News & Events

ECE Professor Qiang Lin Receives Inaugural Leonard Mandel Award

December 5, 2014

Qiang Lin, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and optics at the University of Rochester, has been named the first Leonard Mandel Faculty Fellow. The award, which includes a two-year, $25,000 stipend, recognizes exceptional achievement by a junior faculty member in coherence and quantum optics.

Recent ECE Ph.D. graduate, Himanshu Shekhar, awarded the Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics

November 17, 2014

Himanshu Shekhar, who finished his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering here earlier this year, has been awarded the very prestigious Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics from the Acoustical Society of America for 2015-2016. Himanshu completed his doctoral work in Prof. Marvin  Doyley’s group, working on high frequency ultrasound imaging. The Hunt Fellowship was established by the Acoustical Society of America to honor the legacy of the late Prof. Frederick Vinton Hunt of Harvard University. Himanshu received one of two Hunt fellowships which were awarded this year for his proposal  titled  “Ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery for treating vascular disease.” He will complete this research in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, working with Prof. Christy Holland.

Rochester ECE students recognized in the Acoustical Society of America’s Student Challenge Problem in Acoustic Signal Processing

November 5, 2014

Sahar Hashemgeloogerdi, a Rochester ECE Ph.D. student, was awarded third place in the Acoustical Society of America’s International Student Challenge Problem in Acoustic Signal Processing.  Sarah Smith and Michael Heilemann, also Ph.D. Students in ECE, were recognized as finalists in the competition.  The ASA International Student Challenge Problem program reflects the society's commitment to educating the new generation of acoustic scientists and engineers, and was conceived to “give students the opportunity to distinguish themselves by solving a challenging problem in acoustic signal processing.”  Congratulations Sahar, Sarah and Michael! 

Jeremy Warner '15 & Aaron Lim '17 IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative award recipients

October 17, 2014

Congratulations to Jeremy Warner'15 and Aaron Lim '17 for being named as recipients of an IEEE Power and Energy Society Scholarship Plus Initiative award. Recipients of IEEE PES engineering scholarships are high achieving undergraduate students in electrical engineering who have committed  to exploring the power and energy fields through both coursework and career experiences. These students will graduate with the knowledge and skills  necessary to begin making an impact across the power and energy industry. These students are the very individuals who will one day develop new green technologies, build the smart grid and change the way we generate and utilize power.

The Eastman Medal awarded to Prof. Kevin J. Parker and Theophano Mitsa, former PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering

October 6, 2014

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Rohit Nayak awarded 2nd Place for Best Student Oral Presentation Awards at the 2014 International Tissue Elasticity Conference

September 22, 2014

Rohit Nayak, a Ph.D. candidate in Prof. Marvin Doyley's lab, was awarded Second Place in the Best Student Oral Presentation Awards at the 2014 International Tissue Elasticity Conference in Snowbird, Utah, earlier this month. His presentation -- co-authored by Prof. Doyley and Ph.D. candidate Prashant Verma -- was titled "Multi-element synthetic aperture vascular elastography for carotid imaging."

Prof. Wendi Heinzelman tests app for donating excess space on cellphones

July 14, 2014

Wendi Heinzelman, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and our Dean of Graduate Studies, is testing a computer application, called the Green Energy Mobile Cloud, that allows volunteers to donate extra space on their Androids for research. The app was developed by He Ba, an Electrical and Computer Engineering grad student, while doing an internship for UCB Pharma. You can read more about this project, and other efforts to expand donated computer time, at this Democrat and Chronicle article.

Engin Ipek to receive the 2014 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award

May 28, 2014

Congratulations to Engin Ipek, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science, who has been selected to receive the 2014 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award "in recognition of outstanding research contributions for computer architectures that leverage emerging technologies." The award will be presented next month.

Prof. Wendi Heinzelman recently spent 24 hours aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier

May 28, 2014

Wendi Heinzelman, Dean of Graduate Studies for Arts, Sciences and Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently spent 24 hours aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. Here are the insights she shared with Hajim School graduates at the school's Diploma Ceremony on Sunday, May 18, 2014.

Prof. Roman Sobolewski will be a visiting scientist at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in the Republic of Korea

May 12, 2014

Roman Sobolewski, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, is a visiting scientist at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in the Republic of Korea through May 20. He is giving two seminars and exploring closer collaboration between our institutions. These visits often prove to be very fruitful. Thanks, Roman, for representing us at Gwangju.

ECE Freshman Justin Fraumeni is a first place winner in the 2014 Undergraduate Writing Colloquium

May 5, 2014

     Justin Fraumeni, a freshman in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is a first place winner in the 2014 Undergraduate Writing Colloquium for his "Music and Artificial Intelligence: A Creative Combination?" It was written for Language as Window into the Mind (WRT105), instructor Whitney-Gegg Harrison.

Professor Robert Waag honored in a special "Festschrift" issue of the journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

March 7, 2014

It is a pleasure to announce the publication of a special "Festschrift" issue of the journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, in honor of the extraordinary scientific research and technical accomplishments of Professor Robert Waag in the areas of medical imaging, biomedical ultrasound, and acoustics. Bob has a track record of analytical rigor and visionary insight that extends over 40 years and is without peer, so this special Festschrift issue is well deserved.

Andy Brink - first ECE student to sign up for the AME program on track to be the first to graduate with BS degree in AME this May

March 5, 2014

ECE Ph.D. student Xiaochen Guo recipient of a 2nd prestigious IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award.

February 19, 2014

Congratulations to ECE Ph.D. student Xiaochen Guo! She has been selected as one of the recipients of the intensely competitive 2014-2015 IBM Ph.D. fellowship. This is a second IBM award for Xiaochen having won in 2012-2013.

Professors Eby Friedman and Engin Ipek are co-PIs on a new project funded by the iARPA

February 14, 2014

Professors Eby Friedman and Engin Ipek are co-PIs on a project to leverage superconducting electronics to design the next generation of high performance, energy efficient datacenters. The project, funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (iARPA), is a joint effort with Raytheon BBN technologies, Hypres Inc., New York University, Cornell, and MIT.  The project will explore a novel memory solution as part of the iARPA’s Cryogenic Computing Complexity program.

Elizabeth Bradley ’14 - selected to present her abstract at NCUR 2014 at the University of Kentucky

January 16, 2014