Electrical Engineering

Baskin School of Engineering
335 Baskin Engineering Building
(831) 459-2158
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu

Professor

Benjamin Friedlander
Digital communications, wireless communication system, array processing, adaptive signal processing

Claire Gu
Fiber sensors for bio-applications, optical fiber communications, volume holographic data storage, liquid crystal displays, nonlinear optics, optical information processing

Michael Isaacson
Nano- and microfabrication technology and applications to biomedical and diagnostic devices, nanocharacterization of materials with emphasis on the development of microscopy tools, novel modes of imaging, electron and light optics

Gretchen Kalonji
Materials science; innovations in science and engineering education; multinational project-based approaches to integrating research and education

Wentai Liu
Retinal prosthesis, biomimetic systems, integrated neuro-electronics, molecular electronics, CMOS and SOI transceiver design, current mode band limited signaling, microelectronic sensor, timing/clock recovery and optimization, noise characterization and modeling, and computer vision/image processing

Peyman Milanfar
Statistical signal image/video processing and reconstruction; modeling and inverse problems in imaging; detection and estimation theory; applied mathematics

Holger Schmidt
Integrated optics for biomedicine and quantum optics, nano-magneto-optics, single-particle spectroscopy, ultrafast optics

Ali Shakouri
Quantum electronics; nano- and microscale heat and current transport in semiconductor devices; thermoelectric/thermionic energy conversion; renewable energy sources; thermal imaging; micro-refrigerators on a chip; and optoelectronic integrated circuits

John F. Vesecky
HF radar design and construction and observation of ocean surface winds, waves and currents with applications to coastal and deep water ocean processes; project MEDSAT

Associate Professor

Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi
Physics and chemistry of complex functional materials (e.g., coupled organic-inorganic materials, hybrid crystalline-amorphous materials); Group III-V compound semiconductor nanometer-scale structures and related optoelectronic devices; mixed oxide nanometer-scale structures and related electronic devices; tailored nanometer-scale semiconductor structures for energy conversion applications (NECTAR: Nanostructured Energy Conversion Technology and Research)

Joel Kubby
Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS), adaptive optics (AO), optical-MEMS, bio-MEMS, bio-imaging, AO microscopy

Kenneth Pedrotti
Integrated circuit design for communications, analog electronics, radio frequency integrated circuits, low-phase-noise oscillators, frequency synthesis, VLSI clock distribution, optical communications, high-speed electronics for lightwave systems, devices for all optical networking and imaging

Hamid Sadjadpour
Wireless communication systems, coding and information theory, ad hoc and sensor networks 

Adjunct Professor

Farid Dowla
Signal and image processing

Heinz Erzberger
Air traffic control

Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang
Low-power. High-speed VLSI circuit design and synthesis, RF circuits, biological circuits, mixed technology, mixed signal CAD

Ephraim Suhir
Physical design, reliability and packaging of micro- and optoelectronic systems, materials engineering, applied probability, predictive modeling, nanoengineering

Associate Adjunct Professor

Bin Chen
Structure, optical and electronic properties in materials

Natalio Mingo
Thermal and electronic transport, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, surface science, computational physics

Toshishige Yamada
Modeling, micro/nanoscale electronic material and device experiments phenomenology, using energy band and equivalent circuit methods

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Zhixi Bian
Semiconductor materials and devices related to optics and thermoelectric-energy conversion

Kenneth Laws
HF radar sensing of ocean surface phenomena, autonomous ocean surface vehicles and passive microwave measurements of ocean surface vehicles

Professor

Sue Carter (Physics)
Experimental condensed matter physics, polymer physics, molecular electronics, phase transitions, electronic and optical properties of materials

David W. Deamer (joint with Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Membrane biophysics, nanopore analysis, DNA sequencing, biomolecular self-assembly

William Dunbar (Computer Engineering)
Theory and application of feedback control, air traffic control, nanopore sensors, dynamics and control of biomolecules

Gabriel Elkaim (Computer Engineering)
Embedded systems, robust software architectures for real-time reactive systems; sensor fusion; guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) system identification; robust and advanced control schemes; feedback control systems, robotics, unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs); and cooperative control

J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering and Director of Networking Sciences Institute
Wireless networks, Internet, multimedia information systems

Matthew R. Guthaus (Computer Engineering)
VLSI, systems-on-a-chip, design automation, design for variability/robustness, mixed-signal systems

Darrell D. E. Long (Computer Science)
Storage systems, distributed computing systems, operating systems, mobile computing, performance evaluation, fault tolerance, computer security, multimedia, and video-on-demand systems

Roberto Manduchi (Computer Engineering)
Sensor processing and image analysis with application to assistive technology and environmental modeling

Patrick E. Mantey (Computer Engineering)
(Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering)
CITRIS Campus Director
Image systems, image processing, visualization, image and multimedia systems, digital signal processing, real-time control

Claire Max (Astronomy/Astrophysics and UCO/Lick Observatory)
Adaptive optics, planetary science

Jerry Nelson (Astronomy/Astrophysics and UCO/Lick Observatory)
Design and construction of large telescopes; project scientist for the Keck telescope and Thirty Meter telescope

Jose Renau (Computer Engineering)
Computer architecture, chip multiprocessors; energy/performance trade-offs, thread level speculation, interaction between architecture and compilers, Linux kernal

B. Shastry (Physics)
Condensed matter physics, strongly correlated matter, Mott-Hubbard physics, high Tc superconductivity, quantum magnetism, exactly integrable systems, exactly solvable models of many-body systems and in statistical mechanics, quantum chaos, geometric frustration

William T. Sullivan (Biology)
Genetics, cell biology, development of the Drosophila embryo

Hai Tao (Computer Engineering)
Image and video processing, computer vision, vision-based graphics, and human-computer interaction

Donald Wilberg, Emeritus (UCLA)