ELECTRICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING FACULTY

Department Chair: Dr. Mehdi Etezadi-Amoli

Department website

332 Scrugham Engineering Bldg. (SEM)
Mail Stop 0260
Phone: (775) 784-6927
Fax: (775) 784-6627

Faculty

Chatterjee, Indira
– RF & Microwave Engineering, Electromagnetics, Biomedical Engineering
Etezadi-Amoli, Mehdi
– Power Systems, Signal Processing, Renewable Energy
Fadali, Sami
– Control Systems
Henson, James
– Signal and Image Processing, Radar System Simulation
Publicover, Nelson
– Electrophysiology, Imaging and Biosensors
Rawat, Banmali
– Optical Communications, Microwave Engineering, Optical Sensors
Shen, Yantao
– Bioinstrumentation, Smart Sensors and Actuators for Bio-systems, Sensorized Micro/Nano Systems
Trzynadlowski, Andrezej
– Power Electronics, Electric Machines and Drives, Renewable Energy
Zhu, Xiaoshan
– Biochemical Sensors, BioMENS/NEMS, Microsystems

INDIRA CHATTERJEE
Professor, EBME and Associate Dean
(775) 784-1346
indira@unr.edu

PhD 1981, University of Utah

MS 1977, Case Western Reserve University

MS 1975, BS 1973, Bangalore University, India

Research/outreach areas: Numerical and experimental bioelectromagnetics; RF/microwave dosimetry; RF sensors; electrical properties of materials; therapeutic applications of electromagnetic fields.

Relevant past and current experience: Principal Investigator or co- Investigator on research grants from Johns Hopkins University, National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy; currently member of Biomedical Engineering faculty.

MEHDI ETEZADI-AMOLI
Professor and Chair, EBME
(775) 784-6066
etezadi@engr.unr.edu

PhD 1974, New Mexico State University

MS 1972, New Mexico State University

BS 1970, New Mexico State University

Research/outreach areas: Power systems analysis, planning, and protection; renewable energy; electromagnetic transient simulations; large scale system modeling; neural networks and fuzzy control application to power systems.

Relevant past experience: Senior Protection Engineer, Arizona Public
Service Co.; Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico and New
Mexico State University.

M. SAMI FADALI
Professor, EBME
(775) 784-6951
fadali@engr.unr.edu
website: http://wolfweb.unr.edu/~fadali

PhD 1980, University of Wyoming

MS 1977, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

BS 1974, Cairo University, Egypt

Research/outreach areas: Control systems; fault detection;
physiological modeling; engineering education

Relevant past experience: Consultant for Giza Systems; Engineer at
National Research Center, Cairo; Assistant Professor, King Abdul Aziz
University; Visiting Professor, GM Research and Development Labs.

JAMES M. HENSON
Associate Professor, EBME
(775) 784-6929
jmh@engr.unr.edu

PhD 1991, MS 1988, BS 1984, University of Arkansas

Research/outreach areas: Simulation and analysis of real and synthetic aperture imaging radar systems, 3D radar systems, inverse synthetic aperture systems, image and signal processing.

Relevant past experience: Research Engineer, Image and Signal
Processing Group, Martin Marietta, Orlando Aerospace; Radar
Engineer, Advanced Weapons Directorate, Phillips Laboratories,
Kirkland AFB, NM, 3D radar simulation and analysis, The Sierra
Nevada Corporation.

NELSON PUBLICOVER
Professor, EBME
(775) 784-4952
nelson@unr.edu

Ph.D. 1981, McGill University, Canada

MS 1977, Dalhousie University, Canada

BSc 1976, Dalhousie University, Canada

Research/outreach areas: Biophysics of muscle cells, mathematical
modeling of electrical activity in syncytial tissues, high-rate fluorescence imaging, near-field and total internal reflectance microscopy, biosensors, biomedical instrument design

Relevant past experience: Consulting engineer for a number of biotech and instrument design companies

BANMALI S. RAWAT
Professor, EBME
(775) 784-1457
rawat@engr.unr.edu

PhD 1976, Sri Venkateswara University, India

MS 1970, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India

BS 1968, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India

Research/outreach areas: Analysis, design and fabrication of
microstrip components; microstrip couplers on anisotropic substrates;
microstrip couplers on DGS; development of optical fiber sensors for
various applications; optical fiber communication; Dense Wavelength
Division Multiplexing (DWDM) and tunable MUX/DEMUX using
acouso-optic cell arrays for DWDM applications; chaotic ring laser for
secured optical communication.

Relevant past experience: Instrumentation Engineer at West Coast
Paper Mills; Senior Scientist, Defense R&D Laboratories-Aeronautical
Development Establishment; Defense Electronics Applications
Laboratory, India-satellite communication, radar and avionic systems;
Professor, University of North Dakota; NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty
Fellow at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, summer 1997, 1999;
Visiting Professor, ENIB-France, Kyushu University-Japan, Advanced
Telecommunication Research Institute- Japan, University of New South
Wales-Australia and Chemnitz University of Technology-Germany.

YANTAO SHEN
Assistant Professor, EBME
(775) 784-6918
ytshen@unr.edu

PhD 2002, Chinese University of Hong Kong

MS, BS Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Research/outreach areas: bioinstrumentation, smart sensors and actuators for bio-systems, sensorized micro/nano systems, visual servo systems, and haptic/tactile interfaces.

Relevant past experience: From 2002 to 2007, Yantao was a Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. He led research in sensorized and network-enabled micro/bio systems and design. Dr. Shen is a member of the IEEE and Sigma Xi.

ANDRZEJ M. TRZYNADLOWSKI
Professor, EBME
(775) 784-1490
chin@unr.edu

PhD 1974, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland

MS 1969, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland

MS 1964, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland

Research/outreach areas: Power electronics, control of electric motors, pulse width modulation techniques, noise, vibration, and EMI mitigation in adjustable speed drives, fault diagnosis in electromachine systems, application of DSPs in power conversion schemes, renewable energy systems, novel structures of electric machines.

Relevant past experience: Fellow of IEEE; Summer Faculty Research Fellow – Naval Surface Warfare Center, 1998; Danfoss Visiting Professor Aalborg University, Denmark, 1997; COBASE and NATO Fellowships, 1996; Assistant Director – UNR Industrial Assessment Center, 1993-97; IEEE IAS Myron Zucker Grantee, 1992; faculty member – University of Wyoming, 1984-87; University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-84; University of Salahuddin, Iraq, 1980-82; Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland, 1966-79. Research funded by NSF, NRC, DOE, DOD, Texas Instruments, and General Motors; numerous projects for Polish industry.

XIAOSHAN "SEAN" ZHU
Assistant Professor, EBME
Director, Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering
(775) 682-6298
xzhu@unr.edu
website: www.unr.edu/~xzhu

PhD 2005, University of Cincinnati

MS 2000, Tsinghua University, China

BS 1997, Nankai University, China

Research/outreach areas: Electroanalytical chemistry; electrochemical/optical immunoassay; bio-separation; micro/nano biosensors; microfluidics; micro/nanofabrication; BioMEMS; integrated bio-analytical systems.

Relevant past experience: Research scientist at YSI, Inc. (2005-2008); Worked on various sensor systems for water nutrients (phosphate, nitrite, nitrate, etc.) monitoring; waterborne pathogens detection; and clinical blood diagnosis.