Faculty

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

(305) 284-7888
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,...

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 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...

Nigel M John

Sr. Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director
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

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

(305) 284-4789
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...


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
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...

Lokesh Saravanan Ramamoorthi

Senior Lecturer

(305) 284-3708
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....

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...

Faculty with Secondary Appointments

Ye Hu

Asst. Professor

Dr. Ye Hu is an assistant professor in the Industrial and System Engineering Department at University of Miami. She received her Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech, VA, USA, in 2021. After graduation, she has served as a postdoctoral research scientist at the Columbia University, and the North Carolina State University. Her research interests span...


Chunlei Wang

Professor

(305) 284-3308
Chunlei (Peggy) Wang is a professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Miami. She earned her PhD in Solid State Physics from Jilin University in 1997. From 2006 to 2023, she dedicated 17 years to Florida International University (FIU), progressing from a tenure-track assistant professor to a full...

He Wang

Associate Professor

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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