Four ECE faculty members received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards this year. This is a remarkable record for a single department.

NSF CAREER Awards are given to assistant professors to fund research that is expected to form a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. The four CAREER Award recipients of the ECE department and the projects funded by the award are listed below (ordered by award date).

• Salman Asif is awarded for a project titled "Optimized Sensing and Recovery for Computational Imaging".
  ECE News: https://www.ece.ucr.edu/news/2021/01/10/salman-asif-receives-nsf-career-award-computational-imaging
  NSF Award Info: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2046293
• Samet Oymak is awarded for a project titled "Foundations of Resource Efficient Machine Learning".
  ECE News: https://www.ece.ucr.edu/news/2021/01/15/samet-oymak-receives-nsf-career-award-resource-efficient-machine-learning
  NSF Award Info: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2046816
• Konstantinos Karydis is awarded for a project titled "Morphological Computation for Resilient Dynamic Locomotion of Compliant Legged Robots with Application to Precision Agriculture".
  ECE News: https://www.ece.ucr.edu/news/2021/02/25/konstantinos-karydis-receives-nsf-career-award-resilient-dynamic-locomotion
  NSF Award Info: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2046270
• Daniel Wong is awarded for a project titled "Towards Efficient Accelerated Cloud Data Centers.”
  ECE News: https://www.ece.ucr.edu/news/2021/02/25/daniel-wong-receives-nsf-career-award-efficient-accelerated-cloud-data-centers
  NSF Award Info: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2047521