Faculty

Department Chair

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

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

Associate Chair for Operations

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

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

James L. Meriam Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Applied statistics and machine learning

Krishnendu Chakrabarty

John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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: Design, implementation, and evaluation of technologies, curriculum and programs to support diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields.

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

Associate 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

Associate 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

Xin Li

Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Integrated circuits, signal processing and data analytics

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

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

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

Gihuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics

Research Interests: quantum physics, applications in quantum information science

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: Link between acoustic and motor behavior in marine mammals, specifically, how they use sound in ecological processes. Development of tools for marine conservation research

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

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.

Cynthia D. Rudin

Professor of Computer Science

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

Bell-Rhodes Associate Professor of the Practice 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, 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...

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

Assistant 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.

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.

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 Vladimirov 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

Professor of Radiology

Research Interests: X-ray imaging, theoretical imaging models, simulation methods, and experimental techniques in medical image formation, analysis, assessment, and perception

Xiling Shen

Hawkins Family Associate Professor

Research Interests: Precision medicine for cancer, regeneration, microbiome, and gut-brain axis. Multi-omics approaches including organoid, epigenetics, CRISPR, single-cell, metabolomics, machine learning, droplet microfluidics, humanized immune model and intravital imaging.

Jiaming Xu

Assistant 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

Daniel L. Marks

Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Metamaterials and Synthetic Electromagnetic Materials, Computational Imaging, Imaging System Design, Inverse Scattering, Mathematical Inference, and Optical Design

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...