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Department of Electrical Engineering


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair: Tony F. Heinz, Ph.D.
1306 Mudd
Tel: 212.854.6564


Dissertation Sponsors

Dimitris Anastassiou:
Professor (Electrical Engineering), Ph.D., University of California, 1979
Interests: Genomic Information Science and Technology; Digital image/video communications and processing with emphasis on multimedia applications; genomic information science and technology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Keren Bergman:
Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1994
Interests: Ultrahigh Capacity Lightwave Communications Systems
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Shih-Fu Chang:
Professor, Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley), 1993
Interests: Multimedia signal processing and communication, video indexing, wireless/mobile video, and multimedia authentication watermarking
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Edward G. Coffman Jr.:
Professor (Electrical Engineering), Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles), 1966
Interests: Mathematical modeling and performance analysis of computer and communication systems, competitive and average-case analysis of algorithms, performance analysis of the Web; Scheduling and bin packing theory- combinatorial, stochastic, and average-case analysis; applied stichastic processes, queueing theory/applications
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Paul Diament:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1963
Interests: Antennas for satellite communications, fiber optics, waveguiding in VLSI chips, Electromagnetics and free electro lasers
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alexandros Eleftheriadis:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1995
Interests: Image and video signal processing and compression; video communication systems; operating system and network support for digital video; information and rate distortion theories
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Daniel Ellis:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1996
Interests: Computational models of human sound processing and organization; Automatic speech recognition in real-world environments; Indexing, browsing and visualization tools for audio archives
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Azita Emami-Neyestak:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 2004
Interests: Mixed-signal intergratedcircuits and systems, high-performance electrical and optical interconnects. circuit design in highly-scaled CMOS and emerging technologies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Tony F. Heinz:
Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1982
Interests: Condensed matter physics; ultrafast optoelectronics and spectroscopy; nonlinear optics; surface dynamics; optical diagnostics of surface processes
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Predrag Jelenkovic:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1996
Interests: Mathematical modeling and analysis of resource control and management in multimedia communication networks
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Peter Kinget:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), 1996
Interests: Ultra-low voltage analog and radio-frequency integrated circuits and signal processing
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ioannis Kymissis:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 2003
Interests: Organic semiconductors, OFETs, photodetectors, OLEDs, large area thin film electronics, hybrid device integration
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Aurel A. Lazar:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1980
Interests: In Silico and In Vivo information representation and neural computation
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nicholas Maxemchuk:
Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1975
Interests: Communications Networks: protocols, topological design, applications
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Vishal Misra:
Associate Professor (Computer Science), Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2000
Interests: Performance Modeling, Analysis and Design of Algorithms for Communication Networks
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard M. Osgood Jr.:
Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics, Ph.D., MIT, 1973
Interests: Surface Physics, optical and laser physics and devices, intergrated optics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Daniel Rubenstein:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2000
Interests: Network technologies, applications, and performance evaluation with an emphasis on large-scale Internet design for continuous media transmission
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Henning Schulzrinne:
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts (Amherst), 1992
Interests: Computer networks, networked multimedia, performance evaluation and distributed systems. Internet protocols and services; congestion control and routing in high-speed computer networks; implementations of multi-media and real-time networks; operating system support for high-bandwidth services with real-time constraints; distributed real-time systems; performance analysis of computer networks and systems
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Amiya K. Sen:
Professor, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Ph.D., Columbia, 1963
Interests: plasma physics, fluctuations and anomalous transport in plasmas, control of plasma instabilities, transport in nanostructures;Plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion, Plasma waves and instabilities and their feedback control, Plasma turbulence and anomalous transport
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kenneth Shepard:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1992
Interests: include design tools for advanced CMOS technology, including the CAD work in SOI circuits and extraction approaches for inductance that are being commercialized by Cadence
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Yannis P. Tsividis:
Professor, Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley), 1976
Interests: Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, RF integrated circuits, Analog signal processing
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Stephen H. Unger:
Professor of Computer Science, Sc.D., M.I.T., 1957
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wen I. Wang:
Thayer Lindsley Professor, Electrical Engineering; Professor, Applied Physics, Ph.D., Cornell, 1981
Interests: heterostructure devices and physics, materials properties, molecular beam epitaxy;Ultra high speed electronics, heterogeneous materials integration, and semiconductor optoelectronics including lasers and photodetectors
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Xiaodong Wang:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1998
Interests: Statistical signal processing, communication theory, wireless communications and bioinformatics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Charles Zukowski:
Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1985
Interests: Design and analysis of digital VLSI circuits, Circuit simulation, Communication circuits
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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