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Faculty

Our distinguished faculty are renowned for their exceptional expertise and groundbreaking contributions to the field.

  • Michael Abba

    Areas of Interest: Power Systems

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  • Shaikh Ahmed

    Areas of Interest: Nanoscale device design, oproelectronincs/photonic, energy harvesting, quantum phenomena and devices, peta-scale scientific computing, and developing community nanotechnology software.

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  • Iraklis Anagnostopoulos

    Areas of Interest: Integration of AI, hardware/software co-design, and efficient computing achitectures.

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  • Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge

    Areas of Interest: Communications theory and wireless communications

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  • Chilman Bae

    Areas of Interest: Bioelectrical engineering, Neuroscience, Mechanobiology

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  • Steven Blair

    Areas of Interest: Biomedical optical imaging and biophotonics

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  • Ying Chen

    Areas of Interest:  Image processing, image reconstruction, medical imaging, and computer vision

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  • Farhan Chowdhury

    Areas of Interest: Mechanotransduction and Mechanobiology

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  • Ebru Demir

    Areas of Interest: Dr. Demir's interest lies in investigating the “social brain” and its behaviors across multiple scales—from single genes and neural circuits to network-level interactions and algorithmic models.

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  • Mehdi Ghasemirahaghi

    Areas of Interest: Internet of things, energy-aware computing, and computation offloading at the edge.

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  • Dimitrios Kagaris

    Areas of Interest: Digital design automation, design for testability, systems reliability, data mining and bioinformatics

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  • Arash Komaee

    Areas of Interest: Stochastic control, optimal control, estimation theory and nonlinear filtering

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  • Md Zahidul Islam

    Areas of Interest: Modern power and energy systems, with an emphasis on situational awareness, cyber-physical modeling and resilience, and machine learning applications

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  • Hui Li

    Areas of Interest: Advanced biomedical device manufacturing for diagnostics.

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  • Duda Kvitsiani

    Areas of Interest: Dr Kvitsiani's research interests include unvocering the neural computations that drive adaptive choices in animals.

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  • Xiaoqing "Frank" Liu

    Areas of Interest: Cyber argumentation based social media and networking, data analytics based recommendation systems, service computing, cyber physical systems, software engineering, applied artificial intelligence, and advanced computing and data applications.

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  • Chao Lu

    Areas of Interest: HEVC/H.265 real-time video encoding algorithms and VLSI hardware architecture, and Deep neural network algorithm and VLSI hardware architecture (for smart building, self-driving, pattern recognition, and video/image processing applications)

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  • James Phegley

    Areas of Interest: Pattern recognition and classification, digital signal processing.

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  • Justin Pol

    Areas of Interest: Biomechanics, Rehab Engineering

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  • Jun Qin

    Areas of Interest: Signal processing, noise induced hearing loss, ultrasound medical applications, machine learning, speech processing, and medical devices.

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  • Mohammad Sayeh

    Areas of Interest: Photonics and Artificial Neural Networks

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  • Spyros Tragoudas

    Areas of Interest: VLSI design & test, hardware security, embedded systems, and deep learning.

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  • Samira Vafah Eslahi

    Areas of Interest: Developing machine learning algorithms for medical image computation and biomedical signal processing

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  • Haibo Wang

    Areas of Interest: Mixed-signal VLSI, sensor signal acquisition and processing, intelligent sensor system, medical sensor device.

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  • Ning Weng

    Areas of Interest: Network processing system, system architecture, analytical performance modeling, and low power design.

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School Staff

  • Shannon Oxendine

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    Engineering E202A
    (618) 453-2110
    shannon.oxendine@siu.edu

    Shannon is the program admissions coordinator for the graduate program and assists in managing the ECBE office. 

  • Joseph Bettress

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    Engineering E202C

    joseph.bettress@siu.edu 

Adjunct Faculty

  • Timothy Daugherty

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    Areas of Interest: Dr. Daugherty's interests include innervation studies within the areas of plastic surgery.

  • Michael Davis

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    Areas of Interest: In Vivo Real Time Biometric Acquisition of Human Skeletal Muscle Flexibility.

  • Themistoklis Haniotakis

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    Areas of Interest: Dr. Haniotakis' research interests include VLSI design, fault-tolerant computing, VLSI testing and design for testability, and RF IC design and test

  • Michael W. Neumeister

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    Areas of Interest: Dr. Neumeister's interest include Microsurgery, Hand Surgery, Congenital Head and Neck Anomalies, Breast Reconstruction, Burns, and Cosmetic Surgery.

  • John Peter

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    Areas of Interest: Dr. Peter's area of reasearch interset center around clinical, and disaster medicine and simulation training in pediatric emergency.

Emeritus Faculty

  • Nazeih Botros

    Professor Emeritus

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    botrosn@siu.edu

    Areas of Interest: Digital hardware design, digital signal processing, digital instrumentation, neural networks, robot sensing, bioengineering, smart devices, ultrasound tissue differentiation, ultrasound registration.

  • Morteza Daneshdoost

    Professor Emeritus

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    Areas of Interest: Electric power systems, linear systems and circuits, control systems, optimization techniques, expert systems, computer graphics, MMI.

  • Lalit Gupta

    Professor Emeritus

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    Areas of Interest: Dr. Gupta's research interests are in pattern recognition, neural networks, and signal processing.

  • Frances Harackiewicz

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    Areas of Interest: (a) Electromagnetics, (b) antenna theory and design, (c) microwaves, (d) microstrip phased arrays and anisotropic materials, (e) small multiband and broadband antennas, (f) PIFAs, (g) loops, (h) printed and dielectric antennas.

  • Constantine Hatziadoniu

    Professor Emeritus

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    Areas of Interest: Dr. Hatziadoniu's research interests are in: (a) Power systems modeling, (b) simulation and control, (c) high voltage, (d) DC transmission, (e) power electronics, and (f) power systems transient.

  • Farzad Pourboghrat

    Professor Emeritus

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    Areas of Interest: Systems control, robust and adaptive control, neural control, DSP-based embedded control, robotics and mechatronics, smart structures and MEMS.

  • Ramanarayanan Viswanathan

    Professor Emeritus

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    Website: Google Scholar

    Areas of Interest: Distributed detection, radar, CFAR detection, statistical signal processing, wireless communications