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.
Cong Shen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia School of Engineering, earned the best paper award in signal processing for communications at the International Conference on Communications—the annual flagship event of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society.
Nathan 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.
Kudos 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, 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.
Nikolaos 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.
Nikolaos 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, 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.
The 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 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, 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.