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Feb 27, 2026
Electrical PhD Student Receives SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award
Aswin Chowdary Undavalli, PhD, electrical engineering, won the Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award, which provides an honorarium as well as reimbursement of select expenses incurred by the awardee for attending the next International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
Feb 27, 2026
The Boom of AI is Behind the Surge in RAM Prices
Matteo Rinaldi, professor of electrical and computer engineering, helps explain the reason behind the recent surge in RAM prices. Due to the high memory usage AI data centers require, most RAM manufacturing streams feed directly to AI cooperations instead of consumers, driving up the market price.
Feb 26, 2026
The Technical Challenges of Integrating Robots into Human Society
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya published “Cognizant and Socially Aware Robotics” in Computer magazine. This article examines the current state of robotics and forecasts the near-term and midterm future landscape toward achieving humanoid robots capable of mimicking human perception, intelligence, and emotion.
Feb 26, 2026
New Biomimicry Technology Can Increase Safety in Autonomous Vehicles
New research from Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Ravinder Dahiya has the potential to make self-driving cars safer. This new technology mimics how a human retina analyzes images by using synaptic transistors, devices used to simulate neural pathways, that significantly reduces processing time to machines like autonomous vehicles.
Feb 24, 2026
Patent for a Faster and More Efficient Way to Create High Definition Images
ECE Distinguished/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was awarded a patent for “System and method for image super-resolution.”
Feb 17, 2026
Yehoshua Publishes Book on Machine Learning Foundations
ECE Associate Teaching Professor Roi Yehoshua published a book on “Machine Learning Foundations, Volume 1: Supervised Learning.”
Feb 17, 2026
2026 Goldwater Scholarship Nominees
Megan Farrington, E’27, electrical engineering and physics, and Maren Ritterbuck, E’27, bioengineering and biochemistry were nominated for the 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholarship—a highly competitive, merit-based award for outstanding students in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering who are interested in pursuing careers in research.
Feb 17, 2026
Patent for Faster and More Efficient AI Applications on Smartphones
ECE Professor Yanzhi Wang was awarded a patent for “Computer-implemented methods and systems for DNN weight pruning for real-time execution on mobile devices.”