Electrical Engineering

Research Areas


  • Analog Devices
  • Communications
  • Electromagnetics
  • Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • Nanoelectronics
  • Networking
  • Photonics
  • Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)
  • Quantum Computing

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2015–present
    • Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2009–2014
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Honor & Awards
    • DARPA Microelectronics Exploratory Council Member
    • 2017-2019 IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
    • 2018 IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award
    • 2018 IEEE ISSCC Best Demo Award
    • 2015 IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award
    • 2014 IBM Faculty Award
    • 2011 DARPA Young Faculty Award
    • USC Viterbi School of Engineering 2009 Best Thesis Award – Experimental Research Category
    • IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2007 Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper

Research Areas


  • Control Systems
  • Information Theory
  • Power Systems
  • Signal Processing
  • Smart Electric Energy (Smart Grids)
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Cybersecurity
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Renewable Energy
  • Robotics and Automation
  • Machine Learning
  • Optimization
  • Data Science
  • Computational Mathematics

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Senior postdoctoral scholar, Caltech, 2017-2019
    • Junior Research Fellow, St John's College, University of Oxford, 2012-2016
  • Education
    • DPhil, Engineering Science, University of Oxford

Research Areas


  • Networks and Distributed Systems
  • Edge Computing
  • Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0
  • Networked and Distributed Systems
  • Wireless, Embedded & Sensor Systems
  • Communications
  • Networking
  • Power Systems
  • Smart Electric Energy (Smart Grids)
  • Wireless Communication
  • Networking
  • Internet of Things (IoT)

Additional Information


  • Honors & Awards
    • Knesset (Israeli Parliament) award for distinguished students
    • Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship, 2014-2016
    • NSF CAREER Award, 2010
    • DTRA Young Investigator Award, 2009
    • Fulbright Fellowship, 2004-2005

Research Areas


  • Neuroengineering
  • Neuromorphic Computing
  • Computing with Brain Circuits
  • Molecular Architecture and the Functional Logic of the Brain of Model Organisms
  • NeuroInformation Processing Machines

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Co-Director of the Center for Neural Engineering and Computation, 2013-
    • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Xbind, Inc., 1998-2001
    • Chair of electrical engineering, Columbia University, 1997-1998
    • Professor of electrical engineering, Columbia University, 1988-
    • Associate professor of electrical engineering, Columbia University, 1984–1988
    • Assistant professor of electrical engineering, Columbia University, 1980–1984
  • Professional Affiliations
    • IEEE
    • Society for Neuroscience
  • Honors & Awards
    • Fellow of the IEEE, 1993
    • IFIP/IEEE Dan Stokesberry Memorial Award for Distinguished Technical Contributions to the Growth of the Field of Network Management, 2003

Research Areas


  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Engineering Science
  • Data Science
  • Imaging
  • Materials
  • Sensing
  • High-dimensional data analysis
  • Signal processing
  • Optimization
  • Computer vision

Additional information


  • Honors & Awards
    • COLT 2012 Best Paper Award (with Spielman, Wang)
    • SPARS 2015 Student Paper Award (for PhD Advisees Ju Sun, Qing Qu)
    • Information and Inference Best Paper Competition, Second Prize (with Ganesh, Min, Ma)
    • 2015 PAMI TC Young Researcher Award