Faculty Research

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Ravindra N. Bhatt -- condensed-matter theory; in particular, disordered and correlated electronic systems, doped semiconductors, diluted magnetic semiconductors, metal-insulator transitions, quantum Hall effect, spin glasses, and random magnets.

Robert Calderbank -- Coding and Information Theory, Wireless Communication, Quantum Computing.

Mung Chiang -- Communication networks, Wireless communications, Information theory, Optimization algorithms.

Stephen Y. Chou -- nanotechnology and nanoscale electronic, optoelectronic, magnetic devices, such as nanoimprint, self-assembly, reactive ion etching, single electron transistors, subwavelength optical elements, patterning of nanoscale organic light emitters and transistors, growth of semiconductors and polymers on nanopatterned substrates, quantized magnetic disks, and giant magnetoresistance.

Paul Cuff -- information theory; encryption (theoretical limits); log-optimal portfolio theory; statistical physics

Bradley W. Dickinson -- signal, image, and video processing; system theory; neural networks.

Jason W. Fleischer -- nonlinear optics and photonics; soliton dynamics; statistical and condensed-matter physics.

Claire F. Gmachl -- Quantum cascade lasers for analytic spectroscopy, wireless and optical communications applications Microcavity lasers with chaotic resonators; Nonlinear optics in semiconductor heterostructures; Group-III nitride devices.

Andrew Houck -- Quantum computing, non-linear and quantum optics, superconducting microwave electronics, decoherence in quantum systems, transport physics.

Niraj K. Jha -- low power hardware/software design, embedded system design, synthesis for nanotechnologies, synthesis of ASIPs, system and high-level synthesis, digital system testing.

Antoine Kahn -- atomic, electronic, and chemical properties of semiconductors and interfaces; metal semiconductor interfaces; organic molecular semiconductors; and scanning tunneling microscopy.

Sanjeev R. Kulkarni -- statistical pattern recognition, nonparametric estimation, machine learning, and image/video processing.

Sun-Yuan Kung -- VLSI signal processing; neural networks; digital signal, image, and video processing; and multimedia information systems.

Ruby B. Lee -- ubiquitous processor and platform architectures for media processing and secure information processing; computer architecture for high-performance, secure, and highly available servers.

Bede Liu -- signal and image processing, video coding and analysis.

Stephen A. Lyon -- optical processes in semiconductors, ultrafast processes and nonequilibrium transport, semiconductor nanostructures, quantum computing.

Sharad Malik -- design automation for digital systems: design tools for embedded systems, hardware-software integration, digital circuit theory, and synthesis and verification of digital systems.

Margaret R. Martonosi -- computer architectures and the hardware/software interface, particularly power-efficient systems, hardware-software interface issues, and most recently, power-efficient wireless networks.

Vincent Poor -- statistical signal processing, wireless networks, stochastic analysis.

Paul R. Prucnal -- photonic switching, fiber-optic networks, and optical interconnects.

Peter J. Ramadge -- video and image processing, and adaptive systems.

Mansour Shayegan -- semiconductor physics: electronic properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures, growth of III-V compounds by molecular beam epitaxy.

James C. Sturm -- physics and technology of semiconductor devices for both microelectronics and large-area electronics: silicon-based heterostructures and three-dimensional integration, organic semiconductors, flat panel and flexible displays.

Daniel C. Tsui -- fundamental properties of electronic materials, especially the fractional quantum Hall effect; conduction in ultrasmall structures; and transport through heterojunctions.

Sergio Verdú -- information theory; data compression, transmission and signal processing.

Naveen Verma -- Ultra-low-power integrated circuits including analog instrumentation, data-conversion, and low-voltage digital logic and SRAM; sensing, processing, computing, and communication platforms for biomedical applications.

Sigurd Wagner -- large-area electronics, active electronic skin, e-textiles; amorphous and microcrystalline silicon on flexible foil substrates; printing of active electronics; microfluidic chips.

Gerard Wysocki -- Laser spectroscopy, broadly tunable laser systems, external cavity quantum cascade lasers, spectroscopic systems for remote and/or in-situ chemical sensing and spectroscopic trace-gas sensor networks.

Associated Faculty

Craig Arnold -- laser-materials interactions, laser processing, non-traditional patterning, small structures, thin films, porous materials.

David August -- synergistic compiler and microarchitecture design.

Doug Clark -- processor architecture and organizsation, architecturally-focused performance measurement and analysis, clocking and timing issues in digital systems.

Ingrid Daubechies -- harmonic analysis techniques applied to signal analysis and numerical analysis, wavelets and their mathematical properties.

Kai Li -- computer architecture, operating systems, parallel systems, and networking.

Lynn Loo -- organic and polymer electronics, self-assembled monolayers, soft lithography, block copolymers

Jennifer Rexford -- communication networks, network management, protocol design and internet measurement.

Kenneth Steiglitz -- physics of computation, computational economics, computer music.