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

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Spring 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

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RFI Detector

Jamie Brunskill, Tyler Shaw, Kyle Stevens

RFI Detector

Featured Project

Problem Statement:

Radio frequency interference from cell phones disrupts measurements at the radio observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Many visitors do not comply when asked to turn their phones off or put them in airplane mode.

Description:

We are planning to design a handheld device that will be able to detect radio frequency interference from cell phones from approximately one meter away. This will allow someone to determine if a phone has been turned off or is in airplane mode.

The device will feature an RF front end consisting of antennas, filters, and matching networks. Multiple receiver chains may be used for different bands if necessary. They will feed into a detection circuit that will determine if the power within a given band is above a certain threshold. This information will be sent to a microcontroller that will provide visual/audible user feedback.

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