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Electrical Engineering Faculty

Ruth Iris Bahar, Ph.D., University of Colorado

Associate Professor of Engineering

Ruth_Bahar@Brown.EDU
Computer Architecture, Low-Power Design, and Computer-Aided VLSI Design.

Rod Beresford, Ph.D., Columbia University

Professor of Engineering

rod_beresford@Brown.EDU
Molecular beam epitaxy, electronic materials and devices, quantum well and superlattice device physics.

David Cooper, Ph.D., Columbia University

Professor

David_Cooper@Brown.EDU
Computer vision, pattern recognition, communication and information sciences.

Gregory Crawford, Ph.D., Kent State University

Associate Professor

Gregory_Crawford@brown.edu
Optoelectronic material and devices, flat panel displays, light valves, liquid crystals and polymers.

Jerry Daniels, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Assoc. Professor

Jerry_Daniels@Brown.EDU
Neural networks, genetic algorithms, visual physiology, eye movements, development of the nervous system, bio-instrumentation.

Jennifer Dworak, Ph.D., Texas A&M University

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Jennifer_Dworak@brown.edu
Digital circuit testing and automatic test pattern generation, defective part level modeling, logic minimization, and design verification.

Barrett Hazeltine, Ph.D., University of Michigan

Professor

Barrett_Hazeltine@Brown.EDU
Management of technology, technology in development, engineering education, digital systems.

Benjamin Kimia, Ph.D., McGill University

Professor

Benjamin_Kimia@Brown.EDU
Computer vision and image processing, artificial intelligence

Joseph Mundy, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Professor (Research)

mundy@lems.brown.edu
Computer vision, artificial intelligence, multimedia

Arto Nurmikko, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Professor of Engineering and Physics

Arto_Nurmikko@brown.edu
Nanophotonics, Nanomaterials, and Neuroengineering/ Neurotechnology

Allan Pearson, Ph.D., Columbia University

Professor

Allan_Pearson@Brown.EDU
Control theory, system modeling and parameter identification.

Sherief Reda, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Sherief_Reda@brown.edu
Nanometer-scale VLSI circuit design and electronic design automation; design automation methods for gene chips (DNA arrays); application specific processors and embedded systems architectures; applied combinatorial algorithms.

Harvey Silverman, Ph.D., Brown University

Professor

hfs@lems.brown.edu
Digital signal processing, speech recognition and analysis, computer architecture, microphone-array systems, nonlinear optimization.

Gabriel Taubin, Ph.D., Brown University

Associate Professor

taubin@brown.edu
Computer vision, computer graphics, geometric modeling, mesh signal processing, geometry compression, smart cameras, smart sensor networks, embedded systems.

William Wolovich, Ph.D., Brown University

Professor

William_Wolovich@Brown.EDU
Linear multivariable systems, robust control system design, robotics.

Jimmy Xu, Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Professor

Jimmy_Xu@brown.edu
Fabrication and physics of novel nanostructures, DNA-based molecular engineering, and opto-electronics

Alexander Zaslavsky, Ph.D., Princeton University

Professor

Alexander_Zaslavsky@brown.edu
Physics and technology of semiconductor microstructures and devices

Rashid Zia, Ph.D., Stanford University

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Rashid_Zia@brown.edu
Optical physics and optoelectronic devices.  High efficiency LEDs, modified selection rules, quantitative near-field microscopy, and surface plasmon optics