Curricula Vitae in Electrical Engineering

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad Assistant Professor	ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors, exploring the novel approaches to MOCVD growth of emerging materials	Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad received his Master of Science (M. Sc.) degree from Govt. College Lahore and ranked first in the state. He completed his master’s and doctoral programs from Texas Tech University in 2003 & 2005, respectively, in the field of wide bandgap semiconductors. He went through post-doctoral training at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, in the growth processes involving molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) techniques.
Dr. Mohammod Ali Department Chair/Professor	Antennas, wireless, electromagnetics	Dr. Ali's specializations and research interests include: Reconfigurable antennas, conformal antennas, wireless sensors, wireless power transfer, nondestructive evaluation (NDE), wireless systems, wearable antennas, bioelectromagnetics, aircraft antennas and antenna arrays, metamaterials
Professor Seongtae BAE Assistant Professor	Magnetic Nanofluid Hyperthermia and its Clinical Applications in Nanomedicine, Bioelectromagnetism and Bioelectricity for Neural Engineering and Neuromodulation, Nanomagnetic Biomaterials and Ferrite Nanoparticles/Nanofluids for Biomedical Applications	Seongtae Bae is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing.
Kristen Booth Assistant Professor	Power Electronics, Optimization, Power Systems	My research interests include power system and power electronic optimization for grid modernization. I work at the component-level, converter-level, and system-level to understand trade-offs in designs and how they affect other portions of the system. Integrating this knowledge early in the design process improves system reliability. Open to interdisciplinary research with thermal considerations and integrating AI into power electronic controls as well as other opportunities.
Dr. MVS Chandrashekhar Associate Professor	Epitaxial Graphene and SiC for efficient energy and environmental applications	At the Clean Energy Lab in the Electrical Engineering Department at USC, we focus our efforts on the fundamental science, as well as engineering applications of advanced semiconductor materials such as SiC & graphene. We do this to enable new advances in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, as well as to make our energy sources & uses cleaner and more sustainable. Applications include plasmonics, hydrogen storage, power electronics and photovoltaics, among others.
Dr. Yinchao Chen Associate Professor	Signal integrity for high-speed circuits, Computational Electromagnetics	Yinchao Chen received the B.S. degree in space physics and the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from Wuhan University, PRC, and the University of South Carolina. Dr. Chen currently is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina. His current research interests include computational electromagnetics with applications of millimeter-wave integrated circuits.
Dr. Herbert Luther Ginn, III Professor	Power Systems, Power Electronics, Control Systems	Dr. Ginn's research interests include power electronics applications in power systems as well as power phenomena, and compensation in power distribution systems. He has extensive experience in the design, operation and control of power electronic converters as well as both passive and active harmonic filters. His current research is on the control and coordination of power electronic converters in special case distribution systems such as self contained vehicular systems and microgrids.
Michelle Hunt Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Asif Khan Professor	Semiconductor microelectronics, photonics	The focus for our Photonics and Microelectronics research is three-fold: Develop ultraviolet and visible high power solid-state light-emitting diodes and lasers using AlInGaN multiple quantum wells. Develop AlInGaN based high-power, high frequency microwave transistors using innovative material designs and processing techniques. Develop AlInGaN based photodetectors
Professor Krishna C. Mandal Professor	Photovoltaics, Nuclear Detectors, Medical Imaging Devices, Front-end Real-time Read-out Electronics, THz-Electronics & Imaging, Sensors, and Detectors	Nano-materials, quantum dot (Q-dot) and inorganic-organic based photovoltaics, crystal growth, semiconductors and scintillators, nuclear safeguard, radiation shielding, nuclear (alpha, beta, tritium, x-ray, gamma ray, neutron) detectors, front-end electronics, medical imaging - direct read-out real-time diagnostics (chest radiography, mammagraphy, CT), explosive detection, SERS for CBW agents detection, LW- and MW-IR lasers, THz Electronics, Li-batteries, Fuel cells
Dr. David Matolak Professor	Wireless Communications, Wireless Channel & Propagation Modeling, Radio Link and Networking Design	David Matolak has over 20 years of experience in R&D, design, and deployment of wireless communication systems for terrestrial, satellite, & aeronautical applications. He has worked for AT&T Bell Labs, MITRE, L3 Communications, Lockheed-Martin, & Ohio University, with research funded by NSF, NIST, NASA, DoD, etc. Work focuses on the physical layer of wireless communication systems, and includes modulation/detection, signal processing, radio propagation and channel modeling
Adel Nasiri Professor	Lead large-scale center-based programs for sustainable inter-disciplinary research, Conduct research on data-intensive energy/water systems, Expand research collaborations with military	Prof. Nasiri joined University of South Carolina (USC) in August 2021 after a 16-year career at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). AT UWM, he served in various positions including Associate Dean for Research, Richard Grigg, Jr. Professor and Director of Center for Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, site director for the NSF center on Grid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES).
Dr. Alphan Sahin Assistant Professor		Assistant Professor Sahin's research interests include the signal processing methods emphasizing on the physical layer of wireless communication systems, intelligent air-interfaces, waveforms, sequences, machine learning, radio access technologies, broadband mobile networks, and wireless communication standards, e.g., IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi and 3GPP 5G NR.
Dr. Enrico Santi Professor	Energy and Control Systems, Hardware-in-the-loop simulation of electrical systems.	Dr. Santi's long-term research interests are in the area of power electronics. Current research interests are in modeling, control and simulation of advanced electrical power distribution systems, and physics-based modeling of power semiconductor devices. In particular he is involved in the development of the Virtual Test Bed, a simulation-based tool for rapid prototyping of power systems and power electronic devices.
Dr. Grigory Simin Professor	Microwave devices and circuits	Dr. Grigory Simin is an Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of South Carolina. His current research focus is GaN based electronic devices, primarily power devices, microwave switching and control devices and ICs. Dr. Simin has taught courses on semiconductor devices, optoelectronics, high-speed devices.
Wilson E Smoak Instructor		Wilson Smoak is the instructor and coordinator for our Capstone Design Courses, ELCT 403 & 404 in Electrical Engineering Department, following a successful career in design of digital electronics, most recently for Intel.
Dr. Guoan Wang Professor	RF, Microwave and mmwave Engineering, Wireless Communications, Sensors and Sensing Systems	Dr. Wang's research interests include: Smart RF passives/systems: MEMS based RF components/systems, on-chip tunable RF components/systems, High performance on-chip components characterization and process optimization; MEMS/NEMS and their RF and Bio-medical applications; novel materials and their mmwave applications; and, 3D IC and system integration
Professor Xiaofeng Wang Associate Professor		Dr. Wang’s research interests include networked real-time control systems; fault-tolerant control; cooperative control; optimization; system verification; and, nonlinear system design.
Dr. Bin Zhang Associate Professor		Dr. Zhang’s areas of specialization include Prognostics and health management, which covers fault detection and isolation, failure prognosis, and fault tolerance; Robotics, unmanned systems, electromechanics, and industrial electronics; Intelligent systems and control; and Dynamic systems, design, modeling, simulation and control.