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Jul 28, 2026
The Growing Clash Between Modern Digital Infrastructure and Local Resources
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence data centers is triggering an intense public and political backlash across the United States, as communities confront the massive noise, land use, and escalating energy and water resource demands highlighted by ECE Professors Josep Jornet and David Kaeli.
Jul 28, 2026
Liu Appointed Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu was appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, a journal dedicated to the publication of manuscripts reporting novel experimental or theoretical results within the broad field of science and technology of quantum electronics of either a device, subsystem, or system-oriented nature.
Jul 22, 2026
Shrivastava to Serve as ISLPED Technical Program Co-Chair
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava will serve as a technical program co-chair for the 2026 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED).
Jul 22, 2026
Harris Receives Rishi Raj Medal for Innovation and Commercialization
ECE University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith Professor Vincent Harris was awarded the Rishi Raj Medal for Innovation and Commercialization by the American Ceramic Society in recognition of his exceptional advancements and entrepreneurship in magnetoceramics, which have led to innovative defense and aerospace products through his company, Metamagnetics Inc.
Jul 20, 2026
Solving Complex Optimization Equations with the Analog Floquet Solver
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella and his team developed the Analog Floquet Solver, a groundbreaking method that prevents physics-based Ising machines from getting stuck in partial solutions, allowing computers to successfully solve highly complex real-world optimization problems across fields like logistics, finance, and drug discovery.
Jul 20, 2026
Patent for Reducing AI Model Size and Energy Consumption
ECE Professor Yanzhi Wang and Associate Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin were awarded a patent for “Computer-implemented methods and systems for compressing deep neural network models using alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM).”
Jul 16, 2026
Bringing AI and Robotics to New England’s Seafood Industry
ECE Professors Taskin Padir and Hanumant Singh are collaborating on the newly launched, National Science Foundation-backed “Seafood Engine” in New England, a multi-state initiative utilizing a $15 million grant to revitalize the regional seafood industry and reduce the U.S. seafood trade deficit through advanced technologies like robotics and AI.
Jul 14, 2026
Creating Shock-Resistant Sensors That Won’t Break Under Pressure
Research conducted by the Institute for NanoSystems Innovation on “Toward Enhanced Inertial Sensing via Dynamically Soft Topological States in Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterials,” was published in Advanced Functional Materials, a top journal in materials science and engineering.