Faculty Directory

Prior to joining UNM in 2006, Dr. Zarkesh-Ha was a senior research engineer at LSI Logic Corp., working on novel interconnects architecture design for the next ASIC generations. Now at UNM, he is continuing his research on interconnect predictive models to understand the limitation and opportunities for nanoscale VLSI technology. In addition, his research interests include: Statistical modeling of VLSI systems, design for manufacturability and reliability, low-power and high-performance analog and digital VLSI systems design. Dr. Zarkesh-Ha has published over 60 refereed papers and holds ten issued patents in this field. He is currently serving as technical committee member of System Level Interconnect Prediction Workshop (SLIP) and International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED).

A professor at the University of New Mexico since 1999, M.S. Pattichis is currently the Director of Online Programs at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNM.

Professor M.S. Pattichis has made outstanding contributions to the development of explainable biomedical image analysis methods that have been employed in leading hospitals throughout the world. He has been awarded 10 patents, published 80+ journal papers (46 in IEEE), 25 book chapters, and 200 conference papers (most IEEE). He has received more than $15.9M in funding, primarily from NSF, AFRL, and NIH.

He is currently serving as a Guest Associate Editor for the special issue on "Large scale video analytics for clinical decision support," to be published by the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics and for the special issue on "Teaching and learning mathematics and computing in multilingual contexts," to be published by Teachers College Record.

He has served as a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions On Image Processing and a Senior Area Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and a Guest Associate Editor for two additional special issues published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, and another special issue published in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.

In 2022 he was elected Fellow of the European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (EAMBES) for his contributions to biomedical image analysis.

Dr. Plusquellic received an "Outstanding Contribution Award" from IEEE Computer Society in 2012 for co-founding and for his contributions to the Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST).   He served as General Chair for HOST in 2010, for the Defect-Based Testing Workshop in 2006 and is currently serving as Associate Editor for Transactions on Computers and as Registration Chair for HOST. He received the "10 Years of Continuous Service Award" from the International Test Conference, a Best Paper Award from VTS, an ACM Distinguished Service Award from SIGDA and two Austin CAS Fellow Awards from IBM.

Edl Schamiloglu was born in The Bronx, NY in 1959. He received the B.S. degree from the Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department at Columbia University, NY, in 1979; he received the M.S. degree in Plasma Physics from Columbia University in 1981; he received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering (minor in Mathematics) from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1988 (dissertation advisor David A. Hammer, J.C. Ward Jr. Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering). He joined the University of New Mexico (UNM) as Assistant Professor in 1988 and he is currently Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also the Special Assistant to the Provost for Laboratory Relations. He lectured at the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (Harvard University in 1990 and at MIT in 1997). He coedited Advances in High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies (IEEE Press/Wiley, New York, NY, 2001) (with R.J. Barker), he has co-authored High Power Microwaves, 3^rd Ed. (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2016) (with J. Benford and J. Swegle), and he is coediting Advances in High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies using Metamaterials (with J.W. Luginsland, J.A. Marshall, and A. Nachman) (IEEE Press/Wiley, New York, NY, 2021). He has co-authored over 170 refereed journal papers, over 270 reviewed conference papers, and 8 patents. His publications have been cited over 8000 times. His h-index is 38 and his i10-index is 141. He has been PI on over $35M of contracts and grants at UNM.

Professor Schamiloglu is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and an EMP Fellow (sponsored by the Summa Foundation). He was awarded the 2013 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award “For outstanding contributions to the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society through its Pulsed Power Science and Technology and Plasma Science and Applications Technical Committees,” the 2014 IEC ‘1906 Award’ “For his valuable technical contributions to SC77C projects and specifically for his technical contributions with respect to HPEM source technologies to support the standardization of test techniques for HPEM/IEMI,” the 2015 IEEE NPSS PPST Peter Haas Award “For research in the area of pulsed power, beams, and microwaves, and for his dedicated service to the current and future pulsed power community through his leadership and educational endeavors,” the 2017 UNM Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award, and the 2019 (inaugural) IEEE NPSS Magne “Kris” Kristiansen Award “For outstanding contributions in experimental nuclear and plasma science.”

Prior to joining UNM, Daniel Feezell was a Project Scientist in the Solid-State Lighting and Energy Center at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) from 2010-2012. Working in the research group of Prof. Shuji Nakamura, he directed projects on nonpolar and semipolar light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and laser diodes. A significant accomplishment during this period includes the first demonstration of a nonpolar GaN-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser. From 2008-2010, Dr. Feezell was a Senior Device Scientist and the first employee at Soraa, Inc., where he developed high-performance GaN-based laser diodes and LEDs. For his role in the achievement of the first nonpolar GaN-based edge-emitting laser diodes he received the 30th Annual Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Paper Award. In 2013 he received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award with a Director’s Fellowship Extension in 2015.  He also received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2015. He is the author or co-author of more than 70 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications, and has received several patents.

Prof. Santhanam is a member of the ECE signal processing and communications groups. He is a senior member of the IEEE and its signal processing and communications societies. He is the recipient of the 2000 & 2005 ECE distinguished teacher award and recipient of the ECE 2012 Lawton Ellis award.  He is also a recipient of 3 U.S. patents.