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Mar 10, 2026
Davaji Receives 2026 FLEXI Award for Technology Leadership in Workforce Development
ECE Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji received the 2026 FLEXI Award for Technology Leadership in Workforce Development from FlexTech. Davaji was recognized for advancing digital twins and AI for flexible electronics manufacturing through an integrated model that couples high-impact research with hands-on training for next-generation talent.
Mar 10, 2026
Patent for Advanced Signal Detection for Next-Generation Wireless Networks
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for designing an “Ultra low power wake up radio architecture.”
Mar 09, 2026
Eldar Selected for Marquis Who’s Who
ECE Professor and Joseph E. Aoun Chair Yonina Eldar has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who for her prolific contributions to electrical engineering, including over 1,000 publications, 36 patents, and her pioneering work in resource-efficient signal processing and AI.
Mar 06, 2026
Patent for Automated Posture Detection Systems for Early Childhood Diagnosis
ECE Professor Sarah Ostadabbas has received a patent for “Infant 2D pose estimation and posture detection system.”
Feb 27, 2026
Shrivastava Named 2026 Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava has been named to the 2026 Class of Senior Members by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
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.