Systems Engineering Quick Facts

Control, communications and signal processing

  • Control of multi-agent systems, non-linear systems, non-linear control, adaptive control
  • Wireless communications for 5G, nextG, on-chip and underwater channels
  • Machine-learning-based signal processing
  • Turbo-equalization and coding for magnetic and optical disk storage
  • Statistical estimation and detection, graphical modeling and inference, data mining
  • Distributed optimization, communication-efficient distributed learning, federated learning
  • Joint source-channel coding, data compression

Graduate student placement after graduation

Faculty positions

  • U. of Virginia
  • Stony Brook U.
  • U. of Texas Arlington
  • U. of Maryland (School of Medicine)
  • Gonzaga U.
  • U. of North Texas
  • National U. of Singapore
  • Chinese U. of Hong Kong
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong U., China
  • Northeastern U., China
  • Technical U. of Malaysia
  • Kasetsort U., Thailand
  • Bangkok U., Thailand

Post-doc positions

  • U. of Pennsylvania
  • U. of Washington
  • U. C. Santa Barbara
  • KTH Royal Institute of Tech., Sweden

Industry and national laboratory positions

  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
  • Apple
  • Meta
  • Qualcomm
  • Broadcom
  • Intel
  • ASML
  • Marvell
  • Western Digital

Graduate student journal publication venues

  • IEEE Trans. Automatic Control
  • IEEE Trans. Control of Network Syst.
  • Automatica
  • Int. Jour. Robust and Nonlin. Control
  • Proc. Royal Society A: Math., Phys. Syst. & Control Lett.
  • SIAM Jour. on Control and Opt. and Eng. Sci.
  • IEEE Trans. Commun.
  • IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc.
  • IEEE Jour. Sel. Areas in Commun.
  • IEEE Jour. Sel. Topics in Sig. Proc.,
  • Applied Physics Lett.
  • Knowledge and Info. Syst.
  • IEEE Trans. Image Proc.
  • IEEE Trans. Magnetics

Number of archival journal papers co-authored with graduate students (including post-graduation) 

  • Archival journal papers: 147

Number of Google Scholar citations to journal or conference papers co-authored with graduate students  

  • Google Scholar citations: 8873

Selected graduate student awards  

Best paper awards

  • 2003 IEEE Int. Conf. on Data mining (ICDM)
  • 2012 IEEE ICDM 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award

WSU awards

  • Grad. and Prof. Students Outstanding Grad Student Award
  • EECS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

Selected research sponsors

  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • Department of Defense (Army)
  • Office of Naval Research (ONR)
  • Advanced Storage Research Consortium
  • Washington Technology Center