Graduate Faculty
I. Androulakis
Dept of Biomedical Engineering
(848) 445-6561, ioannis.androulakis@rutgers.edu, BME-212
Research area: Systems biology
Research interests: Functional links between cellular events, such as signaling transcription and
translation. Interactions that include bidirectional links between cells, tissues, organs,
environmental signals, and physiological responses.
W. Bajwa
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-8541, waheed.bajwa@rutgers.edu, CoRE 723
Research area: Digital Signal Processing
Research interests: Digital signal processing, high-dimensional inference and inverse problems, compressed sensing, wireless communications.
H. Baruh
Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
(848) 445-3680, baruh@rutgers.edu, ENG-B242
Research Interests: Structural dynamics, control of structures using piezoelectric component, impact dynamics, control of systems describing constrained coordinates, autonomous vehicle control, structural
damage detection.
A. Bletsas
Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(848) 445-3127, aggelos.bletsas@rutgers.edu, CoRE-530
Research Interests: Scalable wireless communications and networking, wireless sensor networks, signal processing for communications, RFID, radio hardware / software implementations for wireless transceivers and synthesis of low-cost sensor networks.
D. Burbano Lombana
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-0436, daniel.burbano@rutgers.edu, EE-217
Research area: Control Systems
Research Interests: Dynamical systems and control theory, distributed network systems, collective animal behavior, swarm intelligence, and robot autonomy
M. Caggiano
Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(848) 445-0678, michael.caggiano@rutgers.edu, EE-111
Research Interests: High performance and microwave IC device packaging. Electronic circuits.
T. Chakraborty
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research interests: testing of digital and mixed-signal circuits, verification algorithms, boundary scan testing
Y. Chen
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-9151, yingying.chen@rutgers.edu, CoRE-506
Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Networking, Computer Engineering,
Mobile healthcare, Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Security and Privacy, Connected vehicles, Mobile Computing and Sensing.
S-W. Cheong
Dept of Physics and Astronomy
(848) 445-9023, sangc@physics.rutgers.edu, Serin W123
Research Interests: Experimental condensed-matter physics and material science.
K. Dana
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-5253 , kristin.dana@rutgers.edu, CoRE-514
Research Interests: Computational models for image texture with applications in pattern recognition and scene rendering. Physics-based methods for vision and graphics. Stochastic processes for surface
modeling and texture analysis. Medical image processing using image registration, fusion and
change detection. Optical imaging models for microscopy.
F. J. Diez-Garias
Dept of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
(848) 445-3665, f.javier.diez@rutgers.edu, Engineering B-236
Research Interests: Experimental thermal and fluid sciences, fire safety, sprays, microfluidics, flow diagnostics, turbulence, combustion and energy.
S. El Rouayheb
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-9154, salim.elrouayheb@rutgers.edu, CoRE-717
Research Areas: Communications, Cybersecurity, Information theory,
Research Interests: Coding theory, and their applications to data security and privacy.
L. C. Feldman
Institute of Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology
(848) 445-4526, l.c.feldman@rutgers.edu, CCR-206
Research Interests: The chemical formation and structure of thin film materials and their applications to problems of semiconductor science and engineering and applications associated with energy. Included in the latter are the fundamentals of photon interactions with solids, and radiation effects in semiconductor materials.
Z. Gajic
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-3415, zgajic@rutgers.edu, EE-134A
Research Area: Systems and Controls
Research Interests: Singular perturbation methods in control system analysis. Linear stochastic estimation and control. Deterministic and stochastic differential games. Bilinear control systems. Jump parameter linear stochastic systems and Markov chains. Matrix Lyapunov and Riccati equations. Control of power in optical and wireless networks, fuel and solar cells, and energy systems.
M. Gurbuzbalaban
Dept of Management Science and Information Systems
(617) 324-0645, mg1366@rutgers.edu, 100 Rockafeller Road, Room 5142
Research Interests: Optimization and computational science driven by applications in large-scale information, decision and infrastructure systems. My work draws and extends ideas and tools from convex optimization, probability and control of systems.
S. Haghani
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-0606, sasan.haghani@rutgers.edu, EE-122
Research Areas: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Applied signal processing with applications in biomedical and environmental domains, network science, smart cities, renewable energy and smartgrids, microgrids, home automation for smartgrids, wireless sensor networks, and broadband communications.
S. J. Hanson
Dept of Physiology, Newark (Brain Imaging Center)
(973) 353-5440 x 3952, jose@phychology.rutgers.edu, Smith Hall 324
Research Interests: Learning theory and experiment, connectionist models of human characterization and object recognition, brain imaging – predictive decoding/MVPA and graphical models, event perception, language supporting functions.
U. Hassan
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-2164, umer.hassan@rutgers.edu, EE-215
Research area: Bioelectronics
Research Interests: Micro/Nano Sensing, BioMEMS & Microfluidics,
Disease Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Personalized Medicine, Immuno-Engineering,
Predictive Prognostics Healthcare systems, Global Health applications.
R. Howard
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 932-0905 ; reh@winlab.rutgers.edu, WINLAB Tech Center
Research area: Communications
Research Interests: Low energy sensors/networks, wireless PHY enhancements, HCI technology.
S. Jalali
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-5309, shirin.jalali@rutgers.edu, CoRE-721
Research area: Computer Engineering
Research Interests: High-dimensional inference and inverse problems, computational imaging, machine learning, information theory, and statistical signal processing
M. Javanmard
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-3382, mehdi.javanmard@rutgers.edu, EE-211
Research area: Electronics
Research Interests: Nanobiotechnology, BioMEMS, Microfluidics, Micro and Nanofabrication, Biosensing, Bioelectronics, Early Cancer Diagnostic Systems, Pathogen Detection, Diagnostics for the Developing World
S. Jha
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-8537, shantenu.jha@rutgers.edu, CoRE-705
Research area: Computer Engineering
Research Interests: High-performance and distributed computing, scientific computation, large-scale
cyberinfrastructure for supporting scientific and engineering computation.
D. Kruger
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-9146, dov.kruger@rutgers.edu, EE-220
Research area: Computer Engineering
Research Interests: High-performance high-security networking, re-engineering the web to be much faster by transmitting data in binary, explicit control of local data storage, innovated data compression, computer architecture, 3D printing and educational engineering research.
J. K-J. Li
Dept of Biomedical Engineering
(848) 445-6582, johnkjli@rci.rutgers.edu, Biomedical Eng’g Bldg BME-305
Research Interests: Circulatory dynamics; instrumentation; physiological control.
H. Liu
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-0876, hang.liu@rutgers.edu, CoRE-509
Research area: Computer Engineering
Research interests: High performance computing, graphic analytics, machine learning, and numerical methods
Y. Liu
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
yao.liu@rutgers.edu, CoRE-518
Research area: Computer Engineering
Research interests: Immersive video streaming, virtual/augmented/mixed reality, multimedia systems, edge/cloud computing, computer networks, mobile systems, and distributed systems.
N. Mandayam
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-1494, mandayam@winlab.rutgers.edu, EE-128
Research area: Communications
Research Interests: Communication theory, spread spectrum, wireless system performance, multi-access protocols, multimedia communications over wireless systems, multiuser detection.
I. Marsic
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-6399 , marsic@rutgers.edu, CoRE-711
Research Area: Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Distributed Systems for Collaborative/Information Processing and Learning-(DISCIPLE), methods of object recognition in wavelet scale, image reconstruction, and machine vision.
R. Martin
Dept of Computer Science
(848) 445-8304, rmartin@rutgers.edu
Research Interests: Sensor networks, wireless networks, internet, localization, ad-hoc communication networks.
J. McGarvey
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-9126, johnmcg@rutgers.edu, EE-218
Research Ares: Control Systems and Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Design and simulation of power electronic systems, control system modeling via both classic and state-space techniques, and the design and testing of motor control systems.
A. Morozov
Rutgers Center for Quantitative Biology
(848) 445-1387, morozov@physics.rutgers.edu, Physics E266
Research Areas: Biological Physics
Research interests: Chromatin physics and biology, evolutionary theory and population genetics, evolution of proteins and protein complexes, co-evolution of DNA-binding factors and their cognate sites. The physics of protein-DNA recognition and transcription factors, and non-equilibrium processes.
S. Niu
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
(848) 445-6567, simiao.niu@rutgers.edu, Biomed Bldg. 304
Research interests: Wearable physiological signal monitoring and energy harvesting systems for biomedical applications.
L. Najafizadeh
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-0593 , laleh.najafizadeh@rutgers.edu, CoRE-520
Research Area: Nano and Microelectronics
Research interests: Brain imaging, microelectronics and circuits design, signal processing and biophotonics
S. Oh
Dept of Physics and Astronomy
(848) 445-8754 , ohsean@physics.rutgers.edu, Serin W121
Research Interests: Molecular beam epitaxy of functional oxides and quantum materials, and low dimensional electronic properties.
H. Ortiz
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-5243 , jorge.ortiz@rutgers.edu, CoRE-519
Research Interests: Machine learning for cyber-physical systems and the Internet-of-Things. Machine learning applications in intelligent infrastructure and smart health care. Making sensor-based systems smarter, more trustworthy, and easier to use.
V. M. Patel
Johns Hopkins University, Maryland
pvishalm@gmail.com
Research Interests: Computer vision, signal, image and video processing, biometrics, pattern recognition, mobile
security and privacy, radar imaging, computational imaging, compressive sampling, image
reconstruction.
A. Petropulu
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-0414, athinap@rutgers.edu, CoRE-510
Research areas: Digital Signal Processing and Communications
Research Interests: Statistical signal processing – system identification; MIMO system estimation; blind source separation; higher-order statistics. Networking – cooperative protocols for wireless networks;
high-speed wireline and wireless traffic modeling; cross-layer approaches. Wireless
communications – blind channel estimation and equalization; CDMA systems; OFDM systems.
Biomedical engineering – tissue characterization for breast cancer detection based on the
ultrasound RF echo; resolution improvement of ultrasound images; Raman spectroscopy for tissue
characterization.
D. Pompili
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-8533 , pompili@rutgers.edu, CoRE-615
Research area: Computer engineering
Research Interests: Sensor Networks, Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks, Sensor and Actor Networks, Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Internet, Wireless Mobile Networks, Overlay Networks, Traffic Engineering, Optimization, Multimedia Communications, Satellite Networks.
S. Ramanathan
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-3466, shriram.ramanathan@rutgers.edu, EE-236
Research area: Solid State Electronics
Research Interests: Oxide quantum materials and devices, electromagnetic materials, and brain-inspired electronics.
D. Raychaudhuri
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Area: Communications
(848) 445-0941, ray@winlab.rutgers.edu, WINLAB WTC-103;
Research Interests: Network architecture, design and prototyping; Communication protocols/software; Quality-of-Service, mobility management, and content delivery in mobile networks; Wireless system design, including spectrum management, radio MAC/link protocols and network management; Broadband network technologies.
A. Reihani
Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
(848) 445-2213, amin.reihani@rutgers.edu, Engineering D-157;
Research Interests: Micro and nanoscale transport phenomena in energy systems, electronics, and photoic devices.
A. Sarwate
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-8516, anand.sarwate@rutgers.edu, CoRE-517
Research area: Signal Processing Research Interests: Information processing in distributed systems, using tools from machine learning, signal processing, information theory, statistics, and optimization. I am interested in designing methods to learn from data which is private or sensitive.
D. Silver
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-5117, dsilver@rutgers.edu, CoRE-709
Research area: Computer Engineering and computer graphics
Research Interests: Computer graphics, scientific visualization, numerical analysis, computational geometry.
V.K. Singh
(848) 932-7588, vivek.k.singh@rutgers.edu, CI-334
Research Interests: Data analytics-driven sensing and shaping of human behavior.
E. Soljanin
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-5256, emina.soljanin@rutgers.edu, CoRE-511
Research areas: Communications and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Mathematics of distributed systems, in particular concerning mechanisms for efficient, reliable, and secure distributed data storage that provide fast access, download, and streaming of big data files. Coding, information and queuing theory. Applications of probability, algebra, graph and number theory, and combinatorics to distributed systems.
P. Spasojevic
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-1372, spasojev@winlab.rutgers.edu, CoRE-504
Research area: Communications
Research Interests: Wireless and wired digital communications, adaptive and statistical signal processing, sequence and channel estimation, multi-user detection; equalization and synchronization, iterative detection, and receiver implementation.
M. Striki
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-9145, maria.striki@rutgers.edu, EE-115
Research area: Computer Engineering
Research Interests: analysis/design/optimization of data algorithms, statistical analysis, mathematical modeling, big data, data analytics, social networks, information systems, cybernetics, wireless-mobile-ad-hoc-cellular networks, (secure) routing, mobile computing, network-computer security.
W. Trappe
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-0611, trappe@winlab.rutgers.edu, CoRE-523
Research area: Communications
Research Interests: Multimedia and multicast information security, signal, image and video processing, wireless networking, cryptography and network security.
M. Tremaine
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
marilyn.tremaine@gmail.com
Research interests: Human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work.
M. Turilli
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research area: Computer Engineering
(848) 445-8540, matteo.turilli@gmail.com, , CoRE-707
Research interests: Parallel and Distributed Computing, Software Design for Distributed Infrastructures, Computer Science, Computer Ethics
J. Vaidya
Dept. of Management Science & Information Systems
(973) 353-1441, jsvaidya@business.rutgers.edu
Research interests: Privacy, security, data analytics, data management
R. Wang
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
(848) 445-4288, rq.wang@rutgers.edu, Richard Weeks Hall 328E
Research interests: Numerical methods to connect big data and decision-making in civil and environmental systems. Data-Model interface and Model-based decision making.
S. Wei
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-5250, sheng.wei@rutgers.edu, CoRE-508
Research area: Computer Engineering
Research interests: Computer security, digital hardware security, low level hardware security.
M. Wu
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-5393, ctm.wu@rutgers.edu, EE-232
Research area: Communications
Research interests: Applied electromagnetics, antennas, passive/active microwave and millimeter-wave components, RF systems and metamaterials.
G. Yang
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-5247, guosong.yang@rutgers.edu, EE-213
Research areas: Control Sysems and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Switched and hybrid systems, networked control systems, learning in games and their application to cyber-physical systems, and network security.
J. Yi
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
(848) 445-3282, jgyi@rutgers.edu, Engineering D-157
Research Interests: Autonomous robotic systems; dynamic systems and control; mechatronics; automation science and engineering
B. Yuan
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-9152, bo.yuan@soe.rutgers.edu, CoRE-715
Research area: Computer Engineering
Research interests: Algorithm and hardware co-design for machine learning and signal processing systems, error-resilient low cost computing techniques for embedded and IoT systems, and machine learning for domain-specific applications
Y. Zhang
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-9139, yqz.zhang@rutgers.edu, CoRE-719
Research Area: Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Physical models in data driven computations, convex and nonconvex optimization, solving problems in computer vision, machine learning, and signal processing.
J. Zhao
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-5240, jzhaoece@gmail.com , CoRE-512
Research Area: Solid State Electronics
Research Interests: Semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices, SiC and GaN technologies, and computer modelling of semiconductor devices
Z. Zhang
Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(848) 445-9132, zhao.zhang@rutgers.edu , CoRE-506
Research Area: Computer Engineering
Research Interests: High-performance computing, distributed computing, scalable non-convex optimization and systems, and scientific computing
N. Zin
School of Engineering Micro-nanofabrication and Characterization Facility
(848) 445-2009, ngwe.zin@rutgers.edu, Richard Weeks Hall of Engineering room 218A
Research Area: Solid State Electronics
Research Interests: Design, modeling, fabrication, processing of Photovoltaic Solar Cells (crystalline silicon and thin film); Development and characterization of thin film layers for Photovoltaic and Semiconductor applications; Optics ( Reflectance, transmittance, absorption, light trapping, and plasmonic); Defects (surface and bulk carrier recombination, radiative recombination, and passivation); and Simulation ( PC1D, PC2D, Quokka 3D and Sentaurus TCAD for photovoltaic devices).
Q. Zou
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
(848)445-3268, qzzou@rci.rutgers.edu, Eng. Bldg. D-101
Research Interests: Precision positioning, inversion-based control theory, scanning probe microscopy, nanofabrication