Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Faculty working with Students:
46
Students:
61
Students receiving assistantships or scholarships:
96.72%
Priority deadline:

  • Fall January 10th
  • Spring July 1st

Campus:

  • Pullman: Yes

Tests required:

  • 93 TOEFL Minimum score
  • GRE

Degree Description:

WSU’s reputation for high-quality education, research, and public service enables it to continue achieving its missions. Graduate students play an essential part in carrying out the School’s mission to conduct research that will make a difference to industry, government, and society. Graduate-level programs in electrical and computer engineering include power engineering; microelectronics; electromagnetics and optical communications, control, and signal processing; embedded systems and software engineering.

Admission Requirements:

(3) Letters of Recommendation; Statement of Purpose and Transcripts

Student Learning Outcomes:

All graduates will be able to:

  1.  Students have general mastery of their field of study in Electrical Engineering.
  2.  Students have mastery of knowledge in a specialized area.
  3.  Students are able to conduct state-of-the-art research in a specialize area that makes a contribution to the knowledge base.
  4.  Students can effectively communicate their research in oral and written form.
  5.  Students are able to disseminate research results in archival literature.

Student Opportunities:

US News and World Report ranks the Electrical Engineering graduate program at WSU 68th among approximately 180 PhD granting EE programs in the U.S.!
EECS graduate students have been nationally recognized, including
two National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship recipients,
one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Fellowship recipient, and
three NSF Honorable Mention awards.

Career Opportunities:

Approximately 50% of our new graduate students in the last four years have been U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

Career Placements:

According to recent exit interviews, of those EECS students actively seeking employment after graduation, 63.5% were employed. Also, 13.5% of graduating EECS students went on to graduate school.

Faculty Members:

Arnaoudova, Venera, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Software engineering, particularly, software evolution, analysis of source code lexicon and documentation, empirical software engineering, refactoring, patterns, and anti-patterns

Bakken, David Edward, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Infrastructure software, middleware.
GridStat: next-generation wide-area mission critical data delivery for the power grid

Belzer, Benjamin Joseph, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Bose, Anjan, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Broschat, Shira Lynn, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Bioinformatics, machine learning, data analysis, data mining for microbiology applications

Cook, Diane Joyce, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, robotics, smart environments, and parallel algorithms for artificial intelligence.

Dang, Zhe, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Model-checking and testing for infinite-state and/or real-time systems
Automata theory and Membrane computing systems (P systems)

Delgado-Frias, Jose G, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Doppa, Janardhan Rao, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Machine Learning

Dubey, Anamika, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Developing methods and analytics to facilitate an efficient, secure, resilient, adaptable, and economic power supply

Fischer, Thomas Robert, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Gebremedhin, Assefaw, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Algorithms, Data Science, Machine Learning

Ghasemzadeh, Hassan, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Embedded System Design

Glass, Kevin

Serves as: co-chair of graduate committee

Gupta, Subhanshu, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Broadband sampling architectures
High-speed interconnects and sensor interfaces
High-speed data converters
Biomedical imaging and signal processing for circuit design

Hahn, Adam, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Security

Hauser, Carl H, Ph.D.

Serves as: co-chair or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Distributed Systems, Networking, Concurrent Programming Models and Mechanisms, Programming Language Implementations.

Heo, Deuk Hyoun, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Holder, Lawrence, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Hudson, Scott, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Hundhausen, Christopher, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Human-centered Environments for Learning and Programming Lab: Design and empirical evaluation of computer technologies and pedagogical approaches that help undergraduate students learn within the domains of engineering and computer science.

Ji, Shuiwang, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Machine learning, data mining, computational biology, and computational neuroscience

Kalyanaraman, Anantharaman, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Computational biology and bioinformatics; high-performance computing; combinatorial pattern matching.

Kim, Dae Hyun, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits (3D ICs) and Systems
Low-Power and High-Performance Computer Systems
Design Methodologies and Optimization Algorithms for Emerging Technologies and Systems

Lewis, Robert R, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Liu, Chen-Ching, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Lotfifard, Saeed, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Power Systems

Mehrizi-Sani, Ali, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Integration of renewable energy resources in the power system, Power electronics interfaces for distributed generation, Control and management of microgrids and smart grid, Power system applications of power electronics.

Miller, John H, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Olsen, Robert G, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Osman, Mohamed A, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Pande, Partha Pratim, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Pedrow, Patrick D, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Roy, Sandip, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Saberi, Ali, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Optimal Control, Non Linear Systems and Control, Linear Systems and Control, Linear Robust Control, Filtering and Inverse Filtering, Fault Detection and Isolation, Dynamic and Complex Networks, Control, Communications, and Signal Processing, Constrained Control Problems, Complex Systems, Adaptive Control and Filtering

Schneider, John Brand, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Schulz, Noel

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Shirazi, Behrooz, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Sivakumar, Krishnamoorthy, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Srivastava, Anurag K, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Stability, security and vulnerability analysis Real time modeling and simulation Testing and validation of smart grid algorithms and devices Intelligent control application Distributed generation and micro-grid Decision support and situational awareness using phasor data Interoperability and data integration

Stoorvogel, Anton, Ph.D.

Serves as: co-chair or member of graduate committee

Taylor, Matthew E., Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

My research focuses on agents, physical or virtual entities that interact with their environments. My main goals are to enable individual agents, and teams of agents, to learn tasks in real world environments that are not fully known when the agents are designed; perform multiple tasks, rather than just a single task; and
allow agents to robustly coordinate with, and reason about, other agents.
Additionally, I am interested in exploring how agents can learn from humans, whether the human is explicitly teaching the agent, the agent is passively observing the human, or the agent is actively cooperating with the human on a task.

Tosic, Predrag, Ph.D.

Serves as: co-chair or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Data science, machine learning, intelligent agents, large-scale data mining and AI, yber-physical systems, distributed coordination and control, large-scale complex networks, mathematical models and algorithms for smart energy and other grids

Venkatasubramanian, Vaithianath, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Wang, Kung-Chi, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Wu, Yinghui, Ph.D.

Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee

Research Interests

Big data, databases systems and data management, with emphasis on graph database, graph query models and languages, distributed and dynamic graphs.

Contact Information:

Smitha Bose
EME 303
Pullman, WA
99164

509-335-6636