News Highlights
The latest updates and briefs from the Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering.
The latest updates and briefs from the Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering.
Bingtian Guo, a Ph.D. student of electrical engineering, has earned a UVA Engineering endowed graduate fellowship to support his research focused on avalanche photodiodes (APDs) fabricated from two antimony-based quaternary materials, AlxIn1-xAsySb1-y and AlxGa1-xAsySb1-y.
Emily Parnell, a fourth-year student of computer engineering, presented her theoretical study in photonics at the 2022 Frontiers in Optics-Laser Sciences, a flagship conference convened by Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America.
Chengshuai Shi, a Ph.D. student of electrical engineering, has earned a UVA Engineering endowed graduate fellowship that supports his research in machine learning to benefit real-world communication systems.
Barry Johnson is taking on the challenge of accelerating the transitioning of technology from basic research into commercial markets.
Jundong Li joins research effort funded by National Science Foundation's Strengthening American Infrastructure Program.
Md Golam Morshed, a Ph.D. student of electrical engineering, has joined the search for high-speed, high-density, low energy consumption memory technology.
UVA ECE welcomes new faculty member Caroline Crockett, who brings engineering education research and electrical engineering expertise to the Department’s teaching faculty. Crockett earned her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in May 2022. It’s a homecoming for Crockett, who earned her Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from UVA in 2015.
UVA ECE congratulates Ph.D. students Chengshuai Shi and Beichen Wang, who have earned a McVey Fellowship. The Department’s award honors Professor Eugene S. McVey’s seminal contributions to the field of electrical engineering and his dedication to teaching and mentoring UVA students and junior faculty.
Ph.D. students Antonios Valavanis, Anustup Chakraborty and Julissa Velasquez traveled to Isola di San Servolo this July to participate in the 7th Venice International School in Lasers in Material Science. A total of 38 Ph.D. students — including the three UVA and five other students from the United States — completed the intensive biennial summer program.
Congratulations to Jing Ma and her co-authors who earned the best research paper award at KDD ’22, a premier scientific conference in knowledge discovery and data mining.