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Accepting Graduate Program Applications: Fall 2020
Top applicants to the Electrical and Computer Engineering MS Program will be considered for financial support on a competitive basis.
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GAANN Fellowship for Domestic PhD Students
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Department News

ECE and CSE faculty receive new DARPA grant on adversarial machine learning

ECE Professor Amit Roy-Chowdhury is leading a team of ECE and CSE faculty that has received a grant totaling almost $1 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to understand the vulnerability of computer vision systems to...
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Haberer awarded NSF grant to study self-propelled nanomaterials

Professor Elaine Haberer received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study synthetic nanoswimmers. These remarkable self-propelled materials can convert chemical or light energy into locomotion, increasing mixing and accelerating chemical reactions. Asymmetry in particle composition enables movement through a...
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Alexander Khitun receives two new grants from NSF and Intel

Dr. Khitun has recently received an NSF award - FET: Small: Magnonic Active Ring Memory and Logic, of $500,000.00 amount for the development of a new type of magnetic memory using spin waves for information read-out. The grant is supported...
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Balandin receives DOE grant for electric-bias control of phase transitions in quantum materials

ECE distinguished professor Alexander Balandin received $500K funding for investigating electric-bias control of phase transitions in a special type of quantum materials. The Department of Energy (DOE) project aims at understanding physical mechanisms and developing methods for electric-bias control of...
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Events

Colloquium by John Simpson
February 10, 2020 @ 11:00 am
Winston Chung Hall 205/206
Title: Advances in Feedback Control for Power Grid Modernization
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Distinguished Seminar: Massoud Pedram
February 03, 2020 @ 11:00 am
Winston Chung Hall 205/206
Title: ColdFlux: A CAD Flow and Open-Source Tool Suite for Superconducting Single Flux Quantum Logic Circuits
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Distinguished Seminar: Tamer Basar
January 27, 2020 @ 11:00 am
Winston Chung Hall 205/206
Title: Strategic Information Transmission and Deception
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Take up Space in Engineering
January 15, 2020 @ 1:00 pm
BOURNS A265
Moderator: Prof. Mihri Ozkan, Fellow of National Academy of Inventors, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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PhD Defenses

Final Dissertation: Yuanqi Gao

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Final Dissertation: Lebo Wang

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Final Defense of Dissertation: Rajkumar Theagarajan

Final Dissertation: Farzana Rahman

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Final Defense of Dissertation: Bo Dong

Final Defense of Dissertation: Zeyu Sun

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$8M+
New research grants in 2018/19
#31
in the US according to the US News 2020 Global University Rankings
200+, 450+
Total graduate and undergraduate students
13, 12
Fellows of IEEE, NAI and other organizations; NSF CAREER and Young Investigator Awards