Faculty

Visvakumar Aravinthan, Ph.D.

Department Chair of ECE, Interim Director of SoC, Professor, Evergy Ward-Jewell Faculty Fellow, Ph.D. Graduate Coordinator

visvakumar.aravinthan@wichita.edu

(316)-978-6324

Academic Expertise: Education:B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2002)M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Wichita State University, USA (2006)Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Wichita State University, USA (2010)

Abu Asaduzzaman, Ph.D.

Professor and Associate Chair

abu.asaduzzaman@wichita.edu

(316) 978-5261

Academic Expertise: Teaching Interests:Introduction to Computer ArchitectureMicroprocessor-Based System DesignHigh Performance Computer SystemsHardware-Based CybersecurityApplied Parallel Computing – A satellite course from the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)Machine Learning Essentials and ApplicationsParallel ComputingComputer Systems in Data AnalyticsModeling, Simulation, and AnalysisResearch Interests:Computer Architecture High Performance Computing Machine LearningComputer Systems; Parallel Programming; Data Analysis; Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis; Healthcare Technology; and Interdisciplinary Research/EducationEducation:B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 1993M.S. in Computer Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, 1997Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, 2009 

Yanwu Ding, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

yanwu.ding@wichita.edu

(316) 978-3052

Academic Expertise: Education:M.S., McMaster University, Hamilton, OntarioPh.D., McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

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Assistant Educator and Data Center Director

ryan.doll@wichita.edu

Ali Eslami, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

ali.eslami@wichita.edu

(316) 978-3925

Academic Expertise: Education:B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran (2004)M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran (2006)Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA (2013)

Hyuck M. Kwon, Ph.D.

Professor

hyuck.kwon@wichita.edu

(316) 978-6308

Academic Expertise: Research AreasWireless Mobile Communications, Communication Systems, Information Theory, Satellite Communications, Smart Antenna, Code Division Multiple Access, Multiple Input Multiple Output, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, Cooperate, and 2G/3G/4G/5G Wireless Communications.EducationPh. D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Computer, Information and Control Engineering, Attended from August 1980 to Dec. 16, 1984, Dissertation: “Digital Coding For Underwater Acoustic Multipath Channels,” Completed on Dec. 16, 1984.MSEE, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, Attended from Mar. 2, 1978 to Feb. 20, 1980, Thesis: “Smoothing & Prediction Control,” Completed on Feb. 20, 1980.BSEE, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Attended from Mar. 2, 1974 to Feb. 20, 1978, Completed on Feb. 20, 1978.Undergraduate Research/Development Projects Supervised by SemesterThe following are the undergraduate senior research projects for which I was the advisor. These projects were presented at the annual Engineering Open House. The PV Control of an RC Car project has been used for the numerous Department demonstration activities, e.g. recruitment of Wallace Scholar high school students:Summer/2018, Ethen Dixon, “System and Method for Channel Statistics Dependent Frequency Hopping”. Note: Ethen Dixon was awarded the Undergraduate Engineering Research Award with stipend ($2,906.91) from the College of Engineering, WSU, for summer 2018, and put his effort to improve the TRL3 to a higher TRL for my US Patent issued with number 9,819,387 B1, November 14, 2017, by implementing the innovation with the USRPs equipment and spectrum analyzers. Spring 2006/Fall 2006, ECE585/ECE595, Ph Control.Fall 2004/Spring 2005, ECE585/ECE595, Testing an OFDMA Wireless/Mobile Communication System with System View Software by Elaniux Software.Fall 2003/Spring 2004, ECE585/ECE595, Testing a Wireless/Mobile Communication System with System View Software by Elaniux.Fall 2002/Spring 2003, ECE585/ECE595, Texas Instrument Emulation Board KitSpring 2002/Fall 2002, ECE585/ECE595, PV Control of an RC Car 2Spring 2001/Fall 2001, ECE585/ECE595, PV Control of an RC Car 1Fall 1999/Spring 2000, ECE585/ECE595, Convolutional Viterbi DecoderSpring 1998/Fall 1998, ECE585/ECE595, Power Control Simulator for Digital Mobile Communication SystemsSpring 1996/Fall 1996, ECE585/ECE595, Automatic Power Lock and Unlock System (APLAUS)Fall 1995/Spring 1996, ECE585/ECE595, Wireless Tone Signal Transmitter and Receiver Design for Emergency CallsFall 1994/Spring 1995, ECE585/ECE595, Zero-Crossing Digital DemodulatorPh. D. Dissertations Supervised as a Committee Chair (Title, Department, Student, Date Completed/Expected)“Secret Key Generation using Compound Gaussian Correlated Sources,” Electrical Engineering, Vidhi Rama*, Expected Fall 2020. Co-Committee Chair with Dr. Remi Chou.“Power Constrained Uncoordinated Frequency Hopping Using Multiarmed Bandit with Switching Cost,” Electrical Engineering, Olusola Tolulope Odeyomi*, Expected Fall 2020. Co-Committee Chair with Dr. Remi Chou.“Satellite Digital Beamforming under Nonlinear High Power Amplifier,” Madhuprana Goswami*, Expected summer 2019.“Capacity of Computer-and-Forward Two-Way Relay Under Fading: Lattice Approach,” Krittetash Pinyoanuntapong*, Expected Fall 2019.“Optimal Network Control for Heavy Data Deliver,” Shuang Xia*, Completed on February 27, 2018. Co-Committee Chair with Dr. Pu Wang, and employed at Stradigi AI, Montreal, Canada.“Cell Association Attack via Reference Signal Spoofing in Multi-Cell Wireless Networks,” Electrical Engineering, Shuang Feng*, March 14, 2016, Completed and employed as a research assistant professor, the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.“Adversary Analysis of Cockroach Network under Rayleigh Fading Channel: Probability of Error and Adversary Detection,” Electrical Engineering, Tze C. Wong*, spring 2015, Completed.“User Selection with Perfect and No Primary CSIT in MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks,” Electrical Engineering, Wenhao Xiong*, fall 2014, Completed, and employed at Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc., 20271 Goldenrod Lane, Suite 2066, Germantown, MD 20876.“Spreading Sequence Design for Relay Networks under Multipath Fading,” Electrical Engineering, Jie Yang*, January 10, 2014, Completed, and employed as an assistant professor of practice, Northern Arizona State University, Flagstaff, AZ 86001.“Comprehension of Amplify-And-Forward Relay Networks,” Electrical Engineering, Kanghee Lee*, January 3, 2014, Completed, and employed at Korean Air Force.“Ferrite Material Miniaturized Antenna with Two Elements for MIMO Communications,” Electrical Engineering, Chandana K. K. Jayasooriya*, May 23, 2013, Completed, and employed as an assistant professor, The University of Pittsburg, Johnstown, PA 15904.“Direction of Arrival Angle Estimation Schemes for Wireless Communication Systems,” Electrical Engineering, Nizar Tayem*, May 3, 2005, Completed, and employed as the Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M Common Wealth University.“Comprehensive Power Controls with Pilot Channel Aided Adaptive Antennas for the 3rd Generation CDMA Wireless Communications,” Electrical Engineering, Tatcha Chulajata*, Fall 2003, Completed and employed as an assistant professor at Mahidol University, Nakornprathom 73170, Thailand.“Smart Antennas for Code Division Multiple Access Wireless Communications,” Electrical Engineering, Yoo S. Song*, Fall 2001, Completed, and employed at ETRI, Korea.“PN code Acquisition Using Smart Antenna for DS-CDMA Wireless Communications,” Electrical Engineering, Bing Wang*, Spring 2001, Completed, and employed at as a VP in a state-owned Internet Media Company in Guangzhou, China.“Interference Suppression Receiver with Adaptive Antenna Array for Code-Division Multiple Access Communications Systems,” Electrical Engineering, Weiguang Hou*, December 2000, Completed, and employed at Garmin, Kansas.“Smart Antenna Effects on Soft Handoff and Capacity in a Code Division Multiple Access Wireless Communication System,” Electrical Engineering, David Hastings*, August 2000, Completed, and employed at Mobile Care Program Manager, GE Medical Systems Information Technologies.“Symbol Synchronization for Zero-Crossing Demodulator under Static and Mobile Fading Environments,” Electrical Engineering, Kwang. S. Mun*, May 1999, Completed.Ph. D. Dissertations Supervised as a Committee Member (Title, Department, Student, Date Completed/Expected)“Unbiased of Homogeneity Test under Multivariate Order Reconstruction,” Mathematics and Statistics, Mustafa Hamdan*, April 14, 2017, Completed.“Robust Power Control (RPC) Design for Smart Grid Based on Wind Energy,” Electrical Engineering, Suliman Abdullah Alhamidi*,” November 8, 2016, Completed.“Decentralized Control of Interconnected Singularly Perturbed Systems,” Electrical Engineering, Walid Alfuhaid*, June 14, 2016, Completed.“Increasing Stability in the Inverse Problem for the Schrodinger Equation,” Mathematics and Statistics, Li Liang*, November 17, 2015, Completed.“Quantum Computing Architectures,” Electrical Engineering, Preethika Kumar*, July 6, 2007, Completed. WSU.“Design of RSD-Cyclic Hybrid RSD-Cyclic / Sigma-Delta Ads,” Electrical Engineering, Youssef H. Atris*, July 6, 2007, Completed.“Robust and Reduced Order H-infinity Filtering via LMI Approach and Its Application to Fault Detection,” Electrical Engineering, Young-Man Kim*, April 19, 2006, Completed.“Fast Pesudospectral Algorithms for Boundary Value Problems for the Laplace Equation on a Rectangle,” Math Department, Benjamin Francis Bunck*, July 2004, Completed.“Composite Control for the Singularly Perturbed Systems,” Electrical Engineering, Yong-Sik Chung*, April 2, 2002, Completed.“Performance Analysis of the Downlink Packet System in CDMA Wireless Networks,” Electrical Engineering, Jaewon Cho*, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, December 2001, Completed.“Sequencing and Scheduling in WDM Local Network and Back Propagation Training for an Optical Neural Network,” Electrical Engineering, Mingtao Yang*, Fall 2001, Completed.“Computer Control of Decentralized Singularly-Perturbed Systems,” Electrical Engineering, Kai-Chao Yao*, Spring 2001, Completed.“Scheduling Variable-Length Messages in a Multicast Supported Local Single-Hop WDM Network,” Electrical Engineering, Mingtao Yang*, April 24, 2001, Completed.“Control of a Semi-Conducting Manufacturing System,” Electrical Engineering, Shyh-Pyng Shue*, May 2000, Completed.“Mixed-Norm Robust Control of Linear Systems,” Electrical Engineering, Craig Stanton*, May 1998, Completed.“Reliable Control of Two-Time-Scale Systems,” Electrical Engineering, Chariya Loescharatarmdee*, May 1997, Completed.“Application of Nonlinear H-infinity Theory to Robotic Systems,” Electrical Engineering, Wayne Stout*, July 1996, Completed.“Stability Robustness of Linear Discrete Time Systems,” Electrical Engineering, C. Yen*, May 1994, Completed.MS Thesis Supervised as a Committee Chair (Title, Department, Student, Date Completed/ Expected)“Performance of Digital Video Broadcasting Second Generation under Jakes Fading Channel,” Ashfia Habib*, October 16, 2017, Completed, and employed at North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, as an instructor.“Boundaries of Signal-To-Noise Ratio for Adaptive Code Modulations,” Krittetash Pinyoanuntapong*, June 3, 2016, Completed and employed at NIAR, and a Ph. D. student at WSU.“Nano-Antennae with Metamaterial versus Millimeter- Antennae without Metamaterial,” Electrical Engineering, Madhuprana Goswami*, June 3, 2016, Completed, and a Ph. D. student at WSU.“Analysis of MIMO Radar Impact on MIMO Communication System using a Zero-Forcing Receiver,” Electrical Engineering, Edwin Tambi*, November 24, 2015, Completed, and employed at Arista Networks Inc. 5453 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054.“Performance Analysis of Frequency-Hopped MPSK System under Rician Fading and Partial Band Tone Jamming,” Electrical Engineering, Akarsh S Pokkunuru*, November 24, 2015, Completed, Ph. D. student at WSU.“Channel Statistics-Dependent Frequency Hopping,” Electrical Engineering, Matthew Hannon*, October 30, 2015, Completed, and employed at Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.“Optimal Amplify-and Forward Precode and Relay Amplifying Matrices,” Hyunggi Kim*, Electrical Engineering, May 10, 2013, Completed, and employed at Korean Air Force.“AF MIMO Beamforming Relay Networks under Power Constraints,” Sangku Lee*, Electrical Engineering, May 10, 2013, Completed, and employed at Korean Air Force.“Estimation of Frequency and Reduction of Updating Error Noise Using Kalman Filter In Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks,” Electrical Engineering, Mahesh Rachuri*, Electrical Engineering, May 10, 2013, Completed and employed as Java Developer at State Street Bank and Trust Company in Quincy, MA.“Timing Error Noise Reduction in Distributed Wireless Network Using Kalman Filter,” Electrical Engineering, Hanumantharaju T. Veerabasavaiah*, May 10, 2013, Completed, and employed as an RF Engineer at Teleworld Solutions in Virginia.“Distributed Network Time Synchronization Using Pseudonoise Code,” Prashanth Paladugula*, Electrical Engineering, April 15, 2013, Completed, and employed at QUALCOM, San Diego, CA.“Four-Port Miniaturized and Highly Isolated Antenna for MIMO Systems,” Mehari L. Ayele*, Electrical Engineering, November 27, 2012, Completed.“Minimum Mean Square Error Based Optimal Design of Full-Duplex Relay,” Electrical Engineering, Mansik Jo*, August 6, 2012, Completed, and employed at the Korean Air Force.“Coverage Extension Using Power Controlled Relaying in CDMA,” Electrical Engineering, Mahendra K. Vepuri*, September 12, 2011, Completed, and employed at Nebraska Center for Excellence in Electronics, Lincoln, NE.“Performance Analysis of the Relay Network Using Partial Compute-and-Forward Scheme and PNC,” Electrical Engineering, Navyatha Gavvala*, December 1, 2011, Completed, and employed at Nebraska Center for Excellence in Electronics, Lincoln, NE.“Relay Network under Broadband Jamming,” Electrical Engineering, Jayesh Sonawane*, November 30, 2010, Completed, and employed at QUALCOMM, San Diego, CA.“An Improved Neural Network Based Decoder Scheme for Systematic Convolutional Code,” Electrical Engineering, Andrew J. Zerngast*, November 30, 2010, Completed, and employed at Learjet, Wichita.“Blind Detection for Two-Hop Relay Network without Direct Link,” Electrical Engineering, Shane Michael Hodges*, November 30, 2010, Completed, and employed at Boeing, Huntington Beach, CA.“Blind Relay Network with Viterbi Detection,” Electrical Engineering, Shuang Feng*, December 1, 2010, Completed, and a Ph. D. student at WSU.“Orthogonal Physical Layer Network Coding,” Electrical Engineering, Wenhao Xiong*, December 10, 2009, Completed, and a PhD student at WSU from Summer 2010.“Capacity of a Modulo-Sum Simple Relay Network,” Electrical Engineering, Youvaraj Sagar*, December 10, 2009, Completed, and a Ph. D. student at WSU, and employed at a Soft Engineering Company in Texas since January 2013.“Iterative Channel Estimation for Turbo-Coded DS CDMA Receiver under Different Communication Scenarios,” Electrical Engineering, Neelu Bijukchhe*, February 14, 2008, Completed, and employed at Nextel Communications.“Modified UCA-ESPRIT and Modified UCA-Root MUSIC for Estimating DOA of Coherent Signals Using One Snapshot,” Electrical Engineering, Kareem Al Jabr*, November 25, 2007, Completed, and employed at a Software Company, Pennsylvania.“Iterative LDPC CDMA Receiver with EM Estimation,” Avinash Mathur*, July 23, 2007, Completed.“Compact Multi-User Wideband MIMO System Using Multiple-Mode Antennas,” Amitav Mukherjee*, March 8, 2007, Completed, and PhD student at UC Irvine, CA.“Frequency Offset Effects on Maximin and MOSTLE,” Electrical Engineering, Dong-Hyeuk Yang*, May 25, 2006, Completed and employed at Korean Air Force.“Time Division Duplex-Wideband Code Division Multiplex (TDD-WCDMA),” Electrical Engineering, Eser Ustunel*, April 28, 2006, Completed.“LDPC Encoded Pilots for Iterative Receiver Improvement,” Electrical Engineering, Khurram Hassan*, December 4, 2005, Completed.“Space Frequency Block Coded OFDM Systems with Adaptive Modulation and Improved Antenna Selection,” Electrical Engineering, Murali Krishina Reddy Komatireddy*, December 1, 2005, Completed.“Song-Park Sequence Applied for CDMA STBC Systems,” Electrical Engineering, Srinivas Vaidya*, June 6, 2005, Completed.“Encoded Pilots for Low Density Parity Check Codes,” Electrical Engineering, Ashutosh Goyal*, May 3, 2005, Completed and employed at Qualcomm, San Diego, CA.“Approximate Cycle Extended Message Degree Quasi-Cyclic Low Density Parity Check Code,” Electrical Engineering, Sudhanshu John*, May 3, 2005, Completed, and employed at Intel.“An Improved Quasi-Cyclic Low Density Parity Check Code,” Electrical Engineering, Muruganandam Jayabalan*, April 30, 2004, Completed and employed at Qualcomm, San Diego, CA.“An Improved Dual Mode Detection Scheme,” Electrical Engineering, Vivek Gupta*, June 1, 2004, Completed and employed at Qualcomm, San Diego, CA.“LSQR Algorithm for V-BLAST Architecture,” Electrical Engineering, Sravankumar Rachamalla*, June 11, 2004, Completed.“Performance of Pseudonoise Code Tracking Loop Using Smart Antenna under Multipath Fading Environment,” Electrical Engineering, Viveknath Penmatsa*, November 21, 2003, Completed.“An Inverse Problem Based Estimation for Ultra Wideband Communication Systems,” Electrical Engineering, Thakur Gyawali*, October 28, 2003, Completed.“MOSTLE Adaptive Antenna Array Algorithm for Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) System,” Electrical Engineering, Adrian Teck Ann Ang*, April 30, 2003, Completed.“Chip Interleaved CDMA with Space Time Block Code,” Electrical Engineering, Norrasingh Kanivichaporn*, April 15, 2003, Completed, and employed at Shin Satellite Public Company Limited, Thailand.“Application of Space Time Block Code for CDMA 2000 System,” Electrical Engineering, Bagawan Sewu Nugroho*, December 2001, Completed.“Analysis of System Design and Erlang Capacity Issues for a CDMA System with Simple Smart Antenna Array,” Electrical Engineering, Raja D. Balakrishman*, December 1999, Completed.“Turbo Code in IS-2000 Code Division Multiple Access Wireless Communications under Fading,” Electrical Engineering, Jian Qi*, December 1999, Completed.“Analysis of Simple Smart Antenna for CDMA Wireless Communications Systems,” Electrical Engineering, Yoo-Seung Song*, December 1998, Completed.“Bit Error Rate of Code Division Multiple-Access under Rician Fading,” Electrical Engineering, Surasak Phunpetch*, July 1997, Completed.“Double Dwell PN Code Acquisition for Code Division Multiple Access Wireless Communication under Rayleigh Fading,” Electrical Engineering, Je-Bok Kim*, May 1997, Completed employed at Next Tel.“Data Rate Detection Before Viterbi Decoding for IS-95 Wireless Communication,” Electrical Engineering, Sirote Ratanamahatana*, May 1997, Completed.“900 MHz Radio Wave Measurement for Multiple Phone Indoor Environment,” Electrical Engineering, Po-Wei Chang*, May 1997, Completed.“Simulation of BER Performance of Four-Level CPFSK Modulation with D.C. Offset,” Electrical Engineering, Lei Zhang*, May 1997, Completed.“Performance Analysis of Narrowband Digital FM Demodulator with Zero-Crossing Postprocessors,” Electrical Engineering, Weiguang Hou*, May 1996, Completed.“p/4-Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying Signaling with Baseband Zero-Crossing Demodulator,” Electrical Engineering, Ali Haghnegahdar*, May 1996, Completed.“Simulation of Doppler Frequency Shifted Fading for Mobile Communications Systems,” Electrical Engineering, Jae-Woo Park*, May 1996, Completed.“Noncoherent PN Code Acquisition with Data Modulation under Static and Fading Environments,” Electrical Engineering, Masudur Rahman Tarafder*, May 1996, Completed.“Simulation of Post Processors for Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying Signal with Zero-Crossings,” Electrical Engineering, In Ha Hyun*, May 1996, Completed.“Frequency Offset Compensator for Land Mobile Zero-Crossing Digital FM Receiver,” Electrical Engineering, Poh Chun Lai*, December 1995, Completed.“Frequency-Offset Effects on Performance of a Baseband Zero-Crossing Demodulator under AWGN and Mobile Fading Environments,” Electrical Engineering, Yun Bai*, May 1995, Completed.“New Improved Zero-Intermediate Frequency Zero-Crossing Demodulator under Additive White Gaussian Noise Channel,” Electrical Engineering, Huan Yue*, May 1995, Completed.MS Direct Project Supervised as a Committee Chair (Title, Department, Student, Date Completed/ Expected)“Assistance to Immune System by Genetically Engineered Bacteria: Molecular Communication,” Electrical Engineering, Chandana Vemula*, March 3, 2016, Completed and employed at Argus Health Systems Inc. (DTS Systems), Kansas City, MO.“MAX-Log-MAP Turbo Encoder and Decoder Software Implementation,” Electrical Engineering, Nghia Trung Tran*, May 2, 2003, Completed.“Mean Effective Gain Analysis for an Adaptive Linear Array of Two Dipoles,” Electrical Engineering, Steven Hallacy*, May 2001, Completed.“Bit Error Rate Approximation of a Code Division Multiple Access Wireless Communication System,” Electrical Engineering, Zhehai Lu*, May 2000, Completed.“Blind Equalization Application to QPSK Communication System,” Electrical Engineering, Soo Yuet Wang*, July 1997, Completed.“Bit Error Probability Comparison of Two-Bit Differential GMSK and Narrow Band Digital FM with Limiter-Discriminator-Integrator and Dump under Rayleigh Fading,” Electrical Engineering, Kai Zyn Teo*, December 1995, Completed.“Spread-Spectrum Pseudonoise Code Acquisition Scheme with Data Modulation-On under Fading Environments,” Electrical Engineering, Kok Gaun Lim*, July 1995, Completed.“The Spectral Efficiencies of CDMA and FDMA Systems for Mobile Satellite Communications,” Electrical Engineering, Chi-Shiang Chen*, May 1995, Completed.“Bit Error Probability of BPSK DS/SS with Multipath Delay Time Larger and Shorter Than the Chip Time,” Electrical Engineering, Kwang S. Mun*, December 1993, Completed.Courses and Laboratories Developed (Courses and Dates).New Courses Developed. EE 877U, Lattice Coding for Signals and Networks, fall 2016.EE 836, 5G Wireless Communications, fall 2015.EE 856, Information Theory, Fall 2010.ECE 736, Data Communication Networks, Spring 1996.ECE 826, Digital Communication Systems II, Fall 1994.New Lab Developed. EE 777OL, Digital Communications I Lab, spring 2017.Major changes to existing course. New text books were adopted and complete new lecture notes were prepared for the following four courses: EE 986, Wireless Spread Spectrum Communications, spring 2018.EE 383, Signals and Systems, fall 2015.EE 886, Error Control Coding, spring 2014.EE 726, Digital Communications I, spring 2013.EE 754, Probabilistic Methods in Systems, fall 2006.ECE 586, Introduction to Communications Systems, spring 2008.

Kyoungnae Lee, Ph.D.

Assistant Teaching Professor

kyoungnae.lee@wichita.edu

(316) 978-3984

Arun-Kaarthick Manoharan, Ph.D.

Assistant Teaching Professor

arun.manoharan@wichita.edu

(316) 978-7391

Chengzong Pang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and MSECE Graduate Coordinator

chengzong.pang@wichita.edu

(316) 978-7325

Academic Expertise: Education:B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, ChinaM.S. in Electrical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, ChinaPh.D. in Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, USAResearch Interests:Power systems analysis and protectionCascading outagesIntegration of renewable energy resources in smart gridPublic policy and technical issues associated with competitive power systems

Manira Rani

Associate Educator

manira.rani@wichita.edu

(316) 978-6992

Academic Expertise: Education:M.S. in Computer Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, USAM.S. in Fisheries Management, University of Tromso, NorwayB.S. in Zoology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Steven R. Skinner, Ph.D.

Interim Dean and Professor

steven.skinner@wichita.edu

(316) 978-6197

Academic Expertise: Education:B.S. in Electrical Engineering, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (1985)M.S. in Electrical Engineering, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (1988)Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (1991)

Davi Soares, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

davi.soares@wichita.edu

(316) 978-6350

Mehnaz Tabassum, Ph.D.

Assistant Teaching Professor

mehnaz.tabassum@wichita.edu

(316) 978-3259

John Watkins, Ph.D.

Professor

john.watkins@wichita.edu

(316) 978-6336

Academic Expertise: Education:B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of NebraskaM.S. in Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State UniversityPh.D. in Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University

Emeritus

M. Edwin Sawan, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Academic Expertise: Education:B.S. (Distinction with Honors), EE, University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1973.M.S. in Automatic Control and Computers, University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1976.Ph.D., EE, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1979.Research Area:Control Systems

Ward T. Jewell, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

ward.jewell@wichita.edu

(316) 978-6340

Academic Expertise: Education:B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Oklahoma State UniversityM.S. in Electrical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityPh.D. in Electrical Engineering, Oklahoma State University

Faculty In Professional Practice

Andy Stallard

Lecturer and Director of the Senior Design Experience

caskel.stallard@wichita.edu

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Affiliate Faculty

Temporary Instructor Pool

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Ph.D. Candidate

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Ph.D. Candidate

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Ph.D. Candidate

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Ph.D. Candidate

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Ph.D. Candidate

Staff

Kayla Cunningham

Administrative Specialist

kayla.cunningham@wichita.edu

(316) 978-3914

Harold Hostetter

Lab Manager

harold.hostetter@wichita.edu

(316) 978-6047