Faculty

Office Location W442 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-4423

Email jchen18 [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests Computational Electromagnetics; Coupled EM and neuro-modulation simulation; Safety of passive and active medical implantable devices under MR systems; Multi-channel TMS devices; interactions of electromagnetic waves with human body

Office Location N310 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4204

Email fclaydon [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC

Research Interests Bioengineering; Defibrillation efficacy and optimization; Intracavitary mapping; Electrocardiographic predictors of ventricular arrhythmias; Clinical and experimental electrophysiology.

Office Location N318 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4456

Email jbao [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D. in Applied Physics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Research Interests Photoacoustic laser streaming; Graphene; 2D materials; Solar water-splitting; CO2 reduction; Solar ammonia generation; Organic-inorganic perovskites; Opto-fluidics; Semiconductor nanowire optoelectronics; Silicon photonics and metallic nanostructures for plasmonics; Fiber optic sensors; Plasmonic biosensors.

Office Location N338 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-6671

Email atbecker [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests Swarm Robotics: distributed robotics, human-swarm interaction, medical robotics, magnetic robots, and motion planning.

Office Location N322 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4409

Email SRBrankovic [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Science and Engineering of Materials, Arizona State University

Research Interests Electrochemical thin film growth; Magnetic materials and nanostructures; Nanofabrication; Electrocatalysis; Sensors; Physics and Thermodynamics of Electrified Interfaces.

Office Location W344A Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-6096

Email jinghong [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Research Interests Design of highly integrated mixed-signal and RF circuits and systems, encompassing high-speed wireline transceivers, data converters (ADCs and DACs), amplifiers and filters, RF and millimeter-wave transceiver front-ends, bio-electronic interfaces, and detector front-end electronics for nuclear and particle physics experiments.

Office Location W310 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4429

Email jlcontreras-vidal [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA

Research Interests Neural Engineering, Neurohumanities, Powered Exoskeletons, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Neuromodulation, Computational Neuroscience, Regulatory Science of Medical Devices, Arts in Medicine, Neuroaesthetics and Creativity

Office Location W344B Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-6104

Email xfu8 [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., University of Florida

Research Interests Computer architecture; Machine learning; Energy-efficient computing; High-performance computing; Edge computing; Near-data computing; Heterogeneous computing; Domain-specific architectures; Internet-of-Things; Virtual reality/Augmented reality; General-purpose computing on graphics processing units; Hardware reliability and variability

Office Location W302 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-4437

Email zhan2 [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, 2003

Research Interests Game Theory, Wireless Networking, Security, Data Analysis, Smart Grid

Office Location N308 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4400

Email hhao4 [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder

Research Interests Aircraft main engine starter/generators (S/G) having regenerative and sensorless commutation capabilities; Dual spool electrical power extractions from aircraft engines; Silicon Carbide (SiC) based aircraft electric power systems and subsystems; Aerospace first +/-270V DC aircraft electrical systems and subsystems; Aerospace ADDITIVE manufacturing technology-based aircraft synchronous electric generators; MW power, high voltage, high altitude electric motors for hybrid electric propulsion and electric propulsion; Electrical vehicle motor drive systems.

Office Location W318 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-4426

Email djackson [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Research Interests Applied Electromagnetics; Microstrip antennas and circuits; Leaky-wave antennas; Leakage and radiation effects in microwave integrated circuits; Periodic structures; Electromagnetic compatibility and interference.

Office Location SERC building, Room 1007A

Phone 713-743-4168

Email litvinov [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Applied Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Research Interests Biosensors, Point-of-Care Diagnostics, Nanomagnetic Materials, Devices and Systems, Nanofabrication, Materials Synthesis at the Nanoscale

Office Location W444A Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-4445

Email long [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Applied Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Research Interests Applied Electromagnetics; Printed-circuit, dielectric resonator, and wire antennas; Millimeter wave guiding structures and radiators; Reduced surface wave microstrip antennas; Engineering education and outreach; Retention and recruiting of engineering students.

Office Location W342A Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-0557

Email mpan2 [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida

Research Interests Privacy Preserving Deep Learning; Big Data Privacy; Wireless Security and Privacy; Wireless Networking; Machine Learning for Wireless Networking; Data Driven Optimization; Deep Reinforcement Learning Inspired Applications; Internet of Things (IoT); Underwater Wireless Communications and Networks; Stress Wave Communications; Magnetic Induction Inspired Underwater/Underground Wireless Applications; Cognitive Radio Networks; Spectrum Management and Network Economics

Office Location N311 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4743

Email sprasad2 [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Mississippi State University, Mississippi

Research Interests Machine Learning and Signal Processing with applications to biomedicine, scene understanding and remote sensing, Statistical Inference, Supervised, Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning, Transfer and Reinforcement Learning, Meta-Learning, Sparse Representations.

Office Location N312 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-8589

Email ksraja [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 1984

Research Interests Power electronics and Drive Systems; Subsea Electrical Systems; Transportation Electrification: Electric, hybrid, and fuel cell vehicle; Electric and hybrid electric aircraft, VTOL, and flying cars; Renewable Energy and Microgrids

Office Location N325 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-1773

Email broysam [at] uh.edu

Education D.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

Research Interests Biological image analysis; Signal Processing; Pattern Analysis; High-performance computing; Multiplex Computational Histology; Drug Discovery and Systems Biomedicine; Computational Methods for Cell-based Cancer Therapy.

Office Location W328 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-4454

Email wshih [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Research Interests New technology development for biomedicine and portable chem/biosensing based on core research expertise in nanobiophotonics, plasmonics, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), nanofabrication, optical imaging, microscopy & spectroscopy, single nanoparticle (exosome, virus) analysis, disease diagnosis by virtual biopsy, N/MEMS/microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, smartphone microscopy and portable chemical/biological sensor.

Office Location W326 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-4449

Email wolfe [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Physics, University of Rochester

Research Interests Microfabrication; High density electron beam; Integrated circuit metallization; Resist evaluation; Ion beam lithography; Super-conducting thin films for microwave and high current applications.

Office Location N324 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4432

Email yyao4 [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests Advanced materials and devices for energy conversion and storage; magnesium and sodium batteries; organic and polymeric batteries; aqueous batteries for grid storage; solid state electrolytes and all-solid-state-batteries; computational modeling of battery microstructures.

Office Location N320 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-0841

Email jchen84 [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University

Research Interests Computational Electromagnetics; Inverse Problems; Machine Learning for Scientific Computing; Oilfield Data Analytics; Seismic Data Processing; Subsurface Wireless Communication; Well Logging

Office Location N304 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-4441

Email yuhuachen [at] uh.edu

Education D.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

Research Interests Optical Networks, Quantum Cryptography, FPGA Systems, IoT, High Performance Routers, System Prototyping

Office Location N330 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-7382

Email hskrishn [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Research Interests - High density power converters, solid state transformers (SSTs) and control for utility grid integration of renewable energy (wind, solar, etc.), data centers, electric vehicles and adjustable speed drives;
- Advanced power electronics and health analytics (using machine learning and statistical methods) for applications involving extreme environments or critical mission profiles such as defense, aerospace, downhole and subsea;
- Power conversion for RF related applications (such as RADAR, 4G/5G Communication, and NMR Metrology)

Office Location N317 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-9881

Email xli82 [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University

Research Interests Power system operations and planning; Power system efficiency, reliability and resilience; Grid integration of renewable energy sources; Microgrids; Energy storage; Application of machine learning and optimization methods in power energy systems.

Office Location W330 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-6105

Email mayerich [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Computer Science, Texas A&M University

Research Interests Biomedical imaging, Microscopy, Optics, High-performance computing, Computer graphics, Visualization

Office Location W308 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-8615

Email hvnguy35 [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park

Research Interests Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Medicine, Healthcare

Office Location W312 Engineering building 2

Phone 713-743-7207

Email rkreddy [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Research Interests Biomedical Imaging; Medical Devices; Photonics; Image Processing; Biomedical Instrumentation; Spectroscopic Imaging; Mid-Infrared and Vibrational Spectroscopy; Optical Coherence Tomography; Optical Imaging; Tomography; Inverse Problems.

Office Location N308 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4485

Email pruchhoeft [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX

Research Interests Nanolithography, Nanofabrication, Diagnostic devices, Engineered nanoparticles, Beam-activated surfaces

Office Location W306 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-8593

Email xshan [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Research Interests Optical imaging; Surface plasmon resonance; In situ microscope for energy storage and catalysis reactions; Chemical sensing and imaging; Single-cell imaging; Biosensing and imaging; Environmental sensing; Subsurface sensing system; Internet of infrastructure

Office Location N336 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4422

Email shattuck [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC

Research Interests Dr. Shattuck has worked on the development of computer-based tools, programs, and textbooks for effective instruction in circuit analysis and electronics. Dr. Shattuck has also contributed to the 4th Edition of the textbook Electric Circuits by James Nilsson. He has served as a reviewer for several journals and textbook publishers. He recently completed an online Circuit Analysis textbook available through Top Hat.

Office Location W314-D3 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-4935

Email brsheth [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Research Interests Visual perception; Functions of sleep; Autism spectrum disorders; Interaction between central and autonomic nervous systems (mind-body interaction); Perceptual statistics; Neural basis of insight; Blood flow in Brain; Eye movements & cognition

Office Location W320 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-7334

Email pcanepa [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Kent (UK)

Research Interests Computational Materials Science; First-principles calculations; High throughput Screening; Extended Ising Hamiltonians; Functional Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion; Lithium, Sodium and multivalent batteries; Solid electrolytes and All-solid-state batteries.

Office Location N316 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4400

Email fershad [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

Research Interests Soft and Stretchable Bioelectronics; Bioelectronics-Tissue Integration; 3D Biofabrication for Tissue Engineering; Ambulatory Biosensors; Electrophysiology; Neuromodulation; Machine Learning for Bioelectronics; Optoelectronic Modulation

Office Location N323 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-6963

Email bjoardar [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Washington State University

Research Interests Deep learning accelerators using in-memory computing systems; Reliability and Security of deep learning accelerators; Heterogeneous manycore systems

Office Location N308 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4400

Email lzhao26 [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

Research Interests Energy storage; Solid-state batteries; Battery manufacturing; Autonomous materials systems

Office Location W316 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-2849

Email jzheng4 [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University

Research Interests Magnetic Resonance (MR) Safety, Antenna and wireless channel in medicine, Neurostimulation, EM compatibility, Wireless power transfer

Office Location SERC E1007

Phone 713-743-5235

Email lvchang [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., University of Houston

Research Interests Nanofabrication, Microscopic Devices, Biosensors, Sustainable Management, Holistic Design

Office Location Houston Science Center Building, Room 324

Phone 713-743-8237

Email jarek [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland

Research Interests Interaction of RF and static magnetic fields with cells and tissue; RF/microwave characterization of dielectrics, superconducting and magnetic materials; Time-reversal based RF focusing for medical applications, RF heating of nanoparticles for implementation in cancer hyperthermia; High resolution MRI with cryogenic and superconducting coils/arrays.

Office Location N308 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4400

Email jleclerc [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Lorraine, France

Research Interests Robotic magnetic manipulation for medical applications; Underwater robots localization and mapping; Motion planning for teams of robots.

Office Location N308 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4400

Email yliang7 [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Materials Physics and Chemistry, Nankai University, China

Research Interests Energy storage and conversion technologies, organic and hybrid materials

Office Location W442 Engineering Building 2

Phone 832-290-1173

Email qwang24 [at] cougarnet.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston

Research Interests MR Safety of passive and active medical implantable devices; Interactions of electromagnetic waves with human body; Design of MR safety measurement and test instrument.

Phone 713-743-4163

Email ddelarosa2 [at] uh.edu

Education Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Houston

Research Interests Motivation & Engagement, STEM Retention, Project-Based Learning

Office Location N313 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-6166

Email hqle5 [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Houston

Research Interests Embedded Systems, IoT, Reconfigurable Systems, ASIC/FPGA Design and Verification, Memory Controllers, Machine Learning, Deep Learning

Office Location KAB1 307E

Email dpr2 [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

Research Interests Computational modeling of biological systems

Email pviswana [at] central.uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Research Interests Power System Planning; Deregulated Power Markets; Reliability Evaluation of Power Systems

Office Location S346 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-4490

Email jcharlson [at] central.uh.edu

Research Interests Semiconductor Devices, VLSI Design and Layout

Office Location W322 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-4433

Email spei [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Solid State Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Research Interests Graphene, nanowires and nanotubes grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) for biosensors; Microwave devices; Integrated circuits and other electronic applications; Mid infrared type-II quantum cascade lasers based on MBE grown GaSb/InAs heterostructures for chemical sensing, countermeasures, and other optoelectronic applications; High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) and Heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) based on MBE, CBE and MOCVD grown GaAs/AlGaAs and InGaAs/InAlAs heterostructures for high speed and high frequency communication applications.

Office Location W324 Engineering Building 2

Phone 713-743-4424

Email ltrombetta [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Physics, Lehigh University

Research Interests Solid state device physics. Characterization of MOS devices and materials. Characterization of metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) systems, particularly mechanisms of defect generation at the insulator-semiconductor interface, including the SiO2/Si system as well as SiO2/SiC and "high-K" insulators on Si for applications in advanced CMOS devices. Characterization of III-V semiconductors, including GaAs and AlGaAs, and GaN. Radiation response of MOS devices.

Phone 713-743-4400

Email wilton [at] uh.edu

Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests Electromagnetic Theory, Modeling, and Applications; Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference; Antennas; Scattering; Periodic Structures; Layered Media; Subsurface Wireless Communication; Well Logging