Professors

  Christopher Iannello Professor of Practice Email Phone Office HEC Room 427 Phone E-mail Christopher.Iannello@ucf.edu Home Page Biography Christopher Iannello brings an unparalleled depth of experience in spacecraft and launch vehicle electrical and power systems, forged through 35 years of technical leadership across NASA, industry and academia. Prior to joining UCF in 2025 as a…

  Alexander N. Cartwright Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Iowa, 1995 Email E-mail Alexander.Cartwright@ucf.edu Research Interests Optical Materials Metamaterials Sensors

  Wei Sun Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State University, 2011 Email Phone Office HEC-306 Phone (407) 823-2344 E-mail Wei.Sun@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~weisun/ Research Interests Power System Restoration and Self-healing Smart Grid Resilient and Secure Critical Infrastructure Energy-to-Grid Integration Optimization and Control Ongoing Research Projects Development of An Insider Attack Detection Tool and…

  Murat Yuksel Professor Ph.D., Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002 Email Phone Office HEC-343 Phone (407) 823-4181 E-mail Murat.Yuksel@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~yuksem Research Interests Networked, wireless and computer systems Wireless systems Optical wireless Spectrum sharing Cloud networking Network economics Network architectures Professional Activities Editor-at-Large, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2025-Present Editorial Board…

  Azadeh Vosoughi Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Cornell University, 2006 Email Phone Office HEC-430 Phone (407) 882-0137 E-mail Azadeh.Vosoughi@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~vosoughi Research Interests Communication theory and wireless communications Detection and estimation theory Distributed detection, estimation, and data fusion with communication constraints Optimization and fundamental limits of cooperative wireless data communication networks Spectrum…

  Nazanin Rahnavard Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007 Email Phone Office HEC-335 Phone (407) 823-1762 E-mail Nazanin.Rahnavard@ucf.edu Home Page http://cwnlab.eecs.ucf.edu Research Interests Compressive Sensing: New Designs and Applications Radio Frequency Cartography Cooperative Spectrum Sensing and Access in Cognitive Radio Networks Deep learning theory and applications High-dimensional data analysis Wireless…

  Mingjie Lin Professor Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Stanford University, 2008 Email Phone Office HEC-237 Phone (407) 882-2298 E-mail Mingjie.Lin@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~mingjie Research Interests Bio-Inspied Logic Design with Graph and Field Theory Minimum-Energy Bio-Inspired Computing with Emerging Spintronic Devices Hardware-Assisted Large-Scale Neuroevolution for Multiagent Learning and Robotic Control Computer Architecture/Compiler, and Reconfigurable Computing Ongoing Research…

  Yaser Fallah Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering University of British Columbia, 2007 Email Phone Office HEC-338 Phone (407) 823-4182 E-mail Yaser.Fallah@ucf.edu Home Page https://cavrel.ece.ucf.edu Research Interests Networked Cyber-Physical Systems: Modeling of Hybrid Systems Intelligent Transportation Systems: Connected and Automated Vehicles Wireless Communication and Networking Smart Cities, Transportation and Energy Systems Electric vehicles and…

  George Atia Professor Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Boston University, 2009 Email Phone Office HEC-429 Phone (407) 823-3467 E-mail George.Atia@ucf.edu Home Page http://www.ece.ucf.edu/~atia Research Interests Robust and scalable machine learning Domain adaptation and transfer learning Explainable and neuro-symbolic AI Sequential decision methods   Ongoing Research Projects Distributionally Robust Approaches to Transfer Learning (DARPA) Emerging…

  Reza Abdolvand Professor Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008 Email Phone Office HEC-439C Phone (407) 823-1760 E-mail Reza.Abdolvand@ucf.edu Home Page http://dml.eecs.ucf.edu/ Research Interests Micro- and Nano-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS) Micro-resonators for timing and data processing Resonant Sensors Ultrasonic Techniques for Bio-fluid Analysis at Small Scale Infrared Sensing Micro-fabrication Ongoing Research Projects Low-Loss Piezoelectric-on-Diamond…