News
Aug 25, 2025
Advancing Ultra-Efficient AI for Wearables and IoT
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with the University of California-Riverside, was awarded a $560K NSF grant for “Designing and Optimizing Tiny Vector Symbolic Architectures for Ultra-Efficient Inference on Tiny Devices.”
Aug 22, 2025
Developing Intelligent Garments for Real-Time Healthcare
ECE Associate Professor Kris Dorsey and Khoury/MIE Assistant Professor Megan Hofmann, in collaboration with Emory University, were awarded a $699,789 NSF grant for “Adaptive Intelligent Healthcare Garment: Advancing Real-Time Monitoring and Behavioral Interventions.”
Aug 19, 2025
New Faculty Spotlight: Yonina Eldar
Yonina Eldar joins the electrical and computer engineering department in August 2025 as a Professor and Joseph E. Aoun Chair.
Aug 19, 2025
New Faculty Spotlight: Dipanjan Saha
Dipanjan Saha joins the electrical and computer engineering department in August 2025 as an associate teaching professor.
Aug 19, 2025
New Faculty Spotlight: Xian Li
Xian Li joins the electrical and computer engineering department in August 2025 as an assistant teaching professor in Seattle, WA.
Aug 15, 2025
Electrical PhD Receives Young Scientist Award for Terahertz Brain Research
Samar Elmaadawy, PhD’25, electrical engineering, advised by ECE Professor & Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, received the URSI AP-RASC 2025 Young Scientist Award for her paper on “Cerebral Organoids Respond to Sub-Terahertz and Terahertz Radiation” which she will present at the 2025 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference in Sydney, Australia, in August 2025.
Aug 15, 2025
Best Paper Award for Terahertz Wireless Safety Research
Samar Elmaadawy, PhD’25, electrical engineering, and ECE Professor & Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet’s paper on “Thermal and SAR-Based Limits for Human Skin Exposed to Terahertz Radiation” won the Best Paper Award at the 5th International Telecommunications Conference (ITC-Egypt’2025) in July 2025.
Aug 15, 2025
IEEE Best Paper Award for Terahertz Band Communication Research
ECE Professor & Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet’s research on “Terahertz Band Communication: An Old Problem Revisited and Research Directions for the Next Decade” received the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award, which will be presented at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan, in December 2025.