Faculty

Shiva Abbaszadeh

• Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-459-4929

• Engineering 2, Room 243A

• Imaging detector technology
• Biomedical sensors
• Image processing and statistical performance assessment
• Instrumentation for emission tomography (PET and SPECT)
• Liquids and glassy materials
• Nanomaterial-mediated radiation therapy
• Novel isotope identification algorithms
• Radiological Science
• Mixed-signal circuit design

Sara Abrahamsson

• Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Baskin Engineering 257B

• Bioelectronics, optical systems, multifocus microscopy, diffractive Fourier optics design and nanofabrication for live 3D bioimaging

Austin Chen

• Engineering 2, Room 237B

• Analog/RF/mm-wave integrated circuits for wireless communications and radar sensors
• RF/mm-wave power amplifier design using silicon-based and III-V semiconductor technologies
• Energy-efficient silicon-based phased-array transceivers
• Scalable and multibeam array architecture for massive MIMO
• Calibration and compensation techniques for RF SoCs
• AI- and ML-assisted RFIC design

Yihsu Chen

• Professor, Technology Management in Sustainability, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Interim Undergraduate Director, ECE

• 831-502-7184

• Engineering 2, Room 549B

• Economics and policy in energy, water resources and transportation sectors

Keith Corzine

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 459-5296

• Baskin Engineering, Room 253A

• Power electronics, electric machinery, power systems, renewable energy, microgrids

Renwick Curry

• Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-234-8056

• Path planning for autonomous air and land vehicles; design and flight testing of UAV guidance and navigation systems

Max Dunne

• Engineering 2, 329

Gabriel Hugh Elkaim

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Undergraduate Director (Robotics)

• 831-459-3054

• Engineering 2, Room 337B

• Embedded systems; robust software architectures for real-time reactive systems; sensor fusion; guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) system identification; robust and advanced control schemes; feedback and control systems; robotics; unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs); cooperative control

Tela Favaloro

Benjamin Friedlander

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 650-530-0259

• Engineering 2, Room 241B

• Digital communications, wireless communications, array processing, geolocation, statistical signal processing, radar signal processing

Claire Gu

• Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-459-5296

• Baskin Engineering, Room 253B

• Fiber sensors for bio-applications, optical fiber communications, volume holographic data storage, liquid crystal displays, nonlinear optics, optical information processing

Michael S. Isaacson

• Narinder Singh Kapany Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 607-283-3133

• 1500 41st Avenue
• Suite 220
• Capitola, California 95010

• nanofabrication technology
• electron and ion optics
• novel electron and optical microscopy systems
• renewable energy systems
• nanomaterial characterization
• STEM education

Sung-Mo "Steve" Kang

• Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Chancellor Emeritus, UC Merced

• Baskin Engineering, Room 239

• Low-power, high-speed VLSI circuit design and synthesis, memristors and memristive systems, bioelectronic circuits, VLSI CAD and modeling

Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-459-3571

• Baskin Engineering, Room 247

• Physics and chemistry of hybrid functional materials, group III-V compound semiconductor materials and devices, low-dimensional materilas for geometric and waveguide opticsectronics, low-dimensional materilas for electronics and optoelectronics

Patrick Mantey

• Jack Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering Emeritus
• Founding Dean, Baskin School of Engineering
• Professor Emeritus / Recall Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Director Senior Design Capstone
• Resilient and Renewable Electrical Energy Systems Laboratory

• 831-459-2720

• Engineering 2, Room 573

• Digital signal processing, control and automation
• Sensor systems, internet of things, cyber physical systems
• Electric distribution grids and micro-grids, power distribution resiliency, energy management, demand response
• Decision support/recommender systems for real-time operations, management of renewable energy, storage and consumption in micro grids
• Home activity monitoring
• Geographic information systems in real-time resource allocation
• Information system architecture and performance, networking QoS, storage and multimedia streaming
• Technology for teaching / tutoring / classrooms
• Engineering management

Dr. Steve McGuire

• Field robotics, perception, human/robot interaction, psychophysiology, supervisory control, human-in-the-loop decision making, high-risk environments

Dejan Milutinovic

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-459-3831

• Engineering 2, Room 319

• Stochastic and nonlinear control, optimization, stochastic processes and estimation, hybrid and discrete event systems, signal processing and real-time computer control with applications to robotics, air-traffic and multi-agent systems

Nhan Thanh Nguyen

Michael M. Oye

• Assistant Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Director, Materials Analysis for Collaborative Science Facility
• Associate Director, Advanced Studies Laboratories

• Engineering 2, Room 243B
• NASA Ames Research Center, Building N239, Room 163

• Nanotechnology-based materials and devices for applications involving solar, piezoelectric, graphene, lighting, and chemical sensors
• Courses:EE 293-02EE 293-50

Leila Parsa

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-459-2451

• Baskin Engineering, Room 259A

• Power electronics; electric machines and drives

Ken Pedrotti

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-251-4691

• Baskin Engineering, Room 253C

• Integrated circuit design for communications, analog electronics, radio frequency integrated circuits, low-phase-noise oscillators, frequency synthesis, VLSI clock distribution, optical communications, high-speed electronics for lightwave systems, devices for all optical networking and imaging

Stephen Petersen

• Teaching Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-459-4782

• Baskin Engineering, Room 251

Zouheir Rezki

• Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-459-1073

• Engineering 2, Room 245A
• Labs: Engineering 2, Room 246

• Wireless Communications and Networking
• Security and Privacy of Data Networks
• Information Theory
• Applying Machine-Learning techniques to design and optimize Communication Systems
• Optical Communications
• Communication as an Enabling Technology for Smart Grids

Marco Rolandi

• Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-459-3821

• Baskin Engineering, Room 253B

• Bioelectronics for Biological control applied to synthetic biology and tissue regeneration. Visual Communication in Science and Engineering.

Hamid R. Sadjadpour

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-459-1483

• Engineering 2, Room 245B

• Wireless communications, Digital Communications, information-theoretic security, analysis of networks and protocols, Wireless energy harvesting

Ricardo Sanfelice

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-459-1016

• Engineering 2, Room 517

• Modeling, stability, robust control, observer design, and simulation of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power systems, robotics, aerospace, and biology

Holger Schmidt

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Narinder Singh Kapany Endowed Chair of Optoelectronics
• Associate Dean for Research
• Director, W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics

• 831-459-1482

• Baskin Engineering, Room 245

• Optofluidics, atom photonics, hollow-core photonics for biomedicine and quantum optics, nano-magnetism, nano-magneto-optics, spintronics, single-particle spectroscopy, ultrafast optics, integrated nanopore devices

Mircea Teodorescu

• Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Engineering 2, Room 559

• robotics, bioengineering and bioelectrionics

John Vesecky

• Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-459-4099

• Baskin Engineering, Room 262

• HF radar design and construction and observation of ocean surface winds, waves and currents with applications to coastal and deep water ocean processes

Michael Wehner

• Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• E2, 325

• Robotics, human-machine interaction, soft systems, wearables, rehabilitation

Donald M. Wiberg

• Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering, UCLA

• 831-459-5560 (office)
• 831-246-3763 (cell)

• Engineering 2, Room 241A

• Control systems, phased lock loops, Kalman filtering, recursive linear system parameter estimation, dynamic system adaptive fault detection, adaptive optics for large telescopes, biomedical system modeling

Toshishige Yamada

• Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 408-475-9041

• Engineering 2, Room 247A

• Nanoscience and nanotechnology; physics of advanced electronic materials and devices including nanowires and nanocarbons for electronic, optoelectronic, and energy applications; materials theory and device modeling based on energy bands, equivalent circuits, analytical methods, Monte Carlo, and tight-binding; comparison to experiments.

A. Ali Yanik

• Assist. Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

• 831-459-3491

• Baskin Engineering, Room 257C

• Nanoplasmonics and metamaterials; lab-on-chip systems: optofluidic bionems, nanofluidics and label free biosensors; nanospectroscopy: plasmonic nanoantennas and single molecule vibrational dynamics; rare cell isolation and single cell analysis

Yu Zhang

• Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 831-459-2921 (Office)

• Engineering 2, Room 547B

• Smart grids, cyber-physical systems, machine learning, big data analytics, optimization, operations research, wireless communications, and signal processing.