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.

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.

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.

Hisashi Kobayashi -- digital communication, communication networks, system performance analysis, and teletraffic theory.

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.

Li-Shiuan Peh -- interconnection networks, computer architecture, and networking.

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.

Stuart C. Schwartz -- statistical communication theory, signal and image processing.

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.

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

Ron Weiss -- Biochemical and cellular computation, synthetic gene networks, cell signaling, microbial engineering and robotics, quorum sensing, molecular computation, nanoscale fabrication.

Associated Faculty

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.

Fei-Fei Li -- computer vision, image understanding, machine learning, human visual cognition, cognitive neuroscience.

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.