Electrical Engineering
2016-17 General Catalog
Baskin School of Engineering
(831) 459-2158
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Benjamin Friedlander
Digital communications, wireless communication system, array processing, adaptive signal processing
Claire Gu, Emeritus
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, 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 semiconductors; mixed oxides; energy conversion devices; quantum electronics; metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, atomic layer deposition; multi-physics modeling of materials
Joel Kubby
Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS), adaptive optics (AO), optical-MEMS, bio-MEMS, bio-imaging, AO microscopy, AO astronomy
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
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, network security
Holger Schmidt
Narinder Singh Kapany Endowed Chair in Optoelectronics
Optofluidics, atom photonics, hollow-core photonics for biomedicine and quantum optics, nanomagnetism, nanomagneto-optics, single-particle spectroscopy, ultrafast optics
John F. Vesecky, Emeritus
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, phased lock loops, Kalman filtering, system parameter estimation, adaptive optics for large telescopes, and biomedical system modeling
Associate Professor
Marco Rolandi
Bioelectronic and bioprotonic devices and translational applications; technological integration of biological and bioinspired materials; visual communication in science and engineering
Assistant Professor
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
Teaching Professor
Stephen C. Petersen
Embedded controller systems, RF wireless systems, modulation and spectrum reuse, digital signal processing, circuit theory
Adjunct Professor
Farid Dowla
RF communications, radar, and signal and image processing
Toshishige Yamada
Physics of advanced electronic materials and devices including nanowires and nanocarbons for electronic, optoelectronic, and energy applications; materials theory and device modeling based on energy bands, equivalent circuits, analytical methods, Monte Carlo, and tight-binding; comparison to experiments
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Michael Oye
Nanotechnology-based materials and devices for applications involving solar, piezoelectric, graphene, lighting, and chemical sensors
Visiting Professor
Allie Fletcher
Statistical signal processing, information theory, computational neuroscience
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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 (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 and control systems, robotics, unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs), cooperative control
J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (Computer Engineering; Technology Management)
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; Technology Management)
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. Sriram 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: 09/01/16
