Faculty

Department Chair

Pinhas Ben-Tzvi

Professor and Chair

(305) 284-7888
Dr. Pinhas Ben-Tzvi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami. He is internationally recognized for his research in robotics, intelligent autonomous systems, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, healthcare technologies, human–machine...

Faculty


Hammam Alsafrjalani

Assoc. Professor Prof Practice

Research interests include heterogeneous-and-configurable systems, cybersecurity through configurable-systems, embedded systems, runtime optimization, and consumer electronics designs

Pinhas Ben-Tzvi

Professor and Chair

(305) 284-7888
Dr. Pinhas Ben-Tzvi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami. He is internationally recognized for his research in robotics, intelligent autonomous systems, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, healthcare technologies, human–machine...

Xiaodong Cai

Professor

(305) 284-1941
Develop machine learning algorithms and computer programs to analyze (big) data in cancer genomics, particularly those related to DNA sequences, gene expression, alternative splicing, and DNA methylation; Design and analyze mathematical models for gene regulatory networks for identifying cancer driver; Develop computational method for chemical...

Mingzhe Chen

Asst. Professor
Knight Foundation Chair in Data Science and AI
AI + Machine Learning Core Faculty, Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing

Mingzhe Chen received his Ph.D. from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2019. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Virginia Tech. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Electrical and...

Nigel M John

Senior Lecturer
Undergraduate Program Director (UPD)

(305) 284-5564
Computer/Network Security, Cloud Systems, Medical Informatics, Medical Imaging and Image Processing

Mansur R. Kabuka, Ph.D.

Professor

(305) 284-2212
Dr. Mansur R. Kabuka is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami. He received the PhD degree in computer engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in 1983. He also is the founder and president of INFOTECH Soft, Inc.

Sakhrat Khizroev

Professor
Graduate Program Director (GPD)

(305) 284-4789
The goal of the Khizroev Laboratory is to invent technologies which are at least ten years ahead of their time. To achieve this goal, we leverage the team’s unique expertise and decades of research experience in the field of nanomagnetic and spintronic devices to create game-changing technologies in a broad range of...


Manohar N. Murthi

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-3342
Speech & Audio Signal Processing, Statistical Signal Processing, Data Fusion & Learning, Networks

Shahriar Negahdaripour

Professor

(305) 284-3352
Shahriar Negahdaripour received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Inst. of technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, in 1979, 1980 and 1987, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii in Manoa from January 1987 to June 1991, before joining the...

Kamal Premaratne

Professor

(305) 284-4051
Evidence fusion; modeling and management of data uncertainty; machine learning and knowledge discovery from imperfect data; graph-theoretic methods, opinion and consensus dynamics in social networks.   Publications   Book Chapters Wickramarathne, T., Premaratne, K., Murthi, M. (2016). Dynamics of Consensus Formation...

Lokesh Saravanan Ramamoorthi

Senior Lecturer

(305) 284-3708
Lokesh Ramamoorthi, received his MBA in Computer Information Systems and Management Science, graduating from the University of Miami - School of Business. Prior to his MBA, Lokesh earned his Masters in Science degree in Software Engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology India. He has 13 years of professional experience and worked in...

Ravi Vadapalli

Research Assoc. Professor
Director, Advanced Computing, Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing

(786) 913-0584
DIRECTOR, ADVANCED COMPUTING, Institute for DATA SCIENCE AND COMPUTING (IDSC) Dr. Vadapalli joined IDSC after serving as Program Director for the Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing and Senior Director for IT Support at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton. Prior to UNT, Dr. Vadapalli was a Senior Research Scientist at...

Michael Renxun Wang

Professor

(305) 284-4041
Michael R. Wang received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California – Irvine in 1992. He also has a MS degree in Physics from the California State University – Los Angeles. He received his graduate training from UC-Irvine’s Integrated Optics and Micro Device...

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