Faculty
Research Summary Afshin Abdollahi received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 1997 and 2000 respectively and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2006. His research interests are Quantum computation and quantum circuit synthesis, Nano-circuit fabrics and nano-technology, Logic synthesis and verification and low power design CAD methodologies. He is the recipient of a number of awards including the Best Paper Award in Design Automation Conference (DAC), Anaheim, CA, 2005 and Silver Medal in the 34th International Mathematics Olympiad, Istanbul, Turkey, 1993. He served as the organizer of the Young Student Support Program (YSSP) in the Design Automation Conference in 2005. He has published several articles and served as reviewer for a number of IEEE, IEE and ACM transactions and conference proceedings.
Research Summary Electronic materials, nanostructures and devices. Research topics include nanophononics, hybrid bio-inorganic nanostructures, thermal management of nanoelectronic devices, noise phenomena, GaN and ZnO materials and devices, thermoelectric devices. Prior to joining UCR Dr. Balandin worked as a Research Engineer at UCLA from 1997 until 1999. Currently, he is a leader of the Nano-Device Laboratory (NDL), which conducts nanoelectronics research in projects funded by NSF, ONR, SRC, DARPA, CRDF and industry. Dr. Balandin is a recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award (2002), NSF Faculty CAREER Award (2001), UC Regents' Faculty Award (2000), and Merrill Lynch Award for "commercially valuable engineering research" (1998). He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics (JNO) and an editorial board member of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (JNN).
Research Summary Intelligent transportation systems (ITS), transportation and emissions modeling, vehicle activity analysis, electric & hybrid electric vehicles, mobile robot navigation, active computer vision, panoramic sensing techniques, and distributed vision. Dr. Barth is currently directory of UCR's CE-CERT. At CE-CERT, he has a Transportation Systems Research Laboratory, consisting of several full-time staff members as well as undergraduate and graduate students. He is active in several Transportation Research Board committees, IEEE, and ITS America's Energy and Environment Committee.
Research Summary 1) Swarm intelligence, with emphasis on theory of self-organizing autonomous robots; 2) Multimedia for educational technology, with emphasis on 3D animation of communicative gestures; 3) Financial Engineering, with emphasis on asynchronous iterative methods. Prof. Beni was the co-founder of the Journal of Robotic Systems (1982-). In 1982 he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for his work in Theoretical and Applied Physics, and in 1999 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his multidisciplinary research contributions in Robotics and Multimedia Systems.
Research Summary Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia and Spatial Databases, Image Processing, Graphics and Visualization, Robotics, Sensor Networks, Biological Image/Video Processing, and Intelligent Systems. As founding Chair of Electrical Engineering at UCR, Dr. Bhanu was responsible for the development of the undergraduate and graduate teaching and research aspects of the degree programs. Dr. Bhanu has been the principal investigator of various programs from NSF, DARPA, AFOSR, ARO, NASA, Sony, Ford and other sponsors. Dr. Bhanu has 11 patents and more than 250 reviewed publications in his research area. Dr. Bhanu is a Fellow of IEEE, AAAS, IAPR and SPIE.
Research Summary System identification; robust and robust adaptive control; linear multivariable system theory; nonlinear control; optimization and complexity theory; active control of noise and vibration, and magnetic bearing systems. Dr. Chen is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He has recently published a book titled "Control-Oriented System Identification: An H-infinity Approach" (Wiley Interscience, 2000). His awards include a NSF Career Award, 1995 and a UC Regents Fellowship, University of California, 1995. He has served on numerous programs committees of international conferences and held several guest and visiting appointments.
Research Summary Error-correcting coding for data transmission and storage; decoding algorithms; nonbinary codes; concatenated design; and defect-correcting codes. Dr. Dumer's awards include the Royal Society Guest Research Fellow (Manchester, UK, 1992-93), and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (Essen, Germany, 1993-94). His results include: feasible decoding algorithms for concatenated codes; near-maximum likelihood decoding with the least known complexity; efficient nonbinary double-error-correcting codes and optimal defect-correcting codes for data storage.
Research Summary 1) Learning Control Systems - Investigating approximator properties and conditions for stability of both the state and approximator parameters with the goal of guaranteeing good repeatable performance; 2) Autonomous Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems - increasing high way throughput and safety through increases in vehicle autonomy; and, 3) Global Position Systems - developing a differential GPS/INS system to provide high rate full six degree of freedom vehicle state information with centimeter level position accuracy. Dr. Farrell has been Associate Editor for two IEEE Transactions, Program Chair for the 1996 IEEE ISIC, and Finance Chair for the 1995, 2001, and 2003 IEEE CDCs.
Research Summary Science and technology policy, distributed asynchronous signal processing and cellular robot systems. Dr. Hackwood has published over 140 technical publications and holds 7 patents. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS and holds honorary degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and DeMontfort University, UK. As founding dean of engineering at UCR, she oversaw the development of all research and teaching aspects of five degree programs.
Research Summary Professor Khizroev's focus areas include Nanomagnetic Devices and Systems, Magnetic Memory, Data Storage Systems, Spintronics, NanoMagnetic Resonance Imaging (NMRI), and Focused Ion Beam Based Nanofabrication. He received B.S. in Quantum Electronics and Applied Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1992, MS in Physics from the University of Miami in 1994, and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 1999. He spent over three and a half years as a research staff member with Seagate Research and one year as a pre-doctoral intern with IBM Almaden Research Center. In January 2003, he joined the faculty of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University (FIU) where he received his tenure. At FIU, he founded and led Center for Nanoscale Magnetic Devices supported via National Science Foundation, U.S. Air Force Office of Sponsored Research (AFOSR), and Motorola. In August 2006, he joined the faculty of the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California – Riverside. He has over 26 granted and 9 pending and 115 provisional patents with IBM, Seagate, CMU, and FIU. He has authored/co-authored over 60 refereed papers, five book and book chapters in the field of nanomagnetic devices and next generation information storage and memory technologies. He has co-founded and co-chaired several major annual IEEE conferences including North American Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference (NAPMRC) and Conference on Nanoscale Devices and System Integration (NDSI). He has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology and a guest editor for Nanotechnology of the Institute of Physics and IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. Today, the focus of his research is in the sub-area of Nanotechnology dedicated to the development of nanomagnetic devices and systems with emphasis on the next generation information storage and memory applications including magnetic, magneto-optical, and protein-based systems.
Research Summary Single-electronics (physics and device applications including single-electron ogic and memory), electron transport in nanostructures, noise analysis, quantum measurements in quantum computing, and quantum feedback. He has published 86 journal papers, 26 proceedings, and 9 book chapters. His papers have been cited over 1,500 times.
Research Summary Theory of electron transport through nanostructured, disordered and amorphous materials; modeling semiconductor devices from the atomistic, to the device, thorugh the circuit level; theoretical and computational electronics and opto-electronics; ultra-scaled devices and device physics; high frequency and transient quantum device simulation; and novel materials, devices and architectures. Dr. Lake is a Member of the American Physics Society and the IEEE. His awards include a Semiconductor Research Corporation Fellowship, 1988-92.
Research Summary Image Processing and analysis, medical image processing, pattern recognition, artificial neural networks, signal processing pattern formation in distributed systems, and multimedia and human-machine interface. Dr. Liang is an associate editor of the journals Pattern Recognition, and Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing and the author of more than 50 publications in refereed journals and conferences proceedings. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. His honors include 1997 DOE/AWU Faculty Fellow, 1997 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow and two outstanding conferences paper awards.
Research Summary Semiconductor materials and devices. Current research topics include molecular beam epitaxial (MBE) growth of ZnO and SiGe semicondutor materials and nanostructures; Other oxide materials; ZnO and SiGe nanostructures and nanodevices fabrication via self-assembly and advanced lithography; Flash memory and single electron memory; Spintronics; Low-dimensional thermoelectrics and devices; Solid state lighting and sensing.
Research Summary Fiber-optic and free-space optical communications, optical satellite systems, coherent optical receivers, optical propagation through atmospheric turbulence, and DSP-based equalization techniques. Prior to joining the UCR faculty, Dr. Lyubomirsky worked at CIENA Corp. on research and product development of UDWDM transmission systems. Dr. Lyubomirsky is a Member of the Optical Society of America and IEEE. His honors include a Hertz Foundation Fellowship at MIT, and Best Thesis in Engineering Award at UMCP.
Research Summary Dr. Mihri Ozkan is the principle investigator of Biomedical Science and Nanotechnology laboratory. Her research interests include hybrid organic/inorganic systems where recent advances in nanotechnology are applied for the fabrication of future electronics, photovoltaics and biosensors. In addition, her laboratory applies hybrid systems for cancer diagnosis and therapeutics. Dr. Ozkan is the recipient of number of awards including Army’s Young Investigator Award (2006), Distinguished Engineering Educator of the Year Award by the National Engineers’ Council (2006), Regents Faculty Excellence Award (2006, 2004, 2002), Emerging Scholar Award by the American Association of University Women (2005), Invited participant to the National Academy’s Keck Future Initiatives Conference (2005), Visionary Science Award by the BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology Conference (2003), “Achievement in Technical Ingenuity” Award by the Inland Empire Economic Partnership (2003).
Research Summary Computer Vision, Signal, Image and Video Processing, Pattern Recognition. Dr. Roy-Chowdhury is conducting research on video sequence analysis for recognition, retrieval and communication, modeling of human activites from video sequences and robust estimation of accurate 3D models from video sequences. He is also interested in theoretical analysis of vision algorithms. He was a receipient of the National Talent Scholarship (Govt. of India), Graduate Fellowship (Govt. of India) and undergraduate (India) and graduate (UMD) student awards.
Research Summary His research interests include several aspects of design automation for VLSI integrated circuits – high performance power/ground distribution network design and optimization, simulation and synthesis of mixed-signal/RF/analog circuits, embedded system design based on FPGA platforms and signal integrity issues in VLSI physical design (crosstalk analysis, substrate noise analysis and optimization). Dr. Tan is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award in 2005. He also received the UC Regent’s Faculty Fellowship in 2004. Dr. Tan received a Best Paper Award Nomination from 2005 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, Best Paper Award from 1999 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference. He also co-authored book "Symbolic Analysis and Reduction of VLSI Circuits" by Springer/Kluwer 2005. He is a technical program committee member of ISCAS'04, ASPDAC'05, ISCAS'05, BMAS’05, ASPDAC’06, ISQED’06, ISCAS’06.
Research Summary Information theory; multi-terminal source and channel coding with emphasis on multiresolution and sensor networks; data compression for efficient content-based retrieval from high-dimensional static and streaming databases; fundamental limits of content-based retrieval performance. Dr. Tuncel is a Member of the IEEE.
Research Summary RF/Analog/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits (IC), On-Chip ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) Protection for ICs, SoC (System-on-a-Chip), IC CAD and Modeling, Emerging Semiconductor and Nano Devices. Wang is author of the book, “On-Chip ESD Protection for Integrated Circuits” (Kluwer, 2002), and 110+ peer-reviewed papers, and holds six U.S. patents. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2002), the Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in University Research, Illinois Institute Technology (2003), and the ChunHui Outstanding Overseas Scholar Award, Ministry of Education, China (2006). Wang is an Editor for IEEE Electron Device Letters and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I. He was Guest Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II. Wang currently serves as Vice President for IEEE Electron Devices Society. He is IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for both the Electron Devices Society and the Solid-State Circuits Society. He has served on program committees for numerous international conferences and holds several joint appointments.
Research Summary Wireless information technologies and related signal processing. They include wireless communications, sensing, positioning, and imaging; for example, multiuser spread spectrum, impulse radio, ultra-wideband, wireless optics, hybrid radio frequency and optical communication systems, sensor and ad hoc networks. Channel estimation and equalization, multi-user detection for wireless CDMA systems; space-time and multi-rate signal processing for communications, diversity combining; time-varying system identification and optimization; and miscellaneous problems in CDMA systems. Dr. Xu is an associate editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING and a guest editor of the Special Issue on ``Performance Limits of Ultra-Wideband Systems'' of the IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING. He also served as an associate editor for the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS during 2002-2005, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY during 2002-2006. He is an elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications. He has served as a session chair and technical program committee member for many international conferences. He received the Outstanding Student Award and the Motorola Scholarship from Tsinghua University, and the Peskin Award from Stevens Institute of Technology. He also received the Academic Senate Research Award and the Regents' Faculty Award from the University of California, Riverside.
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