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Jan 16, 2014
Fu Awarded $160K Grant
Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu, a faculty member associated with the Department of Electrical and Chemical Engineering (ECE) and the College of Computer and Information Science (CCIS), received a $160K grant from Samsung to support his research in visual recognition. Dr. Fu obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois and taught at […]
Jan 14, 2014
3Qs: Could circuits’ face-lift mean faster, smaller phones?
ECE Associate Professor Nian Sun has developed a method for RF circuits to be tunable on both the capacitor & inductor side, allowing for smaller cell phones and longer battery life. Imagine a cell phone that’s half the size with longer battery time and better performance. That could become a reality thanks to new research […]
Jan 07, 2014
Professor Dagmar Sternad Gives 2013 Arthur Iberall Distinguished Lecture on Life and the Sciences of Complexity at University of Connecticut
Dr. Dagmar Sternad, Professor of Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Physics, gave the 2013 Arthur Iberall Distinguished Lecture on Life and the Sciences of Complexity at the University of Connecticut on December 6, 2013. Dr. Sternad's lecture, "Actions and Interactions in a Complex World," surveyed her work on the control of sensorimotor skills and […]
Jan 07, 2014
Professor emeritus honored for engineering education career
Electrical engineering professor emeritus John Proakis has received nearly a dozen awards and academic honors in his time, but he considers his most recent one the defining achievement of his illustrious career: The James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, which recognizes engineering educators’ imagination, vitality, and leadership and represents the highest honor in education awarded […]
Dec 23, 2013
Analyzing Security Fraud: Target’s security breach
Last week, the retail giant Target experienced an unprecedented data security breach and the debit and credit card information of up to 40 million accounts was stolen. The cause of the security breach, one of the largest credit card breaches in U.S. history, is still under investigation. Here Engin Kirda, the Sy and Laurie Sternberg […]
Dec 18, 2013
Vittoria awarded NSF grant
Professor Carmine Vittoria was awarded a $78K NSF Eager grant to explore Magneto-Electric Hexaferrite Thin film Devices.
Dec 11, 2013
Kim Receives 2 Honors
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Yong-Bin Kim received a best paper award at the International Soc Design Conference and was appointed an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II Journal. The International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC) aims at providing the world’s premier SoC design forum for leading researchers from academia and […]
Nov 27, 2013
ECE Superstars win at supercomputers
When professor Dave Kaeli approached them about entering a supercomputer competition, electrical and computer engineering students Neel Shah and Tushar Swamy had zero experience in the task at hand. “I had never even built a regular computer,” said Shah, let alone a super one. But that didn’t stop them from signing up…nor from stealing the […]