Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty
Dr. Javad Alirezaie, PEng, Associate Professor 
PhD, University of Waterloo
Pattern recognition, image processing, image analysis, computer vision and modeling, myoelectric signal decomposition, medical imaging.
Dr. Dimitri Androutsos, PEng, Associate Professor
PhD, University of Toronto
Applications of image processing; digital cinema; signal processing; image archiving and retrieval; multimedia indexing
Dr. Alagan Anpalagan, PEng, Associate Professor 
PhD, University of Toronto
Cellular mobile radio networks, hybrid multiple access technologies, quality of service in wireless networks, radio resource management, adaptive radio link control.
Dr. S. Beheshti, Assistant Professor 
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Data processing and system modeling, System dynamics and control, Computational learning theory and generalization
Dr. John Chen, PEng, Professor 
PhD, University of Waterloo
Trajectory planning and control of robotic manipulators, numerical solution of optimal control problems.
Dr. Richard Cheung, PEng, Professor
PhD, University of Toronto
Power electronics, power systems, power engineering software development, power system, performance, energy efficiency, power quality.
Dr. Olivia Das, Assistant Professor
PhD, Carleton University
Performability assessment of software architectures, dependability modeling of distributed systems, fault-tolerant computing
Dr. Xavier Fernando, Associate Professor
PhD, University of Calgary
Wireless communications, radio over fiber, optical wireless access, nonlinear signal processing, channel estimation and equalization
Dr. Sabastian Ferrando, Assistant Professor 
Mathematics
PhD, University of Toronto
Applied Mathematics, Signal Analysis, Wavelets. Financial Mathematics, Ergodic Theory, Time Series Analysis.
Dr. Alex Ferworn, Assistant Professor 
School of Computer Science
PhD, University of Waterloo
Robotics, autonomous systems, teleoperation, computer-machine mediation systems, artificial neural systems, genetic algorithms, mechatronics, human factors in computing, business system architecture and design, network and communication theory, software design for maintainability.
Dr. Vadim Geurkov, Associate Professor 
PhD, Institute of Control Science
Self-diagnosing and self-restoration in reconfigurable parallel data-flow computing systems, self-diagnosing in microprocessor based measurement instruments, embedded microcontrollers.
Dr. Xijia Gu, Associate Professor 
PhD, University of Waterloo
Devices for high speed fiber optic communication, fiber optic sensing, laser material processing.
Dr. Ling Guan, Professor and Canada Research Chair 
PhD, University of British Columbia
Search, management and transmission of digital media over Internet/wireless, networks, computer aided diagnosis, medical support systems, telemedicine
Dr. Ali Hussein, PEng, Professor 
PhD, University of Toronto
Electromagnetic compatibility, electromagnetic acoustic transducers, numerical techniques applications in electromagnetics.
Dr. Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Associate Professor 
PhD, University of Toronto
IP networking, mobile wireless access network , quality of service and traffic engineering , content distribution internetworking
Dr. Mike Kassam, PEng, Professor 
Doctor Universitatis, Miskolc
Medical instrumentation, microcontroller based instrumentation, real-time digital signal processing, automation controllers, biomedical engineering.
Dr. Gul Khan, Associate Professor 
PhD, University of London
Hardware software codesign, real time and embedded computer systems, high performance and distributed computing, fault-tolerant software systems, computer vision and image processing.
Dr. Lev Kirischian, PEng, Associate Professor
PhD, University of Moscow
Embedded systems, reconfigurable computer architectures.
Dr. Michael Kolios, Associate Professor
Department of Physics
PhD, University of Toronto
Bioheat transfer, hyperthermia, thermal therapies ultrasound therapy, ultrasound imaging.
Dr. Sridhar Krishnan, Professor,
Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
PhD, University of Calgary
Adaptive signal processing, wavelets/time-frequency analysis, biomedical signal and image analysis, digital communications, multimedia data processing and transmission.
Dr. Matthew Kyan, Assistant Professor 
PhD, University of Sydney
unsupervised learning & pattern recognition; interactive multimedia information mining; machine learning in computer graphics, data visualisation and virtual reality; microbiological image/signal analysis, archiving and retrieval; biometrics, bioinformatics
Dr. Guangjun Liu, PEng, Associate Professor 
Aerospace Engineering PhD, University of Toronto
Control Systems, Robotics, Mechatronics, Aerospace Systems
Dr. Bobby Ma, PEng, Professor 
PhD, University of Waterloo
Computer communication systems, traffic control in B-ISDN.
Dr. Dave Mason, Professor 
School of Computer Science
MASc, University of Toronto
Software reliability, compilers, programming languages, concurrency, formal verification, operating systems, computer graphics.
Dr. Tim McInerney, Assistant Professor 
School of Computer Science
PhD, University of Toronto
Modeling, analysis, simulation, and visualization of biological structures and processes from medical data deformable curve, surface, and solid models surgical simulations computer vision and graphics human-computer interfacing and virtual reality.
Dr. Nagi Mekhiel, PEng, Professor 
PhD, McMaster University
Advanced computer architectures, high performance memory systems, performance evaluation of computer systems, parallel processing.
Dr. F. Mohammadi, Associate Professor
PhD, IEMN
Microwave circuits CAD, Applied electromagnetics, Development of electro-thermal simulation tools for IC's, Advanced modeling and design methodologies for RF/microwave components
Raj Nagendra, Professor, PEng. 
School of Computer Science
MEng, University of Toronto
Operating systems, computer networks.
Dr. Kamran Raahemifar, PEng, Associate Professor
PhD, University of Windsor
Simulation of mixed analog, digital and RF circuits, number systems and numerical techniques for high-speed, low-power VLSI applications, VLSI design of high-speed, low-power circuits, modeling of analog circuit components using high-level language.
Dr. Alireza Sadeghian, Assistant Professor 
School of Computer Science
PhD, University of Toronto
Artificial intelligence, Knowledge-Based Expert Systems, Computational Intelligence, Neural Networks, Soft Computing, Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Nonlinear Modeling, Programming Languages, Digital Hardware, Network Security.
Dr. Marcus Santos, Assistant Professor 
School of Computer Science
PhD, University of Sao Paulo
Artificial intelligence planning, reasoning about actions and change, transaction logic, functional and logic programming.
Dr. Reza Sedaghat, Associate Professor
PhD, Hanover University
VLSI design, digital circuits & systems, testing & design for testability, FPGA, graph algorithms.
Dr. James A. Smith, Assistant Professor
PhD McGill University
biomedical engineering; biomechanics; legged locomotion; rehabilitation; mechatronics and robotics; embedded systems
Dr. Karthi Umapathy, PEng, Assistant Professor 
PhD, The University of Western Ontario
Biomedical signal and image analysis, Time-frequency analysis, Cardiac electrophysiology, Digital signal processing, Feature extraction and pattern classification, Magnetic resonance imaging
Dr. Tas Venetsanopoulos, PEng, Vice-President, Research and Innovation
M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale)
Multimedia Systems (image compression, database retrieval); Digital Signal/Image Processing (multichannel image processing, nonlinear, adaptive and M-D filtering); Digital Communications (image transmission, image compression); Neural Networks and Fuzzy Reasoning in Signal/Image Processing
Dr. Bala Venkatesh, Associate Professor
PhD (Anna University)
Power Systems Analysis and Optimization,Renewable Energy, Optimization Techniques, Intelligent Systems
Dr. Bin Wu, PEng, Professor
PhD, University of Toronto
Power electronics, power converters, switch-mode power supplies, uninterruptible power systems, induction/synchronous motor drives, active power line conditioners, electronic ballasts, fuzzy logic / neural network applications, computer simulations, microprocessor and DSP/FPGA applications.
Dr. David Xu, Associate Professor
PhD, Tsinghua University
Power electronics and applications, motor drives and electric machinery.
Dr. Truman Yang, Associate Professor 
PhD, Regina University
Network security, anonymity and pseudonymity, privacy and security of mobile commerce, software engineering, and biometrics security.
Dr. V. Yang, PEng, Assistant Professor 
PhD, University of Toronto
Optical coherence tomography; intra-operative fluorescence imaging; photodynamic therapy; micro-machined electro-mechanical probes/catheters; medical imaging.
Dr. A. Ye, Assistant Professor 
PhD, University of Toronto
FPGA architectures, CAD tools for FPGAs, FPGA-based hardware accelerators for computer graphics.
Dr. Fei Yuan, PEng, Professor 
PhD, University of Waterloo
CAD tools for mixed analog-digital circuits, high-speed current-mode circuits for telecommunication, low-power CMOS digital integrated circuits, VLSI circuits for wireless applications, modeling of deep sub-micron MOS devices.
Dr. Mehmet Zeytinoglu, PEng, Professor 
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Real-time digital signal processing, audio signal processing, multimedia data processing and transmission.
Dr. Lian Zhao, Associate Professor 
PhD, University of Waterloo
Digital communications; digital signal processing with application in communications; wireless communications, radio resource management, power control, rate allocation, wideband CDMA systems; wireless channel characteristics, adaptation techniques.
Dr. Xiaoping Zhang, PEng, Associate Professor 
PhD, Tsinghua University
Signal processing for communications, wavelets, filterbanks and time-frequency/time-scale analysis, multimedia signal processing and communications, bioengineering and bioinfomatics applications.