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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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SIU Professor Shaikh Ahmed

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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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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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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SIU Professor Steven Blair

Engineering E-209
618-453-6329
steven.blair@siu.edu
Personal Website

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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SIU Professor Ying Chen

Engineering E-206
618-453-7060
adachen@siu.edu
Labs: Digital Imaging, Medical Imaging

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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SIU Professor Mehdi Ghasemirahaghi

Engineering E-120
mehdi.g@siu.edu

Dimitri Kagaris, Professor, Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs

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.



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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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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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SIU Professor James Phegley

Engineering E-210
618-453-7044
phegley@engr.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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SIU Professor Jun Qin

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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SIU Professor Mohammad Sayeh

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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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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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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SIU Professor Ning Weng

Engineering E-119
618-453-7645
nweng@siu.edu
Lab: Network Systems

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