Email: drb@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5351
D. Richard Brown III received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from The University of Connecticut in 1992 and 1996, respectively, and received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 2000. From 1992-1997, he was with General Electric Electrical Distribution and Control. Since August 2000, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he is currently a Professor and Department Head. ...
Email: ludwig@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5315
I started at WPI as an Assistant Professor after graduating from Colorado State University. My research focus has been electromagnetic and acoustic nondestructive evaluation (NDE), and for the past 15 years the development of anatomically shaped coils for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). As director of the Center for Imaging and Sensing (CIS), I have concentrated on the exploration of energy/media interactions with emphasis on inspecting critical industrial materials and biological structures. ...
Email: masheghan@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6479
Mostafa Asheghan is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at WPI. His research interests include model- and data-driven control, robust control and nonlinear dynamics, with applications in biomedical engineering. He also explores other areas such as system identification, statistical shape analysis, fractional-order systems, complex networks, zero-dimension models, chaos theory, stability analysis and soft robotics. ...
Email: say@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6288
Dr. Ay received his MS and PhD Degrees in Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, in 1997 and 2004. He joined the ECE department of University of Idaho in 2007 as Assistant Professor, and promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2013. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of WPI on early 2024. ...
Email: ted@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5778
Research Interests: Smart Prosthetics, Biomedical Signal Processing/Modeling, Assistive Technology, Wearable Sensors, Biomedical Instrumentation, Medical IoT. ...
Email: fganji@wpi.edu
Before joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Fatemeh was a Post Doctoral Associate at the University of Florida (from 2018-2020) and at the Telecom Innovation Laboratories/Technical University of Berlin (from 2017-2018). She defended her dissertation with the title "On the Learnability of Physically Unclonable Functions" at the Technical University of Berlin, with an overall grade of "distinction" (= summa cum laude). For her dissertation, she was awarded the BIMoS Ph.D. ...
Email: uguler@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6914
My research interests lie in the broad area of circuits and systems, and my primary area of interest is analog/mixed signal integrated circuits. More specifically, I am interested in the circuit design of sensing interfaces and energy harvesting and wireless power transmission systems for applications in the IoT. ...
Email: xhuang@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5771
Being a faculty member is a privilege through which I can teach and mentor many students. My area of expertise is in computer engineering. More specifically, I conduct research in the area of AI, digital health, autonomous vehicles, and wireless communications. I teach computer engineering courses at all levels from transistors, gates, circuits, processors, to computer systems. ...
Email: bislam@wpi.edu
Bashima Islam is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research focuses on building sustainable intelligent systems by combining sensor data with large language models, creating energy-efficient AI for audio and speech, developing innovative TinyML solutions for edge devices, and using AI to enhance behavioral health outcomes. ...
Email: snmakaroff@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5017
My professional work centers on computational human phantoms, applied electromagnetics, and the numerical optimization and prototyping of selected on-body antenna types. RF studies can lead a student to challenging research and careers in a number of fields, including wireless communications, health care, power electronics, financial services, environmental management, engineering design and production, antenna design, radar engineering, and signals processing. RF is also moving into the biomedical field where there are many opportunities for wireless RF applications. ...
Email: lmallak@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6640
Larry Mallak is the Academic Director of Systems Engineering and a Professor of Practice in WPI’s System Engineering programs. He has spent his career building and using innovative methods to improve organizational systems and to design processes leading to better outcomes in complex systems. His work in empathic design sits squarely at the nexus of design, customer needs, and system requirements elicitation. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including TEDx, Engineering Management Journal, WORK, and Industrial Management. ...
Email: mcneill@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5567
John A. McNeill joined WPI in 1994 after nearly a decade in industry, and recently returned to the ECE department after serving in the Dean of Engineering office from 2018 to 2025. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the National Academy of Inventors, and the Council for Undergraduate Research. ...
Email: jmonat@wpi.edu
Dr. Monat teaches courses in Risk Management and Decision Analysis, Systems Thinking, System Optimization, and Business Practices. He has both management and teaching experience in the medical device, separations, food & beverage, business consulting, and environmental industries, having served as President of Harvard Clinical Technology, President and Founder of Business Growth Specialists, Inc., as Sr. Vice-President of Pall Corporation, and in a variety of executive positions for Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. He has taught at WPI since 2004. ...
Email: kmus@wpi.edu
Koksal Mus’ research and teaching interests focus on cybersecurity, cryptography, and computer engineering, with expertise extending to hardware programming and applied security. His research includes the standardization of quantum-computer-resistant security and the development of future cybersecurity standards. His work has been published in top-tier security conferences, including the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) and the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P). ...
Email: gregn@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6874
Greg Noetscher is an Assistant Teaching Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research interests include the design of complex and anatomically realistic human body models for electromagnetic simulation, numerical methods, antenna design, power electronics, and power systems. He received the Ph.D. ...
Email: pschaumont@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6472
My research interests are in hardware security related topics, a field that gained enormous traction over the past two decades. I work on challenges in cryptographic engineering, and on making systems secure and tamper resistant. My students have built numerous demonstrators which has driven my research in attacks and countermeasures against faults and side-channel analysis. In addition to research in tamper-resistant design, I also work on the conception, design and implementation of efficient realizations of secure hardware and software. ...
Email: jstander@wpi.edu
Email: sunar@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5494
I received my PhD in ECE from Oregon State University in December 1998 and worked briefly as a member of the research faculty at OSU’s Information Security Laboratory. In 2000 I joined WPI as an assistant professor. My research interests include applied cryptography and cybersecurity;
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Email: stajik@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5239
I joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute in July 2020 as an assistant research professor. Before joining WPI, I was an assistant research professor at Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research at University of Florida. I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2017 from the working group SECT, a collaboration of the Technical University of Berlin and Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories in Germany. ...
Email: btang1@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6248
Dr. Tang is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Prior to joining WPI, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU) from 2017 to 2022, where he received the Emerging Research Scholar Award, the highest award and honor for assistant professors at MSU. ...
Email: cthomas2@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6270
Christo K Thomas received his BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India in year 2010, his MS in Telecommunication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in year 2012, and his PhD from EURECOM, France in year 2020. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Virginia Tech during June 2022-July 2025. His research interests include semantic communications, statistical signal processing, and artificial general intelligence (AGI)-native wireless systems. ...
Email: euzunovic@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6016
Dr. Edvina Uzunovic has more than 15 years of experience with a range of responsibilities in the power systems industry. She has been a vital contributor to the overall success of several leading power industry organizations while serving different roles as a Technical Officer, Smart Grid Transmission Applications, Senior Quantitative Analyst and Senior Research and Technology Development Engineer. She is currently the Associate Director of Power Systems Engineering and an adjunct professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. ...
Email: zweissman@wpi.edu
Dr. Zane Weissman is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI, where she teaches topics in computer engineering. She has particular interests in hands-on lab work and collaborative projects as part of an engineering curriculum. She discovered her passion for teaching as a graduate teaching assistant at WPI, where she received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering after completing B.S. and M.S. degrees in the same subject. Dr. ...
Email: alexw@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5061
Dr. Alexander M. Wyglinski is the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at WPI since 2021. In this role, Dr. ...
Email: zzhang15@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6289
Dr. Ziming Zhang is an Associate Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Before joining WPI he was a research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in 2016-2019. Prior to that, he was a research assistant professor at Boston University. Dr. Zhang received his PhD in 2013 from Oxford Brookes University, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Philip H. S. Torr (now in the University of Oxford). His research areas lie in computer vision and machine learning, especially in object recognition/detection, data-efficient learning (e.g. ...
Email: wlappleyard@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5869
Email: rkuhlwein@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5264
Email: orourke@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5233
Email: kgallo@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5879
Email: sweeney@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6477
Email: jstroope@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4607