ECE faculty are engaged in research in a number of areas of technology critical to advancement of knowledge and commerce in the U.S. and the State of Oklahoma.
Generative models and optimization frameworks for functional materials discovery; machine learning for photonic system design; physics-informed neural networks; data-driven approaches to materials engineering and characterization.
Integration of advanced AI algorithms with emerging computing substrates; high-performance and low-latency implementations; energy-efficient accelerators for edge inference; cross-layer optimization of learning architectures.
Instrumentation, medical imaging, biomedical optics, digital hearing aids, physiological modeling. bio-computing: interactions of electromagnetic fields and biological tissue.
Adaptive antenna arrays, fixed wireless access, wideband CDMA, wireless telemetry systems, equalization and coding for storage.
Advanced computer systems and architecture, fault tolerant systems, networking, embedded systems, programmable logic, hardware design languages.
Power systems planning and operation; electric power network economics; regulation, privatization and competition in network; power quality and grid resilience; chaotic electromagnetic disturbances, smart grids, condition monitoring and diagnostics.
High efficiency motor control systems, battery systems, ergonomic subsystems, solar power and formula racing vehicles; wireless roadway charging systems.
Computational electromagnetics, phased array antennas, RF medical applications.
Digital image processing, computer vision, robotics vision, pattern recognition, image interpretation.
Soft computing, neural networks, fuzzy logic modeling, solution programming, optimization, artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms.
Multivariable controls design and analysis, robust and fuzzy logic controls, GPS flight control and location systems.
Biologically inspired electronic and photonic hardware architectures; spiking neural networks and event-driven processing; low-power learning and inference systems; memristive and phase-change devices for in-memory computing.
Integration of state-of-the-art optoelectronic components with high performance embedded processors, design and fabrication of analog/digital mixed-signal circuits, and development of chemical and biological sensors based on fluorescence, laser absorption and Raman scattering spectroscopies - all of which are integrated around a common platform for low-cost, low-power consumption deployment.
Speech and image representations for enhancement, compression, synthesis and recognition systems. Adaptive systems for telecommunications, multimedia, and other systems. Digital filter methods and implementations.
Molecular beam epitaxy growth of IV-VI semiconductors and group II-A fluoride insulators, liquid phase epitaxy, tunable diode laser fabrication, interface chemistry and heteroepitaxial growth mechanisms, optical device integration on silicon substrates, UV solar blind detectors, Bragg reflector-based devices for solid state lasers.
Wireless and fiber optic networking technology, systems interoperability, security.
Radar detection and signal processing, adaptive processing, phased arrays, weather detecting waveforms and filtering.
