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Department News

$1.2 Million NSF award for Real-time Energy-elastic GPUs

ECE Professors Daniel Wong (PI), Hyoseung Kim, and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop Real-time Energy-elastic GPUs for Embedded Autonomous Systems. The goal of this project is to fundamentally re-design...
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Towards Terahertz Electronic Devices

The “Terahertz Gap” between electronics and photonics is one of the most prominent problems in the past century, which refers to the absence of reliable devices (even conceptually) for signal processing, emission, and detection in the Terahertz frequency regime —...
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Roy-Chowdhury receives UMD ECE Distinguished Alumni Award

Professor Amit Roy-Chowdhury has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 ECE Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Maryland (UMD). This prestigious award is presented annually to alumni that have provided leadership and meritorious contributions in the broad...
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Fast-charging damages electric car batteries

Commercial fast-charging stations subject electric car batteries to high temperatures and high resistance that can cause them to crack, leak, and lose their storage capacity, write engineers at the University of California, Riverside in a new study published in Energy...
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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 Defense of Dissertation: Bo Dong

Final Defense of Dissertation: Zeyu Sun

Final Defense of Dissertation: Chao Wang

Final Defense of Dissertation: Wei Wang

Advanced Optimization and Data-Driven Control in Smart Grid

Final Defense of Dissertation: Joshua Plank

Directed Synthesis of Asymmetric Au/ZnS Photocatalytic Nanomaterials by M13

Final Defense of Dissertation: Chase Cook

Simulation for Reliability, Hardware Security, and Ising Computing in VLSI Chip Design
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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