News
Jun 22, 2020
Designing Efficient Stochastic Computing-based Neural Networks
ECE Professor Fabrizio Lombardi, in collaboration with George Washington University, was awarded a 4-year $600K NSF MEDIUM grant for “Neural-Network-based Stochastic Computing Architectures with applications to Machine Learning”.
Jun 21, 2020
Yanzhi Wang Receives Army Young Investigator Award to Bring Deep Neural Network Machine Learning to Mobile Devices
ECE Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang has been awarded a prestigious Young Investigator Program Award from the Army Research Office (ARO) on ultra-efficient, real-time DNN acceleration on mobile platforms. The ARO YIP is awarded to outstanding scientists beginning their independent careers to attract them to pursue fundamental research in areas relevant to the Army, to support their research in these areas, and to encourage their teaching and research careers.
Jun 15, 2020
Producing Ultra-High Performing and Energy-Efficient Electronics
ECE Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang, in collaboration with Massoud Pedram from the University of Southern California, was awarded a $500K NSF grant for “Advanced Circuits, Architectures and Design Automation Technologies for Energy-efficient Single Flux Quantum Logic.”
Jun 04, 2020
Developing ‘Off But Alert’ Wireless Sensors to Protect People and Assets from Fire
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Research Assistant Professor Zhenyun Qian was awarded a $550K NSF grant for “Zero-power Wireless Flame Detector for Ubiquitous Fire Monitoring.” They will be working with industrial partner United Technologies Corporation (UTC).
Jun 04, 2020
Tunable, Mid-Infrared Light Emitters
ECE Professor and Chair Srinivas Tadigadapa was awarded a $110K NSF EAGER grant for “Gate tunable thermo-plasmonic mid-IR coherent light emitters.”
Jun 04, 2020
Sensors to Detect COVID-19 Diagnosis Instantly
ECE Professor Nian Sun, in collaboration with Jeremy Luban from UMass Medical School, was awarded a $200K NSF RAPID grant for “COVID-19: New Handheld Gas Sensors for Airborne SARS-CoV-2 Virus: Instant COVID-19 Diagnosis from Exhaled Breath.”
Jun 03, 2020
Rinaldi and Cassella Awarded Patent for “Microelectromechanical Resonant Circulators”
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella were awarded a patent for “Microelectromechanical resonant circulator”.
Jun 01, 2020
Patent for Single Image Optical Sectioning
ECE Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio awarded a patent for “Methods, systems, and devices for optical sectioning”.