Assistant Professor
PhD: computer science from the University of California, San Diego MS: computer science from the University of California, San Diego BS: computer science and mathematics from the University of Washington Research interests: embedded and cyberphysical systems security, technology policy, modern algebra, category theory, cryptography, programming languages, compilers
Balajee Vamanan, PhD Assistant Professor PhD: networks and computer systems from Purdue University BS: electrical and electronics engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India Research interests: emerging networking paradigms, such as software-defined networking and function virtualization and network optimizations for interactive online services (e.g. Web search, social networks), and the architecture of power management and memory systems
Besma Smida
Zhao Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
PhD: telecommunications from the University of Quebec MS: telecommunications from the University of Quebec BS: telecommunications from the Ecole Superieure des Communications de Tunis
PhD: computer science from the University of Chicago MS: computer science from the University of Chicago BS: software engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (China)
Research interests: solving fundamental problems in wireless communications, information theory, and signal processing and creating spectrum-efficient two-way wireless networks to meet the increasing demand for high-speed data services
Mojtaba Soltanalian, PhD Assistant Professor PhD: electrical engineering from Uppsala University (Sweden) BS: electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran) Research interests: using signal processing and optimization theory to facilitate a better processing and design of signals for collecting information and forming a more profound understanding of data in everyday applications and in large-scale, complex scenarios
Xinhua Zhang, PhD
Amit Trivedi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
PhD: computer science from Australian National University MS: computer science from National University of Singapore BS: computer science and engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
PhD: computer engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology MS: computer engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) BS: computer engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur)
Research interests: machine learning in convex models for learning predictive representation with applications in pattern recognition, document analysis, and image processing
Research interests: distributed computing, high-performance computing, cloud computing, energy-aware computing, and big data with focuses on enabling concise, fast, and scalable execution of parallel scripting applications on large-scale computers through proper design and implementations of programming models, runtime systems, and file systems
Department of Chemical Engineering
Stephen Checkoway, PhD
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Sangil Kim, PhD Assistant Professor
PhD: chemical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University MS: chemical engineering from the University of Cincinnati; polymer science from Chungnam National University (South Korea) BS: polymer science and engineering from Chungnam National University (South Korea) Research interests: developing new membrane materials, understanding functioning mechanisms of the nanostructured device, and exploring a wide application space ranging from energy-efficient water purification and gas separation through biomedical engineering to clean-energy production :
Research interests: ultralow power circuits and systems, circuit design with emerging technologies, hardware security, energyefficient neuromorphic computing, and tunneling field-effect transistors
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