Faculty
Acting Chair
Hai "Helen" Li
Clare Boothe Luce Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Neuromorphic computing systems Machine learning acceleration and trustworthy AIEmerging memory technologies, circuit and architecture Low power circuits and systems
Associate Chair for Educational Programs
Lisa Gresham Huettel
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Engineering education, pedagogy and curriculum development, applications of statistical signal processing
Primary Faculty
Tyler K Bletsch
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Software security, robotics, project-oriented education, and datacenter efficiency
John A. Board
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: High performance scientific computing and simulation, novel computer architectures, cluster computing and parallel processing; ubiquitous computing.
Martin A. Brooke
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Analog, RF, and optoelectronic circuits. Sensor interface circuits. Deployable sensor systems
April S. Brown
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kenneth R Brown
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Quantum error correction, quantum control, quantum computer architecture, ion trap quantum computing, and the spectroscopy of sympathetically cooled molecular ions
Robert Calderbank
Charles S. Sydnor Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Error control codes for quantum computing, wireless communication and the internet of things, coding theory for computer architecture, signal processing, machine learning
Lawrence Carin
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Applied statistics and machine learning
Krishnendu Chakrabarty
John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Testing and design-for-testability of integrated circuits and systems (SOCs, 3D, manycore); microfluidic biochips and cyberphysical systems; resilient computing systems; hardware security; machine learning hardware and neuromorphic computing systems
Yiran Chen
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Emerging memory and storage technologies Embedded systems, CPS, edge computing, and mobile applications Neuromorphic computing, deep learning and system security Low power circuit and system
Tingjun Chen
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Wireless networking, next-generation wireless and optical networks, edge cloud and computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), mobile and embedded systems, platforms and testbeds
Leslie M. Collins
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Physics-based machine learning algorithms for big data, including developing remediation strategies for the hearing impaired and sensor-based algorithms for the detection of hazardous buried objects
Steven A. Cummer
William H. Younger Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Research Interests: Theoretical and experimental electromagnetic problems related to geophysical remote sensing and engineered electromagnetic materials.
Mary "Missy" Cummings
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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.
Shaundra Daily
Professor of Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Identity-inclusive computing, Human-centered design & engineering, justice-centered STEM education
Ingrid Daubechies
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Wavelet theory, signal processing, machine learning, computational geometry, time-frequency analysis
Richard B. Fair
Lord-Chandran Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Research Interests: Microfluidic systems for lab-on-a-chip applications based on electrowetting technology
Aaron D. Franklin
Addy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Nanomaterials in electronic devices, nanofabrication, printed electronics and internet of things (IoT), biosensing
Michael E. Gehm
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Primarily computational and compressive sensing and measurement in all modalities (with special emphasis in Electromagnetic/Optical from RF to x-ray and all forms of Mass spectrometry), with side interests in optical physics, high-performance x-ray simulation, and rapid-...
Jeffrey Glass
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Electronic materials and the associated devices/instruments improved by these materials, especially electrode applications in miniature mass spectrometry, energy conversion and storage and liquid waste disinfection for developing regions. Electrochemical measurements and...
Neil Gong
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Security, privacy, and machine learning.
Maria Gorlatova
Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Architectures, algorithms, and protocols for emerging mobile pervasive systems and the Internet of Things. Our work crosses traditional discipline boundaries and requires thinking across multiple layers of system and protocol stacks. We are focusing on breaking the barriers for...
Michael Richard Gustafson
Associate Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Computational methods for image analysis and information extraction, discrete event simulations, curriculum development and deployment
Andrew Douglas Hilton
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Computer architecture, specifically architectural support for security and energy-efficient performance
Lisa Gresham Huettel
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Engineering education, pedagogy and curriculum development, applications of statistical signal processing
William T. Joines
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Electromagnetic field and wave interactions with materials and structures
Nan Marie Jokerst
J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jungsang Kim
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions, Quantum Information Science, Novel Photonic Devices, Application of Quantum Computers
Jeffrey L. Krolik
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Physics-based and statistical signal processing, sensor array processing, radar and sonar systems, pervasive distributed processing
Hai "Helen" Li
Clare Boothe Luce Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Neuromorphic computing systems Machine learning acceleration and trustworthy AIEmerging memory technologies, circuit and architecture Low power circuits and systems
Xin Li
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Integrated circuits, signal processing and data analytics
Genevieve Lipp
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Natalia Litchinitser
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Nanophotonics; Photonic Metamaterials; Nonlinear Optics; Fiber Optics; Photonic Crystal Fibers
Qing Huo Liu
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Computational electromagnetics and acoustics; inverse problems, and their application in geophysics, nanophotonics, and biomedical imaging
Jerome Peter Lynch
Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Prof. Lynch's research interests are in advancing cyber-physical system architectures that combine sensing, computing, and control to create intelligent civil infrastructure systems. He is best known for his research portfolio in structural health monitoring (SHM) that allow...
Iman Marvian
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Quantum information and computation theory
Hisham Z. Massoud
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Ultrathin gate dielectrics for CMOS ULSI – the technology, physics, modeling, simulation, and characterization of ultrathin-oxide MOSFETs
Maiken Mikkelsen
James N. and Elizabeth H. Barton Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Quantum nanophotonics, plasmonics, light-matter interactions in artificially structured nanoscale materials, hybrid molecular-scale materials and spin phenomena in the solid state
Christopher R Monroe
Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor
Research Interests: quantum physics, applications in quantum information science
Crystal Noel
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Loren W. Nolte
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Bayesian and physics-based approaches to signal detection, classification, estimation, tracking and decision and sensor fusion. Machine learning. Applications include ocean acoustics and medical imaging-based decision theory for cancer research.
Douglas Nowacek
Randolph K. Repass and Sally-Christine Rodgers University Distinguished Professor of Conservation Technology in Environment and Engineering
Research Interests: Marine mammal behavioral and acoustic ecologyOcean noiseOffshore renewable energy
Willie John Padilla
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Theoretical and experimental investigation of electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces, and their application to imaging and sensing at microwave, terahertz, and infrared frequencies
Miroslav Pajic
Dickinson Family Associate Professor
Research Interests: Design and analysis of autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS), and in particular, embedded systems, AI, learning and controls, CPS security and high-assurance autonomy, with various application domains including robotics, automotive, and medical systems
Jian Pei
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Data mining, data warehousing and online analytic processing (OLAP), database systems, bioinformatics
Henry Pfister
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Information theory, communications, probabilistic graphical models, machine learning, and deep neural networks
Galen Reeves
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Information theory, high-dimensional statistical inference, statistical signal processing, compressed sensing, machine learning
Michael Reiter
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Research Interests: Prof. Reiter's research interests include all areas of computer and communications security, fault-tolerant distributed computing, and applied cryptography.
Christ D Richmond
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cynthia D. Rudin
Earl D. McLean, Jr. Professor
Research Interests: Machine learning, interpretability and transparency of predictive models, causal inference, energy, criminal justice, healthcare
Guillermo Sapiro
James B. Duke Distinguished 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...
David R. Smith
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Theory, simulation and demonstration of novel electromagnetic metamaterials across the spectrum, from microwave through optical. Applications of metamaterials for antennas and imaging devices, with a focus on security imaging and satellite imaging. General studies on advanced...
Daniel J. Sorin
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Computer architecture, designing microarchitectures so that they are easier to verify, improving computer system fault tolerance, developing memory systems for multicore processors, and designing special-purpose accelerators
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor
Research Interests: Thin-film deposition, MAPLE, hybrid perovskites, hybrid nanocomposites, organic thin films
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
Vahid Tarokh
Rhodes Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Representation, modeling, inference and prediction from data
Kishor S. Trivedi
Hudson Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Markov models, Fault trees, Stochastic Petri nets, Reliability Modeling, Availability Modeling, Performability modeling, Survivability modeling, Cyber Security, Software reliability, Software Fault Tolerance, Software Aging and Rejuvenation
Lisa Wills
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: I enjoy solving difficult problems surrounding computations with the goal to process large volumes of data efficiently. My research interests include computer architecture and microarchitecture, hardware-software co-designs, accelerators, and emerging application domains ―...
Rabih Younes
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Wearable computing, activity recognition, context awareness, machine learning, artificial intelligence, engineering education, and Middle Eastern politics
Secondary Faculty
Ehsan Abadi
Assistant Professor in Radiology
Alberto Bartesaghi
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Image analysis, data science, computer vision, machine learning, image reconstruction, cryo-electron microscopy, protein structure
David Carlson
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Machine learning, predictive modeling, health data science, statistical neuroscience
Xiuyuan Cheng
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Research Interests: Theory and computation of spectral methods, geometrical data analysis, high dimensional statistics, mathematical analysis of deep neural networks.
Stefano Curtarolo
Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence Materials Science; Autonomous Materials Design; Computational materials science; High-Entropy Disordered Systems; Materials for Energy Applications; Materials for Aerospace Applications. Prof. Curtarolo multidisciplinary research makes use of state-of-the...
Dean F Darnell
Assistant Professor in Radiology
Bruce Randall Donald
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Jessilyn Dunn
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Sina Farsiu
Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Focused on medical imaging and machine learning 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.
Stefan M Goetz
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Yiyang Gong
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Recording and understanding brain activity by developing novel combinations of optical microscopy and genetically encoded sensors. Using these technologies, we wish to dissect neural circuit function and investigate how neural activity drives complex behaviors.
Warren M. Grill
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: 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 movement disorders...
Ricardo Henao
Associate Professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Roarke Horstmeyer
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Computational optics, machine learning, and designing new algorithms for image processing. A main focus is to improve how we capture and use images of microscopic phenomena within a range of biomedical contexts. In general, I like to create new optical devices that can improve...
Xiao Hu
Professor in the School of Nursing
Research Interests: Biomedical signal processing (ECG, EEG, PPG, ICP, cerebral blood flow velocity), machine learning in healthcare, mathematical modeling of physiological systems, brain monitoring.
Tony Jun Huang
William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Acoustofluidics, microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, biomedical micro-electro-mechanical systems (BioMEMS), optofluidics, plasmofluidics.
Joseph A. Izatt
Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Biomedical optics and spectroscopy, coherence-based imaging and microscopy, novel instrumentation for minimally invasive medical diagnostics, and real-time image-guided robotic microsurgery.
Kyle Jon Lafata
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Research Interests: Biomedical imaging, image processing, computer vision, computational pathology, applied analysis of stochastic differential equations, high dimensional data analysis, feature engineering, adaptive imaging, multi-scale data fusion, Uncertainty Quantification
Alvin R. Lebeck
Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Accelerating Statistical Machine LearningNovel computer architectures targeted at machine learning problems that rely on Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques and probabilistic computing in general. Multicore/multiprocessor and Distributed Systems (including data centers)Cache...
Joseph Yuan-Chieh Lo
Professor in Radiology
Research Interests: Computer vision and machine learning for medical imaging diagnosis; radiogenomics for improved management of breast cancer; computational and physical breast models for virtual clinical trials
Bruce Maggs
Pelham Wilder Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Maciej A Mazurowski
Associate Professor in Radiology
Felipe Medeiros
Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology
John Pearson
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Angel V Peterchev
Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests: Development and modeling of devices and application paradigms for transcranial brain stimulation; projects related to power electronics, with applications in electrical energy conversion and storage
John H. Reif
A. Hollis Edens Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Molecular assembly, DNA computing, robot motion planning, parallel algorithms, randomized algorithms, graph algorithms, algebraic computation, data compression, optical computation, and quantum computation.
Ehsan Samei
Reed and Martha Rice Distinguished Professor of Radiology
Research Interests: X-ray imaging, theoretical imaging models, simulation methods, and experimental techniques in medical image formation, analysis, assessment, and perception
Jiaming Xu
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Research Interests: Network science, machine learning, high-dimensional statistical inference, information theory, optimization, stochastic systems, game theory, communications and networking
Xiaowei Yang
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Michael Zavlanos
Yoh Family Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Control theory, optimization, and learning; in particular, robotics and autonomous systems, networked and distributed control systems, and cyber-physical systems.
Research Faculty
Jason Amsden
Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: My area of interest is in the application of computational and compressive techniques to improve spectroscopic instrument design. Spectroscopic measurements are a convolution of the instrument response and the desired spectrum. Conventional spectroscopic instruments are designed...
Kyle Bradbury
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Solving energy problems using machine learning and statistical modeling
Juan Matias Di Martino
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Joel Alter Greenberg
Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Computational sensing with a focus on novel, physics-based measurement techniques for practical applications. Primarily focused in the electromagnetic/optical spectrum ranging from ELF through visible and hard X-rays, with applications to security, non-destructive testing, and...
Sonia Grego
Associate Research Professor in theDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alexander Y. Kozhanov
Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Paolo F Maccarini
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boyla Octavie Mainsah
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jordan Milton Malof
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Application of advanced machine learning and computer vision techniques to real-world problems
Brian R. Stoner
Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Adjunct Faculty
Jeffrey Derby
Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Adel F Fahmy
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Farshad Firouzi
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
John Charles Goss
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kris Hauser
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Robot motion planning and control, semiautonomous robots, and integrating perception and planning
Jay Lawrence Hineman
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nathan Kundtz
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Benjamin C Lee
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Computer architecture and systems, energy efficiency, performance modeling, and algorithmic economics for resource management; policy for environmentally sustainable information technology infrastructure
Xuejun Liao
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
James Morizio
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Mixed-Signal CMOS circuit design, layout and testing Bioelectronic circuits for wireless neural interfaces: Recording and Stimulation Sigma Delta ADC and DACs architecture and circuit design Ultrasound Pre-Amplifier and multiplexing Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) Pixel driver...
Joe X Qiu
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andrew Rindos
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Brian M Rogers
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Evan Runnerstrom
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Joshua Stohl
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Signal processing for hearing aids and auditory prostheses, computational modeling of the auditory periphery, and the use of intracochlear and cortical evoked potentials in the development and refinement of methods for coding sound for users of cochlear implants.
Patrick Wang
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Blake Shaw Wilson
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Research Interests: Signal processing and neural prostheses.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Vamsee K. Pamula
Entrepreneur in Residence
Research Interests: Development of inexpensive and accessible newborn screening and pediatric diagnostic products
Emeritus Faculty
David J. Brady
Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Photonics in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Professor Brady's research focuses on "smart cameras" which use artificial intelligence to increase the amount of visual information captured and to render this information useful. In 2012 his group built the world's first gigapixel camera, his work today focuses on making...
H. Craig Casey
Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Peter N. Marinos
Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dean E. McCumber
Emeritus Visiting Professor