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Electrical Engineering Faculty
Our faculty are a unique blend of researchers, educators and professionals who are proven experts in their fields.
Shaikh Ahmed, Professor
Office Hours: MWF: 10-10:50AM, MW: 12-1:30PM
Ph.D. Arizona State University, 2005
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.
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Engineering E-222
618-453-7630
ahmed@siu.edu
Personal Website
Lab: Nanoelectronics
Iraklis Anagnostopoulos, Associate Professor
Office Hours: WF: 10AM-1PM
Ph.D. National Technical University of Athens, 2008
Dr. Anagnostopoulos research interests include (i) many-core architectures, (ii) run-time resource management, (iii) dynamic memory management and (iv) embedded systems architectures.
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Engineering E-114
618-453-7034
iraklis.anagno@siu.edu
Personal Website
Lab: Embedded Systems Software
Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge, Associate Professor
Office Hours: TR: 11AM-2PM, or by appointment
Ph.D. University of Alberta, 2013
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.
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Engineering E-110
618-453-4755
gayan.baduge@siu.edu
Personal Website
Lab: Wireless Communications & Information Systems Laboratory
Chilman Bae, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2009
Dr. Bae’s research interests are in 1) Bioelectrical Engineering: development of bioinstruments and technology and computational simulation, 2) Neuroscience: spinal cord stimulation, opioid induced chronic pain, and HIV associated neuropathic pain, and 3) Mechanobiology: mechanosensitive ion channels (Piezo channels) and cellular mechanotransduction.
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Engineering E-4E
618-453-2130
chilman.bae@siu.edu
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Steven Blair, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022
Dr. Blair's research interests encompass the broad areas of biomedical optical imaging and biophotonics, focusing especially on the co-design of image sensors, imaging optics, and computer vision techniques for applications in image-guided surgery.
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Engineering E-209
618-453-6329
steven.blair@siu.edu
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Ying Chen, Associate Professor
Office Hours: MW: 10AM-1PM, or by appointment
Ph.D. Duke University, 2007
Dr. Chen's research interests are in: medical image reconstruction, signal and image processing.
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Engineering E-206
618-453-7060
adachen@siu.edu
Labs: Digital Imaging, Medical Imaging
Farhan Chowdhury, Professor and Interim Associate Dean
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011
Dr. Farhan Chowdhury is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Materials Engineering. He also holds a joint appointment in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering. His research is in the areas of Mechanotransduction and Mechanobiology.
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Office: ENGR E 015
Phone: 618-453-7833
Fax: 618-453-7658
farhan.chowdhury@siu.edu
Mehdi Ghasemirahaghi, Assistant Professor of Practice
Mehdi’s research interests include Internet of Things (IoT), energy-aware computing, and computation offloading at the edge. His focus is on enabling the energy-efficient execution of machine learning workloads on resource-constrained commercial-off-the-shelf IoT devices. His research can be applied to a variety of use cases including but not limited to agriculture, robotics, AR/VR, and healthcare. He has worked on several projects ranging from circuit-level to system-level optimization of embedded systems.
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Engineering E-120
mehdi.g@siu.edu
Dimitrios Kagaris, Professor, Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs
Office Hours: TWR: 12-2PM, or by appointment
Ph.D. Dartmouth College, 1994
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.
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Engineering E-117
618-453-7973
kagaris@engr.siu.edu
Lab: Fault Tolerant Design
Arash Komaee, Associate Professor
Office Hours: MW: 1:30-4:30PM, or by appointment
Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 2008
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 magnetic control of micro- and nano-scale systems. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
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Engineering E-216
618-453-7064
akomaee@siu.edu
Lab: Laboratory for Control and Optimization
Hui Li, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2019
Dr. Li’s research interests center on biomedical devices, advanced manufacturing, surface engineering, drug screening, precise diagnostics, and personalized medicine.
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Engineering E-119
618-453-7922
hui.li@siu.edu
Lab: Li Group
Xiaoqing "Frank" Liu, Dean of the College of Engineering
Dr. Liu's research interests include cyber argumentation based social media and networking, data analytics based recommendation systems, service computing, cyber physical systems, software engineering, applied artificial intelligence, and advanced computing and data applications.
Education:
Ph.D. Computer Science, Texas A&M University
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Chao Lu, Associate Professor
Office Hours: MWF: 1-3PM, or by appointment
Ph.D. Purdue University, 2012
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 applications).
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Engineering E-223
618-453-7028
chaolu@siu.edu
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VLSI System Research
James Phegley, Senior Lecturer
Office Hours: T: 11AM-2PM, R: 10AM-1PM, or by appointment
Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, 2001
Dr. Phegley's areas of interest include Pattern recognition and classification, digital signal processing.
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Engineering E-210
618-453-7044
phegley@engr.siu.edu
Justin Pol, Assistant Professor of Practice, Experiential Learning Coordinator
Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 2023
Dr. Pol's research includes biomechanics, using kinetics and kinematics, with emphasis on association between osteoarthritic development and gait. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kentucky in Paducah, Ky. In 2019 he then continued with his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
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Engineering E-222
618-453-7026
justin.pol@siu.edu
Jun Qin, Associate Professor
Office Hours: MWF: 1-2PM, or by appointment
Ph.D. Duke University, 2008
Dr. Qin’s research interests cover signal processing, noise induced hearing loss, ultrasound medical applications, machine learning, speech processing, and medical devices.
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Engineering E-207
618-453-3460
jqin@siu.edu
Personal Website
Lab: Digital Instrumentation
Mohammad Sayeh, Electrical Engineering Program Coordinator, Professor, School Director
Office Hours: MTWRF: 11A-12PM
Ph.D. Oklahoma State University, 1985
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 modulation rate is his current project.
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Engineering E-204
618-453-7066
sayeh@siu.edu
Labs: Photonics-1, Photonics-2
Spyros Tragoudas, Professor and Director, School of ECBE
Office Hours: TR: 11AM-2PM, or by appointment
Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas
Dr. Tragoudas’s current research interests are in the areas of VLSI design & test, hardware security, embedded systems, and deep learning.
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Engineering E-202B
618-453-7027
spyros@engr.siu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Lab: Electronic Design & Test Automation
Haibo Wang, Professor
Office Hours: M: 2-3:30PM, W: 2-5PM, F: 9:30-11AM, or by appointment
Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2002
Dr. Wang's research interests are in mixed-signal VLSI, sensor signal acquisition and processing, intelligent sensor system, medical sensor device.
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Engineering E-4D
618-453-1522
zhwang@siu.edu
Personal Website
Lab: Mixed Signal Design & Test
Ning Weng, Professor
Office Hours: MWF: 10-11AM, 2-3PM, or by appointment
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005
Dr. Weng's research interests are in: (a) network processing system, (b) system architecture, (c) analytical performance modeling, and (d) low power design.
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Engineering E-119
618-453-7645
nweng@siu.edu
Lab: Network Systems