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Faculty

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  • Michael Abba

    Areas of Interest: Power Systems

    Abba
  • Shaikh Ahmed

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

    Shaikh
  • Iraklis Anagnostopoulos

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

    iraklis
  • Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge

    Areas of Interest: Communications theory and wireless communications

    baduge
  • Chilman Bae

    Areas of Interest: Bioelectrical engineering, Neuroscience, Mechanobiology

    bae
  • Steven Blair

    Areas of Interest: Biomedical optical imaging and biophotonics

    blair
  • Ying Chen

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

    ada
  • Farhan Chowdhury

    Areas of Interest: Mechanotransduction and Mechanobiology

    farhan
  • Mehdi Ghasemirahaghi

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

    mehdi
  • Dimitrios Kagaris

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

    dimitri
  • Arash Komaee

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

    arash
  • Hui Li

    Areas of Interest: Advanced biomedical device manufacturing for diagnostics.

    Hui
  • 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.

    Frank
  • 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)

    lu
  • James Phegley

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

    james
  • Justin Pol

    Areas of Interest: Biomechanics, Rehab Engineering

    Pol
  • Jun Qin

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

    qin
  • Mohammad Sayeh

    Areas of Interest: Photonics and Artificial Neural Networks

    Sayeh
  • Spyros Tragoudas

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

    spyros
  • Samira Vafah Eslahi

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

    samira
  • Haibo Wang

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

    Wang
  • Ning Weng

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

    weng

School Staff

  • Shannon Oxendine

    Shannon

    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

    bettress

    Engineering E202C

    joseph.bettress@siu.edu 

Adjunct Faculty

  • Kang Chen

    Dr Kang Chen

    Areas of Interest: Dr. Chen's interests are broadly in mobile and computer networks, with current emphasis on software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), connected vehicle networks and applications, and mobile opportunistic networking and computing.

  • Michael Davis

    Dr. Michael Davis

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

  • Themistoklis Haniotakis

    Themis Haniotakis

    Areas of Interest: VLSI design, fault-tolerant computing, VLSI testing and design for testability, and RF IC design and test

Emeritus Faculty

  • Nazeih Botros

    Professor Emeritus

    Botros

    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

    Daneshdoostdaneshdo@siu.edu

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

  • Lalit Gupta

    Professor Emeritus

    Guptalgupta@siu.edu

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

  • Frances Harackiewicz

    Franfran@engr.siu.edu

    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

    Hatzhatz@siu.edu

    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

    Pourboghratpour@siu.edu

    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

    Vishwanathanviswa@olemiss.edu  
    Website: Google Scholar

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