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Jan 26, 2017
Establishing a New Institute to Advance Robotics in Manufacturing
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir has been tapped to help develop a new robotics institute for the Department of Defense. Professor Padir’s research interests include modeling and control of robot systems, human-in-the-loop robot control, and realization of medical cyber-physical systems.
Jan 24, 2017
Amirabadi Receives ONR Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Mahshid Amirabadi was awarded a $274K grant from ONR to develop "A New Class of Modular Power Converters for Next-Generation Shipboard Power Systems." This project seeks innovative solutions for concurrent and dramatic increases in power density, lifetime, efficiency, modularity, and watts per dollar of shipboard power systems. The new class of modular AC-AC converters resulting […]
Jan 20, 2017
New Faculty Spotlight: Xue Lin
Xue Lin joins the Electrical & Computer Engineering department in January 2017 as an Assistant Professor.
Jan 20, 2017
New Faculty Spotlight: Devesh Tiwari
Devesh Tiwari joins the Electrical & Computer Engineering department in January 2017 as an Assistant Professor.
Jan 20, 2017
New Faculty Spotlight: Pau Closas
Pau Closas joins the Electrical & Computer Engineering department in January 2017 as an Assistant Professor.
Jan 13, 2017
Increasing the Reliability of Supercomputing
ECE Assistant Professor Devesh Tiwari is researching methods to improve supercomputing by making large-scale, data-intensive computing more efficient, more reliable, and more sustainable so innovation can flourish.
Jan 12, 2017
Amirabadi Receives ARPA-E Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Mahshid Amirabadi was awarded a $240K grant from ARPA-E to develop "A New Class of Soft-Switching Capacitive-Link Universal Converters for Photovoltaic Application".
Jan 10, 2017
Professor Fu Named IAPR Fellow
ECE/CCIS Associate Professor Yun Raymond Fu has been selected as a fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition.