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Faculty: Department

Electrical Engineering (EE)

  • Power electronics
  • Electric vehicles, vessels and aircraft
  • Energy storage system
  • Hydrogen and ammonia power conversion
  • Motor and drive
  • Electromagnetics and High frequency magnetics
  • Wireless power transfer
  • Autonomous vehicle and Smart mobility
  • Intelligent power distribution
  • Space power electronics
  • High speed vehicles
  • Robotic and actuation systems
  • High voltage and high frequency AC power conversion and distribution

Sarah Kurtz

Professor, Dept Chair (EE), and Graduate Program Chair (MBSE)

skurtz@ucmerced.edu

Lab Site

SE2 384

  • Trends of growth of renewable energy and research issues that need to be tackled to support continued improvements
  • Latest research challenges as the solar industry is growing rapidly
  • Performance of PV systems and how the performance of the system and the grid it feeds into can be improved
  • Reliability issues with PV systems

Changqing Li

  • Biomedical imaging instrumentation
  • Reconstruction algorithms
  • X-ray imaging
  • X-ray luminescence computed tomography (XLCT)
  • Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT)

Ayush Pandey

Assistant Teaching Professor

ayushpandey@ucmerced.edu

  • Control theory for large-scale system design
  • Engaged classroom learning using interactive computational tools
  • AI and optimization methods for systems modeling

Mukesh Singhal

  • Cloud computing and Distributed Computing Systems.
  • Cybersecurity, Crypto currency, Blockchain, Consensus algorithms.
  • Intelligent systems, Distributed AI, Machine learning, optimization.
  • Wireless and Vehicular Networks, Ad-hoc Networks, Mobile Computing, Networks Security, IoT

Qian Wang

Assistant Professor

  • Post-quantum Cryptos and hardware-intrinsic security primitives (i.e., PUF, NTT and FHE)
  • Quantum computer emulation and simulation system
  • Machine learning systems and security analysis
  • Cyber-physical system and autonomous driving systems