Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Specialization in the Department
- Acoustics and underwater acoustics: communication, detection, classification, and matched-field localization for underwater acoustic channels, speech processing.
- Biomedical engineering: physiologic systems modeling and control; medical instrumentation employing digital computer techniques, pattern recognition, and image processing in medicine (texture analysis, image classification, and segmentation); biological effects of electric and magnetic fields at the cellular level.
- Computer engineering and VLSI: microprogramming systems, multiprocessing, high-speed signal processing; processor realization using VLSI; MOS layout and microchip design; data structures and computer architectures, fault-tolerant computing.
- Communication theory: statistical and computer communications; vector quantization; noise modeling and detection; data compression and coding; local area networks, reliable and secure communication.
- Digital signal processing: detection and parameter estimation; prediction and filtering; spectrum analysis; array processing; digital filter synthesis; adaptive filtering, algorithm design.
- Electrical and optical properties of materials: optical properties of nonmetallic solids, laser-matter interaction, photocathodes; crystallographic techniques for submicron X-ray lithography; radiation damage in nonmetallic solids; semiconductor physics.
- Electromagnetic fields and optical communication: numerical and approximate methods for calculation of electromagnetic fields in inhomogeneous and anisotropic structures (related to biological effects of electromagnetic fields); evaluation of mode characteristics in optical and infrared fiber waveguides; fiber optic sensors; fiber optical amplifiers; electro-optic modulators; radiation effects.
- Systems theory: control and estimation theory, intelligent systems; multivariable systems; nonlinear systems, modeling of deterministic and stochastic systems; model order reduction; optimal smoothing, filtering and prediction; pattern recognition, classification, computer vision; computerized imaging systems and image analysis.
