Leading Experts

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A: Physical process of communications over networks like using cell phones or the Internet which is pretty broad. Wireless links as well as modeling and analysis of systems with random behavior.

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A: I do basically power system operations, planning, and economics. I’m very much into the economic aspects of power systems energy. Everything I do usually has dollar values.

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A: My expertise is in photonics, optoelectronics, and semiconductor lasers.

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A: My area is computer vision, a field related to image processing, pattern recognition, sensing, and robotics. The main goal is to automatically understand the contents of images and video--like human vision does routinely--which is why the field is also called “image understanding.” Specific tasks range from very simple and general ones like estimating whether an orange on the tree is ripe to eat or is it within reach, to very complex ones like assigning semantic and possibly subjective labels such as “an attractive outfit” or “that serene view of the skies.”

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A: Nanostructure and device physics. I develop physical models to understand the behavior and operations on novel nanoscale electronic and optical devices. I also use these models to explore new properties of nanostructures. My field of expertise extends from nanoscale silicon transistor operation to the study of quantum wires and quantum dots with the intimate quantum behavior of charge carriers such as the spin of electrons for applications in quantum information processing. I am also interested in molecular electronics to investigate transport in carbon nanotubes and graphene, and more recently the interface between semiconductors and biological systems.

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A: Currently I'm working on three issues and all of them go from one into the other. They are wireless networks, sensor networks, and network embedded control systems. More broadly, I work in the area of control communications, what is called the systems side of electrical engineering, and I'm dabbling a little bit on the computer science side.

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A: I do system evaluation, which means developing models and methodologies for determining what properties a system, either real or simply contemplated, will have. This sort of work helps to answer questions like, "How fast does the system run", "How reliable is the system?" and "How secure is this system against a cyber-attack?"

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A: I work in electric power systems, which means I deal with the large-scale interconnected grid, utility networks, transmission lines, and big generators. I basically do the big power systems stuff, mostly modeling, simulation, and analysis. We don't do laboratories at that scale.

Q:  What is your area of expertise?
A: My area of expertise is in the signal integrity area, which is one in which we worry about how clean the signal is as it travels through electronic equipment – whether it’s computer or communications circuits. We do that for specific types of applications.

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A: I work in a number of disciplines, the main one being control systems. Other major areas include game theory and communication and computer networks. I have also done work in economics.

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A: I work in the power and energy systems area here in the department, and my particular area of expertise is high voltage electric power systems. I study mostly the electric transmission grid.

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A: My current areas of interest are nonlinear optimization, multimedia signal processing, and artificial intelligence. In the past, I have worked on parallel processing, discrete optimization, and data engineering.

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A:Signal processing and analysis. In terms of signals, I mainly work with images and video and, more recently, speech and acoustic signals. In terms of the processing, there are three main parts of processing. One is compression, the second is enhancement or improving the quality, and the third is pattern recognition

Q: What is your area of expertise?
A: Applied electromagnetics. Most of my group’s work is in the area of antennas, but we also have projects in sensors, high frequency circuits and devices, and electromagnetic packaging.