News

Oct 06, 2017
Research to Help Add Solar to the Grid
ECE Professor Ali Abur was awarded a $792K grant from the Enabling Extreme Real-time Grid Integration of Solar Energy (ENERGISE) funding program.

Oct 06, 2017
Rinaldi & McGruer Featured on Cover of Nature Nanotechnology
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Professor Nicol McGruer’s research on “Zero-power infrared digitizers based on plasmonically enhanced micromechanical photoswitches” was featured on the cover of Nature Nanotechnology.

Oct 06, 2017
Professor Closas Research on GNSS featured in Two Scientific Magazines
Assistant Professor Pau Closas was featured as the lead guest editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine “Advanced in Signal Processing for Global Navigation Satellite Systems” special issue. The magazine […]
Sep 28, 2017
Leeser and Ioannidis to Speak at MIT
ECE Professors Miriam Leeser and Stratis Ioannidis will give a joint lecture on the “Practical, Secure Function Evaluation at Scale” at the Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar at MIT.

Sep 28, 2017
Ioannidis & Yeh Win Best Paper Award
ECE Assistant Professor Stratis Ioannidis and Professor Edmund Yeh received the Best Paper Award at the 4th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2017) for their paper on “Jointly Optimal Routing and Caching for Arbitrary Network Topologies.”

Sep 27, 2017
PhD Student Receives Funding to Attend and Present at Pittcon 2018 Conference
ECE PhD Student Zhengming Ding has received funding to attend and present at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Forensic Science Research & Development Poster Session at the Pittcon 2018 […]

Sep 21, 2017
Designing Robots to Detect Building Damage
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir and CEE Professor & Chair Jerry Hajjar are developing robots that can detect weaknesses in buildings and other infrastructures after a disaster.

Sep 20, 2017
Tiwari Selected as Program Area Vice Chair for IPDPS
ECE Assistant Professor Desesh Tiwari was selected to be the Program Area Vice Chair for the 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium which is one of the leading conferences in high performance parallel and distributed computing.