Electrical & Computer Engineering - Research Areas

Biomedical

• Devices for Therapy (Dr. L. Curiel)
• Image Signal Processing (Dr. L. Curiel, Dr. K. Natarajan)
• E-health Care Software (Dr. R. Benlamri)
• Biomedical and Health Informatics (Dr. A. Alahmar)

Circuits and Systems

• Analog Integrated Circuits, RF and Microwave Circuits (Dr. C. Christoffersen)
• Power Electronic Converters (Dr. M. N. Uddin, Dr. K. Natarajan, Dr. X. Liu , Dr. Q. Wei)
• Renewable Energy Systems (Dr. M. N. Uddin, Dr. K. Natarajan, Dr. Q. Wei)
• Analog/Mixed-signal CMOS integrated circuits, RF/mm-Wave communication systems and circuits, Biomedical circuits and ystems (Dr. Y. Zhou)
• High-Power Converter Systems (Dr. A. Dekka)
• Antenna Design, RF and Microwave Circuits, Biomedical Circuits (Dr. F Ghaffar)
• High speed opto-electronic and RF devices (laser, modulator, electronic driver, photodetector), and silicon waveguide based nanophotonic circuits for applications in optical communication systems, sensors, and neuromorphic computing. (Dr. S. Hai)

Communications and Networking

• Broadband Communication Networks, Network Protocols and Simulation, Internet, Network Survivability (Dr. H. Naser)
• Millimeter-Wave Communications, Wireless communications for the Internet of Things, Resource Allocation in 5G+ networks, Stochastic Geometry and Matching Theory, Cognitive Radio Networks, UAV Communications and Networks, Estimation and detection theories, Full-duplex and Massive MIMO communications, Machine-to-Machine Communications and Networks. (Dr. S. Ikki)
• Non-terrestrial wireless networks, reconfigurable wireless networks, communication technologies for Internet of things, resource allocation in 5G+ networks, cognitive radio networks (Dr. W. Ejaz)

Computers and Software

• Computer Architecture, Deep Learning Accelerators, General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs), Parallel Programming Models (Dr. E. Atoofian)
• AI and Data Analytics, Smart Cities, Energy Informatics, Auction Models, Blockchain and Data Privacy (Dr. A. Yassine)
• Computer Network Software (Dr. H. Naser)
• Semantic Web, Mobile Services (Dr. R. Benlamri)
• Computer vision, Machine/deep learning, Natural language processing, and Data Analytics (Dr. T. Akilan)
• Machine Learning, Data Science, Information Systems and Software Engineering (Dr. A. Alahmar)

Control Systems

• Intelligent Control Systems, Nonlinear Control (Dr. M. N. Uddin, Dr. X. Liu, Dr. A.Tayebi, Dr. K. Natarajan)
• Electrical Motor Drives (Dr. M. N. Uddin, Dr. X. Liu)
• Robotics (Dr. A.Tayebi, Dr. X. Liu)
• Model Predictive Control (Dr. A. Dekka)

Electron Devices and Semiconductors

• Electron Devices and Semiconductors (Dr. D. Alexandrov)

Power Systems

• Power Systems protection (Dr. M. N. Uddin)
• Power system cyber-security, protection, control, and operation (Dr. A. Ameli)

Specialized research laboratories led by faculty members in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering include the Robotics & Automatic Control Laboratory (Dr. Tayebi).

Applicants for the PhD program or the MSc thesis-based program should indicate their research interests and desired supervisor in their application. In order to identify a potential supervisor, applicants are encouraged to contact individual professors regarding their research.

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