Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor Ran Cheng received a five-year $777K award from the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program of the Department of Defense (DoD) as a member of the MURI team consisting of 7 PIs from 6 US institutions led by the University of Central Florida ($7.5M award in total for the whole team). The award…

ECE PhD student Rajkumar Theagarajan  is the first author of the paper that won the Best Student Paper Award  at the 18th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE), held in 2018.  Theagarajan’s PhD adviser is Distinguished Professor Bir Bhanu.  BIBE is a highly selective conference and the…

The paper by Ph.D. students Jie Shi, Yuanqi Gao, and Prof. Nanpeng Yu entitled “Degradation-aware Operation and Optimal Sizing of Behind-the-meter Battery Systems for Commercial Customers,” won the 1st Prize Best Paper Award among 188 accepted papers accepted at the IEEE Power and Energy Society Grand International Conference…

Prof. Salman Asif received 2018 Google Faculty Research Award for a project titled “Distributed and Data-Driven Lensless Imaging.”  The Faculty Research Award program at Google was created to "enable building strong relationships with faculty around the world who are pursuing innovative research, and plays an important role for…