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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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Summer 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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Bone Conduction Lock

Alexander Lee, Brandon Powers, Ramon Zarate

Featured Project

A lock that is unlocked using vibrations conducted through the bones in the user’s hand. The user wears a wristband containing a haptic motor. The haptic motor generates a vibration signal that acts as the "key" to the lock. When the user touches their finger to the lock, the signal is transmitted through the user’s hand and is received at the lock. If the lock receives the correct "key", then it unlocks.

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