Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty and Staff Directory
Leadership
Alan MacKenzie
Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Professor
Research Interest: Wireless communications and networking; dynamic spectrum access systems and spectrum policy; cognitive radio and cognitive networks; applications of game theory and auction theory; error control coding.
931-372-3397 | amackenzie@tntech.edu | Brown Hall (BRWN) 217 | ProfileProfessor
Ali T. Alouani, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interest: Autonomous robots, Internet of Things (IoT), driverless vehicle, intelligent control systems, mechatronics systems, health monitoring, learning systems, sensor data fusion.
931-372-3383 | aalouani@tntech.edu | Brown Hall 333 | Profile | Website
Lori Mann Bruce, Ph.D.
Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs; Professor
Research Interest: Remote sensing; image analysis; artificial intelligence; data analytics; hyperspectral imaging and precision agriculture.
931-372-3224 | lbruce@tntech.edu | Derryberry Hall 204 | Profile
Satish M. Mahajan, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Energy Systems Research (CESR); Professor
Research Interest: Optoelectronics (lasers; solar cells; optical fibers); electromagnetics; wireless charging of EVs; sensors; renewable energy.
931-372-3875 | smahajan@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall 231 | Profile
Joseph Ojo, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interest: Electric machine analysis and design; adjustable; speed motor drives; power electronic convertors; control theory applied to power electronics and power systems, power systems economics and deregulation issues.
931-372-3869 | jojo@tntech.edu | Brown Hall 323 | Profile
Ghadir Radman, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interest: Smart grid; Integration of renewable energy sources; Power system operation/control.
931-372-3520 | gradman@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall 433 | Profile
Kumar Yelamarthi, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Engineering; Professor
Research Interest: Hardware assisted security; vehicular ad hoc network (VANET); security & privacy in vehicle communication; federated machine learning; engineering education.
931-372-3172 | kyelamarthi@tntech.edu | Clement Hall 201 | ProfileAssociate Professor
Jeffrey Austen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interest: Signal processing; communication systems.
(931)372-3485 | jausten@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall 440 | Profile
Indranil Bhattacharya, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interest: High-efficiency solar cells; high-energy-density sodium and lithium-ion batteries; wireless power transfer; semiconductor electronics; photonics and optics; electromagnetics.
931-372-3352 | ibhattacharya@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall 440A | Profile | Website
J. W. Bruce, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interest: Data converter architectures; embedded and cyber-physical systems design; quantum computing logic systems; integration of unmanned aerial vehicles in the national airspace; engineering education.
931-372-3453 | jwbruce@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall 450 | Profile
Tarek Elfouly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interest: Structural health monitoring (SHM) using wireless sensor networks (WSNs).
931-372-3847 | telfouly@tntech.edu | Brown Hall 210| Profile
Syed Rafay Hasan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interest: Artificial intelligence for edge computing; edge intelligence; security threats in deep learning architectures; Internet of Things'; vulnerabilities against hardware based attacks; machine learning algorithms on hardware.
931-372-3462 | shasan@tntech.edu | Brown Hall 319 | Profile | Website
Mohamed Mahmoud, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interest: Security & privacy in smart grid, vehicular ad hoc network (VANET), and cloud applications.; secure/privacy-preserving machine learning models.; blockchain; cryptography and machine learning.
931-372-3677 | mmahmoud@tntech.edu | Brown Hall 331 | Profile | WebsiteAssistant Professor
Nan Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Smart grids; mobile vehicle-to-grid technique; next-generation wireless and resource management for vehicular communication.
931-372-3349 | nchen@tntech.edu | Brown Hall 334 | Profile
Syed Ali Asad Rizvi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Control theory; reinforcement learning; autonomous systems; cyber-physical systems; facilities planning and material handling; freight modeling and logistics; microalloying and mechanical behavior; modern manufacturing systems; optimization and simulation modeling; production planning and control.
931-372-3450 | srizvi@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall 440B | Profile
Charles Van Neste, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Energy generation and transmission; wireless and quasi-wireless power transfer; high frequency inverter design; electronic instrumentation; electromagnetic interactions.
931-372-3682 | cvanneste@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall 407 | ProfileLecturer
Jesse Roberts
Lecturer
Research Interest: Game theory and mechanism design; graph and learning theory; spiking neural networks; computational sustainability; computational creativity and criticism; automation.
931-372-3397 | jtroberts@tntech.edu | Brown Hall 111 | Profile
Adjunct
Corey Cooke, Ph.D.
ORNL/TN Tech Joint Faculty
ccooke@tntech.edu
Tim Dean, Ph.D.
Adjunct
931-520-4646 | tdean@tntech.edu | Brown Hall (BRWN) 217 | ProfileStaff
Trish Atkins
Administrative Associate 2
931-372-3397 | tatkins@tntech.edu | Brown Hall 217 | Profile
Amanda Miller
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
931-372-6130 | ajmiller@tntech.edu | Clement Hall 307 | Profile
Julie Mountain
Administrative Associate 4
931-372-3398 | jmountain@tntech.edu | Brown Hall 209 | Profile
Conard Murray
Engineer
931-372-3718 | cmurray@tntech.edu | Brown Hall 414 | Profile
