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	Lo'ay Abu Salah, Research Assistant Professor PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006 Wireless sensor networks, network security, computer networking, Communications and Signal Processing, computer simulation models, Biometric systems, optimal control in robotics and Interdisciplinary Product Development.
email	1034 SEO	312.413.0030	web page
	Rashid Ansari, Professor PhD, Princeton University, 1981 Image and video processing, layered video compression and packetized transmission, multi-modal signal analysis, multirate filter banks and wavelets, and speech processing.
email	1141 SEO	312.996.5489	web page
	Robert Becker, Lecturer MSc, The University of Illinois, Chicago, 1989
email	913 SEO	312.996.5453	web page
	Jezekiel Ben-Arie, Professor PhD, Israel Institute of Technology, 1986 Computer vision, image processing, video processing, neural networks, multimedia databases, signal processing, auditory modelling, computer engineering, human computer interaction, human activity analysis.
email	1101 SEO	312.996.2648	web page
	Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Emeritus Professor PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1967 Electromagnetics, inverse scattering, modern optics, geoelectromagnetism, electromagnetic imaging, remote sensing, wideband radar and optical polarimetry.
email	4210 SEL	312.996.5480	web page
	Vahe Caliskan, Lecturer PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000 Power electronics, analog circuit design, automotive electronics and computer-aided modeling/simulation.
email	921 SEO	312.996.6013	web page
	Masud Hasan Chowdhury, Assistant Professor PhD, Northwestern University, 2004 High performance issues in deep sub-micron VLSI circuits.
email	923 SEO	312.996.6016	web page
	Natasha Devroye, Assistant Professor PhD, Harvard University, 2007 Applied mathematics, communications and signal processing with a particular focus on cognitive radio networks, information theory, multi-user communication and coding, wireless networks, and two-way communications.
email	1039 SEO	312.996.1013	web page
	Shantanu Dutt, Professor PhD, University of Michigan, 1990 Computer-Aided design of FPGA and VLSI circuits (physical design, physical synthesis, logic synthesis, high-level synthesis, timing and power-driven design tools with temperature considerations), combinatorial optimization, fault-tolerant computing—systems and chips, trust and security in VLSI chips and computer systems, FPGA testing, and parallel computing.
email	930 SEO	312.355.1314	web page
	Mitra Dutta, Distinguished Professor and Head of Department PhD, University of Cincinnati, 1981 Optoelectronics devices and novel quantum and nanoscale devices, optical characterization of optoelectronic devices and structures, wide band gap structures and devices, bio-optoelectronics.
email	1027 SEO	312.355.2131	web page
	Danilo Erricolo, Associate Professor PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1998 Electromagnetic scattering, propagation of electromagnetic radiation in complex environments, interaction of electromagnetic radiation with digital systems, wireless communications.
email	1111 SEO	312.996.5771	web page
	Alan Feinerman, Associate Professor PhD, Northwestern University, 1987 Miniaturization of the scanning electron microscope; linear accelerator/undulator and other analytical instruments; 3D-fabrication techniques.
email	3019 ERF	312.996.2313	web page
	Siddhartha Ghosh, Associate Professor PhD, University of Michigan, 2003 Molecular beam epitaxy of compound semiconductors and multifunctional oxides (BaTiO3, ZnO, HgCdTe, etc) and fabrication of high-performance optoelectronic devices.
email	3015 ERF	312.996.5256	web page
	Vladimir Goncharoff, Lecturer PhD, Northwestern University, 1983 Digital speech processing; computer-aided circuit analysis.
email	1008 SEO	312.996.3421	web page
	Daniel Graupe, Emeritus Professor PhD, University of Liverpool, England, 1963 Control systems, time series analysis, stochastic signal and image processing, wavelets, blind adaptive filtering, neural networks, neural engineering, electrical neuromuscular stimulation and biomedical control, speech processing.
email	1117 SEO	312.996.3085	web page
	Ashfaq Khokhar, Professor PhD, University of Southern California, 1993 Content-based storage and retrieval for multimedia applications, distributed multimedia database systems and networks, data mining and OLAP high performance computing, image and video processing, parallel architectures and algorithms.
email	1013 SEO	312.413.9460	web page
	Sharad R. Laxpati, Associate Professor PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1965 Electromagnetic theory, antennae, computational electromagnetic scattering, microwaves, wave propagation and communication.
email	1105 SEO	312.996.5493	web page
	Gyungho Lee, Professor PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986 Computer architecture, microprocessor and networking hardware design, compiler optimization, and computer system security.
email	1032 SEO	312.413.9657	web page
	James Lin, Professor PhD, University of Washington, 1971 Biomedical instrumentation; electromagnetic engineering for biology and medicine; imaging and sensing; bioelectromagnetics; mobile telecommunication safety; biological interactions of electromagnetic radiation including RF, microwaves, and lasers.
email	1030 SEO	312.413.1052	web page
	Derong Liu, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1994 Wireless communications and wireless networks, intelligent control and learning control, and computational intelligence.
email	1023 SEO	312.355.4475	web page
	Sudip K. Mazumder, Associate Professor PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, 2001 Interactive power networks, optical switching in power electronics, wireless motion sensing, fuel cell modeling and fuel cell power-conditioner system design, nonlinear analysis and control, modeling for packaging and prototyping.
email	3013 ERF	312.355.1315	web page
	Vitali Metlushko, Professor PhD, Moscow State University, Moscow, 1990 Advanced recording media, new magnetic materials and nano-technology.
email	3011 ERF	312.413.7574	web page
	Roland Priemer, Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies PhD, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1969 Optimal and adaptive digital signal processing; fuzzy logic; neural networks; microprocessor based applications.
email	1123 SEO	312.996.5491	web page
	Wenjing Rao, Assistant Professor PhD, University of California, San Diego, 2008 Reliability, Computer Aided Design, and novel computation paradigms in emerging nanoelectronic systems, defect and fault tolerance, VLSI test.
email	1036 SEO	312.355.0311	web page
	Dan Schonfeld, Professor PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1990 Signal, Image, and Video Processing; Video Communications; Video Retrieval; Video Networks; Image Analysis and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; and Genomic Signal Processing.
email	1104 SEO	312.996.5847	web page
	Michael Stroscio, Professor PhD, Yale University, 1974 Electrical, optical, and mechanical properties of nanostructures, quantum transport, solid state electronics and optoelectronics, phonons in nanostructures, theory of nanodevices, applications of nanoscale structures and devices in electrical engineering and bioengineering.
email	808 SEO	312.413.5968	web page
	R. Michael Tanner, Professor, Provost, and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs PhD, Stanford University, 1971 Coding and information theory, computer simulation models, educational uses of information technology, and intellectual property.
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	Daniela Tuninetti, Assistant Professor PhD, Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications, 2002 Information and Coding Theory with special focus on multiuser networks and wireless communications. Our goal is to understand the ultimate limits of communication networks, seen a system,from physical layer to networking layer.
email	1038 SEO	312.413.7431	web page
	Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi, Professor PhD, University of Michigan, 1967 Electromagnetics, scattering theory, modern optics, solid state, applied mathematics.
email	807 SEO	312.996.5487	web page
	Kaijie Wu, Assistant Professor PhD, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, 2004 Computer Aided Design (CAD) of fault tolerant VLSI systems, countermeasures for side-channel cryptanalysis for crypto devices, hardware acceleration of secure communications, robust quantum-dot cellular automata based circuit design.
email	1037 SEO	312.413.7573	web page
	H. Y. David Yang, Professor PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1988 On-chip high-peformance inductor and transformer designs for RFIC, novel printed-circuit board antennas for wireless communications, RF interferences with electronics devices, and photonic band-gap structures.
email	1135 SEO	312.996.0675	web page
	Yingwei Yao, Assistant Professor PhD, Princeton University, 2002 Energy-constrained wirless networks, adaptive protocol design for wireless communications, wireless multimedia systems design and analysis, blind system identification and blind source separation.
email	1106 SEO	312.996.3420	web page
	Philip S. Yu, Professor and Wexler Chair in Information Technology PhD, Stanford University, 1978 Data mining, database and web
email	1138 SEO	312.996.0498	web page
	Oliver Yu, Research Associate Professor PhD, University of B.C., 1997 Next generation Internet with differentiated and integrated services; WDM optical-switched network with GMPLS signaling and optical QoS control; 3G/4G wireless mobile network with end-to-end QoS control and mobility support over wireless medium and IP-based core network.
email	1108 SEO	312.996.2308	web page
	Milos Zefran, Associate Professor PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1996 Robotics, modeling and control of hybrid systems, geometric methods for robot trajectory planning, numerical methods for optimal control in robotics, human manipulation, rehabilitation.
email	1028 SEO	312.996.6495	web page
	Zhichun Zhu, Assistant Professor PhD, College of William and Mary, 2003 Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, performance modeling and evaluation, and energy-efficient computer designs.
email	1015 SEO	312.355.0441	web page

ADJUNCT FACULTY

	Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President of Research and Director of HP Labs Worldwide PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1984 Parallel alorithms for VLSI design automation, distributed memory parallel compilers, and compilers for adaptive computing.
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	Heinz Busta, Adjunct Professor Founder, Prairie Prototypes, LLC PhD, Physics, Northwestern University, 1973 MEMS/NEMS, sensors and actuators, nanofabrication, vacuum microelectronics, display technology, and programmed micro/nano assembly.
email	3014 ERF	847.698.3757	web page
	Florin Balasa, Assistant Professor PhD, Polytechnical University of Bucharest, 1981 High-level synthesis and system-level exploration, physical design automation, mathematical programming & combinatorial optimization techniques and applications in CAD VLSI, data dependence analysis and code restructuring
email	1138 SEO	312.355.2139	web page
	Ajay Kshemkalyani, Associate Professor PhD, Ohio State University, 1991 Computer networks, distributed computing, distributed systems, algorithms, concurrent systems.
email	915 SEO	312.355.1309	web page
	John Lillis, Associate Professor PhD, University of California San Diego, 1996 CAD for VLSI -- placement, routing, logic synthesis, timing optimization; combinatorial Optimization -- local search, heurstics based on constraint imposition and relaxation.
email	936 SEO	312.355.1317	web page
	Derrick C. Mancini, Professor PhD, Uppsala University, 1994 Nanofabrication, advanced lithographies, MEMS & NEMS, nanofluids and nanogels, x-ray nanocharacterization and nanotomography, x-ray optics, and synchrotron radiation instrumentation.
email		630.400.0147
	Arye Nehorai, Professor PhD, Stanford University, 1983 Signal processing, communications, and biomedicine.
email	1103 ERF	312.996.2778	web page
	Vera Pless, Professor
email	507 SEO	312.413.2177	web page
	Charles Rhodes, Professor PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969 Atomic and Molecular Physics
email	2140 SES	312.996.4868	web page
	Siva Sivanantham, Professor PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1988 Experimental condensed matter
email	2360 SES	312.996.5092	web page
	Stephen Yau, Professor PhD, The State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1976 Algebraic geometry, singularity theory; complex geometry; CR geometry; nonlinear filtering theory; algebraic geometry code; information theory; control theory; financial math; image database; computer software testing.
email	409 SEO	312.996.3065