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TA Office Hours

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

Blue names are office hours held online via zoom.

Names highlighted in orange are additional office hours available up to the due date of the soldering assignment.

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

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Spring 2024 Instructors

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

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

rakeshk@illinois.edu
Prof. Olga Mironenko (Instructor)

olgamiro@illinois.edu
Prof. Michael Oelze (Instructor)
ECEB 2056
oelze@illinois.edu
Biomedical Imaging, Acoustics, Nondestructive Testing
Prof. Jonathon Schuh (Instructor)
4066 ECEB
schuh4@illinois.edu
Computational Physics, Electromechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Energy Storage, Tribology
Prof. Victoria Shao (Instructor)

yangshao@illinois.edu
Nikhil Arora (TA)

na32@illinois.edu
Mechanical Design, Automotive Technologies, Additive Manufacturing
Sainath Barbhai (TA)

barbhai2@illinois.edu
Design Engineering, Finite Element Method, Sensors and Actuators
Zutai Chen (TA)

zutaic2@illinois.edu
Vishal Dayalan (TA)

vishald2@illinois.edu
Data Science and Analytics, Mechanical Design, CAD, Simulation, System Design, Robotics and Product Development
Luoyan Li (TA)

luoyanl2@illinois.edu
machine learning, hardware acceleration
Zicheng Ma (TA)

zicheng5@illinois.edu
Cloud computing, Database systems
Abhisheka Mathur Sekar (TA)

am113@illinois.edu
Mechanical Engineering, Design, CAD Modelling and Simulation, Fluid Mechanics, MRI, Human centric designs
David Null (TA)

null2@illinois.edu
Robotics, Computer Vision, Navigation, Coordinated Systems, Control Systems.
Jason Paximadas (TA)

jop2@illinois.edu
Power electronics, control, and instrumentation
Sanjana Pingali (TA)

pingali4@illinois.edu
Machine Learning Systems
Matthew Qi (TA)

mqi6@illinois.edu
Power Electronics
Nithin Balaji Shanthini Praveena Purushothaman (TA)

ns49@illinois.edu
My area of interest include Mechanical Design, Design Analysis, Supply Chain(Circular), Industry 4.0, Data Science and RPA.
Selva Subramaniam (TA)

ss170@illinois.edu
Koushik Udayachandran (TA)

koushik3@illinois.edu
Unmanned aerial vehicles. Risk assesment. Autonomous underwater vehicles . Aircraft design. Systems engineering and integration . Flight testing
Surya Vasanth (TA)

vasanth4@illinois.edu
Data Science and Analytics, Internet of Things, Human Centric Design
Angquan Yu (TA)

angquan2@illinois.edu
Douglas Yu (TA)

zeduoyu2@illinois.edu
Hardware Design, Computer Architecture, AI
Jason Zhang (TA)

zekaiz2@illinois.edu
AR, Robot and human interactions
Jialiang Zhang (TA)
CSL 403
jz23@illinois.edu
Hardware Systems, Computer Architecture
Tianxiang Zheng (TA)

tz32@illinois.edu
FPGA hls and mlir; Chronic signal processing; robotics and control; 3D printing;

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