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Hammam Alsafrjalani

Hammam Alsafrjalani

Assoc. Professor Prof Practice

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

Pinhas Ben-Tzvi

Professor

(305) 284-7888
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Pinhas Ben-Tzvi is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami College of Engineering and the founding director of the Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory. His research focuses on robotics, intelligent autonomous systems, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning,...
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Xiaodong Cai

Xiaodong Cai

Professor

(305) 284-1941
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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...
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Mingzhe Chen

Mingzhe Chen

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

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Mingzhe Chen earned a doctorate from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2019. From 2016 to 2019, he was a visiting researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He served as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University...
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Nigel M John

Nigel M John

Assoc. Professor Prof Practice
Undergraduate Program Director (UPD)

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

Mansur R. Kabuka, Ph.D.

Professor

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

Sakhrat Khizroev

Interim Chair, Professor & Graduate Program Director
Graduate Program Director (GPD)

(305) 284-4789
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Sakhrat Khizroev serves as interim chair, professor and graduate program director in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami College of Engineering. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Miller School of Medicine. His research focuses on...
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Zhenglun Kong

Zhenglun Kong

Asst. Professor

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Zhenglun Kong is a tenure-track assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Miami. Previously, he was a research fellow at Harvard University, where he worked on foundation models and AI agents for scientific discovery. He earned a doctorate and a master's degree from Northeastern University and a...
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Stephen J. Murrell

Stephen J. Murrell

Senior Lecturer

(305) 284-3422
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Manohar N. Murthi

Manohar N. Murthi

Assoc. Professor

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

Shahriar Negahdaripour

Professor

(305) 284-3352
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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...
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Kamal Premaratne

Kamal Premaratne

Professor

(305) 284-4051
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Kamal Premaratne received a Bachelor of Science degree with first‑class honors in electronics and telecommunication engineering from the University of Moratuwa in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 1982, and master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, in...
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Lokesh Saravanan Ramamoorthi

Lokesh Saravanan Ramamoorthi

Senior Lecturer

(305) 284-3708
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Lokesh S. Ramamoorthi, MS, MBA, is a Sr. Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Business Technology at the Miami Herbert Business School. His research focuses on applying artificial intelligence to healthcare processes and cybersecurity....
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Michael Renxun Wang

Michael Renxun Wang

Professor

(305) 284-4041
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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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Guy Zyskind

Guy Zyskind

Asst. Professor

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Guy Zyskind is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Miami. An engineer, inventor and entrepreneur, he co-invented confidential smart contracts and built the companies and systems that brought them into production.Building on this research, Zyskind founded Secret Network and Fhenix, two successful...
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Faculty with Secondary Appointments

W. Dalton Dietrich

W. Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D.

Professor

(305) 243-2297
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Ye Hu

Ye Hu

Asst. Professor

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Ye Hu is an assistant professor in the University of Miami Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She earned a doctorate from Virginia Tech in 2021. Following the completion of her doctorate, Hu served as a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University and North Carolina State University. Her research interests span unmanned...
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Richard K. Lee

Richard K. Lee

Assoc. Professor

(305) 326-6400
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Chunlei Wang

Chunlei Wang

Professor

(305) 284-3308
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Chunlei "Peggy" Wang is a professor in the University of Miami Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She earned a doctorate in solid-state physics from Jilin University in 1997. Before joining the University of Miami, Wang spent 17 years at Florida International University, where she advanced from assistant professor to...
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He Wang

He Wang

Associate Professor

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I received my PhD from Princeton University in 2013 and then went to UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as a postdoctoral fellow. My research interests focus on investigating device physics and photophysics of organic and organic-inorganic hybrid optoelectronic materials. I utilize ultrafast laser spectroscopy to...
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