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Last Updated: Aug 03, 2026, 01:30 PM

Professor Spyros TragoudasSchool Director

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618-453-7027
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Faculty

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

Faculty with a Dual Appointment in the School

The listed faculty below support the school by mentoring students from electrical, computer, and biomedical engineering

  • Farhan Chowdhury

    Areas of Interest: Mechanotransduction and Mechanobiology

    Primary appointment in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Materials Engineering

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  • Dr. Timothy Daugherty

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

    Primary appointment in the SIU School of Medicine.

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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.

    Primary appointment in the SIU School of Medicine.

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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.

    Primary appointment in the SIU School of Medicine.

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  • Xiaoqing "Frank" Liu

    Dean of the College of Engineering, Computing, Technology, and Mathematics

    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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  • Dr. Michael W. Neumeister

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

    Primary appointment in the SIU School of Medicine.

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Adjunct Faculty

  • Dr. Michael Davis

    Dr Michael Davis

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

  • Themistoklis Haniotakis

    Dr Haniotakis

    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

  • Dr. John Peter

    Dr John Peter

    Areas of Interest: Dr. Peter's area of research interests 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

    A photo of professor 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

    A photo of professor Guptalgupta@siu.edu

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

  • Frances Harackiewicz

    A photo of Francesfran@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

    A photo of professor 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

    A photo of professor 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.

  • Mohammad Sayeh

    Professor Emeritus

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    sayeh@siu.edu

    Areas of Interest: Photonics and Artificial Neural Networks

  • Ramanarayanan Viswanathan

    Professor Emeritus

    A photo of professor Vishwanathanviswa@olemiss.edu  
    Website: Google Scholar

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

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