Electrical & Computer Engineering

Core Dartmouth engineering faculty conducting research with applications in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) include:

• Petra Bonfert-Taylor
  Complex analysis; geometric function theory; discrete groups; complex dynamics; mathematics of medical imaging
• George Cybenko
  Information systems and theory
• Amro M. Farid
  Intelligent energy systems; sustainability, resilience, and reconfigurability; integrated control, automation, and information technology; smart power grids; energy-water nexus; transportation electrification systems; industrial energy management & demand response
• Eric R. Fossum
  Solid-state image sensors (CCDs, CMOS active pixel sensors, Quanta Image Sensors); advanced imaging systems; on-chip image processing; new applications for image sensors
• Ryan Halter
  Biomedical instrumentation; electrical impedance tomography and spectroscopy; medical imaging; tissue bioimpedance; cancer detection technologies; traumatic brain injury; medical robotics
• Eric W. Hansen
  Signal and image processing; digital system design; optics
• Alexander Hartov
  Biomedical engineering; medical imaging; electrical impedance tomography; image-guided surgery; cryosurgery; ultrasound; multi-modality imaging
• Christopher G. Levey
  Microfabrication technology; micro-optical systems and binary optics; micromechanical and electromechanical systems (MEMS); microrobotics
• Weiyang (Fiona) Li
  Energy materials; functional nanomaterials design and synthesis; structure-property correlations; electrochemical engineering; energy storage and conversion devices; batteries, fuel cells, and clean/renewable energy; electrocatalysis
• Jifeng Liu
  Optoelectronic materials and devices; integrated nanophotonics for energy-efficient Information Technologies (Green IT); Nanomaterials and nanostructures for solar cells and thermophotovoltaic cells; Infrared and ultraviolet optical sensors
• William Lotko
  Geospace environment; space plasma physics, modeling, simulation; magnetohydrodynamics; electromagnetic fields and waves
• Geoffrey P. Luke
  Ultrasound imaging; photoacoustic imaging; bionanotechnology; cancer diagnostics and therapy; molecular imaging
• Paul M. Meaney
  Microwave imaging ultrasound computed tomography for biomedical applications; microwave antenna design; thermal modeling and system design for focused ultrasound surgery applications
• Kofi M. Odame
  Analog integrated circuits; low power sensor interfaces; nonlinear signal processing
• Keith Paulsen
  Biomedical engineering; numerical methods in electromagnetics; cancer therapeutics; medical imaging methodologies; bioelectromagnetics
• Brian W. Pogue
  Optics in medicine, biomedical imaging to guide cancer therapy; molecular guided surgery; dose imaging in radiation therapy; Cherenkov light imaging; image guided spectroscopy of cancer; photodynamic therapy; modeling of tumor pathophysiology and contrast
• Laura Ray
  System dynamics and controls; robotics; signal processing; machine intelligence
• Eugene Santos Jr.
  Nonlinear decision-making; innovative reasoning; emergent behavior; probabilistic reasoning; adversarial modeling; intent inferencing; user modeling; information retrieval; evolutionary computation; socio-cultural modeling; intelligent systems; artificial intelligence
• Rahul Sarpeshkar
  Analog synthetic biology; biological and bio-inspired super-computing chip design; quantum circuit design, quantum computation, and hybrid quantum-classical computation; feedback control systems; medical devices; ultra-low-power, fault tolerant, and ultra-energy-efficient systems; engineering systems that operate at the fundamental limits of physics
• Simon G. Shepherd
  HF radar development; ionospheric plasma convection and physics; solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere coupling; space weather and climatology
• Fridon Shubitidze
  Numerical methods in computational electromagnetics; electromagnetic sensing methodologies; detection and discrimination of sub-surface objects; linear and non-linear inverse-scattering; induced geo-electromagnetic fields; micro strip antennas; photonic band gaps; near field optics; DNA sequencing; electrostatic discharge; magnetic nano-particles hyperthermia for cancer treatment and imaging
• Jason T. Stauth
  High-frequency and chip-scale power electronics; photovoltaic and electrochemical system management; sensor interfaces and energy scavenging; integrated circuit design (analog/mixed signal, RF, power, and embedded applications); communications electronics; technology entrepreneurship
• Charles R. Sullivan
  Power electronics; electromagnetic design of power electronics components; micro-fabricated magnetic components; nanocomposite magnetic materials; energy efficiency and renewable energy
• Stephen Taylor
  Information operations, distributed computing and systems, computer and network security, embedded systems, surveillance technologies
• B. Stuart Trembly
  Therapeutic heating of tissue; dielectric properties of tissue; biomedical engineering; antenna theory
• Vikrant Vaze
  Logistics and transportation; aviation; healthcare analytics; healthcare systems modeling; building energy analytics; systems optimization; game theory; data-driven and statistical modeling
• John X.J. Zhang
  Miniature imaging and biosensing systems; bio-inspired nanomaterials; lab-on-chip design; advanced nanofabrication technologies; multi-scale modeling of fundamental force, flow, and energy processes in biological interactions