![prof Jelena Vučković](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2024-01/JelenaPortrait-480x480.jpg?itok=4NMyaZ2P)
Jelena Vučković appointed as new External Scientific Member at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ)
This appointment is based on her scientific excellence and relationship to the institute.
![Dennis Rich (PhD candidate), Robert Radway (PhD candidate), and Tathagata Srimani (postdoc scholar)](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2024-01/vlsi-award-studentsWEB.jpg?itok=UjAQDOAY)
Dennis Rich, Robert Radway, and Tathagata Srimani receive Best Student Paper Award
The authors presented at the 2023 Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits.
![Professors Jon Fan and Ram Rajagopal l](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2024-01/jon-fan-ram-raja.jpg?itok=owmOIzj4)
Jonathan Fan and Ram Rajagopal’s energy projects get funding from Stanford’s Strategic Energy Alliance
Their projects aim for decarbonized cement and a reliable electric grid.
![Bill Yen, EE PhD candidate](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2024-01/bill-yen_profilephoto.jpg?itok=U9d4E0XZ)
Bill Yen, PhD candidate, supplies energy from soil
His research is enabling soil-powered computing and sensing systems.
![prof Lambertus Bert Hesselink](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-12/lambertus-hesselink_sq.jpg?itok=Dx72AKle)
Lambertus Hesselink joins 2023 Class of NAI Fellows
Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.
![gingerbread house contest community event](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-12/2023-gingerbread-sq.jpg?itok=4wp78c8H)
Gingerbread House Contest – a piping hot success!
The sweet sight of teamwork and creativity.
![prof Andrea Goldsmith](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-11/AGoldsmith-480-SQ.jpg?itok=maROh1J0)
Andrea Goldsmith receives the 2024 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
Her citation reads, “For educating, mentoring, and inspiring generations of students, and for authoring pioneering textbooks in advanced digital communications.”
![prof Srabanti Chowdhury](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-11/SrabantiChowdhury-SQ.jpg?itok=OfReMsOv)
Srabanti Chowdhury elevated to IEEE Fellow
Her citation reads "for contributions to wide bandgap semiconductor devices and technology."
![Asir I. Khan, EE PhD](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-11/asir_profilephoto.jpg?itok=IWNpOfz-)
Asir I. Khan receives best student presentation award
The annual awards are given at the AVS-EMPD symposium
![Prof H.-S. Philip Wong (left) and Prof Kwabena Boahen (right)](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2023-11/Boahen-WongSQ.jpg?itok=o_KdLw2s)
Kwabena Boahen and H.-S. Philip Wong’s nanodendrite
Do nerve cells hold the key to an epic advance in computing?