Faculty
The Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty support teaching and research in several areas of electrical and computer engineering including the following: (a) antennas and propagation, (b) biomedical, (c) cloud computing, (d) cognitive radio, (e) computer architecture, (f) computer networks, (g) electronic design and test automation, (h) embedded systems and control, (i) embedded systems software, (j) internet of things, (k) large scale computing, (l) many core computing, (m) medical image processing, (n) MEMS, (o) multi-core systems, (p) nanoscale devices, (q) neural networks, (r) optics, (s) photonics, (t) power electronics, (u) power systems, (v) robotics, systems programming, (w) VLSI, and (x) wireless communications.
Shaikh Ahmed
Professor, Ph.D. Arizona State University, 2005
Office: Engineering E-222
Office Hours: TR 12:30-2:
Phone: (618) 453-7630
Email: ahmed@siu.edu
Lab: Nanoelectronics
Website
Dr. Ahmed's research interests are in: (a) Nanoscale device design for electronic, optoelectronic/photonic, and energy harvesting applications; (b) Quantum phenomena and devices; (c) Peta-scale scientific computing and developing community nanotechnology software. EDUCATION ...read full profile >>
Iraklis Anagnostopoulos
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. National Technical University of Athens, 2014
Office: Engineering E-114
Office Hours: WF: 10-1PM
Phone: (618) 453-7034
Email: iraklis.anagno@siu.edu
Dr. Anagnostopoulos research interests include (i) many-core architectures, (ii) run-time resource management, (iii) dynamic memory management and (iv) embedded systems architectures. Education Ph.D., National Technical University of Athens, Microprocessors and Digital Systems Lab, 2014 Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 2008
Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Alberta, 2013
Office: Engineering E-110
Office Hours: TR: 11-2PM, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-4755
Email: gayan.baduge@siu.edu
Lab: Wireless Communications & Information Systems Laboratory
Dr. Aruma Baduge's research interests are in the broad area of communications theory and wireless communications with an emphasis on massive MIMO systems, millimeter-wave communications, cooperative relay networks, device-to-device communications, wireless energy harvesting for IoTs, and physical-layer security.
Arash Asrari
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Central Florida, 2015
Office: Engineering E-116
Office Hours: MTW: 1:30-3:30PM, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-7642
Email: arash.asrari@siu.edu
Lab: Power Systems Design
Dr. Asrari's research interests include (1) power systems operation and planning, (2) power systems protection, (3) power systems optimization, (4) renewable energy systems integration, (5) electricity markets analysis, and (6) smart grid. He started working in the Department of ...read full profile >>
Ada Chen
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Duke University, 2007
Office: Engineering E-206
Office Hours: MWF 1-2PM, 3-4PM, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-7060
Email: chen@engr.siu.edu
Labs: Digital Imaging, Medical Imaging
Dr. Chen's research interests are in: (a) Biomedical imaging, (b) image reconstruction, (c) digital tomosynthesis, (d) image quality analysis, (e) signal and image processing, and (f) simulation and computing.
Kang Chen
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Clemson University, 2014
Office: Engineering E-111
Office Hours: MWF: 2-4PM, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-7038
Email: kchen@siu.edu
Dr. Chen's interests are broadly in mobile and computer networks, with current emphasis on software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), connected vehicle networks and applications, and mobile opportunistic networking and computing. Open Positions I have ...read full profile >>
Lalit Gupta
Professor, Ph.D. Southern Methodist University, 1986
Dr. Gupta's research interests are in pattern recognition, neural networks, and signal processing. He has considerable expertise in designing systems for diverse problems such as automatic target recognition, brain-waveform analysis and classification, predicting item difficulties in ...read full profile >>
Themistoklis Haniotakis
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Athens, 2008
Office: Engineering E-220
Office Hours: MWF: 11:30-1:30PM, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-7026
Email: haniotak@siu.edu
Lab: VLSI Design & RF-IC
Dr. Haniotakis' research interests are in: (a) digital VLSI Design and Test, (b) RF IC Design and Test, (c) Low Power VLSI Design, and (d) Fault-tolerant Systems.
Frances Harackiewicz
Professor, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1990
Office: Engineering E-120
Office Hours: W: 10-12, TR: 9:30-11, T: 2:15-3:15
Phone: (618) 453-7031
Email: fran@engr.siu.edu
Dr. Harackiewicz's research interests are in: (a) Electromagnetics, (b) antenna theory and design, (c) microwaves, (d) microstrip phased arrays and anisotropic materials, (e) small multiband and broadband antennas, (f) PIFAs, (g) loops, (h) printed and ...read full profile >>
Constantine Hatziadoniu
Professor, Ph.D. West Virginia University, 1987
Office: Engineering E-221
Office Hours: MWF: 11-12PM, 2-3PM, or by walk-in
Phone: (618) 549-5031
Email: hatz@siu.edu
Lab: Renewable Generation & Power Systems Control/Protection
Dr. Hatziadoniu's research interests are in: (a) Power systems modeling, (b) simulation and control, (c) high voltage, (d) DC transmission, (e) power electronics, and (f) power systems transient.
Dimitrios Kagaris
Professor, Ph.D. Dartmouth College, 1994
Office: Engineering E-117
Office Hours: TWR: 12-2PM, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-7973
Email: kagaris@engr.siu.edu
Dr. Kagaris' research interests are in: (a) digital design automation, (b) design for testability, (c) sensor networks, and (d) data mining and bioinformatics. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. Areas of ...read full profile >>
Arash Komaee
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 2008
Office: Engineering E-216
Office Hours: MW: 1:30-4:30, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-7064
Email: akomaee@siu.edu
Dr. Komaee's interests are in the areas of control theory and signal processing with emphasis on stochastic control, optimal control, estimation theory, and nonlinear filtering. In his current research, he applies these areas to problems in control of micro- and nano-scale ...read full profile >>
Chao Lu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Purdue University, 2012
Office: Engineering E-223
Office Hours: MWF: 1-3PM, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-7028
Email: chaolu@siu.edu
Lab: VLSI System Research
Dr. Lu's research interests include (a) HEVC/H.265 real-time video encoding algorithms and VLSI hardware architecture, and (b) Deep neural network algorithm and VLSI hardware architecture (for smart building, self-driving, pattern recognition, and video/image processing ...read full profile >>
Carlo Montemagno
Professor and Chancellor, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 1995
Dr. Montemagno's research interests are in the areas of biotechnology and nanotechnology.
James Phegley
Senior Lecturer, Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, 2001
Office: Engineering E-210
Office Hours: T: 11 - 2PM, R: 10-1PM, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-7044
Email: phegley@engr.siu.edu
Dr. Phegley's areas of interest include Pattern recognition and classification, digital signal processing.
Jun Qin
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Duke University, 2008
Office: Engineering E-207
Office Hours: MWF: 1-2PM, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-3460
Email: jqin@siu.edu
Dr. Qin’s research interests are in: (a) digital instrumentation and sensors, (b) acoustics and noise induced hearing loss (NIHL), (c) data acquisition and analysis, (d) medical system development, (e) therapeutic ultrasound, and (f) haptics.
Mohammad Sayeh
Professor, Ph.D. Oklahoma State University, 1985
Office: Engineering E-204
Office Hours: MTWRF: 11-12PM
Phone: (618) 453-7066
Email: sayeh@siu.edu
Labs: Photonics-1, Photonics-2
Dr. Sayeh's main research interests are in the areas of Photonics and Artificial Neural Networks. His research focuses on optical means with ANN architectures to solve engineering problems. Optical delta-sigma modulator with promise of THz ...read full profile >>
Spyros Tragoudas
Professor & Chair, Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas
Office: Engineering E-202B
Office Hours: TR: 11-2PM, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-7027
Email: spyros@engr.siu.edu
Lab: Electronic Design & Test Automation
Graduate Students
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Tragoudas’ current research interests are in VLSI Design Automation, Verification and Validation of Embedded Systems, Emerging Technologies, Hardware Security.
Haibo Wang
Professor, Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2002
Office: Engineering E-113
Office Hours: M: 2-3:30PM, W: 2-5PM, F: 9:30-11AM, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-1522
Email: haiboatengrdotsiudotedu
Dr. Haibo Wang’s research interests are in the area of developing low-power, intelligent mixed-signal integrated circuits (IC) for sensor signal acquisition and processing. His current research focuses on: 1) low-voltage analog to digital converters (ADC), 2) novel analog and ...read full profile >>
Ning Weng
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005
Office: Engineering E-119
Office Hours: MWF: 10-11AM, 2-3PM, or by appointment
Phone: (618) 453-7645
Email: nweng@siu.edu
Lab: Network Systems
Dr. Weng's research interests are in: (a) network processing system, (b) system architecture, (c) analytical performance modeling, and (d) low power design.