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Primary research areas in Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering (EE) covers a range of research areas from devices to systems.The emphasis on practice infused with fundamental science and mathematics offers ample research opportunities, both theoretical and experimental, at the forefront of the field and its interdisciplinary applications. Research in EE is closely tied to Computer Science and Applied Physics.
Circuits and VLSI
Areas of Focus
- Low-power memory and reconfigurable computing
- Mixed signal VLSI for high-speed links
- RF and high-speed integrated circuits for wireless/fiber-optic
- Transceivers
- high-precision instrumentation; statistical electronics
- Soliton electronics
- Quantum circuits
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Research Groups/Labs
Communications and Signal Processing
- Detection and estimation
- Modulation and coding
- Array processing
- Network problems
- Audio/visual/neural signal processing
- Video and image analysis
- Electronic DNA sequencing
- Wireless, wireline, and optical communications
- Information storage
- Coding theory
- Scheduling algorithms
- Queing theory
- MAC layer design
- Network protocols and security
- Network optimization and pricing
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Research Groups/Labs
Computer Engineering
- Computer architecture
- Compilers
- High-speed networking (gigabet-per-second networks, inter-network interfaces, network security, and scalable Internet service architectures)
- Circuit modeling and design
- Power aware-computing in the presence of deep sub-micron process technologies
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Instrumentation and Imaging
- Tool building for micro- and nano-scale fabrication
- NMR
- Microscopy
- Techniques for image-guided surgery
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Intelligent Systems and Computer Vision
- Computational vision and control
- Design and control of smart structures
- Development of robotic and image-guided approaches to minimally invasive surgical procedures
- Design of feedback controllers for stabilization of nonholonomic control systems with applications to locomotion systems
- Design of computationally efficient algorithms for extracting anatomical information from noisy data collected through various imaging modalities
Researchers
- Roger W. Brockett
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Kryzstof Gajos
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Rob D. Howe
- Navin Khaneja
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Hanspeter Pfister
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Vahid Tarokh
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Robert J. Wood
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Todd Zickler
Photonics and Optical Devices
- New coherent light sources based on the quantum cascade laser
- Nanostructured semiconductor lasers
- Photonic crystals
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RF, Microwaves, and Antennas
- On-chip passive modeling and optimization
- Distributed integrated circuits
- Silicon linear power amplifier design
- Noise wave control
- Ultrasharp electrical pulse generation utilizing shockwave and soliton
- Long-range multiband antennas
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Research Groups/Labs
Stochastic Systems
- Statistical signal processing
- Statistical learning theory
- Nonlinear filtering and system identification
- Stochastic control
- Optimal control of relaxations in atomic resonance and its applications
- Noise in devices and circuits
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Systems and Control
- Control of quantum systems
- Biologically inspired control problems
- Nonlinear control, optimization, learning, and failure detection in large complex systems
- Laboratory work involving a wide range of sensing and actuation modalities