University of Delaware Graduate Catalog 1996-1997 College of Engineering Electrical Engineering Faculty in the Graduate Program Gonzalo R. Arce, Ph.D. (Purdue), Professor: Communications theory, image processing and coding, signal processing, pattern recognition. Charles G. Boncelet, Jr., Ph.D. (Princeton), Professor: Signal processing, control theory, digital communications, complexity theory. Neal C. Gallagher, Ph.D. (Princeton), Charles Black Evans Professor and Chair: Digital signal processing, image processing, optics and holography, electromagnetic scattering, neural networks, and cellular automata. Robert G. Hunsperger, Ph.D. (Cornell), Professor: Semiconductor devices and materials, optoelectronics, optical integrated circuits, microwave devices. Charles S. Ih, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), Professor: Electrooptical systems, applications of lasers and holography, input-output devices, coherent imaging systems. James Kolodzey, Ph.D. (Princeton), Professor: Optoelectronic materials and devices, molecular beam epitaxy, high-frequency measurements. John J. Kramer, Ph.D. (Carnegie-Mellon), Professor Emeritus: Electrical and magnetic properties of materials, surface phenomena, thermodynamics. David L. Mills, Ph.D. (Michigan), Professor: Computer networking architecture and protocol design, multimedia message systems. David M. Robinson, Ph.D. (Delaware), Professor: Digital systems, microprocessor systems, speech characterization. Peter J. Warter, Ph.D. (Princeton), Professor: Hardware database systems, printing systems, electrophotographic imaging, image processing and representation. Phillip Christie, Ph.D. (Durham), Associate Professor: Optical interconnects for VLSI, heteroepitaxial crystal growth. John G. Elias, Ph.D. (Yale), Associate Professor: Parallel and distributed processor systems, computer architecture, neural networks, and neurocomputation. Guang R. Gao, Ph.D. (MIT), Associate Professor: Computer architecture, parallel and distributed systems, VLSI and application-specific system design. Johnson O. Olowolafe, Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology), Associate Professor: Physics and technology of semiconductor devices/materials including processing, characterization analyses and integration, metallization for ULSI. Paul R. Berger, Ph.D. (Michigan), Assistant Professor: Optoelectronic circuits and devices. Ashfaq A. Khokhar, Ph.D. (USC), Assistant Professor: Parallel algorithms and architectures, software systems for high performance computing. Daniel W. van der Weide, Ph.D. (Stanford), Assistant Professor: Ultrafast electronics applied to spectroscopy and microscopy, low-dimensional electron systems, middle ear implants. Darren E. Vengroff, Ph.D. (Brown), Assistant Professor: I/O systems for high-performance computing, including algorithms, implementation environments, and operating system support, microarchitectural simulation systems. Xiang-Gen Xia, Ph.D. (USC), Assistant Professor: Wireless communications, error control coding and trellis coded modulations, multirate filterbanks and wavelet transforms, time-frequency analysis and synthesis.