Computer engineering research
Computing systems have expanded far beyond desktop machines or mainframes, and today are embedded in nearly everything including smartphones, appliances and medical devices. They now involve not only computation, but multi-modal sensing, signal processing, communications and control—enabling novel applications in domains ranging from homeland security, human-computer interaction, green computing and pervasive healthcare. Moreover, functions that were previously considered to be strictly software or strictly hardware can no longer be distinguished in that way. This is allowing the next generation of adaptive and intelligent computing systems to address emerging complex societal, health, security and sustainability problems.
Computer engineering is concerned with ways that the science of computation is applied to building devices, components and systems that perform the computation. It considers the design, analysis and optimization of systems that span nearly 10 orders of magnitude in scale—from components that are billionths of a meter in size to systems that occupy hundreds of square meters such as data centers.
Students with a graduate degree in computer engineering can reap the financial benefits of the growing job market in that field, as forecasts by the U.S. Labor Department forecasts that the demand for computer engineers will remain strong. Students with a Ph.D. in computer engineering have additional options for high-paying jobs, including academic positions, government and industrial research centers and senior engineering positions in industry.
Computer engineering faculty research interests
Applied and robust optimization
Ronald Askin
Logistics, manufacturing systems analysis, production planning and scheduling, operations research, applied statistics
Autonomous agents
Chitta Baral
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Graduate Program Chair, Computer Science
Knowledge representation, temporal logics, logic programming, dynamic systems, text extraction, question answering, natural language semantics, bioinformatics
Automated planning
Subbarao Kambhampati
Artificial intelligence, automated planning, machine learning, data and information integration
Violet Syrotiuk
Cross-layer design and optimization in changing network conditions, modeling and monitoring, medium access control protocols, multi-hop wireless networks including MANETs, WSNs, WMNs, and cognitive radio networks
Brain machine interface
Jennie Si
Learning and approximate dynamic programming, estimation and filtering of stochastic processes, neural networks, neurophysiological basis for learning and cognitive processing, cortical neural information processing
Chip generators
John Brunhaver
VLSI design, computer architecture, procedural hardware generation, computer vision accelerators, computer graphics hardware
Cyber and network security
Gail-Joon Ahn
Vulnerability and risk management, authentication and access control, security architecture for distributed systems, identity management, policy analysis and enforcement, formal models for computer security, and cyber crime analysis
Partha Dasgupta
Computer security, operating systems, distributed and parallel systems
Dijiang Huang
Network security, privacy prevention techniques, key management, secure ad hoc network routing, trust management for VANETs
Guoliang Xue
Survivability and security in smart grid, privacy and security in mobile social networks, economic approaches to network applications
Stephen Yau
Trust management and security, software engineering, distributed systems, service based systems, ubiquitous/pervasive computing
Yanchao Zhang
Network and distributed system security, wireless networking, mobile computing
Cyberphysical systems
Georgios Fainekos
Cyber-physical systems: hybrid dynamical systems, real-time and embedded systems, formal methods with applications to automation & control: system testing and verification, formal languages and logic, motion planning in robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
Sandeep Gupta
Professor, School Director
Wireless networks, mobile and ubiquitous/pervasive computing, embedded sensor networks for biomedical applications, parallel and distributed computing
Kasim Candan
Database systems, storage/querying/retrieval of multimedia and web data, heterogeneous information integration and retrieval, assistive technologies for information and data access, data clouds, ambient media systems
Yu Cao
Physical modeling of nanoscale technologies, design solutions for variability and reliability, and neural-inspired hardware and algorithms for learning
Hari Sundaram
Andreas Spanias
Professor, Director, SenSIP Center
Digital signal processing (DSP), speech and audio coding, adaptive filters, real-time processing of sensor data, DSP for arts and media applications
Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing
Robert LiKamWa
Joint appointment with the School of Arts, Media and Engineering
Mobile operating systems; mobile computer architecture; low-power mobile systems; computational imaging systems; computer vision systems; augmented reality systems; virtual reality systems; holographic computing
Sethuraman Panchanathan
Professor, ASU Senior Vice President for Knowledge Enterprise Development
Human-centered multimedia computing, ubiquitous computing environments for enhancing qualify of life for individuals with Disabilities, and haptic user interfaces.
Fengbo Ren
Hardware acceleration, embedded, reconfigurable, and parallel computing solutions for data analytics and information processing, energy-efficient computing, data-driven compressive sensing, hardware-friendly machine learning
Learning, data mining
George Runger
Statistical learning, process control, data mining for massive, multivariate data sets
Low power electronics
Chaitali Chakrabarti
VLSI architectures for media processing and wireless communications, algorithm-architecture co-design of signal processing systems including medical imaging, low-power embedded systems, reliable memory system design
Lawrence Clark
Circuits and architectures for low power and high performance VLSI for harsh environments, CAD for VLSI
Control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, approximation theory, sampled data and multi-rate control, embedded systems, rapid prototyping, modeling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART) of Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment (FAME), integrated real-time health monitoring, modeling, … read more
Microelectrical systems
Stephen Phillips
Professor, Director, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Applications and integration of microsystems including microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microelectronics, microactuators, neural recording and neural stimulation; applications of systems and control including adaptive control, control of microsystems, prosthetics, feedback control over nondeterministic networks
Multicore architecture
Umit Ogras
Digital VLSI design, embedded systems, multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoC), multicore architectures, electronic design automation
Aviral Shrivastava
Compilers and micro architectures for embedded systems, including techniques for power, performance reliability, temperature and code size improvement
Multimedia, signal and image processing
Lina Karam
Professor, Graduate Program Chair of Computer Engineering
Image and video processing, compression, and transmission, computer vision, visual quality assessment, human visual perception, multidimensional signal processing, digital filtering, source coding, and bio-medical imaging.
Baoxin Li
Professor, Program Chair
Computer vision and pattern recognition, image/video processing, statistical methods in visual computing, machine learning
Nanoscale modeling
Network optimization, QoS routing
Martin Reisslein
Professor and Graduate Program Chair, Computer Engineering
Metro and access fiber/wireless networks, multimedia streaming, multimedia traffic characteristics, software defined networking, engineering education
Andrea Richa
Self-organizing particle systems, programmable matter, bio-inspired algorithms, distributed computing and algorithms, theory of wireless communication, graph, randomized, and approximation algorithms, self-stabilizing overlay networks, combinatorial optimization, distributed resource allocation
Arunabha Sen
Resource optimization in optical, wireless and sensor networks, video transmission over mobile ad-hoc networks, network processors, system/network on chip design, combinatorial optimization, algorithm design and analysis
Network reliability
Charles J. Colbourn
Charles Colbourn
Combinatorial design theory, network algorithms and network design
Nonlinear dynamic systems
Real-time control
Pitu Mirchandani
Professor, The Avnet Chair in Supply Chain Networks
Optimization, decision-making under uncertainty, real-time control and logistics, application interests in urban service systems, transportation, and homeland security
Yann-Hang Lee
Real-time computing, internet of things (IoT), embedded system and software, fault-tolerant computing, distributed computing, service-oriented computing, performance evaluation
Scheduling theory
Motorola Professor of International Business
Discrete event simulation, deterministic scheduling, multi-criteria decision making
Dragica Vasileska
Semiconductor device physics, semiconductor transport, 1-D to 3-D device modeling, quantum field theory and its application to real nanoscale device structures, heating effects in nano-scale devices, current collapse in GaN HEMTs, optoelectronics including modeling of solar cells and photodetectors
Wei-Tek Tsai
Stochastic modeling
Esma Gel
Applied probability, stochastic processes, queuing theory, stochastic modeling and control of manufacturing systems
Jing Li
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Graduate Program Chair, Industrial Engineering
Statistical learning, data mining, biomedical and health informatics, quality and reliability engineering
Junshan Zhang
Ira. A Fulton Chair Professor
Wireless networks, mobile social networks, privacy and security, information theory, optimization and control in cyber-physical systems and smart grid
Konstantinos Tsakalis
Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair, Electrical Engineering
Applications of control, optimization and system identification theory to semiconductor manufacturing, chemical process control and prediction and control of epileptic seizures
VLSI architecture & circuit design
Sarma Vrudhula
Professor/Director of Center for Embedded Systems
CAD for VLSI circuits, logic synthesis and verification, low-power design, power, energy and thermal management in processors performance, power and yield optimization of VLSI circuits, novel logic structures and applications to biology
Wireless mobile and ad-hoc networks
Joseph Hui