Celebrating New ECE Alumni Faculty 

ECE celebrates these individuals who have recently begun their academic careers as new faculty members in higher education.

Faculty are responsible for educating the next generation of engineers, a critical role on its own. Yet they are simultaneously seeking funding opportunities for new research, mentoring their own students, and providing a variety of service activities to their institutions and to the wider professional community. Through all of these activities, they share a unique vision while inspiring others to reach their full potential and help society along the way.

Congratulations to these ECE graduates who have recently joined academia as faculty members.

Glen Chou
Assistant Professor  (effective November 2024)
School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Tech

Dissertation: Safe End-to-end Learning-based Robot Autonomy via Integrated Perception, Planning, and Control
Advisors: Necmiye Ozay and Dmitry Berenson

Nooshin M. Estakhri
Assistant Professor
Fowler School of Engineering
Chapman University

Dissertation: Quantum Light Scattering in Disordered and Structured Media
Advisor: Theodore B. Norris

Morteza Fayazi

Morteza Fayazi
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Utah

Dissertation: Machine Learning Meets Analog Circuit Design: Intelligent Automation of IC Design
Advisors: Ehsan Afshari and Ronald Dreslinski

Timothy Jaeho Im
Assistant Professor
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Hongik University

Dissertation: Energy-efficient Wireless Circuits and Systems for Internet of Things
Advisor: David Wentzloff

Soumitra R. Joy

Soumitra R. Joy
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Dissertation: Towards Faster Data Transfer by Spoof Plasmonics
Advisor: Pinaki Mazumder

Taewook Kang

Taewook Kang
Assistant Professor
College of Information and Communication Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University

Dissertation: Adaptive Acoustic Beamforming and Speech Processing Front-end
Advisor: Michael P. Flynn

Mohammad Mahdi Khalili

Mohammad Mahdi Khalili
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
The Ohio State University

Dissertation: Incentive Mechanisms for Managing and Controlling Cyber Risks: The Role of Cyber Insurance and Resource Pooling
Advisor: Mingyan Liu

Matthew D. Kvalheim

Matthew D. Kvalheim
Assistant Professor
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Dissertation: Aspects of Invariant Manifold Theory and Applications
Advisor: Shai Revzen

Seung hwan Lee

Seung hwan Lee
Assistant Professor
Electronic Engineering
Kyung Hee University

Dissertation: Hybrid Memristor-CMOS computer for AI: From device to system
Advisor: Wei Lu

Yutong Wang

Yutong Wang
Assistant Professor 
Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology 

Dissertation: Classification via Multiple Hyperplanes: Loss functions, Overparametrization, and Interpolation
Advisor: Clay Scott