Electrical Engineering
2014-15 General Catalog
Baskin School of Engineering
(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, Emeritus
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, renewable energy systems, STEM education
Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang
Low-power. High-speed VLSI circuit design and synthesis, RF circuits, biological circuits, mixed technology, mixed signal CAD
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 (Department Chair)
Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS), adaptive optics (AO), optical-MEMS, bio-MEMS, bio-imaging, AO microscopy, AO astronomy
Peyman Milanfar
Statistical signal, image, and video processing; computational vision and photography; modeling and inverse problems in imaging; detection and estimation theory
Kenneth Pedrotti
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
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)
Assistant Professor
Allie Fletcher
Statistical signal processing, information theory, computational neuroscience
Ali A. Yanik
Nano-plasmonics and metamaterials. Lab-on-chip systems: optofluidic BioNEMS, nano-fluidics and label-free biosensors. Nano-spectroscopy: plasmonic nano-antennas and single molecule vibrational dynamics. Rare cell isolation and single cell analysis: circulating tumor cells, plasmonic nano-tweezers and phononic crystals for flow cytometry. Nano-fabrication, soft lithography and biopatterning. Nano-electronics, spintronics, and thermoelectricity
Adjunct Professor
Farid Dowla
RF communications, radar, and signal and image processing
Heinz Erzberger
Air traffic control
Ali Shakouri (Visiting Professor)
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
Toshishige Yamada
Modeling of micro/nanoscale electronic materials and devices emphasizing energy-band and equivalent-circuit methods; comparison of modeling and experiments: InP, InSb, ZnO, In203, and GaAs semiconducting nanowires; carbon nanotubes/nanofibers devices; Si atomic chain devices; metallic nanoislands; strained Si/Ge channels; GaAs lateral surface superlattice; Josephson devices, etc.
Assistant Adjunct Professor
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 materials and devices for applications involving solar, piezoelectric, graphene, lighting, and chemical sensors
Sangho Shin
Energy-efficient analog/digital/mixed-signal hardware integrations, nanoelectronic analog/digital circuit technologies, post-CMOS VLSIs and computing systems, memristors and memristive systems, high-performance data-intensive memory systems, and neuromorphic computing and biosensor circuits/systems
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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, Emeritus
J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
Chair of Computer Engineering
Jack Baskin Endowed Professor of Computer Engineering
Director of Networking Sciences Institute
Principles of computer communication, Internet, mobile and pervasive computing, wireless networks, information centric networks, network science
Matthew R. Guthaus (Computer Engineering)
Health sensor systems, digital health, mobile health applications, integrated circuits and chip design (VLSI), electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), low-power circuits, mobile and pervasive computing
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)
Data storage systems, distributed computing, operating systems, performance evaluation, reliability, cyber security, data science, multimedia
Roberto Manduchi (Computer Engineering)
Computer vision and sensor processing, with application to assistive technology for the visually impaired, mobile and pervasive computing
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
Jose Renau (Computer Engineering)
Health sensor systems, digital health, mobile health applications, integrated circuits and chip design (VLSI), electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), low-power circuits, mobile and pervasive computing
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: 09/01/14
