Overview
With expert faculty, cutting-edge research, and innovative facilities, electrical engineering master's students at Tufts have the opportunity and resources to make significant contributions to the field and become leaders in industry, government, and academia.
Program Highlights
With vibrant research exploring fields from power-aware computing, nano- and opto-electronics, and photonics to information theory, machine learning, and robotics and control systems, there is something for everyone in our electrical engineering program.
Our students and faculty members work with colleagues in the School of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences‚ and collaborate across departments in the School of Engineering, focusing on strategic research areas such as human health and bioengineering, intelligent systems, and the interactions between technology and people.
Earn your master's in electrical engineering with a focus on any of these research areas:
- Control, energy systems, and robotics
- Electro-optical materials and renewable energy
- Integrated circuits and VLSI
- Microfabrication, nanotechnology, and sensors
- Networks and information theory
- Signal and image
Graduate Cooperative Education (Co-Op) Program
The School of Engineering's Graduate Cooperative Education (Co-Op) Program provides students with the opportunity to apply the theoretical principles they have learned in their coursework to real-world engineering projects. Gain up to six months of full-time work experience, build your resume, and develop a competitive advantage for post-graduation employment. Learn more about the Co-Op Program.
Career Outcomes
Tufts electrical engineers go on to great things. Some are entrepreneurs, founding or working at start-ups. Others are pursuing careers at some of the world's leading technology companies, like Google, Amazon Robotics, Fitbit, Nest, and Intel, or have used their engineering education in different industries altogether, going to work for Fidelity Investments and the New York Stock Exchange.
The master's program in electrical engineering also prepares students for doctoral study within the electrical and computer engineering program.
Faculty
Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thomas
Vandervelde
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Physics & Astronomy
Research Interests:
Interaction of light with matter, physics of nanostructures and interfaces, metamaterials, material science, plasmonics, and surfactants, semiconductor photonics and electronics, epitaxial crystal growth, materials and devices for energy and infrared applications.
Shuchin
Aeron
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Associate Professor, Mathematics
Research Interests:
data science, statistical signal processing, inverse problems, compressed sensing, information theory, convex optimization, machine learning, algorithms for geophysical signal processing, compressed sensing architectures and evaluation, video and image data acquisition and processing
Assistant Teaching Professor
Steven
Bell
Assistant Teaching Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
Engineering education, embedded systems, camera systems and computational photography
Chorng
Chang
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
Computer architecture, parallel processing, computer networking, hardware description languages, simulation and programmable logic design, engineering education.
Research Assistant Professor
Dante
DeMeo
Research Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
thermophotovoltaics, optoelectronics, energy harvesting, nanofabrication
Mark
Hempstead
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Research Interests:
computer architecture, computer systems, power-aware computing, embedded systems, mobile computing, computer systems for machine learning, workload characterization, quantum computing, learning sciences and computer systems for human subjects research
Jeffrey
Hopwood
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
microwave circuit design for microplasma generation, microplasma-based environmental sensors and other microsystem applications, plasma diagnostic methods, characterization, and modeling
Usman
Khan
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Computer Science
Research Interests:
Optimization and Control, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Graph Theory, Decentralized Algorithms
Valencia
Koomson
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor, Tisch College
Research Interests:
design of silicon-based mixed-mode VLSI systems (analog, digital, RF, optical), analog signal processing, and optoelectronic system-on-chip modeling and integration for applications in optical wireless communication and biomedical imaging
Professor of the Practice
Ronald
Lasser
Professor of the Practice, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
digital image processing, computer animation, swarm robotics, innovation, engineering method & design
Eric
Miller
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Computer Science
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Mathematics
Research Interests:
Signal and image processing, tomographic image formation and object characterization, inverse problems, regularization, statistical signal and imaging processing, and computational physical modeling. Applications explored include medical imaging and image analysis, environmental monitoring and remediation, landmine and unexploded ordnance remediation, and automatic target detection and classification.
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
Aseema
Mohanty
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Clare Boothe Luce Professorship in Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
nanophotonics, optical beam shaping, neuroengineering, chip-scale imaging and microscopy, quantum information systems
Research Website: https://sites.tufts.edu/amohanty/
Professor and Dean of Graduate Education
Karen
Panetta
Professor, Computer Science
Dean for Graduate Education, Tufts University School of Engineering
Professor, Tufts University School of Engineering
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
Signal processing; image processing; simulation modeling
Sameer
Sonkusale
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Interests:
Flexible bioelectronics, Biomedical microdevices, Biomedical circuits and systems, micro and nano fabrication, lab-on-chip microsystems, global health and precision medicine, CMOS image sensors for scientific imaging, analog to information converters, active metamaterial devices, circuits, and systems, terahertz devices and circuits
Alvin H. Howell Endowed Professor in Electrical Engineering
Aleksandar
Stankovic
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alvin H. Howell Endowed Professorship in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
modeling, control, and estimation in electric energy processing, power electronics, power systems, and electric drives
Mai
Vu
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Computer Science
Research Interests:
wireless communications, millimeter wave communications, 5G/6G systems and techniques, energy-efficient communications, machine learning techniques, applied convex optimization