Research
Labs
Additive Microsystems Lab
Contact: Robert Roberts, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Electromagnetics, Semiconductors and Microelectonrics, Biomedical Engineering
Location: Engineering Building, Room E-322
Website: https://microsystemslab.com/
The Convergent Microsystems Laboratory pushes the boundaries of microsystems devices, sensors, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), with a focus on additive manufacturing technologies. Applications of our research include biomedical and environmetal sensors, high-perforance RF components, and soft robotics.
Castro Lab
Contact: Jorge Manrique Castro, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Biomedical Engineering, Semiconductors and Microelectronics
Location: Engineering Building, Room E-305A, Room E-306B, Room E-306(Shared), and Interdisciplinary Research Building, Room 3.101(Shared)
Website: https://www.utep.edu/engineering/castrolab/
The Castro Lab is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of sensors, transducers, biomedical devices and microfabrication technologies. We focus on creating innovative solutions for medical technology development, integrating interdisciplinary approaches from electrical engineering, materials science, nanotechnology, and bioengineering.
Communication Networks Laboratory (NetLab)
Contact: Michael McGarry, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Cyber Physical Systems
Location: Engineering Building, Room A-323
Website: http://netlab.utep.edu/
Current projects focus on automating network fault management. Former projects include computation offloading, video bandwidth forecasting, and dynamic bandwidth allocation for copper and fiber access networks. See our lab website for more information.
Cyber Physical Systems and Applied Communications Lab
Contact: Virgilio Gonzalez, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Cyber Physical Systems
Location: Engineering Building, Room E-314B & Room E-314C
Develop solutions to problems in diverse areas by the application of communication technologies (Optical communications, optical sensors, wireless sensor networks, power smartgrid, robotics).
Cyber Physical Systems Privacy and Security Enhanced Computing Laboratory (CyPSPEC) lab
Contact: Sai Mounika Errapotu, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Cyber Physical Systems
Location: Engineering Building, Room E-311
CyPSEC Lab investigates on security and privacy issues that arise from the integration of real-time embedded applications, system software, and human interactions with physical systems such as power grids, vehicular networks, communication and networking systems, and IoT. CyPSEC lab trains the next-generation cybersecurity workforce by involving students in both fundamental and applied research projects, to develop solutions that are secure by design and have feasible practical implementations.
Digital Signal Processing Lab
Contact: Sergio Cabrera, Ph.D.
Location: Engineering Building, Room E-304
Digital signal processing (DSP) and digital image processing (DIP) are applicable everywhere. Research interests include state-of-the-art theory and methods and applications implementable in software and/or electronic platforms.
Edge and BioMedical Intelligence Lab (EBMI)
Contact: Md Maruf Hossain Shuvo, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Biomedical Engineering, Signal Processing and Machine Learning
Location: Interdisciplinary Research Building, Room 3.108
Website: https://www.ebmi-lab.org/
Research at EBMI develops artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for biomedical and healthcare challenges, translating algorithmic advancements into hardware design and experimental validation. In the translational effort for practical edge AI, we also delve into relevant hardware technologies, including CMOS integrated circuit design, emerging semiconductor devices, and the design of embedded digital systems for efficient AI acceleration.
HPC/ES Lab
Contact: Rodrigo Romero, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Machine Learning
Location: Engineering Building, Room E-304
Microwave Circuits & Sensing Systems Lab
Contact: Davi Rodrigues, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Electromagnetics
Location: Engineering Building, Room E-302
Website: https://dvqrodrigues.github.io/
The focus of the Microwave Circuits & Sensing Systems Group has been on the design of algorithms and on the design of active/passive microwave/millimeter-wave systems for structural health monitoring, human-machine interaction, healthcare, and autonomous robots. In particular, our research aims to advance the state-of-the-art microwave/millimeter-wave sensing through the development of theory and techniques, and include:
- The design of algorithms and methods to enable radar-based smart living, smart home, and healthcare-related applications in challenging realistic multi-target/multi-interferer scenarios, supported by both simulation and experimental studies.
- The design of contactless and wearable RF-based sensors and algorithms to map health-related signals that might be detected under the human skin or due to its vibration.
- The co-design of hardware and algorithms to contribute for joint communication-sensing technologies that will be considered as a long-term strategy for the development of diverse applications enabled by beyond fifth generation (B5G) and sixth generation (6G) wireless networks.
Distributed Computing Lab
Contact: Patricia Nava, Ph.D.
The DCL is currently investigating mechanisms for reducing the execution time of machine learning and discrete event simulation applications using multi-core, multi-processor, cluster based systems equipped with general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs). The DCL develops educational materials to help engineers of all disciplines understand and utilize parallel and distributed computing. The DCL organizes several outreach programs to attract pre-college students to the computing disciplines.
Multi Sensing Processing & Learning Lab (MSPL)
Contact: Ricardo von Borries, Ph.D.
Digital signal processing with emphasis on wavelet transforms, Fourier transform, time-frequency analysis, overcomplete signal representation, compressive sensing and tomography. One-dimensional or multidimensional signals collected with dense sensor arrays, and processed with computationally intensive algorithms running in parallel on computer clusters. Biomedical and defense areas in applications such as human bioelectric potentials analysis and subsurface tomographic imaging.
NanoMaterials Integration Lab (NanoMIL)
Contact: David Zubia, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Semiconductors and Microelectronics
Location: Engineering Building, Room A-335 & Room E-103
Website: https://www.utep.edu/engineering/nanomil/
NanoMIL is a university laboratory that emphasizes academic and professional development while conducting stimulating research. The lab supports and mentors individuals at different stages of their careers from the undergraduate to the professoriate levels in a team environment. Research emphasizes the nanoscale aspects of matter and the application of nanotechnology to create novel materials and devices.
Power & Renewable Energy Systems (PRES) Lab
Contact: Paras Mandal, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Power and Energy
Location: Engineering Building, Room E-339
Website: https://www.utep.edu/engineering/pres/
The mission of the Power & Renewable Energy Systems (PRES) Research Laboratory at the UTEP is to study intelligent system applications in electric power and renewable energy systems. This includes power and energy systems analysis, modeling, forecasting, optimization, planning and operation. PRES lab also focuses on electricity market design that enable a reliable and efficient power system with increasing penetrations of variable energy resources in smart grid environment.
Radar Laboratory
Contact: Benjamin Flores, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Electromagnetics
Location: Engineering Building, Room E-401
To prepare the next generation of radar experts by providing a multi-disciplinary research environment in which undergraduate and graduate engineers and scientists of diverse backgrounds excel at learning, developing and applying state of the art tools for modern radar system analysis and design.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems Lab
Contact: Robert Roberts, Ph.D., Miguel Velez-Reyes, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Cyber Physical Systems
Location: Interdisciplinary Research Building, Room 5.201
Provides a platform to conduct research in robotics and autonomous systems in UxS and Autonomous vehicles.
Semiconductor Power And Control Engineering Lab (SPACE)
Contact: Dejana Čučak, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Semiconductors and Microelectronics, and Power and Energy
Location: Engineering Building, Room E-301B
Supports reseach in power electronics, semiconductor devices, and applications.
Sensor & Signal Analytics Lab (SENSAL)
Contact: Miguel Velez-Reyes, Ph.D.
Area of Focus: Signal Processing and Machine Learning
Location: Engineering Building, Room E-313A
Provide a multi-disciplinary environment for research and training to undergraduate and graduate students in state of the art tools and technologies in signal and image processing, for the purpose of developing solutions to information extraction problems using minimaly or non-intrusive sensing inDefense and Security, and Earth Sciences.
Facilities
Room E-306
Area of Focus: Processing, 3D Printing, Semiconductors, and Microelectronics
Supports research in additive manufacturing for electrical, electronics and electromagnetic systems. Also supports research in sensor development for biomedical and other applications.
Room E-314
Area of Focus: Anechoic Chamber, 3D Printing, and Electromagnetics
Facility to support research in microwave, antennas, wireless communications and cyber security.
Partnerships
Consortium for Education and Research in Electronics for Extreme Environments (E3C)
Website: https://www.utep.edu/engineering/e3consortium/
Consortium for Research and Education in Power and Energy Systems (CREPES)
Website: https://crepes.fiu.edu/
NOAA - Cooperative Science Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies (NOAA-CESSRST)
Website: https://www.cessrst.org/
NOAA-CESSRST, a Cooperative Science Center (CSC), was established in 2016 through a national competition and is funded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, “NOAA/EPP Grant # NA16SEC4810008"). The participating institutions are geographically distributed across the nation and enjoy a high enrollment of under-represented minority students.
Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycles Engagement (SCALE)
Website: https://scale.research.purdue.edu/
Texas Institute of Electronics
Website: https://www.txie.org/
