Semiconductor Faculty

Professor

Research Areas:
Materials analysis, spectroscopy, microscopy, cultural heritage preservation

Associate Professor
Member, Center for Electron Microscopy and Nanofabrication

Research Areas:
Nanomaterials synthesis and characterization, electron microscopy (EM), imaging and spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray scattering and reflectivity (SAXS and XRR), metrology

Associate Professor
Member, Center for Electron Microscopy and Nanofabrication

Research Areas:
Photochemistry, computational chemistry

Research Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Nanomaterials, nanotubes, surface chemistry, lithography, photochemistry, materials and device analysis

Professor

Research Areas:
Functional logic programming and languages, symbolic computation

Professor

Research Areas:
Web and cloud security, blockchain security, malware reverse engineering

Senior Instructor

Research Areas:
High-resolution computer graphics, genetic algorithms, computer programming and languages

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Software, open source programming, artificial intelligence

Instructor

Research Areas:
Machine learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, numerical analysis

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Computing and quantum-safe cryptography

Adjunct Research Professor

Research Areas:
Advanced computer architecture, digital integrated circuits, hardware information security, digital system testing, memristors

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
THz mixer design, phonon-cooled hot-electron bolomoter mixer fabrication, ultra-thin substrate preparation, e-beam lithography, reactive ion etching, thin film deposition, microcontact printing, FIB, SEM, TEM

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
RF, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, crystal-free wireless communication, wireless sensor mote miniaturization, field-deployable sensor systems

Professor

Research Areas:
Physical design automation for VLSI ICs, 3D heterogeneous integration, ML and quantum inspired algorithms, CNT and graphene-based devices, cryogenic electronics

Professor

Research Areas:
IC Design and Test Lab, mixed-mode and high-frequency test and characterization of ICs, semiconductor device characterization, design, and simulation

Professor

Research Areas:
Modeling and verification of complex systems, formal methods, design automation, IC design, computing system design

Professor

Research Areas:
Microprocessor system design, computer architecture, embedded systems programming, computation and simulation

Professor

Research Areas:
Topology, lotteries & gaming, quantum computation

Professor

Research Areas:
Optimal parameter estimation and improved model predictive capabilities, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty quantification for large-scale dynamical systems

Professor

Research Areas:
Computer simulation techniques, design of numerical methods, numerical advances for domain-specific questions in optics and mechanics

Professor

Research Areas:
Machine learning, statistical learning, statistical modeling, stochastic search

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Data science, networks, statistics consulting

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Bayesian estimation, testing and prediction methodologies for massive data, statistics consulting

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Indoor air quality and building science, mathematical models to characterize sources, transformation, and removal processes of indoor air pollutants

Professor
Member, Center for Electron Microscopy and Nanofabrication

Research Areas:
Semiconductor thin films, nanowires, graphene, carbon nanotubes syntheses and characterizations, and the fabrication and testing of the electronic devices based on these semiconductor materials

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Micro-particle image velocimetry, measurements of flow in micro-devices, and non-Newtonian fluid flow

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Mechanical testing, fatigue testing, fracture mechanics, manufacturing process optimization, instrumentation, and robotics

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
First-principles-based methods and machine learning approaches to simulate dynamics of phonons and electrons, and application of such to solve materials problems

Professor

Research Areas:
Nanoscience, electronics packaging, reliability and failure analysis, electronic material characterization and modeling, deep learning

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Electronic packaging, engineering analysis, design optimization, semiconductor materials and manufacturing, computational mechanics, constitutive modeling and characterization of electronic and engineering materials

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Atmospheric physics and chemistry, computational modeling, greenhouse gas emissions, bayesian inversions

Professor

Research Areas:
Plasmonics, optical simulations, nanomaterials, solar cells, light-emitting diodes, nanowire devices, photoconduction, photoemission, carrier mobility, photoemission electron microscopy

Professor

Research Areas:
Near-field optical and acoustic Microscopy, proton-fountain electric-field-assisted nanolithography (PEN)

Instrument Technician, Science Shop

Skills:
Electronics troubleshooting and repair

Professor

Research Areas:
Nanomaterials, crystallography, crystallographic image processing, semiconducting materials, TEM, STEM, precession electron diffraction, STM, AFM, condensed matter physics

Professor

Research Areas:
Imaging, optics, nanomaterials, nanodevices, MEMS, modeling, biological systems

Associate Professor and Chair

Research Areas:
Atmospheric physics and chemistry, high-precision instrumentation, climate science, isotope biogeophysics

Professor

Research Areas:
Electron, optical, and ion microscopy development, advanced educational tools for students

Professor

Research Areas:
Electronic and optical materials growth, characterization, devices, simulation of material and device properties, sensors, energy storage, and laser and plasma processing of electronic materials

Professor

Research Areas:
Digital image sensors, physics education research

Manager, Center for Microscopy and Nanofabrication

Research Areas:
Electron and ion microscopy, spectroscopy, metrology, electronics materials characterization, failure analysis

Senior Instructor and Assistant Research Professor, Geology

Research Areas:
Transmission electron microscope (TEM), scanning electron microscope (SEM), SEM-electron backscatter diffraction (SEM-EBSD), and x-ray diffractometer (XRD)

Executive Director, Center for Retail Leadership

Areas of Interest:
Project management, supply chain logistics