Recent News
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Stephen Wu Recieves Curtis Award for Teaching Excellence
May 19, 2022
CURTIS AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE
Continue ReadingStudents inducted to Phi Beta Kappa
May 9, 2022
Congratulations to these students who were recently inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic honor society. Inductees are chosen based on exceptional academic performance and a letter of recommendation from a faculty or staff member. Particularly strong candidates are elected as juniors, the rest as seniors. (Note: many of these students are also completing majors outside the Hajim School.)
Continue ReadingSenior engineering students show their work
May 3, 2022
SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED: Thang C Le (right) demonstrates his team’s autonomously controlled robot, which combines several sensors and modules to safely navigate buildings on campus as it delivers packages.
Continue ReadingTianwei Jiang ’22 and Zilin Zeng ’22 of audio and music engineering receive the Professors’ Choice Award
April 25, 2022
As another academic year draws to an end, we have so many student achievements to recognize! For example, 13 research projects involving Hajim students were presented at the Speakers Symposium and poster session at this year’s Undergraduate Research Exposition. In addition, eight of our Grand Challenges Scholars showed their posters. You can see the posters of undergraduate researchers from across AS&E and the Medical Center at the Expo’s digital website.
Continue ReadingAndrew Hahn, PhD student, honored with Edward Peck Curtis Award
April 19, 2022
The University’s Edward Peck Curtis Awards for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student is given to a small number of full-time graduate students who have a role in undergraduate education. Recipients have assisted in undergraduate instruction and have had significant face-to-face interaction with undergraduates in the classroom or laboratory.
Continue ReadingRochester Engineering Society Awards
April 11, 2022
The 2021 Recognition Awards by the Rochester Engineering Society
Continue ReadingSmart acoustic devices: coming soon to a screen near you?
April 1, 2022
A Rochester team including Ben Kevelson ’22, pictured, is using flat-panel technology to build a more cost-effective smart device that can also function as a touch interface. The team is led by Michael Heilemann, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.
Continue ReadingEvelyn Ferwalt ’23 Recognized with Research Initiative Award
March 7, 2022
Evelyn Ferwalt ’23 of electrical and computer engineering received the runner-up prize, in this year’s Research Initiative Awards, These awards, created by the Friends of University of Rochester Libraries, are given to students working on capstone or independent research projects or senior theses. The awards recognize excellence in the early phases of research, which includes working with faculty and librarians.
Continue ReadingElectrical engineering alumnus Kevin Klem ’80 and mentorship
January 18, 2022
Electrical engineering alumnus Kevin Klem ’80, a participant in the Meliora Collective Mentorship Program, is an example of the wonderful mentors who draw on their own experiences to provide our Hajim students with invaluable career advice. Just ask Charles Pan ’22 of mechanical engineering and Rose McDonogh ’21 of electrical and computer engineering, now pursuing her master’s degree here. Both have benefited from Kevin’s insights.
Continue ReadingBruce Arden, former dean of engineering, dies at 94
January 11, 2022
“Luck ushered me into digital computing,” Bruce Arden wrote in a memoir shared with his friends and family.
Continue ReadingProfessor Gonzalo Mateos selected for the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society
January 10, 2022
Gonzalo Mateos, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Asaro Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science, who has been selected for the 2021 IEEE SPS (Signal Processing Society) Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award “for contributions to distributed, online and robust signal processing over networks.” The award is presented to an individual who, over a period of years in his or her early career, has made significant technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society.
Continue ReadingTanzeem Choudhury ’97 has been named a fellow of ACM
December 31, 2021
Electrical engineering alumna Tanzeem Choudhury ’97 has been named a fellow of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), the world’s largest and most prestigious society of computing professionals, for contributions to mobile systems for behavioral sensing and health interventions. Tanzeem, who was an exemplary undergraduate here, is now the Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology at Cornell Tech and co-founder of HealthRythms Inc. She was named one of 35 top innovators under 35 by MIT’s Technology Review. Tanzeem is an outspoken advocate for gender equity.
Continue ReadingECE PhD student, Shadi Sartipi, received the IEEE Brain Best Paper Award
December 13, 2021
Shadi Sartipi, is a PhD student in the research group of Mujdat Cetin, professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Robin and Tim Wentworth Director, Goergen Institute for Data Science. Shadi received the IEEE Brain Best Paper Award for her paper, “EEG Emotion Recognition via Graph-based Spatio-Temporal Attention Neural Networks.”
Continue ReadingRuihan Xu, an ECE sophomore, is a recipient of the 2021 Suzanne J. O'Brien Book Award
December 1, 2021
Ruihan Xu, an ECE sophomore, is a recipient of the 2021 Suzanne J. O'Brien Book Award. The award is cosponsored by the Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and the College at the University of Rochester. It was first conceived and presented in 2003 as a way of recognizing excellence at the very beginning of a student’s college experience. Awardees are selected for their scholarly achievement, humanistic values, cocurricular activity, and leadership potential.
Continue ReadingTumor shrinkage is one sign of cancer treatment’s efficacy—but Rochester scientists are exploring elasticity and permeability as well.
November 19, 2021
The insidiousness of pancreatic cancer is how it develops without showing any definitive symptoms. In most cases, by the time it is diagnosed, it is beyond cure.
Continue ReadingQiang Lin, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and PhD students in his lab, generate an incredibly large bandwidth using a thin-film nanophotonic device they’ve created
November 8, 2021
Qiang Lin, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and PhD students in his lab have taken advantage of quantum entanglement to generate an incredibly large bandwidth using a thin-film nanophotonic device they’ve created. The breakthrough, described in Physical Review Letters, could lead to:
Continue ReadingDistinguished Alumnus Award
October 25, 2021
The Hajim Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient this year is Robert Ter Tsu Huang ’70 (MS) ’76 (MA) of electrical engineering, the founder of SYNNEX Corp. Robert is generously supporting efforts to promote the University of Rochester, and connect its alumni, parents, and friends nationwide, through the Huang Series in Technology and Innovation program. The series included a great zoom session recently on Ranga Dias’ groundbreaking work on superconducting materials, with good attendance and lots of questions. And a panel discussion in March on the applications data of science is another good example. The series is a wonderful way to encourage support and engagement from our University community. Robert distinguished himself as SYNNEX president and co-CEO for nearly 30 years, then worked closely with the company to create a lasting legacy of scholarships for college students. We are deeply grateful for his generosity.
Continue ReadingOutstanding Student - Muhammed El-Sayed ’22
October 18, 2021
Studio X, a newly opened space in the Carlson Science and Engineering Library, will be a great place for our students and faculty to explore, collaborate, and engage in peer-to-peer tutoring in the latest extended reality (XR) technologies. This month’s outstanding student, Muhammed El-Sayed ’22 of electrical and computer engineering, will play an important role in making that happen. He is one of three 2021 studentKarp Library Fellows who will help River Campus Libraries develop programs and outreach for Studio X.
Continue ReadingAlumnus John McNeill ’91 (MS) named the Bernard M. Gordon Dean of Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
August 16, 2021
Congratulations to electrical engineering alumnus John McNeill ’91 (MS) who has been named the Bernard M. Gordon Dean of Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). John, who has been serving as interim dean since 2018, joined the faculty at WPI in 1994 after working in industry. He has received multiple awards for outstanding teaching, and is an expert in biomedical sensing, jitter (noise) in integrated oscillators, and digitally assisted calibration of analog-to-digital converters used in low-power sensor systems. Read more.
Continue ReadingMark Bocko Collaboration of Mobile Health Device
July 26, 2021
A version of a mobile device first developed by Mark Bocko, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in collaboration with Hyekyun Rhee, professor of nursing, is now undergoing clinical trials as a research tool to detect advance indicators of chronic respiratory disease symptoms. ADAMM-RSM is produced by Health Care Originals Inc. which licensed the ADAMM technology originally developed by Mark and Hyekyun as a personal device adolescents could wear to better manage their asthma.
Continue ReadingGaurav Sharma has received the 2021 Raymond C. Bowman Award by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T)
July 18, 2021
Congratulations to Professor Gaurav Sharma who has received the 2021 Raymond C. Bowman Award by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) for “educating, mentoring, and increasing our knowledge of color imaging and science through university classes, conference short courses, and academic journals”.
Continue ReadingProfessor Mujdat Cetin appointed next editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging
July 6, 2021
Mujdat Cetin, professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Robin and Tim Wentworth Director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science, who has been appointed as the next editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. He will serve in this role for three years starting on January 1, 2022. The journal publishes articles where computation plays an integral role in the image formation process. This is a wonderful recognition for Mujdat from his colleagues.
Continue ReadingECE PhD student Raiyan Abdul Baten featured by ResearchGate
June 17, 2021
Congratulations to ECE PhD student, Raiyan Abdul Baten, who is now being featured by ResearchGate as an inspiring research story of his work in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (ROC-HCI) at the University of Rochester!
Continue ReadingThe Department Remembers Professor Charles Merriam III
June 16, 2021
Charles Merriam III, a former electrical engineering chair and faculty member, passed away in August 2020 at the age of 89. Charles joined the department in 1971 to serve as chair of the Electrical Engineering Department. He was chair for more than a decade and thereafter remained a professor. Famous for his demanding teaching style, Chuck was beloved by colleagues and students alike for his devotion to excellence in education and teaching. He served on several university committees and wrote several engineering textbooks. Chuck considered being named a Fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) his highest academic honor. He retired from the University of Rochester after 30 years in 2001 at age 70. Read more about Charles here.
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