# Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

**Source**: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/faculty/ECE.html
**Parent**: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/front/courses.html

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*All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.*

#### Professors

Anthony S. Acampora, PhD, *Emeritus*

Peter M. Asbeck, PhD, *Skyworks Endowed Chair, Emeritus*

H. Neal Bertram, PhD, *Emeritus*

William A. Coles, PhD, *Emeritus*

Pamela C. Cosman, PhD, *Associate Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering*

Shadi Dayeh, PhD

Sujit Dey, PhD

Sadik C. Esener, PhD, *Emeritus*

Shaya Fainman, PhD, *Chair, *Cymer Professor in Advanced Optical Technologies**

Joseph Ford, PhD, *Emeritus*

Massimo Franceschetti, PhD

Eric Fullerton, PhD, *Director, Center for Magnetic Recording Research, Center for Magnetic Recording Research Endowed Chair*

Ian Galton, PhD

Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic, PhD

Robert Heath, PhD

William S. Hodgkiss, PhD, *Emeritus*

Ramesh C. Jain, PhD, *Emeritus*

Tara Javidi, PhD

Andrew B. Kahng, PhD

Young-Han Kim, PhD

Farinaz Koushanfar, PhD

Kenneth Kreutz-Delgado, PhD, *Emeritus*

Pradeep K. Khosla, PhD, *Chancellor*

Lawrence E. Larson, *Emeritus*

S. S. Lau, PhD, *Emeritus*

Sing H. Lee, PhD, *Emeritus*

Bill Lin, PhD, *Chair*

Zhaowei Liu, PhD

Yu Hwa Lo, PhD

Vitaliy Lomakin, PhD

Robert Lugannani, PhD, *Emeritus*

Huey-Lin Luo, PhD, *Emeritus*

D. Asoka Mendis, PhD, *Emeritus*

Laurence B. Milstein, PhD, *Ericsson Endowed Chair*

Shayan Mookherjea, PhD

Farrokh Najmabadi, PhD, *Emeritus*

Tina Ng, PhD

Truong Q. Nguyen, PhD

Alon Orlitsky, PhD, *Director, Center for Wireless Communications, Qualcomm Professor of Information Theory and its Applications*

George Papen, PhD

Albert P. Pisano, PhD, *Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering*

Kevin B. Quest, PhD, *Emeritus*

Stojan Radic, PhD

Bhaskar Rao, PhD, *Ericsson Endowed Chair in Wireless Access Networks, Emeritus*

Ramesh Rao, PhD, *Qualcomm Endowed Chair, Director, Qualcomm Institute, San Diego Division*

Gabriel Rebeiz, PhD, *Wireless Communication Industry Endowed Chair*

Barnaby J. Rickett, PhD, *Emeritus*

Manuel Rotenberg, PhD, *Emeritus*

M. Lea Rudee, PhD, *Emeritus*

Paul H. Siegel, PhD, *Center for Magnetic Recording Research Endowed Chair*

Daniel Sievenpiper, PhD, *Vice Chair*

Bang-Sup Song, PhD, *Charles Lee Powell Endowed Chair in Wireless Communications, *Emeritus**

David Sworder, PhD

Yuan Taur, PhD

Mohan Trivedi, PhD

Charles W. Tu, PhD, *Emeritus*

Nuno Vasconcelos, PhD

Andrew J. Viterbi, PhD, *Emeritus*

Paul Yu, PhD, *Associate Vice Chancellor, Research Initiatives, William S. C. Chang Endowed Chair*

Kenneth A. Zeger, PhD

#### Associate Professors

Dinesh Bharadia, PhD

Vikash Gilja, PhD

Clark C. Guest, PhD, *Emeritus*

Drew Hall, PhD

Duygu Kuzum, PhD

Hahn-Phuc Le, PhD

George J. Lewak, PhD, *Emeritus*

Patrick Mericer, PhD

Siavash Mirarab, PhD

Kenji Nomura, PhD

Piya Pal, PhD

Behrouz Touri, PhD

Michael Yip, PhD

Kenneth Y. Yun, PhD, *Emeritus*

Xinyu Zhang, PhD

#### Assistant Professors

Nicholas Antipa, PhD

Nikolay A. Atanasov, PhD

Tzu-Chien Hsueh, PhD

Mingu Kang, PhD

Florian Meyer, PhD

Parinaz Naghizadeh, PhD

Abdoulaye Ndao, PhD

Rahul Parhi, PhD

Jorge Poveda, PhD

Noah Rubin, PhD

Yuanyuan Shi, PhD

Yatish Turakhia, PhD

Edward Wang, PhD

Jun-Kun Wang, PhD

Xiaolong Wang, PhD

Pengtao Xie, PhD

Yang Zheng, PhD

#### Professors of Practice

John Sanford, PhD

Nambi Seshadri, PhD

David Whelan, PhD

#### Teaching Professor

Curt Schurgers, PhD

#### Associate Teaching Professor

Saharnaz Baghdadchi, PhD

#### Assistant Teaching Professors

Karcher Morris, PhD

Rajeev Sahay, PhD

#### Adjunct Professors

Cheolhong An, PhD, *Assistant Adjunct Professor*

C. K. Cheng, PhD, *Professor, Computer Science and Engineering*

Peter Gerstoft, PhD, *Research Scientist, Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography*

Prasad Gudem, PhD, *Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.*

Madhu Gupta, PhD, *Professor, San Diego State University, Emeritus*

Rajesh Gupta, PhD, *Professor, Computer Science and Engineering*

Fredric J. Harris, PhD, *Adjunct Professor*

John A. Hildebrand, PhD, *Professor*, *Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography*

John Hong, PhD, *Adjunct Professor*

Mingxiong Huang, PhD, *Adjunct Professor, Radiology*

Chris Mi, PhD, *Adjunct Professor, SDSU*

Tajana Rosing, PhD, *Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering*

Carl Taswell, PhD, *Adjunct Professor*

#### Affiliated Faculty

Gustaf O. S. Arrhenius, PhD, *Professor, Marine Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography*

Prab Bandaru, PhD, *Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering*

Gert Cauwenberghs, PhD, *Professor, Bioengineering*

Shaochen Chen, PhD, *Professor, NanoEngineering*

Todd Coleman, PhD, *Professor, Bioengineering*

Ert Cubukcu, PhD, *Associate Professor, NanoEngineering\*

Pankaj K. Das, PhD, *Emeritus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\*

Sylvia Herbert, PhD, *Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering*

Alicia Kim, PhD, *Structural Engineering*

Miroslav Krstic, PhD, *Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering \*

Imanuel Lerman, MD, *Associate Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology \*

Sonia Martinez, PhD, *Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering \*

Arya Mazumdar, PhD, *Associate Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute \*

Ying S. Meng, PhD, *Professor, NanoEngineering\*

Gal Mishne, PhD, *Assistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute \*

Donald Norman, PhD, *Emeritus, Cognitive Science*

Ryan Orosco, MD, *Assistant Professor of Surgery*

Roberto Padovani, PhD, *Executive Vice President,* *Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.*

Nasser Peyghambarian, PhD, *Professor, University of Arizona*

John Proakis, PhD, *Professor, Northeastern University*

Ravi Ramamoorthi, PhD, *Professor, Computer Science and Engineering*

Lingyan Shi, PhD, *Assistant Professor, Bioengineering*

Wei Xiong, PhD, *Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry*

Sheng Xu, PhD, *Assistant Professor, NanoEngineering, Bioengineering*