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
Jonsson School 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
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.
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
Distinguished Professor in Engineering
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 Engineering
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
Professor
Texas Instruments Early Career Award mona.ghassemi@utdallas.edu
Research Interests:
Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, High Voltage Engineering, 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.
Ibrahim, Mohamed
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Embodied AI and Robotics, Brain-Inspired Computing and Neuromorphic Systems, VLSI Systems and AI Accelerators, and Cyber-Physical System Integration
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.
Lee, Minah
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Adaptive and Active Sensor Systems, Energy-Efficient Edge Intelligence, Cross-Layer Hardware-Software Co-Design, System-in-Package (SiP) and Heterogeneous Integration.
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.
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
Jonsson School 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:
Digital Signal Processing with emphasis on acoustics for Biomedical applications: MIMO Single and multi-dimensional digital filtering, noise cancellation and active noise control, signal detection and separation, parameter & spectral estimation, system identification methods, adaptive signal processing.
Pourkamalli, Siavash
Professor
siavash.pourkamali@utdallas.edu
Research Interests:
MEMS, NEMS, Microsystems.
Saquib, Mohammad
Professor
Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award
saquib@utdallas.edu
Research Interests:
Wireless data transmission, system modeling and performance, signal processing and radio resource management, open access techniques for spectrum sharing, and designing low-cost signal processing techniques for radar and medical applications.
Sechen, Carl
Professor
IEEE Fellow
carl.sechen@utdallas.edu
Research Interests:
Design and computer-aided design of high-speed digital integrated circuits.
Shamshi, Kaveh
Assistant 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.
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.
Vandenberghe, William
Associate Professor
william.vandenberghe@utdallas.edu
Research Interests:
Electron transport at the nanoscale using theoretical methods, Use of two-dimensional materials and topological insulators for new devices, Transport in tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) and their principle of operation band-to-band tunneling (BTBT).
Young, Chadwin
Associate Professor
chadwin.young@utdallas.edu
Research Interests:
Electrical Characterization Methodologies, Reliability Characterization Methodologies, Solid State Device Physics, Electrical properties of materials, MOS modeling (quantum effects, etc.), Nanotechnology, Flexible Electronics, Future Energy Needs (Renewable, low power operation, etc.)
Zhou, Jie
Assistant Professor
jie.zhou@utdallas.edu
Research Interests:
Design, fabrication, and characterization of novel semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices (e.g., diodes, transistors, and lasers); ultrawide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors (e.g., oxides, nitrides, and diamond); semiconductor nanomembrane devices for bioelectronic applications.