California State University, Fullerton ◊ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
 
 
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Electrical Engineering Faculty

Mostafa Shiva Shiva, Mostafa
Professor and Department Chair
Room: E-218
Phone: (714) 278-3023
Email: mshiva@fullerton.edu
Bio:
    Dr. Shiva received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Tehran University. He received his Master's degree in Communications and his Ph.D. (1982) in Digital Signal Processing from the University of Southern California (USC). His research interests are in digital signal processing, seismic data processing, simulations and modeling of digital systems. Dr. Shiva has published many research papers. He has received grants from U.S. Army Missile Command, U.S. Army CECOM Signals Warfare, Lockheed Martin, and Hughes. Dr. Shiva teaches courses in design of digital filters, digital signal processing, linear circuits, linear algebra, estimation theory, electrical machines, and numerical analysis.

 

David Cheng Cheng, David
Room: E-318
Phone: (714) 278-3734
Email: dcheng@fullerton.edu
Bio:
    Dr. Cheng received his B.S. from National Taiwan University, Taiwan and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Solid State Physics from the University of California, Irvine, in 1976. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of semiconductor devices, optic-electronics, electro-optics and lightwave technology, fiber-optic communications, modeling, simulation and system analysis. Dr. Cheng is also active in his professional societies. He has served as Chairman of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Orange County Section (4,000 members) and Coordinator of IEEE Greater Los Angeles Council (14,000 members). He has been the President of the Asian Faculty and Staff Association, CSUF, since 1994. Dr. Cheng has been awarded a prestigious IEEE Millennium Medal for his outstanding professional achievements and services. He is also honored by Hunan University, China with a professorship for his outstanding contributions to his profession.

 

Maqsood Chaudhry Chaudhry, Maqsood
Room: E-315
Phone: (714) 278-3901
Email: chaudhry@fullerton.edu
Bio: N/A
John Clymer Clymer, John
Room: E-408
Phone: (714) 278-3708
Email: jclymer@fullerton.edu
Webpage: http://ecs.fullerton.edu/~jclymer
Bio:

    Dr. Clymer received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, 1971. His teaching assignments have included computer engineering, system control, continuous systems simulation, operational analysis and DES simulation, optimization and mathematical programming, and artificial intelligence (fuzzy logic and control, neural networks, and expert systems). Dr. Clymer's current research interests are focused in the area of intelligent, complex adaptive systems, applying integrated simulation, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary programming methods to study such systems. He is a founding member of the Applied Research Center for Systems Science at CSUF. He consults in the areas of systems engineering, simulation, and artificial intelligence. In addition to consulting, he presents intensive short courses at various locations around the United States and abroad. He is a member of IEEE, SCS, and INCOSE.

 

George Cohn Cohn, George
Room: E-416
Phone: (714) 278-3965
Email: gcohn@fullerton.edu
Bio: N/A
Shahin Ghazanshahi Ghazanshahi, Shahin
Room: E-210
Phone: (714) 278-3664
Email: sghazanshahi@fullerton.edu
Bio:
    Dr. Ghazanshahi received her Ph. D. and Post-Doctorate from the University of Southern California in 1984 and 1985, respectively. Her research interests include modeling and system identification, analysis and control of non-linear and non-stationary systems, particularly biomedical systems. She has published many articles in refereed journals and has received several grants from Lockheed Martin, DOE, the CSU Chancellor's Office, and Hughes to support her research. In 2004 Dr. Ghazanshahi was named a Fellow in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator's Fellowship Program. She was only one of six faculty members in the nation chosen for the 2004 program, and the first selected from a California university since the program launched in 1997. Dr. Ghazanshahi has received several awards and recognitions for her outstanding teaching and scholarly activities. Recently her biographical profile was included in 2000 registries of Strathmore's Who's Who. She is an active member of the IEEE and Biomedical Engineering Societies, and is a reviewer for IEEE journals in Biomedical Engineering. She is the faculty advisor for the student chapters of ISA and Women in Engineering.

 

Mohinder Grewal Grewal, Mohinder
Room: E-220
Phone: (714) 278-3874
Email: mgrewal@fullerton.edu
Website: www.ecs.fullerton.edu/~mgrewal
Bio:

    M.S. Grewal received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Control Systems and Computers from the University of Southern California. He co-authored Kalman Filtering Theory & Practice Using MATLAB (Second Edition), and Global Positioning Systems, Inertial Navigation & Integration, published by Wiley & Sons in 2001. Dr. Grewal was invited to author the "Kalman Filters and Observers" article for the Wiley & Sons Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, published in 1999, and "The Kalman Filter" article for Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), now under development in scholarly partnership with UNESCO. He has received numerous research contracts for GPS related research. Dr. Grewal was selected as "Distinguished Professor of the Year" by the students of the Minority Engineering Students Association (MESA). He has received awards for outstanding scholarly and creative activity, community service, and teaching and technology innovations. Dr. Grewal is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of California, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering and a member of the Institute of Navigation. He also serves as a reviewer for numerous refereed publications.

 

Karim Hamidian Hamidian, Karim
Room: E-217
Phone: (714) 278-2884
Email: khamidian@fullerton.edu
Bio:N/A
Hassan Hashemi Hashemi, Hassan
Room: E-414
Phone: (714) 278-3402
Email: hamidi-hashemi@fullerton.edu
Bio: N/A
Young Kwon Kwon, Young
Room: E-417
Phone: (714) 278-3960
Email: ykwon@fullerton.edu
Bio:
    Dr. Kwon received his B.S. and M.S.E.E. from Seoul National University, Korea and hid Ph.D. in 1966 from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He was with the Motorola Semiconductor Division, Phoenix, Arizona from 1966 to 1967. Subsequently, he was with Bell Telephone Laboratories, in Allentown, Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1969, where he was engaged in R&D projects related to the MOS VLSI technologies. He joined CSUF in 1969 as a founding member of the Electrical Engineering Department. He served as the department chairperson from 1988 to 1992. He has extensive consulting experience with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea and the Korea Institute of Electronics Technology in Gumi, Korea. He served as a Technical Director of the latter institution from 1978 to 1980 while he was on leave from the University. His research interests includes semiconductor device physics, surface and interface phenomena, impurity-impurity interactions, and other VLSI technologies including design, analysis and fabrication related problems. Currently, he is in charge of the senior and graduate level courses related to VLSI circuit and technologies.

 

Chennereddy Reddy Reddy, Chennereddy
Room: E-407
Phone: (714) 278-3298
Email: creddy@fullerton.edu
Bio:
    Chennareddy P. Reddy received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Andhra University and his Master's Degree from the University of Roorkee, India. He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii and Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. He teaches courses in logic design, stochastic processes, detection theory, and phase-locked loops. His research interests are in communication theory and signal processing.

 

Fleur Tehrani Tehrani, Fleur
Room: E-317
Phone: (714) 278-2658
Email: ftehrani@fullerton.edu
Bio:
    Dr. Fleur Tehrani is a tenured professor of electrical engineering at California State University, Fullerton. She holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology (formerly known as Arya-Mehr University), Tehran, Iran, a graduate diploma from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, an MS and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from University of London, UK. Dr. Tehrani has published numerous articles in the field of biomedical engineering. She is the inventor of metabolic rate monitors and several respiratory assist devices, including one of the most advanced respiratory control systems known as Adaptive Support Ventilation. Two of her patented inventions have been licensed to industry and are presently used in practice worldwide. She has been a reviewer of many books and scientific journals and has repeatedly served as an invited panelist for the National Science Foundation. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of California and has received two NASA fellowships and a number of awards at the local and national levels for her research contributions. Dr. Tehrani is a fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a national life member of Graduate Women in Science (GWIS). She has been a subject of biographical records in several of the Marquis Who’s Who publications including Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who of American Women. She writes poetry and enjoys literature, music, and stamp collecting. Dr. Tehrani teaches courses in systems engineering, electronics, and circuit theory.

 

Jesus Tuazon Tuazon, Jesus
Room: E-415
Phone: (714) 278-3971
Email: jtuazon@fullerton.edu
Bio:
    Jesus O. Tuazon received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa in 1966 and 1969 respectively. He has been a professor in Electrical Engineering at California State University, Fullerton since 1969. He has extensive consulting experiences with Aerospace Industries, the Navy and NASA. His specialties and research areas are in ASIC and FPGA design, parallel processing, neural networks, computer networks and fault-tolerant systems.

 

Raman Unnikrishnan Unnikrishnan, Raman
Dean
Room: CS-502
Phone: (714) 278-3362
Email: runnikrishnan@fullerton.edu
Bio:

    Dr. Raman Menon Unnikrishnan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering as well as Computer Engineering and the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He is active in teaching and research in the areas of Control Systems, Power Electronics and Signal Processing and is an author of numerous research papers and presentations in these areas. He has been a consultant to several industries and governmental agencies, and has been involved in technical and professional education for industries. He is active nationally in the field of Engineering Education and Engineering Accreditation. Prior to joining Cal State Fullerton, Dr. Unnikrishnan was on the faculty of the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York where he also served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research for the College of Engineering from 1989 to 1991 and as the Head of the Electrical Engineering Department from 1991 to 2001. He received his BS degree from the University of Kerala, India, MS from South Dakota State University, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri, all in electrical engineering.

    Dr. Unnikrishnan is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a recipient of the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and ASEE. In 2006 Dr. Unnikrishnan received the Missouri Honor Award for outstanding contributions to engineering.