Faculty | Electrical Engineering | SIU

Michael retired from Ameren Illinois in 2024 as Director of Business Development. He started in 1990 at Central Illinois Public Service, one of the predecessor companies of Ameren, as an Electric Distribution Engineer. Over his 33+ working career with Ameren he held various engineering, operations, strategy, and leadership positions. These included leadership roles in field engineering and operations, industrial customer relations, business process re-engineering and implementation, and innovation and smart grid.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Office Hours: MW: 10AM-1PM, or by appointment

Ph.D. Duke University, 2007

Dr. Chen's research interests are in: image processing, image reconstruction, medical imaging, and computer vision.

Ph.D. Arizona State University, 2024

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.

Office Hours: TWR: 12-2PM, or by appointment

Ph.D. Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Dr. Kagaris' current research interests are in: (a) digital design automation, (b) design for testability, (c) systems reliability, and (d) data mining and bioinformatics. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers.

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.