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Sep 04, 2025
New Filter Technology Wins IEEE Outstanding Award
ECE Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella and his electrical engineering students, Onurcan Kaya, PhD’25, and Xuanyi Zhao, PhD’24, had their paper “Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterial Filters” selected for the 2024 UFFC Outstanding Paper Award by the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society.

Sep 02, 2025
Shafai Honored for Outstanding Contributions to Control Systems Engineering
ECE Professor Bahram Shafai received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 9th International Conference on Integrated Systems, Design and Technology (ISD2025) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to electrical and computer engineering for the advancement of robust control design.

Aug 26, 2025
Paving the Way for Printed Flexible Electronics
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya’s research on “Site-Specific Growth and Printing of Nanowires for Resource Efficient Fabrication of Flexible Electronics” was published in Small.

Aug 26, 2025
New Roadmap Article Lays Out a Path for Future AI-Powered Robots
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya published “A roadmap for AI in robotics” in Nature Machine Intelligence.

Aug 26, 2025
Patent for a Method to Improve Wireless Communication with AI
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia and ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received a patent for “System for frequency sharing in open radio access networks using artificial intelligence.”

Aug 25, 2025
Advancing Ultra-Efficient AI for Wearables and IoT
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with the University of California-Riverside, was awarded a $560K NSF grant for “Designing and Optimizing Tiny Vector Symbolic Architectures for Ultra-Efficient Inference on Tiny Devices.”

Aug 22, 2025
Developing Intelligent Garments for Real-Time Healthcare
ECE Associate Professor Kris Dorsey and Khoury/MIE Assistant Professor Megan Hofmann, in collaboration with Emory University, were awarded a $699,789 NSF grant for “Adaptive Intelligent Healthcare Garment: Advancing Real-Time Monitoring and Behavioral Interventions.”

Aug 19, 2025
New Faculty Spotlight: Yonina Eldar
Yonina Eldar joins the electrical and computer engineering department in August 2025 as a Professor and Joseph E. Aoun Chair.