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F O C U S O N T E C H N O L O G YElectrical Engineering

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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY MAIN

BOX 875706TEMPE, AZ 85287-5706PHONE: (480) 965-3424E-MAIL: [email protected]

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

INDUSTRY ADVISORY COUNCIL

Rick AndersonManagerTektronix

Ben AdamoCEOPhoenix Analog

Bernadette BuddingtonManagerRadar Engr./Site OperationsLockheed Martin

Jeff CaponeCEO and VP of EngineeringAligo, Inc.

Jack DavisPresidentAPS

Neil E. HejnyEngineering ManagerRaytheon

Joseph W. JacksonDirector, Retrofit SystemsEngineering Honeywell

Mike JohnsonVice PresidentAdvanced Micro Devices

David LeeperSenior Principal EngineerIntel

Eric C. MaasDirector, Technology Strategy& Strategic AlliancesMotorola

Phillip McClayPrincipal Analog Engineer Primarion

Wally MeinellGroup ManagerTexas Instruments

Robert MelcherCEOThree-Five Systems

Kevin StoddardControl Systems DivisionManagerBrooks-PRI

Bill TwardyManager, Research for SRPSRP

Sam WernerIBM

John WoodHardware Design EngineerAgilent Technologies

Peter ZdebelCTOON Semiconducters

Thomas ZipperianManager, AdvancedCompound SemiconductorTechnologySandia National Laboratories

CURRENT MEMBERS:

EE Department takes its master’s program to a new level –distance learning online

The ASU Electrical Engineering Department renowned faculty is teaching at a place ithas never gone before – the World Wide Web.

This year, the EE Department is offering online classes for the Master of Science inEngineering in electrical engineering with no residency requirements. The online cours-es and M.S.E. program allow alumni and professionals to access ASU from anywhere inthe world through flexible delivery.

While teaching through distance learning is nothing new to the EE Department, it is thefirst opportunity to pursue the M.S.E. in electrical engineering entirely via the Internet.The classes are modeled after those taught in person at ASU and have been trans-formed to allow students to access them from the workplace, home or during travel.

“I really enjoy having the freedom of taking classes at my own pace. Offering onlinecourses at ASU allows me to balance my work, home, and school life,” said Tony Yu,an engineer at Medtronic. “In addition to the flexibility of taking courses online, youget an entire staff of dedicated support from the ASU Engineering Online Team whomhave been committed in seeing me (and ultimately their programs) through to success.”

The material in the online courses is the same as the regular courses taught during theschool year. Students taking the online classes have access to the same lecturesthrough streamed media, the samebooks, and even the same interactionwith other students and faculty throughinteractive portals in the ASU coursemanagement system.

This year, the EE Departmentenrolled more than 100 students inonline courses and programs. TheASU Ira A. Fulton School ofEngineering now offers over 10 gradu-ate programs and areas of studyonline focused for the engineering professional. For additional information, visitwww.asuengineeringonline.comor call (480) 965-1740.

Online Education

ContentsLETTER FROM THE CHAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 3

YEAR IN REVIEWFaculty Honors, Awards, and News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 7

Thomas DeMassa memorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Stephen Goodnick named IEEE fellow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Cynthia O’Neil wins Outstanding Supervisor of the Year Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Sethuraman Panchanathan makes computer science program visually accessible . 5Michael Kozicki’s corporation listed as one of “Silicon Strategies'

60 Emerging Start-ups” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Andreas Spanias appointed IEEE Distinguished Lecturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6EE Department welcomes new faculty members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Graduate Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 - 11Jennifer Nisha Desai and Visar Berisha win National Science Foundation

graduate fellowships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Deana Delp receives honorable mention at AEC/APC Symposium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Jennifer Nisha Desai named ARCS scholar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82003/2004 Doctoral Graduates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Prem Kuchi and Raghuram Hiremagalur win Entrepreneurship 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . 10John Spann selected as AFRL space scholar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10UGS awards: Visar Berisha, Aaron Fullerton, Joseph Ervin, Jonathan Stahlhut . . . 10Christel Amburgey receives EE Distinguished Senior Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Elias Kyriakides wins Palais Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

RESEARCH CENTERSConnection One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Center for Low Power Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Center for Solid State Electronics Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Power Systems Research Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

FEATURE STORYFlexible Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-19

FACULTY LISTINGS AND SIDEBAR STORIESFaculty Bios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 - 35Enrollment Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Affiliate Professors Add Breadth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22ASU Electrical Engineering rated one of nation's top departments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Alumni News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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Department ofElectricalEngineering

ANNUAL REPORT 2003

It is a pleasure for me to report on theaccomplishments of the Department ofElectrical Engineering this past academicyear, within the newly named Ira A.Fulton School of Engineering at ArizonaState University. The generous $50million endowment provided by localhome builder Ira A. Fulton is alreadybenefiting engineering students in theschool through graduate andundergraduate stipends, laboratorysupport, and hiring of outstanding facultythrough endowed chairs.

One of the most important milestones forus this year was our first successfulABET accreditation visit under the newEC2000 criteria in Fall 2003. Thedepartment has been preparing for thisvisit since 1997, following our last ABETaccreditation under the old criteria. Agreat deal of effort has been directedtoward building constituent groups ofstudents, industry and faculty, and inestablishing assessment strategies,including an assessment Web site whichhas proved invaluable in documentingcontinuous change and its impact on theundergraduate program. We were verypleased to have received fullaccreditation with no weaknesses ordeficiencies identified. We now have asix-year window in which to look towardnew changes and innovation in theundergraduate program in response tothe changing needs of the global high-tech economy.

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Dr. Stephen Goodnick

“ “One of the most importantmilestones for us this year was ourfirst successful ABET accreditationvisit under the new EC2000criteria in Fall 2003.

Our graduate program has beenundergoing a rapid change due to theconvergence of several factors. We aredevoting more resources towardincreasing and enhancing our Ph.D.program, as part of our effort to raise theresearch profile of the department.Ph.D. enrollment has grown fromapproximately 150 to more than 200students in the past two years, due inlarge part to the increased level offunded research in the department. Atthe same time, a conscious effort hasbeen made to increase the selectivity ofthe master’s program and decrease thenumbers of students in the on-campusprogram. This decision, coupled with thegreatly increased visa restrictions forforeign nationals over the past two years,have resulted in a net decline of master’sdegree students for the first time lastyear. In its place, increased effort iscurrently being directed at increasingenrollment in online distance educationprograms through the recent introductionof the ASU M.Eng. online program.

The research productivity of thedepartment has continued to grow, withresearch expenditures in excess of $9million, and a large increase in newawards. In particular, several EE facultymembers helped lead the successfulawarding of the Army Flexible DisplayCenter at ASU, which is the feature storyof this year’s annual report. This $43.7million center is the largest federal awardin ASU’s history, and was stronglyleveraged through ASU’s purchase of aformer facility used for flat panel displayR&D, containing 43,500 square feet ofclean-room space within a 250,000-square-foot facility. The new center will

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We are looking forward to continuedgrowth and improved quality of oureducational programs, and hope that youenjoy the snapshot provided of thedepartment in this year’s annual report.

Sincerely,

Stephen M. GoodnickChair, Electrical Engineering


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DeMassa will be greatly missed by EE Department

Year in Review

Goodnick named IEEE fellow

Stephen Goodnick, professor and department chair, was named a 2004 IEEE fellowfor his contributions to carrier transport fundamentals and semiconductor devices.

Goodnick is the fifth ASU professor to become an IEEE fellow in the last four years.He joins 2003 fellow Andreas Spanias, 2002 fellow Sayfe Kiaei and 2001 fellowsSamir El-Ghazaly and Sethuraman Panchanathan.

Dr. Thomas A. DeMassa,emeritus faculty in electricalengineering, passed away Nov.14, 2003. DeMassa began hiscareer in the electricalengineering department in 1966and retired in 1999, after workingat ASU for 33 years. He will begreatly missed by the EEDepartment.

A well-respected instructor inelectrical engineering, DeMassawas widely known for hisresearch in digital circuits and

systems, and published severalpapers and textbooks about hiswork. His honors included theSchool of EngineeringUndergraduate TeachingExcellence Award, four NTUOutstanding Teacher Awards,the Detroit Alumni Scholarship,and the National Defense ActGraduate Fellowship.

In addition to electricalengineering, DeMassa also hadanother passion: football. He

lettered in football at theUniversity of Michigan where hereceived two masters’ degreesand a doctorate. He was an avidfan of the Sun Devils footballteam, as well as the local highschool teams, such as DobsonHigh School in Mesa where hisson is head coach. His wife,Joann, worked as a secretaryfor ASU football for 25 years.

The lasting impact DeMassamade on the department will notbe forgotten.

“Tom was a wonderfulcolleague and friend. Hisdedication to excellence inteaching was an inspiration tostudents and professors alike,”said Dr. Joseph Palais, a long-time colleague.

A scholarship fund has beencreated in his memory.Contributions may be sent tothe Business Manager for theDeMassa Memorial, ArizonaState University, Departmentof Electrical Engineering, P.O.Box 875706, Tempe, AZ 85287-5706.

Tom was a wonderful colleague

and friend. Hisdedication toexcellence in

teaching was aninspiration tostudents and

professors alike.

FACULTY HONORS, AWARDS, & NEWS

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O’Neil winsOutstandingSupervisor Award

Cynthia O’Neil, business operationsmanager forthe electricalengineeringdepartment,was one of thewinnersselected byASU’sClassified StaffCouncil (CSC)for the 2003Outstanding Supervisor Award.

The mission of CSC’s award is torecognize managers who have apositive approach with their leadership.O’Neil, who was nominated by one ofher employees, has exactly that.

“As a supervisor of many women ofvarious ages, Cynthia has kept thelines of communication within thedepartment open by relating to eachwoman’s individual circumstances,”EE staff member Kathleen Shumakerwrote in her nomination. “Sheunderstands that life doesn’t end hereand she relates to other peoples’various situations with the samereasoning. She uses the sameconcept on all of us. She sees ourhumanity, not just our job titles.”

Panchanathan receivesAcademic Collaboration Award

ProfessorSethuramanPanchanathanreceived theAcademicCollaborationAward from theASU DisabilityResources forStudents (DRS)for his work withiCARE(informationTechnologyCentric Assistive& Rehabilitative Environment), a program that helpsstudents, who are blind, deaf-blind and visually-impaired, conduct everyday activities such as reading,surfing the Web and recognizing the world aroundthem.

The program’s overall goal is “to enrich the lives ofindividuals who are blind including opening upeducational opportunities,” Panchanathan said.

iCARE is led by Panchanathan and other faculty atArizona State University. The program uses a blend oftechnology, low-tech concepts and support to makegetting a degree in computer science and engineeringmore accessible, and is also designed to create apaperless interactive classroom environment.

Panchanathan said he was pleasantly surprisedwhen he learned of this year’s award and thankful forthe support of the ASU community for recognizing thehard work of the iCARE team.

For more information about iCARE, visit the Centerfor Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) athttp://cubic.asu.edu.

She sees ourhumanity, not just

our job titles.

Kozicki’s company named one of the top 60 start-ups

A spin-off from Arizona State University research has

made its mark on the industry. Professor Michael

Kozicki has managed to make his company – Axon

Technologies Corporation – a major success,

according to Silicon Strategies’ Web site.

“To be included is excellent,” Kozicki said. “We are veryexcited about it.”

The publication rated his company as one of the top 60 start-ups in the nation. This honor is based on a company’s financialposition, investors, markets and technology. The start-upslisted are involved in IC, MEMS, fab equipment, packaging and foundry sectors.

“We have technology that promises to make a huge difference to the industry inmany senses,” Kozicki said. “We think we can make a big impact.”

Axon Technologies Corporation is an intellectual property licensing company whichwas spun out of ASU in 1996. It has leveraged its core competence in materialsscience to create a broad IP portfolio around Programmable Metallization Cell (PMC)technology. Based on novel ion conducting materials, PMC has applications in fieldsranging from low power non-volatile memory and switches to microelectromechanicalsystems (MEMS) and microfluidic devices.

Spanias appointed IEEE distinguished lecturer

Professor Andreas Spanias was appointed by the IEEE Signal ProcessingSociety as a distinguished lecturer for 2004.

The IEEE program is one of the premier outreach programs in electrical andcomputer engineering and its board of governors appoints up to sixdistinguished lecturers annually. These lecturers give open seminars to IEEEchapters, IEEE conferences, universities and selected technical eventsworldwide.

Spanias will give seminars in speech and audio coding, adaptive algorithmsfor array microphones and smart antennas and autoregressive modeling ofDNA sequences. Spanias also was named an IEEE fellow last year.


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Year in Review

Electromagnetics and Microwave Circuits

Abbas Abbaspour-Tamijani, assistant professor,Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Dr. Abbaspour-Tamijani received a Ph.D. in electricalengineering in 2003 from the University of Michigan, AnnArbor, and a M.S. in electrical engineering in 1997 fromthe University of Tehran. His publications include fourjournal papers, 11 conference papers and five technicalreports. Prior to ASU, Dr. Abbaspour-Tamijani was agraduate research assistant at the University of MichiganRadiation Lab and also worked at the UCLA Antenna Labas a visiting student researcher. His research interestsinclude microwave electronics.

Electronic and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design

Bertan Bakkaloglu, associate professor, Ph.D.,Oregon State University

Dr. Bakkaloglu received a Ph.D. in electrical andcomputer engineering in 1995 from Oregon StateUniversity, and a M.S.C. in 1992 from the University ofHouston, Texas. He has three patents and haspublished 16 papers. Prior to ASU, Dr. Bakkaloglu waswith Texas Instruments’ Broadband Silicon TechnologyCenter where he was in charge of IC development andtechnical leadership for IC development for wirelinecommunication transceivers. He also worked on mixedsignal / RF and power management ICs for wirelesshandsets as a designer and technical lead. His researchinterests include RF and analog mixed-signal IC design.

Lawrence T. Clark, associate professor, Ph.D.,Arizona State University

Dr. Clark received a Ph.D. in 1992 and a M.S. in1987 in electrical engineering from Arizona StateUniversity, and was an adjunct professor at ASU aswell. Prior to ASU, Dr. Clark was an associateprofessor at the University of New Mexico, supervisingand performing research in low power and highperformance VLSI design. Dr. Clark has 40 patentsand 20 pending patents, and has published 21 papers.He also has several years of industry experience,recently working as a principal engineer at Intel wherehe managed circuit design for 1.5GHz XScalemicroprocessor design on 90nm technology and led25 circuit designers. His research interests include lowpower and high performance VLSI circuit design.

Solid-State Electronics

Hugh J. Barnaby, assistant professor, Ph.D.,Vanderbilt University

Dr. Barnaby received a Ph.D. in 2001 and M.S.E. in1999 both in electrical engineering from VanderbiltUniversity in Nashville, Tenn. He has been an activeresearcher in the radiation effects field for almost 12years, presenting and publishing more than 40 papersduring this time. He recently was an assistant professorat the University of Arizona, focusing on research inmicroelectronics processing and fabrication,semiconductor devices, analog and mixed signal designand test, reliability and radiation effects and bioelectronicsensors and actuators. Dr. Barnaby also worked as astaff scientist for the microelectronics division at MissionRanch Corporation in Albuquerque, N.M. His researchinterests include semiconductors in hostile environmentsand radiation environments.

Arts, Media and Engineering

Professor Gang Qian, assistant professor,Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park

Dr. Qian received the B.E. degree in electricalengineering from the University of Science andTechnology of China (USTC) in 1995, and the M. S. andPh. D. degrees in electrical engineering from theUniversity of Maryland at College Park in 1999 and2002, respectively. He was a faculty research assistantin 2001 and a research associate in 2002 for the Centerfor Automation Research at the University of MarylandInstitute for Advance Computer Studies. His researchinterests include human motion analysis, signal andimage processing, computer vision, statistical learningand inference for computer vision, and image analysis.

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The Department of Electrical Engineering welcomes fivenew members to its faculty

FACULTY HONORS, AWARDS, & NEWS


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Delp receives honorablemention at AEC/APCsymposium

Deana Delp received honorable mention atthe 2003 Advanced EquipmentControl/Advanced Process Control(AEC/APC) Symposium for her work on thepaper, “Availability Adjustments on DominantX-Factor Contribution Machines for ImprovingPerformance.”

Co-authors of the paper are Dr. Jenni Sifrom the Department of Electrical Engineeringand Drs. Yuh-Chang Hwang and Buck Peifrom ASU’s College of Business.

The AEC/APC Symposium annuallyconducts a student competition for papers,and several semiconductor industryparticipants support the contest. Winnersreceive an all-expense paid trip to thesymposium to present their papers.

Delp is currently a faculty research/teachingassociate at Arizona State University. Shegraduated with her doctorate in electricalengineering from ASU in December 2003 andwas advised by Dr. Si.

Desai and Berisha winNational ScienceFoundation graduatefellowships

Electrical engineering students VisarBerisha and Jennifer Nisha Desaireceived the Graduate ResearchFellowship (GRF) award from theNational Science Foundation (NSF). TheNSF honors approximately 900 graduatestudents annually nationwide in science,mathematics and engineering.

Desai received her fellowship to pursueresearch in wireless communications witha focus on power management forwireless handsets. Berisha’s research willfocus on speech and audio coding,specifically researching methods ofobtaining higher audio fidelity throughcoders traditionally meant for speech.

The fellowship has a maximum tenureof three years and a stipend of $30,000per year, and travel allowances areavailable. NSF fellows also have theopportunity to apply for start-up grants touse supercomputers at the foundation’sPartnership for Advanced ComputationalInfrastructure (PACI) facilities. They alsocan participate in the foundation’sprestigious Preparing Future Faculty andPreparing Future Professionalsprograms.

Year in ReviewDesai named ARCS scholar

Doctoral student Jennifer Nisha Desai wasnamed a 2004 ARCS scholar by the Phoenixchapter of the Achievement Rewards for CollegeScientists Foundation, which awards $6,000scholarships to assist graduate research in thesciences. Jason Ayubi-Moak was an ARCSscholar in 2003.

Summer 2003

Yasser A. Hussein, “Electromagnetic Physical Modeling ofMicrowave Devices and Circuits,”S. El-Ghazaly, S. Goodnick, co-chairs.

Qi Huang, “Study on the Dynamics of Dry-Band Arcing onthe Surface of ADSS Fiber-Optic Cable,” G. Karady, chair.

AKM Ariful Ahsan, “Characterization of Low-FrequencyNoise in Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field EffectTransistors,” D. Schroder, chair.

Yi-Lung Yi, “Control Saturation Prevention for LinearParameter Varying (LPV) Systems,”A. Rodriguez, chair.

Fall 2003

Chunyu Bi, “Coding and Modulation for Ultra-WidebandRadio Systems and Capacity of Fixed Length MIMOSystems,” J. Hui, chair.

Zhilin Huang, “Latching Micro-Magnetic Mirror Switch,” J.Shen, chair.

Deana R. Delp, “The Study of Machine CapacityConstraints and the Impact on System Performance UsingX-Factor Theory,” J. Si, chair.

Muhammad Waliullah, “Time Domain Analysis of Circuit-and Physics-Based Distributed Model for High-FrequencyFETs,” S. Goodnick, S. El-Ghazaly, co-chairs.

Mansour Ahmed Mohamed, “Combinatorial Strategies toReduce Wide Area Power System Vulnerability,” G. Karady,chair.

Elias Kyriakides, “Innovative Concepts for On-lineSynchronous Generator Parameter Estimation,” G. Heydt,chair.

Zhen Liu, “Context-based and perceptual-based waveletimage compression with application to JPEG2000,” L.Karam, chair.

Stephen M. Ramey, “The Effective Potential in Simulationof SOI MOSFETS,” D. Ferry, chair.

Chetan Prasad, “Energy Relaxation in Two- and one-Dimensional Indium Gallium Arsenide Quantum WellStructures,” D. Ferry, chair.

Fazla Rabbi M.B. Hossain, “Characteristics of N-TypeSilicon Schottky Contacts,”D. Schroder, chair.

Dean Adam Badillo, “Low Power, Low Phase NoiseCMOS Ring Oscillators,” S. Kiaei, chair.

Eric Langlois, “Callable Magnetically Actuated LatchingMicro-Relays,” J. Shen, chair.

Spring 2004

Hao Shen, “Time-Varying Signal Processing Techniques forMultiple Access Wireless Communication Systems, “ A.Papandreou-Suppappola, chair.

Hongxia Wu, “Robust Control Design Considering TimeDelay for Wide Area Power Systems,”G. Heydt, chair.

Jun Gu, “Real-Time Transient Stability Analysis by AnalogVLSI and Transient Stability Enhancement,” G. Karady,chair.

Jeonghoon Kim, “Analysis Techniques and Modeling forNoise and Distortion of CMOS Down-Conversion Mixers,”E. Greeneich, chair.

Siddharth Suryanarayanan, “Accommodation of LoopFlows in Competitive Electric Power Systems,” G. Heydt,chair.

Siamak Abedinpour, “Distributed Monolithic PowerManagement for a System-on-a-Chip (SOC),”S. Kiaei, chair.

Zheng Zhang, “Capacity and Coding for MagneticRecording and Wireless Channels,”T. Duman, chair.

Sangwook Kim, “Design of the Third Order CascadedSigma-Delta Modulator for Switched-CapacitorApplications,” E. Greeneich, chair.

Yazhou Liu, “The Generation and Analysis of Non-Standard Frequency Components and Even Harmonics inAC Distribution Systems,” G. Heydt, chair.

GRADUATE AWARDS

2003/2004 Doctoral Graduates

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Graduate students Prem Kuchi and RaghuramHiremagalur win Fulton School’s Entrepreneurship 2004

Prem Kuchi and Raghuram Hiremagalur won the annual Fulton School of Engineering’sEntrepreneurship 2004 competition for their business endeavor, MotionEase, a computer visionsystem that has affordable and timely motion capture.

Entrepreneurship 2004 is a competition in which students plan a start-up company and submit abusiness proposal to a panel of judges. After reviewing the proposals, judges then select thefinalists, who present their business plan as part of the second round. Twenty-two student groupssubmitted proposals for the 2004 competition.

As winners, MotionEase will receive funding to begin the initial start up of their company. The judgesalso awarded an additional seed investment to Custom Microfluidics, proposed by bioengineeringassociate research scientist Anil Vuppu and bioengineering graduate student Tilak Jain.

Gifts to the Entrepreneurship 2004 competition included a $100,000 gift from the Intel Foundationand $50,000 of services donated from Greenberg Traurig, Steptoe and Johnson, ASU Technopolis,The Business Leadership Development (BLD) Corporation, Managed Change Associates, Pearson& Associates, HC Matrix, Six-9s Associates, and the Enterprise Network.

Year in Review

AFRL Space Scholar

Electrical engineering graduate studentJohn Spann has been selected by the AirForce Research Laboratory (AFRL) toparticipate in the Space Scholar Program.

The elite program, headquartered at KirtlandAir Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M., featurestop undergraduate juniors and seniors andgraduate students in science and engineering.Last year, it mentored 29 students from 25different colleges and the Air Force Academy.

Spann will work this summer at the KirtlandAir Force Base in low-power transistortechnology, bringing to the program theresearch knowledge and skills he gainedthrough working for the Center for Solid StateElectronics Research at ASU.

University GraduateScholarships Awarded

Visar Berisha, Aaron Fullerton, JosephErvin and Jonathan Stahlhut each won athree-year merit package through theUniversity Graduate Scholars Program. Thescholarship provides a stipend enhancementof $3,250 and a tuition waiver each year, inaddition to the research or teachingassistantship provided by the department.Win Ly continues his UGS graduateassistantship awarded in 2001-2002; JoshuaHihath and Enrique Ledezma continue theirassistantships awarded in 2002-2003.

STUDENT AWARDS

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EE Distinguished SeniorAward

This year’s electrical engineering DistinguishedSenior Award recipient is Christel Amburgey.Amburgey, a National Merit Scholar whograduated December 2003, was recognized bythe department for maintaining a 3.9 GPA, whileworking with various ASU and communityorganizations, including serving as an officer forIEEE.

The department presents this award to themost outstanding EE senior. Candidates mustparticipate in school activities andorganizations, provide service to the Ira A.Fulton School of Engineering and demonstratescholastic ability.

“I feel extremely honored,” she said. “Therewere a lot of other deserving students in mygraduating class and I consider myself lucky toreceive this honor.”

Amburgey graduated with Summa Cum Laudehonors and is also a Barrett Honors Collegegraduate. Her research interests includecomputational electromagnetism and material-wave interaction as well as electro-magneticsensing in living organisms and the interactionbetween living organisms and electro-magneticwaves.

In her undergraduate program, she workedwith a variety of research projects, including aproject that simulated a power regulator tocontrol the flow of power in transmission lines; aproject to reduce the size of an integrated circuitfor scuba diving communication; and projects inthe Laboratory for Multi-Disciplinary Analysisand Design of Material Wave Interactions.

She is currently enrolled in the master’sprogram in electrical engineering at ASU andworks for Dr. Rudy Diaz in the ASU Material-Wave Interaction Lab. In the future, Amburgeyhopes to work in both the industry and academia.

Palais Award

Elias Kyriakides received the PalaisOutstanding Doctoral Student Award for 2003-2004. He was advised by Professor GeraldHeydt, and is currently working with Dr. Heydton parameter identification of synchronousgenerators as a faculty research associate.

Joseph Palais, professor and associate chairof graduate studies, and his wife Sandraestablished the Outstanding Doctoral StudentAward. The award is presented annually to agraduating doctoral student with a minimum3.75 GPA and at least one journal or conferencepublication. The recipient receives $500 and acommemorative plaque.

Kyriakides will not only leave ASU with thisaward, but also with the invaluable experiencehe has gained through the EE department,including the team spirit and close collaborationbetween department researchers.

“I have collaborated with faculty and studentsin the area of electric power engineering and inelectrical engineering in general. The dedicationof the people in EE to research andprofessional advancement is phenomenal,” hesaid. “Of course, I need to mention that myclose collaboration with my advisor Dr. Gerald T.Heydt and the overall research experience withhim will definitely prove to be beneficial to myprofessional life.”

Kyriakides’ research interests includeparameter identification of synchronousgenerators, power system stability, stateestimation, energy generation from renewableresources, distributed generation, and computerapplications in power engineering. His goal is topursue a career in academia and develop asuccessful independent research program inelectrical engineering with a concentration inpower systems.

IRA A. FULTON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

CONNECTION ONE:TELECOMMUNICATIONS CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH CENTER

DIRECTOR, SAYFE KIAEI


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Connection One is a National Science FoundationIndustry/University Cooperative Research Center(I/UCRC) focused on communication circuits andsystems. The center is a multi-university center,including University of Arizona and University of Hawaii.The center researches all aspects of educational andresearch programs entailing wireless and wirelinecommunications, radio frequency, integrated circuitdesign, and mixed-signal analog/digital integratedcircuits for communications and related areas.

Connection One’s name reflects its vision, which is tosimplify and enable small, portable, all-in-onecommunication devices. The center pursues researchprojects that enable integration of many communicationdevices into one small package by combininginnovative systems and integrated-circuitry techniques.This exclusive industry/university partnershipencompasses an educational program, state-of-the-artresearch initiatives, and development of new devicesthat will handle multiple communication protocols onone small system using new transceiver System-on-a-Chip technology.

Connection One’s mission contains both an educationaland a research component. With the support ofindustry, this center has established a state-of-the-arteducational program in telecommunication mixed-signalintegrated circuit design. Because the center is acooperative research program where each project issponsored and supported by an industrial member,there is a one-to-one link between the faculty, thestudents, and the industrial member. The centersponsors a fellowship program to allow students toperform research at ASU for nine months followed byan internship program for three to six months at anindustrial site to facilitate technology transfer and toallow students to gain practical experience.

Connection One is currently involved with a number ofresearch projects:■ 1.2V, 10-Bit Cyclic A/D Converter Incorporating an Active

Feedback Frequency Compensation Op-Amp in 0.18 mmCMOS

■ Optical Switching of RF Channel Data

■ Low-Temperature/High-Energy Density/Micro-Fluidic FuelCell System for Portable Communication Applications

■ Determination of Cost Saving and Improved Reliability inScaled Circuits and Devices

■ Optimization of SiGe HBT Designs for High-Speed RFApplications

■ RF Front End Architectures for Software Defined Radios■ Switchable Dual Band Quadrature Voltage Controlled

Oscillator■ Task Scheduling for Battery Powered Systems■ PAR Reduction for Single and Multi-Antenna OF DM Systems■ On-Chip Active Antennas for UWB■ Use of Novel Materials and Integration Methods to Develop

On-Chip Band Reject Filters■ Automatic RF Match Control Circuit for Broadband

Wireless Devices■ The Use of Optical Processing Techniques for the Design

of High-Speed Scalable IP Routers■ Monolithic Power Management for Mixed-Signal Integrated

Circuit■ Hierarchical Design Planning for Simultaneous Physical

and Electronic Convergence■ Statistical Approaches to Signal Integrity & Performance

Analysis in DSM CMOS Circuits■ Development of Behavioral Simulator of Analog-to-Digital

Converters for Communication Applications■ Optical Switching of RF Channel Data■ Hierarchical Design Planning for Simultaneous Physical

and Electronic Convergence■ Statistical Approaches to Signal Integrity & Performance

Analysis in DSM CMOS Circuits■ Development of Behavioral Simulator of Analog-to-Digital

Converters for Communication Applications

Connection One derives its funding from the NationalScience Foundation, the State of Arizona Proposition 301Research and Development funds and industrial members,including Analog Devices, BAE Systems, Cisco, GeneralDynamics Decision Systems, Intel, Motorola, Raytheon,Silicon Laboratories, SiRF Technologies, Trex Enterprisesand Texas Instruments.

More information about Connection One is available online at:www.connectionone.org.

CENTER MISSIONThe Center for Low Power Electronics

(CLPE), formed under the National

Science Foundation’s State/Industry/

University Cooperative Research

Centers initiative, is a collaborative

effort between Arizona State University

and the University of Arizona to

address fundamental industry-relevant

research in the design of ultra-low

power portable electronic computing

and communication systems. CLPE is

funded by the National Science

Foundation, the state of Arizona, and

industry.

CENTER LOCATIONArizona State University and the

University of Arizona. We can also be

found on the Web by visiting the

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Center Highlights and Major AccomplishmentsThe center is organized into four main areas: materials and devicemodeling, low-power analog circuit design, low-power digital circuitsand systems design, and physical design of low-power circuits andsystems.

The center’s research ranges from semiconductor material and basicdevice issues to device/circuit design and modeling; data-dependentalgorithm design; energy-efficient code generation; memory design;dynamically reconfigurable, mixed-signal, lower-power systems;substrate noise coupling; hot carriers, MOSFET noise; and dynamicpower management techniques. Analog-to-digital converters,incorporating correlated double sampling and swing reduction toimprove performance and reduce power consumption at low-powersupply voltages typical of deep sub-micron CMOS processes, havebeen designed and fabricated. The development of high-leveltransformations includes those at the algorithm level and systemlevel (memory, bus interface, etc.). Three faculty members at ASUand three faculty members from the University of Arizona togetherwith 12 graduate students carry out this research.

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CENTER FOR LOW POWER ELECTRONICSDIRECTOR, DIETER K. SCHRODER


CENTER FOR SOLID STATEELECTRONICS RESEARCHDIRECTOR, TREVOR THORNTON

The center’s mission is to conduct research, to develop technology and to provide educational programs thatwill engender international leadership in solid-state electronics. This mission is accomplished in several ways:■ The provision of critical resources and infrastructure■ The support and education of quality students■ The support of renowned and high-promise research faculty and staff in multidisciplinary environments■ The maintenance of significant levels of research funding from government and industry sources■ The publication and presentation of work in top journals and at leading conferences■ The transfer of technology to the commercial sector

Center highlights and major accomplishments:

The center provides critical resources and infrastructure for research andeducation in interdisciplinary solid-state electronics including 30 laboratoriescovering 30,000 square feet, which are administered and maintained by a staffof 15 people. The center has about 60 participating faculty, 20 post-doctoralresearchers, and over 100 graduate students drawn from various disciplines,including electrical engineering, chemistry, chemical engineering, biology,bioengineering, biochemistry, materials science, mechanical engineering,industrial engineering, and physics. Since its inception in 1981, CSSER haswitnessed phenomenal growth in the functionality and use of integrated circuits,much of it fueled by basic research in solid-state electronics. In addition tosolid-state research, CSSER pursues new hybrid systems that combine thehard, dry world of metals and semiconductors with the soft, wet world of biologyand biochemistry. Current research within CSSER centers on research toanswer basic questions about how electrons travel in ultra-small transistorstructures. At the same time CSSER is developing new microprocessor andmemory chips, advanced lasers for optical communications, ways of processingsemiconductor materials, and hybrid integrated circuits or biochips.

The center’s 4,000 square-foot class M3.5 cleanroom and associated facilitiescontain a wide range of equipment for advanced semiconductor processing andcharacterization, including electron beam lithography, deep-silicon and III-V ICP

etchers, optical direct-wafer writer, molecular beam epitaxy, ultra-low temperature (10 mK) transportmeasurement, RF and ultra-low noise probe stations, photoluminescence, and high-speed optical testing.Our primary research groups include bio- and molecular electronics; low-power electronics; materials andprocess fundamentals; molecular beam epitaxy and optoelectronics; and nanostructures. Beyond theseformal groupings, CSSER supports the research of faculty from the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, theCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the AZ Biodesign Institute in the areas of MEMS andnanofluidics, wide band gap semiconductors, high-k dielectrics, and nanomagnetics. In recent years,CSSER researchers have commercially developed a number of significant technologies, such as RFmagnetic latching switches, programmable metallization cell (PMC) memory devices, resonant cavity lightemitting diodes, and nano-based gas sensors.

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PSERC • THE POWER SYSTEMSRESEARCH CENTERDIRECTOR, GERALD T. HEYDT

PSERC is a National Science FoundationIndustry/University Cooperative Research Center that isaddressing challenges in the new electric power industryas it restructures to a competitive business environment.Finding innovative and efficient solutions to thosechallenges requires an unprecedented level ofexpertise, communication, and cooperation between theuniversity and industry. Through collaboration, PSERCseeks innovative solutions to challenges in creating apower system with decentralized, market-baseddecision-making stimulates productive interchange ofideas among university and industry professionalsleverages research funding from universities andindustrial members facilitates access to highlyexperienced faculty and superior quality studentsprepares current and future professionals for the newpower industry.

PSERC academic researchers at multiple universitiesacross the U.S. specialize in power systems, appliedmathematics, nonlinear systems, power electronics,control theory, computing, operations research,economics, industrial organization, and public policy.They provide research services and products that addvalue to industry and that support efficient and effectiveprovision of electricity services while meetingenvironmental requirements.

PSERC ResearchIndustry restructuring and technology change is creatingnew challenges for the operations, security andreliability of the power system, for the physical andinstitutional structures, and for delivery of economicaland environmentally acceptable electricity services.PSERC’s research program focus is on helping the nextgeneration electric power system evolve into acompetitive, high-performance component of thenation’s infrastructure. Its research program is dividedinto three research stems.

Research Stem 1: MarketsThe electric power industry is in transition toward amarket-oriented structure with decentralized decision-making by a wide-ranging group of market participants.The research under this stem emphasizes the designand analysis of market mechanisms, computationaltools and institutions that facilitate efficient coordination,investment, and operations while recognizing theeconomic and technical characteristics of powersystems.

Research Stem 2: Transmission and DistributionThe power delivery infrastructure is critical to achievingefficiency, safety, security, and reliability in electricitysupply. Improvements in this infrastructure could beachieved through innovations in software, hardware,materials, sensors, communications, and operatingstrategies. Therefore, a central goal of this researchstem is the improvement of transmission and distributionsystems through the application of technologicaladvances.

Research Stem 3: SystemsRestructuring is leading to large and complexoperational entities (such as Independent SystemOperators or Regional Transmission Organizations)while small-scale, dispersed generation technologies areincreasing their penetration in power systems. Thechallenge is to develop new operations frameworks andapproaches that will effectively cope with the growingcomplexity of a restructured industry. Systems researchconcentrates on operation of such complex, dynamicsystems in general and power systems in particular.

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More information on PSERC is available online athttp://www.pserc.wisc.edu/index_about.html

Research is underway forcreating bendable computerdisplays – that could roll up and fitinto your pocket, or wrap aroundyour wrist like a watch – andcould even be thrown away.

This is the overall concept offlexible display technology –something that won ASU its largestfederal award, a $43.7 millionagreement, on Feb. 10, 2004, from

the U.S. Army to design flexiblescreens for troops.

Flexible displaytechnology allows for thefabrication of a low-costplatform that mightsomeday be disposable,said Dr. Frederic Zenhausern,research faculty member of boththe Department of ElectricalEngineering and the Departmentof Chemical and MaterialsEngineering. Researchers areable to design circuitry in a coupleof different ways by integratingthe sensor into the electronics.

ASU researchers plan to designa relatively small, conformalactive matrix emissive andreflective display, he said.

“We have all the technology inplace,” Zenhausern said.

Researchers will also integratethe displays with wireless

communications technology,according to the Flexible DisplayCenter Web site. The technologywill enhance combat strategybecause troops will be connectedto real-time displays that cancontinuously provide them withupdates on anything from enemypositions to weather conditions.

The federal agreement is a five-year award with the possibility ofbeing renewed for an additionalfive years for another $50 million,Zenhausern said.

Zenhausern is one of nineengineering faculty members whowill lead the research effort and iscurrently the director of theApplied Nanobioscience Center.He helped bring this technology toThe Biodesign Institute at ASU.


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Technology is advancing by leaps and bounds.Yesterday’s clunky desktophas transformed into a svelte notebook that can slip into any briefcase.TheInternet is accessible almost anywhere – from your cell phone or personaldigital assistant like a Palm or a BlackBerry. And portable technologydoesn’t stop there. It could soon become a part of your wardrobe.

U.S. Army signs multi-million dollar agreement withASU to develop flexible display research

David Allee, an electrical engineering facultymember who is working with backplaneelectronics at the center, holds a flexibledisplay prototype from FlexICs next to a GEN2 display glass substrate. The prototype issimilar to the one that researchers hope tohave completed next year.

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The Biodesign Institute is amultidisciplinary research andeducational initiative thatintegrates biology andneurobiology research withadvances in computing,optoelectronics, biomimeticmaterials and directed molecularassembly at meso-nanoscale,according to its Web site.

In addition to the FlexibleDisplay Center and AppliedNanobioscience Center, TheBiodesign Institute is alsocomprised of the BioOpticalNanotechnology, EvolutionaryFunctional Genomics, InfectiousDiseases and Vaccinology, NeuralInterface Design, Protein andPeptide Therapeutics,Rehabilitation Neuroscience andRehabilitation Engineering, andSingle Molecule Biophysicsresearch centers.

Zenhausern, who originallyworked for a Tempe-basedresearch company thatspecialized in nanotechnology,microfluidics and life sciences,helped build the research teamthat will lead the initiative. He alsohelped secure state-of-the-art labspace for the initiative at ASU’sResearch Park as well.

“We knew the tools, we knewthe people, and we knew some ofthe technology as well,” he said.

The center’s disciplinedresearch team and itscommitment to customer needsare key factors in the Army’sdecision to establish the FlexibleDisplay Center at ASU, said Dr.George Poste, director of TheBiodesign Institute.

In addition to ASU having a topresearch team on site, the factthat Research Park had ready labspace was another decidingfactor, he said

“I think what the Army saw wasthe fact that we had the facilities,we had the technology and we

had a disciplined team,” Postesaid.

The lab, which was originally afacility used for flat panel displayR&D, is 250,000 square feet with43,500 square feet of advancedclean room space and wet anddry labs.

Research Park is only thebeginning of ASU’s researchfacilities. ASU is also currentlybuilding 1 million square feet ofworld-class research space tohouse additional projects.Arizona’s passage of theResearch Infrastructure Bill inJune 2003 provided ASU with$185 million for its researchfacilities, helping bring topscientists and additional revenueto the area.

Poste said the passage of thisbill was another element of ASU’ssuccess in winning the federalaward.

“Without those facilities you arenot going to attract the bestinvestigators who want top world-class facilities to work in,” he said.

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The Army Flexible Display Center researchteam includes (left to right): EE facultymembers Frederic Zenhausern, DavidAllee, Trevor Thornton, Dieter Schroderand Del E. Webb School of Constructionfaculty member Al Chasey.

The Flexible Display Center willhave a 6-inch TFT pilot line thisyear, a GEN II pilot line in 2006(6-inch transitioning to R&D), afull metrology and test lab, andan electro-optic materials R&Dlab, said center director Dr. GregRaupp. Researchers plan tohave developed small scale (2.5-inch diagonal) test vehicles nextyear and prototypes (4-inchdiagonal) in 2006.

“ASU has taken its seat at thenational table in large-scaleresearch ventures,” Raupp said.“The economic developmentopportunities are multiple andprofound.”

ASU will now have one of thebest thin film fabrication facilitiesin the country, said ShawnO’Rourke, technology leader formanufacturing and integration atthe Flexible Display Center. Betterthan any other university.

“It’s a world-class, second-to-none facility,” he said. “It’s going

to allow a completely new level ofresearch product developmentand education that we haven’thad before.”

The project will also giveresearchers the opportunity toexpand on biotechnologyresearch and bridge the gapbetween that technology andflexible display technology,creating a whole new avenue ofproducts, O’Rourke said.

Flexible display research canmake almost any technologyconform to its owner, he said. Forexample, cell phones could curveto the person’s hand or computermonitors could instead be thin,interactive screens that surround

a desk.“You can bring a certain

architecture and design elementto personal electronics that justisn’t there,” O’Rourke said.

This cutting-edge technology issomething that is completely newto the EE department and ASU.

“[The project] will get ASU andthe EE department into atechnology that we have not beeninvolved in the past,” said Dr.Dieter Schroder, an electricalengineering professor anddirector of the Center for LowPower Electronics at ASU.Schroder specializes insemiconductors and is also partof the research team.

“We have traditionally beeninvolved in conventional semi-conductors,” he said. “And nowthis puts us into the realm oforganic semiconductors which arenew to us.”

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The available state-of-the-art lab space atASU’s Research Park was one of thedeciding factors for the U.S. Army toestablish the flexible display initiative atASU. Research Park – which has over 1.6million square feet in facilities – houses 30businesses and high technology companiesand more than 2,000 employees.

Shawn O’Rourke, technology leader formanufacturing and integration at theFlexible Display Center, unwraps a BalzarsKai 20 plasma enhanced chemical vapordeposition (PECVD) system that will beused for fabrication of amorphous Si layerson plastic.

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mostly been made out of a singlecrystal material, such as silicon,he said. But this new technology,in which circuits are made offlexible materials, like metals orplastics that are bendable, can bemade in several ways.

“This technology will obviouslyfilter into many differentcommercial applications,”Schroder said.

The success of this researchcould evolve into a completelynew era of technology.

“If we are successful in makingthe translation to flexibleelectronics, then this really doesconstitute the next wave ofelectronics in everything,” Postesaid. “From consumers, toindustrial processes, to militaryand national security operations,because basically you arecreating electronics that can fitinto any space [and] be flexibleand durable.

“It’s literally limited only by theimagination of the experimenter,”he added.

More than 16 companies andseveral universities, in addition to

the military, are involved in thecenter’s research.

"The center is not really aresearch center," said Dr. DavidAllee, electrical engineeringfaculty member who is workingwith backplane electronics in theinitiative. "It's a collaborativeprototype line for flexibledisplays."

Participating universities includePenn State, University ofSouthern California, University ofArizona and Cornell. Businesspartners also include DuPontDisplays, Kodak, Honeywell,General Dynamics, Raytheon,Universal Display Corporation,Kent Displays, E Ink, FlexICs,Three-Five Systems, GeneralAtomics, Optiva, ECD, Southwall,the U.S. Display Consortium, andAGI. More prospective partnersare currently in negotiations withthe center.

For additional informationabout the Flexible DisplayCenter and The BiodesignInstitute at ASU, visitwww.biodesign.org.

Army FlexibleDisplay InitiativeCenter Faculty

The Flexible Display Centercombines research forcesacross ASU’s Ira A. FultonSchool of Engineering.Faculty members include:

Greg Raupp – center director,professor of chemicalengineering

Terry Alford – chemical andmaterials engineering,electrical engineering

David Allee – electricalengineering

Al Chasey – Del E. WebbSchool of Construction

Ghassan Jabbour – chemicaland materials engineering

James Mayer – chemical andmaterials engineering

Dieter Schroder – electricalengineering

Trevor Thornton – electricalengineering

Frederic Zenhausern –electrical engineering,chemical and materialsengineering

The lab at ASU’s Research Park, whichwas originally a facility used for flat panel display R&D, is 250,000 square feetwith 43,500 square feet of advanced cleanroom space and wet and dry labs.


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Rajapandian AyyanarOffice: ERC 587E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 480-727-7307Ph.D.: University of Minnesota, 2000

Rajapandian Ayyanar joined the ASU facultyas an assistant professor in August 2000. Hereceived the B.E. in electrical engineeringfrom P.S.G. College of Technology, India, in1989; the M.S. in power electronics from theIndian Institute of Science in 1995; and thePh.D. in power electronics from theUniversity of Minnesota in 2000. He haspublished 20 journal and conference papers,is a member of IEEE, and is the co-author ofone patent.

Research Interests: Topologies and newcontrol techniques for switch-mode powerconversion, especially DC-DC converters,digital PWM techniques for motor drives,power systems applications of powerelectronics.

Selected Publications:R. Ayyanar and N. Mohan, “Zero VoltageSwitching DC-DC Converter,” U.S. patent6,310,785.

H. Krishnamurthy, G. Narayanan, R. Ayyanar,and V.T. Ranganathan, “Design of SpaceVector-Based Hybrid PWM Techniques forReduced Current Ripple,” IEEE AppliedPower Electronics Conference (APEC) 2003,Vol. 1, 583-588.

R. Giri, R. Ayyanar, and N. Mohan, “CommonDuty Ratio Control of Input Series ConnectedModular DC-DC Converters with Active InputVoltage and Load Current Sharing,” IEEEApplied Power Electronics Conference(APEC) 2003, Vol. 1, 322-326.

J. Kyei, R. Ayyanar, G. Heydt, R. Thallam,and J. Blevins, “The Design of PowerAcceptability Curves,” IEEE Transactions onPower Delivery, Vol. 17, No. 3, 828-833 July2002.

R. Ayyanar and N. Mohan, “Novel Soft-Switching DC-DC Converter with Full ZVS-Range and Reduced Filter Requirement—Part 1: Regulated Output Applications,” IEEETrans. Power Electronics, Vol.16, 184-192,Mar. 2001.

R. Ayyanar and A. K. Jain, “Unity PowerFactor Rectification,” in CRC Handbook ofPower Electronics, Nov. 2001.

David AlleeOffice: ERC 153E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-6470Ph.D.: Stanford University, 1990

David Allee conducts research in ultra-smalldevice fabrication and in low-voltage, low-power analog CMOS circuit design foranalog-to-digital conversion and telemetry.The targeted applications are medicalelectronics and portable communicationproducts where it is often desirable to placethe entire mixed-signal system on a singlechip. Current projects include cyclic,pipelined, and delta-sigma converters, alongwith low-power, low-noise, voltage-controlledoscillators using chip transformers. He is afounding member of the Center for LowPower Electronics (funded by the NSF,industry, and the state of Arizona), theWhitaker Center for NeuromechanicalControl, and is the manager of the FocusedIon Beam User Facility. He has publishedover 35 refereed journal articles andpublications at technical conferences andhas conducted three invited talks atinternational conferences.

Research Interests: Ultra-small devicefabrication, mixed-signal circuit design foranalog-to-digital conversion and telemetry.

Honors and Distinctions: Young FacultyTeaching Excellence Award, 1994-1995; twopatent applications filed; AEA FacultyDevelopment Fellowship, Stanford University,1984-1989; Voorheis Honor Scholarship,University of Cincinnati, 1979-1984.

Selected Publications: M. Hasan, H. H. Shen, D. R. Allee, and M.Pennell, “A Behavioral Model of a 1.8V, FlashA/D Converter Based on DeviceParameters,” IEEE Transactions onComputer-Aided Design, Vol. 19, No. 1, 69-82, Jan. 2000.

W. Xie, X. Dai, L. S. Xu, D. R. Allee, and J.Spector, “Fabrication of Cr Nanostructureswith the Scanning Tunneling Microscope,”Nanotechnology, Vol. 8, No. 2, 88-93, June1997.

C. B. Wheeler, D. L. Mathine, S. R. Johnson,G. N. Maracas, and D. R. Allee, “SelectivelyOxidized GaAs MESFETs Transferred to a SiSubstrate,” IEEE Electron Device Letters,Vol. 18, No. 4, 138, Apr, 1997.

C. Wheeler, S. Daryanani, D. L. Mathine, G.N. Maracas, and D. R. Allee, “MonolithicIntegration of a GaAs MESFET with aResonant Cavity LED using a Buried OxideLayer,” Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 9,No. 2, 194, 1997.

James T. AberleOffice: GWC 426E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-8588Ph.D.: University of Massachusetts,

Amherst, 1989

James T. Aberle received the B.S. and M.S.degrees in electrical engineering fromPolytechnic Institute of New York (nowPolytechnic University) in 1982 and 1985,respectively, and the Ph.D. degree inelectrical engineering from the University ofMassachusetts in 1989. From 1982 to 1985,he was employed by Hazeltine Corporation,Greenlawn, NY, where he worked on thedevelopment of wide-band phased arrayantennas. He was a graduate researchassistant at the University of Massachusettsfrom 1985 to 1989, where he developed andvalidated computer models for printedantennas. He has been a faculty member atArizona State University since 1989, wherehe is currently an associate professor ofelectrical engineering.

Research Interests: Antennas and RFsystems for wireless communications;modeling of complex electromagneticphenomena.

Honors and Distinctions: IEEE SeniorMember; NASA-ASEE Summer FacultyFellow, 1993; Member, Technical AdvisoryBoard, e-tenna Corporation.

Selected Publications:James T. Aberle, Sung-Hoon Oh, David T.Auckland, and Shawn D. Rogers,“Reconfigurable Antennas for PortableWireless Devices,” Antennas andPropagation Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp.148-154, Dec. 2003.

Shawn D. Rogers, James T. Aberle, andDavid T. Auckland, “Two-Port Model of anAntenna for Use in Characterizing WirelessCommunications Systems, Obtained UsingEfficiency Measurements,” Antennas andPropagation Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp.115-118, Jun. 2003.

D.T. Auckland, S.D. Rogers, J.T. Aberle,“Reconfigurable Antennas and RF Front Endsfor Portable Wireless Devices,” Proceedingsof the 2002 Software Defined Radio TechnicalConference, pp. 29-33, Nov. 2002.

R.E. Diaz, J.T. Aberle, W.E. McKinzie,“Analysis of the Surface Wave SuppressionBand of the Sievenpiper High-ImpedanceGround Plane in Terms of its EffectiveMedium Properties,” National Radio ScienceMeeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 2001.

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Constantine A. BalanisOffice: GWC 452E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-3909Ph.D.: Ohio State University, 1969

Constantine Balanis joined the ASU faculty in1983 and is now a Regents’ Professor ofelectrical engineering. He has publishednearly 110 journal papers, 190 conferencepapers, seven book chapters, sevenmagazine/newsletter papers, and numerousscientific reports. He has also published twotextbooks: one on antennas and the other onadvanced engineering electromagnetics.

Research Interests: Computationalelectromagnetic methods (FDTD, FEM,MoM, GO/GTD/UTD, PO/PTD) for antennas,scattering, and high-intensity radiated fields(HIRF); smart/adaptive antennas for wirelesscommunications; electromagnetic wavemultipath propagation.

Honors and Distinctions: Regents’Professor, Honorary Doctorate-University ofThessaloniki (Greece), IEEE Life Fellow,IEEE Third Millennium Medal, ASUOutstanding Graduate Mentor Award, ASUSchool of Engineering Graduate TeachingExcellence Award, ASU College ofEngineering Distinguished AchievementAward, IEEE Region 6 IndividualAchievement Award, IEEE Phoenix SectionSpecial Professionalism Award.

Selected Publications:M. A. Gkatzianas, C. A. Balanis and R. E.Diaz, “The Gilbert-Holland FDTD Thin SlotModel Revisited: An Alternative Expressionfor the In-Cell Capacitance,” IEEE Microwaveand Wireless Components Letters, Vol. 14,No. 4, May 2004.

M. N. Vouvakis, C. A. Balanis, C. R. Birtcherand A. C. Polycarpou, “Multilayer Effects onCavity-Backed Slot Antennas,” IEEE Trans.Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 52, No. 5,May 2004.

J. Foutz, A. Spanias, S. Bellofiore and C. A.Balanis, “Adaptive Eigen-ProjectionBeamforming Algorithms for 1-D and 2-DAntenna Arrays,” IEEE Antennas andWireless Propagation Letters (AWPL), Vol. 2,No. 2, pp. 62-65, 2003.

S.V. Georgakopoulos, C.R. Birtcher, C.A.Balanis, and R.A. Renaut, “HIRF Penetrationand PED Coupling Analysis for ScaledFuselage Models Using a Hybrid SubgridFDTD(2,2)/FDTD(2,4) Method,” IEEE Trans.Electromagnetic Compatibility, Vol. 42, No. 2,May 2003.

Chaitali ChakrabartiOffice: GWC 418E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-9516Ph.D.: University of Maryland, 1990

Chaitali Chakrabarti received her B. Tech. inelectronics and electrical communicationengineering from the Indian Institute ofTechnology, Kharagpur, India, and her M.S.and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineeringfrom the University of Maryland, CollegePark. She has been at ASU since 1990where she is now a full professor. She is amember of the Center for Low PowerElectronics, Consortium of Embedded andInter-Networking Technologies, andConnection One and conducts research invarious aspects of low-power system design.

Research Interests: VLSI architectures andalgorithms for media processing andcommunications; low-power system design,including memory design and compilation;CAD tools for VLSI.

Honors and Distinctions: OutstandingEducator Award, IEEE Phoenix section,2001; CEAS Teaching Award, 1993-1994;associate editor of the IEEE Transactions onSignal Processing and the Journal of VLSISignal Processing.

Selected Publications:K. Andra, C. Chakrabarti, and T. Acharya, “AHigh Performance JPEG2000 Architecture,”IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, Mar.2003.

A. Manzak and C. Chakrabarti, “VariableVoltage Task Scheduling Algorithms forMinimizing Energy/Power,” IEEE Trans. onVLSI Systems, May 2003.

R. Henning and C. Chakrabarti, “AnApproach to Switching Activity ConsiderationDuring High-Level Low-Power Design SpaceExploration,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits andSystems II, May 2002.

K. Andra, C. Chakrabarti, and T. Acharya, “AVLSI Architecture for Lifting-based Forwardand Inverse Wavelet Transform,” IEEE Trans.on Signal Processing, Apr. 2002.

W.-T. Shiue, S. Udayanarayanan, and C.Chakrabarti, “Data Memory Design andExploration for Low Power EmbeddedSystems,” ACM Transactions on Design andAutomation of Electronic Systems, Oct.2001.

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Rodolfo E. DiazOffice: Tempe Center, Suite 199E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-4281Ph.D.: UCLA, 1992

During his 20 years in the aerospaceindustry, Dr. Diaz has worked on manyaspects of the interaction betweenelectromagnetic waves and materials fromlightning protection on the space shuttlethrough the design of microwave lenses andhigh-temperature, broadband radomes forradar missiles to the design and manufactureof radar-absorbing structures for Stealthapplications. He is an associate professor inelectrical engineering, the associate directorof the Consortium for Meteorology ofSemiconductor Nanodefects, and holds tenpatents ranging from the design ofbroadband radomes to the amplification ofmagnetic fields.

Research Interests: Optical scattering ofsubwavelength objects in complexenvironments, analytic theory of natural andartificial media, combined computationalmechanics and electromagnetics.

Honors and Distinctions: 1994 Associationof Interamerican Businessmen Award toDistinguished Young Executives in theProfessional Category for Excellence inEngineering, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Selected Publications:Ampere A. Tseng, C.D. Chen, R. Díaz, andM. Watts, “Electron beam lithography ofmicrobowtie structures for next-generationoptical probe,” J. Microlith., Microfab.,Microsyst., Vol. 1, No. 2, July 2002.

R.E. Diaz and M.E. Watts, “Perfect Plane-Wave Injection into a finite FDTD domainthrough Teleportation of Fields,”Electromagnetics, Vol.1 No. 2, 1-12, July2002.

R.E. Diaz, J.T. Aberle, and W.E. McKinzie,“Analysis of the Surface Wave SuppressionBand of the Sievenpiper High-ImpedanceGround Plane in Terms of its EffectiveMedium Properties,” Proceedings of theNational Radio Science Meeting, Universityof Colorado at Boulder, CO, Jan. 8-11, 2001.

V.C. Sanchez, R.E. Diaz, and W.E. McKinzie,“Broadband Antennas Over ElectronicallyReconfigurable Artificial Magnetic ConductorSurfaces,” Proceedings of the AntennaApplications Symposium, Robert AllertonPark, Monticello, IL, Sept. 19-21, 2001.

Douglas CochranOffice: GWC 414E-mail: [email protected].: Harvard University, 1990

Douglas Cochran joined the ASU faculty in1989. He holds Ph.D. and S.M. degrees inapplied mathematics from Harvard Universityand degrees in mathematics from UCSD andMIT. Before coming to ASU, he was a seniorscientist at BBN Laboratories. He has servedas a consultant to Motorola and theAustralian Defense Science and TechnologyOrganisation, as associate editor of the IEEETransactions on Signal Processing, and asgeneral co-chair of the 1999 IEEEInternational Conference on Acoustics,Speech, and Signal Processing. ProfessorCochran is currently on leave serving asprogram manager for the Applied andComputational Mathematics Program in theDARPA Defense Sciences Office.

Research Interests: Signal processing,harmonic analysis, detection theory.

Honors and Distinctions: CEAS TeachingExcellence Award, 1996-1997; IEEE SeniorMember.

Selected Publications:S. Azizi and D. Cochran, “ReproducingKernel Structure in Time-Warped Spaceswith Applications to Wavelets,” IEEETransactions on Information Theory, Vol. 48,No. 3, Mar. 2002.

S. Shetty, J.N. McDonald, and D. Cochran,“A Windowing Condition for Characterizationof Finite Signals from Spectral Phase orMagnitude,” IEEE International Conferenceon Acoustics, Speech, and SignalProcessing, Salt Lake City, May 2001.

A. Clausen and D. Cochran, “AsymptoticAnalysis of the Generalized CoherenceEstimate,” IEEE Transactions on SignalProcessing, Vol. SP-49, No. 1, Jan. 2001.

Affiliateprofessorsadd breadthto departmentSeveral professors from otherdepartments are formally affiliatedwith the Department of ElectricalEngineering. Their duties are primarilyin research, advising and studentmentoring. They contribute a breadthof research opportunity beyond thatprovided by regular faculty.

Terry Alford (Ph.D., Cornell): Electronmaterials and characterization.

Karam Chatha (Ph.D., University ofCincinnati): Embedded system andVLSI design.

Sandwip Dey (Ph.D., Alfred): Solid-state electronic materials.

Richard Farmer (M.S., Arizona StateUniversity): Power system transients,analysis, transmission, anddistribution.

Sandeep Gupta (Ph.D., Ohio State):Wireless networks and mobilecomputing; ubiquitous/pervasivecomputing; biosensor networks.

Jiping He (Ph.D. Maryland, CollegePark): Controls, bioengineering.

Timothy E. Lindquist (Ph.D., IowaState University): Computer science.

Nathan Newman (Ph.D. StanfordUniversity): Electronic materials.

Sethuraman Panchanathan (Ph.D.,University of Ottawa): Multimediacomputing and communications;multimedia hardware architectures;VLSI architectures for real-time video.

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Tolga M. DumanOffice: GWC 412E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-7888Ph.D.: Northeastern University, 1998

Tolga Duman received the B.S. from BilkentUniversity, Turkey, in 1993 and the M.S. andPh.D. degrees from Northeastern Universityin 1995 and 1998, respectively, all inelectrical engineering. He has been with theDepartment of Electrical Engineering of ASUsince August 1998 as an assistant professor.

Research Interests: Digital communications,wireless and mobile communications,channel coding, turbo codes and turbo-codedmodulation systems, coding for magneticrecording channels, coding for wirelesscommunications.

Honors and Distinctions: NSF CAREERAward, 2000; IEEE Third Millennium Medal;co-recipient of the best paper award for theVehicular Technology Conference paper fromIEEE Benelux Chapter, 1999.

Selected Publications: Israfil Bahceci, Tolga M. Duman and YucelAltunbasak, “Antenna Selection for Multiple-Antenna Transmission Systems:Performance Analysis and CodeConstruction,” IEEE Transactions onInformation Theory, Vol. 49, No. 10, pp.2669-2681, Oct. 2003.

Andrej Stefanov and Tolga M. Duman,“Performance Bounds for Space-Time TrellisCodes,” IEEE Transactions on InformationTheory, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 2134-2140, Sept.2003.

Zheng Zhang and Tolga M. Duman,“Achievable Information Rates of Multi-Antenna Systems over Frequency-SelectiveFading Channels with Constrained Inputs,”IEEE Communications Letters, pp. 260-262,June 2003.

Zheng Zhang, Tolga M. Duman and ErozanKurtas, “Information Rates of Binary-Input ISIChannels with Signal Dependent MediaNoise,” IEEE Transaction on Magnetics, pp.599-607, Jan. 2003.

Israfil Bahceci and Tolga M. Duman,“Combined Turbo Coding and Unitary Space-Time Modulation,” IEEE Transactions onCommunications, Vol. 50, No. 8, pp. 1244-1249, Aug. 2002.

Elbadawy ElsharawyOffice: GWC 424E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-8591Ph.D.: University of Massachusetts,

Amherst, 1989

Elbadawy Elsharawy joined ASU in 1989where he is currently an associate professor.Dr. Elsharawy also has two important patentsin his portfolio: “Stacked Microstrip Antennafor Wireless Communications,” U.S. patent5,945,950, and “Heterojunction BipolarTransistor Having Wide-Band Gap,” U.S.patent 5,912, 481.

Research Interests: Microwave circuits,applied electromagnetics, anistrophicdevices, electronic packaging, cellular phoneantennas.

Honors and Distinctions: Senior Member ofIEEE, MTT-13 Technical Committee member,and an elected member of Commissions Aand D, National URSI.

Selected Publications: H. Ghouz and E. Elsharawy, “Analysis andModeling of Flip Chip PackageInterconnects,” IEEE Special Issue on CAE,202-211, May 2001.

R. Elio and E. Elsharawy, “Reducing Lossesin Dielectric Waveguide Discontinuities,”IEEE Trans. MTT, Vol. 46, 1045-1054, Aug.1998.

T. Elshafie, J. Aberle, and E. Elsharawy,“Accurate and Efficient Evaluation of Green’sFunctions for Multilayer Normally BiasedFerrite Structures,” IEEE Proceedings Part.H, Vol. 144, No. 6, 403-410, Dec. 1997.

T. Elshafie, J. Aberle, and E. Elsharawy, “FullWave Analysis of Edge Guided ModeMicrostrip Isolators,” IEEE Trans. MTT, Dec.1996.

H. Ghouz and E. Elsharawy, “An AccurateEquivalent Circuit of Flip-Chip and ViaInterconnects,” IEEE Trans. MTT, Dec. 1996.

David K. FerryOffice: ERC 187E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-2570Ph.D.: University of Texas, Austin, 1966

David Ferry joined ASU in 1983, followingstints at Texas Tech University, the Office ofNaval Research, and Colorado StateUniversity. He has published more than 600articles, books and chapters, and hasorganized many conferences.

Research Interests: Transport physics andmodeling of quantum effects in submicronsemiconductor devices, electron beamlithography for ultra-submicron quantumfunctional devices.

Honors and Distinctions: Regents’Professor at ASU; IEEE Cledo BrunettiAward, 1999; fellow of both the AmericanPhysical Society and IEEE; ASU GraduateMentor Award, 2000; IEEE Engineer of theYear, 1990, Phoenix Section; outstandingresearch awards at Texas Tech Universityand Colorado State University.

Selected Publications:I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry, “Open systemevolution and ‘memory dressing’,” PhysicalReview A, Vol. 69, 012104:1-14, 2004.

S. M. Ramey and D. K. Ferry, “A new modelfor including discrete dopant ions into MonteCarlo simulations,” IEEE Transactions onNanotechnology, Vol. 2, 193-7, 2003.

C. Prasad, D. K. Ferry, D. Vasileska, and H.H.Wieder, “Electron heating measurementsin anIn0.52Al0.48As/In0.53Ga0.47As/In0.52Al0.48As heterostructure systems,” Journal ofVacuum Science and Technology B, Vol. 21,1936-1939, 2003.

W. Liang, K. T. Tsen, D. K. Ferry, M.-C. Wu,C.-L. Ho, and W.-J. Ho, “Large electric fieldinduced electron drift velocity observed in anInxGa1-xAs-based p-i-n semiconductornanostructure at T=300 K,” Applied PhysicsLetters, Vol. 83, 1438-1440, 2003.

L. Shifren, C. Ringhofer, and D. K. Ferry, “AWigner function based quantum ensembleMonte Carlo study of a resonant tunnelingdiode,” IEEE Tranactions on ElectronDevices, Vol. 50, 769-773, 2003.


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Ravi GorurOffice: ERC 515E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-4894Ph.D.: University of Windsor, Ontario,

Canada, 1986

Ravi Gorur joined the ASU faculty in 1987and is presently the Associate Chair forUndergraduate Studies. He teaches in theareas of electric power engineering, high-voltage engineering, and power electronics.

Research Interests: Insulating materials andsystems for outdoor applications, non-ceramic insulators, electric field calculations,underground cable systems, dielectric fluids,high-voltage testing techniques, computer-aided design.

Honors and Distinctions: IEEE Fellow,1999; U.S. representative to CIGRE workinggroups 15-04 and 15-10, 1999; U.S. ExpertAdvisor for CIGRE Study Committee 15-Insulating Materials, 1995-present.

Selected Publications:V. Moreno, R.S. Gorur, and A. Kroese,“Impact of Corona on the Long-termPerformance of Nonceramic Insulators,”IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics andElectrical Insulation,” IEEE Trans. Dielectricsand Electrical Insulation, Vol. 10, No. 1, 80-95, 2003.

D. Kingsbury, B. Mobasher, J. Montesinos,and R.S. Gorur, “Mechanical Aspects ofCrimped Glass Reinforced Epoxy Rods,”IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, 2003.

R.S. Gorur, “IEEE Guide for the Application,Maintenance, and Evaluation of RoomTemperature Vulcanized (RTV) SiliconeRubber Coatings for Outdoor CeramicInsulators,” IEEE Std, 1523, 2002.

J. Montesinos, R.S. Gorur, B. Mobasher, andD. Kingsbury, “Brittle Fracture in NonceramicInsulators: Electrical Aspects of Dischargesin Voids inside the FRP Rod,” IEEETransactions on Dielectrics and ElectricalInsulation, Vol. 9, No. 2, 244-252, 2002.

J. Montesinos, R.S. Gorur, B. Mobasher, andD. Kingsbury, “Mechanisms of Brittle Fracturein Nonceramic Insulators,” IEEE Transactionson Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol.9, No. 2, 236-243, 2002.

R.S. Gorur, E.A. Cherney, and J.T. Burnham,Outdoor Insulators, 1999.

Stephen GoodnickOffice: ERC 552E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-3837Ph.D. Colorado State University, 1983

Stephen Goodnick came to ASU in Fall 1996as Department Chair. Prior to that, he was aprofessor of electrical and computerengineering at Oregon State University from1986 to 1996. He has also been a visitingscientist at the Solar Energy ResearchInstitute and Sandia National Laboratoriesand a visiting faculty member at the WalterSchottky Institute, Munich, Germany; theUniversity of Modena, Italy; the University ofNotre Dame; and Osaka University, Japan.He served as President (2003-2004) of theElectrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment Heads Association (ECEDHA),and as Program Chair of the Fourth IEEEConference on Nanotechnology. Dr.Goodnick has published over 150 refereedjournal articles, books, and book chapters.

Research Interests: Transport insemiconductor devices, computationalelectronics, quantum and nanostructureddevices and device technology, high-frequency and optical devices.

Honors and Distinctions: Fellow, IEEE(2004), Alexander von Humboldt ResearchFellow, Germany, 1986; College ofEngineering Research Award, Oregon StateUniversity, 1996; Colorado State UniversityCollege of Engineering Achievement inAcademia Award, 1998; IEEE PhoenixSection Society Award for OutstandingService, 2002.

Selected Publications: S. M. Goodnick, M. Saraniti, D. Vasileska,and S. Aboud, “Particle-based methods incomputational electronics,” IEEE-Potentials,Vol. 22, No. 5, 12-16 , 2003.

P. S. Chakraborty, M. R. McCartney, J. Li, C.Gopalan, M. Gilbert, S. M. Goodnick, T. J.Thornton, and M. N. Kozicki, “ElectronHolographic Characterization of UltraShallow Junctions in Si for nanoscaleMOSFETs,” IEEE Trans Nanotechnology,Vol. 2, No. 2, 102-109, June 2003.

D. L. Evans, S. M. Goodnick, and R. J.Roedel, “ECE curriculum in 2013 andbeyond: vision for a metropolitan publicresearch university,” IEEE Transactions onEducation, Vol. 46, No. 4, 420-428, 2003.

S. M. Goodnick and J. Bird, “Quantum-effectand single-electron devices,” IEEE-Trans.Nanotechnology, Vol. 2, No. 4, 368-385,2003. (Invited)

ASU’s Department ofElectricalEngineering rated as one ofthe nation's topdepartments

ASU’s Department of ElectricalEngineering is doing better thanever. U.S. News and World Reportranked the EE department 37th inthe nation in its 2004 report. TheFulton School of Engineering overallplaced 50th, which was a 6th-placeincrease from the previous year.

“Having the Fulton School rankedin the top 50 is a critical thresholdfor visibility both at home andabroad,” said Dr. StephenGoodnick, EE department chair.

Increased research expendituresmay have played a key role inhelping increase the school's rank,according to the Fulton School. Theschool’s increase in researchspending (24 percent from lastyear) is about twice that of theaverage increase (13.9 percent) ofother higher institutions.

For more information about theEE department, visit its Web site athttp://www.fulton.asu.edu/~eee.To find out more about the FultonSchool of Engineering, visithttp://www.fulton.asu.edu.

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Robert GrondinOffice: GWC 422E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-5954Ph.D.: University of Michigan, 1982

Bob Grondin received the B.S., M.S., andPh.D. degrees in electrical engineering fromthe University of Michigan. He spent 1981 to1983 as a post-doctoral research fellow atColorado State University and joined thefaculty of electrical engineering at ASU in1983. He is currently an associate professorand serves as Director of Student AcademicServices in the Ira A. Fulton School ofEngineering.

Research Interests: Solid-state and physicalelectronics: the physics of high-speeddevices and ultrafast phenomena insemiconductors.

Honors and Distinctions: NSF PresidentialYoung Investigator, 1985; Presidential YoungInvestigators Award, 1985; IEEE OutstandingStudent Branch Advisor, 1986.

Selected Publications: Jong-Hyun Kim, Julian Sanchez, Thomas A.DeMassa, Mohammed T. Quddus, RobertGrondin, and Chuan H. Liu, “TemperatureDependence of Surface Plasmon andBreakdown for Thin and Thick film Silicon-Dioxide,” Solid State Electronics, Vol. 43, No.1, 57-63, Jan. 1999.

Robert O. Grondin, Samir El-Ghazaly, andStephen Goodnick, “A Review of GlobalModeling Charge Transport inSemiconductors and Full-WaveElectromagnetics: A Review Paper,” IEEETrans. Microwave Theory and Techniques,Vol. 47, No. 6, 817-829, June 1999.

Samir Hammadi, Robert O. Grondin, SamirEl-Ghazaly, and Stephen Goodnick, “Full-Wave Electromagnetic Simulation ofMillimeter-Wave Active Devices and Circuits,”Annales des Telecommunications, Vol. 54,No. 1-2, 30-42, Jan. - Feb. 1999.

Keith E. HolbertOffice: ERC 555E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-8594Ph.D.: University of Tennessee, 1989

Keith Holbert joined the faculty in 1989. He isa registered professional engineer and haspublished over 50 journal and conferencepapers.

Research Interests: Process monitoring anddiagnostics, sensor fault detection,instrumentation development, fuzzy logic,spacecraft charging, radiation effects onelectronics.

Honors and Distinctions: Tau Beta Pi;Teaching Excellence Award from ASUCollege of Engineering, 1997; IEEE SeniorMember.

Selected Publications: K. Lee, K. Holbert, “Lateral-type fieldemission-based magnetic sensor fabricatedby electron-beam lithography,” Journal of TheElectrochemical Society, Vol. 151, No. 4,H81-H85, Apr. 2004.

G. G. Karady, K. E. Holbert, “Novel techniqueto improve power engineering educationthrough computer-assisted interactivelearning,” IEEE Trans. on Power Systems,Vol. 19, No. 1, 81-87, Feb. 2004.

M. Albu, K. E. Holbert, G. T. Heydt, S. D.Grigorescu, V. Trusca, “Embedding remoteexperimentation in power engineeringeducation,” IEEE Trans. on Power Systems,Vol. 19, No. 1, 139-143, Feb. 2004.

K. E. Holbert, J. A. Nessel, S. S. McCready,A. S. Heger, T. H. Harlow, “Response ofpiezoresistive MEMS accelerometers andpressure transducers to high gamma dose,”IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol.50, No. 6, 1852-1859, Dec. 2003.

K. Lin, K. E. Holbert, “State-of-the-ArtMethods to Protect Power Network SensorySystems Against Intrusion,” Proceedings ofthe Thirty-fifth Annual North American PowerSymposium (NAPS 2003), Rolla, MO, 537-544, Oct. 20-21, 2003.

A. B. Padmanabh, K. E. Holbert, G. T. Heydt,“The Role of Sensors in the Reduction ofPower System Vulnerability,” Proceedings ofthe Thirty-fifth Annual North American PowerSymposium (NAPS 2003), Rolla, MO, 552-558, Oct. 20-21, 2003.

Gerald Thomas HeydtOffice: ERC 507E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-8307Ph.D.: Purdue University, 1970

Gerald Thomas Heydt is from Las Vegas,Nev. He holds the B.E.E.E. degree from theCooper Union in New York and the M.S.E.E.and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University.He spent approximately 25 years as a facultymember at Purdue, and in 1994, he took theposition of Director of the NSF Center for thePower Systems Research Center at ASU. Hehas industrial experience with theCommonwealth Edison Company, Chicago,E.G. & G. in Mercury, Nev., and with theUnited Nations Development Program. In1990, he served as the program manager ofthe National Science Foundation program inpower systems engineering. He is the authorof two books in the area of powerengineering.

Research Interests: Power engineering,electric power quality, distributionengineering, transmission engineering,computer applications in power engineering,power engineering education.

Honors and Distinctions: Fellow of theIEEE; member of the United States NationalAcademy of Engineering; Edison ElectricInstitute Power Engineering Educator Award,1989; IEEE Power Engineering SocietyPower Engineering Educator of the Year,1995.

Selected Publications:E. O’Neill-Carrillo, B. Banfai, G. T. Heydt, andJ. Si, “EMTP Implementation and analysis ofnonlinear load models,” Electric PowerComponents and Systems, Vol. 29, No. 9,800-819, Sept. 2001.

G. Heydt, C-C. Liu, A. G. Phadke, and V.Vittal, “Solutions for the crisis in electricpower supply,” IEEE Computer Applicationsin Power, Vol. 14, No. 3, 22-30, July 2001.

E. Kyriakides, G. Heydt, “Estimation ofSynchronous Generator Parameters Usingan Observer for Damper Currents and aGraphical User Interface,” J. Electric PowerSystems Research, Vol. 69, No. 1, 7-16, Apr.2004.

M. Albu, K. Holbert, G. Heydt, S. Grigorescu,V. Trusca, “Embedding remoteexperimentation in power engineeringeducation,” IEEE Transactions on PowerSystems. Vol. 19, No. 1, 144-151, Feb. 2004.


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George KaradyOffice: ERC 589E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-6569Ph.D.: Technical University of Budapest, 1960

George Karady received his B.S.E.E. andPh.D. degrees in electrical engineering fromTechnical University of Budapest. He wasappointed as Salt River Chair Professor atASU in 1986. Previously, he was withEBASCO Services where he served as chiefconsulting electrical engineer, manager ofelectrical systems, and chief engineer ofcomputer technology. He was electrical tasksupervisor for the Tokomak Fusion Testreactor project in Princeton.

Research Interests: Power electronics,high-voltage engineering, power systems.

Honors and Distinctions: Fellow of IEEE,chairman of IEEE WG on Non-CeramicInsulators, WG on Power ElectronicEquipment. He also chairs the AwardCommittee of the IEEE PES Chapters andMembership Division and is serving as apresident of the IEEE Phoenix Section. In1996, Dr. Karady received an HonoraryDoctoral Degree from Technical University ofBudapest, in 1999 the IEEE Third MillenniumMedal, and in 2002 IEEE Power EngineeringSociety Working Group Recognition Awardas the chair of WG that prepared IEEEStandard 1313-2.

Selected Publications:B. Han, S. Baek, H. Kim, and G.G. Karady,“Dynamic Characteristic Analysis of SSSCBased on Multi-bridge Inverter,” IEEE Trans.Power Delivery, Vol. 17, No. 2, 623-62, Apr.2002.

F. Amarh and G.G. Karady, “LinearStochastic Analysis of Polluted InsulatorLeakage Current,” IEEE Transaction ofPower Delivery, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1063-1069,Oct. 2002.

G.G. Karady and J. Gu, “A Hybrid Method forGenerator Tripping,” IEEE Trans. PowerSystem, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1102-1107, Nov. 2002.

G. G Karady and K. A. Nigim: “ImproveLearning Efficiency by Using GeneralPurpose Mathematics Software in PowerEngineering”. IEEE Transactions on PowerSystems. Vol. 18, No. 3, 979-985, Aug. 2003.

J. Gu, G.G. Karady, and R. Farmer: “Real-time Analysis of Transient Stability UsingReconfigurable Analog VLSI,” IEEETransactions on Power Systems, Vol. 18, No.3, 1207-1209, Aug. 2003.

Youngjoong JooOffice: GWC 328E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 480-965-2030Ph.D.: Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999

Youngjoong Joo joined the ASU faculty as anassistant professor in January 2001. Beforethat, he worked as a research engineer atGeorgia Institute of Technology. He receivedthe B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineeringfrom Korea University in 1988 and 1990,respectively, and the Ph.D. in electricalengineering from the Georgia Institute ofTechnology in 1999.

Research Interests: Design of sub-micronCMOS analog and mixed-signal circuits,smart camera systems, high-speed opticaltransceivers, UWB transceivers.

Selected Publications:S. Vishwakarma, S. Jung, and Y. Joo, “UltraWideband CMOS Low Noise Amplifier withActive Input Matching,” IEEE Conference onUltra Wideband Systems and Technologies,2004.

S. Jung, M. Brooke, N. Jokerst, J. Liu, and Y. Joo, “Parasitic Modeling and Analysis for a1 Gb/s CMOS Laser Driver,” Trans. on CAS-II, 2004.

D. Wang, C. Ha, C. B. Park, and Y. Joo,“CMOS Focal-plane-array for Analysis ofEnzymatic Reaction in System-on-chipSpectrophotometer,” Proceedings of SPIE2004.

J. Rhee, D. Wang, N. J. Tao, and Y. Joo,“CMOS image sensor array for surfaceplasmon resonance spectroscopy,”Proceedings of SPIE 2004.

J. Rhee and Y. Joo, “Wide Dynamic RangeCMOS Image Sensor with Pixel Level ADC,”Electronics Letters, Vol. 39, No. 4, 360-361,2003.

H. Kim, D. Park, and Y. Joo, “Design ofCMOS Scholtz’s Monocycle PulseGenerator,” IEEE Conference on UltraWideband Systems and Technologies, 81-85,Nov. 16-19, 2003.

Joseph Y. HuiOffice: GWC 411E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-5188Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, 1983

Joseph Y. Hui joined ASU as ISS ChairProfessor in 1999. He received his B.S.,M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT and hasheld research and teaching positions atBellcore, Rutgers University, and the ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong before joining ASU.He is the founder of IXTech and IXSoft, Inc.

Research Interests: Wireless networks,gigabit wireless communications, ATMswitching and routing, teletraffic analysis,coding and information theory, space-timecommunications.

Honors and Distinctions: ISS ChairProfessor; IEEE Fellow, 1996; HKIE Fellow,1998; NSF Presidential Young Investigator,1990; IEEE William Bennett Prize PaperAward, 1984; Henry Rutgers ResearchFellow, 1989.

Selected Publications:J. Hui, C. Bi, and H. Sun, “SpatialCommunication Capacity Based onElectromagnetic Wave Equations,”Proceedings of the International Symposiumon Information Theory 2001, Washington,DC, June 24-29, 2001.

J. Hui, “Wireless Optical Ad-Hoc Networksfor Embedded Systems,” Proceedings ofIEEE IPCC Conference, Phoenix, NJ, Apr.2001.

J. Hui, “Capacity and Error Rate of SpatialCDMA for Multiple Antenna MultipleAccessing,” Proceedings of IEEE Globecom2000, Dec. 2000.

Joseph Y. Hui, Hongxia Sun, and Chunyu Bi,“Factors Affecting the Shannon Capacity ofSpace-Time Code,” Proceedings of the 38thAllerton Conference on Communications,Control, and Computing, Oct. 2000.

J. Hui, “Multiple Access Spatial Capacity ofMultiple Antenna Communications,”Proceedings of the 38th Allerton Conferenceon Communications, Control, andComputing, Oct. 2000.

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Lina Karam Office: GWC 430 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 480-965-3694 Ph.D.: Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995

Lina Karam received the B.E. in electricalengineering from the American University ofBeirut in 1989 and the M.S. and Ph.D.degrees in electrical engineering from theGeorgia Institute of Technology in 1992 and1995, respectively. She is currently anassociate professor in the Department ofElectrical Engineering at ASU. She worked atSchlumberger Well Services and in theSignal Processing Department of AT&T BellLabs during 1992 and 1994, respectively.

Research Interests: Image and videoprocessing and compression,multidimensional signal processing, error-resilient source coding, digital filter design,human visual perception.

Honors and Distinctions: Society ofWomen Engineers Outstanding GraduateStudent Award, 1994; Georgia TechGraduate Student Senate PresidentialCitation Award, 1994; NSF CAREER Award,1998. She is an associate editor of the IEEETransactions on Image Processing and anelected member of the IEEE Circuits andSystems Society's Technical Committee.

Selected Publications:I. Hontsch and L.J. Karam, “Adaptive ImageCoding with Perceptual Distortion Control,”IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,Vol. 11, No. 3, 213-222, Mar. 2002.

M.Y. Hasan, L.J. Karam, Matt Falkinburg, ArtHelwig, and Matt Ronning, “Canonic SignedDigit Digital Filter Design,” IEEE SignalProcessing Letters, Vol. 8, 167-169, June2001.

L.J. Karam, “Lossless Image Coding,”Chapter 5.1 in the Handbook of Image andVideo Processing, ed. Al Bovik, AcademicPress, 461-474, 2000.

M.Y. Hasan and L.J. Karam, “MorphologicalText Extraction from Images,” IEEETranscations on Image Processing, Vol. 9,1978-1983, Nov. 2000.

T.T. Lam, G.P. Abousleman, and L.J. Karam,“Image Coding with Robust Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization,” IEEEJournal on Selected Areas inCommunications, Special Issue on Error-Resilient Image and Video Transmission, Vol.18, 940-951, June 2000.

Sayfe KiaeiE-mail: [email protected]: (480) 727-8044Office: GWC 302Ph.D. Washington State University, 1987

Dr. Kiaei is a professor in the Ira A. FultonSchool of Engineering and the director ofboth WINTech and Connection One researchcenters. He joined the Department ofElectrical Engineering at Arizona StateUniversity in January 2001.WINTech is a comprehensive researchcenter for Arizona State Universityresearchers and established industrypartners to do advanced work on enablingtechnology needed in the development offully autonomous nanoscale communicationdevices and systems. WINTech has a heavyemphasis on deliverables and technologytransfer through the invention of newmaterials and devices, algorithms andcommunication protocols, the development ofsimulation tools and libraries to support thesystem design and the algorithms developedin real-life simulation environment, andfabricated systems to demonstrate measuredresults. Connection One is a NationalScience Foundation Industry/UniversityCooperative Research Center established bythe Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. Thevision of this center, to simplify and enable asmall portable all-in-one communicationdevice, is reflected in its name: ConnectionOne. An exclusive industry/universitypartnership combines an academicenvironment with state-of-the-art researchinitiatives. As a Cooperative ResearchProgram, each Connection One project issponsored and supported by an industrialmember, providing a one-on-one linkbetween faculty/students and industry. Dr.Kiaei is teaching classes in wirelesstransceiver design, communication circuits,and analog circuits. His research teamincludes more than 12 research associatesand graduate students at ASU.

Research Interests: Wireless transceiverdesign, RF, mixed-signal ICs.

Honors and Distinctions: Carter BestTeacher Award, IEEE Darlington Best PaperAward, IEEE Fellow, and the Motorola 10XDesign Award.

Selected Publications:S. Kiaei, “Parasitic-Aware Synthesis of RFCMOS Switching Power Amplifiers,”Proceedings of ISCAS, 2002.

S. Kiaei, “Monocycle Shapes for UltraWideband System,” Proceedings of ISCAS,2002.

Bruce KimE-mail: [email protected]: (480) 965-3749Office: GWC 330Ph.D.: Georgia Institute of Technology.

Bruce Kim joined the ASU faculty as anassociate professor in August 2000 afterteaching at Michigan State and TuftsUniversities. He received the B.S. from theUniversity of California-Irvine in 1981 and theM.S. from the University of Arizona in 1985,both in electrical engineering. He completedthe Ph.D. in electrical and computerengineering at the Georgia Institute ofTechnology in 1996.

Research Interests: RF IC design, MEMS,analog/mixed-signal testing, advancedintegrated passives, electronicpackaging/materials.

Honors and Distinctions: IEEE SeniorMember; IEEE Phoenix Section OutstandingTechnical Contribution Award, 2003;Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEEComputer Society, 2002; Certificate ofAppreciation Award, IEEE MTTS, 2002; BestPoster Award, IEEE RFTAG Conference,2002; Meritorious Service Award, IEEEComputer Society, 2001; Professor of theYear, Corporate Leaders Program, ASU,2001; IEEE Computer Society Certificate ofAppreciation, 1999; NSF/IEEE Award foreducational Internet-based modules, 1999;Best paper of the session, IEEE Multi-ChipModule Conference, 1998; NSF CAREERAward, 1997.

Selected Publications:K. Lee, J. He, A. Singh, S. Massia, G.Ehteshami, B. Kim and G. Raupp,“Polyimide-based intracortical neural implantwith improved structural stiffness,” Journal ofMicromechanics and Microengineering, Vol.14, No. 1, 32-37, Jan. 2004.

K. Lee, A. Singh, B. Kim, J. He, and G.Raupp, “Polyimide Based Neural Implantswith Stiffness Improvement,” Elsevier:Sensors and Actuators B, 2004.

J.Ryu, B. Kim, I. Sylla, “A New BIST Schemefor 5GHz Low Noise Amplifiers,” EuropeanTest Symposium, 2004.

K. Lee, R. Liu, B. Kim, “Double Beam RFMEMS Switches for Wireless Applications,”IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 39, No. 6, 532-533, 2003.


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Darryl MorrellOffice: GWC 416E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-2045Ph.D.: Brigham Young University, 1988

Darryl Morrell joined the ASU faculty in 1988.His research centers on applications ofstochastic decision and estimation theory toengineering problems. He is currentlyinvestigating target detection, localization,and identification using configurable sensors.Other areas of interest include informationtheory, communication system analysis andsimulation, signal and data compression, andthe epistemic foundations of decision theory.At a graduate level, he has taught courses ininformation theory, estimation and detection,stochastic filtering, probability and stochasticprocesses, and error correcting codes. At theundergraduate level, he has taught coursesin circuit analysis, probability theory,communication systems, signals andsystems, and technical design andcommunication. He has also been activelyinvolved in the implementation of ABET’sEC2000 at the college and department level.

Research Interests: Stochastic decisiontheory, sensor scheduling, particle filtering,target tracking.

Honors and Distinctions: Phi Kappa Phi,Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi.

Selected Publications:T. Stevens and D. Morrell, “Minimization ofSensor Usage for Target Tracking in aNetwork of Irregularly Spaced Sensors,”(Invited paper), IEEE Workshop on StatisticalSignal Processing, Sept. 2003.

A. Chhetri, D. Morrell, and A. Papandreou-Suppappola, “Scheduling Multiple SensorsUsing Particle Filters in Target Tracking,”(Invited paper), IEEE Workshop on StatisticalSignal Processing, Sept. 2003.

Y. Xue and D. Morrell, “Target Tracking andData Fusion using Multiple Adaptive FovealSensors,” 6th International Conference onInformation Fusion, 326–333, July 2003.

Y. Xue and D. Morrell, “Adaptive FovealSensor for Target Tracking,” 36th AsilomarConference on Signals, Systems, andComputers, Nov. 2002.

D. Morrell and Y. Xue, “Bayesian Analysis ofTarget Localization Using a Dual-ModeSensor,” Proceedings of ICASSP2002, 1593-1596, May 2002.

Ying-Cheng LaiOffice: GWC 610E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 480-965-6668Ph.D.: University of Maryland, College

Park, 1992

Ying-Cheng Lai joined the ASU faculty in1999. Prior to that, he was an associateprofessor of physics and mathematics at theUniversity of Kansas. He has authored or co-authored 190 papers, including 160published in refereed journals. In the pastfive years, he gave about 50 invitedseminars and colloquia worldwide.

Research Interests: Applied chaoticdynamics, complex networks, quantumchaos, signal processing, computationalbiology.

Honors and Distinctions: Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society since 1999;AFOSR/White House Presidential EarlyCareer Award for Scientists and Engineers,1997; NSF Faculty Early Career Award,1997; Undergraduate Teaching Award inPhysics, University of Kansas, 1998; Institutefor Plasma Research Fellowship, Universityof Maryland, 1992; Ralph D. Myers Award forOutstanding Academic Achievement,University of Maryland College Park, 1988.

Selected Publications:Y.-C. Lai, M. A. F. Harrison, M. G. Frei, and I.Osorio, “Inability of Lyapunovexponents to predict epileptic seizures,”Physical Review Letters, Vol. 91, 068102, 1-4, 2003.

T. Nishikawa, A. E. Motter, Y.-C. Lai, and F.Hoppensteadt,“Heterogeneity in oscillator networks: Aresmaller worlds easier to synchronize?”Physical Review Letters, Vol. 91, 01410, 1-4,2003.

Y. Do and Y.-C. Lai, “Superpersistent chaotictransients in physical space -advective dynamics of inertial particles inopen chaotic flows under noise,”Physical Review Letters, Vol. 91, 22410, 1-4,2003.

X. Wang, M. Zhan, C.-H. Lai, and Y.-C. Lai,``Strange nonchaotic attractorsin random dynamical systems,” PhysicalReview Letters, Vol. 92, 074102, 1-4, 2004.

T. Nishikawa, Y.-C. Lai, and F. C.Hoppensteadt, “Capacity of oscillatoryassociative-memory networks with error-freeretrieval,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 92,108101, 1-4, 2004. This work was featuredin Physical Review Focus (week of March12, 2004): http://focus.aps.org/story/v13/st12.

Michael N. Kozicki Office: ERC 107E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-2572Ph.D.: University of Edinburgh, UK, 1985

Michael Kozicki joined ASU in 1985 fromHughes Microelectronics. He develops newmaterials, processes, and device structuresfor next generation integrated circuits andsystems. He holds several dozen key patentsin Programmable Metallization Celltechnology, in which solid electrolytes areused for the storage and control ofinformation and for the manipulation of masson the nanoscale. He has publishedextensively on solid-state electronics and hasdeveloped undergraduate and graduatecourses in this area. He is also a founder ofAxon Technologies, an ASU spin-offcompany involved in the development andlicensing of solid-state ionic technologies.Professor Kozicki is currently Interim Directorof Entrepreneurial Programs in the FultonSchool of Engineering.

Research Interests: Silicon integrated-circuitprocessing, integrated/solid-state ionics, low-energy non-volatile memories, interconnectsystems, optical switches, tunablenanomechanical resonators, microfluidics.

Honors and Distinctions: Founder, AxonTechnologies Corporation; FoundingMember, Globalscot Network; HonoraryFellow, Faculty of Science and Engineering,University of Edinburgh; Entrepreneur-in-Residence, St. Margaret’s Academy,Livingston, Scotland; TechnologyDevelopment, and Transfer Sub-committeeChair of the Governor’s Council onInnovation and Technology; Charter memberof the ASU Academic Council; CharteredEngineer (UK/EC Professional Engineer);Member of the ASU Technology VentureClinic Board; Last Lecture Series Nominee;IEEE Phoenix Section Outstanding Educator,Research Award, 2001; College of ExtendedEducation Outstanding Faculty Award, 1995;Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention andInnovation Nominee, 1994

Selected Publications: P. Chakraborty, C. Gopalan, J. Yang, T. Kim,Z. Wu, M.R. McCartney, S. M. Goodnick, M.N. Kozicki, and T.J. Thornton, “ShallowSource-Drain Extensions for DeepSubmicron MOSFETs Using Spin-OnDopants,” IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, Vol.50, No. 5, 1277-1283, 2003.

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George W. PanOffice: GWC 436E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-1732Ph.D.: University of Kansas, 1984

George Pan joined the faculty in 1995 as aprofessor and the director of the ElectronicPackaging Laboratory. He has written threebook chapters, published over 50 researcharticles in refereed journals, and presented82 papers at international conferences. Hehas presented short courses on wavelets inelectromagnetics at Moscow State University,the University of Canterbury, CSIRO inSydney, IEEE Microwave Symposium,Beijing University, and the ChineseAerospace Institute. His book, “Wavelets inElectromagnetics and Device Modeling” © 2003, is among John Wiley’s best-sellingtitles.

Research Interests: Computationalelectromagnetics, high-speed electronicspackaging, magnetic resonant imaging RFcoil design and analysis, rough surfacescattering.

Honors and Distinctions: IEEE SeniorMember; Outstanding Paper Award;Government Microcircuit ApplicationsConference, Nov. 1990.

Selected Publications:J. Griffith and G. Pan, “Applied Time-DomainNetwork Characterization and Simulation,”IEEE Trans. Magnetics, Vol. 40, No. 1, 78-84, Jan. 2004.

Y. Tretiakov and G. Pan, “Coifman Waveletsin Electromagnetic Wave Scattering by aGroove in a Conducting Plane,” Progress inElectromagnetics Research, Vol. 45, 1-20,Jan. 2004.

G. Pan, M. Tong and B. Gilbert, “MeltiwaveletBased Moment Method under DiscreteSobolev-Type Norm,” Microwave and OpticalTechnology Letters, Vol. 40, No. 1, 47-50,Jan. 2004.

G. Pan, Y. Tretiakov, and B. Gilbert, “SmoothLocal Cosine Based Galerkin Method forScattering Problems,” IEEE Trans. AntennasProp., Vol. 51, No. 6, 1177-1184, June 2003.

K. Wang, G. Pan, R. Techentin and B.Gilbert, “Semiconductor Nonlinear DeviceModeling Using Multiwavelets,” Microwaveand Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 37, No.6, 436-440, June 2003.

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Antonia Papandreou-SuppappolaOffice: GWC 420E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-7881Ph.D.: University of Rhode Island, 1995

Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola joined theASU faculty as an assistant professor inAugust 1999. Before that, she held a Navy-supported research faculty position at theDepartment of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at the University of RhodeIsland. She has published over 60 refereedjournal papers, book chapters, andconference papers.

Research Interests: Signal Processing forWireless Communications, SensorProcessing, Time-Frequency SignalProcessing, and Detection and EstimationTheory.

Honors and Distinctions: NSF CAREERAward, 2002; IEEE Phoenix SectionOutstanding Faculty for Research award,2003; Treasurer of the Conference Board,IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2004-2007.

Selected Publications: A. Papandreou-Suppappola, ed.,Applications in Time-Frequency SignalProcessing. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press,Oct. 2002.

A. Papandreou-Suppappola, “Time-Frequency Processing of Time-VaryingSignals with Nonlinear Group Delay,” inWavelets and Signal Processing, (L.Debnath, ed.), Birkhauser-Verlag, New York,311-359, 2003.

H. Shen, S. Machineni, C. Gupta and A.Papandreou-Suppappola, “Time-varyingmulti-chirp rate modulation for multipleaccess systems,” IEEE Signal ProcessingLetters, Vol. 11, 497-500, May 2004.

B. G. Iem, A. Papandreou-Suppappola, andG. F. Boudreaux-Bartels, “Wideband WeylSymbols for Dispersive Time-VaryingProcessing of Systems and RandomSignals,” IEEE Transactions on SignalProcessing, Vol. 50, 1077-1090, May 2002.

A. Papandreou-Suppappola, R. L. Murray, B.G. Iem, and G. F. Boudreaux-Bartels, “GroupDelay Shift Covariant Quadratic Time-Frequency Representations,” IEEETransactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 49,2549-2564, Nov. 2001.

Joseph PalaisOffice: ERC 555E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-3757Ph.D.: University of Michigan, 1964

Joseph Palais joined the faculty in 1964 andis now the Associate Chair for GraduateStudies. He has published a textbook onfiber optics. The book has been translatedinto Japanese, Korean and Persian. He hascontributed chapters to numerous books,written over 40 research articles in refereedjournals, and presented more than 35 papersat scientific meetings. He has presented over150 short courses on fiber optics.

Research Interests: Fiber opticcommunications, holography, distanceeducation.

Honors and Distinctions: IEEE Life Fellow,IEEE EAB Achievement Award, IEEEPhoenix Achievement Award, UniversityContinuing Education AssociationConferences and Professional ProgramsFaculty Service Award.

Selected Publications:J. Palais, “Evolution of a class in fiber-opticcommunications,” Conference on Educationand Training in Optics and Photonics(ETOP’03), Tucson, Arizona, Oct. 6-8, 2003.SPIE Conference Proceedings published onCD-ROM.

J. Palais, “Optical Communications,” Chapter14 in Handbook of EngineeringElectromagnetics, 507-548, Marcel Dekker,edited by Rajeev Bansal, 2004.

J. Palais and S. Haag, “Engineering Online:Assessing Innovative Education,” ASEE J. ofEngineering Education, 285-290, July 2002.

J. Palais, “Microoptics-Based Componentsfor Networking,” Chapter 10 in Fiber OpticsHandbook, McGraw-Hill, ed. M. Bass, 2002.

J. Palais, “Fiber Optic CommunicationsSystems,” Chapter 44 in TheCommunications Handbook, 2nd ed., ed.J.D. Gibson, CRC Press, 44.1-44.9, 2002.

J. Palais, “Passive Optical Components,”Chapter 50 in The CommunicationsHandbook, 2nd ed., ed. J.D. Gibson, CRCPress, 50.1-50.8, 2002.

J. Palais and M. Martinelli, “Dual Fiber-RingDepolarizer,” IEEE J. of LightwaveTechnology, Vol. 19, No. 6, 899-905, June2001.

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Martin Reisslein Office: GWC 411AE-mail: [email protected] Phone: 480-965-8593Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania, 1998

Martin Reisslein joined the ASU faculty as anassistant professor in 2000. He received theDipl.-Ing. in electrical engineering from FHDieburg, Germany, in 1994; the M.S. inelectrical engineering from the University ofPennsylvania in 1996; and the Ph.D. insystems engineering from the University ofPennsylvania in 1998. He has published over20 journal articles and over 25 conferencepapers.

Research Interests: Multimedia streaming inwireless environments, traffic characteristicsof encoded video, Metro WDM networks.

Honors and Distinctions: Editor in chief ofthe IEEE Communications Surveys andTutorials. ACM member, ASEE member,IEEE Senior Member, Informs member, SPIEmember. Best Paper Award: M. Maier, M.Reisslein, and A. Wolisz, “High-PerformanceSwitchless WDM Network Using MultipleFree Spectral Ranges of an Arrayed-Waveguide Grating,” Proceedings of SPIEVol. 4213, Terabit Optical Networking:Architecture, Control, and ManagementIssues, 101-112, Boston, MA, Nov. 2000.

Selected Publications:M. Krishnam, M. Reisslein, and F. Fitzek, “AnAnalytical Framework for Simultaneous MACPacket Transmission (SMPT) in a Multi-CodeCDMA Wireless System,” IEEE Transactionson Vehicular Technology, Vol. 53, No. 1, 223-242, Jan. 2004.

M. Scheutzow, M. Maier, M. Reisslein, and A.Wolisz, “Wavelength Reuse for EfficientPacket-Switched Transport in an AWG-BasedMetro WDM Network,” IEEE/OSA Journal ofLightwave Technology, Vol. 21, No. 6, 1435-1455, June 2003.

J. Kangasharju, F. Hartanto, M. Reisslein,and K.W. Ross, “Distributing LayeredEncoded Video through Caches,” IEEETransactions on Computers, Vol. 51, No. 6,622-636, June 2002.

M. Reisslein, K.W. Ross, and S. Rajagopal,“A Framework for Guaranteeing StatisticalQoS,” IEEE/ACM Transactions onNetworking, Vol. 10, No. 1, 27-42, Feb. 2002.

F. Fitzek and M. Reisslein, “MPEG-4 andH.263 video traces for network performanceevaluation,” IEEE Network, Vol. 15, No. 6,40-54, Nov./Dec. 2001.

Gang QianOffice: Matthews Center, 240AE-mail: [email protected]: (480) 965-3704Ph.D.: University of Maryland, CollegePark, 2002

Gang Qian joined the ASU faculty as anassistant professor in August 2003.Previously, he worked as a faculty researchassistant in 2001 and a research associate in2002 for the Center for Automation Researchat the University of Maryland Institute forAdvance Computer Studies. He received theB.E. degree in electrical engineering from theUniversity of Science and Technology ofChina (USTC) in 1995, and the M.S. andPh.D. degrees in electrical engineering fromthe University of Maryland at College Park in1999 and 2002, respectively.

Research Interests: Human motion analysis,signal and image processing, computervision, statistical learning and inference forcomputer vision, image analysis.

Honors and Distinctions: University Guo-Mo-Ruo Golden Medal, USTC, 1994;Member of IEEE.

Selected Publications:G. Qian and R. Chellappa, “Structure FromMotion Using Sequential Monte CarloMethods,” International Journal of ComputerVision, Vol. 59, 5-31, Aug. 2004.

G. Qian, R. Chellappa and Q. Zheng,“Robust Structure from Motion EstimationUsing Inertial Data,” Journal of the OpticalSociety of America A, Vol. 18, 2982-2997,2001.

G. Qian, F. Guo, T. Ingalls, L. Olson, J.James and T. Rikakis, “A Gesture-DrivenMultimodal Interactive Dance System,” inProceedings of the International Conferenceon Multimedia and Expo, Taibei, Taiwan,China, June 27-30, 2004.

G. Qian, R. Chellappa and Q. Zheng, “ABayesian Approach to Simultaneous MotionEstimation of Multiple Independently MovingObjects,” in Proceedings of InternationalConference on Pattern Recognition, WA I.9,Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, Aug. 11-15,2002.

G. Qian and R. Chellappa, “Bayesian Self-Calibration of a Moving Camera,” inProceedings of 7th European Conference onComputer Vision, Part II, 277-293,Copenhagen, Denmark, May 28-31, 2002.

Stephen M. PhillipsOffice: ERC 181E-mail: [email protected]: (480) 965-6622Ph.D.: Stanford University, 1988

Stephen M. Phillips received the B.S. degreein electrical engineering from CornellUniversity in 1984 and the M.S. and Ph.D.degrees in electrical engineering fromStanford University in 1985 and 1988,respectively. From 1988 to 2002 he servedon the faculty of Case Western ReserveUniversity where he held appointments in theDepartments of Electrical Engineering andApplied Physics; Systems, Control andIndustrial Engineering; and subsequentlyElectrical Engineering and ComputerScience. From 1995 to 2002 he also servedas director of the Center for Automation andIntelligent System Research. In 2002 hejoined the faculty of Arizona State Universityas Professor of Electrical Engineering. Hehas held visiting positions at the NASA Lewis(now Glenn) Research Center and at theUniversity of Washington and is aProfessional Engineer registered in Ohio.

Research Interests: Applications andintegration of microsystems includingmicroelectromechanical systems (MEMS),microfluidics, microactuators, biologicalmicrosystems; applications of systems andcontrol including adaptive control, control ofmicrosystems, feedback control overnondeterministic networks.

Honors and Distinctions: IEEE ThirdMillenium Medal, 2000; IEEE SeniorMember, 1995.

Selected Publications:D. Meldrum, M. Holl, P. Seriburi, S.M.Phillips, J. Chao, L. Jang, and F. Kosar,“MEMS Modules for Life-On-A-Chip,”Proceedings of the 2003 InternationalSymposium on Circuits and Systems.

M. Birch, R.D. Quinn, G. Hahm, S.M. Phillips,B. Drennan, R. Beer, X. Yu, S. Garverick, S.Laksanacharoen, A.J. Pollack, and R.E.Ritzmann, “A Miniature Hybrid RobotPropelled by Legs,” IEEE Robotics andAutomation, Jan. 2003.

C. Shih, B. Lai, H. Kahn, S.M. Phillips, andA.H. Heuer, “A Robust Co-SputteringFabrication Procedure for TiNi ShapeMemory Alloys for MEMS,” Journal ofMicroelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 10,No. 1, 69-80, Mar. 2001.

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Armando Antonio RodriguezOffice: GWC 352E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-3712Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, 1990

Prior to joining the faculty in 1990, ArmandoRodriguez worked at MIT, IBM, AT&T BellLaboratories, and Raytheon Missile Systems.He has also worked at Elgin Air Force Baseand Boeing Defense and Space Systems. Hehas published more than 100 technicalpapers in refereed journals and conferenceproceedings and over 50 invited papers. Dr.Rodriguez has given more than 60 invitedpresentations at international and nationalforums, conferences, and corporations. Thisincludes over 10 plenary talks.

Research Interests: Control of nonlineardistributed parameter systems;approximation theory; sampled data control;modeling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART); control of dynamicalsystems; control of flexible autonomousmachines operating in an uncertainenvironment (FAME); and control ofsemiconductor, aerospace, robotic systems.

Honors and Distinctions: AT&T BellLaboratories Fellowship; Boeing A.D.Welliver Fellowship; CEAS TeachingExcellence Award; IEEE InternationalOutstanding Advisor Award; White HousePresidential Excellence Award for Science,Mathematics, and Engineering; ASU FacultyFellow; ASU Professor of the Year Finalist;Senior Member of IEEE.

Selected Publications:A.A. Rodrigueez, “Fifth MGE@MSA DoctoralMentoring Institute: Increasing Ph.D.Production and Shaping Tomorrow’sLeaders,” Workshop Proceedings, ArizonaState University, 118 pages, Apr. 2003.

O. Cifdaloz, M. Shayeb, Y Yi, R.P Metzger,and A.A. Rodriguez, “Multi-Input Milti-Output(MIMO) Control Design for Aircraft viaConvex Optimization,” Proceedings of the2003 American Control Conference, Denver,CO, 987-992, June 2003.

R.P. Metzger and A.A. Rodriguez, “AnInteractive Flexible Inverted PendulumModeling, Simulation, Animation, and Real-Time (MoSART) Control Environment forEnhancing Research and Teaching,”Proceedings of the 2003 American ControlConference, Denver, CO, 639-644, June 2003.

Dieter K. SchroderOffice: ERC 111E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-6621Ph.D.: University of Illinois, 1968

Dieter Schroder joined the ASU faculty in1981 after 13 years at the WestinghouseResearch Labs. He has published two books,145 journal articles, eight book chapters, 135conference presentations, edited nine books,holds five patents, and has graduated 59M.S. students and 28 Ph.D. students.

Research Interests: Semiconductor devices,defects in semiconductors, semiconductormaterial and device characterization,electrical/lifetime measurements, low-powerelectronics, device modeling, MOS devices.

Honors and Distinctions: IEEE Life Fellow;Distinguished National Lecturer for the IEEEElectron Device Society, 1993-2004; ASUCollege of Engineering Teaching ExcellenceAward, 1989, 1998, 2001; National TechnicalUniversity Outstanding Instructor, 1991-2003;University Continuing Education AssociationFaculty Service Award, 1997; ASU College ofExtended Education Distance LearningFaculty Award, 1998; IEEE MeritoriousAchievement Award in Continuing EducationActivities, 1998; IEEE Phoenix Section:Outstanding Faculty Member, 2000.

Selected Publications: D.K. Schroder and J.A. Babcock, “NegativeBias Temperature Instability: A Road to Crossin Deep Submicron CMOS Manufacturing,” J.Appl. Phys., Vol. 94, 1-18, July 2003.

J.E. Park, J. Shields, and D.K. Schroder,“Nonvolatile Memory Disturbs Due to Gateand Junction Leakage Currents,” Solid-StateElectron, Vol. 47, 855-864, May 2003.

I. Knezevic, D. Vasileska, R. Akis, J. Kang,X. He, and D. K. Schroder, “Monte CarloParticle-Based Simulation of FIBMOS:Impact of Strong Quantum Confinement onDevice Performance,” Physica B, Vol. 314,386-390, 2002.

D.K. Schroder, “Low Power Silicon Devices,”in The Encyclopedia of Materials: Scienceand Technology, eds. K.H.J. Buschow, R.W.Cahn, M.C. Flemings. B. Ilschner, E.J.Kramer, and S. Mahajan; Elsevier, 2002.

D.K. Schroder, “Contactless Surface ChargeSemiconductor Characterization,” Mat. Sci.Eng., B91-92, 196-210, 2002.

Ronald J. RoedelOffice: ECG 102E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-4462Ph.D.: UCLA, 1976

Ronald Roedel joined the faculty in 1981 andis now Associate Dean of the Ira A. FultonSchool of Engineering. He has always triedto carry out research and teaching activitiesin equal measure. Recently, he has becomeinvolved in curriculum reform issues, active-learning strategies, and technology-enhanced education. On the research side,he has been involved in semiconductorresearch for more than 25 years, first withsilicon, then with compound semiconductormaterials, and now with silicon again. He isthe author or co-author of 35 publicationsand has roughly 50 presentations, two bookchapters, and two patents in the fields ofsemiconductor characterization andengineering education.

Research Interests: Semiconductormaterials and devices with a special interestin modeling devices made from largebandgap materials, engineering pedagogywith a special interest in distance learning.

Honors and Distinctions: ASU College ofEngineering Teaching Excellence Awardthree times; NSF Presidential YoungInvestigator Award, 1984; and the ASUParents Association Professor of the YearAward, 1999.

Selected Publications: K. Gonzalez-Landis, P. Flikkema, V.Johnson, J. Palais, E. Penado, R.J. Roedel,and D. Shunk, “The Arizona Tri-universityMaster of Engineering Program,”Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education(FIE) Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 2002.

S. Duerden, J. Garland, C. Helfers, and R.J.Roedel, “Integrated Programs and CulturalLiteracies: Using Writing to Help EngineeringStudents Transition to the Cultural Literaciesof College,” Proceedings of the AmericanSociety of Engineering Education (ASEE)Conference, Montreal, Quebec, CA, June,2002.

S. Duerden, J. Garland, C. Helfers, and R.J.Roedel, “Integration of First Year English andIntroduction to Engineering Design: A Path toExplore the Literacy and Culture ofEngineering,” Proceedings of the AmericanSociety of Engineering Education (ASEE)Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001.


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Brian J. SkrommeOffice: ERC 155E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-8592Ph.D.: University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, 1985

Brian Skromme joined the ASU faculty in1989, where he is presently an associateprofessor in solid-state electronics. From1985 to 1989, he was a member of thetechnical staff at Bellcore. He has writtenover 105 refereed publications in solid-stateelectronics.

Research Interests: Compoundsemiconductor materials and devices,especially wide bandgap materials foroptoelectronic, high-frequency, high-power,and high-temperature applications; opticalcharacterization of semiconductor materials;development of GaN and SiC-basedmaterials and devices.

Honors and Distinctions: Eta Kappa Nu;Young Faculty Teaching Award, 1990-1991;Golden Key National Honor SocietyOutstanding Professor Award, 1991; listed inWho’s Who in Science and Engineering andWho’s Who in Engineering Education.

Selected Publications:H.X. Liu, G.N. Ali, K.C. Palle, M.K. Mikhov,B.J. Skromme, Z. J. Reitmeyer, and R.F.Davis, “Evolution of Subgrain Boundaries inHeteroepitaxial GaN/AlN/6H-SiC Grown byMetalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition,” inGaN and Related Alloys, 2002, eds. E.T. Yu,Y. Arakawa, A. Rizzi, J.S. Speck, and C.M.Wetzel, MRS Proceedings, Vol. 743, L6.3.1-L6.3.6, Warrendale, PA, 2003.

L. Chen and B.J. Skromme, “SpectroscopicCharacterization of Ion-Implanted GaN,” inGaN and Related Alloys, 2002, eds. E.T. Yu,Y. Arakawa, A. Rizzi, J.S. Speck, and C.M.Wetzel, MRS Proceedings, Vol. 743, 2003,L11.35.1-L11.35.6, Warrendale, PA, 2003.

B.J. Skromme, K.C. Palle, C.D. Poweleit, H.Yamane, M. Aoki, and F.J. DiSalvo, “OpticalSpectroscopy of Bulk GaN Crystals Grownfrom a Na-Ga Melt,” Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol.81, 3765-3767, 2002.

B.J. Skromme, K. Palle, C.D. Poweleit, L.R.Bryant, W.M. Vetter, M. Dudley, K. Moore,and T. Gehoski, “Oxidation-InducedCrystallographic Transformation in Heavily N-Doped 4H-SiC Wafers,” Mater. Sci. Forum,Vols. 389-393, 455-458, 2002.

Jennie SiOffice: GWC 618E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-6133Ph.D.: University of Notre Dame, 1992

Jenni Si received her B.S. and M.S. degreesfrom Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, andher Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame,all in electrical engineering. She joined theASU faculty in 1991 where she is currently aprofessor.

Research Interests: Learning and adaptivesystems; approximate dynamic programmingfor nonlinear dynamic system optimization;cortical information processing and modelingin animal brains, brain-machine interface;pattern analysis and machine intelligence.

Honors and Distinctions: Listed in manyMarquis Who’s Who publications since late1990s; NSF/White House PresidentialFaculty Fellow, 1995; Motorola ExcellenceAward, 1995; NSF Research InstitutionAward, 1993; past associate editor of IEEETransactions on Automatic Control and IEEETransactions on SemiconductorManufacturing; associate editor of IEEETransactions on Neural Networks; one of the10 students who received the highest honorat Tsinghua University in Beijing, China,1984.

Selected Publications:Russell Enns, Jennie Si, “Helicopter flightcontrol reconfiguration for main rotor actuatorfailures,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control,and Dynamics, Vol. 26, No. 4, 572-584. July-Aug. 2003.

Russell Enns and Jennie Si, “Helicoptertrimming and tracking control using directneural dynamic programming,” IEEE Trans.on Neural Networks, Vol. 14, No. 4, 929-939,July-Aug. 2003.

B. J. Nelson, G. Runger, and J. Si, “An ErrorRate Comparison of Classification MethodsWith Continuous Explanatory Variables,” TheIIE Transactions, Vol. 35, No. 6, 557-566,June 2003.

Jennie Si and Jim Wang, “On-line learning byassociation and reinforcement,” IEEE Trans.on Neural Networks, Vol. 12, No. 2, 349-360,Mar. 2001.

J. Si, S. Lin, and M.A. Vuong, “Dynamictopology representing network,” NeuralNetworks, the Official Journal of InternationalNeural Network Society, Vol. 13, No. 6, 617-627, 2000.

Jun ShenOffice: ERC 109E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-9517Ph.D.: University of Notre Dame, 1990

Jun Shen joined the faculty in 1996 after sixyears of experience with Motorola’s PhoenixCorporate Research Labs. He is the authoror co-author of over 50 refereed articles andmany other conference publications. He isalso the inventor or co-inventor of 28 issuedU.S. patents.

Research Interests: MEMS, physics oforganic LEDs, and novel logic and memorydevices and circuits.

Honors and Distinctions: MotorolaDistinguished Innovator Award, MotorolaSPS Technical Achievement Award, IEEESenior Member.

Selected Publications:M. Ruan, J. Shen, and C. Wheeler, “LatchingMicromagnetic Relays,” J. MEMS, Vol. 10,511-517, 2001.

E.F. Yu, J. Shen, M. Walther, T.C. Lee, andR. Zhang, “Planar GaAs MOSFET Using WetThermally Oxidized AlGaAs as GateInsulator,” Electron. Lett., Vol. 36, 359, 2000.

J. Shen, D. Wang, E. Langlois, W.A. Barrow,P.J. Green, C.W. Tang, and J. Shi,“Degradation Mechanisms in Organic LightEmitting Diodes,” Synthetic Metals, Vol. 111-112, 233-236, 2000.

J. Yang and J. Shen, “Effects of Hole Barrierin Bilayer Organic Light Emitting Devices,” J.Phys. D., Vol. 33, 1768, 2000.

J. Shen and J. Yang, “Carrier Transport inOrganic Alloy Light-Emitting Diodes,” J. Appl.Phys., Vol. 87, 3891, 2000.

D. Wang and J. Shen, “A Theoretical Modelfor Carrier Transport in Disordered OrganicMaterials,” SyntheticMetals, Vol. 111-112,349-351, 2000.

V.-E. Choong, J. Shen, J. Curless, S. Shi, J.Yang, and F. So, “Efficient and DurableOrganic Alloys for ElectroluminescentDisplays,” J. Phys. D., Vol. 33, 760, 2000.

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Andreas SpaniasOffice: GWC 428E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-3424Ph.D.: West Virginia University, 1988

Andreas Spanias joined the ASU faculty in1988. He has published 40 journal and 100conference papers and contributed threebook chapters in speech and audioprocessing. He has served as associateeditor of IEEE Transactions on SignalProcessing and as the general co-chair ofthe 1999 International Conference onAcoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing(ICASSP-99) and as vice-president for theIEEE Signal Processing Society. He andformer Ph.D. student Ted Painter receivedthe prestigious 2002 IEEE Donald G. FinkPrize Paper Award for their IEEEProceedings paper entitled “PerceptualCoding of Digital Audio.” He was recentlyelected IEEE Fellow and appointed IEEEDistinguished Lecturer.

Research Interests: Digital signalprocessing, multimedia signal processing,speech and audio coding, adaptive filters,signal processing for the arts.

Honors and Distinctions: IEEE Fellow;IEEE Distinguished Lecturer; Donald G. FinkPrize for paper titled “Perceptual Coding ofDigital Audio,” 2002; Intel Advanced PersonalCommunications Division—Central LogicEngineering Award, 1997; Intel ResearchCouncil: Natural Data Types CommitteeAward, 1996; Intel Corporation Award forLeadership and Contributions to the 60172Processor Architecture, 1993. Author of J-DSP software (http://jdsp.asu.edu) ISBN 0-9724984-0-0 that ranked in the top threeeducational resources in 2003 by the UC-Berkeley NEEDS panel.

Selected Publications:Niranjan Chakravarti, Andreas Spanias, K.Tsakalis, and L. Iasemides, “AR Modeling ofDNA sequences,” EURASIP JASP - SpecialIssue On Signal Processing Genomics, Vol.2003, No. 4, 15-20, Jan. 2004

J. Foutz, A. Spanias, S. Bellofiore and CBalanis, “ Adaptive Eigen-ProjectionBeamforming Algorithms for 1-D and 2-DAntenna Arrays,” IEEE Antennas andPropagation (APL), Vol. 2, No. 2 , 62- 65,2003.

Gopal Nair and A. Spanias,”The EigenspaceProjection Algorithm,” Signal Processing, Vol.83, 1929-1935, 2003.

Nongjian TaoOffice: ERC 105E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 480-965-4456Ph.D.: Arizona State University, 1988

Nongjian Tao joined the ASU faculty as aprofessor of electrical engineering and anaffiliated professor of chemistry andbiochemistry in August 2001. Before that, heworked as an assistant and associateprofessor at Florida International University.He received the B.S. in physics from AnhuiUniversity in 1984 and the Ph.D. incondensed matter physics from ArizonaState University in 1988. He holds twopatents, has published over 100 refereedjournal articles and 10 book chapters, andgiven over 70 invited talks at national andinternational conferences.

Research Interests: Molecular electronics,nanostructured materials and devices,chemical and biological sensors, interfacesbetween biological molecules and solidmaterials, electrochemical nanofabrications.

Honors and Distinctions: Hellmuth FisherMedal 2003, Excellence in Research Award,Florida International University, 2000;Molecular Imaging Young Microscopist.

Selected Publications:X. Xiao, B.Q. Xu and N. J. Tao,“Measurement of Single MoleculeConductance: Benzenedithiol andBenzenedimethanethiol,” NanoLett., Vol. 4,267-271, 2004.

H. Zhang, S. Boussaad, N. Ly and N. J. Tao,“Magnetic Field-Assisted Assembly of Metal /Polymer/Metal Junction Sensor,” Appl. Phys.Lett., Vol. 84, 133-135, 2004.

B.Q. Xu, and N.J. Tao, “Measurement ofSingle Molecule Conductance by RepeatedFormation of Molecular Junctions,” Science,Vol. 301, 1221-1223, 2003.

B.Q. Xu, X. Xiao and N. J. Tao,“Measurement of Single MoleculeElectromechanical Properties,” J. Am. Chem.Soc., Vol. 125, 16164-16165, 2003.

V. Rajagopalan, S. Boussaad and N.J. Tao,“Detection of Heavy Metal Ions Based onQuantum Point Contacts,” Nano Lett., Vol. 3,851-855, 2003.

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Cihan Tepedelenlioglu Office: GWC 434E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 480-965-6623Ph.D.: University of Minnesota, 2001

Cihan Tepedelenlioglu joined the ASU facultyas an assistant professor in July 2001. Hereceived the B.S. from the Florida Institute ofTechnology in 1995, the M.S. from theUniversity of Virginia in 1998, and the Ph.D.from the University of Minnesota in 2001, allin electrical engineering. In 2001 he receivedthe NSF (early) CAREER award.

Research Interests: Wirelesscommunications, statistical signal processing,estimation and equalization algorithms forwireless systems, filterbanks and multiratesystems, carrier synchronization for OFDMsystems, power estimation and handoffalgorithms, space-time coding, ultrawidebandcommunications.

Honors and Distinctions: NSF CAREERAward, 2001.

Selected Publications: G. Giannakis and C. Tepedelenlioglu, “BasisExpansion Models and Diversity Technique sfor Blind Equalization of Time-VaryingChannels,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 86,1969-1986, Oct. 1998.

C. Tepedelenlioglu, A. Abdi, G.B. Giannakis,and M. Kaveh, “Estimation of DopplerSpread and Signal Strength in MobileCommunications with Applications to Handoffand Adaptive Transmission,” WirelessCommunications and Mobile Computing, Vol.1, No. 2, 221-242, Mar. 2001.

C. Tepedelenlioglu and G. B. Giannakis, “OnVelocity Estimation and CorrelationProperties of Narrow Band CommunicationChannels,” IEEE Transactions on VehicularTechnology, Vol. 50, No. 4, 1039-1052, July2001.

G.B. Giannakis and C. Tepedelenlioglu,“Direct blind equalizers of multiple FIRchannels: A deterministic approach,” IEEETransactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 47,62-74, Jan. 1999.

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Daniel J. TylavskyOffice: ERC 517E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-3460Ph.D.: Pennsylvania State University,

1982

Daniel Tylavsky is internationally known forapplying computation technology to theanalysis and simulation of the large-scalepower-system generation/transmissionproblems. He also is an avid educator whouses team/cooperative learning methods ingraduate and undergraduate education andis a pioneer in the use of mediatedclassrooms. He has been responsible formore than $2.8 million in research fundingfor both technical and educational researchprojects. He is a member of several honorsocieties and has received numerous awardsfor his technical work as well as for work withstudent research.

Research Interests: Electric power systems,numerical methods applied to large-scalesystem problems, parallel numericalalgorithms, new educational methods andtechnologies.

Honors and Distinctions: Senior Member ofIEEE, IEEE-PES Certificate for OutstandingStudent Research Supervision (three times),six awards for outstanding research from theIEEE-IAS Mining Engineering Committee.

Selected Publications:K. E. Holbert, G. T. Heydt, G. G. Karady, andD. J. Tylavsky, “PowerZone: ArtificialIntelligence Education Modules for PowerEngineering,” Proceedings of the 2001American Society of Engineering EducationAnnual Conference and Exposition,accepted.

Q. He, J. Si, and D. J. Tylavsky, “Predictionof Top Oil Temperature for TransformersUsing Neural Networks,” IEEE Trans. onPower Delivery, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1205-1211,Oct. 2000.

D. J. Tylavsky, Q. He, J. Si, G. A. McCulla,and J. R. Hunt, “Transformer Top-OilTemperature Modeling and Simulation,” IEEETrans. on Industry Applications, Vol. 36, No.5, 1219-1225, Sept./Oct. 2000.

D. J. Tylavsky, Q. He, G. A. McCulla, and J.R. Hunt, “Sources of Error in SubstationDistribution Transformer Dynamic ThermalModeling,” IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery,Vol. 15, No. 1, 178-185, Jan. 2000.

Konstantinos S. TsakalisOffice: GWC 358E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-1467Ph.D.: University of Southern California, 1988

Konstantinos Tsakalis joined the ASU facultyin 1988 and is now a professor. He receivedthe M.S. in chemical engineering in 1984, theM.S. in electrical engineering in 1985, andthe Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1988,all from the University of Southern California.He holds several patents and has publishedover 80 journal and conference papers.

Research Interests: Applications of control,optimization, and system identification theoryto semiconductor manufacturing, chemicalprocess control, prediction and control ofepileptic seizures.

Honors and Distinctions: Licensedchemical engineer, Technical Chamber ofGreece; member IEEE; Sigma Xi.

Selected Publications:L.D. Iasemidis, D.-S. Shiau, W.Chaovalitwongse, J.C. Sackellares, P.M.Pardalos, J.C. Principe, P.R. Carney, A.Prasad, B. Veeramani, and K. Tsakalis,“Adaptive Epileptic Seizure PredictionSystem,” IEEE Transactions on BiomedicalEngineering, Vol. 50, No. 5, 616-627, May2003.

Kostas Tsakalis, Sachi Dash, Alf Green, andWard MacArthur, “Loop-Shaping ControllerDesign From Input-Output Data: Applicationto a Paper Machine Simulator,” IEEETransactions on Control SystemsTechnology, Vol. 10, No. 1, 127-136, Jan.2002.

Ehsan Al-Dulaijan, Kostas Tsakalis, AlfGreen, and Sachi Dash, “MultivariableController Performance Monitoring viaRobust Stability Conditions,” Proceedings ofthe IEEE APC 2001 Workshop, IndustryAppl. Society, Vancouver, Canada, 3-8, May2001.

E. Grassi, K. Tsakalis, S. Dash, S.V.Gaikwad, W. MacArthur, and G. Stein,“Integrated Identification and PID ControllerTuning by Frequency Loop-Shaping,” IEEETrans. Contr. Systems Technology, Vol. 9,No. 2, 285-294, Mar. 2001.

K. Tsakalis, J.-J. Flores-Godoy, K. Stoddard,and B. Mack “Multivariable TemperatureControl of Magnetic Anneal Furnace,”Proceedings of the IASTED Intl. Conf. MIC,6-11, Innsbruck, Austria, Feb. 19-22, 2001.

Trevor ThorntonOffice: ERC 181E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-3808Ph.D.: Cambridge University, 1987

Trevor Thornton joined the faculty in 1998having spent eight years at Imperial Collegein London and two years as a member of thetechnical staff at Bell CommunicationsResearch, New Jersey. He invented the split-gate transistor, which was used todemonstrate the quantization of the ballisticresistance. He is currently the Director of theCenter for Solid State Electronics Research.

Research Interests: Nanostructures,molecular electronics, short gate lengthMOSFETs, the micropower applications ofsub-threshold FETs.

Honors and Distinctions: Recipient of ASUCo-Curricular Programs Last Lecture Award,2001.

Selected Publications: G.M. Laws, T.J. Thornton, J.M. Yang, L. de laGarza, M. Kozicki, D. Gust, J. Gu, and D.Sorid, “Drain current control in a hybridmolecular/MOSFET device,” Physica E-Low-Dimensional Systems & Nanostructures, Vol.17, No. 1-4, 659-663, 2003.

P.S. Chakraborty, M.R. McCartney, J. Li, C.Gopalan, M. Gilbert, S.M. Goodnick, T.J.Thornton, and M.N. Kozicki, “Electronholographic characterization of ultra-shallowjunctions in Si for nanoscale MOSFETs,”IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol.2, No. 2, 102-109, 2003.

T.J. Thornton, “Physics and applications ofthe Schottky Junction Transistor,” IEEETransactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 48,No. 10, 2421-2427, 2001.

T.J. Thornton, “Mesoscopic Devices,”Chapter 9 of Low DimensionalSemiconductor Structures, eds. KeithBarnham and Dmitri Vvedensky, CambridgeUniversity Press, 296-347, 2001.

D.A. Wharam, T.J. Thornton, R. Newbury, M.Pepper, H. Ahmed, J.E.F. Frost, D.G. Hasko,D.C. Peacock, D.A. Ritchie, and G.A.C.Jones, “One-Dimensional Transport and theQuantization of the Ballistic Resistance,”Journal of Physics C-Solid State Physics,Vol. 21, No. 8, L209-L214, 1988.

Junshan ZhangOffice: GWC 426E-mail: [email protected]: 480-727-7389Ph.D.: Purdue University, 2000

Junshan Zhang joined the ASU faculty as anassistant professor in August 2000. Hereceived the B.S. in electrical engineeringfrom HUST, China, in July 1993; the M.S. instatistics from the University of Georgia inDecember 1996; and the Ph.D. in electricalengineering from Purdue University in 2000.He is the recipient of a 2003 NSF CAREERAward. He won the 2003 Faculty ResearchAward from the IEEE Phoenix Section. Hewas chair of the IEEE Communications andSignal Processing Phoenix Chapter from2001 to 2003.

Research Interests: Wireless networks andinformation theory, including cross-layerdesign of wireless networks, CDMA, ad hocnetworking, wireless communication, radioresource allocation, network informationtheory.

Honors and Distinctions: Member of IEEEand ASEE, 2003 NSF CAREER award.

Selected Publications:J. Zhang and X. Wang, “Large-SystemPerformance Analysis of Blind and Group-Blind Multiuser Receivers,” IEEETransactions on Information Theory, Vol. 48,No. 9, 2507-2523, Sept. 2002.

I. Kontoyiannis and J. Zhang, “ArbitrarySource Models and Bayesian Codebooks inRate-Distortion Theory,” IEEE Transactionson Information Theory, Vol. 48, No. 8, 2276-25290, Aug. 2002.

J. Zhang, E.K.P. Chong, and D.N.C. Tse,“Output MAI Distributions of Linear MMSEMultiuser Receivers in DS-CDMA Systems,”IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,Vol. 47, No. 3, 1128-1144, Mar. 2001.

J. Zhang, E.K.P. Chong, and I. Kontoyiannis,“Unified Spatial Diversity Combining andPower Allocation Schemes for CDMASystems,” IEEE Journals on Selected Areasin Communications, Vol. 19, No. 7, 1276-1288, July 2001.

J. Zhang and E.K.P. Chong, “CDMA Systemsin Fading Channels: Admissibility, NetworkCapacity, and Power Control,” IEEETransactions on Information Theory, Vol. 46,962-981, May 2000.

Yong-Hang ZhangOffice: ERC 161E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-2562Ph.D.: Max-Planck Institute for Solid State

and Stuttgart University, Germany, 1991

Yong-Hang Zhang joined the faculty in 1996from Hughes Research Laboratories. He haspublished over 70 research articles and abook chapter, secured three U.S. patents,and edited several conference proceedings.He has presented more than 70 invited andcontributed papers at various internationalscientific conferences.

Research Interests: Molecular beam epitaxy(MBE), optoelectronic devices and theirapplications.

Honors and Distinctions: IEEE SeniorMember, Innovation and Excellence in LaserTechnology and Applications Award fromHughes Research Labs, listed in Who’s Whoin Science and Engineering, Who’s Who inthe World, chairs and co-chairs of numerousinternational conferences or workshops.

Selected Publications:S. R. Johnson, C.-Z. Guo, S. Chaparro, Yu.G. Sadofyev, J.-B. Wang, Y. Cao, N. Samal,X. Jin, S.-Q. Yu, D. Ding, and Y.-H. Zhang,“GaAsSb/GaAs Band Alignment Evaluationfor Long-Wave Photonic Applications,” J.Crystal Growth, Vol. 251, 521, 2003.

Y. G. Sadofyev, A. Ramamoorthy, B. Naser,J.P. Bird, S.R. Johnson, and Y.-H. Zhang,“Large g-Factor Enhancement in High-Mobility InAs/AlSb Quantum Wells,” Appl.Phys. Lett., Vol. 81, 1833, 2002.

M. Canonico, C. Poweleit, J. Menéndez, A.Debernardi, S. R. Johnson, and Y.-H. Zhang,“Anomalous LO Phonon Lifetime in AlAs,”Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 88, 215502, 2002.

S.R. Johnson, S. Chaparro, J. Wang, N.Samal, Y. Cao, Z.B. Chen, C. Navarro, J. Xu,S.Q. Yu, D.J. Smith, C.-Z. Guo, P. Dowd, W.Braun, and Y.-H. Zhang, “GaAs-substrate-based long-wave active materials with type-IIband alignments,” J. Vac. Sci. and Technol.,Vol. 19, No. 4, 1501, 2001.

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Dragica Vasileska Office: ERC 565E-mail: [email protected]: 480-965-6651Ph.D.: Arizona State University, 1995

Dragica Vasileska joined the ASU faculty inAugust 1997. She has published over 100articles in refereed journals, book chapters,and in conference proceedings in the areasof solid-state electronics, transport insemiconductors, and semiconductor devicemodeling. She has also given numerousinvited talks. She is a member of IEEE, theAmerican Physical Society and Phi KappaPhi.

Research Interests: Semiconductor devicephysics, semiconductor transport, 1-D to 3-Ddevice modeling, quantum field theory and itsapplication to real device structures, spintransport.

Honors and Distinctions: NSF CAREERAward, 1998; University Cyril and Methodius,Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, College ofEngineering Award for Best Achievement inOne Year, 1981-1985; University Cyril andMethodius, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia,Award for Best Student from the College ofEngineering in 1985 and in 1990.

Selected Publications:I. Knezevic, D. Vasileska, and D.K. Ferry,“Impact of strong quantum confinement onthe performance of a highly asymmetricdevice structure: Monte Carlo particle-basedsimulation of a focused-ion-beam MOSFET,”IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, Vol. 49, 1019-1026, 2002.

W.J. Gross, D. Vasileska, and D.K. Ferry, “3-D simulations of ultra-small MOSFETs: Therole of the discrete impurities on the deviceterminal characteristics,” Journal of AppliedPhysics, Vol. 91, 3737-3740, 2002.

D. Vasileska and S.M. Goodnick,“Computational Electronics,” MaterialsScience and Engineering, Reports: A ReviewJournal, Vol. R38, No. 5, 181-236, 2002.

D. Vasileska, C. Prasad, H. H. Wieder and D.K. Ferry, “Green’s Function Approach forTransport Calculation in aIn0.53Ga0.47As/In0.52Al0.48As Modulation-Doped Heterostructure,” J. Appl. Phys., Vol.93, 3359-3363, 2003.

C. Gardner, C. Ringhofer and D. Vasileska,“Effective potentials and quantum fluidmodels based on thermodynamic principles,”Int. J. High Speed Electronics and Systems,Vol. 13, 771, 2003.

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