ECE Faculty

  Wayesh Qarony Assistant Professor Ph.D., Applied Physics Hong Kong Polytechnic University Email Phone Office Research 1 Room 255 Phone 407-823-1212 E-mail wayesh@ucf.edu Web site Q-Lab Biography Wayesh Qarony is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Physics. Prior to UCF, he was…

  Truong Nghiem Associate Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania Email Phone Office Phone E-mail truong.nghiem@ucf.edu Web site Biography Truong X. Nghiem received his doctoral degree in electrical and systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He was an assistant professor, then an associate professor at Northern Arizona University from 2018 until…

  Qichen Yang Assistant Professor Ph.D., Power Electronics Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018 Email Phone Office Phone E-mail qichen.yang@ucf.edu Web site Power electronics and Insulation Technology Lab (in development) Biography Qichen Yang received his bachelor’s degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2013, and his doctoral degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018. He…

  Masoumeh Kalantari-Khandani Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Engineering University of Central Florida, 2021 Email Phone Office Phone E-mail Web site Biography Kalantari received her doctoral degree in computer engineering from UCF in 2021, focusing on enhancing learning in deep neural networks through sparse representation in transform domains. She received her master’s degree from Simon Fraser…

  Tong Wu Assistant Professor Ph.D., Information Engineering Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2021 Email Phone Office Phone E-mail tong.wu@ucf.edu Web site Intelligent Control and Sustainable Energy Systems (ICSES) Lab Biography Tong Wu received his doctoral degree in information engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021. From September 2021 to August 2024,…

  Kimia Zamiri Azar Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering George Mason University, 2021 Email Phone Office L3Harris Engineering Center, Room 336 Phone 407-823-3102 E-mail kimia.zamiriazar@ucf.edu Web site Biography Kimia Zamiri Azar completed her Ph.D. at George Mason University in 2021, and pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Florida. Azar’s research focuses on…

  Shahana Ibrahim Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Oregon State University Email Phone Office Phone E-mail Shahana.Ibrahim@ucf.edu Home Page https://shahanaibrahimosu.github.io/ Research Interests Methods and theories for robust machine learning systems, with a focus on weakly supervised learning problems Tensor decomposition Non-negative matrix factorization Stochastic optimization algorithms Teaching Interests Machine learning and AI Signal…

  Hadi Mardani Kamali Assistant Professor Ph.D., Computer Engineering George Mason University, 2021 Email Phone Office HEC 336 Phone 407-823-3102 E-mail hadi.mardanikamali@ucf.edu Home Page https://haven.ece.ucf.edu/ https://www.ece.ucf.edu/~kamali Research Interests VLSI design and testing Hardware security and trust FPGA design Electronic design automation Applied machine learning Computer architecture On-going research projects: IC/IP protection: logic locking and secure…

  Yue Wang Assistant Professor Ph.D., Electrical Engineering The State University of New York at Buffalo, 2023 Email Phone Office Phone (407) 823-2045 E-mail yue.wang@ucf.edu Home Page Yue Wang’s home page Research Interests Reinforcement learning Robustness Machine learning Optimization Computer vision On-going research projects: Robust reinforcement learning under model uncertainty Long-term performance of RL with…