The research and development team led by Prof. Nanpeng Yu, postdoctoral researcher (Dr. Wenyu Wang) and PhD student (Zuzhao Ye) won the American-Made Digitizing Utilities Grand Prize with $300,000 cash prize from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Electricity. The U.S. DOE’s Digitizing Utilities Prize aims at connecting utilities with teams of data...

Title: "Enabling Reliable Batteryless Real-Time Sensing"

Title: "Scene Understanding for Autonomous Robotic Systems Inferring Physical Interaction" "Application to Assistive Robotics & Precision Agriculture"

Title: "Technical and Economic Assessment of Transportation Electrification in Heavy-Duty On-Road and Off-Road Applications"

ECE Professors Hyoseung Kim (PI), Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Jay Farrell, and Konstantinos Karydis have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop Attention-Driven Software Architecture for Integrated Perception and Planning in Autonomous Agents. While significant progress has been made in developing autonomous systems, effectively processing and making sense of vast amounts...

Title: "The Sample Complexity of Learning Dynamical Systems"

Title: "Biomolecules and Volatile Organic Compounds"

Title: "Advancing Real-Time GPU Scheduling: Energy Efficiency and Preemption Strategies"

Title: "Learning-Augmented Online Decision Making with Guaranteed Trustworthiness"

Title: "Learning to Adapt across Distribution and User Constraint Shifts for Static and Dynamic Tasks"

Title: " Toward Compliant Autonomous Robots that Leverage Physical Interactions with the Environment"

Title: "Data-Driven Modeling and Control via Koopman Operator Theory in Robotic Systems"

Title: "Preparation and Characterization of Composites with the Fillers Comprised of Low-Dimensional van der Waals Materials"

Title: "Superconducting Multilayer VIA"

Title: "A Connected Automation Enabled Cooperative Management Framework for Mixed Traffic"

Title: "Personalized Behavior-Aware Motion Planning Framework for Intelligent Vehicles Operation"

Yitian Wang, a Ph.D. student from the Xi Chen group in Electrical and Computer Engineering, won the Recommended Oral Presentation prize at the 2023 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting Symposium CH03: Neutron Scattering-Enabled Energy Materials Design. The MRS meeting is the world’s foremost international scientific gathering for materials research. Wang's talk, "Intrinsically low thermal...

Title: "Sensing Approaches and Reconstruction Methods for Improved Lensless Imaging"

ECE Professor and Bourns Faculty Fellow Prof. Amit Roy-Chowdhury has recently received an Amazon Research Award on "Exploring privacy in deep metric learning: applications in computer vision". Deep Metric Learning (DML) aims to learn representations on which semantic relations can be expressed through predefined distance metrics. Despite its prevalence in a wide variety of privacy...

Title: "Nanofabrication and Testing of 1T-TaS2 Charge-Density-Wave Quantum Devices"