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Electrical Engineering Faculty

Electrical Engineering Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Lawrence Hmurcik
Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering

  • Email: hmurcik@bridgeport.edu
  • Phone: 203-576-4678
  • Office: Tech 137
  • Website: http://www1bpt.bridgeport.edu/~hmurcik
  • Research Interests: Medical Electronics, Electrical Safety and Electric Accident reconstruction, Electronic Materials and Devices, Electrical Properties of Plastic/Metal Composites, Electric Circuit Simulation, On Thin-film Solar Cells, Electronic Biological Sensors, Electromagnetic Fields Applied To Lightning, Superconductors
Navarun Gupta
Associate Chairman of Electrical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Xingguo (Michael) Xiong
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Buket D. Barkana
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Hassan Bajwa
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
  • Email: hbajwa@bridgeport.edu
  • Phone: 203-576-4571
  • Office: Tech 154
  • Research interests: Low power VLSI, RF circuit designing, low power sensor networks, flexible nanoelectronics and piezoelectric materials, design and analysis of algorithms and bioinformatics
Linfeng Zhang
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jack Toporovsky
Lab Engineering – Electrical Engineering
  • Email: ytoporov@bridgeport.edu
  • Phone: 203-576-2370
  • Office: Tech 215
  • Research Interests: Automation, vision applications, servo motor application for robotic and fast precise movements.


Adjunct Faculty

Tarek Sobh
Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research
Dean of the School of Engineering
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Khaled Elleithy
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Associate Dean for Graduate Programs
  • Email: elleithy@bridgeport.edu
  • Phone: 203-576-4703
  • Office: Tech 229
  • Website: http://www.khaledelleithy.org/
  • Research Interests: Computer Networks, Computer Architecture, Computer Arithmetic, Formal Approaches for Design, Synthesis and Verification and Computer Architecture.
Ausif Mahmood
Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Abdelshakour Abuzneid
Associate Dean for International Initiatives
Director of Systems and Engineering Laboratories
Faculty, School of Engineering
Ion Balan
ISM – Electrical Engineering
  • Email: ionbalan@bridgeport.edu
  • Research Interests: Digital and Analog Design, Electronics, Digital Signal Processing(DSP), Power Electronics.


Russ Budzilek
ISM – Electrical Engineering
Vice President of Research and Development at Trans-Lux Corporation
  • Email: rbudzile@bridgeport.edu
  • Research Interests:Analog design, video, HDTV, flat panel display technologies. Holder of 8 patents regarding flat panel displays.

Bhushan Dharmadhikari
ISM – Electrical Engineering
  • Email: bdharmad@bridgeport.edu
  • Office: Tech 150, Cubicle: M
  • Research Interests: Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), VLSI, Nanotechnology and Biomedical Engineering, Modeling and Simulation of Micro and Nano Structures,Industrial and Electrical Safety.
Manan Joshi
ISM – Electrical Engineering
  • Email: mjoshi@bridgeport.edu
  • Research Interests: Medical Electronics, Digital Signal Processing, Fiber Optic Communication, Analog Electronics


Leonard Kendall
ISM Electrical Engineering
  • Email: lkendall@bridgeport.edu
  • Research Interest: RF Circuits and Systems, Radio Receivers and Transmitters, Digital and Analog Communication, Wireless Communication and Networks, Fiber Communication and Networks, Satellite and CATV Communication.

Aymen Lpizra
ISM – Electrical Engineering
  • E-mail: mlpizra@bridgeport.edu
  • Phone: (203) 926-4575
  • Research Interests: Electric Power System Analysis, Power generation Stability, Power distribution, Distribution Generation, High Voltage, Electromagnetic Fields, and Switching Power Supply Design.
Isaac Macwan
ISM – Electrical Engineering
  • Email: imacwan@bridgeport.edu
  • Office: Tech 150, Cubicle: N
  • Research Interests: Design and fabrication of analog/mixed signal VLSI chips, VLSI testing, BioMEMS, nanotechnology and biomedical engineering.

Nicolae Gari
ISM – Electrical Engineering
  • Email: ngari@bridgeport.edu
  • Research Interests: Design and prototyping in engineering, energy systems, renewable and sustainable energy sources, energy efficiency, conventional and alternative power system generation, electrical and thermal energy savings, electrical and thermal energy distribution, smart grid infrastructures, electrical vehicles, automations and hardware integration of telecommunications infrastructures, nanotechnology and bioengineerig.
Madhav Patil
ISM – Electrical Engineering
  • Email: mpatil@bridgeport.edu
  • Office: Tech 215
  • Research Interests: Programmable Logic Controller, Automation, Vision applications, Control systems, Robotics, Servo Motor application.

Sarosh Patel
ISM – Electrical Engineering

Luu Pham
ISM – Electrical Engineering
Senior Electrical Design Engineer at ASML Corp.
  • Email: luu.pham@asml.com
  • Phone: 203-209-2411
  • Research Interests: Power and mixed signals design, analysis and simulation. Motion control system architect and design
Fahim Uddin
ISM – Electrical Engineering
  • Email: muddin@bridgeport.edu
  • Website: http://www1bpt.bridgeport.edu/~muddin
  • Research Interests:
    • Renewable Energy and Sustainability, Solar Energy, Concentrated Solar Power and Systems, Carbon Sequestration, Solar Electric and Solar Hybrid systems, Improving efficiency and cost effectiveness in Photovoltaic cells and systems, Improving energy conversion and reducing losses, Multi-Junction solar cell, Solar Hydrogen economy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Energy Education and Green Jobs, Nanotechnology, Solar cell and PV system design simulations.
    • Fiber Optics communications and opto-electronics.
    • Medical Electronics/Machines and Instrumentation, Electrical Safety.
    • Databases and Data mining.
Tamer Youssef
ISM – Electrical Engineering
  • Email: tyoussef@bridgeport.edu
  • Phone: 203-926-4578
  • Research Interest: Power Electronics, High Voltage DC Transmission, Distributed Generation, Smart Grid Applications and Technologies, Electric Machines, Power Quality, and Power System Analysis.