Faculty Research

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Ravindra N. Bhatt -- condensed-matter theory; in particular, disordered and correlated electronic systems, doped semiconductors, diluted magnetic semiconductors, metal-insulator transitions, quantum Hall effect, spin glasses, and random magnets.

Stephen Y. Chou -- nanotechnology and nanoscale electronic, optoelectronic, magnetic devices, such as nanoimprint, self-assembly, reactive ion etching, single electron transistors, subwavelength optical elements, patterning of nanoscale organic light emitters and transistors, growth of semiconductors and polymers on nanopatterned substrates, quantized magnetic disks, and giant magnetoresistance.

Bradley W. Dickinson -- signal, image, and video processing; system theory; neural networks.

Stephen R. Forrest -- photonic materials and devices, organic and inorganic semiconductor growth, microwave photonics, optical interconnects, and optoelectronic integrated circuits.

Niraj K. Jha -- low power hardware/software design, embedded system design, synthesis for nanotechnologies, synthesis of ASIPs, system and high-level synthesis, digital system testing.

Antoine Kahn -- atomic, electronic, and chemical properties of semiconductors and interfaces; metal semiconductor interfaces; organic molecular semiconductors; and scanning tunneling microscopy.

Hisashi Kobayashi -- digital communication, communication networks, system performance analysis, and teletraffic theory.

Sanjeev R. Kulkarni -- statistical pattern recognition, nonparametric estimation, machine learning, and image/video processing.

Sun-Yuan Kung -- VLSI signal processing; neural networks; digital signal, image, and video processing; and multimedia information systems.

Ruby B. Lee -- ubiquitous processor and platform architectures for media processing and secure information processing; computer architecture for high-performance, secure, and highly available servers.

Bede Liu -- signal and image processing, video coding and analysis.

Stephen A. Lyon -- optical processes in semiconductors, ultrafast processes and nonequilibrium transport, semiconductor nanostructures, quantum computing.

Sharad Malik -- design automation for digital systems: design tools for embedded systems, hardware-software integration, digital circuit theory, and synthesis and verification of digital systems.

Margaret R. Martonosi -- computer architectures and the hardware/software interface, particularly power-efficient systems, configurable computing, and parallel architectures.

Evgenii Narimanov -- mesoscopic physics of photonic and electronic systems, classical and quantum chaos, information theory of fiber-optics networks, condensed-matter physics.

Li-Shiuan Peh -- interconnection networks, computer architecture, and networking.

Vincent Poor -- statistical signal processing, wireless communications, multiuser detection.

Paul R. Prucnal -- photonic switching, fiber-optic networks, and optical interconnects.

Peter J. Ramadge -- video and image processing, and adaptive systems.

Stuart C. Schwartz -- statistical communication theory, signal and image processing.

Mordechai Segev -- theoretical and experimental studies of nonlinear optics, optical spatial solitons, dynamics of nonlinear wave-mixing processes and optical phase conjugation, nonlinear optics in quantum-confined structures.

Mansour Shayegan -- semiconductor physics: electronic properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures, growth of III-V compounds by molecular beam epitaxy.

James C. Sturm -- physics and technology of semiconductor devices for both microelectronics and large-area electronics: silicon-based heterostructures and three-dimensional integration, organic semiconductors, flat panel and flexible displays.

Daniel C. Tsui -- fundamental properties of electronic materials, especially the fractional quantum Hall effect; conduction in ultrasmall structures; and transport through heterojunctions.

Sergio Verdú -- multiuser communication theory and information theory.

Ron Weiss -- Biochemical and cellular computation, synthetic gene networks, cell signaling, microbial engineering and robotics, quorum sensing, molecular computation, nanoscale fabrication.

Sigurd Wagner -- thin-film electronics, solar cells, amorphous and microcrystalline silicon.

Wayne Wolf -- computer-aided design of digital systems, embedded computing systems-on-silicon, video signal processors, video libraries.

Associated Faculty

David August -- synergistic compiler and microarchitecture design.

Ingrid Daubechies -- harmonic analysis techniques applied to signal analysis and numerical analysis, wavelets and their mathematical properties.

Kai Li -- computer architecture, operating systems, parallel systems, and networking.

Kenneth Steiglitz -- physics of computation, computational economics, computer music.

Warren S. Warren -- applications of controlled optical fields (femtosecond pulse shaping); medical diagnostics with ultrafast laser pulses; high-speed communications architectures; advanced optical components.