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Faculty Profiles SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
Faculty ProfilesSchool of ElEctrical EnginEEring & computEr SciEncE
circuits
Patrick Chiangassociate professor
phD Stanford University
Expertise: Energy-efficient VLSI systems (on/off chip
interconnects; robust, near-threshold computing); power-constrained, wireless medical electronics
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; DOE Early Career Award; associate editor, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Circuits and Sys.
Terri S. Fiezprofessor & head
phD Oregon State University
Expertise: Analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit
design and data converters
Notable: IEEE Fellow; IEEE distinguished lecturer; IEEE Educational Activities Board Major Educational Innovation Award; NSF Young Investigator; IEEE Int’l Solid-State Circuits Conference short course chair
Karti Mayaramprofessor
phD University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Simulation, modeling, and design of
analog/RF CMOS circuits
Notable: IEEE Fellow; NSF CAREER Award; former editor-in-chief, IEEE Trans. on CAD
Un-Ku Moonprofessor
phD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Expertise: Low-voltage and high-performance
analog CMOS integrated circuits; data converters; filters; PLLs; timing recovery
Notable: IEEE Fellow; editor-in-chief, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits; former editor-in-chief, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II; TPC member of ISSCC and VLSI Circuits Symposium; NSF CAREER Award; OSU Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award
Gabor C. Temesprofessor
phD University of Ottawa
Expertise: Data converters; switched-
capacitor circuits; analog and mixed-mode integrated circuits
Notable: IEEE Life Fellow; IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg Award; IEEE Gustav R. Kirchhoff Award; IEEE CAS Golden Jubilee Medal; IEEE Millennium Medal; IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Technical Achievement Award and Education Award; IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Andrew Chi Prize; IEEE Centennial Medal; IEEE CAS Darlington Award; honorary doctorate, Technical University of Budapest; former associate editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute; former editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory; former vice president, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
communications/Signals
Huaping Liuprofessor
phD New Jersey Institute of Technology
Expertise: Wireless systems; signal
processing for communications
Notable: Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; associate editor, IEEE Communications Letters; associate editor, Journal of Communications and Networks
rf & microwaves
Andreas Weisshaarprofessor
phD Oregon State University
Expertise: Passive RF and microwave circuits
and components; embedded passives; interconnects and electronic packaging; signal integrity
Notable: IEEE Fellow; past NSF program director (2008-2011); associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, & Manufacturing Technology
Arun Natarajanassistant professor
phD California Institute of Technology
Expertise: mm-wave and sub-mmwave
integrated circuits; systems for high-speed wireless communication and imaging
Analog/Mixed Signal Design
Larry Chengassistant professor
phD University of Michigan
Expertise: Micro-/nano-fluidics, biomedical devices,
electronic devices, functional materials, and naonfabrication
John F. Conley, Jr.professor
phD The Pennsylvania State University
Expertise: Thin film materials and devices;
atomic layer deposition; coating, directed assembly, and device applications of nanomaterials; reliability, radiation effects, and structure of electrically active point defects
Notable: ONAMI Signature Faculty Fellow; guest editor, IEEE Trans. Device and Material Reliability; IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop chair
Pallavi Dhagatassociate professor
phD Washington University, St. Louis
Expertise: Magnetic logic devices; magnetic sensor
applications; magnetic nanometrology; information storage
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Albrecht Janderassociate professor
phD Washington University, St. Louis
Expertise: Magnetoresistive magnetic sensors and
applications; semiconductor spintronics; magnetic resonance force microscopy; magnetic MEMS
John F. Wagerprofessormichael and Judith gaulke Endowed chair
phD Colorado State University
Expertise: Solid state materials and devices (thin film synthesis, device characterization, and modeling)
Notable: IEEE Fellow; co-inventor of the first transparent transistor; lead author of Transparent Electronics (Springer 2008); co-founder of Inpria Corporation; OSU Sigma Xi Researcher of the Year
Alan Wangassistant professorphD University of Texas at Austin
Expertise: Nano-photonic devices; optical
sensing; board level and on-chip optical interconnects; silicon photonics; micro- and nano-fabrication technology; RF photonic devices and systems
Notable: Program committee member and session chair, SPIE Photonics West; conference chair, SPIE/COS Photonics Asia
Ted Brekkenassociate professor
phD University of Minnesota
Expertise: Control, power electronics and electric
drives, renewable energy systems modeling and control
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; IEEE Power & Energy Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award; Fulbright Scholar
J. Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchezassistant professor
phD University of Vermont
Expertise: Cascading outages in power grids;
complex systems and complex networks; chaos and nonlinear dynamics; big data and high performance computing
Annette von Jouanneprofessor
phD Texas A&M University
Expertise: Power electronics; power systems; renewables
such as wave and wind energy
Notable: IEEE Fellow; NAE Celebrated Women Engineer; NSF CAREER and GOALI Awards; Int’l Ocean Energy Pioneer Award; National IEEE Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award; Top 12 contemporary Oregon innovators - OMSI/Portland Monthly Brain Storm project; OSU Impact Award for Outstanding Scholarship
Julia Zhangassistant professor
phD The Ohio State University
Expertise: Electric machine design; electric
machine drive control; power electronic circuits
Energy Systems Materials and Devices
Bella Boseprofessor & associate head
phD Southern Methodist University
Expertise: Error control codes; VLSI testing; parallel
processing; fault tolerant computing; computer networks
Notable: IEEE Fellow; ACM Fellow; associate editor, IEEE Trans. on Computers; Southern Methodist University CSE Academic Accomplishment Award
Bechir Hamdaouiassistant professor
phD University of Wisconsin at Madison
Expertise: Mobile computing; wireless
networking; network management; distributed systems; cognitive networks; multiagent systems
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; associate editor, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology; associate editor, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing; associate editor, Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications
Ben Leeprofessor
phD State University of New York at Stony Brook
Expertise: Computer architecture; computer
networks; multimedia systems; parallel architectures
Notable: Program committee for Pacific Rim Int’l Symposium on Dependable Computing
Mario E. Magañaassociate professor
phD Purdue University
Expertise: Mobile wireless communications; automatic control
applications; mathematical modeling of biological systems
Notable: Fulbright scholar
Thinh Nguyenassociate professor
phD University of California at Berkeley
Expertise: Networking and communications;
signal processing; machine learning
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; associate editor, IEEE Trans on Circuits and Systems; associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia; associate editor, Springer Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networks
Networking & CommunicationsBy the Numbers
2,000undergraduate students
140M.S. students
190Ph.D. students
11,000alumni
55teaching faculty
42%of current research faculty have won young investigator/CAREER awards
$11Mresearch funding last year
9 + 5spinoff companies + licenses
15professional society fellows
26national & international faculty recognition awards
35editors-in-chief & associate editors
Thomas G. Dietterichprofessor
phD Stanford University
Expertise: Machine learning; intelligent systems; intelligent user
interfaces; ecosystem informatics
Notable: ACM Fellow; AAAI Fellow; AAAS Fellow; president-elect, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence; NSF Young Investigator; past president, International Machine Learning Society
Alan Fernassociate professor
phD Purdue University
Expertise: Artificial intelligence, including machine learning, data
mining, and automated planning/control
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; OSU Promising Scholar Award
Xiaoli Fernassistant professor
phD Purdue University
Expertise: Machine learning and data mining, specifically the subfields
of unsupervised learning and pattern discovery
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Raviv Raichassistant professor
phD Georgia Institute of Technology
Expertise: Adaptive sensing/sampling;
manifold learning; sparse representations for signal processing
Notable: NSF CAREER Award; Associate editor, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing
Prasad Tadepalliprofessor
phD Rutgers University
Expertise: Artificial intelligence; machine learning; automated
planning; natural language processing
Notable: Associate editor, Machine Learning; associate editor, Journal of AI Research
Weng-Keen Wongassociate professor
phD Carnegie Mellon University
Expertise: Data mining; machine learning;
anomaly detection; human-in-the-loop learning; ecosystem informatics
AI | Machine Learning | Bioinformatics
David Hendrixassistant professor
phD University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Motif finding; non-coding
RNA structure and function analysis; applications of machine learning to computational biology; deep sequencing data analysis
Notable: 4 publications in “Faculty of 1000 Biology”; platform presentation at Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Non-coding RNAs and regulation Sept 2012
Stephen Ramseyassistant professor
phD University of Maryland, College Park
Expertise: Machine learning; computational
systems biology; bioinformatics; integrative computational methods to map gene regulatory networks
Notable: NIH K25 Career Development Award
Bioinformaticsai/machine learning
Mike Baileyprofessor
phD Purdue University
Expertise: Visualization; GPU programming; high performance computer graphics; stereographics
Notable: OSU Beaver Champion Award
Ronald A. Metoyerassociate professor
phD Georgia Institute of Technology
Expertise: Computer graphics; information
visualization; end-user content creation; computer animation
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Glencora Borradaileassistant professor
phD Brown University
Expertise: Algorithms; approximation algorithms;
computational geometry; planar graph algorithms; graph algorithms
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Amir Nayyeriassistant professor
phD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Expertise: Theoretical computer science and
its application; computational topology and geometry
Sinisa Todorovicassistant professor
phD University of Florida
Expertise: Computer vision; object and activity recognition; stochastic image grammars
Notable: Associate editor, Pattern Recognition Letters
Graphics & Visualization
Algorithms | Security | Databases
Mike Rosulekassistant professor
phD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Expertise: Secure computation protocols;
theoretical foundations of cryptography; computational complexity
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Arash Termehchyassistant professor
phD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Expertise: Large scale data management;
human centric data management; data trustworthiness; social data management; data mining; semantic Web
Eugene Zhangassociate professor
phD Georgia Institute of Technology
Expertise: Computer graphics; scientific
visualization; geometric modeling and processing; computational topology; non-photorealistic rendering.
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Margaret Burnettprofessor
phD University of Kansas
Expertise: End-user programming; end-user software engineering; HCI of programming
Notable: NSF Young Investigator; IBM International Faculty Awards; two patents; IEEE VL/HCC Most Influential Paper Award Over the Last 20 Years; OSU Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award
Danny Digassistant professor
phD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Expertise: Automated refactoring; software
design & architectural patterns; concurrency & parallelism; object-oriented frameworks, software development processes; software testing; software evolution
Notable: Contributor to the Eclipse and NetBeans development environments; founded two workshop series on refactoring tools and software upgrades; chaired or co-organized 11 workshops; member of 28 program committees
Martin Erwigprofessor
phD University of Hagen
Expertise: Functional programming; end-user programming;
visual languages and domain-specific languages
Notable: Associate editor, Journal of Visual Languages & Computing; author of two books; one patent
Alex Groceassistant professor
phD Carnegie Mellon University
Expertise: Testing; coverage metrics;
explicit-state model checking; verification of embedded systems; specification of software; error explanation and automated debugging; connections between machine learning and verification and testing
Notable: NSF CAREER Award
Carlos Jensenassociate professor
phD Georgia Institute of Technology
Expertise: Human-computer interaction;
computer-mediated communication; computer-supported cooperative work; software engineering; social computing; online communities; human factors in security and privacy
Cherri M. Pancakeprofessor
phD Auburn University
Expertise: User requirements and usability
engineering; user interface design; cyberinfrastructure; virtual communities; computational and data portals for practicing scientists and engineers
Notable: ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow; Woman of Distinction, Oregon Commission on Women; founder of: Parallel Tools Consortium, High Performance Debugging Forum, Network for Earthquake Engineering & Simulation Consortium, ACM Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing
Christopher Scaffidiassistant professor
phD Carnegie Mellon University
Expertise: End-user programming; end-user
software engineering; system design; visual programming; HCI of programming tools
Notable: Former director of the EUSES Consortium
Eric Walkingshawassistant professor
phD Oregon State University
Expertise: Language design, formal languages,
domain-specific languages, functional programming, visual languages
Software Engineering | HCI | Programming Languages
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
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computer Science
Joseph Jessinstructor
Expertise: Ecampus computer science postbaccalaureate program
D. Kevin McGrathinstructor
Expertise: Operating systems, networking, security, architecture, parallelism and
concurrency, systems programming
Linda O’Harainstructor
Expertise: Social and ethical issues in computer science; Ecampus instruction
Jennifer Parham-Mocelloinstructor
Expertise: Computer science education, cognitive development, problem solving,
scientific computing, parallel processing, high-performance computing, virtual classroom environments, Access Grid Node technology, computational science outreach
Terry Rookerinstructor
Expertise: Computer science education; software engineering; discrete structures; networking and security
Notable: Virginia Community College System certified Master Online Instructor
Justin Wolfordinstructor
Expertise: Ecampus computer science postbaccalaureate program
Electrical & computer Engineering
Don HeerEducational research & Development
Expertise: Senior design; project management; product design; educational innovation
Notable: OSU Student Learning & Success Teamwork Award; OSU Outstanding Faculty Research Assistant Award
Matt Shumaninstructor
Expertise: Digital logic design and robotics
Notable: 2008 Mars Rover champion; COE
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award; EECS IEEE Teacher of the Year
John Sweetinstructor
Expertise: System controls and data acquisition - automated machine design
Notable: Industry experience at Boeing, Intel and HP
Roger TraylorSenior instructor
Expertise: Standard cell ASIC design; RTL-level design with VHDL and system verilog; design with FPGAs; embedded
system design; digital signal integrity; hardware/software design of Platforms for Learning; active and cooperative learning techniques
Notable: OSU Faculty Teaching Excellence Award; OSU Student Learning & Success Teamwork Award; COE Austin-Paul Engineering Faculty Award; COE Loyd Carter Award for outstanding and inspirational teaching; EECS IEEE Student Appreciation Award; EECS HKN/ACM Innovative Teaching Award
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