There are eight named academic tracks spanning electrical and computer engineering around which admissions, course offerings, and advising are organized, as listed below. However, the interests and work of students and faculty alike may overlap more than one track.
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| Track Name | Acronym | Track Advisor | Ph.D Coordinator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture, Computer Systems, and Embedded Systems | ACSES | Dr. Jonathan Valvano | Dr. Lizy K. John |
| bioECE | bioECE | Dr. David Soloveicik | Dr. David Soloveicik |
| Decision, Information, and Communications Engineering | DICE | Dr. Haris Vikalo | Dr. Aryan Mokhtari |
| Electromagnetics and Acoustics | EA | Dr. Ruochen Lu | Dr. Ruochen Lu |
| Electronics, Photonics and Quantum Systems | EPQS | Dr. Emanuel Tutuc | Dr. Xiuling Li |
| Integrated Circuits and Systems | ICS | Dr. Michael Orshansky | Dr. Nur A. Touba |
| Power Electronics and Power Systems | PEPS | Dr. Surya Santoso | Dr. Hao Zhu |
| Software Engineering and Systems | SES | Dr. Sarfraz Khurshid | Dr. Sarfraz Khurshid |
Architecture, Computer Systems, and Embedded Systems. Computer architecture is at the interface of computer hardware and software. Its practitioners are responsible for specifying, designing, and implementing at the architecture level the hardware structures that carry out the work specified by computer software. Computer architects share the responsibility for providing mechanisms that algorithms, compilers, and operating systems can use to enhance the performance and/or energy requirements of running applications. Computer architecture spans many dimensions, such as the scope of a processor (embedded processors, desktop systems, servers, and supercomputers); the target application (general-purpose versus domain-specific); the characteristics of the design objectives (speed, power consumption, cost, reliability, availability, and reconfigurability); and the measurement and analysis of resulting designs.
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