40 faculty and 40 courses in Electrical Engineering at University of California, San Diego.
- Andrew B. Kahng, Distinguished Professor h-index 72
Notable: “New spectral methods for ratio cut partitioning and clustering” (1992) · 1,279 citations
- Kenji Nomura, Professor h-index 66
Notable: “Room-temperature fabrication of transparent flexible thin-film transistors using amorphous oxide semiconductors” (2004) · 7,399 citations
- Y. Shaya Fainman, Distinguished Professor h-index 61
His group include photonic crystals (band gap); 3-D holographic optical storage for image processing; the investigation of artificial dielectric properties of nanostructures; transparent photonic switching fabric and networks; diffractiv
Notable: “Lasing action from photonic bound states in continuum” (2017) · 1,417 citations
- Zhaowei Liu, Professor h-index 58
Notable: “Far-Field Optical Hyperlens Magnifying Sub-Diffraction-Limited Objects” (2007) · 2,165 citations
- Siavash Mirarab, Associate Professor h-index 54
Notable: “A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity” (2017) · 2,904 citations
- Truong Nguyen, Distinguished Professor h-index 53
3D video processing, machine learning with applications in health monitoring / analysis and 3D modelling. He is the coauthor (with Prof. Gilbert Strang) of a popular textbook, Wavelets & Filter Banks, Wellesley-Cambridge Press, 1997
Notable: “ECG beat detection using filter banks” (1999) · 736 citations
- Robert W. Heath Jr, Professor h-index 52
Es on MIMO communications for next generation wireless networks. His group is looking at three areas: (1) developing new approaches for realizing and exploiting large MIMO systems in spectrum such as the upper midband, millimeter wave and t
Notable: “Review: The Pharmacology of Dobutamine” (1987) · 334 citations
- Patrick P. Mercier, Professor h-index 51
The design of energy-efficient microsystems, focusing on the design of RF circuits, power converters, and sensor interfaces for miniaturized systems and biomedical applications. Prof. Mercier has published over 220 peer-reviewed pap
Notable: “A wearable chemical–electrophysiological hybrid biosensing system for real-time health and fitness monitoring” (2016) · 852 citations
- Pamela C. Cosman, Chair, Distinguished Professor h-index 43
Notable: “Underwater Image Restoration Based on Image Blurriness and Light Absorption” (2017) · 1,195 citations
- Tse Nga Ng, Professor h-index 42
Es on the development of flexible electronics. Her research method is based on additive printing, which allows low-temperature patterning that is compatible with a wide range of materials, reduces wastes from mask steps, and enables rapid d
Notable: “Soft, stretchable, fully implantable miniaturized optoelectronic systems for wireless optogenetics” (2015) · 796 citations
- Pradeep K. Khosla, Chancellor, Distinguished Professor h-index 42
Notable: “Parameter identification of robot dynamics” (1985) · 375 citations
- Sujit Dey, Distinguished Professor h-index 40
Notable: “Video-Aware Scheduling and Caching in the Radio Access Network” (2014) · 289 citations
- Yu-Hwa Lo, Distinguished Professor h-index 39
Biomedical devices and systems, bioelectronics, microfluidics, nanophotonics, and semiconductor nanoscaled devices. Core research areas for Professor Lo are biomedical electronic and optical devices and systems and nanoscaled semiconduc
Notable: “ZnO Nanowire UV Photodetectors with High Internal Gain” (2007) · 2,579 citations
- Drew A. Hall, Professor h-index 39
Bioelectronics, biosensors, analog circuit design, medical electronics, and sensor interfaces. Dr. Hall was the recipient of the 2011 Analog Devices Outstanding Designer Award, won 1st place in the inaugural international IEEE Chang
Notable: “Matrix-insensitive protein assays push the limits of biosensors in medicine” (2009) · 382 citations
- Duygu Kuzum, Professor h-index 38
Es on applying innovations in nanoelectronics to develop new technologies, which will help to better understand circuit-level computation in the brain. She developed nanoelectronic synaptic devices emulating the synaptic computation and pla
Notable: “Nanoelectronic Programmable Synapses Based on Phase Change Materials for Brain-Inspired Computing” (2011) · 1,256 citations
- Ian A. Galton, Distinguished Professor h-index 37
Notable: “A Wideband 2.4-GHz Delta-Sigma Fractional->tex<$N$>/tex<PLL With 1-Mb/s In-Loop Modulation” (2004) · 234 citations
- Massimo Franceschetti, Professor h-index 35
Notable: “Kalman Filtering With Intermittent Observations” (2004) · 2,510 citations
- Yiorgos Makris, Professor h-index 34
Notable: “Hardware Trojan detection using path delay fingerprint” (2008) · 632 citations
- Alon Orlitsky, Professor h-index 34
Notable: “Coding for computing” (2001) · 417 citations
- Dinesh Bharadia, Associate Professor h-index 31
Notable: “Full duplex radios” (2013) · 1,850 citations
- Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic, Professor h-index 30
Es on wireless communications for next generation cellular systems. Her group is developing new localization techniques that leverage the wireless communication to perform localization. This work enables devices to localize in satellite-den
Notable: “An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems” (2016) · 2,936 citations
- Hanh-Phuc Le, Associate Professor h-index 30
Notable: “Design Techniques for Fully Integrated Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters” (2011) · 431 citations
- Vitaliy Lomakin, Professor h-index 29
Analytical and numerical methods for studying electromagnetic fields in complex configurations as well as applications of these methods for the analysis and design of novel devices and systems. He teaches core undergraduate level co
Notable: “Thresholdless nanoscale coaxial lasers” (2012) · 576 citations
- Piya Pal, Professor h-index 27
Notable: “Nested Arrays: A Novel Approach to Array Processing With Enhanced Degrees of Freedom” (2010) · 1,968 citations
- Nikolay A. Atanasov, Associate Professor h-index 27
On controlling teams of aerial and ground robots to collect metric, semantic, and topological information in applications such as environmental monitoring, security and surveillance, localization and mapping, search and rescue. His work
Notable: “Probabilistic data association for semantic SLAM” (2017) · 475 citations
- Florian Meyer, Associate Professor h-index 27
Notable: “Message Passing Algorithms for Scalable Multitarget Tracking” (2018) · 349 citations
- Mingu Kang, Associate Professor h-index 25
Notable: “A Multi-Functional In-Memory Inference Processor Using a Standard 6T SRAM Array” (2018) · 216 citations
- Bill Lin, Professor h-index 24
Notable: “ORION3.0: A Comprehensive NoC Router Estimation Tool” (2015) · 123 citations
- Abdoulaye Ndao, Associate Professor h-index 16
Span wide-ranging topics in photonics, material sciences, and physics. Selected Publications: Google Scholar Publications Update your profile
Notable: “Octave bandwidth photonic fishnet-achromatic-metalens” (2020) · 188 citations
- Parinaz Naghizadeh, Assistant Professor h-index 14
In network economics, game theory, ethics and economics of AI, and reinforcement learning. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2022, a Rising Stars in EECS in 2017, and a Barbour Scholarship from the University of Michigan in
Notable: “Cloudy with a chance of breach: forecasting cyber security incidents” (2015) · 144 citations
- Nicholas A. Antipa, Assistant Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded in an Inertial Fusion Experiment” (2022) · 504 citations
- Rahul Parhi, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Notable: “The Role of Neural Network Activation Functions” (2020) · 125 citations
- Tzu-Chien Hsueh, Associate Professor h-index 8
Notable: “A 4–32 Gb/s Bidirectional Link With 3-Tap FFE/6-Tap DFE and Collaborative CDR in 22 nm CMOS” (2014) · 59 citations
- Saharnaz Baghdadchi, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 4
On encoding light fields with phase and polarization modulations for tissue imaging and optical manipulation of nanoparticles. She is interested in scholarly teaching and uses active learning techniques to help students achieve an expert
Notable: “Oral exams for large-enrollment engineering courses to promote academic integrity and student engagement during remote instruction” (2021) · 16 citations
- Karcher Morris, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 4
Notable: “Uniaxial and biaxial testing of 3D printed hyperelastic photopolymers” (2019) · 19 citations
- Eric Fullerton, Distinguished Professor
- Farinaz Koushanfar, Professor
Domain-specific computing, embedded systems, secure computing, protection of hardware, embedded and IoT systems, as well as design automation, in particular automation of emerging data driven learning and massive data analytic algorithm
- Shadi A. Dayeh, Professor
- Shayan Mookherjea, Professor
- Tara Javidi, Professor
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. 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 2026-07-02.