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May 28, 2020
Harris Named Jefferson Science Fellow by the National Academies of Science and Engineering
University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor Vincent Harris, electrical and computer engineering, has been named a 2020-21 Jefferson Science Fellow.
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May 20, 2020
Leeser wins Best Paper for ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser’s paper on “FINN-R: An End-to-End Deep-Learning Framework for Fast Exploration of Quantized Neural Networks” won Best Paper for the 2020 year in ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems.
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May 20, 2020
Eduardo Sontag Gave Keynote Talk at 2020 European Control Conference
ECE/BioE Professor Eduardo Sontag gave the opening keynote talk on “Some Control Theory Ideas in Systems and Synthetic Biology” virtually at the 2020 European Control Conference at St Petersburg, Russia.
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May 07, 2020
$1M DARPA Grant for Signal Processing in Neural Networks for Wireless IoT
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, Assistant Professor Pau Closas, Professor Deniz Erdogmus, Professor Tommaso Melodia, and Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang received $1M funding from DARPA for their project titled Signal Processing in Neural Networks (SPiNN) for Wireless IoT.
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May 07, 2020
Rinaldi & Qian Awarded Patent Zero Power Plasmonic MEMS
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Research Assistant Professor Zhenyun Qian were awarded a patent for “Zero power plasmonic microelectromechanical device”.
Apr 29, 2020
2020 COE Co-op Awardees
The COE Co-op Team is proud to announce the 2020 Co-op Award winners.
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Apr 28, 2020
ECE Graduate Student Awarded Chateaubriand Fellowship
Electrical engineering PhD student Jared Miller, PhD’23, was awarded a 2020-2021 Chateaubriand Fellowship.
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Apr 28, 2020
Kane Receives $2.2M Department of Energy Grant for Flexible Building Technologies
The US Department of Energy awarded CEE Assistant Professor Michael Kane (PI), CAMD/CEE Assistant Professor David Fannon, and ECE affiliated faculty Misha Pavel $2.2M to create an open dataset characterizing occupant-centric control of grid-interactive efficient buildings.