Circuits and Embedded Systems Area
Faculty Name	Areas of Expertise for the Examination
Abidi, Asad	Fundamentals of analog circuits, feedback and stability, biasing and large-signal operation, fundamentals of RF circuits, basics of transistor operation.
Cabric, Danijela	Signals and Systems, probability and random processes, digital and wireless communication systems, VLSI signal processing.
Chang, Frank	Semiconductor device physics, fundamental transistor and integrated circuit operation, basic microwave oscillator, amplifier, mixer and transmission line properties.
Daneshrad, Babak	Digital logic at both the transistor and gate level, wireless communications, wireless propagation, coupling of mathematical theory of communications to physical signals and elements.
Estrin, Deborah	Basic principles of Internet architecture and protocols, including congestion control, routing, media access control.
Gupta, Puneet	Electronic design automation, digital circuits, basic algorithms, basic VLSI fabrication.
He, Lei	Basic circuit analysis, digital circuits, programmable logic devices (FPGA), computer architecture, algorithms and data structures.
Kaiser, William	Computer engineering including digital circuits and systems, processor and platform architecture, and computer networks.
Markovic, Dejan	MOS transistor, digital logic, memories, CMOS scaling, timing and power, VLSI signal processing.
Pamarti, Sudhakar	Electrical network theory, random processes, signals and systems.
Razavi, Behzad	Basic properties of transistors and their circuit operation, basic amplifying stages, feedback, frequency limitations, I/V or input/output characteristics of circuits under large-signal operation.
Roychowdhury, Vwani	Linear systems and transforms, probability, linear algebra. Digital circuits, VLSI systems, data structures and algorithms, Turing machine models. Basic quantum mechanics, scaling limits of CMOS, nano devices, device modeling.
Sarrafzadeh, Majid	Digital logic and systems, algorithms.
Srivastava, Mani	Digital logic and VLSI systems, computer architecture and operating systems, computer and data networking.
Yang, Ken	Digital and analog circuits, VLSI system design issues, design of arithmetic units.

Physical and Wave Electronics Area
Faculty Name	Areas of Expertise for the Examination
Chui, Chi On	Physics of solid-state electronics and photonic devices, semiconductor material properties, device fabrication technology.
Fetterman, Harold	Quantum mechanics and solid state, lasers and optical devices, applications of semiconductors.
Huffaker, Diana	Photonic and electronic device physics, materials, devices and applications.
Itoh, Tatsuo	Transmission line structures, waveguides, dielectric waveguides, microwave passive components, simple antennas.
Jalali, Bahram	Semiconductor physics, device physics, lasers, optical amplifiers and other photonic devices.
Joshi, Chand	Electromagnetic wave propagation in dielectrics, metals and plasmas, guided wave propagation, resonant absorption and stimulated emission of radiation, fundamentals of lasers.
Judy, Jack	Micromachining, MEMS fabrication, integrated-circuit fabrication, micromechanics, microsensors, microactuators.
Liu, Jia-Ming	Maxwell equations in optical regime, optical wave propagation, optical waveguides and fibers, optical coupling, basic light-matter interactions, basic laser concepts, optical detection.
Mori, Warren	Electromagnetics and plasmas, electromagnetic waves in dielectrics, conductors, and plasmas, motion of charges in electric and magnetic fields, and vector calculus.
Niemann, Christoph	Principles of lasers, fundamentals of plasma electronics, interactions of electromagnetic waves with plasmas.
Ozcan, Aydogan	Photonics, basic electromagnetics, fiber optics, optical imaging, and other photonic related devices and concepts.
Pan, Dee-Son	Probability and statistics, Electrons and holes in crystals, transistor mechanisms, device and circuit interactions.
Rahmat-Samii, Yahya	Fundamentals of electromagnetic theory, vector calculus, Maxwell's equations, radiation and antennas.
Stafsudd, Oscar	Laser physics and applications, optics and non-linear optics; quantum mechanics, thermal magnetic and dielectric properties of solids.
Wang, Kang	Fundamentals of semiconductor physics and devices, carrier transport in semiconductors, governing equations for semiconductor devices, fundamentals of quantum mechanics in semiconductors, principles of MOS and bipolar transistors.
Wang, Yuanxun	Electromagnetic waves, waveguides, antennas, wireless links, antenna arrays, microwave passive circuits.
Williams, Benjamin	Basic quantum mechanics, semiconductor physics, basic semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices (Shottky and pn diodes, LEDs and laser diodes, photodiodes, BJTs and FETs).
Woo, Jason	Fundamental semiconductor physics, advanced device concepts and operational principles, device impact on circuits.

Signals and Systems Area
Faculty Name	Areas of Expertise for the Examination
Alwan, Abeer	Signals and systems, transforms, and digital signal processing.
Balakrishnan, A.V.	State space theory, random processes, estimation theory, Hilbert space operator theory.
Christofides, Panagiotis	Nonlinear systems and control theory.
Hansen, Mark	Gaussian or random processes, probability, basic estimation theory, data analysis and visualization, statistical computing, parametric and nonparametric statistical modeling, experimental design, and information theory.
Jain, Rajeev	Digital signal processing IC architectures, power, area and speed optimization in DSP architectures, CMOS VLSI layout parasitics and effects on DSP architectures, FIR and IIR filter implementations, binary arithmetic in DSP circuits.
Laub, Alan	Control theory, linear algebra, matrix theory, signals and systems.
Pottie, Gregory	Communication systems, numerical analysis, embedded systems.
Rubin, Izhak	Computer networks, queuing systems, graphs and network flows, probability, stochastic processes, multiple access wireless networks and systems.
Sayed, Ali	Signals and systems, transforms, digital signal processing, probability, random processes, linear algebra.
Soatto, Stefano	Signals and systems, feedback control, linear algebra.
Speyer, Jason	Probability, random variables, stochastic processes and sequences, feedback synthesis and analysis.
Tabuada, Paulo	Feedback control, linear and nonlinear systems, discrete-event systems.
van der Schaar, Mihaela	Signals and systems, transforms, digital signal processing, probability.
Vandenberghe, Lieven	Signals and systems, linear algebra, numerical computing, optimization.
Villasenor, John	Transforms, digital communications, probability and stochastic processes, linear algebra.
Wesel, Richard	Fourier transforms, digital communications, probability.
Willson, Alan	Digital signal processing, digital filtering, basic circuit theory.
Yao, Kung	Probability, random processes, and communication theory.