Larson, Larry, ECE Department Chair, Professor and CWC Endowed Chair (PhD, UCLA): High-Frequency Circuits for Communications, Semiconductor Device Modeling.

Asbeck, Peter M., Professor (PhD, MIT): Semiconductor device physics, high speed circuits.

Buckwalter, James F., Assistant Professor (PhD, CalTech): High-speed integrated circuits for wireline communication.

Chau, Paul M., Associate Professor (PhD, Cornell): VLSI systems, digital signal processing, computer engineering, CAD.

Coles, William A., Professor (PhD, UCSD): Propagation in random media, the solar wind, radio astronomy, antennas, and electronic instrumentation.

Cosman, Pamela C., Professor (PhD, Stanford): Data compression, image and video coding, image processing.

Cruz, Rene L., Professor (PhD, U of Illinois): Communication networks.

Dey, Sujit, Professor (PhD, Duke): adaptive wireless multimedia, sensor networks, hardware-software embedded systems, nano-meter system-on-chip design and test.

Esener, Sadik C., Professor (PhD, UCSD): optoelectronic materials, devices and systems.

Fainman, Shaya, Professor (PhD, Technion): photonics, diffractive and nonlinear optics, space-time processes with femtosecond laser pulses, 3-D optical imaging, sensing and processing.

Ford, Joseph E., Associate Professor (PhD, UCSD): Hybrid integration of photonic subsystems for telecom, sensing, and display; optical MEMS and opto-electronic devices; diffractive and physical optics.

Franceschetti, Massimo, Assistant Professor (PhD, Caltech): Random networks, Wireless communication.

Fullerton, Eric, Professor (PhD, UCSD): Magnetic recording and nano-technologies; thin film and superlattice growth, interfacial and thin-film magnetism, x-ray and neutron scattering.

Galton, Ian, Professor (PhD, Caltech): mixed-mode integrated circuits and signal processing for communications.

Guest, Clark C., Associate Professor (PhD, Georgia Tech): optics, neural nets, computer vision, information displays, optical system design.

Heller, Michael, Professor (PhD, Colorado State University): Microelectronic DNA chip technology and its applications to genomics and clinical diagnosis.

Javidi, Tara, Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Michigan): Communication Theory and Sysems.

Kahng, Andrew, Professor (PhD, UCSD): Physical design of VLSI, interconnect analysis and optimization, VLSI design-manufacturing interface, semiconductor technology roadmapping, algorithms and optimization.

Kim, Young-Han, Assistant Professor (PhD, Stanford): Statistical signal processing and information theory, with applications in communication, networking, data compression, and information processing.

Kreutz-Delgado, Kenneth, Professor (PhD, UCSD): statistical signal processing, machine intelligence, nonlinear systems, and robotics.

Lanckriet, Gert Assistant Professor (University of California, Berkeley): Applied statistics, machine learning, convex and large-scale optimization, pattern discovery from heterogeneous data

Lau, S. S., Professor (PhD, UCB): electronic materials science.

Lin, Bill, Associate Professor (PhD, UCB): embedded systems for wireless communications, VLSI systems and CAD, reconfigurable computing.

Lo, Yu-Hwa, Professor (PhD, UC Berkeley): optoelectronics, quantum communication, bioMEMS, biophotonics.

Lomakin, Vitaliy, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Tel Aviv University) Electronic proagation, wave propagation in media, optics.

Lugannani, Robert, Professor (PhD, Princeton): stochastic processes, communication theory.

Masry, Elias, Professor (PhD, Princeton): statistical signal analysis; nonlinear time series; spectral, probability density and regression estimation; estimation from sampled data; adaptive filtering.

Milstein, Laurence B., Professor, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (PhD, Polytech Inst. Brooklyn): digital communication systems, communication theory.

Mookherjea, Shayan, Assistant Professor (PhD, Caltech): Photonics, nanotechnology, nonlinear optics, optical networking, solitons, and electromagnetic wave theory.

Najmabadi, Farrokh, Professor and Deputy Director, UCSD Center for Energy Research (PhD, UCB): Fusion energy and applied plasma physics; laser-matter and laser-plasma interaction; photonics.

Nguyen, Truong, Professor (PhD, Caltech): Image and Video Processing; DSP architectures and signal processing for communications.

Orlitsky, Alon, Professor (PhD, Stanford University): compression, computer learning, speech.

Papen, George , Professor (PhD, University of Wisconsin): Optical communication and sensing systems.

Quest, Kevin, Professor, and Department Vice Chair, Academic Affairs (PhD, UCLA): solar system physics.

Radic, Stojan, Associate Professor (PhD, The Institute of Optics): photonics systems; optical networking; nonlinear signal processing; parametric interactions in fiber and semiconductors; microsensing.

Rao, Bhaskar, Professor (PhD, USC): signal processing, smart antennas for wireless communication, speech coding and recognition, signal representation and modeling.

Rao, Ramesh R., Professor and Director, UCSD Division, California Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology, Qualcomm endowed chair in Telecommunication & Information Technology (PhD, U of Maryland): networks, performance analysis.

Rebeiz, Gabriel, Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) for microwave applications, design of radio frequency/microwave/millimeter-wave systems, related front-end analog electronic circuits, active and passive sensor systems, planar antennas and phased arrays, microwave filters and passive components, monopulse tracking systems and radars, and collision avoidance systems for automotive applications.

Schurgers, Curt, Assistant Professor (PhD, UCLA): wireless networking, sensor networks, adaptive wireless links and networks.

Siegel, Paul H., Professor and Director, Center for Magnetic Recording Research (PhD, M.I.T.): coding, modulation, and signal processing for data communication and storage; applications of information theory.

Song, Bang-Sup, Professor and Charles Lee Powell EndowedChair in Wireless Communication (PhD, UC Berkeley): CMOS integrated circuits design.

Sworder, David, Professor, Associate Dean, OGSR (PhD, UCLA): systems control.

Trivedi, Mohan M., Professor (PhD, Utah State): intelligent systems, machine vision, robotics.

Tu, Charles W., Professor (PhD, Yale): molecular beam epitaxy of novel III-V compound semiconductor heterostructures for electronic and optoelectronic devices.

Vardy, Alexander Professor (PhD, Tel-Aviv University): channel coding, information theory, communications.

Vasconcelos, Nuno, Assistant Professor (PhD, MIT): Statistical signal processing, computer vision, machine learning, multimedia.

Wang, Deli., Assistant professor (PhD, UCSB): nanoscale electronics and photonics, nanomedicine.

Wolf, Jack K., Professor and Stephen O. Rice Professor of ECE, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (PhD, Princeton): communication theory, coding and signal processing for digital recording.

Yu, Edward T., Professor (PhD, Caltech): semiconductor materials and devices, scanning probe techniques.

Yu, Paul K.L., Professor (PhD, Caltech): Optoelectronic devices and materials, fiber-optic communication.

Yun, Kenneth Y., Associate Professor (PhD, Stanford): asynchronous and mixed-timed VLSI circuits and systems, high-speed networks.

Zeger, Kenneth, Professor (PhD, UCSB): communications, data compression, information theory, image and speech coding.

Cheng, C-K., (PhD, UC Berkeley): VLSI design automation, network flow, optimization.

Das, Pankaj, (PhD, Univ of Calcutta): Acousto-optics, opto-electronics, spread-spectrum communications, oversampling.

Gupta, Madhu, (PhD, University of Michigan): NRF and microwave engineering. High-frequency semiconductor devices;RF electronics for low-noise and wireless communication applications;low-noise technology and its system applications; RF integrated circuits; microwave networks and components; RF packaging. Noise in semiconductor devices, circuits, and systems. Theory of fluctuations in devices and other thermodynamic systems; low-noise devices; device noise models and characterization; fundamental limitations of devices that are active, nonlinear, and small. Engineering Education. Instructional design and evaluation.

Gupta, Rajesh, (PhD, Stanford University): Algorithms for VLSI design automation. CAD for embedded and portable systems. Computer architecture and organization. VLSI design at various levels of abstractions.

Hecht-Nielsen, Robert, (PhD, Arizona State): An authority on neural networks, he introduced the first comprehensive theory of the mammalian cerebral cortex and thalamus in 2002. His research revolves around scientific testing, elaboration, and extension of this theory.

Hildebrand, John A., (PhD, Stanford): Marine mammal vocalizations, acoustic wave propagation and ambient noise, algorithms for automatic detection and classification.

Hodgkiss, William S., (PhD, Duke): digital signal processing, adaptive array processing, underwateracoustics.

Lemke, James , (PhD, UCSB): magnetic recording.

Proakis, John, (PhD, Harvard): telecommunications, digital signaling processing.

Song, Jin Joo, (PhD, Yale): optical spectroscopy, III-nitride materials and characterization.

Acampora, Anthony, Professor (PhD, Polytech Institute of Brooklyn): Wireless communications.

Bertram, H. Neal, Professor and CMRR Endowed Chair II (PhD, Harvard): Experimental and theoretical studies of magnetic recording, dynamic processes and thermal fluctuations in magnetic materials.

Chang, William S.C., (PhD, Brown): integrated optics, solid state electronics.

Helstrom, Carl W., (PhD, Caltech): communication theory, signal detection theory, optics.

Jain, Ramesh, (PhD, Indian Institute of Technology): computer engineering, robotics.

Ku, Walter H., Professor (PhD, Polytech Inst. Brooklyn): VLSI, IC design for signal processing and communications.

Luo, Huey-Lin, Professor (PhD, Caltech): solid state physics, materials science, superconductivity.

Mendis, D. Asoka, (PhD, DSc, U of Manchester): solar system physics, cometary physics, physics of dusty plasmas.

Rickett, Barnaby J., Professor (PhD, U of Manchester): wave propagation in random media, radio astronomy.

Rotenberg, Manuel, (PhD, MIT): numerical methods, population dynamics.

Rudee, M. Lea, (PhD, Stanford): materials science, the study of structure/property relationships in magnetic and electronic materials, electron microscopy.

Sebald, Anthony (PhD, U of Illinois): adaptive control systems, neural networks, fuzzy control.

Shapiro, Vitali, Professor (PhD, Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research): space physics.

Viterbi, Andrew Co-founded QualComm with Irwin Jacobs in 1985.

Wieder, Harry H. , (DSc, Colorado State): physics and engineering applications of electron devices, heterostructures and quantum electronics.

Arrhenius, Gustaf O.S., Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tynan, George, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Zeidler, James, (PhD, U of Nebraska): adaptive signal processing, wireless communications.