Tenure and Tenure Track ECEE Faculty
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James Aberle
Associate Professor
PhD; University of Massachusetts
Email: aberle@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-8588
Office: GWC 326
ASU Faculty Since: 1989
Research Interests: Antennas and RF systems for wireless
communications, modeling of complex electromagnetic
phenomena. Electomagnetics, antennas and microwave circuits
David Allee
Professor
PhD; Stanford University
Email: allee@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6470
Office: GWC 234
ASU Faculty Since: 1991
Research Interests: Ultra-small device fabrication, mixed-signal
circuit design for analog-to-digital conversion, and telemetry.
Electronic and mixed-signal circuit design
Raja Ayyanar
Associate Professor
PhD; University of Minnesota
Email: rayyanar@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-7307
Office: ERC 587
ASU Faculty Since: 2000
Research Interests: Power electronics, DC-DC converters,
voltage regulators and power management, power
conversion and control for renewable energy interface, especially
PV and wind, smart grid technologies, plug-in electric vehicles,
and motor drives. Electric power and energy systems
Bertan Bakkaloglu
Associate Professor
PhD; Oregon State University
Email: bertan.bakkaloglu@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-0293
Office: GWC 302B
ASU Faculty Since: 2004
Research Interests: RF and mixed-signal IC design,
integrated power management circuits for high
reliability applications, biomedical and chemical instrumentation ICs.
Electronic and mixed-signal circuit design

Constantine Balanis
Regents' Professor
PhD; The Ohio State University
Email: balanis@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-3909
Office: GWC 452
ASU Faculty Since: 1983
Research Interests: Computational electromagnetic methods
(FDTD, FEM, MoM, O/GTD/UTD, PO/PTD) for antennas,
scattering and high-intensity radiated fields (HIRF), flexible
antennas using FDC plastic, smart/adaptive antennas for
wireless communications. Electomagnetics, antennas and
microwave circuits

Hugh Barnaby
Associate Professor
PhD; Vanderbilt University
Email: hbarnaby@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-0289
Office: GWC 316
ASU Faculty Since: 2004
Research Interests: Semiconductors for hostile environments,
device physics and modeling, microelectronic device
and sensor design and manufacturing, analog/RF/mixed
signal circuit design and test. Solid-state electronics

Jennifer Blain Christen
Assistant Professor
PhD; Johns Hopkins University
Email: jennifer.blainchristen@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-9859
Office: GWC 336
ASU Faculty Since: 1983
Research Interests: Bio-compatible integration techniques
for CMOS electronics, microfluidics and soft lithography,
MEMS devices with emphasis on bio-MEMS, analog and mixed-mode
VLSI for bio-medical/analytical instrumentation including
SOS/SOI technologies. Electronic and mixed-signal circuit design

Yu Cao
Associate Professor
PhD; University of California, Berkeley
Email: ycao@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-1472
Office: GWC 336
ASU Faculty Since: 2002
Research Interests: Physical modeling of nanoscale technologies,
design solutions for variability and reliability, and reliable
integration of post-silicon technologies. Electronic and mixed-signal
circuit design
Junseok Chae
Associate Professor
PhD; University of Michigan
Email: junseok.chae@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-2082
Office: GWC 312
ASU Faculty Since: 2005
Research Interests: Microelectromechanical systems
sensors/actuators, micro-EMS packaging, hybrid
integration: from nano to micro, micro to macro-worlds, and bio-MEMS.
Solid-state electronics
Chaitali Chakrabarti
Professor
PhD; University of Maryland
Email: chaitali@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-9516
Office: GWC 418
ASU Faculty Since: 1990
Research Interests: VLSI architectures and algorithms
for media processing and wireless communications,
low-power embedded system design, including those powered by fuel
cellbattery sources, low power algorithm design and algorithm-architecture
co-design of signal processing systems. Electronic and mixed-signal
circuit design
Lawrence Clark
Professor
PhD; Arizona State University
Email: lawrence.clark@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-0295
Office: GWC 238
ASU Faculty Since: 2004
Research Interests: Circuits and architectures for low
power and high performance VLSI, radiation hardened
circuit design and CAD for VLSI. Electronic and mixed-signal
circuit design
Douglas Cochran
Associate Professor
PhD; Harvard University
Email: cochran@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-7409
Office: GWC 664
ASU Faculty Since: 1989
Research Interests: Sensor signal processing, applied
harmonic analysis, detection theory. Signal processing
and communications
Rodolfo Diaz
Associate Professor
PhD; Harvard University
Email: cochran@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-7409
Office: GWC 664
ASU Faculty Since: 1998
Research Interests: Optical scattering of subwavelength
objects in complex environments and nanophotonics,
analytic theory of natural and artificial media, measurement
of electromagnetic properties of materials, combined
computational mechanics and electromagnetics.
Electomagnetics, antennas and microwave circuits
Tolga Duman
Professor
PhD; Northeastern University
Email: duman@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-7888
Office: GWC 411B
ASU Faculty Since: 1998
Research Interests: Digital communications, wireless and mobile
communications, channel coding, coded modulation, multiuser
communications, information theory, and underwater acoustic
communications. Signal processing and communications
Richard Farmer
Research Professor
MS; Arizona State University
Email: aargf@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-4953
Office: ERC 585
ASU Faculty Since: 1966
Research Interests: Extra-high voltage (EHV) project
planning and interaction of turbine generators with
EHV transmission systems. Electric power and energy
systems
David Ferry
Regents' Professor
PhD; University of Texas
Email: ferry@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-2570
Office: ERC 187
ASU Faculty Since: 1983
Research Interests: Transport physics and modeling
of quantum effects in submicron semiconductor
devices, scanning gate microscopy of quantum properties
of mesoscopic devices. Solid-state electronics
David Frakes
Assistant Professor
PhD; Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: dfrakes@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-9284
Office: ISTB1 281F
ASU Faculty Since: 2008
Research Interests: General - image and video
processing, fluid dynamics, machine vision;
specific - endovascular treatment of cerebral aneurysms,
surgical planning for congenital heart defects, suppression
of atmospheric distortion in video, and control of flexible systems.
Solid-state electronics
Gennady Gildenblat
Professor
PhD; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Email: gildenblat@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-3749
Office: GWC 302B
ASU Faculty Since: 2006
Research Interests: Physics and modeling of semiconductor
devices, semiconductor transport physics, integrated
circuit technology. Solid-state electronics
Stephen Goodnick
Professor
PhD; Colorado State University
Email: stephen.goodnick@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6798
Office: ERC 493
ASU Faculty Since: 1996
Research Interests: Solid state device physics, transport
in nanostructures, nanoelectronic devices and circuits,
computational electronics, RF and microwave devices,
optoelectronic and energy conversion devices.
Solid-state electronics
Ravi Gorur
Professor, Undergraduate Program Chair
PhD; University of Windsor, Canada
Email: ravi.gorur@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-4894
Office: ERC 515
ASU Faculty Since: 1987
Research Interests: Dielectrics and electrical insulating
materials for outdoor power delivery, nanodielectrics,
electric field calculations, HV testing techniques and
computer-aided design. Electric power and energy systems

Michael Goryll
Assistant Professor
PhD; RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Email: michael.goryll@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-9517
Office: ERC 109
ASU Faculty Since: 2007
Research Interests: Surface and interface physics, new
materials in CMOS processing, fabrication of nanoscale
semiconductor devices, biosensors based on silicon, biological
signal transduction phenomena, electrophysiological properties
of cell membrane ion channels, lownoise analog amplifier
circuit design, electronic instrumentation for biophysical
measurements. Solid-state electronics

Kory Hedman
Assistant Professor
PhD; University of California, Berkeley
Email: khedman@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-1276
Office: ERC 579
ASU Faculty Since: 2010
Research Interests: Energy systems, power system economics,
mathematical programming, operations and planning,
transmission engineering, renewable energy, market design,
financial engineering, and game theory. Electric power and
energy systems
Gerald Heydt
Regent's Professor
PhD; Purdue University
Email: heydt@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-8307
Office: ERC 507
ASU Faculty Since:
Research Interests: Power engineering, electric power
quality, distribution engineering, transmission engineering,
computer applications in power engineering, power engineering
education, power system sensors and instrumentation.
Electric power and energy systems

Keith Holbert
Associate Professor
PhD; University of Tennessee
Email: holbert@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-8594
Office: ERC 581
ASU Faculty Since:
Research Interests: Process monitoring and diagnostics,
sensor fault detection, instrumentation development,
fuzzy logic, spacecraft charging, and radiation effects on electronics.
Electric power and energy systems
Christiana Honsberg
Professor
PhD; University of Delaware
Email: christiana.honsberg@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-2831
Office: ERC 187
ASU Faculty Since: 2008
Research Interests: Ultra-high efficiency solar cells,
and silicon solar cells. Solid-state electronics

Joseph Hui
Professor
PhD; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: jhui@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-5188
Office: GWC 411
ASU Faculty Since:
Research Interests: Wireless networks, broadband switching
and routing, teletraffic analysis, coding and information
theory, virtualization and cloud computing, renewable energy.
Signal processing and communications
Bahar Jalali-Farahani
Assistant Professor
PhD; The Ohio State University
Email: bahar.jalali@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-7191
Office: GWC 340
ASU Faculty Since:
Research Interests: Analog integrated circuits especially
low-power high-performance designs, reliability issues in
deep submicron technology, calibration techniques for analog to
digital converters, circuit design for extreme environments, and
analog design for wireless communication systems.
Electronic and mixed-signal circuit design
George Karady
Professor
PhD; University of Technical Sciences, Budapest
Email: karady@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6569
Office: ERC 589
ASU Faculty Since: 1986
Research Interests: Power electronics, high voltage engineering
and power systems. Electric power and energy systems

Lina Karam
Professor
PhD; Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: karam@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-3694
Office: GWC 430
ASU Faculty Since: 1995
Research Interests: Image and video processing, compression,
and transmission, visual quality assessment, human visual
perception, multidimensional signal processing, digital filtering,
source coding, and bio-medical imaging. Signal processing and
communications

Sayfe Kiaei
Professor, Associate Dean, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
PhD; Washington State University
Email: sayfe@asu.edu
Phone: (480)
Office: BY 610
ASU Faculty Since: 2001
Research Interests: Wireless transceiver design, RF and
mixed-signal ICs. Electronic and mixed-signal circuit design
Michael Kozicki
Professor
PhD; University of Edinburgh
Email: michael.kozicki@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-2572
Office: ERC 107
ASU Faculty Since: 1985
Research Interests: Integrated/solid-state nanoionics,
low-energy non-volatile memory, self-healing electrodes
and interconnects, and nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS).
Solid-state electronics

Ying-Cheng Lai
Professor
University of Maryland at College Park
Email: ying-cheng.lai@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6668
Office: GWC 610
ASU Faculty Since: 1999
Research Interests: Nonlinear dynamics, quantum transport
in nanostructures, complex networks, signal processing,
and biological physics. Control systems

Deirdre Meldrum
Professor
PhD; Stanford University
Email: deirdre.meldrum@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-9235
Office: BY 652
ASU Faculty Since: 2007
Research Interests: Automation in life sciences, automation,
micro- and nanotechnologies, microscale systems,
lab-on-achip, single cell, genomics, ecogenomics, robotics, control systems.
Control systems

Cun-Zheng Ning
Professor
PhD; University of Stuttgart
Email: cning@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-7421
Office: GWC 614
ASU Faculty Since: 2006
Research Interests: Nanophotonics, nanowires, surface
plasmons and nanolasers, nanomaterials-based
detectors and solar cells, physics of nanostructures and manybody effects,
modeling and simulation of optoelectronic devices, quantum optics,
and two-photon lasers, geometric phases, stochastic resonances.
Solid-state electronics

Sule Ozev
Associate Professor
PhD; University of California, San Diego
Email: sule.ozev@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 660-5273
Office: GWC 312
ASU Faculty Since: 2008
Research Interests: Self-test and selfcalibration for wireless
transceivers, analysis and mitigation of process variations
for mixed signal and digital circuits, fault-tolerant and reconfigurable
heterogeneous systems, mixed signal circuit testing.
Electronic and mixed-signal circuit design

Joseph Palais
Professor, Graduate Program Chair
PhD; University of Michigan
Email: joseph.palais@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-3757
Office: GWC 222
ASU Faculty Since: 1964
Research Interests: Fiber optic communications, holography,
and distance education. Electomagnetics, antennas and
microwave circuits

George Pan
Professor
PhD; University of Kansas
Email: geroge.pan@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-1732
Office: GWC 318
ASU Faculty Since: 1995
Research Interests: Computational electromagnetics,
high-speed electronics packaging, magnetic resonant
imaging RF coil design and analysis, inverse scattering, rough
surface scattering, millimeter-wave antenna systems.
Electomagnetics, antennas and microwave circuits

Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola
Professor
PhD; University of Rhode Island
Email: papandreou@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-7881
Office: GWC 420
ASU Faculty Since: 1999
Research Interests: Waveform-agile sensing, time-frequency
processing, stochastic signal processing, biosensing.
Signal processing and communications

Stephen Phillips
Professor, Director of the School
PhD; Stanford University
Email: stephen.phillips@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6410
Office: GWC 206
ASU Faculty Since: 2002
Research Interests: Applications and integration of microsystems
including microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microactuators,
neural recording and neural stimulation; applications of systems and
control including adaptive control, instrumentation and control of
gas-turbine engines, control of microsystems, prosthetics, feedback
control over nondeterministic networks. Solid-state electronics
Martin Reisslein
Associate Professor
PhD; University of Pennsylvania
Email: reisslein@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-8593
Office: GWC 411A
ASU Faculty Since: 2000
Research Interests: Multimedia streaming, multimedia
traffic characteristics, metro and access fiber/wireless
networks, and engineering education. Signal processing and
communications

Armando Rodriquez
Professor
PhD; University of Kansas
Email: george.pan@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-1732
Office: GWC 318
ASU Faculty Since: 1990
Research Interests: Control of nonlinear distributed parameter
systems, approximation theory, sampled data and multi-rate
control, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, modeling, simulation,
animation, and realtime control (MoSART), control of flexible
autonomous machines operating in an uncertain environment (FAME),
integrated real-time health monitoring, modeling, and reconfigurable
fault-tolerant controls, control of bio-economic systems, renewable
resources, and sustainable development, control of semiconductor,
aerospace, robotic, and low power electronic systems. Control systems

Ronald Roedel
Professor
PhD; University of California Los Angeles
Email: r.roedel@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-9261
Office: ECG 102
ASU Faculty Since: 1981
Research Interests: Semiconductor materials and
devices with a special interest in modeling devices
made from large bandgap materials, engineering
pedagogy with a special interest in distance learning.
Solid-state electronics

Marco Saraniti
Professor
PhD; Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Email: marco.saraniti@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-2650
Office: ERC 537
ASU Faculty Since: 2007
Research Interests: Computational electronics and biophysics.
Solid-state electronics

Dieter Schroder
Regents' Professor
PhD; University of Illinois
Email: schroder@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6621
Office: ERC 111
ASU Faculty Since: 1981
Research Interests: Semiconductor devices, photovoltaics,
defects in semiconductors, semiconductor material and device
characterization, electrical/lifetime measurements, low-power
electronics, device modeling, MOS devices. Solid-state electronics
Jennie Si
Professor
PhD; University of Notre Dame
Email: si@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6133
Office: GWC 618
ASU Faculty Since: 1991
Research Interests: Learning and approximate dynamic
programming, estimation and filtering of stochastic processes,
neural networks, neurophysiological basis for control, cortical
neural information processing, and brain machine interface.
Control systems

Brian Skromme
Professor
Phd; University of Illinois
Email: skromme@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-8592
Office: ERC 155
ASU Faculty Since: 1989
Research Interests: Compound semiconductor materials
and devices, especially wide bandgap materials for
optoelectronic, high frequency, high-power, and high-temperature
applications, optical characterization of semiconductor materials,
development of GaN and SiC-based materials and devices.
Solid-state electronics

Andreas Spanias
Professor
PhD; West Virginia University
Email: spanias@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-1837
Office: GWC 440
ASU Faculty Since: 1988
Research Interests: Digital signal processing, multimedia
signal processing, speech and audio coding, adaptive filters,
real-time processing of sensor data, signal processing for the arts.
Signal processing and communications

Meng Tao
Professor
PhD;University of Illinois at Urbana
Email: meng.tao@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-9845
Office: ERC 157
ASU Faculty Since: 2011
Research Interests: Terawatt photovoltaics for solar
energy conversion, semiconductor surfaces, interfaces,
and thin films. Solid-state electronics. Solid-state electronics

Nongjian Tao
Professor
PhD; Arizona State University
Email: njtao@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-4456
Office: Biodesign B138
ASU Faculty Since: 2001
Research Interests: Chemical and biological sensors, molecular
and nano electronics, nanostructured materials and devices,
and electrochemical nanofabrications. Solid-state electronics

Cihan Tepedelenlioglu
Associate Professor
PhD; University of Minnesota
Email: cihan@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6623
Office: GWC 434
ASU Faculty Since: 2001
Research Interests: Wireless communications, statistical signal
processing, data mining for PV systems. Signal processing and
communications

Trevor Thornton
Professor
PhD; University of Minnesota
Email: cihan@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6623
Office: GWC 434
ASU Faculty Since: 1998
Research Interests: Nanostructures, molecular electronics and
sensors, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), silicon-oninsulator
MESFETs. Solid-state electronics

Konstantinos Tsakalis
Professor
PhD; University of Southern California
Email: tsakalis@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-1467
Office: GWC 358
ASU Faculty Since: 1988
Research Interests: Applications of control, optimization
and system identification theory to semiconductor manufacturing,
chemical process control, and prediction and control of
epileptic seizures. Control systems
Pavan Turaga
Assistant Professor
PhD; University of Maryland, College Park
Email: pturaga@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-3704
Office: GWC 454
ASU Faculty Since: 2011
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Multimedia, Human Activity Analysis, Machine Learning. Signal processing and communications

Daniel Tylavsky
Associate Professor
PhD; Pennsylvania State University
Email: tylavsky@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-3460
Office: ERC 517
ASU Faculty Since: 1982
Research Interests: Electric power systems, numerical methods
applied to large-scale system problems, parallel numerical
algorithms, new educational methods and technologies, applying social
optimization to power system markets, and transformer thermal
modeling. Electric power and energy systems

Dragica Vasileska
Professor
PhD, Arizona State University
Email: vasileska@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6651
Office: ERC 165
ASU Faculty Since: 1997
Research Interests: Semiconductor device physics, semiconductor
transport, 1-D to 3-D device modeling, quantum field theory and
its application to real device structures, spin transport, heating effects
in nanoscale devices, current collapse in GaN HEMTs.
Solid-state electronics

Vijay Vittal
Professor, Ira A. Fulton Chair in Electrical Engineering
PhD; Iowa State University
Email: vijay.vittal@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-1879
Office: ERC 513
ASU Faculty Since: 2005
Research Interests: Electric power, power system dynamics and
controls, nonlinear systems, computer applications in power,
sustainable energy, modeling and simulation of
complex systems. Electric power and energy systems

Hongbin Yu
Assistant Professor
PhD; University of Texas at Austin
Email: yuhb@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-4455
Office: ERC 159
ASU Faculty Since: 2005
Research Interests: Nanostructure and nanodevice fabrication
and characterization, transport in metallic and semiconducting
nanostructures and molecules, quantum size effect in metallic
and semiconducting nanostructures, surface and interface physics
and chemistry. Solid-state electronics

Hongyu Yu
Assistant Professor
PhD; University of Southern California
Email: hongyuyu@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 747-7454
Office: GWC 338
ASU Faculty Since: 2008
Research Interests: Wireless environmental sensing and
communication, microfluidic analysis systems, acoustic transducers,
micro seismometer, accelerometer, and mass spectrometer.
Signal processing and communications

Junshan Zhang
Professor
PhD; Purdue University
Email: junshan.zhang@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-7389
Office: GWC 411D
ASU Faculty Since: 2000
Research Interests: Network management, network security,
network information theory, and stochastic learning and analysis.
Signal processing and communications
Yanchao Zhang
Associate Professor
PhD; University of Florida
Email: yczhang@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-0039
Office: GWC 416
ASU Faculty Since: 2010
Research Interests: Network and distributed system security,
wireless networking, and mobile computing.
Signal processing and communications

Yong-Hang Zhang
Professor
PhD; Max-Planck-Institute for Solid States
and University Stuttgart, Germany
Email: yhzhang@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-2562
Office: ERC 161
ASU Faculty Since: 1996
Research Interests: Optoelectronic materials and devices,
such as solar cells, laser diodes, and photodetectors.
Solid-state electronics
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