TENURE SYSTEM FACULTY

Akin, Bilal
Professor
IEEE Fellow
bilal.akin@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Power Electronics, Adjustable speed motor drives.

Al-Dhahir, Naofal
Professor and Associate Department Head
Erik Jonsson Distinguished Professor
IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow
National Academy of Inventors
European Academy of Science and Arts Fellow aldhahir@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Broadband wireless and wireline communication, machine learning, signal processing

Balsara, Poras
Professor and Vice Dean
IEEE Fellow
poras@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Power electronics, converters and drives, energy efficient circuits and systems, VLSI design, reconfigurable and custom computing systems

Basu, Kanad
Assistant Professor
kanad.basu@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Hardware security, embedded systems, machine learning and VLSI testing and validation

Bhatia, Dinesh
Professor and Department Head
dinesh@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Reconfigurable and adaptive computing, medical devices and systems, physical design automation of VLSI systems.

Busso, Carlos
Professor
IEEE Fellow, ISCA Fellow
busso@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Digital signal processing, affective computing, multimodal human-machine interfaces, in-vehicle safety system, and, machine learning.

Carrison-Schafer, Benjamin
Associate Professor
Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Success
schafer@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Reconfigurable Computing, FPGAs, Electronic Design Automation, High-Level Synthesis.

Chiu, Yun
Professor
Erik Jonsson Distinguished Professor
chiu.yun@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Energy-efficient, integrated analog-digital interface ICs, RF transceiver frontends, power amplifiers, power electronics, and bioelectronic interfaces.

Dutta, Sourav
Assistant Professor
Texas Instruments Early Career Award sxd230095@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Microscopic understanding of material and device physics to building novel hardware systems, in-memory computing, brain-inspired neuromorphic computing, cryogenic and quantum computing.

Fahimi, Babak
Professor
Distinguished Chair in Engineering
IEEE Fellow
fahimi@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Power electronics, renewable energy, fault resilient energy solutions, design and control of motor drives, vehicular technology.

Fonseka, John
Professor
kjp@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Modulation & coding, efficient combined modulation & detection techniques over fading channels, and turbo codes.

Friedman, Joseph
Associate Professor
joseph.friedman@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Beyond-CMOS Computing, Neuromorphic Computing, Spintronics, Low-Dimensional Materials, Memristors.

Fumagalli, Andrea
Professor
andreaf@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
All-optical network architectures & protocols, optical routing & switching, network simulators, & perf. analysis of computer networks.

Gardner, Matthew
Assistant Professor
Texas Instruments Early Career Award matthew.gardner@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Electric machines, magnetic gears, power electronics.

Ghassemi, Mona
Associate Professor
Texas Instruments Early Career Award mona.ghassemi@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Transportation Electrification, Clean Energy, Electrical Insulation Materials and Systems, High Voltage/Field Engineering and Technology, Power Systems, and Plasma Science.

Hansen, John
Professor
Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications
IEEE Fellow, ISCA
john.hansen@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Human-Computer Interaction, Speech analysis & modeling, machine learning, speech & speaker recognition, diarization, cochlear implant signal processing, driver distraction modeling.

Henderson, Rashaunda
Professor
rashaunda.henderson@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Enabling technologies for mm-wave & um-wave passive circuits; RF, um-wave, mm-wave ICs; MEMS simulation & characterization; metamaterial filter design.

Kehtarnavaz, Nasser
Professor
Erik Jonsson Distinguished Professor
IEEE Fellow, SPIE Fellow, AAIA Fellow
kehtar@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Signal and image processing, machine learning and deep learning, real-time implementation on embedded processors, biomedical signal and image analysis.

Kiasaleh, Kamran
Professor and Associate Department Head
kamran@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Free-space optical communications, tissue optics, biomedical signal processing, and wireless communications.

Lee, Gil
Professor
gslee@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Semiconductor material properties, device physics and fabrication, carbon nanotubes, energy storage.

Lee, Hoi
Professor
hoilee@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Analog & mixed-signal ICs, power management ICs, energy harvesting & wireless power transmission technologies.

Liu, Jin
Professor
jinliu@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
High performance ADCs for communications; energy harvesting and low power ICs for IoT devices and biomedical implants.

Ma, Dongsheng
Professor
Distinguished Chair in Microelectronics
d.ma@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Integrated power electronics, energy efficiency circuits and systems, renewable energy harvesting and management, bioelectronic interfaces.

Mahbub, Ifana
Assistant Professor
Texas Instruments Early Career Award ifana.mahbub@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Antennas; Analog; RF Integrated Circuits.

Makris, Yiorgos
Professor
yiorgos.makris@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Reliable and trusted integrated circuits, testing of analog, mixed-signal and RF circuits.

Minn, Hlaing
Professor
IEEE Fellow
hlaing.minn@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Communications, signal processing, signal designs and modeling, estimation, wireless systems and technologies.

Nosratinia, Aria
Professor and Associate Department Head
Erik Jonsson Distinguished Professor
IEEE Fellow
aria@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Information theory and signal processing with applications in wireless communication, machine learning, and security.

Nourani, Mehrdad
Professor
nourani@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Biometric signal/image processing & machine learning for healthcare, patient monitoring & risk assessment, VLSI/SoC design for reliability, data-driven diagnostics & prognostics.

O, Kenneth
Professor
Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair
IEEE Fellow
k.k.o@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
RF, millimeter-wave circuits and systems, terahertz transceivers.

Overzet, Lawrence
Professor
AVS Fellow
Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award
overzet@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Plasmas used in semiconductor processing, time resolved plasma diagnostics, new uses for plasma in processing, plasma etching & deposition of new materials.

Panahi, Issa
Professor
imp015000@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Enabling technologies for mm-wave & um-wave passive circuits; RF, um-wave, mm-wave ICs; MEMS simulation & characterization; metamaterial filter design.

Pourkamalli, Siavash
Professor
siavash.pourkamali@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Enabling technologies for mm-wave & um-wave passive circuits; RF, um-wave, mm-wave ICs; MEMS simulation & characterization; metamaterial filter design.

Saquib, Mohammad
Professor
Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award
saquib@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Enabling technologies for mm-wave & um-wave passive circuits; RF, um-wave, mm-wave ICs; MEMS simulation & characterization; metamaterial filter design.

Sechen, Carl
Professor
IEEE Fellow
carl.sechen@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Design and computer-aided design of high-speed digital integrated circuits.

Shamshi, Kaveh
Assitant Professor
kaveh.shamsi@UTDallas.edu

Research Interests:
IP protection through circuit obfuscation, side-channel-resilient hardware design, computer-aided-design (CAD) for trustworthy hardware, CMOS and beyond-CMOS circuit design.

Sisman, Berrak
Assitant Professor
berrak.sisman@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Artificial intelligence; machine learning; speech synthesis; emotion.

Tamil, Lakshman
Professor
OPTICA Fellow, Electromagnetics Academy Fellow
National Academy of Inventors
laxman@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence in medicine, Internet of Things, and Machine Learning.

Torlak, Murat
Professor
torlak@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:
Millimeter wave imaging, automotive radars, wireless communications, cognitive radios, signal processing.