Majeed M. Hayat
  Professor

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Member of the Center for High Technology Materials
  The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1356
e-mail: hayat@ece.unm.edu
TEL (505) 277-0297; FAX (505) 277-1439

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Dr. Hayat received his Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Pacific  (in Stockton, CA) in 1985. He received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He worked as a Research Associate in the ECE Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1993 to 1996 where he also taught graduate and undergraduate courses. In 1996, he joined the Electro-Optics Graduate Program and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Dayton, where he was granted early tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2001. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and member of the Center for High Technology Materials at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Hayat is a senior member of IEEE and member of OSA and SPIE. He is a recipient of a 1998 National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career Award.

He is an Associate Editor of Optics Express (Photodetectors and Image Processing) and an Associate Editor and member of conference editorial board for the IEEE Control Systems Society. Dr. Hayat's  research activities are in the areas of statistical communication theory, signal and image processing, algorithms for infrared spectral sensors and imagers, novel avalanche photodiodes, optical communication, cooperative distributed sensing and computing, applied probability and stochastic processes.