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Jan 07, 2021
Outstanding Paper Award at ISOCC 2020
Electrical Engineering PhD student Yixuan He and ECE Professor Yong-Bin Kim received an outstanding paper award from 2020 IEEE International Soc Design Conference for their paper “An Ultra Low Power Tunable Bump Circuit using Source-Degenerated Differential Transconductor.”
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Jan 07, 2021
Kim Awarded South Korean Patent for Autonomous Impedance Calibration on Semiconductor Devices
ECE Professor Yong-Bin Kim was awarded a South Korean Patent for creating an “Impedance calibration device for semiconductor device.”
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Jan 07, 2021
Lin Wins U.S. DOT Inclusive Design Challenge
Assistant Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin, electrical and computer engineering, in collaboration with University of Maine Professor Nicholas Giudice, won the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Inclusive Design Challenge for their project “Autonomous Vehicle Assistant (Ava): Ride-Hailing and Localization for the Future of Accessible Mobility” and received a $300K Stage I cash prize and advanced to […]
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Jan 06, 2021
Yeh named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh has been named IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2021-2022. Professor Yeh will deliver lectures on topics including data-centric network architectures, optimal caching, edge computing, wireless network optimization, and data-intensive science and engineering.
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Jan 06, 2021
Wang organized the SpicyFL workshop at NeurIPS 2020
Yanzhi Wang, assistant professor at ECE, organized the SpicyFL Workshop on Scalability, Privacy, and Security in Federated Learning, at NeurIPS 2020. The workshop has 7 keynote talks, 1 panel, 10 paper presentations, and over 30 lightning talks.
Dec 16, 2020
ECE PhD Student Won 1st Place for Best Presentation at WISE 2020
Computer Engineering PhD student Siyue Wang is the 1st place winner of the best presentation in the Fourth Workshop for Women in Hardware and Systems Security (WISE 2020). She presented her recent work on “Intrinsic Examples: Robust Fingerprinting of Deep Neural Networks” with her advisor Assistant Professor Shelley Xue Lin.
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Dec 14, 2020
Yeh to serve on Board of Governors of IEEE Information Theory Society
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh will serve as a voting member of the Board of Governors of IEEE Information Theory Society in the role of Treasurer, starting in January 2021.
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Dec 04, 2020
Best student paper at 8th IEEE Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics Conference
Bioengineering student Aleksei Krotov, PhD’24, received a Best Student Paper Award at the 8th IEEE Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics Conference.