EECS Faculty Members, Area(s), and Research Interests

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Aaronson, S. (Area II)
Computational complexity, quantum computing, foundations of quantum mechanics, bounded rationality.

Abelson, H. (Area II)
Artificial intelligence, scientific computation, educational computing, societal and legal frameworks for information technology.

Adalsteinsson, E. (Area VII)
Medical imaging with magnetic resonance and methods for optimal acquisition, reconstruction, and processing of imaging data acquired in vivo.

Agarwal, A. (Areas II, III)
Computer architecture and software systems, design of scalable multiprocessor systems, VLSI processors, compilation and runtime technologies for parallel processing.

Akinwande, A. I. (Area V)
Display devices, vacuum microelectronic devices, and wide bandgap semiconductor devices.

Amarasinghe, S. P. (Area II)
Program analysis and optimization, computer architecture.

Antoniadis, D. A. (Area V)
Nanoscale solid-state electronic devices. Application of new materials systems and new structures to transistors for deeply scaled electronics.

Arvind (Area II)
Architecture synthesis and verification, digital design, term rewriting systems and lambda calculus. Parallel architectures and programming languages.

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Baggeroer, A. B. (Areas I, III)
Sonar, array processing for sonar, radar and seismic systems, acoustic telemetry, oceanography using acoustics.

Balakrishnan, H. (Area II)
Computer networks, mobile and sensor computing systems, distributed systems.

Baldo, M.A. (Area V)
Molecular electronics, integration of biological materials and conventional electronics, novel nano-organic transistors; charge transport and injection in organic materials, energy transfer, high density phenomena, and exciton spin selection

Barzilay, R. (Area II)
Natural language processing.

Beggren, K.K. (Area V, III)
Nanofabrication methods. Superconductive quantum computing devices. Nanowire single-photon detectors. Reconfigurable analog circuits.

Bers, A. (Area IV)
Plasma phenomena relevant to energy generation by controlled thermonuclear fusion. Plasma dynamics in the ionosphere-magnetosphere. Laser-plasma interactions. Nonlinear waves and chaotic dynamics. Nonlinear waves and chaotic dynamics. Electrodynamics of dispersive media. (Emeritus)

Bertsekas, D. P. (Area I)
Large scale systems, neural networks, data networks, optimization.

Berwick, R. C. (Area II)
Natural language processing: computer models of language acquisition and parsing. Computational biology and evolutionary theory. Artificial Intelligence: formal models of learning, including inductive inference and computational complexity analysis of language. Cognitive science: word learning, semantics of natural languages, speech.

Bhatia, S. (Area VII)
Applications of micro-and nanotechnology in regenerative medicine, cell-based biomems, bionanotechnology.

Boning, D. S. (Areas V, III, I)
Semiconductor manufacturing. Metrology and modeling of IC process and device and interconnect variation. Computer tools and systems for IC process, device and circuit design for manufacturability and for the environment.

Braida, L. D. (Areas VII, II, III)
Development of aids for the deaf based on signal processing and automated speech recognition. Computational models of hearing impairment and speech intelligibility.

Brooks, R. A. (Areas II, III)
Humanoid robotics. Artificial life. Living machines.

Bulovic, B. (Area V)
Physical properties of organic and hybrid organic/inorganic thin films, structures, and devices as applied to the development of optoelectronic, electronic, and photonic organic devices of nano-scale thickness, including visible LEDs, lasers, solar cells, photodetectors, transistors, and flexible and transparent optoelectronics.

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Chan, V. (Areas I, IV, II)
Optical, wireless and space communications and networks. Architecture, technology, system designs, and testbed implementations. New technologies, architectures and applications.

Chandrakasan, A. P. (Area III, II)
Design of digital integrated circuits and systems. Energy efficient implementation of signal processing, communication and medical electronics. Cirsuit design with emerging technologies.

Chuang, I. (Area V)
Quantum information science, quantum physics, computation and physics.

Collins, M. (Area II)
Natural language processing and machine learning.

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Dahleh, M. A. (Area I)
The interface of robust control, estimation, information theory, and computation with application to control with communication constraints, and distributed mobile agents. Model reduction of stochastic systems, hybrid control. The interface between system theory and neurobiology.

Daniel, L. (Areas III, I, IV, II)
Parameterized model order reduction and nonlinear dynamical systems. Mixed-signal, RF and mm-wave circuit modeling and robust optimization. Power electronics, MEMs design and fabrication. Parasitic extraction and accelerated integral equation field solvers.

Darrell, T. (Area II)
Computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics, especially in their application to problems of human-computer interface.

Davis, R. (Area II)
Artificial intelligence, knowledge based systems, intelligent interfaces and natural interaction; intellectual property issues in software.

Dawson, J. (Area III, V)
Analog system theory and its applications; RF transceivers, power amplifier linearization, high speed data conversion, problems in nonlinear control.

del Alamo, J. A. (Area V)
Field-effect transistors using II-V compound semiconductors for beyond Si CMOS logic applications. Reliability of III-V and GaN field-effect transistors. Suitability of deep-submicron CMOS for RF power applications. Online laboratories for science and technology education.

Demaine, E. D. (Area II)
Algorithms and data structures. Discrete and computational geometry. Combinatorial games.

Dennis, J.B. (Area II)
Parallel computer system design to support functional languages and advanced environments for modular programming. Study of architecture, performance and reliability issues. (Emeritus)

Devadas, S. (Areas II, III)
Computer architecture. Computer security. Computer-aided design. Computational biology.

Dresselhaus, M. S. (Areas V, IV)
Electronic materials engineering. Electronic, lattice, structural properties of semimetals, semiconductors, metals, intercalation compounds, graphite fibers, high Tc superconductivity, C60 fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, low dimensional thermoelectric materials, bismuth nanowires. (Emeritus)

Durand, F. (Area II)
Image generation and creation; realistic rendering, real-time graphics, perceptually-based algorithms, non-photorealistic rendering, image-based rendering and editing, digital photography.

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Ernst, M. D. (Area II)
Programmer productivity encompassing software engineering, program analysis, and programming language design. Applying techniques from those fields to the hard problems of helping people understand and correctly manipulate large, complex software artifacts.

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Fonstad, Jr., C. G. (Areas V, IV)
Compound semiconductor heterostructure devices and physics. Optoelectronic devices monolithic optoelectronic integration technologies and applications, and optoelectronic VLSI. Microscale thermophotovoltaics. Molecular beam epitaxy.

Forney, G. D. (Area I)
Information theory and digital communications.

Freeman, D. M. (Area VII)
Theoretical and experimental studies of auditory physiology. Development of 3D imagers to measure motions of biological and man-made microsystems. Measurement of sound-induced motions of inner ear structures and motions of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

Freeman, W. T. (Area II)
Machine learning applied to computer vision and computer graphics. Bayesian belief belief propagation and its generalizations. Bayesian models of visual perception.

Fujimoto, J. G. (Areas IV, V, VII)
Femetosecond lasers and ultrafast measurement technologies. Studies of ultrafast phenomena in optoelectronic materials and devices. Laser medicine and biomedical optics. Optical imaging and optical tomography.

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Gallager, R. G. (Areas I, II)
Wireless communication, information theory, all optical networks, data networks. (Emeritus)

Gifford, D. K. (Area II)
Computational and systems biology, computational functional genomics. Expression of scientific models in computational form. Machine learning.

Goldwasser, S. (Area II)
Cryptography, pseudo randomness, property testing, computational number theory, multi-party computations.

Golland, P. (Area II, I)
Developing novel techniques for image analysis and understanding. Statistical modeling, shape representation. Medical and biological imaging applications.

Goyal, V.K. (Area I)
Signal processing theory, applications and algorithms; information theory, with an emphasis on source coding; information transport, including both representations and network issues.

Gray, M. L. (Areas VII, V, III)
Molecular imaging of cartilage. Cartilage degeneration and repair. Electrical, mechanical and chemical mediators of connective tissue growth and development. Ion partitioning and transport in biological tissues. Development of micromachines tools for biological applications.

Grimson, W. E. (Area II)
Computer vision, medical image analysis, medical image processing, image guided surgery, activity recognition.

Grodzinsky, A. J. (Areas VII, IV)
Electrical, mechanical and chemical regulation of biological tissues; physical modulation of cell metabolism; cartilage degradation in arthritis and its diagnosis; cell and tissue engineering, molecular nano-electromechanics. Continuum electromechanics.

Guttag, J. V. (Areas II, VII, I)
Medical software and signal processing, wireless networking..

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Hagelstein, P. (Area IV)
Development of a short wavelength laser, numerical simulation in X-ray lasers, atomic physics and applied physics, development of a fast soft X-ray detector, topics in quantum mechanics.

Han, J. (Areas V, VII)
Micro-nanofluidic systems, application of micro-nanofabrication to biological problems. Biological MEMS. biomolecular analysis. Nanofluidics, biosensing, proteomic sample preparation.

Horn, B. K. P. (Area II)
Machine vision, diaphanography. Representation of objects and space. Photogrammetry, computational imaging.

Hoyt, J. L. (Area V)
Novel processes, materials and device concepts for electronic and photonic silicon technology. Device physics of silicon-based heterostructures and nanostrucures. Epitaxial growth by chemical vapor deposition.

Hu, Q. (Areas V, IV)
Terahertz and infrared quantum cascade lasers and electronics, T-rays imaging, and their applications.

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Indyk, P. (Area II)
Computational geometry, especially in high-dimensional spaces; databases and information retrieval; learning theory; design and analysis of algorithms.

Ippen, E. P. (Areas IV, V)
Femtosecond optics, ultrafast phenomena in materials and devices, lasers, microphotonics, microphotonics, optical fiber devices.

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Jaakkola, T.S. (Area II)
Statistical inference and machine learning. Applications to computational biology and information retrieval. Artificial intelligence.

Jackson, D. (Area II)
Software design and specification; design methods, tools and analysis; dependability; safety-critical systems; reverse engineering; static analysis, model checking, programming languages.

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Kaashoek, M. F. (Area II)
Computer systems; operating systems, networking, programming languages, compilers and computer architecture for distributed systems, mobile systems and parallel systems.

Kaelbling, L.P. (Area II)
Behavior learning, visually-guided map learning for mobile robots, planning in very large stochastic domains, learning relational models.

Kaertner, F. (Area IV)
Generation and propagation of few-cycle laser pulses and femtosecond laser frequency combs and its application in nonlinear optics, frequency metrology and optical atomic clocks. Physics and technology of ultrafast X-ray sources. High speed and high density integrated electronic and photonic circuits and optoelectronic signal processing.

Karger, D. R. (Area II)
Information retrieval and digital libraries; analysis of algorithms, especially for graphs and optimization problems; applications of randomization; parallel algorithms.

Kassakian, J. G. (Areas III, V, IV)
Power electronics. Power supplies, dc/dc converters, inverters, controlled rectifiers and motor drives, power semiconductor devices. Automotive electronics and electrical systems. High energy storage double-layer capacitors. Thermophoto-voltaics.

Katabi, D. (Area II)
Computer networks and data communication. Congestion control, network measurements, scalability and robustness of communications systems. Differentiated services, internet pricing, routing, content distribution, self-configurable and wireless networks and network security.

Kellis, M. (Area II)
Computational biology. Genome interpretation, comparative genomics, regulatory networks, cellular signals, developmental biology, evolutionary theory. Algorithms and machine learning applications in genomics.

Kirtley, Jr., J. L. (Areas IV, III, II)
Electromechanics, electric machinery, electric power systems engineering, distributed and alternative energy systems.

Kolodziejski, L. A. (Areas V, IV)
Compound semiconductor materials, novel heterostructures, devices and device physics, heteroepitaxial growth processes and advanced fabrication technology, optoelectronic and photonic devices.

Kong, J. A. (Area IV, V, III)
Electromagnetic wave theory and applications.

Kong, J. (Area V, IV)
Chemical syntheses/device fabrication of low dimension materials, low temperature transport measurement and characterization and functional nano-devices.

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Lampson, B. W. (Area II)
Computer science. Hardware design and machine architecture through distributed systems and programming languages to user interfaces and office automation.

Lang, J. H. (Areas IV, III, V, I)
Analysis, design and control of physical systems. Emphasis on electromechanical systems. Traditional electric machines, microsensors, microactuators and flexible structures.

Lee, H. S. (Areas V, III)
Research in analog integrated circuits in CMOS and BiCMOS technologies. Implementation of early vision algorithms in CCD and resistive fuse circuits.

Leeb, S. B. (Areas III, IV)
Design, analysis, construction, control, and monitoring of servomechanical actuators and mechatronic systems. Application of exotic materials including gel polymers to actuator construction.

Leiserson, C. E. (Area II)
Theory of computing machinery, parallel computation, graph theory, algorithms, computer architecture, super-computing, multithreading, internet computing, scalable systems. Chip multiprocessing.

Lim, J. S. (Areas III, I, VII)
Advanced television systems. Video processing. Audio processing. Speech processing. Theories of digital signal processing.

Liskov, B. H. (Area II)
Programming methodology, programming languages, distributed systems, object-oriented databases.

Lozano-Perez, T. (Area II)
Artificial intelligence; robotics and computer vision.

Lynch, N. A. (Area II)
Theory of distributed and real-time computing: mathematical models, specification, algorithm and system design, performance and fault-tolerance analysis. Distributed data management, communication, synchronization. Languages and tools for abstract distributed prgramming. Hybrid (continuous/discrete) systems.

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Madden, S. (Area II)
Databases and computer systems; query processing, distributed systems, management of streaming data, adaptive data processing, sensor networking.

Magnanti, T. (Areas I, II)
Network design and equilibrium. Large-scale optimization. Optimization in telecommunications, manufacturing, logistics, and transportation.

Mark, R. G. (Area VII)
Multiparameter physiologic signal processing; intelligent patient monitoring systems; multiparameter physiologic signal database design from ICU patients; ECG arrhythmia and ischemia analysis; cardiovascular physiology and modeling.

Medard, M. (Area I)
Wireless systems' capacity and failing channels. Optical networks, network robustness and reliability. Network coding.

Megretski, A. (Area I, II)
Theory and algorithms of analysis and design of hybrid systems, nonlinear and robust control, non-convex and convex optimization, formalization of knowledge in education, functional analysis and operator theory.

Meyer, A. R. (Area II)
Software education environments. Semantics of programming languages, logic of programs, concurrent programs, lambda calculus.

Micali, S. (Area II)
Cryptography, secure protocols, and computational complexity theory.

Miller, R. (Area II)
Human-computer interfaces, intelligent interfaces, programming by demonstration, end-user programming languages, usability, software engineering, usability and security.

Minsky, M. L. (Area II)
Artificial intelligence. Robotics and machine vision. Representation of knowledge and structure of personality. Common sense reasoning, theories of emotion and consciousness. (Emeritus)

Mitter, S. K. (Areas I, II)
The interaction between information and control. Image analysis, vision and perception. Structure function and organization of complex systems.

Morris, R.T. (Area II)
The design of an easy to control data networking infrastructure designed to bring about a new level of flexibility to network configuration. The Resilient Overlay Networks Project. Grid routing protocols.

Moses, J. (Areas II)
Organization of large complex systems, artificial intelligence.

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Oppenheim, A. V. (Area I)
Signal processing theory, applications and algorithms.

Orlando, T. P. (Area V)
Quantum computing with superconducting devices. Superconducting devices.

Ozdaglar, A. (Area 1)
Nonlinear optimization and convex analysis; parallel and distributed algorithms; game theory; network economics, pricing, and resource allocation games; network optimization and control.

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Palacios, T. (Area V, IV, VII)
Design, fabrication and characterization of novel electronic devices in wide bandgap semiconductors; polarization and bandgap engineering; transistors for sub-mm wave power and digital applications; new ideas for power conversion and generation; interaction of biological systems with semiconductor materials and devices.

Parker, R. R. (Area IV)
Plasma and fusion research, in particular, optimization of toroidal confinement in plasmas by means of current driven by radio-frequency waves. Development of diagnostics for measuring electron and ion distribution functions resulting from RF interactions with plasmas.

Parrilo, P. (Area I)
Control and identification of uncertain complex systems, robustness analysis and synthesis, and the development and application of computational tools based on convex optimization and algorithmic algebra to practically relevant problems in engineering, economics and physics.

Peake, W. T. (Area VII)
Acoustic, mechanical and electric processes involved in signal transmission in the auditory system. Comparative performance of ears of different species. (Emeritus)

Penfield, Jr., P. L. (Areas III, II, V)
Information and entropy. (Emeritus)

Perreault, D.J. (Areas III, IV)
Electronic circuit design, power electronics and energy conversion, control. Applications to industrial, commercial, scientific, transportation, and biomedical systems.

Perrott, M. (Area III)
High-speed mixed-signal circuit design focused on optical netowrking, high speed backplane and RF applications. Specific areas of interest include frequency synthesizers, clock and data recovery circuits, high speed equalization techniques, and multi-level signaling techniques for high speed serial links.

Popovic, J. (Area II)
Computer graphics, computer animation, geometric modeling, human-computer interaction, biomechanics, and robotics.

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Ram, R.J. (Area V)
Novel semiconductor lasers for advanced fiber optic communications. Study of fundamental interactions between electronic materials and light.

Reif, L. R. (Area V)
Integrated circuit fabrication technology. New process technologies for VLSI. Multilevel interconect technologies. Three-dimensional integration. Environmentally-benign semiconductor manufacturing.

Rinard, M. (Area II)
Program analysis, compilers, distributed computing, software engineering.

Rivest, R. L. (Area II)
Cryptography. Computer/network security. Algorithms. Voting technology.

Roberge, J. K. (Area III)
Electronic circuit design, including space circuitry; design for integrated circuits; analog to digital conversion techniques, and other analog-digital circuits. Feedback systems.

Rubinfeld, R.(L.) (Area II)
Randomized algorithms, sublinear time algorithms, computational complexity theory.

Rus, D. (Area II)
Robotics, mobile computing and information access.

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Sarpeshkar, R. (III, VII, I)
Biomedical electronics for the deaf, blind, and paralyzed; bio-signal sensing systems from the molecular to body scale; bio-inspired systems that architect novel and efficient electronics inpsired by biology; circuit modeling of biology.

Sawin, H. H. (Area V)
Characterization, use, and modeling of plasma etching processes used in microelectronics fabrication; plasma physics, plasma chemistry, gas-solid reactions, and ion-induced surface processes.

Schindall, J. (Areas III, I)
Automotive applications of electronics including improved energy storage using nanotube-enhanced ultracapacitors, reliability enhancement of complex system architectures, industry-related research and product development, novel time-domain processing methods, satellite communication architectures.

Schmidt, M. A. (Area V)
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Design of miromechanical sensors and actuators. Microfabrication technology.

Shapiro, J. H. (Areas I, IV, III)
Quantum communication and measurement. Optical communication through the atmosphere.

Shah, D. (Area I)
Network algorithms. Scaling laws for networks. Stochastic networks. Message passing algorithms. Statistical inference.

Smith, H. I. (Areas IV, V)
Nanofabrication techniques and applications. Nanostructures. Nanolithography. Optoelectronic and nanoscale devices. Optical communication. Templated self assesmbly. (Emeritus)

Sodini, C. G. (Areas III, V)
Design of technology intensive microsystems emphasizing integrated circuit design at the device level, including high data rate wireless LANs, mm-wave imaging, and optoelectronics fabricated on flexible substrates.

Staelin, D. H.(Areas I, IV, III)
Wireless communications; microwave and infrared remote sensing from satellites; estimation electromagnetics, and cortical signal processing.

Stojanovic, V. (Areas I, III)
Modeling of noise and dynamics in circuits and systems. Application of convex optimization to digital communications, analog and VLSI circuits. Communications and signal processing architecture. High-speed electrical and optical links, on-chip signaling, clock generation and distribution. High-speed digital and mixed-signal IC design.

Stonebraker, M. (Area II)
Database systems, query processing, data warehouses, federated databases, data visualization.

Stultz, C. (Area VII, II)
Conformational changes in macromolecules and the effect of structural transitions on human diseases. Gain insights into the role of molecular structure by utilizing techniques drawn from computational chemistry, signal processing, and basic biochemistry.

Sudan, M. (Area II)
Complexity of finding 'approximate' solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. Interplay of algebra with computer science and coding theory.

Sussman, G. J. (Area II)
Artificial intelligence: learning, problem solving and programming. Computational performance models for intelligent behavior, especially modeling the behavior of engineers. Numerical models of physical systems.

Szolovits, P. (Area II)
Application of artificial intelligence techniques to medical decision making. Effective representation of knowledge. Personal health information systems, medical confidentiality.

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Tedrake, R.L. (Area II)
Machine learning and robotics, including reinforcement learning, optimal control, legged robots, flapping-wing flight, nonlinear control theory, biological motor control, and computational neuroscience. Particular emphasis on solving difficult robotic control problems through a close coupling of mechanical design and learning control.

Teller, S. (Area II)
Computer vision for navigation and mapping; robotics; sensor networks; pervasive computing; computational geometry; geometric modeling; computer graphics.

Tidor, B. (Areas II, VII)
Modeling of protein-protein interactions, focusing on electrostatic effects and structure-based drug design. Systems-level biology including biological network modeling and information theory applied to data analysis.

Torralba, A. (Area II)
Computer vision, machine learning and human perception; development of computer vision systems and solving real world recognition tasks; modeling human perceptual and cognitive capabilities; object recognition, classification of whole scenes; visiual recognition and classification of places and objects.

Troxel, D. E. (Areas III, II, V)
Applications of digital systems. (Emeritus)

Tsitsiklis, J. N. (Areas I, II)
Analysis, optimization, and algorithms for deterministic and stochastic systems. Resource allocation in dynamic environments. Connunication networks.

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Verghese, G. C. (Areas I, VII)
Structure and dynamics of networked systems; estimation, control, signal processing; physically-based model reduction; applications, especially in biomedicine, biology, and power systems.

Voldman, J. (Areas V, VII)
Biological applications of microtechnology, especially to cell biology; bioMEMS; electrostatics at the microscale.

Ward, S. A. (Area II)
Computer architecture and operating systems.

Warde, C. (Area IV, V)
Devices and systems for optical information processing; optoelectronic integrated circuit neuro-processors; optical neural network algorithms and architectures; integrated spectropolarimetric imaging sensors; spatial light modulators; microdisplays.

White, J. K. (Areas III, I, II)
Numerical simulation and optimization techniques with application to problems in integrated circuit interconnect and packaging, micromachined devices (MEMS and bioMEMS), photonic devices, drug design, and systems biology.

Willsky, A. S. (Area I)
Estimation, stochastic systems, and statistical signal and image processing. Multiresolution methods, image reconstruction, large-scale data assimilation and multisensor fusion, computer vision, and graphical models for inference on complex phenomena. Application from a wide variety of fields, including low-level computer vision and segmentation, medical image processing, remote sensing, object recognition and sensor networks.

Wilson, G. L. (Area IV)
Electromechanics. Application of electromagnetics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, electric power and electronics to benefit of society.

Winston, P. H. (Area II)
Artificial intelligence and computational theories of human intelligence, with special emphasis on the roles of language, vision and analogical reasoning.

Wornell, G. W. (Area I)
Signal processing, digital communication, and information theory; algorithms and architectures for wireless networks, broadband systems, and multimedia environments.

Wyatt, Jr., J. L. (Areas VII, I, III)
Implantable retinal prosthesis. Neural coding. Random process models. Dynamics of nonlinear circuits and systems.

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Yanik, M. F. (Areas IV, V, VII)
Technologies for studying and engineering neural processes. Neural regeneration and degeneration using femtosecond laser nano-surgery and multi-photon imaging as well as microfulidic technologies and optical micro-manipulation. Employment of neural scaffolds and neural stem cells.

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Zahn, M. (Areas IV, V)
Electromagnetic, electromechanical, and electro-optic interactions with gaseous, liquid, and solid media, especially under high electric field conditions. Theory, measurements, and applications of high voltage conduction and breakdown phenomena. Capacitive and inductive sensors for measuring dielectric, conduction, and magnetic properties of materials. Design and fabrication of magnetic field based MEMS devices using magnetic particles and liquids.

Zheng, L. (Area I)
Wireless communications, physical layer designs, wireless networks; space-time processing, digital communications, multi-user detection algorithms, information theory, stochastic signal processing, optical communications.

Zue, V.W. (Areas II, VII, I)
Human-human and human-machine communication using spoken and written languages. Audio/visual cue integration. Detection and rendering of paralinguistic information. Acoustic-phonetic analysis of speech and strategies for lexical access.