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Jan 09, 2024
Su Receives NSF CAREER Award To Strengthen Federated Learning
ECE Assistant Professor Lili Su was awarded a $611,000 NSF CAREER award for “Strengthening the Theoretical Foundations of Federated Learning: Utilizing Underlying Data Statistics in Mitigating Heterogeneity and Client Faults.”
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Jan 04, 2024
Dy Elected AAAI Fellow
ECE/Khoury Professor Jennifer Dy was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for significant contributions to unsupervised and interpretable machine learning, advancing AI to address health-care challenges, and service to the AI community.
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Dec 19, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Mallesham Dasari
Mallesham Dasari joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in January 2024 as an Assistant Professor.
Dec 19, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Fatema Nafa
Fatema Nafa joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in January 2024 as an Associate Teaching Professor.
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Dec 19, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Xuan (Silvia) Zhang
Xuan (Silvia) Zhang joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in January 2024 as an Associate Professor.
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Dec 15, 2023
Capstone Students Design Robotic Boat to Combat Invasive Plant
Engineering capstone students built an autonomous robotic boat equipped with a hyperspectral camera to map the invasive hydrilla plant and help scientists control its spread in Connecticut waters. The project is a collaboration between the electrical engineering department, the mechanical engineering department, the Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles Research Lab, and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Dec 12, 2023
Fu Elected as Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Technical and Environmental Sciences class. The Academy’s mission is to stimulate cross-disciplinary collaboration between reputable scientists of all disciplines, leading artists, and practitioners of governance.
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Dec 12, 2023
Fu Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was selected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.