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Mar 28, 2018
Novel Synthetic Biology Technique Could Lead to Breakthroughs in Disease Treatment
University Distinguished Professor Eduardo Sontag developed a new technique that would give researchers the ability to control the behavior of engineered cells.
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Mar 27, 2018
Chowdhury Awarded an IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury’s team was awarded an IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award for his paper on “WiFED: WiFi Friendly Energy Delivery with Distributed Beamforming” which will be presented at the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications.
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Mar 21, 2018
Yeh Speaks to Leading Universities About Networking For Big Data
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh recently gave invited lectures on data-centric networking architectures and optimized caching algorithms at MIT, Princeton, Caltech, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Southern California, and New York University.
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Mar 21, 2018
Spring 2018 ECE Undergraduate Student Advice Session
Images taken at the Spring 2018 ECE Undergraduate Student Advice Session, where upperclass students shared advice and experiences related to majors, minors, research, coop, grad school and travel. The department thanks everyone who participated.
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Mar 19, 2018
Professor Emeritus Vittoria Publishes New Book
ECE Professor Emeritus Carmine Vittoria recently published the book Bitter Chicory to Sweet Espresso about events of WW II in the Naples area as witnessed and seen by a child and his family. Vittoria worked as an ECE Distinguished Professor for 15 years before retiring in 2016. Previous to the appointment as a full professor […]
Mar 15, 2018
ECE PhD Student Wins 2017 Chinese Government Award
PhD Student Allan Ding was awarded a 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad. This award is given to high-achieving, self-financed Chinese students studying internationally. It is granted across all fields of study to only 500 PhD students worldwide. Ding is under the advisement of ECE Associate Professor Yun Raymond Fu. Professor Fu […]
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Mar 02, 2018
Research Using Drone Finds Super Colony of Penguins
Using an autonomous aerial drone system developed by ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have discovered a colony of more than 1,500,000 Adélie Penguins on the Danger Islands—more than the rest of the entire Antarctic Peninsula region combined.
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Mar 01, 2018
Robotics Showcase
A variety of robots, such as a prosthetic hand, drones, mobile robots, and an autonomous car and kayak from ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir’s RIVeR Lab and ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh’s robotics research center were on display at the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex as part of National Engineers Week.