Doctoral Program
The ECE department offers the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, which provides advanced knowledge and research experience in one of the four research areas:
Communication, Control, and Signal Processing
Active research areas include wireless communications and networking, communications traffic modeling, pattern recognition, computer vision, medical and natural image processing, RF circuits and systems, spacecraft controls, multivariable controls, optimal controls, and nonlinear controls.
Computer Systems
Active research projects include embedded systems and robotics, embedded computing and architectures, hardware security, hardware/software co-design, real-time OS, reconfigurable computing, multicore computing, digital VLSI, Big Data, embedded mobile computing, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, heterogeneous many-core architecture.
Devices, Circuits, and Systems
Active research areas include RF circuit design, antennas, analog and mixed-signal circuit design, power electronics, fiber-optic sensors, laser and detector design, optical and optoelectronic networks, optical image processing, optoelectronic material science, photovoltaics, quantum devices, materials for submicron lithography, microstructural analyses, vacuum microelectronics, radiation hardened devices, packaging and systems integration, and device modeling.
Power Systems
Active research areas include power systems modeling and analysis, power electronics, Smart Grid, microgrids, power system stability and control, power system optimization, utility applications, high voltage, condition monitoring, economic operation of power systems, electromechanical systems and drives, power system protection, and renewable energy.
Armin Danesh Pazho
and Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
“We looked at universities all over the world, and UNC Charlotte was the only one that had everything we wanted: an institution on the leading edge of advancements in AI and machine learning, AND a great Ph.D. program that is focused on real-world application. Charlotte was the only place that had all of that.”