ECE Research Areas

EECS CSE ECE College of Engineering University of Michigan

University of Michigan
EECS Department
Electrical and
Computer Engineering
EECS Building
1301 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122

ECE Research Areas

Main Areas of ECE Research

Applied Electromagnetics
Communications
Control Systems
Energy Science and Engineering
Integrated Circuits and VLSI
MEMS and Microsystems
Optics and Photonics
Plasma Science and Engineering
Power and Energy
Quantum Science and Devices
Robotics and Computer Vision
Signal and Image Processing
Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology

Main Areas of Research	Areas of Research Specialty
Applied Electromagnetics	Radio Frequency (RF), Microwave, and Millimeter-wave Circuits Remote Sensing Computational Electromagnetics Advanced Electromagnetic Materials for RF and Microwave Applications Antennas Wave Propagation Space Plasma Electro-Dynamics Plasma Science and Engineering Terahertz Technology and Applications
Communications	Channel Coding Theory and Applications Communication Networks and Multi-Agent Systems Information Theory Optical Communications Random Processes Wireless Communication Systems
Control Systems	Production Systems Engineering Modeling and Control of Automotive Powertrain Systems Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems Stochastic Control Linear Feedback Control Embedded Control Systems Nonlinear Control Bio-inspired Control
Energy Science and Engineering	Plasma Science & Engineering Magneto-Electric Energy Conversion of Light Power/Energy Systems Analysis, Optimization and Control Electromechanical Energy Conversion and Energy Harvesting Solid-State Energy Conversion Technologies Power Electronic Devices and Circuits Renewable Energy (Solar Cells, Wind, Energy Scavenging) Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Integrated Circuits and VLSI	Digital circuits Energy harvesting Hardware DSP implementation Low power circuits RF circuits Sensing systems Data converters Analog Circuits
MEMS and Microsystems	RF MEMS Microfluidics and Gas/Chemical Implantable Devices Environmental Sensors MEMS Technology and Packaging Power Sources and Energy Harvesting Plasma Fabrication and Plasma Based MEMS Devices
Optics and Photonics	Nonlinear Optics and MEMS Ultrafast Optics Fiber and Integrated Photonics and Lasers Optoelectronics Quantum Optics and Information Nanophotonics Biophotonics
Plasma Science and Engineering	Plasma Materials Processing of Microelectronics Plasma Fabrication and Plasma Based MEMS Devices
Power and Energy	Power/Energy Systems Analysis, Optimization and Control Smart Grid Wind Integration Electromechanical Energy Conversion & Harvesting Power Electronic Circuits Electric Vehicles, HEVs, PHEVs
Quantum Science and Devices	Integrated Photonics and Optoelectronics with Quantum Confined Heterostructures Quantum Design Automation Quantum Information Processing (Computer Architecture) Quantum Information Processing (Theory) Quantum Optics and Information
Robotics and Computer Vision	Experimental Robotics Bipedal Robot Locomotion Computer Vision
Signal and Image Processing	Computational Imaging and Inverse Problems Compressive Sampling and Sensing Source Coding and Compression Statistical Estimation and Learning Signal Processing for Sensing and Sensor Networks Random matrix theory and applications
Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology	Materials for Solid State Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices Integrated Photonics and Optoelectronics with Quantum Confined Heterostructures Displays and Detectors High Frequency Devices and Circuits Nanotechnology and Nanofabrication