FACULTY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

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FACULTY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND
COMPUTER ENGINEERING

• Presented to the
• ECE 1001
• Introduction to Electrical and Computer
  Engineering Class
• by
• Stan Burns
• Associate Dean
• Swenson College of Science and Engineering
• Jack Rowe Professor
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Fall Semester 2008

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• Stan Burns
• Associate Dean, Swenson College of Science and
  Engineering
• Jack Rowe Professor, ECE
• Professor and Head (UMD ECE 1998-2007)
• B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in E.E. Univ. of Wisconsin
  Madison
• Expertise in microelectronics, semiconductor
  device processing, analog
• circuit design, instrumentation
• Northland Advanced Transportation Systems
  Research Laboratories
• (NATSRL)-Principal Investigator
• Senior Member IEEE, Member ASEE, ECS
• Registered Professional Engineer in Minnesota and
  Iowa

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• Jing Bai
• Assistant Professor
• M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in E.E. from Georgia Tech
  2007
• Expertise in Nanotechnology, Nano-scale
  optoelectronic devices and non-linear optics
• Joined ECE Fall 2007
• Member IEEE, OSA (Optical Society of America),
  APS (American Physical Society)

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• Chris Carroll
• Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head
• At UMD Since 1988
• B.S. from Ga Tech, M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in C.S.
  California Institute of Technology
• Expertise in digital systems and microprocessor
  and
• microcontroller applications
• Member ASEE and Campus Representative

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• Tom Ferguson
• McKnight Professor
• Vice-President Minnesota Power (Retired)
• Chair ECE External Advisory Committee Through
  2005
• Expertise in Power Systems, Alternative Energy,
  Business Aspects Of the Electric Power Industry
• Registered Professional Engineer
• Consultant to Industry

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• Mohammed Hasan
• Associate Professor
• At UMD since 1997
• M.S.E.E. And Ph.D. in E.E. and Applied
  Mathematics, Colorado State Univ.
• Expertise in signal processing, modeling and
  estimation of random processes, and
  electromagnetic fields

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• Imran Hayee
• Associate Professor
• UMD ECE Faculty Member, Fall 2004
• Director of Graduate Studies
• Ph.D. in E.E. University of Southern California,
  Los Angeles (1998)
• Industrial experience at Tyco Submarine Systems
  (Formerly Bell laboratories, and with two
  startups-Corvis and Opvista
• Expertise in communications systems, optical
  communications, telecommunictions

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• Taek Mu Kwon
• Professor
• At UMD since 1988
• M.S. and Ph.D. in E.E. from Florida State
  University
• Expertise in neural networks and fuzzy
  controllers, digital signal processing, computer
  networks, Mn/DOT related instrumentation and data
  analysis
• NATSRL Co-Principal Investigator

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• Scott Norr
• Instructor
• Industrial experience in power systems and power
  electronics
• Teaches a lecture and laboratory course in power
  systems and lecture and laboratory courses in
  digital circuit design , circuit analysis
• Registered Professional Engineer
• IEEE Student Branch Advisor and Liaison With
  Arrowhead Section

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• Marian Stachowicz
• Professor and Jack Rowe Chair
• At UMD since 1991
• M.S. in Control and Computer Engineering
  Leningrad Electrical Institute, Ph.D. and D.Sc in
  Digital Electronics and Computer Control Systems
  Univ. of Cracow, Poland
• Expertise in control systems, soft computing and
  fuzzy logic, applications of advanced software
  to control of industrial processes

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• Hua Tang
• Assistant Professor
• Joined the ECE Faculty, Fall 2005
• Ph.D. in E.E., State University of New York,
  Stony Brook
• Expertise in high performance analog, digital,
  and mixed-signal Very Large Scale Integrated
  Circuit (VLSI) design and
• computer-aided design

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• Paul Weber
• Assistant Professor
• Joined the ECE Faculty, Fall 2006
• Ph.D. in E.E., Michigan Technological University
• Expertise in Hardware/Software systems
  Integration Microcontrollers, Computer
  architecture, Fault Tolerance, Safety Critical
  Real-Time Systems

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• Jiann-Shiou Yang
• Professor and Department Head Since 2007
• At UMD since 1988
• M.S. and Ph.D. in E.E. Univ. of Maryland College
  Park
• Expertise in robust and automatic control, system
  theory, computer-aided control system design and
  biped locomotion
• Senior Member IEEE

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• Debao Zhou
• Visiting Assistant Professor, since Jan. 2008
• Post Doctoral Fellow-Georgia Institute of
  Technology since Jan. 2005
• Ph.D. in M.E., Nanyang Technological Univ.,
  Singapore
• Expertise in system dynamics and control,
  robotics and biomaterial modeling
• Co-chair of the Manufacturing Automation
  Committee of the IEEE 
• Robotics and Automation Society

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• Lee Zimmerman
• Adjunct Assistant Professor
• Ph. D. in E.E. University of Minnesota, 1989
• Assistant Professor Tulane University
• Teaching in the areas of circuits,
  electromagnetics, microcomputer-based fuzzy logic
  systems, psychology of human vision, mobile
  robots to support senior design and digital
  circuit design