Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University;
TAMU Site Director of NSF I/UCRC on Next Generation Photovoltaics and the Center for a Solar Powered Future (SPF2050)

College Station Office: 205D Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 862-4985
Fax: (979) 845-6443
Email: rbalog@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Advance power electronics systems and controls solar photovoltaic and electrical energy storage power systems, photovoltaic balance of systems (BOS), non-planer photovoltaic systems and BiPV, techno-economic optimization of renewable resource-based energy systems, microgrids and distributed DC power systems, power quality enhancement in AC electrical distribution system, model predicative control of power electronic systems, power electronics for solid state lighting (LED), and arc fault detection in photovoltaic, battery and dc systems.

Moore Professor
Associate Director of TEES Smart Grid Center
Office: 301I Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 862-1553
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: begovic@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Wide Area Monitoring; Protection and Emergency Control Using Smart Grid Apparatus; Sustainable and Resilient Energy Infrastructures; Managing Large Assets in Energy Infrastructure.

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
Tel: (979) 862-2545
Email: abirchfield@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Power system modeling, Power system computational analysis, Synthetic power grids and datasets, Extreme event impacts on power systems, Dynamics and stability of power systems; Power system visualization.

Office: 236B Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 862-6441
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: ulisses@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Statistical Signal Processing; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Collaborative Applications in Bioinformatics and Materials Informatics.

Office: 334F Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 847-9048
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: klbutler@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Computer and intelligent systems application to power distribution; systems distribution automation and management fault diagnosis; estimation of remaining life of transformers; intelligent reconfiguration; system modeling and simulation for hybrid vehicles.

Office: 333D Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-3719
Email: p-cantrell@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Computer networking, multimedia networking, video conferencing over LANs and WANs with multilayer coding over multiple multicast groups.

Office: 215F Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-7469
Email: xin_chen@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Scalable Learning-Assisted Control and Optimization, Autonomous Coordination of Massive DERs, Carbon-Electricity Nexus and Grid Decarbonization, High-Renewable-Penetration System Planning, Operation, and Control

J.W. Runyon, Jr. ’35 Professor II
Control Systems, Bioinformatics and Control
Office: 212F WEB, Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-5917
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: a-datta@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Adaptive control; Parametric robust control; Genomic signal processing and control.

Office: WEB 214H
Tel: (979) 458-5093
Email: katedavis@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Operation and Control of Power Systems; Interactions between Computer Networks and Power Networks; Security-oriented Cyber-physical Analysis Techniques; Data-driven and Model-based Coupled Infrastructure Analysis and Simulation; Cyber-Physical Situational Awareness (CyPSA).

Robert M. Kennedy ’26 Professor
Office: 205N Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-7582
Fax: (979) 862-1976
Email: m-ehsani@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Sustainable Power and Energy Systems; Power electronics; Motor drives; Electric and hybrid Vehicles; Superconductive magnetic storage (SMES); Aerospace power systems; Specialized power systems, Control systems, Energy storage systems, High voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission; Applications of microcomputers to power control; Pulsed power systems; High voltage engineering and electrical failures and hazards

TI Professor III in Analog Engineering
Office: 301F Wisenbakeer Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-7466
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: enjeti@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Advance power electronic converters for utility interface of solar-pv/wind/fuel-cell/battery-energy storage power systems; design of high temperature power conversion systems with wide band-gap semiconductor devices; new converter topologies for single/three phase solid state transformers (SSTs) with medium frequency isolation; medium voltage power converters for mega-watt scale solar-pv/wind/fuel-cell energy systems, adjustable speed drives with medium frequency transformer isolation; development of smart solar pv-systems for curved surfaces / BIPVs; power quality enhancement for interconnected renewables; power quality issues: design & development of active power filters; dynamic voltage restorer’s (DVRs) and new & improved ride-through technologies employing flywheel and supercapacitors; advancing switching power supply designs for portable power systems and modular fuel-cell systems.

Presidential Impact Fellow
Office: 309C Wisenbaker Engineering Building/GERB 237, Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-9686
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: arum.han@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip systems; High-throughput systems approach to enabling microbial bioenergy and cell-based biomanufacturing; High-throughput systems accelerating drug/vaccine development against emerging infectious diseases; Organ-on-a-chip & microphysiological systems (e.g., brain-on-a-chip); Single cell analysis microsystems for cancer analysis.

Office: 205M Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX, 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-4217
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: rusty.harris@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: CMOS and silicon technology; Materials integration; Novel electrical and physical device and materials characterization; III-V and nanophotonics; Self-assembled nanotechnology; Supercritical Fluid Processing and Deposition.

Office: 315D Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 862-4253
Email: hoyos@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Mixed-Signal Processing Solutions for High Speed, High-Bandwidth, High-Dynamic Range and Low-Power Applications Communication Theory, Wireless Communications, Broadband Mobile Communications Robust Signal Processing and its Applications.

Co-Director of Graduate Programs
Office: 333L Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: 979-847-8768
Fax: 979-845-2630
Email: jianghu@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Optimization for energy-efficient VLSI circuits, on-chip communication fabrics, adaptive circuit design, interactions between physical design and system-level design, heuristics for large scale combinatorial optimization.

 Office: 309E Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 458-1468
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: jimji@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Constrained imaging using mathematical modeling; Reconstruction algorithms in parallel imaging; Image registration, segmentation and analysis.

Director of Undergraduate Programs
Office: 318C Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 458-3555
Fax: (979) 845-7161
Email: karsilay@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: RF and Baseband Circuits, and Signal Processing and Adaptive Systems.

Texas A&M Regents & Eugene E. Webb Professor

Member, National Academy of Engineering

Office: 323C Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-7509
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: kezunov@ece.tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Power systems analysis, control, monitoring and maintenance. Protective relaying and protection system modeling and evaluation. Power engineering education. Application of intelligent techniques, advanced graphical user interface (GUIs), and embedded control systems.

Office: 333F Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-8371
Fax: (979) 845-2630
Email: sunilkhatri@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Computer-aided design of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) ICs, including logic and physical design automation. VLSI design of digital and analog circuits. Current topics of focus include don’t care computation, test generation, leakage power analysis and reduction techniques, clock distribution, asynchronous circuit design, cross-talk analysis and avoidance in VLSI design, datapath design automation, VLSI design for Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, Dense Wavelength-division Multiplexed (DWDM) network Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) techniques.

Office: 235E Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 847-9071
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: laszlokish@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Unconditional (Information-Theoretic) Security over the Wire; Noise-Based Logic and Computing; Myth-Busting in Physical Informatics; Thermal Noise at Zero Temperature; Fluctuation-Enhanced Sensing; Prompt Bacterial Identification: SEnsing of Phage-Triggered Ion Cascades (SEPTIC); Thermal Noise Engines and Demons; Heat-Speed-Error in Computation: Moore’s Law; Vibration-Induced Conductance Fluctuation (VICOF) Analysis of Soils

College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering
Distinguished Professor

Member of National Academy of Engineering of USA, World Academy of Sciences, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Office: 331E Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel:(979) 862-3376
Email: prk@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Renewable energy and power systems; Unmanned air vehicle transportation management system; Cybersecurity; Wireless networks and 5G; Cyberphysical systems; Autonomous transportation; Machine learning.

Office: 244B Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 862-5892
Email: john.lusher@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: High performance computing, Image processing and imaging systems, Embedded systems development.

Office: 728 Jack E. Brown Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-1372
Tel: (979) 845-4935
Fax: (979) 845-5398
Email: cmadsen@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Photonic Signal Processing; Integrated Optics; Optical filters (synthesis, analysis and adaptive filters); Microwave Photonics; Polarization Optics; Optical Ring Resonators; Dispersion and High speed optical signals.

Office: 205K Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-7591
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: r-nevels@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Mathematical and numerical techniques in electromagnetics, nanophotonics, electromagnetic scattering, antennas.

TEES Eminent Professor

Professor and holder of the O’Donnell Foundation Chair III

Director of the TEES Smart Grid Center

Member, National Academy of Engineering

Office: 308C Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 848-5001
Fax: (979) 848-5001
Email: overbye@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Power system analysis and simulations; Visualization of power system information; Big data and cyber security applied to power systems; Power system aspects of geomagnetic disturbances and EMP.

Office: 334J Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-1612
Email:  jv.rajendran@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Hardware security, Nanoelectronic computing architectures and VLSI design.

Associate Dean for Research
Associate Agency Director for Strategic Initiatives and Centers (Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station)
J.W. Runyon, Jr. ’35 Professor I
Assistant Agency Director for Strategic Initiative and Centers (Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station)
Computer Engineering & Systems Group Leader
Office: 333J Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-7598
Fax: (979) 845-2630
Email: reddy@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Computer networks; Storage systems; Multimedia systems; Computer architecture.

Engineering Research Chair Professor
Distinguished Professor

TEES Eminent Professor

Member, National Academy of Engineering
Office: 238 Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-7912
Fax: (979) 458-1139
Email: bdrussell@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Electric Power Engineering; Power System Protection; Control and Automation of Power Systems; Power Systems Diagnostics and Waveform Analytics; Forensic Engineering; Engineering Ethics; Engineering Professionalism.

IEEE Fellow
Office: 310MC&B Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 458-2287
Fax: (979) 862-4630
Email: eserpedin@tamu.edu

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Research Interests: Signal Processing for wireless communications; Machine learning; Artificial Intelligence; Smart Power Grids; Bioinformatics and genomics; Cybersecurity.

Office: 332C Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 458- 0094
Fax: (979) 845-2630
Email: sshakkot@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Economics and incentives in networked systems, learning and game theory, cyber-physical systems, content distribution networks, wireless ad-hoc networks, and measurement and analytics of large scale network data.

Office: 333K Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-3820
Fax: (979) 845-2630
Email: wshi@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: computer-aided design of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) CAD, including physical design, parasitic extraction, fault diagnosis, variational analysis and process synthesis.

TI Professorship I in Analog Engineering
Analog & Mixed Analog & Mixed Signal Group Leader
Office: 318B Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-7477
Fax: (979) 845-7961
Email: jose-silva-martinez@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Design and fabrication of integrated circuits for communication, radar and biomedical applications; Data Converters; Power Amplifiers; Radar Systems; Power Management

Regent Professor and Irma Runyon Chair Professor, Member, National Academy of Engineering
Office: 320C Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-7589
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: singh@ece.tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Reliability and Security of Electric Power Systems; Theory and Applications of System Reliability; Integration of Renewable Energy Sources; Reliability of Cyber-Physical Systems.

Office: 334G Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 458-0092
Fax: (979) 845-2630
Email: spalex@ece.tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Algorithmic and Information-theoretic aspects of networking; Network coding and its applications in communication networks; QoS routing for unicast and multicast.

Office: 237C Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 862-3034
Fax: (979) 845-6259
Email: toliyat@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of electric machinery; Motors and generators, high speed, medium voltage, etc.; Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles; Auxiliary power generators.

Executive Director for Halliburton Global Engineering Program
Executive Director, TEES Global Initiatives
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Office: 215J Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 778430-3128
Phone: (979) 862-8869
Email: m-weichold@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Solid State Device Physics and Fabrication.

Chancellor EDGES Fellow

Presidential Impact Fellow

Assistant Director-Energy Digitization, Texas A&M Energy Institute

Office: 301H Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 845-7563
Fax: 979-845-6259
Email: le.xie@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Modeling and control of electric energy systems; Integration of renewable variable energy resources; Design and optimization of competitive power systems; Theory and application of cyber-physical energy systems.

Office: 331D Wisenbaker Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (979) 458-1416
Fax: (979) 845-2630
Email: xizhang@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Statistical Delay-Bounded QoS Provisioning for 6G Multimedia Mobile Wireless Networks; Finite Blocklength Coding for URLLC Over 6G Multimedia Mobile Wireless Networks; Machine Learning and Deep Learning for 6G Mobile Wireless Networks; Edge Computing, Distributed Caching, and Offloading Over 6G Mobile Wireless Networks; 6G Mobile Wireless Networks and Architectures; Wireless Cognitive Radio Networks; Green Mobile Wireless Communications and Networks; Mobile Cloud Computing and Data Center Networking; Virtualized Wireless Networks and Software Defined Networks; Full-Duplex, D2D, Massive-MIMO, Cloud-RAN, OFDM, MC-DS-CDMA Wireless Networks; Quantum-Communications for QoS/Security Gurantees in Satellite Networks; 3D Wireless Camera Sensor Networks for Multiple Mobile Target Tracking; Underwater Wireless Networks.