News & Events

Three ECE Professors Win NSF Awards

October 1, 2008

Assistant Professors Hanan Dery, Michael Huang, and Hui Wu (left to right, below) recently won NSF awards to pursue their research over the next few years. Dr. Dery's NSF award supports his spintronics work. Dr. Huang's NSF CAREER award supports his research into a computer architecture design that improves computer speed by decoupling performance from correct instruction execution. Dr. Wu's NSF award supports his project, 3D-Integrated Intra-Chip Free-Space Optical Interconnect for Future Multi-Core SoCs.

"Rochester Cube" First to Synchronize 3D Circuit

September 15, 2008

The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running at 1.4 gigahertz at the University of Rochester.

Michael Huang Receives Tenure

August 1, 2008

Michael Huang received tenure on July 1, 2008. He received the BS degree in computer science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1994, the MS and the PhD degree in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and 2002, respectively. From 1994 to 1997, he was a lead architect in building a 32-processor hierarchical shared-memory multiprocessor. He joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in 2002. His research interests include various aspects of high-performance computer architecture such as processor microarchitecture, communication and memory substrate, reliability, and energy-efficient and complexity-effective design. His research focuses on addressing emerging issues and exploring new technologies in the underlying device, circuit, and manufacturing technology. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

Gaurav Sharma Named Director of Center for Electronic Imaging Systems (CEIS)

July 17, 2008

Effective July 1, Gaurav Sharma assumed the role of Director of CEIS. Sharma is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester with an adjunct appointment in Biostatics and Computational Biology. He has served within CEIS as Associate Director, Technical Interface, since September 2007. Previously, Sharma was Principal Scientist and Project Leader with Xerox Research and Technology. His technical interests include multimedia security, image processing, and signal processing for bioinformatics/communications.

Michael Huang Wins NSF CAREER Award

May 12, 2008

Assistant Professor Michael Huang of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has won a $350,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support his research into a computer architecture design that improves computer speed by decoupling performance from correct instruction execution. The Award is one of the most prized honors that a young faculty member can receive and recognizes a strong commitment to both innovative research and teaching.

Enabling Low-Power Visual Sensor Networks

February 16, 2008

Professors in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Rochester have created wireless networks of low-power cameras that save vast amounts of energy. Their work is part of an NSF-sponsored $1.2 million project called "Being There" that is developing tiny, low-power, wireless video cameras that work together to produce high-quality video to provide the sense of "being there" for remote telepresence applications such as entertainment, education, and collaboration. Other potential applications of the team's discoveries include identification and tracking of military soldiers and equipment, livestock, and information-gathering robots on other planets; tracking the health of the disabled, ill, or elderly; and monitoring borders, machines, the activities of people, and places.

ECE Music Program

February 15, 2008

For many years, ECE has supported research and courses that intersect engineering with music, and in fact, the collaboration between the Department and the Eastman School of Music seemed natural to Chair Mark Bocko as long ago as 1993. It was back then that Professor Bocko began working with Eastman's Professor David Headlam, who integrates technology into his research in music. Today, Bocko and Headlam are co-directors of the ECE-Eastman Music Research Lab (MRL) with other faculty including ECE Professor Edward Titlebaum, ECE Professor Jack Mottley, and Eastman Professor David Temperley.

Hanan Dery Honored as a Scientific American Top 50 Technical Leader of 2007

January 1, 2008

Recent Recipients of ECE PhD Degrees

January 1, 2008

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering currently has about 140 graduate students and between 80 and 100 undergraduate ECE students. More than a dozen students have received their PhD degrees from the Department during the last couple of years.