Professors

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Department Administration

Chaouki T. Abdallah
Gardner-Zemke Professor, Department Chair
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
(505) 277-0298   ECE Bldg 125E

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Interests: Control systems and wireless communications.

Wei Wennie Shu
Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Director-ECE Graduate Program
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(505) 277-8471   ECE Bldg Rm. 112
(505) 277-1433   ECE Bldg Rm. 224C

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Interests: Distributed systems, multimedia networking, mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks, overlay network services, bio-med modeling and simulation.

Gregory L. Heileman
Professor, Associate Chair, Director-ECE Undergraduate Program
PhD, University of Central Florida
(505) 277-2630   ECE Bldg Rm. 114
(505) 277-4011   ECE Bldg Rm. 229b

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Interests: Data structures and algorithmic analysis, theory of information and computing, machine learning and pattern recognition.

Department Professors

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Ganesh Balakrishnan
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of New Mexico
(505) 272-7970 CHTM Bldg Rm. 116B

Interests: Semiconductor device development including epitaxy and characterization, high power vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers and novel semiconductor material development for Mid-Infrared lasers.

Steven R. J. Brueck
Distinguished Professor, Director-Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM)
PhD, Mass. Institute of Technology
(505) 272-7800   CHTM Bldg Rm. 145

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Interests: Nanoscale lithography and nanofabrication with applications to nanophotonics, nanofluidics, and nanoscale epitaxial growth and sources/detectors; tunable infrared lasers; ultra-high resolution optical microscopy.

Vincent D. Calhoun
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Maryland
(505) 277-3589   ECE Bldg Rm. 224B
At the MIND Institute on the UNM campus:
(505) 272-1817   Room 2028

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Interests: Biomedical engineering, psychiatric neuroimaging, functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), multimodal data fusion, and medical image analysis. Dr. Calhoun also serves as director of Image Analysis and MRI Research at the MIND Institute on the UNM campus.

Thomas P. Caudell
Professor, Director-High Performance Computing Center
PhD, University of Arizona
(505) 277-5637   ECE Bldg Rm. 235D

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Interests: Computational cognitive neurosciences, neural networks theory and simulation, virtual reality and visualization, art/science collaborations, evolutionary computation, high performance computing, autonomous robotics.

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Jingkuang Chen
Associate Professor
PhD, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(505)277-5490   ECE Bldg Rm. 326B

Interests: MEMS-based ultrasonic transducers, Smart microfluidic systems for biomedical applications.

*** Spotlight on Prof. Chen ***

Christos G. Christodoulou
Professor
PhD, North Carolina State University
(505) 277-6580   ECE Bldg Rm. 330


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Interests: His research interests are in the areas of modeling of electromagnetic systems, reconfigurable systems, machine learning applications in electromagnetics, and smart antennas.

Rafael Fierro
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Texas-Arlington
(505) 277-4125 ECE Bldg Rm. 137B

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Interests:Hybrid control systems, embedded systems, motion coordination of multivehicle systems, optimization of cooperative dynamic networks (autonomous vehicles, mobile sensors), and robotics.

Charles B. Fleddermann
Gardner-Zemke Professor; SOE Associate Dean for Academic Affairs;Acting Dean, Office of Graduate Studies
PhD, University of Illinois
(505) 277-5521   Farris Engr. Ctr. Rm.107

Interests: Plasma processing, physical electronics, photovoltaics.

Nasir Ghani
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Waterloo
(505) 277-1475   ECE Bldg Rm. 235A

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Interests: High-speed networking, cyber-infrastructures, protocols and architectures, traffic engineering, routing, network virtualization, optical and access networks, TCP/IP enhancements, performance evaluation, survivability, network simulation, stochastic modeling.

Mark A. Gilmore
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of California-Los Angeles
(505) 277-2579   ECE Bldg Rm. 321B

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Interests: Plasma physics, plasma diagnostics, magnetic confinement fusion, microwave engineering.

Edward D. Graham, Jr.
Visiting Professor/Lecturer
PhD, North Carolina State University
(505) 277-1436   ECE Bldg. Rm 235B

Interests: Semiconductor devices and circuits, noise theory, and statistical analysis and probabilistic considerations.

Majeed M. Hayat
Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(505) 277-0297   ECE Bldg Rm. 323B

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Interests: Statistical communication theory, signal and image processing, algorithms for infrared spectral sensors and imagers, novel avalanche photodioes, optical communication, cooperative distributed sensing and computing, applied probability and stochastic processes.

Mani Hossein-Zadeh
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Southern California-Los Angeles
(505) 272-7845 CHTM Bldg Rm. 116A

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Interests: Electro-optics, microwave-photonic devices and systems, ultra high-Q optical microresonators, optomechanical interaction in UH-Q optical resonators, optical communication, photonic sensors, optofluidics and plasmonics.

Stephen D. Hersee
Professor
IEEE Fellow
PhD, Brighton University (UK)
(505) 272-7823 CHTM Bldg Rm. 112B

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Interests: GaN-based nanowire devices and nanostructures; advanced semiconductor materials and devices.

Ravinder K. Jain
Professor
PhD, University of California-Berkeley
(505) 272-7842   CHTM Bldg Rm. 115B

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Interests: Quantum electronics, optoelectronics, electro-optics, experimental solid-state physics.

Sudharman K. Jayaweera
Assistant Professor
PhD, Princeton University
(505) 277-1078   ECE Bldg Rm. 321C

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Interests:Wireless communications, statistical signal processing, network information theory, wireless sensor networks, cognitive radios, cooperative communications, information theoretic aspects of networked control systems, game theory, distributed signal processing.

Ramiro Jordan
Associate Professor
Vice President-Technology, Ibero American Science and Technology Consortium (ISTEC)
PhD, Kansas State University
(505) 277-2412   ECE Bldg Rm. 225B

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Interests: Data communications, multidimensional signal processors and software engineering.

Sanjay Krishna
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
(505) 272-7892   CHTM Bldg Rm. 118A

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Interests: Investigation of nanostructured semiconductor materials for mid infrared lasers, detectors and thermophotovoltaic cells. The nanoscale materials consist of self assembled quantum dots, strain layer superlattices and quantum wells grown on metamorphic buffers.

Luke F. Lester
Professor; Associate Director-CHTM
PhD, Cornell University
(505) 272-7805   CHTM Bldg Rm. 139

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Interests: High speed and high power semiconductor lasers. High temperature electronics, microwave devices, tunable lasers, III-V semiconductor devices.

Kevin J. Malloy
Professor; SOE Associate Dean for Research
PhD, Stanford University
(505) 277-5521   Farris Eng. Ctr. Rm 107

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Interests: Semiconductor physics, device physics.

Yasamin Mostofi
Assistant Professor
PhD, Stanford University
(505) 277-5538   ECE Bldg Rm. 134B

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Interests: Cooperative/sensor networks, wireless communication networks, networked control systems, control and dynamical systems.

Marek Osinski
Professor
PhD, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
(505) 272-7812   CHTM Bldg 108B

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Interests: Semiconductor lasers, optoelectronic devices and materials, group-III nitrides, degradation mechanisms and reliability, computer simulation.

Marios S. Pattichis
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Texas-Austin
(505)277-0486   ECE Bldg Rm. 229A

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Interests: Digital image and video processing and communication, medical imaging and statistical methods for image processing, reconfigurable image processing systems.

James F. Plusquellic
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Pittsburgh
(505) 277-0785 ECE Bldg Rm. 137B

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Interests:IC Trust, design for manufacturability, defect-based and data-driven VLSI test, small delay faulty test model-to-hardware correlation and IC fabrication process monitors.

L. Howard Pollard
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Illinois
(505) 277-5982   ECE Bldg Rm. 230C

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Interests: Computer architecture, digital design, fault tolerance, microprocessors.

Balu Santhanam
Associate Professor
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
(505) 277-1611   ECE Bldg Rm. 326A

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Interests: Digital signal processing, statistical communication theory, adaptive filtering, time-frequency analysis and representations, imaging interferometric lithography, AM-FM modeling, and nonstationary signal analysis.

Edl Schamiloglu
Gardner-Zemke Professor
PhD, Cornell University
(505) 277-4423 ECE Bldg Rm. 323C

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Interests: Physics and technology of charged particle beam generation and propagation, high power microwave sources and effects, pulsed power science and technologies, plasma physics and diagnostics, electromagnetics and wave propagation, infrastructure surety and complex systems

Pradeep Sen
Assistant Professor
PhD, Stanford University
(505) 277-1412   ECE Bldg Rm. 225C

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Interests: Computer graphics, real-time rendering, computational photography, computer vision, and image processing.

Jamesina J. Simpson
Assistant Professor
PhD, Northwestern University
(505)277-1904   ECE Bldg Rm. 318A

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Interests: Computational electromagnetics theory and applications, especially finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solutions of Maxwell's equations. Research topics range from near-DC to light, and include modeling the Earth-ionosphere waveguide and optical interactions with living tissues.

Honggang Yu
Lecturer
PhD, University of New Mexico
(505) 277-1069   ECE Bldg Rm. 233

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Interests: Digital image and video processing, medical image analysis and medical signal processing. DSP image processing using FPGA.

Payman Zarkesh-Ha
Assistant Professor
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
(505) 277-6724   ECE Bldg Rm. 230B

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Interests: Statistical modeling of VLSI systems, design for manufacturability, low-power and high-performance VLSI design.

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