Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nanpeng Yu, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the Technical Prize Paper Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power and Energy Society (PES). The Award Plaque, which is signed by the President of the IEEE PES Society, was presented to Prof. Nanpeng Yu and his Ph.D. students (Wei Wang, Yuanqi Gao, Jie Shi) for their highly influential journal paper “Safe Off-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Volt-VAR Control in Power Distribution Systems”. The journal paper was published in IEEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Jia Chen, an assistant teaching professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded a Regents Faculty Fellowship by the UCR Academic Senate’s Committee on Research to support her design and development of new models that can improve our ability to handle heterogeneous data used in machine learning and data science.

New UC Riverside program will train doctoral students on translating science into public policy

UC Riverside engineers are developing methods to keep self-driving cars and autonomous drones from being hacked