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Steve Chiu

Steve Chiu

Ph.D. - Professor and Chair

chiustev@isu.edu

Website: https://www2.cose.isu.edu/~chiustev/

Dr. Steve C. Chiu is Professor and Chair of the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Idaho State University. Dr. Chiu received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in 2004, an M.S. degree in Engineering Management from Northwestern University in 1995, and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990. Steve's research interests include embedded systems, communications, and microelectronics. He is affiliated with the Measurement and Control Engineering Research Center at ISU. Steve has published more than 60 refereed conference and journal articles in his areas of research.
 
Dr. Chiu refereed for multiple publications in electrical and computer engineering, including IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems, among others. He served on the editorial review board of the International Journal of Handheld Computing Research, and has been a guest editor for the Journal of Supercomputing. Steve is a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and a Senior Member of IEEE. He was selected as a faculty attendee at the National Academy of Engineering’s 2013 Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium. He was a 2019 Fulbright-NSF US Scholar in cyber security and critical infrastructure protection. Prior to academia, he worked at AT&T/Lucent and Underwriters Laboratories as electrical and R&D engineers.
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Thomas Baldwin

Ph.D - Undergraduate Program Director

baldthom@isu.edu

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Andrew Chrysler

Ph.D - Assistant Professor

chryandr@isu.edu

Dr. Andrew Chrysler is an Assistant Professor at Idaho State University. He received his B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering in 2011 from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado with a minor in Mathematics. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

He has worked at IM Flash Technologies in Lehi, Utah as a Semiconductor Manufacturing Engineer and as a Co-Op at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. He has also conducted research at Daegu University in Daegu, South Korea. His research interests include dielectric properties of materials, implantable antennas, millimeter wave antennas, and international engineering education. Dr. Chrysler is an NSF EAPSI Korea Fellow (’15) and received the IEEE APS Doctoral research award (‘13). 

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Mikle Ellis

Ph.D. - Associate Professor

ellimikl@isu.edu

Dr. Ellis received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic and State University in 1994. His areas of research include Electrical Power Systems and Engineering Education.

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Mostafa Fouda

Ph.D. - Graduate Program Director

mfouda@isu.edu

Website: https://www.mostafafouda.com/

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Image Processing,
Signal Processing, Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless and Mobile Networks


Affiliations

Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Science and Engineering
Computer Science


Education

Ph.D. Tohoku University, Information Sciences, Japan, 2011
M.S. Benha University, Electrical Engineering, Egypt, 2007
B.S. Benha University, Electrical Engineering, Egypt, 2002

Bio
Mostafa M. Fouda joined ISU in the Fall of 2020 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in Information Sciences from Tohoku University, Japan in 2011. He has more than 60 publications in international conferences, journal papers, and book chapters. His research interests include cyber-security, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), 6G networks, and healthcare applications. He has served on the technical committees of several IEEE conferences. He is also a Reviewer in several IEEE Transactions and Magazines. He is an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT) and an Associate Editor of IEEE Access. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Dr. Fouda previously held multiple academic positions such as an Associate Professor at Benha University (Egypt), an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University (Japan), and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Tennessee Tech University (USA).

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Cindy Hu

Ph.D - Assistant Professor

cindyhu@isu.edu

Website: https://cindyhuisu.github.io/

Yaodan "Cindy" Hu is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Idaho State University. She received her B.S. degree in Applied Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China, in 2015 and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, USA, in 2022. Her research interests include security and privacy in cyber-physical systems, vehicular networks, and power systems. She has served as a TPC member of several IEEE conferences and a reviewer of several journals and transactions. She is also a member of IEEE.

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Vitit Kantabutra

Ph.D. - Associate Professor

kantviti@isu.edu

Dr. Kantabutra received a Bachelor of Engineering in Honours Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University in 1979, and a Master of Engineering and a Ph.D., both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from The Johns Hopkins University in 1982 and 1985, respectively. Dr. Kantabutra has a wide variety of research interests in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He invented a new type of database system called Intentionally-Linked Entities (ILE) which improves over the Relational database system in several different ways by using more modern, linked data structures instead of tables. Dr. Kantabutra also published his innovations in the fields of computer algorithms, computational geometry, theoretical robotics, artificial neural networks, computer arithmetic hardware (Very Large Scale Integration), GIS, and was named the sole or first inventor in 5 U.S. patents, all in computer hardware. He was supported by a major NSF research grant for his work in databases, Temporal Geographic Information Systems, and the Digital Humanities.

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Gene Stuffle

Ph.D. - Professor Emeritus

stufeuge@isu.edu

Dr. Stuffle received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1979. His research interests include simulation, signal processing, microprocessors, high-voltage impulse testing, computer-aided analysis and design, PC applications. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer.