Electrical and Computer Engineering R. E. Blahut, Head and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and S. G. Bishop, S. J. Franke, E. Kudeki, Associate Heads Technology. 155 William L. Everitt Laboratory 1406 W. Green St. Faculty and Their Interests MC-702 Urbana, IL 61801-2991 Ilesanmi Adesida 217-333-2300 Electronic and transport properties of ultra-low http://www.ece.uiuc.edu dimensional semiconductor structures, advanced processing methods for electronic devices, high-speed Research in the Department of Electrical and Computer optoelectronic devices and integrated circuits, radiation Engineering serves two main purposes. The generation of effects new fundamental knowledge is a primary function. Of equal importance is the education of graduate students who Narendra Ahuja participate in research and contribute to the advancement Computer vision, robotics, image processing, sensors, of knowledge through their thesis research. The research pattern recognition, virtual environments, intelligent programs described here provide facilities and support for interfaces graduate students and enable them to pursue their advanced study. Jont Allen Another important function of research is the Speech recognition based on the articulation index and continuing development of the faculty members. A aspects of information theory, bioacoustics, circuits, forward-looking undergraduate program depends upon the communications, electromagnetics, signal and image existence of a strong graduate program and the presence of processing excellent faculty members who are leaders in their respective fields. Tangul Basar Research in electrical and computer engineering at the Optimum transmitter-receiver design in communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign encompasses systems, spread spectrum communication system, a broad spectrum of areas that reflect the wide range of jamming problems in information transmission, minima interest and expertise of the faculty, as illustrated by the stochastic optimization problems with applications in number and diversity of the research projects denoted in communication systems, mobile radio systems the following pages. Almost all of the faculty members in the department are engaged in research and many conduct Tamer Basar research in interdisciplinary programs and hold joint Information technology research; control over wired and appointments in other departments and interdisciplinary wireless networks; usage-limited sensing, estimation, and laboratories. More than 550 graduate students and many control; robust identification and control; dynamic games undergraduates assist in this research effort. and stochastic teams; nonlinear and adaptive robust Support for this research is provided by contracts and control; decentralized and distributed detection and grants from several agencies of the federal government as estimation; routing, pricing, and congestion control; well as from industrial sources. Other departments and modeling and control of communication networks; mobile laboratories in which the department's faculty hold affiliate and distributed computing; information security and status and are engaged in interdisciplinary research include intrusion detection; incentive mechanisms through pricing; Bioengineering; Computer Science; Industrial and neural networks-based identification and control; Enterprise Systems Engineering; Materials Science and applications of control and game theory in economics Engineering; Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering; Physics; the Coordinated Science Laboratory; the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory; the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory; 1 Rashid Bashir Andreas Cangellaris BioMEMS and biosensors, bionanotechnology, Numerical techniques for electromagnetic modeling and nanomedicine, applications of MEMS and nanotechnology simulation, microwave circuit design, speed VLSI in medical and biological problems, multiscale tissue interconnects, electronic packaging, electromagnetic engineering. computer-aided design for high-speed digital and RF/microwave electronics, antenna modeling, Jennifer Bernhard optoelectronic interconnects, electromagnetic modeling Reconfigurable active and passive antennas, phased array for nonlinear optics antennas, wireless sensor systems Scott Carney Stephen G. Bishop Optical physics, including imaging, near-field microscopy, Optical and electrical characterization of crystalline and classical and quantum coherence theory, beam amorphous semiconductors and semiconductor propagation, fundamental issues of energy conservation, nanostructures, compound semiconductors (GaAs, InP, mathematical methods in inverse scattering and the AlGaAs, ZnSe, SiC), defects in semiconductors, propagation of light isoelectronic defects, rare earth-doped chalcogenide glasses and GaN. Experimental techniques, including Nicholas Carter photoluminescence, nuclear magnetic resonance, electron Architectures that combine programmable processors and spin resonance, magneto-optics, photoemission, infrared reconfigurable logic, computing using nanotech devices, spectroscopy design techniques to integrate computation and sensing Richard Blahut Patrick Chapman Communications, signal processing, information theory, Power electronics, electric drives, vibrations in optical recording electromechanical systems, monolithic integrated power circuits, numerical magnetic modeling, biomechanical Stephen Boppart energy conversion Optical biomedical imaging, molecular imaging, lasers in medicine and biology, optical coherence tomography, Deming Chen image-guided surgery, medical engineering, optical Synthesis and architecture exploration for programmable diagnostics of cancer logic devices; CAD for multicore and SoC under process variation; reconfigurable computing; nanoscale IC design Yoram Bresler and CAD; high-level synthesis with physical planning; Biomedical imaging systems; statistical signal and image design space exploration for SoC; algorithmic design and processing; inverse problems; statistical pattern applications recognition; sensor-array processing Keh-Yung Cheng Donna J. Brown Molecular beam epitaxy technology, optoelectronic Asynchronous learning technologies and environments; integrated circuits, high speed devices, in situ fabrication WWW-based education; VLSI placement and routing; of nanostructures, quantum wire lasers, vertical cavity parallel and distributed algorithms and architectures; surface emitting lasers, Sb-based IR detectors and analysis and design of algorithms, with a particular interest electronic devices in approximation algorithms; graph theory Weng C. Chew Marie-Christine Brunet Electromagnetics: wave propagation in inhomogeneous Numerical algorithms, parallel computing media, microwave integrated circuits, microstrip antennas, and fast algorithms for radiation scattering, low frequency electromagnetics, and layered media; parallelization of fast algorithms; inverse scattering, imaging, and physics-based signal processing 2 Yun Chiu J. Gary Eden Integrated circuits, VLSI signal processing, device Ultraviolet and visible lasers and laser spectroscopy, modeling and CAD, wire-line and wireless microcavity plasma devices and arrays, micro- and communications nanophotonic resonators; optical physics, including femtosecond laser spectroscopy and technology, and the Hyungsoo Choi interaction of intense optical fields with matter, laser Precursors for nanoscale materials synthesis, including magnetometry syntheses and development of tailored organometallic, inorganic, and polymeric precursors; thin film and Milton Feng nanoparticle fabrication, including thin films, micro- and High-speed devices and ICs for wireless and light emitting nanoparticles, and nanowires/tubes via sol-gel processing, transistors for optoelectronics (optoelectronic IC), charged liquid cluster beam (CLCB) deposition, chemical monolithic microwave and millimeter-wave IC, digital IC, vapor deposition (CVD), chemical solution deposition high field transport properties, RF-MEMS for wireless (CSD), and precision particle fabrication (PPF) communications, advanced Si-CMOS device physics technology; electronic and optical materials, including fabrication of electronic, optical, and magnetic materials Matthew Frank for various devices involving thin films, micro- and Computer system architecture, parallel computing, nanoparticles, nanowires/tubes of metals, metal nitrides program analysis, concurrency control, online algorithms and oxides utilizing their electronic, optical, optoelectronic, and magnetic properties; bimaterials, Patricia Franke including fabrication of micro- and nanospheres/capsules Atmospheric dynamics, including the dynamics and of biodegradable/compatible materials for advances drug thermodynamics of the upper atmosphere through data delivery and tissue engineering analysis of radar and lidar data and through the numerical simulations of different types of flow; radar and optical Kent Choquette remote sensing of the upper atmosphere; computational Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs), micro- electromagnetics, application of finite difference time and nanocavity lasers, optoelectronic devices, selective domain techniques to the problems of radar backscatter oxidation of compound semiconductors, hybrid from turbulent regions of the neutral atmosphere and the heterogenous integration, nanoprocessing fabrication, ionosphere and application of different numerical methods photonic crystal materials, Si-based optoelectronics and parallel computing