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Jul 28, 2020
Patent for Analyzing Facial Features for the Cosmetics Industry
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was awarded a patent for “System for beauty, cosmetic, and fashion analysis”.
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Jul 28, 2020
ECE Team Wins Facebook Research Award
ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis is leading a team with Professors Jennifer Dy and Deniz Erdoğmuş, that won a highly competitive Facebook Research Award with their project “Learning from Comparisons”.
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Jul 23, 2020
Developing VLF Magnetoelectric Antennas for Communication Systems
ECE Professor Nian X. Sun was awarded a patent for creating a “Magnetoelectric very low frequency communication system.”
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Jul 15, 2020
Creating High Performance and Reliable Storage Systems
ECE Associate Professor Ningfang Mi, in collaboration with Florida International University, was awarded a $500K NSF grant for “New Techniques for I/O Behavior Modeling and Persistent Storage Device Configuration”.
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Jul 15, 2020
Tadigadapa Recipient of 2020 IEEE Sensors Council Meritorious Service Award
ECE Professor and Chair Srinivas Tadigadapa is the recipient of the 2020 IEEE Sensors Council Meritorious Service Award for his outstanding long-term service to the IEEE Sensors Council.
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Jul 14, 2020
Jornet Awarded $900K NSF Grant to Help Further 6G Possibilities
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet was recently awarded a $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be part of a collaborative project ($2.7 million total) focused on developing new Terahertz (THz) devices and their control algorithms.
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Jul 14, 2020
NU Prof. Awarded Air Force Grant for Terahertz Comms Research
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet was awarded an AFRL grant for “Protocol Stack Design for Frequency-agile Ultra-broadband Airborne Networks in the THz Band,” and aims to design, analyze, and experimentally demonstrate new THz communication protocols for airborne networks.
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Jul 10, 2020
Prof. Edmund Yeh Speaks at Brown University
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh gave a Data Science Initiative Special Seminar at Brown University about recent developments in data-centric network architectures and algorithms, and their application to large-scale data-intensive science networks and 5G wireless edge networks.