All Faculty
Department Chair
Primary Faculty
Tyler K Bletsch
Assistant Professor Of The Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
David J. Brady
Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Photonics in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: DISP uses joint design of physical sampling and digital processing strategies to develop high performance sensor systems. DISP builds instruments for visible, infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray, millimeter wave, terahertz, acoustic and ion imaging and spectroscopy. DISP has made particular contributions...
Martin A. Brooke
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Professor Brooke's expertise is in multi-disciplinary, team-oriented collaborative research involving co-design and co-development of hybrid analog, digital, and optoelectronic information processing systems. He has conducted a research program in applications for ultra-compact optical sensors,...
April S. Brown
John Cocke Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt , Jr. School of Engineering
Krishnendu Chakrabarty
William H. Younger Professor of Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Testing and design-for-testability of integrated circuits and systems (SOCs, 3D, manycore); microfluidic biochips and cyberphysical systems; resilient computing systems; enterprise system optimization and smart manufacturing.
Leslie M. Collins
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: This laboratory's research is in the area of physics-based statistical signal processing algorithms, and we are actively engaged in two general application areas: (1) Investigating human auditory perception and developing remediation strategies for the hearing impaired; (2) developing sensor-based...
Christopher Dwyer
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: My group studies the design, synthesis and properties of nanostructures for future computer and sensor systems. Specifically, we use DNA self-assembly, a bottom-up fabrication technique that can be used to achieve molecular scale resolution, to build experimental devices which we then characterize...
Richard B. Fair
Lord-Chandran Professor of Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Microfluidic systems for lab-on-a-chip applications based on electrowetting technology. We are primarily focused on applications, such as a chip that extracts, purifies and amplifies the nucleic acid of sparse pathogens in blood for diagnosing sepsis, a chip to perform DNA sequencing by synthesis,...
Aaron D. Franklin
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Improving the performance and functionality of nanomaterial-enabled electronic devices. From 1D carbon nanotubes to 2D semiconducting crystals, applications include: high-performance transistors, printed sensors for IoT, biocompatible or biofunctional electronics, and low-cost printed electronics....
Jeffrey Glass
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: The goal of the Nanomaterials and Thin Films Lab under Glass is to improve device and instrument performance by developing novel advanced materials. Thus, the lab utilizes a variety of materials processing and characterization tools in pursuit of materials with improved properties for various...
Michael Richard Gustafson
Associate Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kris Hauser
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Research interests include robot motion planning and control, semiautonomous robots, and integrating perception and planning. Past applications of this research have included automated vehicle collision avoidance, robotic manipulation, robot-assisted medicine, and legged locomotion.
Andrew Douglas Hilton
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lisa Gresham Huettel
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nan Marie Jokerst
J. A. Jones Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Benjamin C Lee
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: The BCL Research Group performs research in the broadly defined area of computer engineering. We design new hardware architectures for emerging platforms, spanning datacenters to mobile devices. Moreover, we propose new hardware management strategies to ensure service quality for diverse users in...
Xin Li
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Beginning January 2017)
Research Interests: Integrated circuits, signal processing and data analytics.
Hisham Z. Massoud
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Professor Massoud is interested in ultrathin gate dielectrics for CMOS ULSI. His interest span the technology, phyiscs, modeling, simulation, and characterization of ultrathin-oxide MOSFETs. He has led a research program in the modeling and simulation of quantum-mechanical carrier tunneling in...
Douglas Nowacek
Randolph K. Repass and Sally-Christine Rodgers University Associate Professor of Conservation Technology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Sound propagates very efficiently through sea water, and marine mammals take advantage of this medium to communicate and explore their environment. My research is focused on the link between acoustic and motor behavior in marine mammals, primarily cetaceans and manatees, specifically, how they use...
Miroslav Pajic
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Miroslav Pajic's research focuses on the design and analysis of cyber-physical systems. In particular, his research explores real-time and embedded systems, distributed/networked control systems, and high-confidence medical device systems. Because his research is frequently motivated by problems...
Cynthia Diane Rudin
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning, data mining, applied statistics, and knowledge discovery (Big Data).
Guillermo Sapiro
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Image and video processing, computer vision, computer graphics, computational vision, biomedical imaging, brain imaging, cryo-tomography of viruses, computational tools in cryo-tomography, computational tools in early diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, differential geometry and differential...
Daniel J. Sorin
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: The primary focus of my research is computer architecture. This research includes work to: improve the dependability of computer architectures, design microarchitectures such that their designs are easier to validate, and develop memory system designs for multicore processors.
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Nanomaterials resulting from quantum confinement in three dimensions, known as nanoparticles or quantum dots, exhibit unique characteristics compared to conventional, bulk materials because of their small size, and because nanomaterials can be tailored to exhibit desired properties by controlling...
Stacy L. Tantum
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Signal detection and estimation theory, statistical signal processing, pattern recognition and machine learning, remote sensing, matched-field processing, and ocean acoustics.
Kishor S. Trivedi
Hudson Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Secondary Faculty
Landon P. Cox
Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Research Interests: Experimental software systems with a focus on mobile computing, social networking, and security.
Mary "Missy" Cummings
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Human-unmanned vehicle interaction, human-autonomous system collaboration, human-systems engineering, public policy implications of unmanned vehicles, and the ethical and social impact of technology.
Bruce Randall Donald
James B. Duke Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Computational Biology, Computational Chemistry, Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Protein Design, Drug Design, NMR of Biological Macromolecules, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Micro-robotics, Geometric Algorithms
David B. Dunson
Arts and Sciences Professor of Statistical Science
Research Interests: Development of Bayesian methods motivated by applications with complex and high-dimensional data. A particular focus is on nonparametric Bayes approaches for conditional distributions and for flexible borrowing of information. I am also interested in methods for accommodating model uncertainty in...
Sina Farsiu
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Farsiu's research focuses on medical imaging and image processing to improve the overall health and vision outcome of patients with ocular and neurological diseases (e.g., age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, Alzheimer, and ALS) through earlier and personalized therapy.
Daniel J. Gauthier
Robert C. Richardson Professor of Physics
Research Interests: Prof. Gauthier is interested in a broad range of topics in the fields of nonlinear and quantum optics, and nonlinear dynamical systems. In the area of optical physics, his group is studying the fundamental characteristics of highly nonlinear light-matter interactions at both the classical and...
Yiyang Gong
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: We're interested in understanding brain function using the combination of genetically encoded sensors and optical techniques. Using genetically encoded tools, we can target specific neuron types or specific projection pathways for recording or perturbation. Using optical microscopy, we can access...
Warren M. Grill
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Grill's research interests and in neural engineering and neural prostheses and include design and testing of electrodes and stimulation techniques, the electrical properties of tissues and cells, and computational neuroscience with applications in restoration of bladder function, treatment of...
John Harer
Professor of Mathematics
Research Interests: Professor Harer's primary research is in the use of geometric, combinatorial and computational techniques to study a variety of problems in data analysis, shape recognition, image segmentation, tracking, brain imaging, biological networks and gene expression.
Alvin R. Lebeck
Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer architecture and its intersection with systems and tools, particularly with respect to memory system design and analysis for both serial and parallel architectures. Architectures for emerging nanotechnologies. Energy efficient computing.
Joseph Yuan-Chieh Lo
Professor of Radiology
Research Interests: My lab investigates three areas in the advanced imaging of breast cancer: 1. Digital mammography and breast tomosynthesis, 2. Radiogenomics for improved management of breast cancer using computer vision and machine learning models, and 3. Computational and physical breast phantoms to facilitate...
Angel Vladimirov Peterchev
Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests: Angel Peterchev directs the Brain Stimulation Engineering Lab (BSEL), which focuses on the development and modeling of devices and application paradigms for transcranial brain stimulation. Transcranial brain stimulation involves non-invasive delivery of fields (e.g., electric and magnetic) to the...
Michail Zavlanos
Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: A range of topics in the emerging discipline of networked systems, which studies systems of intelligent physical agents interacting via a communication medium in search of local control principles that determine global network behavior. Focus on robotic, sensor, and wireless networks that can be...
Research Faculty
Joel Alter Greenberg
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stephane Larouche
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Daniel L. Marks
Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Adjunct Faculty
Thomas Katsouleas
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Katsouleas is a specialist in the use of plasmas as novel particle accelerators and light sources.
James Morizio
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: He conducts research in the areas of mixed-signal VLSI design and sub-system hardware development for biomedical instrumentation products.
Yaroslav A. Urzhumov
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Urzhumov's main focus at Duke is on engineering technologically-relevant electromagnetic and acoustic properties of such media across the spectrum, and designing device prototypes based on metamaterials. His demonstration of all-dielectric cloaking at Duke (2013), and the theoretical proofs of...
Blake Shaw Wilson
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Surgery
Research Interests: Signal processing and neural prostheses.
