News Highlights
The latest updates and briefs from the Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering.
Nathan Swami Earns Midcareer Award for Scholarly Contributions in Electrokinetics
March 30, 2021 mkw3a@virginia.eduNathan Swami, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, has earned the AES Electrophoresis Society 2021 Midcareer award for scholarly contributions to the electrokinetics field.
Applied Physics Letters Editors Highlight Paper First-authored by Shelby Fields
March 09, 2021 mkw3a@virginia.eduKudos to Shelby Fields, University of Virginia Ph.D. student of materials science and engineering, who first-authored a collaborative research paper published and selected as an “editor’s pick” in Applied Physics Letters.
Homa Alemzadeh Aids Successful Kick-off Event for IFIP WG10.4’s Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security Project
February 12, 2021 mkw3a@virginia.eduHoma Alemzadeh, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, shared her expertise in resilient cyber-physical systems with members of the International Federation for Information Processing during the winter meeting of its Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.
Novel Data Mining Method Identifies Most Promising Drugs to Treat COVID-19
February 10, 2021 mkw3a@virginia.eduNikolaos Sidiropoulos, Louis T. Rader Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, and his collaborators are developing novel data mining and artificial intelligence methods to help in the fight against COVID-19.
Model Predicts Hospitalizations 10-15 Days Ahead with Improved Accuracy
January 28, 2021 mkw3a@virginia.eduNikolaos Sidiropoulos, Louis T. Rader Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, and his collaborators have developed models and methods to predict the evolution of epidemic trends for many regions simultaneously. This helps public health officials and hospital administrators manage scarce resources such as respirators and intensive care unit beds needed for COVID-19 response.
Jundong Li’s Graph Mining Research Aims to Reduce Bias in Decision-Making
January 19, 2021 mkw3a@virginia.eduJundong Li, University of Virginia assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering with joint appointments in computer science and the School of Data Science, shared advancements in graph mining at the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, January 7-15.
Benton H. Calhoun Elected IEEE Fellow for Pioneering Design of Ultra-low-power Circuits
December 03, 2020The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has elected Benton H. Calhoun as a fellow for original and fundamental contributions in integrated circuit design. Calhoun, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, specializes in energy-efficient, sub-threshold circuit design and applications that enable self-powered wireless sensing systems. These wireless sensing nodes are so low power that they no longer need to use batteries. Instead, they operate on power harvested from their environment.
Homa Alemzadeh and Research Team Present CognitiveEMS Research at NIST Annual Meeting
November 12, 2020Homa Alemzadeh and her research team have come a long way since winning a $1.1 million grant in 2018 to build an artificial intelligence assistant to help first responders make good decisions during emergency situations. As first reported in 2018, the project’s goal is to develop a wearable, voice-activated assistant that collects sound data from the incident scene and, in response, provides dynamic feedback that would help the responder by suggesting appropriate medical interventions.
Xu Yi Earns Young Investigator Award for Groundbreaking Photonics Research
November 05, 2020 mkw3a@virginia.eduXu Yi, University of Virginia assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has earned a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to conduct groundbreaking research in photonics.
A Superconducting Journey to a Black Hole and Beyond
November 01, 2020 mkw3a@virginia.eduUntil recently, the evidence for black holes had only been obtained indirectly; however, a large black hole consisting of 6.5 billion solar masses and residing 55 million light years away has now been imaged using superconducting detectors. This was a remarkable and common-culture captivating discovery requiring an “integrated telescope” collecting measurements from many radio astronomy observatories and an international cast of collaborating scientists and engineers. Tune in to the Applied Superconductivity Conference to hear Art Lichtenberger’s story within the story.