ECE celebrates and honors the many contributions made by our excellent women faculty, alumni, and students. Their work has impacted science, technology, the arts, activism, and anything else you can imagine. Included in this list is ECE’s first woman to serve as Chair, the first Black woman at Michigan to earn a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, and the woman who helped bring us the first ever photo of a black hole.
Elaheh Ahmadi is an assistant professor in EECS. She conducts research in Epitaxial growth and characterization of III-N and Oxide semiconductor materials for electronic and optoelectronics devices, sensing and MEMs applications as well as electron transport modeling.
Laura Balzano is an assistant professor in EECS. She conducts research in statistical signal processing, machine learning, and optimization theory and methods for dealing with large complex data.
Lynn Conway is a Professor Emerita of EECS. Her specialties included tele-autonomous systems, collaboration technology and media integration, artificial intelligence, computer systems & hardware, and VLSI program. She is also a renowned advocate for the trans community.
Cynthia Finelli is a professor of ECE and Education Engineering. She conducts research in active learning, evidence-based teaching, student learning, classroom spaces, and institutional change.
Janice Jenkins is a Professor Emerita of EECS and Biomedical Engineering. In 1980, she became the first woman hired as a faculty member in the department.
Somin Lee is an assistant professor of EECS and Biomedical Engineering. Her research focuses on the use of nanoscale-dependent properties to enable unique spatial and temporal capabilities needed for quantification in bioscience and medicine. Her areas of expertise include plasmonics, nanophotonics, and bionanotechnologies.
Johanna Mathieu is an assistant professor of EECS. She specializes in modeling, estimation, and control of electric loads and storage; operational and control strategies that reduce the environmental impact, cost, and inefficiency of the power system.
Necmiye Ozay is an associate professor of EECS. She conducts research on computational aspects of control system design; hybrid and cyber-physical systems; system identification and validation; dynamics-based data analysis.
Becky Peterson is an associate professor of EECs and Applied Physics. She conducts research on oxide semiconductor materials and devices; 3D-IC heterointegration of oxide-based thin film electronics with silicon CMOS; solution-processed inorganic electronic materials; crystalline gallium oxide for power devices.
Louise Willingale is an Assistant Professor of EECS. She researches laser-driven electron and ion acceleration, relativistic laser propagation through underdense and near-critical density plasmas, laser-driven magnetic reconnection, and proton radiography to study electric and magnetic fields generated during the laser-plasma interactions.
BSE MSE CE ’85 ’86; MBA ’91
Charlotte Decker is an information technology executive with over 21 years of experience across three major industries: specialty retail, automotive OEM, and tier-one automotive parts supply.
MS EE:S; MS Applied Mathematics; PhD EECS
Tara Javidi is a Professor of ECE and founder and Co-Director of the Center for Machine-Integrated Computing and Security at the University of California, San Diego.
MSE PhD EE 2007 2011
Angelique Johnson is the founder and CEO of MEMStim, which makes one of the most expensive parts of cochlear implants cheap with microfabrication.
PhD EE:S 1995
Meera Sampath is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the State University of New York. She helped kickstart Xerox’s Indian Innovation Hub and was an early leader of their work in that country.
MSE EE 2001; PhD Applied Physics 2004
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts is Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, where she is also the Director of Graduate Studies for the University Program in Materials Science and Engineering.
Ester Bentley designs smaller, better 3D mechanical resonators for use in high-performance gyroscopes to help unmanned systems navigate when GPS signal is jammed or lost.
Nasimeh Heydaribeni’s research interests are game theory and its applications in networked systems with emphasis on mechanism design dynamic games with asymmetric information and information design.
Zhanni Wu is working on advanced metasurfaces, which could help next-generation wireless communication, commercial and military radar systems, imaging, and antenna systems.
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