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It is so rewarding to witness the growing focus around semiconductor innovation and translational research. I believe that over the next few years, we will witness major growth in this discipline, and I know that Michigan faculty will have a big role in this expansion, especially in the space of automotive semiconductors.

Valeria Bertacco


from U-M leads research translating semiconductor innovation for broad societal impact

Ehsan Afshari

Professor, ECE

Email: afshari@umich.edu
Research Focus: High frequency circuits and systems for imaging

Elaheh Ahmadi

Associate Professor, ECE

Email: eahmadi@umich.edu
Research Focus: III-N and Oxide semiconductor materials and devices for high power and high frequency applications

Al-Thaddeus Avestruz

Assistant Professor, ECE

Email: avestruz@umich.edu
Research Focus: high performance power electronics

Todd Austin

Professor, CSE

Email: austin@umich.edu
Research Focus: Computer architecture and computer engineering

Shorya Awtar

Professor, ME

Email: awtar@umich.edu
Research Focus: Mechanical design

Alexander Benken

Research Investigator, ECE

Email: acbenken@umich.edu
Research Focus: Microsensors and microsensing systems

Valeria Bertacco

Professor, CSE

Email: vale@umich.edu
Research Focus: Computer architecture and electronic design automation

Director, MAVERIC

David Blaauw

Professor, ECE

Email: blaauw@umich.edu
Research Focus: Low power and high performance VLSI design

Ageeth Bol

Professor, Chem

Email: aabol@umich.edu
Research Focus: Materials chemistry

Mark Brehob

Lecturer, CSE

Email: brehob@umich.edu
Research Focus: Computer architecture‬

Director, Michigan Embedded Systems Hub

Alexander Burgers

Associate Professor, ECE

Email: aburgers@umich.edu
Research Focus: Quantum science

Mahdi Cheraghchi

Associate Professor, CSE

Email: mahdich@umich.edu
Research Focus: Theoretical aspects of computer science

Steven Cundiff

Professor, Physics

Email: cundiff@umich.edu
Research Focus: Ultrafast optics

Neil Dasgupta

Associate Professor, ME

Email: ndasgupt@umich.edu
Research Focus: Renewable energy and energy storage

Reetuparna Das

Professor, CSE

Email: reetudas@umich.edu
Research Focus: Computer architecture

Parag Deotare

Associate Professor, ECE

Email: pdeotare@umich.edu
Research Focus: Light-matter interaction in nanoscale systems

Robert Dick

Professor, ECE

Email: dickrp@umich.edu
Research Focus: Embedded systems

Aline Eid

Assistant Professor, ECE

Email: alineeid@umich.edu
Research Focus: mmWave and sub-THz electromagnetic waves

Roya Ensafi

Assistant Professor, CSE

Email: ensafi@umich.edu
Research Focus: Computer and network security

Michael Flynn

Professor, ECE

Email: mpflynn@umich.edu
Research Focus: Analog and RF circuits

Stephen Forrest

Professor, ECE

Email: stevefor@umich.edu
Research Focus: Components and materials

Yogesh B Gianchandani

Professor, ECE

Email: yogesh@umich.edu
Research Focus: Design and fabrication of microsensors

Brian Gilchrist

Professor, ECE

Email: gilchrst@umich.edu
Research Focus: Plasma electrodynamics and diagnostics, wireless technology

Director, SPRL/XTRM Labs

Rachel Goldman

Professor, MSE

Email: rsgold@umich.edu
Research Focus: Silicon materials

Xiwen Gong

Assistant Professor, Chem

Email: xwgong@umich.edu
Research Focus: Multifunctional skin-interfaced electronics

Tony Grbic

Professor & Senior Associate Chair, ECE

Email: agrbic@umich.edu
Research Focus: Electromagnetics and optics

Karl Grosh

Professor, ME

Email: grosh@umich.edu
Research Focus: Microelectronic mechanical systems

Paul Grubbs

Assistant Professor, CSE

Email: paulgrub@umich.edu
Research Focus: Applied cryptography, security, and systems

L. Jay Guo

Professor, ECE

Email: guo@umich.edu
Research Focus: Sensors and devices

Anhong Guo

Assistant Professor, CSE

Email: anhong@umich.edu
Research Focus: Intersection of HCI and AI

Yuri gurevich

Professor, CSE

Email: gurevich@umich.edu
Research Focus: Quantum computing

Alex Halderman

Professor, CSE

Email: jhalderm@umich.edu
Research Focus: Computer security

John Hayes

Professor, CSE

Email: jhayes@umich.edu
Research Focus: Computer-aided design and testing

John Heron

Assistant Professor, MSE

Email: jtheron@umich.edu
Research Focus: Epitaxial growth of complex oxides

Robert Hovden

Associate Professor, MSE

Email: hovden@umich.edu
Research Focus: Nanoscale structure determination on material properties

Ryan Huang

Associate Professor, CSE

Email: ryanph@umich.edu
Research Focus: OS and distributed systems

Mohammed Islam

Professor, ECE

Email: mni@umich.edu
Research Focus: Mid- and near-infrared laser sources

Dhruv Jain

Assistant Professor, CSE

Email: profdj@umich.edu
Research Focus: Intersection HCI and AI

Manos Kapritsos

Associate Professor, CSE

Email: manosk@umich.edu
Research Focus: Distributed systems

Baris Kasikci

Adjunct Associate Professor, CSE

Email: barisk@umich.edu
Research Focus: OS and distributed systems

Hun-Seok Kim

Professor, ECE

Email: hunseok@umich.edu
Research Focus: Efficient VLSI architectures

Manos Kioupakis

Professor, MSE

Email: kioup@umich.edu
Research Focus: Smart manufacturing

Mackillo Kira

Professor, ECE

Email: mackkira@umich.edu
Research Focus: Semiconductor quantum optics

Pei-Cheng Ku

Professor, ECE

Email: peicheng@umich.edu
Research Focus: Energy efficient optoelectronics

Mark Kushner

Professor, ECE

Email: mjkush@umich.edu
Research Focus: Computational plasma science and engineering, microelectronics

Somin Eunice Lee

Assistant Professor, ECE

Email: sleee@umich.edu
Research Focus: Nanoscale biotechnology

Yiyang Li

Assistant Professor, MSE

Email: yiyangli@umich.edu
Research Focus: Silicon devices

Yongxi Li

Associate Research Scientist, ECE

Email: yongxili@umich.edu
Research Focus: Organic electronics

Xiaogan Liang

Associate Chair & Professor, ME

Email: xiaoganl@umich.edu
Research Focus: Micro/nano engineering

Shuai Liu

Assistant Research Scientist, ECE

Email: shualiu@umich.edu
Research Focus: Quantum information processing in scalable platforms

Wei Lu

Professor, ECE

Email: wluee@umich.edu
Research Focus: Nanoelectronics

Harsha Madhyastha

Adjunct Assistant Professor, CSE

Email: harshavm@umich.edu
Research Focus: Applied networking

Scott Mahlke

Professor, ECE

Email: mahlke@umich.edu
Research Focus: Compilers, computer architecture, and high-level synthesis

Stephen Maldonado

Professor, Chem & Applied Physics

Email: smald@umich.edu
Research Focus: Electrochemical charge transfer processes

Yatin Manerkar

Assistant Professor, CSE

Email: manerkar@umich.edu
Research Focus: Heterogeneous parallel hardware, hardware security, MCMs, ethical AI

Zhuoqing Morley Mao

Professor, CSE

Email: zmao@umich.edu
Research Focus: Network systems, mobile and distributed systems, and network/systems security

Jason Mars

Associate Professor, CSE

Email: profmars@umich.edu
Research Focus: Natural language processing, computer vision, sophisticated salable systems for A.I.

Pinaki Mazumder

Professor, CSE & ECE

Email: mazum@umich.edu
Research Focus: CMOS VLSI design, semiconductor memory systems, CAD tools

Zetian Mi

Professor, ECE

Email: ztmi@umich.edu
Research Focus: Semiconductor nanostructures

Eric Michielssen

Professor, ECE & Associate Dean, Research

Email: emichiel@umich.edu
Research Focus: Electromagnetics, microwave and millimeter wave circuits and packaging

Amir Mortazawi

Professor, ECE

Email: amirm@umich.edu
Research Focus: RF and microwave circuits

Director, RADLAB

Barzan Mozafari

Associate Professor, CSE

Email: mozafari@umich.edu
Research Focus: Scalable databases

Khalil Najafi

Professor, ECE

Email: najafi@umich.edu
Research Focus: Solid-state integrated sensors, Microactuators, Micromechanics, Integrated circuits

Satish Narayanasamy

Professor, CSE

Email: nsatish@umich.edu
Research Focus: Computer Architecture; Program Analysis; Confidential Computing

Adib Nashashibi

Associate Research Scientist, ECE & Intermittent LEO Lecturer ECE

Email: nuha@umich.edu
Research Focus: Microwave and millimeter-wave remote sensing, radar technology, wave propagation

Brian D Noble

Professor, CSE

Email: bnoble@umich.edu
Research Focus: Operating and storage systems, mobile and pervasive computing

Chinedum Okwudire

Professor, ME

Email: okwudire@umich.edu
Research Focus: Manufacturing automation, nano-positioning, smart manufacturing systems

Cyrus Omar

Professor, CSE

Email: comar@umich.edu
Research Focus: Improving programming for computational scientists, developers, educators, and users with disabilities

Christopher Peikert

Professor and Associate Chair, CSE

Email: cpeikert@umich.edu
Research Focus: Cryptography, lattices, coding theory, algorithms, and computational complexity

Becky Peterson

Associate Professor, ECE

Email: blpeters@umich.edu
Research Focus: Oxide semiconductor materials and devices

Director, Lurie Nanofabrication Facility

Leland Pierce

Associate Research Scientist & LEO Lecturer I, ECE

Email: lep@umich.edu
Research Focus: Development of image processing techniques for radar remote sensing

Kevin Pipe

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education & Professor, ME & Applied Physics

Email: pipe@umich.edu
Research Focus: Microscale heat transfer, thermoelectric energy conversion

Ferdinand Poudeu

Professor, MSE

Email: ppoudeup@umich.edu
Research Focus: Smart manufacturing

Atul Prakash

Division Chair & Professor, CSE

Email: aprakash@umich.edu
Research Focus: Security of emerging systems, efficient and secure machine learning

Yutao Qin

Assistant Research Scientist, ECE

Email: yutaoqin@umich.edu
Research Focus: Microscale gas chromatographs, gas sensors, and gas pumps

Christopher Ruf

Professor, CSSE

Email: cruf@umich.edu
Research Focus: Earth environmental remote sensing; satellitemicrowave sensors

Karem Sakallah

Professor, CSE

Email: karem@umich.edu
Research Focus: Computer-aided design of electronic systems, discrete optimization

Mehdi Saligane

Assistant Research Scientist, ECE

Email: mehdi@umich.edu
Research Focus: Edge AI acceleration, hardware & software co-design, nanofabrication, sensors

Kamal Sarabandi

Professor, ECE

Email: saraband@umich.edu
Research Focus: Microwave and millimeter wave radar technology, antennas and wave propagation

Kang Shin

Professor, CSE

Email: kgshin@umich.edu
Research Focus: Mobile networks, systems and applications, security and privacy, cyber-physical systems

Dennis Sylvester

Professor, ECE

Email: dmcs@umich.edu
Research Focus: Ultra-low power circuit design, small form-factor microsystems, near-threshold computing

Wei Tang

Assistant Research Scientist, ECE

Email: weitang@umich.edu
Research Focus: IC designs for communications and machine learning

Lingjia Tang

Associate Professor, CSE

Email: lingjia@umich.edu
Research Focus: Computer architecture, compilers, and runtime systems for large-scale data centers

Fred Terry

Professor, ECE

Email: fredty@umich.edu
Research Focus: Electronic properties of materials, physics of solid state devices

Leung Tsang

Professor, ECE

Email: email@umich.edu
Research Focus: Electromagnetic theory and computational electromagnetics

Georgios Tzimpragos

Assistant Professor, CSE

Email: gtzimpra@umich.edu
Research Focus: Pulse-based superconductor electronics

Xinyu Wang

Assistant Professor, CSE

Email: xwangsd@umich.edu
Research Focus: Database query optimization, process automation, end-user programming

Westley Weimer

Professor, CSE

Email: weimerw@umich.edu
Research Focus: Advancing software quality through static and dynamic programming language approaches

Euisik Yoon

Professor, ECE

Email: esyoon@umich.edu
Research Focus: Bio-MEMS and Microfluidics, Bio-Micro Nanotechnolog

David Wentzloff

Professor, ECE

Email: wentzlof@umich.edu
Research Focus: ICs for wireless communication

Director, Michigan Integrated Circuits Lab

Steven Young

Assistant Research Scientist, ECE

Email: yms@umich.edu
Research Focus: Electromagnetic metasurfaces, dielectric structures, time-varying structures, nonlinear electromagnetics

Zhengya Zhang

Professor, ECE

Email: zhengya@umich.edu
Research Focus: Hardware design for computing and communications

Pei Zhang

Associate Professor, ECE

Email: peizhang@umich.edu
Research Focus: Utilizing physical properties of devices and structures as a sensor to discover physical information

Zheshen Zhang

Associate Professor, ECE

Email: zszh@umich.edu
Research Focus: Quantum information science and technology

Zhaohui Zhong

Associate Professor, ECE

Email: zzhong@umich.edu
Research Focus: Nanoelectronics and nanophotonics, microwave and terahertz frequency nanoelectronics

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