Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Sanjukta Bhanja, Ph.D., Professor and Executive Associate Dean, University of South
Florida (2002)
Office: ENB 376 | Lab: ENB 349A | Phone: (813) 974-4755 | Email
Dr. Bhanja's Website
Dr. Bhanja's Fact Sheet
Dr. Bhanja's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Bhanja's research is in Nano-Computing using Beyond-CMOS Emerging Technologies: modeling, fabrication, characterization and design automation harnessing unique properties of the nano-devices. Her recent work focuses on nano-magnetic logic, spin-couple computing, organic spintronics, straintronics, resistive logic/memory in creating unique computing paradigm. The target application domains are futuristic programmable magnetic grids for Computer Vision applications, Data-centric Embedded/Secured computing, Graphical Probabilistic Models for Stochastic High Performance Computing and Next generation Memories.
Robert H. Bishop, Ph.D., P.E., Professor and Dean, Rice University (1990)
Office: ENB 105L | Phone: (813) 974-3780 | Email
Dr. Bishop is a specialist in the area of systems theory, guidance and control of
aerospace vehicles, and navigation and estimation theory with applications across
a broad range of global challenges. His current research interests are in the area
of advanced navigation algorithm development with fast-to-flight characteristics,
integrated navigation and guidance for planetary precision landing, small satellites
and unmanned aerial vehicles. Dr. Bishop was selected twice as a Faculty Fellow of
the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and as a Welliver Fellow of the Boeing Company.
Alexandro Castellanos, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Instruction, University of South
Florida (2006)
Office: ENB 379D | Phone: (813) 974-1025 | Email
Dr. Castellanos's research interests lie in the area of cyber physical systems, embedded
systems, Internet of things (IoT) and control theory for industrial applications in
the areas of Mechatronics and Industrial Automation.
Morris Chang, Ph.D., Professor, North Carolina State University (1993)
Office: ENB 255 | phone: (813) 974-4894 | Email
Dr. Chang's Website
Dr. Chang's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Chang's research interests are in the broad area of computer and wireless networking
systems, with recent emphasis on cybersecurity: Attribution, Program Analysis for
cybersecurity and privacy-preserving Internet Computation; Energy-aware mobile and
cloud systems; Energy-efficient wireless networks.
Kwang-Cheng Chen, Ph.D., Professor and Fellow of the IEEE, University of Maryland,
College Park (1989)
Office: ENB 245 | Phone: (813) 974-1023 | Email
Dr. Chen's Fact Sheet
Dr. Chen's Website
Dr. Chen's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Chen's research interests lie in information communication technology essential to digital society, particularly in large networks and computations. Specific interests include large communication networks: Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems and Edge Computing, 5G Mobile Communications and Beyond, Ad Hoc Sensor Networking, In-Network Computations and Approximate Computing, Cognitive Radio Networks, Secure Communications and Resilient Networks; Large Information Networks: Social Networks, Big Data Analytics, Multi-Agent Systems and Collective Behavior, Fusion and Decision on Heterogeneous/Multimodal Data, Biochemical Reaction Networks and Applications to Synthetic Biology and Systems Biology, Decision under Uncertainty, and Cybersecurity and Privacy
Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D., Professor, University of Michigan (1988)
Office: ENB 364 | Phone: (813) 974-2574 | Email
The WAMI Center
Dr. Dunleavy's Fact Sheet
Dr. Dunleavy's research interests are related to microwave and millimeter-wave device,
circuit and system design, characterization and modeling.
Lingling Fan, Ph.D., P.E., Professor, West Virginia University (2001)
Office: ENB 247 | Phone: (813) 974-2031 | Email
Dr. Fan's Website
Dr. Fan's Fact Sheet
Dr. Fan's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Fan's research is focused on renewable energy source grid integration, modeling
and control of energy systems, large-scale power system planning and operation.
Christos Ferekides, Ph.D., Department Chair and Professor, University of South Florida
(1991)
Office: ENB 256 | Phone: (813) 974-4818 | Email
Dr. Ferekides' Google Scholar Link
Dr. Ferekide's Active Research Projects
Dr. Ferekides' research interests include thin-film electronic materials and devices
for optoelectronic applications; thin film depositions and properties; device fabrication
and characterization.
Nasir Ghani, Ph.D., Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada (1997)
Program Director Masters in Cybersecurity, and Academic Research Director Cyber Florida
Office: ENB 374 | Phone: (813) 974-4772 | Email
Dr. Ghani's Website
Dr. Ghani's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Ghani is involved in a wide range of research activities in the areas of cybersecurity,
networking, disaster recovery, cloud computing, and cyber-physical systems (integrated
power grids). In addition, his research has been supported by the National Science
Foundation, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Department of Energy, Qatar Foundation,
Department of Education, and Sprint-Nextel Corporation. He also received the NSF CAREER
Award in 2005 for his work on multi-domain networking as well as the UNM Lawton-Ellis
Award in 2011 for excellence in research, teaching, and outreach.
Drew Hoff, Ph.D., Professor and Graduate Program Director, Penn State University (1988)
Office: ENB 248 | LAB: ENB 111 | Phone: (813) 974-4958 | Email
Dr. Hoff's Fact Sheet
Dr. Hoff's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Hoff's research interests include: Afterglow chemical processing of materials for electronics, sensor, and MEMS applications; Oxide formation on Si & SiC, Diamond processing, Surface Conditioning, Noncontact Corona Kelvin Metrology of electronic materials; Dielectrics, SiC, Corona Ion-Assisted delivery of drugs and DNA to Skin and Tissue, Noncontact voltage and corona characterization of cells and tissue, Contamination monitoring and control in IC Manufacturing, Microsystem and MEMS fabrication, Integrated Circuit manufacturing and in-line testing, and Workforce development and training for technology professionals.
Chung Seop Jeong, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Instruction, Marquette University
(2007)
Office: ENB 253 | Phone: (813) 974-6415 | Email
Dr. Jeong's research interests lie in the area of control systems with specialty in
designing resilient, robust, optimal, and adaptive observers and controllers for linear,
nonlinear, stochastic, and chaotic systems.
Zhuo Lu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, North Carolina State University (2013)
Office: ENB 347 | Phone: (813) 974-8259 | Email
Dr. Lu's Communications, Security and Analytics (CSA) Lab
Dr. Lu's research interests broadly include network science, cyber security, data
analytics, wireless and mobile communication networking, and cyber-physical systems.
Zhixin Miao, Ph.D., P.E, Associate Professor: West Virginia University (2002)
Office: ENB 370 | Phone: (813) 974-4237 | Email
Dr. Miao's Fact Sheet
Dr. Miao's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Miao's research interests include smart grid automation, electric power system
modeling and simulation, microgrid technologies to integrate renewable energy and
energy storage, and power market.
Wilfrido A. Moreno, Ph.D., Professor, University of South Florida (1993)
Office: ENB 254 | Phone: (813) 974-4775 | Email
Dr. Moreno's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Moreno's research interests are: Energy, Power Electronics and Controls Option
Supervisor- Primary areas of interest include System integration for industrial applications
in the areas of Industrial Controls & Instrumentation, Robotics, Digital Signal Processing,
Reconfigurable Architectures, Analog-Digital Mixed Signal Design & Synthesis, Communications
and Biomedical Engineering. Other areas of current interest are the use of Lasers
in developing new methods and techniques for electronic circuitry interconnects and
test validation of VLSI fault tolerant designs, Laser Restructuring for quick prototyping
of electronic circuits; laser machining and Multimedia & Instructional Technologies
Solutions for Engineering Education including Distance Learning.
Gokhan Mumcu; Ph.D., Professor, The Ohio State University, (2008)
Office: ENB 362 | Phone: (813) 974-8178 | Email
Dr. Mumcu's Fact Sheet
Dr. Mumcu's Website
Dr. Mumcu's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Mumcu's research is focused on electromagnetic theory, computational electromagnetics,
THz imaging systems, metamaterials and their applications to small directive radiators
and printed miniature antennas.
Mia (Mahshid) Naeini, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico (2014)
Office: ENB 244A | Phone (813) 974-1597 | Email
Dr. Naeini's Webpage
Dr. Naeini's Fact Sheet
Dr. Naeini's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Naeini's research interests lie in the area of network science, stochastic processes,
system modeling, network mining, network analytics, machine learning, and prediction
models with applications in communication networks, cyber-physical-human systems with
particular emphasis on smart grids, and their reliability, security and performance
evaluation.
Ashwin B. Parthasarathy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
(2010)
Office Location: ENB 257 | Phone: 813-974-7407 | Email
Dr. Parthasarathy's Fact Sheet
Translational Optics Imaging and Spectroscopy Lab
Dr. Parthasarathy's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Parthasarathy's research interests are in the development of novel biomedical instrumentation and imaging techniques with optics, and the clinical translation of these medial devices for applications that include bedside diagnoses/monitoring of brain injuries (e.g., strokes, traumatic brain injury), intraoperative imaging, and critical care monitoring. The ultimate goal of Dr. Parthasarathy's research is utilize these custom clinical biomedical devices and directly measure tissue physiology at the bedside, thereby developing non-invasive biomarkers of disease, bedside disease models, and thus personalized optimization of treatment..
Stephen E. Saddow, Ph.D., Professor, University of Maryland at College Park (1993)
Office: ENB 243 | Phone: (813) 974-4773 | Email
Dr. Saddow's Website
Dr. Saddow's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Saddow's research interests are to develop wide-bandgap silicon carbide semiconductor
materials for Bio, Nano and MEMS applications His ultimate research objective is to
develop smart implants and sensors for biomedical and harsh environment applications.
Prof. Saddow was jointly appointed in 2009 to the college of medicine where he is
working to develop 3C-SiC based devices for insertion into the nervous system. The
goal is the realization of brain-machine-interface (BMI) devices based on SiC. His
group has demonstrated the biocompatibility of SiC with neural cells, both in-vitro
and in-vivo, and has demonstrated the biocompatibility of epitaxial graphene on SiC.
Ravi Sankar, Ph.D., P.E., Professor, Penn State University (1985)
Office: ENB 373 | Phone: (813) 974-4769 | Email
iCONS Research Group
Dr. Sankar's Fact Sheet
Dr. Sankar's main research interests are in the multidisciplinary areas of wireless
communications, networking, signal processing and its applications. In particular,
in the communications and networking area, his research interests are on the resource
and mobility managements of wireless cellular, ad-hoc, and sensor networks, energy-efficient
protocol design and cross-layer optimization. In the signal processing area, emphasis
is on all aspects of processing from feature extraction, coding, and recognition to
machine learning applied to speech, biomedical and other signals and in integrating
intelligent techniques including the use of neural networks and fuzzy logic in the
simulation, modeling, and design of high performance and robust systems. His current
focus is on the use of wearable sensors and technologies for advancing health care.
Rudy Schlaf, Ph.D., Professor, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany (1995)
Office: IDRB 202F | Phone: (813) 974-8463 | Email
Surf Science Lab
Dr. Schlaf's Fact Sheet
Dr. Schlaf's main research interests currently span the following areas: Spray based
deposition of macro-molecular thin films and interfaces, photoemission spectroscopy
on organic semiconductor/bio-materials interfaces, work function measurements, directed
assembly of macromolecular materials, biosensors, thin film photovoltaics, and electronic
structure and growth phenomena of atomic layer deposition thin films.
E. K. Stefanakos, Ph.D., P.E., Professor, Washington State University (1969)
Office: ENB 250 | Phone: (813) 974-4413 | Email
Dr. Stefanakos' Fact Sheet
Dr. Stefanakos' Google Scholar Link
Research interests: clean energy; photovoltaics.
Arash Takshi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of British Columbia (2007)
Office: ENC 2502 | Phone: 813-974-1121 | Email
Bio-Organic Electronics Group
Dr. Takshi's Fact Sheet
Dr. Takshi's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Takshi's primary research interest research is in the field of renewable energy.
In particular, he is interested in the research on bio/organic solar cells. He believes
that employing new materials can push the limits in solar cells, beyond what silicon
technology can offer. Furthermore, using emerging materials, new devices with special
features can be developed to address some of the existing challenges in the application
of renewable energy.
Sylvia Thomas, Ph.D., Professor, Howard University (1999)
Interim Vice President for Research & Innovation, President & CEO of the USF Research
Foundation, Inc.
Office: ENB 368 | Phone: (813) 974-4011 | Email
Advanced Materials Bio & Integration Research Laboratory
Dr. Thomas' Fact Sheet
Dr. Thomas' research and teaching endeavors are in the areas of Advanced Materials
for applications in alternative energy sources, sustainable environments, and bio-applications
for nano-electro mechanical system (NEMS) devices – nanowires and nanoparticles. Her
research explores the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth nucleation, film characterization,
and device fabrication of III-V and II-IV materials, such as AlN and SiC. Her research
is interdisciplinary in nature and fosters collaborations with Chemical and Biomedical
and Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Public Health, Medicine, and the Nanomaterials
and Nanomanufacturing Research Center (NNRC).
Ismail Uysal, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, University
of Florida (2008)
Office: ENB 366 | Phone: (813) 974-8823 | Email
Dr. Uysal's research interests include applications of wireless and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies for cold chain, pharmaceuticals and healthcare; as well as sensory data analysis, algorithm design and machine learning for different Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystems.
Stavros Vakalis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Michigan State University (2022)
Office: ENB 357 | Email
Dr. Vakalis' research interests lie in the area of applied electromagnetics with an
emphasis on wireless millimeter-wave systems, millimeter-wave imaging, radar, sensing,
signal processing, and communications.
Jing Wang, Ph.D., Professor, University of Michigan (2006)
Office: ENB 378 | Phone: (813) 974-6011 | Email
Transducers Group
Dr. Wang's Fact Sheet
Dr. Wang's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Wang's research interests include nano/microfabrication, nanomaterials, RF MEMS
devices, on-chip power generation, microfluidics, MEMS transducers, RF integrated
circuit, wide bandgap materials, polymer nanocomposite and responsive polymers.
Yasin Yilmaz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Columbia University, 2014
Office: ENB 251 | Phone (813) 974-4788 | Email
Dr. Yilmaz's Webpage
Dr. Yilmaz's Research Group
Dr. Yilmaz's Google Scholar Link
Dr. Yilmaz's research interests are in the broad area of machine learning with applications in computer vision, cybersecurity, IoT, wireless communications, energy systems, transportation systems, socioeconomic systems, and environmental systems.
Emeritus Faculty
Kenneth Buckle
Richard Gitlin iWinlab
Arthur David Snider
Thomas Wade
Courtesy Faculty
Yoganand (Yoga) Balaguranathan
Prasanta Kumar Biswas
Anna Pyayt
Ghulam Rasool
Ehsan Sheybani
Pei-yuan Wu
Kaiqi Xiong
Adjunct Faculty*
Michael Celestin
James Culver
Timothy Fawcett
Jorge Galvis
Joel Howell
*May not be scheduled to teach every semester