Electrical Engineering Department News

Stephen Boyd has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He becomes the 110th member of the Stanford Engineering faculty to join this prestigious academy.

Several Stanford-affiliated students, faculty, and alumni were selected as members of this year's Forbes 30 under 30 lists, which highlights young thought leaders, entrepreneurs and scientists in 15 disciplines.

Professor Emeritus Arogyaswami Paulraj has won the prestigious Marconi Prize of the Marconi Society for "his pioneering contributions to developing the theory and applications of MIMO antennas."

Krishna Shenoy and graduate student Katherine Cora Ames present a mathematical analysis of the brain activity of monkeys as they make anticipated and unanticipated reaching motions.

Robert Dutton recently received the 2013 Aldert van der Ziel Award at the annual International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRA).

On an episode of BBC World News Horizons focusing on ways engineering and medicine work together to tackle illness and disease, Ada Poon and her team discuss their groundbreaking research in this area.

As the site of some of the most important technological advancements in the last few decades, Nanomanufacturing is a popular course in Stanford’s School of Engineering.

EE Postdoc Francisco Javier Lopez-Martinez, former EE postdoc Ernest Kurniawan and Andrea Goldsmith, the Stephen Harris Professor in the School of Engineering, recently received the Globecom 2013 Communication Theory Symposium best paper award.

Andrea Goldsmith, along with former EE PhD student Syed Ali Jafar, former EE postdoc Ivana Maric, and Sudhir Srinivasa, recently received the 2013 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award.

Scientists have created a heat-resistant thermal emitter, an element used in specialized solar cells, that could significantly improve the efficiency of the cells.