Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The insights of UCR professor Mihri Ozkan are featured this week in an online edition of a highly respected scientific journal.

Those working to establish a sustainable lithium mining industry in Southern California have gotten a surge of support with a new grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.

The research and development team led by Prof. Nanpeng Yu, postdoctoral researcher (Dr. Wenyu Wang) and PhD student (Zuzhao Ye) won the American-Made Digitizing Utilities Grand Prize with $300,000 cash prize from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Electricity. The U.S. DOE’s Digitizing Utilities Prize aims at connecting utilities with teams of data experts to transform digital systems in the energy sector through data analytics. The team led by Prof. Yu, named Electrify USA, worked closely with Exelon, a Fortune 250 company and the U.S.’s largest utility company, serving more

Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Alexander Khitun and Mykhaylo Balinskyy developed an innovative solution to the notoriously difficult Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)—which vexed mathematicians and computer scientists for nearly a century—with enormous practical implications for breakthroughs in science and industry.