School of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering News
2025 News
Fall 2025
Dr Md Zahidul Islam joins the School of ECBE
Dr. Islam joins the school of ECBE starting in the Fall of 2025 from New York University where he received his Ph.D. in 2025 in the area of power systems. Dr. Islam will be primarily supporting the Electrical Engineering program.
Spring 2025
Dr. Hraishawi joins University of South Florida
One of Dr. Gayan Baduge's masters level research assistants has joined the Univeristy of South Florida as an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Samira Vafay Eslahi joins the School of ECBE
Dr. Eslahi joins the school of ECBE starting in the Spring of 2025 from Harvard Medical School where she did her post doc. Dr Eslahi received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M in 2022. Her research interest includes developing machine learning algorithms for medical image computation and biomedical signal processing. She will be supporting both the Electrical and Biomedical Engineering programs.
2024 News
Summer 2024
Mr. Michael Abba joins School of ECBE
Mr. Abba has joined the School of ECBE starting in the Fall 2024 semester. Mr. Abba received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1989 and 1990, respectfully. He then received his Masters in Business Administration from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in 1994. He brings over 33 years of industrial experience in the power industry to the school.
Spring 2024
Dr. Mehdi Ghasemiraghi joins School of ECBE
Dr. Ghasemirahaghi has joined the School of ECBE starting in the Spring 2023 semester. Dr. Ghasemirahaghi received his BS in Computer Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashad in 2010, his MS in Computer Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University in 2012, and his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Arizona State University in 2024. Dr. Ghasemirahaghi's lab focuses on Internet of Things, energy-aware computing, and computation offloading at the edge.
2023 News
Fall 2023 Dr. Steven Blair joins School of ECBE
Dr. Blair has joined the School of ECBE starting in the Fall 2023 semester. Dr. Blair received his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 2016 and his MS and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2018 and 2022, respectively. Dr. Blair's lab focuses on research inimage-guided cancer surgery, biomedical optical imaging, spectral imaging, fluorescence imaging and label-free imaging.
Dr. Justin Pol joins School of ECBE
Dr. Pol also joined the School of ECBE in the Fall 2023 semester. Dr. Pol received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Kentucky-Paducah in 2019, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2023 from University of Kentucky-Lexington. Dr. Pol's research interest include biomechanics and rehabilitation engineering. He will primarily support the Biomedical Engineering program.
Spring 2023
Dr. Roohallah Khatami joins School of ECBE
Dr. Khatami joins the school of ECBE starting in the Spring of 2023 from the University of British Columbia where he did his post doc. Dr. Khatami received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 2019 in the power system domain. He will primarily support the Electrical Engineering program.
Dr. Ahmed receives an award from KBR On May 19, 2023, Dr. Ahmed will receive an award from KBR to model advanced field effects of transistors.
New members in the Consortium for Embedded Systems at SIUC Dr. Tragoudas established the Consortium for Embedded Systems at SIUC in the summer of 2022. This center has been approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. By May 2023, AMD, Ameren, and Collins Aerospace have joined the consortium and funded research activities in the area of embedded computing systems. View current members.
Dr. Asrari - NSF recommendation for funding On April 19, 2023, the Director of the Energy, Power, Control, and Networks program at the National Science Foundation, recommended funding Dr. Asrari’s Engineering Research Initiation proposal on remedial actions against cyberattacks on the power grid.
NSF awards a new research center at SIUC in the area of IoT On March 15, 2023, the National Science Foundation established a new Industry-University Cooperative Research Center. It is entitled Center for Intelligent, Distributed, Embedded, Applications, and Systems (IDEAS). The participating universities are Arizona State University (lead), Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and the University of Southern California. Dr. Tragoudas will be the site director at SIUC.
Dr. Anagnostopoulos – co-PI in a Workforce Development Grant On the 12th of January, 2023, a team of SIUC faculty, among them Dr. Anagnostopoulos from the school of ECBE, received a grant from the University of North Texas on a workforce development grant using deep learning.
Dr. Bae- NSF recommendation for funding On January 9, 2023, the Director of the Biomechanics and Mechanobiology program in the Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Division at the National Science Foundation, recommended funding Dr. Chilman Bae’s Engineering Research Initiation proposal to investigate the role of a channel modulator in inflammations.
2022 News
Dr Hui Li joins the School of ECBE
Dr. Li joins the School of ECBE starting in the Fall of 2022 from John's Hopkins University where he did his postdoc. Dr. Li received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Penn State in 2019. Click here for more information on his research.
Research Grants for 2022
This year our faculty received three new research grants from NASA, U.S. Department of Labor and KBR/FFT Air Force Research Laboratory for their studies. The receipients of these awards are Dr. Lu and Dr. Ahmed. For futher details on these awards see our recent research grants page.
Dr. Baduge joined an IEEE Transactions Editorial Board as an Associate Editor In July 2022, Dr. Baduge joined the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Communications as an Associate Editor.