People & Office Hours

Office Hours Schedule

Office hours are held weekly in the senior design lab. This sheet will be updated if any schedule changes. Make sure to double check the sheet before assuming there will be a TA present when you go!

Fall 2026 Instructors

	Name	Area
	Prof. Mark Butala (Instructor) butala@illinois.edu
	Prof. Arne Fliflet (Instructor) 3056 afliflet@illinois.edu	microwave generation and applications
	Prof. Aaron Geiger (Instructor) ageiger2@illinois.edu
	Prof. Zhefeng Guo (Instructor) zhefengg@illinois.edu
	Prof. Huan Hu (Instructor) huanhu2@illinois.edu
	Prof. Timothy Lee (Instructor) lee527@illinois.edu
	Prof. Yu Lin (Instructor) yl88@illinois.edu
	Prof. Craig Shultz (Instructor) CSL 220 shultz88@illinois.edu	Haptics, Human Computer Interaction, Signals, Audio, HCI, Actuators, Wearables, Interaction
	Fatemeh Cheraghi Pouria (TA) fatemeh5@illinois.edu
	Amritesh Dasari (TA) mdasari2@illinois.edu
	Lukas Dumasius (TA) lukasd2@illinois.edu
	Alma Furayi (TA) afurayi@illinois.edu
	Caitlin Jones (TA) caitlinj@illinois.edu
	Xiaoyue Li (TA) xiaoyuel@illinois.edu	Image Processing, Deep Learning
	Chunzeng Luo (TA) cluo@illinois.edu
	Muhammad Malik (TA) mmalik@illinois.edu
	Ian Meliala (TA) imeliala@illinois.edu
	Yiqun Niu (TA) yiqunn2@illinois.edu
	Qi Wang (TA) ZJUI C318 qiw7@illinois.edu
	Xinyi Xu (TA) xinyixu@illinois.edu
	Ronghui Zheng (TA) ronghuiz@illinois.edu
	Yuchuan Zhu (TA) yuchuan5@illinois.edu
	Yutao Zhuang (TA) yutaoz@illinois.edu

Other Important People

Name	Office	Phone	Email	Area
Dean Biskup	UIUC ECE Building		dbiskup2@illinois.edu	UIUC TA

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