Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Research

Our research changes the world through unique problem-solving skills, experience and perspective needed to drive the future.

Biomedical

Research in the biomedical area includes the development of devices for both human and animal health care. This includes biomedical sensors, therapeutic medical devices, embedded systems, biofabrication, communication circuits, wireless communications, energy harvesting, signal processing, brain-computer interfaces, biosecurity and image processing, and infectious disease prediction and mitigation.

Network science and engineering

K-State ECE research in the network science field includes work in cutting-edge network theory problems, developing real-world solutions to computer networks and stochastic spreading processes on networks.

Wireless communications

Wireless communications research at K-State ECE includes work on distributed sensor networks, GPS technology, MC-CMDA systems, Software Defined Radio, energy harvesting and RFIC inductors, among other fields.

Power systems and smart grids

Research in the power systems and smart grids area is focused on creating an adaptive, secure and intelligent power grid to help ensure consistent power delivery from a changing grid topology that includes more distributed, renewables-based power generation and new demand-side technologies from emerging transactive markets. Research in this area also optimizes strategies for effectively interconnecting renewable resources (i.e., wind and solar energy) and emerging energy efficiency technologies (e.g., electric vehicle, smart home/building, advanced energy management system) in the electric power system.

Micro and nanoelectronics

The current research in micro and nanoelectronics includes work in micro-plasma devices, plasma medicine, plasma agriculture, plasma materials, electric propulsion, nanotechnology, Li-ion battery, piezoelectric and triboelectric materials, artificial organs, 3D lithography, 3D metal MEMS, sensors in agriculture, and RF/microelectronics.

Machine learning, multi-agent systems, modeling and optimization

Research in the artificial intelligence field is focused on the software that makes smart power systems function with work in areas such as machine learning, game theory, multi-objective optimization and soft computing, among others.

Power Electronics and Autonomous System Research Laboratory

We are a research group with two state-of-the-art laboratories located in the Engineering Hall on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. These newly developed labs are equipped with modern equipment and are growing. Our goal is to perform research in the area of on-the-move energy technologies, design and control of power electronics interfaces, power quality and grid resiliency. The present website includes highlights of our research outcomes, current research staff and ongoing research projects.

Hardware Security Lab

Research in the K-State Hardware Security Lab mainly focuses on developing formal methods for ensuring security and trustworthiness of hardware/cyber systems and has contributed several key solutions that have been widely acknowledged and referenced by the newly emerging scientific community in the area of trusted hardware. Our current work covers the hardware and software security co-verification, Internet-of-Things (IoT) system security analysis, Proof-carrying hardware (PCH)-based hardware security verification, as well as analog/mixed signal domain vulnerability analysis.