News & Events

Assistant Professor Qiang Lin receives $400,000, five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant from NSF

December 30, 2013

Congratulations to Qiang Lin, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Optics, for receiving a $400,000, five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant from the National Science Foundation. This is one of the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of their organization's mission. The grant will help Qiang's research on exploring transformative approaches for generating high-purity entangled photonic quantum states, on a silicon chip, that are capable of diverse applications for both long-haul quantum communication and on-chip integrated quantum computing. Well done, Qiang!

Congratulations to Jeremy Hassett '16 on receiving The Iota Book Award

December 5, 2013

Jeremy Warner '15 - IEEE Power and Energy Society Scholarship Plus Initiative award recipient

October 14, 2013

Congratulations to Jeremy Warner '15, a member of Professor. Wendi Heinzelman's Wireless  Communications and Networking Group in Electrical and Computer Engineering, for being named a recipient of an IEEE Power and Energy Society Scholarship Plus Initiative award.  These awards are given to high-achieving undergraduates in electrical engineering programs who are committed to exploring the power and energy engineering field through both coursework and career experiences. Winners of this award receive up to three years of financial support and gain career experience through internships and co-op work.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Profile of Professor Wendi Heinzelman, Woman to Watch

October 1, 2013

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Wendi Heinzelman is a featured profile in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Woman to Watch series.

Professor Jack Mottley receives the 2013 IEEE Outstanding Teaching in an Area of Interest Award

September 3, 2013

Congratulations to Professor Jack Mottley who received the 2013 IEEE Region 1 Outstanding Teaching Award. This award is for outstanding teaching excellence in research and design of electrical engineering courses for over thirty-five years. Well deserved! 

Professor Zhiyao Duan joins the ECE Department

July 29, 2013

Congratulations to Rohit Nayak and Himanshu Shekhar, ECE PhD students in Prof. Marvin Doyley's group.

July 28, 2013

 Congratulations to Rohit Nayak and Himanshu Shekhar, Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD students in Prof. Marvin Doyley's group. They have both been accepted into the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Med-into-Grad Fellowship in Cardiovascular Science. This program augments traditional PhD training with clinical rotations, a clinical co-mentor, a weekly Cardiovascular Research Institute seminar series, and translational cardiovascular coursework to train the next generation of bench-to-bedside cardiovascular scientists.

Professor Eby Friedman to receive the Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award

April 10, 2013

Professor Eby Friedman, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will fly to Beijing in May to receive the Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award from the Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society of the IEEE. The award honors exceptional technical contributions to a field within the scope of the CAS Society that have been consistently evident over a period of years. Contributions are documented by publications (including but not limited to patents) and based on originality and continuity of effort. Eby's achievements in the field of high performance integrated circuit design include a high citation rate, over 400 publications, 16 books, 12 patents and many examples of how his research has impacted the semiconductor industry, including multiple products developed by many companies.

Marvin Doyley Article Selected by the Journal Physics in Medicine and Biology

February 26, 2013

Congratulations to Marvin Doyley, assistant professor in ECE. His article on "Model-based elastography: a survey of approaches to the inverse elasticity problem," was selected by the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology for its "Highlights of 2012" collection. The articles and papers in this collection "span some of the most cutting-edge areas of biomedical physics." Good work, Marvin!

IEEE Micro Selects UR Computer Architecture Paper as One of the Year's Most Significant Contributions

January 23, 2013

A paper published by Prof. Engin Ipek and his student Mahdi N. Bojnordi has been selected by IEEE Micro as one of this year's 11 most significant research  papers in computer architecture based on novelty and long term impact. Each year, the Top Picks awards recognize those significant and insightful papers that have the potential to influence the work of computer architects for years to come. Ipek and Bojnordi's paper, "PARDIS: A Programmable Memory Controller for the DDRx Interfacing Standards," aims at improving memory system performance using a new class of programmable and versatile memory controllers, and was originally published at the 39th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-39).