The group is active in areas including wide area measurements and control, grid integration of wind energy systems and alternative (photovoltaics, fuel cells ) energy sources.
The group is active in VLSI design, high-speed FPGA design, Structural Health Monitoring, and Energy Harvesting.
The group is active in hardware for cryptography, data compression, error correcting codes, wireless networks, computer architecture micro-processor verification and electronic design automation.
The bioengineering group conducts research in two tracks -
- Cardiovascular (CV) Engineering - focusing on the development of algorithms and computational models to describe cardiac function
- Neural Engineering - focusing on Brain Computer Interface (BCI)
Signal Processing and Communication
The group is active in the areas of multi-rate signal processing, real-time signal processing, software defined radio, statistical signal processing, time-frequency analysis, and wireless communications. Recent projects include the hardware and software development of various electrochemical impedance spectrometry instruments and algorithm development for a pulse-doppler blood flow meter.
Electromagnetic's (EMAG)

and Photonics
The EMAG group is active in areas including antenna design for RFID, electromagnetic interference (EMI) effects, computational electromagnetics, and analysis, electrostatic discharge (ESD). The photonics lab is active in the modeling of polarization effects and receivers in optical fiber communications systems, photonics and the development of new laser sources for applications in biotechnology, defense, and atmospheric research.
The current research thrust of the lab is to develop models for RFID antennas for applications in the livestock industry.




