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Nov 17, 2015
Tadmor Awarded Patent
ECE Professor Gilead Tadmor was awarded a patent for "Real-time anomaly detection of crowd behavior using multi-sensor information".
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Nov 12, 2015
ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi Receives the 2015 IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Award
Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi has been awarded the 2015 IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Award, "For outstanding contributions to novel multi-functional piezoelectric micro and nano electro mechanical resonant sensors."
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Oct 27, 2015
Mosallaei has Top Downloaded Article
ECE Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei's article was one of the Top Downloaded articles from the Journal of the Optical Society of America B for September 2015.
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Oct 27, 2015
ECE Students & Professor Win Best Paper at International Conference
ECE Associate Professor Tommaso Melodia, Ph.D students Emrecan Demirors & G. Enrico Santagati, and MS student Bharataj G. Shanka coauthored a paper that won a "Best Student Paper Award" at the 10th ACM International Conference on UnderWater Networks and Systems.
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Oct 23, 2015
Protecting Digital Privacy
ECE Assistant Professor Stratis Ioannidis is using Big Data to build a mobile advertising system while protecting digital privacy.
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Oct 22, 2015
Silevitch and Beaty Awarded $1.2M DHS Grant
ECE Prof. Michael Silevitch and ALERT’s John Beaty were awarded a $1.2M two year Task Order contract from the DHS in collaboration with Stephen P. Beaudoin of Purdue University to systematize the processes associated with sampling of trace explosives using swipes for security screening equipment.
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Oct 21, 2015
COE & Science Freshman Night a Success
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) helped organize a Freshman Night for the College of Engineering and the College of Science with over 30 participating student groups.
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Oct 20, 2015
Harris Receives Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
ECE & ChE Professor Vincent Harris is a recipient of the 2016 TMS Functional Materials Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award.