Website: Prof. George's Profile
Brain-computer interfaces, rehabilitation robotics, neural engineering, bioinspired artificial intelligence, intelligent prostheses and exoskeletons
Priyank Kalla
Professor
- Phone: 801-587-7617
- Email: kalla@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2260
- Website: Prof. Kalla's Profile
VLSI systems: automated synthesis and optimization, validation and verification of digital VLSI systems, including: formal verification of RTL descriptions, new techniques to guide CNF-SAT search, using Groebner's proof systems for simplification of design verification and SAT solving, and design automation for optic/photonic logic
Hanseup Kim
Department Chair; Director, Utah Nanofab; H. Kent Bowen Endowed Professor
USTAR Professor
- Phone: 801-587-9497
- Email: hanseup.kim@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3709
- Website: Prof. Kim's Profile
Biological nano- and micro-systems in moving fluids for medical applications including micro- pumps and valves. System integration in robotics and energy harvesting for micro- robots, actuators, hydraulics, energy harvesting systems, and manufacturing technology
Mingxi Liu
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-5953
- Email: mingxi.liu@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2250
- Website: Prof. Liu's Profile
Power and control systems: control and optimization theories and their applications in power and energy systems
Fatemeh Mahalian
Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
Associate Director, ECE at Utah Asia Campus
- Email: fatima.mahalian@utah.edu
Neural networks and signal processing
Carlos Mastrangelo
USTAR Professor
- Phone: 801-587-7587
- Email: carlos.mastrangelo@utah.edu
Microfabricated systems that interface with biological structures at multiple scales. These include new microfluidics technologies, bioMEMS, novel detection microtechnologies and methods, cell and tissue level microinstruments and microsystems.
Rajesh Menon
USTAR Professor
- Phone: 801-585-1058
- Email: rmenon@eng.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2256
- Website: Prof. Menon's Profile
Optics and nanotechnology: absorbance modulation optical lithography, patterning via optical saturable transitions, optical nanoscopy, and ultra-high frequency solar energy via a nanostructured polychromatic concentrator
Neda Nategh
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-213-3675
- Email: neda.nategh@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2220
- Website: Prof. Nategh's Profile
Visual computation and computational vision: Research in our lab employs an interdisciplinary approach to understand the real-time, robust, and efficient visual computations performed by our natural vision and to translate this knowledge into computational vision frameworks for machine vision applications, artificial vision solutions, and imaging systems.
John Palmer
Associate Professor (Lecturer)
- Phone: 801-581-7350
- Email: john.a.palmer@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2130
Power System Protection: cause and origin analysis of electrical accidents, electrical equipment failures, electrical fires, structural fires, vehicle fires, and explosions
Masood Parvania
Roger P. Webb Endowed Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-0030
- Email: masood.parvania@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2222
- Website: Prof. Parvania's Profile
Operation and planning of cyber-physical power and energy systems, with emphasis on the modeling and integration of distributed energy resources, as well as sustainable renewable energy integration
Neal Patwari
Professor
- Phone: 801-581-8282
- Email: neal.patwari@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2126
- Website: Prof. Patwari’s Profile
Wireless networking technologies which improve security, reliability, self-awareness, and sensing capabilities. Particular expertise in radio localization, locating people in buildings using RF sensors, and vital sign monitoring using RF sensors. General expertise in monitoring health and activity using wireless networks.
Angela Rasmussen
Professor (Lecturer),
Director of Mentoring & Advising
Advisor: B.S. in Electrical Engineering Students
- Phone: 801-581-6952
- Email: angela.rasmussen@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2268
- Website: Prof. Rasmusssen's Profile
Microelectronics and VLSI Systems
Benjamin Sanchez
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-1494
- Email: benjamin.sanchez@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3721
- Website: Prof. Sanchez's Profile
Applied bioelectromagnetics for health measurement and monitoring
Mike Scarpulla
Professor
- Phone: 801-585-1231
- Email: scarpulla@eng.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2138
- Website: Prof. Scarpulla's Profile
Semiconductors and photovoltaics: earth-abundant, benign compound semiconductors for thin film photovoltaics such as Cu2ZnSnS4. Other sulfide semiconductors for PV, light management for thin film PV, CIGS, laser processing of semiconductors, and the physics of semiconductor alloys and transition metal and rare earth additions to semiconductors.
David Schurig
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor
- Email: david.schurig@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2274
- Website: Prof. Schurig's Profile
Metamaterials: Design, analysis and fabrication of metamaterials in frequency ranges from megahertz to petahertz. Transformation design of devices implementable with metamaterials. Applications include: remote sensing, near-field imaging, biological imaging, implantable devices, electro-mechanical devices and invisibility cloaking.
Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-5657
- Email: berardi.sensale@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2134
- Website: Prof. Sensale's Profile
EM and optics: terahertz technology, high frequency electronics, two dimensional materials, active metamaterials, plasmonics, and nanophotonics
Jamesina Simpson
Associate Chair
Professor
- Phone: 801-585-6929
- Email: jamesina.simpson@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2278
- Website: Prof. Simpson's Profile
Computational electromagnetics theory and applications; finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solutions to Maxwell's equations from near-DC to light; electromagnetic propagation in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide; electromagnetic compatibility; plasmonics; biophotonics
Florian Solzbacher
Gerald and Barbara Stringfellow Endowed Professor
- Phone: 801-581-6942
- Email: florian.solzbacher@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2110C
- Website: Prof. Solzbacher's Profile
Harsh Environment MEMS, including: materials (SiC (on Si), SOI, GaN), metallisation systems for high temperatures and aggressive ambient conditions, and silicon fusion bonding and packaging issues
Ken Stevens
Professor
- Phone: 801-585-9176
- Email: kstevens@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2254
VLSI, asynchronous circuit design and architecture, timing analysis, and formal verification
Gerald Stringfellow
Distinguished Professor
- Phone: 801-581-8387
- Email: stringfellow@ece.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3110
- Website: Prof. Stringfellow's Profile
Advanced materials and microelectronics: ceramics, advanced materials, microelectronics, and a broad range of topics related to materials science and electronics
Massood Tabib-Azar
USTAR Professor
- Phone: 801-581-8775
- Email: azar.m@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3737
- Website: Prof. Tabib-Azar's Profile
Nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS), nano devices and molecular electronics, metrology tools, microwave-AFM for bio-nano-info, and novel fabrication techniques
Armin Tajalli
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-581-4840
- Email: armin.tajalli@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2224
- Website: Prof. Tajalli's Profile
Integrated wireline and wireless systems, energy-efficient integrated systems, high-speed wireline systems, RF circuits, data converters, phase-locked loops and frequency synthesisers, analog integrated circuits, extremely low power integrated systems
Tolga Tasdizen
Associate Chair, USTAR Professor
- Phone: 801-581-3539
- Email: tasdizen@ece.utah.edu
- Office: WEB 4893
- Website: Prof. Tasdizen's Profile
Image processing and pattern recognition, specifically: geometry-based and statistics-based methods for image filtering, segmentation and feature extraction using high-order partial differential equations for image and surface reconstruction; applying these methods to problems in biomedical imaging, particularly neural circuit reconstruction from very large-scale microscopy image datasets
Amy Verkler
Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
- Phone: 801-581-6490
- Email: amy.verkler@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2260
Engineering Education, Optics
Yu Xiang
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-587-5223
- Email: yu.xiang@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3104
- Website: Prof. Xiang's Profile
Statistical signal processing, information theory, and machine learning: learning under distribution shifts, representation learning, recourse-constrained distributed signal processing
Heayoung Yoon
Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-0334
- Email: heayoung.yoon@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2136
- Website: Prof. Yoon's Profile
Solar energy conversion, NanoEngineering: Engineering micro/nanomaterials to enhance device performance and functionality in the fields of solar energy conversion, advanced nanoelectronics, and 3D hybrid imaging at nanoscale
Darrin Young
USTAR Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-581-6512
- Email: darrin.young@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3741
- Website: Prof. Young's Profile
Low-power integrated circuits design coupled with MEMS-based sensing systems for wearable sensing, biomedical implant, environmental sensing, power transfer, RF communication, and general industrial sensing applications
Simon Binder
Research Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-587-0641
- Email: simon.binder@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3675
- Website: Prof. Binder's Profile
Micromechanical sensors, instrumentation engineering, microfabrication, smart hydrogels, biomedical sensors, environmental sensors, neural implants.
Jairo Giraldo
Research Assistant Professor
- Email: jairo.giraldo@utah.edu
Designing the next generation of resilient and sustainable power and energy systems that integrates emerging energy technologies and distributed energy
Lars Laurentius
Research Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-213-2776
- Email: lars.laurentius@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3705
- Website: Prof. Laurentius's Profile
Biosensors and nanotechnology: modification of nanostructures, spectroscopy, polymer chemistry, and the development of sensors for the detection of biomarkers for healthcare-related challenges
Apratim Majumder
Research Assistant Professor
- Email: apratim.majumder@utah.edu
- Website: Prof. Majumder's Profile
Diffractive flat optics, holograms, nanophotonics, metamaterials, hyperspectral imaging, photolithography
Moses Seungbeom Noh
Research Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-585-9535
- Email: moses.noh@utah.edu
- Office: 3606 SMBB
- Website: Prof. Noh's Profile
Micro/nano sensor, in vitro BBB model and lung model, and carbon sequestration.
Rajmohan Bhandari
Adjunct Associate Professor
Blackrock Microsystems
- Email: rajmon10@gmail.com
Design and fabrication of implantable devices, materials science and system integration
Erik Brunvand
Adjunct Professor
University of Utah School of Computing
- Phone: 801-581-4345
- Email: elb@cs.utah.edu
- Office: MEB 3142
Computer architecture and VLSI
Edward Dibella
Adjunct Professor
Radiology
- Phone: 801-585-5543
- Email: edward.dibella@hsc.utah.edu
- Office: 729 Arapeen Way
Advanced MRI imaging, positron emission tomography (PET), image processing, computer-assisted dynamic imaging
Daniel Drew
Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Website: Prof. Drew's Profile
Design of autonomous millimeter-scale robots, including MEMS microactuators, mesoscale manufacturing techniques, and electronic system integration.
Bruce Gale
Adjunct Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
- Phone: 801 585-5944
- Email: gale@mech.utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3711
MEMS
Tridib Ghosh
Adjunct Assistant Professor
SharpEyes LLC.
- Email: tridib.ghosh@live.com
Developing autofocus eyewear
Bishnu Gogoi
Adjunct Associate Professor
AXTEC Consulting Group
MEMS sensors, multi-sensor integration, MEMS-CMOS integration, CMOS and discrete transistor technologies, microfluidics, biotech devices, passives, chip-scale packaging and custom package development
Joel Harley
Adjunct Assistant Professor
University of Florida
- Email: joel.harley@ufl.edu
Signal processing for complex wave propagation, cyber-physical systems, structural health monitoring, compressed sensing, matched field processing, machine learning, statistical signal processing, big data, transform theory
Mingyue Ji
Adjunct Associate Professor
Information theory, communications, signal processing, storage, distributed computing, fundamental limits, code design and algorithms of caching networks with various structures, channel models and communication schemes. Distributed storage for big data and interaction between distributed (cloud) storage and content delivery networks. Fundamental theory and algorithms of distributed computing for big data
Sneha Kasera
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Adjunct Professor
- Phone: 801-581-5184
- Email: kasera@cs.utah.edu
- Office: 1897 WEB
- Website: Prof. Kasera's Profile
Julia Kőrner
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Leibniz University Hannover
- Email: koerner@geml.uni-hannover.de
Micro- and nanomechanical oscillation-based sensors, biomedical sensors
Sriram Krishnamoorthy
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
Semiconductors-based nanoscale electronic/optoelectronic devices, with focus on material synthesis, electronic transport, design/modeling, nanoscale fabrication, and characterization of devices and materials. Specifically, wide band gap oxide/nitride semiconductor devices for a wide range of applications such as power electronics, ultra-violet optoelectronics, vacuum electronics, and high temperature electronics
Paul Kuhn
Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Email: paul.kuhn@utah.edu
PK Consulting LLC: Electromagnetic and ultrasonic reflectometry imaging, neural networks and machine learning, biomedical sensors and instrumentation, signal and image processing, and reconfigurable electronic architectures
John Mathews
Adjunct Professor
Oregon State University
- Email: mathews@oregonstate.edu
Nonlinear and adaptive signal processing and machine learning, with applications in audio and communication systems, neural engineering, biomedicine, and structural health management
Hyde Merrill
Adjunct Professor
Merrill Energy
- Email: hyde@merrillenergy.com
Cascading blackouts of the electric power system
Glen Morrell
Adjunct Associate Professor
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
- Email: glen.morrell@hsc.utah.edu
Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research: Medical imaging, specifically MRI
Chris Myers
Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado
- Phone: 303-735-0316
- Email: chris.myers@colorado.edu
Asynchronous circuit design, formal verification of analog/mixed signal circuits and cyber-physical systems, and modeling, analysis and design of genetic circuits
Sandeep Negi
Adjunct Associate Professor
Blackrock Microsystems
- Email: s.negi@utah.edu
- Website: Prof. Negi’s Profile
Develop and test (in-vivo) a chronically implantable neural recording array and provide the device to the neuroscience community upon completion of the initial technical development phase for experimental use and evaluation
Frederic Noo
Adjunct Professor
Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research
- Phone: 801-581-5347
- Email: noo@ucair.med.utah.edu
- Office: 729 Arapeen Way
Radiology
Christopher Reiche
Research Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-585-2365
- Email: christopher.reiche@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3715
- Website: Prof. Reiche's Profile
Biomedical sensors and MEMS/NEMS
Shadrach Roundy
Adjunct Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
- Phone: 801-581-4304
- Email: shad.roundy@utah.edu
- Office: MEK 1153
Inventions for wireless networks which improve their security, reliability, self-awareness, and sensing capabilities; research applies statistical signal processing, networking, and radio propagation techniques
Steven Smith
Adjunct Assistant Professor
RF Engineering Resources, LLC
- Email: smsmith354@hotmail.com
Computational electromagnetics (e.g. Stochastic-FDTD), RF-Microwave circuit design and optimization.
Prashant Tathireddy
Adjunct Associate Professor
Applied Biosensors
- Email: p.tathireddy@utah.edu
Micro integration, interfacial science, biosensors, medical microsensors
Ross Walker
Adjunct Associate Professor
- Phone: 801-585-1494
- Email: ross.walker@utah.edu
- Office: SMBB 3729
- Website: Prof. Walker's Profile
Mixed-signal circuits for sensor systems
Jeffrey Walling
Adjunct Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
- Email: jswalling@vt.edu
Silicon based analog/RF circuits for high-efficiency, high performance transceivers; Ultra low power circuits for wireless sensor networks; Reconfigurable circuits for software defined radio
Yunshan Wang
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering Department
- Phone: 801-581-3395
- Email: yunshan.wang@utah.edu
- Office: MEB 2284
Inventions for wireless networks which improve their security, reliability, self-awareness, and sensing capabailities; research applies statistical signal processing, networking, and radio propagation techniques
David Warren
Adjunct Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering Department
- Phone: 801-585-2697
- Email: david.warren@utah.edu
- Office: BPRB 506E
Yi Zhou
Adjunct Assistant Professor
NSF Career
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming, deep learning theory, stochastic and nonconvex optimization, reinforcement learning, distributed machine learning system, statistical signal processing