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Faculty Research Interests

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Contents

More faculty information on individual faculty members can be found at their Websites

Introduction

Doctoral dissertations at Stanford University may be supervised by any of the faculty. On the following pages is a cross-index of faculty names by area of specialization and then a summary of the areas of special research interest for each faculty member.

Research Areas

Area 1 Applied Electromagnetics and Remote Sensing
Area 2 Biomedical
Area 3 CAD/CAM
Area 4 Circuit Design
Area 5 Communication Systems
Area 6 Communications and Information Theory
Area 7 Computer Architecture
Area 8 Databases
Area 9 Distributed Systems/Networks/Operating Systems
Area 10 Electron, Ion, and X-ray Optics
Area 11 Imaging Systems
Area 12 Integrated Electronic Device and Fabrication Processes
Area 13 Interfaces and Surfaces
Area 14 Lasers and Electro-Optics
Area 15 Micromachining
Area 16 Programming Languages and Systems
Area 17 Quantum Electronics
Area 18 Sensors and Actuators
Area 19 Signal Processing
Area 20 Solid State Devices and Materials
Area 21 Space Science and Engineering
Area 22 Systems and Control
Area 23 Tunneling Microscopy
Area 24 VLSI Circuits
Area 25 VLSI Systems/Digital Design
Area 26 Other Areas (see individual faculty listing)

Cross Index of Fields of Specialization

  • (1) Applied Electromagnetics & Remote Sensing
  • Bracewell, Fraser-Smith, Inan
  • (2) Biomedical
  • Hanrahan, Kovacs, Levoy, Macovski, Napel, Nishimura, Pauly, Pelc, Shenoy, Widrow
  • (3) CAD/CAM
  • Boyd, Dutton, Horowitz, Nishi, Olukotun, Plummer, Saraswat
  • (4) Circuit Design
  • Dally, Lee, Meng, Mitra, Murmann, Wooley
  • (5) Communication Systems
  • Cioffi, Cover, Cox, Fraser-Smith, Girod, Goldsmith, Gray, Kahn,
  • Kazovsky, Lee, McKeown, Montanari, Murmann, Paulraj, Prabhakar,
  • Tobagi, Weissman, Widom, Wooley
  • (6) Communications & Information Theory
  • Boneh, Cioffi, Cover, Cox, El Gamal, Fraser-Smith, Gill, Girod,
  • Goldsmith, Gray, Kahn, Kazovsky, Montanari, Osgood, Paulraj, Weissman, Yamamoto
  • (7) Computer Architecture
  • Dally, Cheriton, Flynn, Hanrahan, Hennessy, Horowitz,
  • Kozyrakis, Lam, Olukotun, Rosenblum
  • (8) Databases
  • Garcia-Molina, Ullman, Widom
  • (9) Dist Syst/Networks/Operating Systems
  • Cheriton, Cover, Garcia-Molina, Harris, D., McKeown, Prabhakar, Rosenblum, Tobagi
  • (10) Electron, Ion, & X-Ray Optics
  • Pauly, Pease, Pianetta, Shen
  • (11) Imaging Systems
  • Cover, El Gamal, Girod, Glover, Goodman, Hanrahan, Hesselink, Khuri-Yakub,
  • Kino, Levoy, Macovski, Napel, Nishimura, Osgood, Pauly, Pease, Pelc, Quate, Weissman
  • (12) Integrated Electronic Device & Fabrication Processes
  • Gibbons, Harris, J., Howe, Khuri-Yakub, Kino, Kovacs, Nishi,
  • Pease, Plummer, Quate, Saraswat, Wang, S. Wong
  • (13) Interfaces & Surfaces
  • Pianetta, Shen, Wang
  • (14) Lasers & Electro-Optics
  • Fan, Harris, J., Harris, S., Hesselink, Kahn, Kazovsky, Pantell, Siegman, Vuckovic, Yamamoto
  • (15) Micromachining
  • Harris, J, Howe, Khuri-Yakub, Kovacs, Pianetta, Quate, S. Wong
  • (16) Programming Languages & Systems
  • Cheriton, Dill, Hanrahan, Hennessy, Levoy, Rosenblum, Smith
  • (17) Quantum Electronics
  • Beasley, Fan, Harris, J., Harris, S., Kazovsky, Pantell, Siegman, Vuckovic, Yamamoto
  • (18) Sensors and Actuators
  • Howe, Kovacs, Khuri-Yakub, Murmann, Quate, Saraswat
  • (19) Signal Processing
  • Boyd, Cioffi, Cover, Cox, El Gamal, Fraser-Smith, Girod,
  • Gray, Inan, Kahn, Kazovsky, Lee, Meng, Montanari, Murmann, Nishimura,
  • Osgood, Paulraj, Prabhakar, Smith, Weissman, Widrow, Wooley
  • (20) Solid State Devices & Materials
  • Fan, Harris, J., Howe, Pease, Pianetta, Plummer, Saraswat, Shen, Wang, Vuckovic, Yamamoto
  • (21) Space Science & Engineering
  • Fraser-Smith, Inan
  • (22) Systems & Control
  • Boyd, Widrow
  • (23) Tunneling Microscopy
  • Pianetta, Quate
  • (24) VLSI Circuits
  • Dally, Dutton, El Gamal, Horowitz, Lee, Murmann, Plummer, Saraswat, S. Wong, Wooley
  • (25) VLSI Systems/Digital Design
  • Dally, Dill, El Gamal, Horowitz, Kozyrakis, Meng, Olukotun
  • (26) (See individual faculty listing for other areas)
  • Hanrahan, Levoy, Osgood, Saraswat, Vuckovic

Research Interests of the Faculty

Boneh, Daniel Areas: 6, 26 Assistant Professor (Jointly with CS)
Research: Cryptography, computer security
Boyd, Stephen Areas: 3,19,22 Professor
Research: Computer aided design, modeling, and analysis of systems, especially control systems; optimization.
Bracewell, Ronald Areas: 1,5,6,11,19,21 Lewis M. Terman Professor (Emeritus)
Research: Image reconstruction, fast algorithms, solar physics.
Bube, Richard Areas: 12,20 Professor (Emeritus, Jointly with Mat. Sci.)
Research: Photoelectronic properties of materials and devices; heterojunctions for photovoltaic solar energy conversion, electrical transport and localized levels in thin film, amorphous and single crystal semiconductors.
Cheriton, David Areas: 5,7,9,16 Professor of Computer Science (by Courtesy, EE)
Research: Computer communications; distributed operating systems; multiprocessor architecture; parallel programming.
Cioffi, John Areas: 5,6,19 Hitachi Professor of Engineering
Research: Coding and digital signal processing methods for communication and storage channels, with particular interest in coded modulation and adaptive filtering for these channels.
Cover, Thomas Areas: 5,6,9,11,19 Kwoh-Ting Li Professor (Jointly with Statistics)
Research: Information theory; communication theory; statistical signal processing; pattern recognition; complexity; investment; data compression.
Cox, Donald Areas: 5,6,19 Harald Trap Friis Professor of Engineering; Director, Center for Telecommunications
Research: Wireless personal communications systems and networks; cellular mobile communications systems; wireless data networks, low-power signal processing architectures and electronics; radio propagation in and around buildings.
Dally, William J. Areas: 4, 7, 24, 25 Professor
Research: Architecture and design of VLSI systems: supercomputers, network switches and routers, and embedded signal and image processing systems.
Dill, David Areas: 16,25 Assistant Professor of Computer Science (by Courtesy, EE)
Research: Automatic formal verification techniques for hardware, protocols, and other finite-state systems; asynchronous circuit design methods.
Dutton, Robert Areas: 3,24 Professor
Research: Development and application of computer aids for process modeling and device analysis; using CAD for manufacturing science; developing new "computational prototyping" techniques for IC layout and circuit design.
El Gamal, Abbas Areas: 6,11,19,24,25 Professor; ; Director, Information Systems Laboratory
Research: VLSI design and design automation tools; electrically configurable VLSI; smart sensors; information and coding theories.
Eshleman, Von Areas: 1,21 Professor (Emeritus)
Research: Radio science as applied to the study of planetary atmospheres and surfaces, the interplanetary medium, the solar corona, and planetary rings; spacecraft instrumentation and planetary exploration, electromagnetic and general wave theory, and solar system tests of general relativity.
Fan, Shanhui Areas: 14, 17, 20 Assistant Professor
Research: Micro and nano-photonic devices; photonic crystals; computational electromagnetics, solid state physics.
Flynn, Michael Areas: 7 Professor (Emeritus)
Research: Design and architecture of computer systems, including parallel processors and multi-processors; pipelined processors; high speed arithmetic; special processors for pattern recognition.
Franklin, Gene Areas: 19,22 Professor (Emeritus)
Research: Model identification for purposes of control using noisy observations; questions of control insensitivity to large parameter variation, adaptive control, and computer implementation of resultant designs; applications to robotics and VLSI fabrication processes.
Fraser-Smith, Antony Areas: 1,5,6,19,21 Professor (Research) (Jointly with School of Earth Science) (Emeritus)
Research: Low frequency electromagnetic phenomena in space and in the earth's environment. Earthquake electromagnetic fields. Remote sensing using low-frequency radio. The geomagnetic field. Biomagnetism, and the biological effects of electromagnetic fields.
Garcia-Molina, Hector Areas: 8,9 Professor (Jointly with CS); Director, Computer Systems Laboratory
Research: Database systems, distributed computing, fault-tolerant computer systems, performance evaluation of computer systems.
Gibbons, James Areas: 12,20 Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering, Frederick Emmons Terman Professor of Engineering.
Research: Ion implantation; beam annealing and recrystallization; rapid thermal and limited reaction processing; solid-state physics; solid-state device theory and process modeling.
Gill, John Areas: 6,25 Associate Professor
Research: Computational complexity; theory of data compression; probabilistic computation, theory of computation, and information theory.
Girod, Bernd Areas: 5, 6, 11, 19 Professor
Research: Digital image and video processing, video coding algorithm, networked multimedia systems, 3-D image analysis and synthesis
Glover, Gary Areas: 11 rofessor of Radiology (by Courtesy, EE); Director, Radiological Sciences Laboratory
Research: Medical imaging physics, techniques and applications, including computed tomography, magnetic resonance and image processing.
Goldsmith, Andrea Areas: 5,6, 19 Professor
Research: Capacity limits of wireless channels, systems and networks; wireless communication theory and system design; modulation, coding, and compression for wireless channels; adaptive resource allocation in cellular and ad-hoc wireless networks; synergies in wireless hardware, system and network design
Golub, Gene Areas: 22 Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science (by Courtesy, EE)
Research: Numerical analysis; matrix computation; structured linear systems; least squares and eigenvalues.
Goodman, Joseph Areas: 11 William Ayer Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus)
Research: Image formation and detection; statistical optics; theory of partial coherence; optical data processing and holography; optical communications; optical computing.
Gray, Robert M. Areas: 5,6,19 Lucent Technologies Professor of Engineering, Professor of EE
Research: Theory and design of signal compression and statistical classification systems; image and speech coding; information theory; quantization.
Hanrahan, Pat Areas: 2,7,11,16,26 Professor (Jointly with Computer Science)
Research: Computer graphics, geometry and visualization; rendering algorithms, high performance graphics architectures, and systems support for graphical interaction.
Harris, James Areas: 12,14,15,17,20 James & Ellenor Chesebrough Professor of Engineering; Director, Solid State Laboratory
Research: Molecular Beam Epitaxy of GaAs and III-V compounds, laser ablation of oxides, heterojunction electronic devices for very high speed electronics, opto-electronics and non-linear optics, quantum transport and tunneling, III-V compound semiconductors, solid state device physics and modeling.
Harris, Stephen Areas: 14,17 Barbara and Kenneth Oshman Professor of Engineering (Jointly with Applied Physics)
Research: Electromagnetically induced transparency, lasers without inversion, XUV lasers, acousto-optics, tunable lasers.
Helliwell, Robert Areas: 1,21 Professor (Emeritus)
Research: Electromagnetic wave propagation and generation in ionized media; passive and active experimentation on the ionosphere and magnetosphere; Electromagnetic precursors to Earthquakes.
Hellman, Martin Areas: 6 Professor (Emeritus)
Research: Cryptography and data security, technology and society.
Helms, C. Robert Areas: 12,13,20 Professor Emeritus (Research)
Research: Electronic device processing at the atomic level; properties of surfaces and interfaces, especially related to Si, GaAs and HgCdTe device fabrication; physics and chemistry of etching and semiconductor surface preparation; microanalytical techniques for interface characterization, environmental impact of semiconductor processing and abatement.
Hennessy, John L. Areas: 7,16 Willard and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Engineering (Jointly with Computer Science); President of the University
Research: Compilers, computer architecture, multiprocessors.
Hesselink, Lambertus Areas: 11,14 Professor
Research: Nano-photonics, nano-optics for bio-sensing, and surface plasmon resonance devices and processes. Optical metrology; scientific data visualization; tomography; holography; digital image processing and nonlinear optics including materials research; optical interconnects and optical integrated optics; 3-D Data Storage.
Horowitz, Mark Areas: 3, 4, 7,24,25 Professor
Research: Design of digital integrated circuits, included CMOS, BiCMOS, and ECL. Computer architecture and organization, especially tradeoffs for integrated implementations. CAD tools to support high-performance and low power integrated circuit designs; high speed circuit design and serial link technology
Howe, Roger T. Areas: 12, 15, 18, 20 Professor
Research: The design and fabrication technology of micro and nano electromechanical systems (M/NEMS) with applications to signal processing, electrostatic actuators, and microfluidics. Additional interests include the characterization and enhancement of surfaces and interfaces in M/NEMS.
Inan, Umran Areas: 1,19,21 Professor
Research: Applied Electromagnetics, radio remote sensing, ionospheric effects of lightning discharges, wave-particle interactions, antennas, digital signal processing.
Kahn, Joseph Areas: 5, 6, 14, 19 Professor
Research: Optical Fiber Communications, Free-space Optical Communications, Associated Devices and Subsystems
Kailath, Thomas Areas: 5,6,11,19,22 Hitachi America Professor of Engineering (Emeritus)
Research: Development, analysis, and implementation of signal processing algorithms in communications, computation and control; applications to materials processing and telecommunications.
Kazovsky, Leonid Areas: 5,6,14,17,19 Professor (Research)
Research: Optical fiber communications, applied optics, signal processing, optical components, systems and networks
Khuri-Yakub, Butrus Areas: 11,12,15,18 Professor (Research), Associate CoChair for Admissions of EE
Research: Acoustic microscopy. Nondestructive evaluation of structural materials. Low and high frequency bulk and surface wave transducers. Ultrasonic sensors for IC process control and monitoring. Micromachined materials in ultrasonics.
Kino, Gordon Areas: 11,12 W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus)
Research: Optical, acoustic, and photothermal scanning microscopes, fiber optics; analog signal processing; non-destructive testing of electronic devices.
Kovacs, Gregory Areas: 2,12,15,18 Professor
Research: Solid state sensors and actuators for biomedical, biotechnology, chemical, environmental, automotive and industrial applications; micromachining for the fabrication of planar and non-planar microstructures; circuits for sensors and actuators; neurophysiological research using microelectronic neural interfaces.
Kozyrakis, Christos Areas: 7,25 Assistant Professor
Research: Architecture, design, and compilation for scalable computer systems. Current focus: modular architectures for data-parallel and thread-parallel applications.
Lam, Monica Areas: 7,16 Associate Professor of Computer Science (by Courtesy, EE)
Research: Parallel systems: programming languages, optimizing compilers and architecture design.
Lee, Thomas Areas: 4,5,19,24 Associate Professor
Research: Analog integrated circuit and system design. High speed/low power circuits, particularly for communications systems, both wireless and bussed.
Levoy, Marc Areas: 2,7,11,16,26 Associate Professor (Jointly with Computer Science)
Research: Computer graphics, scientific visualization, interactive techniques; analysis and rendering of multidimensional sampled data, digitization of 3D objects using novel scanner technologies, and design of languages and user interfaces for data visualization. Realistic image synthesis, computer animation, and high-performance graphics architectures.
Lindau, Ingolf Areas: 10,13,20,23 Professor (Research) (Jointly with SSRL)
Research: Electronic and structural properties of surfaces and interfaces; photoemission of metals and semiconductors based on synchrotron radiation; tunneling microscopy of metal/semiconductor structures; novel optical elements for synchrotron radiation research.
Macovski, Albert Areas: 2,11,19 Canon USA Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) (Jointly with Radiology)
Research: Medical image processing, ultrasonic imaging systems, 3-dimensional x-ray imaging, energy-selective x-ray imaging and magnetic resonance imaging.
McCarthy, John Areas: 26 Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus, by Courtesy, EE)
Research: Artificial intelligence, computing with symbolic expressions, time sharing, formalizing common sense, non-monotonic logic.
McCluskey, Edward Areas: 3,7,24,25 Professor (Emeritus, Jointly with CS)
Research: VLSI, design for testability, computer system reliability, computer architecture, digital circuit testing and diagnosis, fault tolerant computing, and design of integrated circuit digital logic.
McKeown, Nick W. Areas: 5,9 Associate Professor (Jointly with CS)
High performance network switches and routers. Scheduling algorithms. Economics of the Internet. Network simulation.
Meng, Teresa Areas: 4,19,25 Professor
Research: Circuit design and signal processing; technologies for distributed monitoring networks and real-time video compression systems.
Miller, David A. B. Areas: 14,17,20 Professor
Research: Quantum well optics and optoelectronics; fundamentals and applications of optics in switching, interconnection, and computing systems, including "smart pixel" technologies.
Mitra, Subhasish Areas: 3, 4, 7, 24, 25 Assistant Professor
Research: robust system design, VLSI design, CAD & test, computer architecture, fault-tolerant computing, design for emerging nanotechnologies.
Montanari, Andrea Areas: 5, 6, 19 Assstant Professor of Electrical Engineering (Joint with statistics)
Research: Iterative coding systems, message passing algorithms, graphical models, random constraint satisfaction problems, stochastic processes on graphs.
Murmann, Boris Areas: 4,5,18,19,24 Assistant Professor
Research: Integrated circuit and system design. Analog/digital and sensor interfaces; circuits for broadband communications. Digital calibration and post-processing algorithms.
Napel, Sandy Areas: 2,11 Associate Professor of Radiology (by Courtesy, EE)
Research: Medical imaging systems with particular emphasis on computed tomography; visualization of biomedical imaging data including CT, MRI, MRS, blood flow; image segmentation.
Nishimura, Dwight Areas: 2,11,19 Professor, EE Department Vice Chair
Research: Diagnostic medical imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, x-ray imaging, cardiovascular imaging
Nishi, Yoshio Areas: 12, 13 Professor (Research)
Research: MOS device physics and processes. More specifically, new gate materials and interfaces for work function engineered device structures.
Olshen, Richard A. Areas: 2,19 Professor of Biostatistics (by Courtesy, Statistics and EE)
Research: Tree-structured methods for compression, classification, and regression. Experimental design.
Olukotun, Oyekunle Areas: 3,7,25 Associate Professor
Research: Design of high-performance computer systems; development of algorithms to speed up the design of computer systems; understanding the impact of advanced implementation technologies on computer performance.
Osgood, Brad Areas: 6, 11, 19, 26 Professor; Senior Associate Dean, School of Engineering
Research: Mathematical engineering problems related to analysis and geometry
Pantell, Richard Areas: 14,17 Professor (Emeritus)
Research: Nonlinear optics, interactions between light and free electron beams, lasers, generation of ultraviolet and x-ray radiation, channeling of particles in crystals, fiber optics.
Paulraj, Arogyaswami Areas: 5,6,19 Professor (Research)
Research: Mobile Communications, Antenna array processing with applications to wireless communications.
Pauly, John Areas: 2, 11, 10 Associate Professor
Research: Medical imaging physics and systems; image reconstruction; image-guided medical interventions.
Pease, R. Fabian Areas: 10,11,12,20 Professor
Research: High resolution technology; electron, ion and deep ultra-violet optics; novel devices with nanometer scale dimensions; physical engineering of VLSI systems.
Peumans, Peter Areas: 12, 13, 20 and 24. Assistant Professor
Research: Organic electronic devices and circuits including photovoltaics, photodetectors, LEDs, memories and thin-film transistors. Device modeling. Biomolecular electronics.
Pelc, Norbert Areas: 2,11 Associate Professor of Radiology (by Courtesy, EE)
Research: Technical aspects of medical imaging with particular concentration on magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography.
Pianetta, Piero Areas: 10,13,15,20,23 Professor (Research) (Jointly with SSRL)
Research: Photoemission and STM of semiconductor (SiGe, III-V and diamond) surfaces and interfaces. Advanced x-ray techniques for contamination analysis of silicon wafers.
Plummer, James Areas: 3,12,20,24 John M. Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering; Dean, School of Engineering
Research: Silicon and GaAs integrated circuit technology: oxidation, ion implantation, epitaxy, diffusion. Point defects and other material properties of silicon and GaAs. Solid-state devices and physics. Modeling of MOS and bipolar devices. Ultimate limits of device performance. High voltage devices and IC manufacturing.
Prabhakar, Balajai Areas: 5, 9, 19 Associate Professor
Research: Applied probability, stochastic networks, graphical models
Pratt, Vaughan Areas: 26 Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus, by Courtesy, EE)
Research: Foundations for computer programming and specification languages; developing SSL, a system specification language based on a partial-order model of concurrency.
Quate, Calvin Areas: 11,12,15,18,23 Leland T. Edwards Professor of Engineering Research
Research: Silicon technology and lithography for 0.1 micron feature sizes, micromachining, and nanotechnology with the atomic force microscope.
Reis, Rick Areas: 26 Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering (joint with Mechanical Engineering)
Research: The structure and function of academia, academic-industry relationships, helping students prepare for, find, and succeed at academic careers in science and engineering.
Rosenblum, Mendel Areas: 7,9,16 Assistant Professor of Computer Science (by Courtesy, EE)
Research: Multiprocessor operating systems; distributed systems; I/O subsystems; file systems and storage management.
Saraswat, Krishna Areas: 3,12,18,20,26 Professor
Research: Physics and technology of silicon and SiGe devices: fabrication processes, device structures, materials and equipment; and techniques for simulation, design, measurement and control for IC and flat panel display manufacturing.
Shen, Zhi-Xun Areas: 10,13,20 Assistant Professor of Applied Physics (by Courtesy, EE)
Research: Surface and interfaces of superconductors, x-ray and electron beams, advanced magnetic materials.
Shenoy, Krishna V. Areas: 2, 19,26 Assistant Professor
Research: Neural coding and neural prosthetic systems
Siegman, Anthony Areas: 14,17 Burton J. and Ann M. McMurtry Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus)
Research: Laser physics and devices, including calculation and measurement of laser resonator modes; determination of laser beam quality; and measurement of a fundamental quantum "excess spontaneous emission" phenomenon.
Smith, Julius Areas: 16,19 Associate Professor of Music (by Courtesy, EE)
Research: Music applications of signal processing such as synthesis algorithms, efficient acoustic models, artificial reverberation, audio digital filter design, audio spectrum analysis, and software/hardware architectures for synthesis and processing.
Solgaard, Olav Areas: 15, 26 Assistant Professor
Research: Microfabrication and integration of optical devices and systems.Miniaturized and massively parallel optical systems. Micrograting and microscanner technologies for applications in displays, imaging, fiber-optic communications, process monitoring, and adaptive optics. Semiconductor process development, microelectromechanical device design.
Tobagi, Fouad Areas: 5,9 Professor
Research: Broadband integrated services digital networks, high speed ATM networks, multimedia applications; multimedia systems; multimedia networking including network infrastructures, protocols, management and control.
Tyler, Leonard Areas: 1,19,21 Professor (Emeritus)
Research: Planetary exploration utilizing radio propagation experiments in space; radar astronomy; electromagnetic scattering with application to planetary and space physics, and geophysics. Digital signal processing with applications in radar.
Ullman, Jeffrey Areas: 8 Professor of Computer Science (by Courtesy, EE)
Research: Database systems, especially logic-based interfaces and integration of heterogeneous systems.
Vuckovic, Jelena Areas: 14,17,20,26 Assistant Professor
Research: nanoscale photonics and quantum optics, photonic crystals, solid-state photonic quantum information technologies, and nanofabrication.
Wang, Shan Areas: 12,13,20 Associate Professor (Jointly with Mat. Sci.)
Research: Growth and characterization of magnetic thin films; design and fabrication of devices for information storage; thin film processing and nanofabrication.
Waterman, Alan Areas: 1 Professor (Emeritus)

Research: Remote probing of media using propagated waves. Back scatter and forward scatter in random media. Application to remote measurement of wind, turbulence, etc. in the atmosphere. Propagation of radio, optical, and acoustic waves.

Weissman, Tsachy Areas: 5, 6, 11, 19 Assistant Professor
Research: Information theory; statistical signal processing; denoising; data compression; prediction
White, Robert Areas: 13,20 Professor (Emeritus, Jointly with Mat. Sci.)

Research: Magnetic materials, especially thin film materials; surface and interface effects in magnetic materials; magnetic and magneto-optic materials for information storage; magnetic recording; microelectrodes for neurological applications.

Widom, Jennifer Areas: 5,8 Professor (Jointly with CS)
Research: Distributed and heterogeneous database, knowledge-base, and information systems; databases for collaborative engineering; databases for wireless networks; active database systems; database constraint management.
Widrow, Bernard Areas: 2,19,22 Professor
Research: Adaptive neural nets; cognitive memory; human-like memory for computers; pattern recognition; adaptive digital filters and noise canceling systems; random and deterministic adaptive algorithms and their speed of convergence; adaptive controls and adaptive signal processing; neural controls.
Wong, H.-S. Philip Areas: 4,11,13,20,24,26 Professor
Research: Nanoscale science and technology, semiconductor technology, solid state devices, and electronic imaging. Exploration of new materials, novel fabrication techniques, and novel device concepts for future nanoelectronics systems. Explorations into circuits and systems that are device-driven.
Wong, Simon Areas: 12,15,24 Professor
Research: Development of advanced technologies and novel device structures for silicon integrated circuits. Fabrication of integrated circuits and systems with performance governed by technology.
Wooley, Bruce Areas: 4,5,19,24 Robert L. and Audrey S. Hancock Professor of Engineering, EE Department Chair
Research: Integrated circuit and system design, emphasizing the limitations devices and technology impose on overall system performance. Analog-to-digital conversion and signal processing. High speed memory design and packaging. Circuits for broadband communications.
Yamamoto, Yoshihisa Areas: 6,14,17,20 Professor (Jointly with AP)
Research: Quantum optics and measurements; mesoscopic physics and nanostructures; single photonics and single electronics.
Zebker, Howard Areas: 1,11,19,21 Associate Professor (Joint with Geophysics)
Research: Remote sensing systems, esp. radar; Signal processing; Geophysical applications; Earth crustal deformation; Environmental change; EM scattering

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