Faculty Listing, Alphabetic

Main Faculty

Name and Title	Highest Degree	Areas of Specialization
Manal Abdelwahab Instructor	Ph.D. (2004), University of Central Florida	Digital signal processing, image processing, and pattern recognition.
Theda Daniels-Race Michel B. Voorhies Distinguished Professor	Ph.D. (1990), Cornell University	Nanoelectronics: materials deposition, characterization, and device structure fabrication; investigation of nanoscale electro-optical phenomena; quantum science.
Mehdi Farasat Entergy Louisiana Associate Professor in Power Engineering	Ph.D. (2014), University of Nevada, Reno	Design, modeling and control of power electronics converters in renewable energy and electrified transportation systems.
Guoxiang Gu F. Hugh Coughlin/CLECO Distinguished Professor, IEEE Fellow	Ph.D. (1988), University of Minnesota	Networked control systems, and consensus control; Estimation, detection, and security for distributed sensor networks; Robust, optimal, and adaptive control with industrial applications.
Amin Kargarian ISC Constructors Associate Professor	Ph.D. (2014), Mississippi State University	Power systems operation and planning, decentralized/distributed optimization, decision-making in smart grids, renewable energy and energy storage integration, infrastructure interdependency analyses in future power systems.
David M. Koppelman Associate Professor	Ph.D. (1988), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Advanced computer architectures, multiprocessors, interconnection networks
Xue-Bin Liang Associate Professor	Ph.D. (1997), Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Ph.D. (2002), University of Delaware	Wireless communications, information theory, signal and image processing, neural networks, computation and complexity.
Shahab Mehraeen Professor, Newton B Thomas Professorship	Ph.D. (2009), Missouri University of Science and Technology (Formerly University of Missouri-Rolla)	Power systems stability, renewable energies, smart grid, energy conversion, and nonlinear, adaptive, and decentralized control.
Xiangyu Meng Assistant Professor	Ph.D. (2014), University of Alberta, Edmonton	Control Theory and Applications, Perception, Planning, Control, and Coordination for Autonomous Agents, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, and Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Morteza Naraghi-Pour Michel B. Voorhies Distinguished Professor	Ph.D. (1987), University of Michigan	Wireless communications, communication theory, telecommunication networks, signal and image processing, machine learning.
Kidong Park Mark & Carolyn Guidry Associate Professor	Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2009), Purdue University	BioMEMS and microfluidic devices, single cell analysis, cellular biomechanics, resonant MEMS devices, bioanalytic instrumentation
Mark Rabalais Instructor	M.S. Electrical Engineering (2000), University of Texas, Dallas; M.S. Physics (1998), University of Southwestern Louisiana	Plasmas for semiconductor fabrication, ion beam materials analysis
J. (Ram) Ramanujam John E. and Beatrice L. Ritter Distinguished Professor	Ph.D. (1990), The Ohio State University	Optimizing compilers, High performance computing, Embedded systems, Low power computing, Computer architecture
Jerry Trahan Division Chairman Chevron Professor	Ph.D. (1988), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Theory of computation, models of parallel computation, reconfigurable meshes, run-time reconfiguration, reliability, algorithm design and analysis
R. (Vaidy) Vaidyanathan Elaine T. and Donald Cecil Delaune Distinguished Professor	Ph.D. (1990), Syracuse University	Parallel and Distributed Computing, Algorithms, Reconfigurable Computing and Interconnection Networks
Georgios Veronis Professor, Rubicon Professorship	Ph.D. (2002), Stanford University	Theory and simulation of photonic materials and devices, nanoscale photonic devices, plasmonics, computational electromagnetics.
Shuangqing Wei Professor, Michel B. Voorhies Distinguished Professor	Ph.D. (2003), University of Massachusetts	OFDMA networks, Multiple antenna systems, Communications
Hsiao-Chun Wu Professor, Michel B. Voorhies Professorship	Ph.D. (1999), University of Florida	Statistical learning on optimization, estimation and detection applications, embedded algorithms for digital signal processing, speech and image processing, and wireless communications
Jian Xu Associate Professor	Ph.D. (2008), Yale University	Biomedical instrumentation, bio-nano electronics, image-guided surgery, biomedical imaging
Xiangwei Zhou Associate Professor	Ph.D. (2011), Georgia Institute of Technology	Wireless communications, statistical signal processing, cross-layer optimization, and cognitive radio and spectrum coexistence.
Xugui Zhou Assistant Professor	Ph.D. (2024), University of Virginia, Charlottesville	Cyber-Physical Systems, Security, Dependability, Machine Learning, Data Science, Autonomous Driving, Healthcare, Formal Methods, Control

Adjunct and Emeriti

Name and Title	Highest Degree	Areas of Specialization
Pratul Ajmera Professor Emeritus	Ph.D. (1975), North Carolina State University	Semiconductor materials and devices, material processing, MEMS, integrated microsystems.
Leszek S. Czarnecki Alfredo Lopez Distinguished Professor	Ph.D. (1969), Silesian Tech. University, Poland; D.Sc. (1984), Silesian Tech. University, Poland	Power electronics, nonsinusoidal systems, network analysis and synthesis
Martin Feldman Professor Emeritus	Ph.D. (1962), Cornell University	Applied optics, X-ray lithography, micromachining
Subhash Kak Professor Emeritus	Ph.D. (1970), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India	Wireless, communications, neural networks, and quantum information processing.
Ali Kazemian ECE Adjunct, Home Dept. LSU Construction Management	Ph.D. (2018), University of Southern California	Robotic construction methods such as construction 3D printing. Real-time quality monitoring and control using embedded computers. Automated progress and quality monitoring using computer vision. Special concretes.
Alan H. Marshak Professor Emeritus	Ph.D. (1969), University of Arizona, Tucson	Semiconductor device physics and analysis, high doping effects, heterojunctions, and carrier transport.
Michael L. McAnelly Instructor-Adjunct	M.S. (1982), Mississippi State University	Protective relaying, substations, excitation systems, power plant instrumentation, switchgear, large motors, metering and Scada systems.
Jyotsna Sharma ECE Adjunct, Home Dept. LSU Petroleum Engineering	Ph.D. (2012), University of Calgary	Thermal and non-thermal EOR technologies. Data analytics and machine learning applications for improved reservoir management. Applications of distributed fiber optics sensing technology for downhole monitoring.
Omer Soysal Adjunct Assistant Professor, Research	Ph.D. (2009), Louisiana State University	Computer vision, machine learning.