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Computer Engineering Faculty

Our faculty are a unique blend of researchers, educators and professionals who are proven experts in their fields. They are actively involved in:

  1. publishing juried scholarly works in their respective disciplines and contributing to the scholarly program at meetings of professional organizations
  2. submitting grant applications to external agencies
  3. contributing to the department's service mission through participation in professional organizations, involvement on departmental, college, and university committees, and by serving the nation, state and region with their professional expertise.

Shaikh Ahmed, Professor

Ph.D. Arizona State University, 2005

Dr. Ahmed's research interests are in: (a) Nanoscale device design for electronic, optoelectronic/photonic, and energy harvesting applications; (b) Quantum phenomena and devices; (c) Peta-scale scientific computing and developing community nanotechnology software.

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SIU Professor Shaikh Ahmed

Office: Engineering E-222
Office Hours: MWF: 10-10:50AM, MW: 12-1:30PM
Phone: 618-453-7630
Email: ahmed@siu.edu
Lab: Nanoelectronics
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Iraklis Anagnostopoulos, Associate Professor

Ph.D. National Technical University of Athens, 2014

Dr. Anagnostopoulos research interests include (i) many-core architectures, (ii) run-time resource management, (iii) dynamic memory management and (iv) embedded systems architectures.

 



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SIU Professor Iraklis Anagnostopoulos

Office: Engineering E-114
Office Hours: WF: 10AM-1PM
Phone: 618-453-7034
Email: iraklis.anagno@siu.edu
Lab: Embedded Systems Software
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Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge, Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Alberta, 2013

Dr. Aruma Baduge's research interests are in the broad area of communications theory and wireless communications with an emphasis on massive MIMO systems, millimeter-wave communications, cooperative relay networks, device-to-device communications, wireless energy harvesting for IoTs, and physical-layer security.



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SIU Professor Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge

Office: Engineering E-110
Office Hours: TR: 11AM-2PM, or by appointment
Phone: 618-453-4755
Email: gayan.baduge@siu.edu
Lab: Wireless Communications & Information Systems Laboratory
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Arash Asrari, Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Arizona State University, 2005

Dr. Asrari's current research interests include (1) modern power systems operation, (2) renewable energy systems integration, and (3) cybersecurity of smart grids. He started working in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern Illinois University as an Assistant Professor since Aug. 2017.



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SIU Professor Arash Asrari

Office: Engineering E-116
Office Hours: MTW: 1:30-3:30PM, or by appointment
Phone: 618-453-7642
Email: arash.asrari@siu.edu
Lab: Power Systems Design

YIng Chen, Associate Professor

Ph.D. Duke University, 2007

Dr. Chen's research interests are in: medical image reconstruction, signal and image processing.



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SIU Professor Ying Chen

Office: Engineering E-206
Office Hours: MW: 10AM-1PM, or by appointment
Phone: 618-453-7060
Email: adachen@siu.edu
Labs: Digital Imaging, Medical Imaging

Dimitrios Kagaris, Computer Engineering Program Coordinator, School of ECBE, Professor

Ph.D. Dartmouth College, 1994

Dr. Kagaris' research interests are in: (a) digital design automation, (b) design for testability, (c) sensor networks, and (d) data mining and bioinformatics. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers.



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SIU Professor Dimitrios Kagaris

Office: Engineering E-117
Office Hours: TWR: 12-2PM, or by appointment
Phone: 618-453-7973
Email: kagaris@engr.siu.edu
Lab: Fault Tolerant Design

Arash Komaee, Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 2008

Dr. Komaee's interests are in the areas of control theory and signal processing with emphasis on stochastic control, optimal control, estimation theory, and nonlinear filtering. In his current research, he applies these areas to problems in magnetic control of micro- and nano-scale systems. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.



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SIU Professor Arash Komaee

Office: Engineering E-216
Office Hours: MW: 1:30-4:30PM, or by appointment
Phone: 618-453-7064
Email: akomaee@siu.edu
Lab: Laboratory for Control and Optimization

Chao Lu, Associate Professor

Ph.D. Purdue University, 2012

Dr. Lu's research interests include (a) HEVC/H.265 real-time video encoding algorithms and VLSI hardware architecture, and (b) Deep neural network algorithm and VLSI hardware architecture (for smart building, self-driving, pattern recognition, and video/image processing applications).

 



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SIU Professor Chao Lu

Office: Engineering E-223
Office Hours: MWF: 1-3PM, or by appointment
Phone: 618-453-7028
Email: chaolu@siu.edu
Lab: VLSI System Research
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James Phegley, Senior Lecturer

Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, 2001

Dr. Phegley's areas of interest include Pattern recognition and classification, digital signal processing.



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SIU Professor James Phegley

Office: Engineering E-210
Office Hours: T: 11AM-2PM, R: 10AM-1PM, or by appointment
Phone: 618-453-7044
Email: phegley@engr.siu.edu

Jun Qin, Associate Professor

Ph.D. Duke University, 2008

Dr. Qin’s research interests cover signal processing, noise induced hearing loss, ultrasound medical applications, machine learning, speech processing, and medical devices.



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SIU Professor Jun Qin

Office: Engineering E-207
Office Hours: MWF: 1-2PM, or by appointment
Phone: 618-453-3460
Email: jqin@siu.edu
LabDigital Instrumentation
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Mohammad Sayeh, Electrical Engineering Program Coordinator, School of ECBE, Professor

Ph.D. Oklahoma State University, 1985

Dr. Sayeh's main research interests are in the areas of Photonics and Artificial Neural Networks. His research focuses on optical means with ANN architectures to solve engineering problems. Optical delta-sigma modulator with promise of THz modulation rate is his current project.

 



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SIU Professor Mohammad Sayeh

Office: Engineering E-204
Office Hours: MTWRF: 11A-12PM
Phone: 618-453-7066
Email: sayeh@siu.edu
Labs: Photonics-1, Photonics-2

Spyros Spyros Tragoudas, Professor and Director, School of ECBE

Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Tragoudas’s current research interests are in the areas of VLSI design & test, hardware security, embedded systems, and deep learning.



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SIU Professor Spyros Tragoudas

Office: Engineering E-202B
Office Hours: TR: 11AM-2PM, or by appointment
Phone: 618-453-7027
Email: spyros@engr.siu.edu
Lab: Electronic Design & Test Automation

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Haibo Wang, Biomedical Engineering Program Coordinator, School of ECBE, Professor

Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2002

Dr. Wang's research interests are in mixed-signal VLSI, sensor signal acquisition and processing, intelligent sensor system, medical sensor device.



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SIU Professor Haibo Wang

Office: Engineering E-4D
Office Hours: M: 2-3:30PM, W: 2-5PM, F: 9:30-11AM, or by appointment
Phone: 618-453-1522
Email: zhwang@siu.edu
Lab: Mixed Signal Design & Test
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Ning Weng, Professor

Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005

Dr. Weng's research interests are in: (a) network processing system, (b) system architecture, (c) analytical performance modeling, and (d) low power design.



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SIU Professor Ning Weng

Office: Engineering E-119
Office Hours: MWF: 10-11AM, 2-3PM, or by appointment
Phone: 618-453-7645
Email: nweng@siu.edu
Lab: Network Systems