Admission and Funding



I will be accepting graduate students beginning with the 2020–2021 academic year and continuing through subsequent semesters. In exceptional situations, support may be available starting in the summer before the fall term.

Due to the fact that I may miss your email, please apply to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and designate me as a potential advisor. I may also be able to advise students in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) Department: please designate me as a potential advisor. Both departments are in the College of Engineering at the University of Delaware (UD)

In ECE, the admission review also involves the associate chair of graduate studies. The process has many stages:


  1. Applications received by Feb. 1 or earlier will receive primary consideration for funding. The research statement is important during the evaluation.

  2. Applications are reviewed along with those for other suitable advisors.

  3. A fair assessment of the applications is made and a subset of the qualified applicants may be short-listed (Early February).

  4. I plan to schedule and hold interviews with short-listed candidates on video teleconferencing (Feb.–March).

  5. The associate chair of graduate studies make the final determination to offer funding for a certain duration. (March).

  6. Applicants should review the offer and accept it, or decline it if they choose to take another option. (The deadline for accepting an offer of financial support from a graduate school in the US is April 15th.) (PDF)


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