As of Fall 2019, all PhD students must have one accepted paper in the below list of venues before their preliminary exam and two accepted papers (at least one in a journal) before they can schedule their PhD defense. Questions, please contact the EECS Graduate Coordinator or GSC Chair.
Microelectronics
Journals
- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC)
- IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I
- IEEE Transactions on Very Large-Scale Integration Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II
- Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (MOTL)
- Electronic Letters
Conference Publications
- International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
- International Microwave Symposium (IMS)
- Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)
- Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
- International Symposium VLSI Design, Automation, and Test/International Symposium on VLSITechnology, Systems and Applications (VLSI-TSA/DAT)
- European Microwave Conference (EUMC)
- European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)
- Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)
- Radio Frequency Information Technology (RFIT)
- Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (ASSCC)
- International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
- Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)
Power
Journals
- Proceedings of the IEEE
- IEEE Industrial Informatics
- IEEE on Smart Grid
- IEEE Industrial Electronics
- IEEE on Power Electronics
- IEEE on Sustainable Energy
- IEEE on Power Systems
- IEEE Vehicular Technologies
- IEEE Automatic Control
- IEEE Energy Conversion
- International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
- IEEE on Power Delivery
- IEEE Systems Journal
- IET Renewable Power Generation
- Electric Power Systems Research
- IEEE Circuits and Systems, Part I
- IEEE Industry Applications
- IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
- IET Power Electronics
- Nature energy
Conference Publications
- Power Systems Computations Conference
- IEEE Smartgridcomm
- IEEE PowerTech
- IEEE PES General Meeting
- IREP Symposium on Bulk Power System Phenomena
- IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
- North American Power Symposium (NAPS)
- IEEE Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics (SGSMA)
- American Control Conference (ACC)
- IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies ISGT
- IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference (T&D)
Computer Engineering
Journals
- IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
- IEEE Transactions on Very Large-Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI)
- IEEE Transactions on CAD (TCAD)
- ACM Transactions on Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
- ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
- ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)
Conference Publications
- Design Automation Conference (DAC)
- Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)
- International Conference on CAD (ICCAD)
- Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK)
- International IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)
- IEEE International Test Conference (ITC)
Systems
Journals
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT)
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networks
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
- IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
- Automatica
- International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
- International Journal of Control
- European Journal of Control
- Journal of the Franklin Institute
- IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
- IEEE Transactions on Computers
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers
- IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Applied Physics Letters
Other Journals with Significant Systems Content:
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
- IEEE Control Systems Magazine
Conference Publications in the Systems Area
- IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom)
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
- Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)
- Allerton Conference on Communications, Computing and Control
- Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
- IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
- SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
- American Control Conference (ACC)
- IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
- The Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC)
- IEEE International Magnetics Conference