Majeed M. Hayat

Professor and Department Chair

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Marquette University

SYSTEM ANALYTICS for COMMUNICATIONS and ENERGY(SACE) Lab

1515 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
e-mail: majeed.hayat@marquette.edu
phone: (414) 288-7772

Dr. Hayat received his Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Pacific  (in Stockton, CA) in 1985. He received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He is currently a Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Marquette University. He was Associate Editor of Optics Express (Photodetectors and Image Processing) from 2004 to 2010 and Associate Editor and member of the Conference Editorial Board for the IEEE Control Systems Society. From 2010 to 2013 he was the Chair of the topical committee on Photodetectors, Sensors, Systems and Imaging of the IEEE Photonics Society. He was the Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems from 2014 to 2018. His research activities cover a broad range of topics including resilience and reliability of interdependent cyberphysical systems, dynamical modeling of cascading phenomena with applications to power systems, avalanche photodiodes, statistical communication theory, signal and image processing, algorithms for spectral and radar sensing and imaging, optical communication, and networked computing. He is recipient of the National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career Award (1998) and the Chief Scientist Award for Excellence (2006) by the National Consortium for MASINT Research and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Dr. Hayat has authored or co-authored over 110 peer-reviewed journal articles and 137 conference papers (over 6,800 citations, H-Index: 42), and has fifteen issued patents, five of which have been licensed. Dr. Hayat is a co-founder of Dynamic Photonics Inc and a Fellow of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE.