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TA Office Hours

Held weekly in the senior design lab (ECEB 2070/2072). NOTE:

There are no office hours during the weeks of board reviews or final demos.

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Fall 2026 Instructors

Name Area
Prof. Arne Fliflet (Instructor)
3056
afliflet@illinois.edu
microwave generation and applications
Prof. Viktor Gruev (Instructor)

vgruev@illinois.edu
Prof. Joohyung Kim (Instructor)

joohyung@illinois.edu
Prof. Rakesh Kumar (Instructor)

rakeshk@illinois.edu
Prof. Michael Oelze (Instructor)
ECEB 2056
oelze@illinois.edu
Biomedical Imaging, Acoustics, Nondestructive Testing
Prof. Craig Shultz (Instructor)
CSL 220
shultz88@illinois.edu
Haptics, Human Computer Interaction, Signals, Audio, HCI, Actuators, Wearables, Interaction
Prof. Cunjiang Yu (Instructor)

cunjiang@illinois.edu
Prof. Yang Zhao (Instructor)

yzhaoui@illinois.edu
Abdullah Alawad (TA)

aalawad2@illinois.edu
Haocheng Bill Yang (TA)

hy38@illinois.edu
Gayatri Chandran (TA)

gpc4@illinois.edu
Super-resolution imaging, force microscopy, nanoscale light-matter interactions
Aniket Chatterjee (TA)

aniketc2@illinois.edu
Shiyuan Duan (TA)

sduan9@illinois.edu
Argyrios Gerogiannis (TA)

ag91@illinois.edu
Reinforcement Learning, Bandits, LLM Reasoning, Theoretical Machine Learning
Gerasimos Gerogiannis (TA)

gg24@illinois.edu
Computer Architecture, High-Performance Computing, Hardware Accelerators, FPGA
Manvi Jha (TA)

manvij2@illinois.edu
Computer Vision; Large Language Models; IoT; High Level Synthesis
Jason Jung (TA)

jasondj2@illinois.edu
Imaging Systems, Circuit design, Signal Processing, Computer Vision
Po-Jen Ko (TA)

pojenko2@illinois.edu
Weijie Liang (TA)

weijiel4@illinois.edu
Wesley Pang (TA)

qpang2@illinois.edu
Zhuchen Shao (TA)

zhuchens@illinois.edu
Yulei Shen (TA)

yuleis2@illinois.edu
Wenjing Song (TA)

ws33@illinois.edu
Eric Tang (TA)

leweit2@illinois.edu
IC, EM, proficient with PCB and soldering
Jiaming Xu (TA)

jx30@illinois.edu
Zhuoer Zhang (TA)

zhuoer3@illinois.edu
Frey Zhao (TA)

yifeiz10@illinois.edu

Other Important People

https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/staff

Environmental Sensing for Firefighters

Andri Teneqexhi, Lauren White, Hyun Yi

Environmental Sensing for Firefighters

Featured Project

Hyun Yi, Lauren White, and Andri Teneqexhi earned the Instructor's Award in the Fall of 2013 for their work on the Environmental Sensing for Firefighters.

"Engineering is all about solving real life problems and using the solutions to improve the lives of others. ECE 445 allows you to actually delve deeper into what this really means by providing students the chance to undergo the engineering design process. This requires taking all of the theoretical knowledge, lab experiences, and ultimately, everything that you have ever learned in life, and applying it to your project. Though, there is structure to the course and deadlines in place to measure your team's progress, the actual design, implementation, and success of your project is all determined by you. Unlike any other course that I have taken, I've gained an appreciation for the utilization and benefits of external resources, unforeseen scheduling delays, delegating tasks, and most importantly, teamwork. I consider ECE 445 to be a crash course into real life engineering and a guide to become a successful engineer." -- Lauren White