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Aug 18, 2022
Designing Computer Models for Multi-Area Power Grids That Isolate Divergence Anomalies
ECE Professor Ali Abur was awarded a patent for “Computer-implemented methods and systems for avoiding divergence in multi-area power grid state estimation.”
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Aug 17, 2022
Predicting Seizures in Epilepsy Patients
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia and Principal Research Scientist Pedram Johari, in collaboration with Joseph Neimat from the University of Louisville, Jorge Jimenez from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Doug Pham from Microchip Technology Inc., received a $550K NSF Partnerships for Innovation – Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) grant for “Smart Seizure Prediction System based on AI-enabled Implantable Sensor Networks.”
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Aug 17, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Derya Aksaray
Derya Aksaray joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2022 as an Assistant Professor.
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Aug 17, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Soner Sonmezoglu
Soner Sonmezoglu joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2022 as an Assistant Professor.
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Aug 17, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Mathew Yarossi
Mathew Yarossi joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2022 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Bouve’s Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences.
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Aug 12, 2022
Using Subharmonic Tags to Sense and Navigate
ECE Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella, in collaboration with Rogers Corporation, received a grant for $148K for “Subharmonic Tags on Magneto-Dielectric Substrates.”
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Aug 07, 2022
2022 Abie Award Winner Kris Dorsey
Kris Dorsey, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, jointly appointed in physical therapy, movement and rehabilitation sciences, is a 2022 Emerging Leader Abie Award winner from AnitaB.org.
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Aug 02, 2022
Wang’s Research Paper Receives Honorary Mention at ICLR 2022 Workshop
ECE Associate Professor Yanzhi Wang was awarded an Honorary Mention for his paper “Coarsening the Granularity: Towards Structurally Sparse Lottery Tickets” at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2022) Workshop on Hardware-Aware Efficient Training (HAET) held on July 23, 2022.