20 faculty and 32 courses in Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology.
- Kerry J. Vahala, Ted and Ginger Jenkins Professor of Applied Physics h-index 102
High-Q optical microresonators and their applications including integrated optical time standards and frequency synthesizers, soliton astro combs for exoplanet discovery, high-coherence lasers on-a-chip, frequency microcombs, optical micro
- Pietro Perona, Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering h-index 95
Machine vision, artificial intelligence, perception, neuroscience Overview Professor Perona's research focusses on vision: how do we see and how can we build machines that see. Professor Perona is interested in visual recognition, more spe
- P. P. Vaidyanathan, Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Electrical Engineering h-index 75
Current emphasis is on sparse sampling in one and multiple dimensions, network signal processing, number theoretic signal processing, and applications in digital communications, array processing, radar signal processing, genomic signal pro
- Changhuei Yang, Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Medical Engineering h-index 55
Biophotonics, microscopy, wavefront shaping, live embryo imaging, AI-assisted pathology analysis, transcranial sensing Overview Professor Yang do research in the integrated use of optics and computation to solve biomedical challenges. His
- Yu-Chong Tai, Anna L. Rosen Professor of Electrical Engineering h-index 47
Medical devices, microsensors, MEMS, Bio-MEMS, labs-on-a-chip, microfluidics, drug delivery devices, micro implants, parylene as a biomaterial. Overview Professor Tai's research uses Semiconductor/MEMS/NEMS technologies for medical applica
- Harry A. Atwater, Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science; Division Chair, EAS h-index 43
Quantum and nanophotonics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, artificial photosynthesis, two-dimensional materials, nano- and micro-structured photovoltaics, space solar power and plasmonics Overview Professor Atwater's research focuses on qu
- Alireza Marandi, Professor of Electrical Engineering h-index 42
Photonics, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, optical frequency combs, spectroscopy Overview Professor Marandi's research focuses on fundamental and enabling advances in nonlinear photonics, spanning ultrafast optics, optical frequency comb
- Michelle Effros, George Van Osdol Professor of Electrical Engineering; Vice Provost for Research h-index 40
Information theory, communications, neuroscience Overview Professor Effros' research interests include information theory and neuroscience theory. Long-standing contributions in information theory focus on topics related to source coding
- Keith C. Schwab, Professor of Applied Physics h-index 37
- Sandra M. Troian, Professor of Applied Physics h-index 36
Dynamics and stability of small scale, free surface and confined flows including nonlinear dynamics, self-similarity, pattern formation, non-normality and transient growth, blowup behavior and cuspidal formation; Thermal phenomena at liqui
- Mohammad Mirhosseini, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering h-index 32
Es on developing and combining superconducting circuits with chip-based phononic and photonic devices at milikelvin temperatures. Long term research goal is to realize interfaces between circuit quantum electrodynamics and quantum optics fo
- Stevan Nadj-Perge, Professor of Applied Physics h-index 27
2D materials, topological materials, spin-orbit interaction, electronic correlations Overview Stevan Nadj-Perge is interested in development of mesoscopic devices for applications in quantum information processing. Such devices also provid
- Azita Emami, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical and Medical Engineering h-index 26
High-performance integrated circuits and systems Overview Professor Emami works to design and develop high-performance, low-power, mixed-mode integrated systems in highly scalable technologies that can lead to the advancement of theory and
- Joseph Falson, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics h-index 22
Es on the synthesis and characterization of quantum materials that display emergent functionalities. The group specializes in the thin-film growth of high quality crystals and their physical evaluation in extreme environments, including at
- Victoria Kostina, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences h-index 17
- Ali Hajimiri, Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering h-index 8
Integrated circuit, space-systems, nano-photonics, biosensing, mm-wave integrated, THz silicon integrated circuits, wireless power transfer, integrated radar, CMOS power amplifiers, magnetic therapudics, high-speed communication circuits.
- Babak Hassibi, Mose and Lillian S. Bohn Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences h-index 4
- Amnon Yariv, Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics
Theoretical and technological underpinning of optical communication Overview Professor Amnon Yariv's research focuses on the theoretical and technological underpinning of optical communication. Present projects include: new types of semico
- Andrei Faraon, William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics
Solid state quantum optics, and nano-photonics Overview Faraon's research interests are in solid state quantum optics and nano-photonics. Applications include quantum information processing, on-chip optical signal processing at ultra-low p
- Glen George, Teaching Professor of Electrical Engineering
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.