Andrea Goldsmith awarded the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award 2021
Her citation reads “For educating, developing, guiding, and energizing generations of highly successful students and postdoctoral fellows.”
Thomas Lee awarded IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award 2021
His citation reads “For pioneering CMOS technology for high-performance wireless circuits and systems.”
MS candidate Nicolo Zulaybar will receive a David L. Boren Fellowship
The Boren Awards provide students with resources and encouragement to acquire language skills and experience in countries critical to the future security and stability of the United States.
John Duchi wins SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Early Career Prize
His citation reads, "For your deep and important contributions to convex, nonconvex, and stochastic optimization as well as to the statistical foundations of optimization methods for data science.”
Black Lives Matter, diversity, and inclusion in Electrical Engineering
We are proud of our history of innovation and entrepreneurship, and of our ongoing mission to address major societal challenges. EE recognizes that we have significant work to do in these areas and we look to the entire EE community to improve our future.
Gordon Wetzstein, Isaac Kauvar (EE PhD candidate), et al create technique that captures neural activity
Their ‘COSMOS’ system can record motor control and decision making, sensory perception, and is a useful technique to evaluate effectiveness of psychiatric drugs.
Jayant Charthad, PhD, et al received the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award 2020
Their paper is titled, “A mm-Sized Wireless Implantable Device for Electrical Stimulation of Peripheral Nerves."
Shanhui Fan and Sid Assawaworrarit: Unplugged!
The two show robust and efficient wireless power transfer using a power-efficient switch-mode amplifier with current-sensing feedback in a parity-time symmetric circuit.
Jelena Vučković announced as CLEO 2020 Gordon Memorial Speaker
Her talk is titled, “Integrated Quantum Photonics”