Three ECE faculty members were named Fellows in recognition to their contributions and extraordinary achievements to advancing science. Professor Albert Wang has been named Fellow of the National Academy for Inventors (NAI) for his incredible impact on the innovation sphere on a global scale. Professor Roger Lake and Professor Amit Roy-Chowdhury have been named IEEE...
Professor Alexander Balandin and Professor Wei Ren have been named to the 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list compiled by Clarivate Analytics, which was previously part of the Thomson Reuters. The list includes frequently cited researchers in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences, and recognizes “researchers whose citation records position them in the highest...
Professor Ming Liu received a three-year $400K grant (ECCS 1810453) from the National Science Foundation for developing tunneling field effector optoelectronic devices based on stacked 2D crystals with clean interfaces. Optical communication is based on converting electrical signals into optical signals by optoelectronic devices such as lasers and photodiodes. Devices based on conventional semiconductors such...
A team of faculty members from ECE received a three-year $895K GAANN grant from the Department of Education. The team comprises Ertem Tuncel (PI), Amit Roy-Chowdhury (Co-PI), Matt Barth (Co-PI), Nanpeng Yu (Co-PI), and Kostas Karydis (Co-PI). The GAANN (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) award is designed as a financial aid to fund...
Professor Daniel Wong (PI) and Distinguished Professor Laxmi Bhuyan (Co-PI) received a three-year $500K grant (CCF-1815643) from the National Science Foundation for developing new evaluation methodology to quantify heterogeneous server energy proportionality, container live migration support and strategies, and management for heterogeneous CPU and multi-accelerator systems. More information about this new award can be found...
ECE PhD student Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun is the first author of the paper that won the Best Paper Award at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2018.
UCR and BCOE have been awarded with two equipment grants from ARO and ONR led by faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. These are: (1) ARO DURIP – PI Karydis (Co-PIs: Roy-Chowdhury, Mourikis, Pasqualetti, Farrell); $350,000, to build an 100x50x30 ft outdoor motion tracking arena for robotics experimentation. (2) ONR DURIP –...
Professor Sheldon Tan (PI) received a three-year grant (CCF-1816361) from National Science for developing new optimization and runtime management techniques for more reliable and robust nanometer ICs. The project is titled “SHF:Small: EM-Aware Physical Design and Run-Time Optimization for sub-10nm 2D and 3D Integrated Circuits”. This is a three year project starting August 1st, 2018...
The paper by Ph.D. student Joe Khalife and Prof. Zak Kassas entitled "Precise UAV Navigation with Cellular Carrier Phase Measurements" won the IEEE Walter Fried Award for Best Paper at the IEEE/ION Position, Location, and Navigation Symposium (PLANS 2018).
Prof. Zak Kassas received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for his work on "Situational awareness strategies for autonomous systems in dynamic uncertain environments."
Congratulations to UCR students for winning an outstanding 2017 Chapter Award of the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Society. Lambda Sigma Chapter at UCR (past President Ingrid Liao, current President Daniel Dorr) is part of the honorary IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) society of IEEE ( http://www.hkn.org/admin/new_chapter.asp) This society was founded in October 1904 for students...
Mohammad A. Islam, a Ph.D. student in the ECE Department, will join the University of Texas, Arlington as an Assistant Professor. Mohammad’s Ph.D. dissertation falls in the general areas of cyber-physical systems, computer architecture and security, with a focus on data center security and efficiency.
Wei Ren, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCR BCOE, has been awarded the 2017 IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize for “pioneering contributions to distributed coordination and control of multi-agent systems”. The award recognizes distinguished cutting-edge contributions by a young researcher at or under the age of 40 to...
Wei Ren, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCR BCOE, has been awarded the 2017 IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize for “pioneering contributions to distributed coordination and control of multi-agent systems”. The award recognizes distinguished cutting-edge contributions by a young researcher at or under the age of 40 to...
ECE Assistant Professors Hyoseung Kim and Nanpeng Yu, and their graduate students, have won Best Paper Awards at conferences in their respective areas.
