2011-12 General Catalog

Electrical Engineering
Baskin School of Engineering
335 Baskin Engineering Building
(831) 459-2158
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu

Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Benjamin Friedlander
Digital communications, wireless communication system, array processing, adaptive signal processing

Claire Gu
Fiber sensors for bio-applications, optical fiber communications, volume holographic data storage, liquid crystal displays, nonlinear optics, optical information processing

Michael Isaacson
Nano- and microfabrication technology and applications to biomedical and diagnostic devices, nanocharacterization of materials with emphasis on the development of microscopy tools, novel modes of imaging, electron and light optics

Gretchen Kalonji
Symmetry constraints on the structure and properties of crystalline defects; phase transformations and microstructural evolution; atomistic computer simulation techniques applied to materials; innovations in science and engineering education; new models for multinational collaboration in research and education

Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang
Low-power.High-speed VLSI circuit design and synthesis, RF circuits, biological circuits, mixed technology, mixed signal CAD 

Wentai Liu
Retinal prosthesis, biomimetic systems, integrated neuro-electronics, molecular electronics, CMOS and SOI transceiver design, current mode band limited signaling, microelectronic sensor, timing/clock recovery and optimization, noise characterization and modeling, and computer vision/image processing

Peyman Milanfar
Statistical signal, image, and video processing; computer vision; modeling and inverse problems in imaging; detection and estimation theory

Kenneth Pedrotti (Department Chair)
Integrated circuit design for communications, analog electronics, radio frequency integrated circuits, low-phase-noise oscillators, frequency synthesis, VLSI clock distribution, optical communications, high-speed electronics for lightwave systems, devices for all optical networking and imaging

Arthur P. Ramirez (Divisional Dean)
Experimental materials physics encompassing a broad range of systems including semiconductors, superconductors, magnets, thermoelectrics, and dielectrics. Research that connects materials and devices, with a focus on oxides and organics. Many-body physics that arises from geometrical frustration of low energy degrees of freedom. Techniques include ultra-low temperatures and high magnetic fields, thermodynamic and transport measurements, defect spectroscopy, and device characterization.

Hamid Sadjadpour
Wireless communication systems, network information theory and scaling laws, performance analysis of wireless and social networks, routing and MAC protocol design for wireless networks

Holger Schmidt
Optofluidics, atom photonics, hollow-core photonics for biomedicine and quantum optics, nanomagnetism, nanomagneto-optics, single-particle spectroscopy, ultrafast optics

Ali Shakouri
Quantum electronics; nano- and microscale heat and current transport in semiconductor devices; thermoelectric/thermionic energy conversion; renewable energy sources; thermal imaging; micro-refrigerators on a chip; and optoelectronic integrated circuits

John F. Vesecky
HF radar design and construction and observation of ocean surface winds, waves and currents with applications to coastal and deep water ocean processes; project MEDSAT

Donald Wiberg, Emeritus (UCLA)
Control systems, Kalman filtering, system parameter estimation, adaptive optics for large telescopes, and biomedical system modeling

Associate Professor

Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi
Physics and chemistry of complex functional materials; Group III-V compound semiconductor nanometer-scale structures and devices; mixed oxide nanometer-scale structures and devices; tailored nanomicrometer-scale hybrid semiconductor structures for energy conversion devices and advanced electronics, Science Director of Advanced studies Laboratories, UCSC and NASA Ames Research Center)

Joel Kubby
Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS), adaptive optics (AO), optical-MEMS, bio-MEMS, bio-imaging, AO microscopy

Adjunct Professor

John Balachandra
Electric power systems control and stability, microgrid generation and controls, sustainable energy and power generation

Bin Chen
Synthesis and characterizations of semiconductor and metal nanostructure materials and hybrid composites; novel materials applications and multifunctional devices for energy harvesting, conversions and storage, and ultra-sensitive imaging and detection techniques

Farid Dowla
RF communications, radar, and signal and image processing

Heinz Erzberger
Air traffic control

Ephraim Suhir
Physical design, reliability and packaging of micro- and optoelectronic systems, materials engineering, applied probability, predictive modeling, nanoengineering

Kazuaki Yazawa
System optimization of thermoelectric power generation

Associate Adjunct Professor

Natalio Mingo
Thermal and electronic transport, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, surface science, computational physics

Toshishige Yamada
Modeling of micro/nanoscale electronic material and devices emphasizing energy-band and equivalent-circuit methods, comparison of modeling and experiments; semiconducting nanowires; carbon nanotubes/nanofibers devices; atomic chain devices; metallic nanoislands; strained Si/SiGe channels; lateral surface superlattice; Josephson devices, etc.

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Zhixi Bian
Semiconductor materials and devices for optoelectronics and thermoelectrics, thermal management of microelectronics, renewable energy

Kenneth Laws
HF radar sensing of ocean surface currents, HF radar detection of ships, other applications of radar remote sensing, development of autonomous ocean surface vehicles for coastal marine sensing, and development of renewable energy sources

Michael Oye
Nanotechnology-based devices using carbon nanotubes and inorganic nanowires for solar energy, field emission lighting, chemical nanosensor

Sue Carter (Physics)
Experimental condensed matter physics, polymer physics, molecular electronics, phase transitions, electronic and optical properties of materials

David W. Deamer (joint with Chemistry and Biochemistry and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Davis Emeritus)
Membrane biophysics, nanopore analysis, DNA sequencing, biomolecular self-assembly

William Dunbar (Computer Engineering )
Theory and application of feedback control, single-molecule biophysics, nanopore sensors, dynamics and control of biomolecules

Gabriel Elkaim (Computer Engineering)
Embedded systems, robust software architectures for real-time reactive systems; sensor fusion; guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) system identification; robust and advanced control schemes; feedback control systems, robotics, unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs); and cooperative control

J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves Chair of Computer Engineering, Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering, and Director of Networking Sciences Institute
Computer communication, wireless networks, Internet, network science

Matthew R. Guthaus (Computer Engineering)
VLSI, CAD, design for reliability and variability, system-on-chip, 3D IC, system-in-package

Ronnie D. Lipschutz (Politics)
International relations; global political economy; globalization; foreign policy; resource/environmental politics; global political networks; global civil society and social movements; popular culture and politics; technology and society; risk society

Darrell D. E. Long (Computer Science)
Storage systems, distributed computing systems, operating systems, mobile computing, performance evaluation, fault tolerance, computer security, multimedia, and video-on-demand systems

Roberto Manduchi (Computer Engineering )
Computer vision and sensor processing, with application to assistive technology for the visually impaired

Patrick E. Mantey (Computer Engineering)
(Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering)
CITRIS Campus Director
Multimedia systems, digital signal processing, sensor systems and networks, real-time monitoring and control, image systems, image processing, visualization, geographic information systems, decision support systems

Claire Max (Astronomy and Astrophysics and UCO/Lick Observatory)
Adaptive optics, planetary science

Jerry Nelson (Astronomy and Astrophysics and UCO/Lick Observatory)
Design and construction of large telescopes; project scientist for the Keck telescope and Thirty Meter telescope

Jose Renau (Computer Engineering)
Computer architecture, including design effort metrics and models, infrared thermal measurements, thermal modeling, process variability, energy efficient data-centers, thread level speculation, and FPGA/ASIC design

B. Shastry (Physics)
Condensed matter physics, strongly correlated matter, Mott-Hubbard physics, high Tc superconductivity, quantum magnetism, exactly integrable systems, exactly solvable models of many-body systems and in statistical mechanics, quantum chaos, geometric frustration

William T. Sullivan (Biology)
Genetics, cell biology, development of the Drosophila embryo

Jin Z. Zhang (Chemistry)
Design, synthesis, characterization, and application of nanomaterials, including semiconductor and metal nanoparticles; femtosecond laser spectroscopy; ultrafast dynamics on surfaces and at interfaces; cancer biomarker detection; surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Revised: 8/13/12