News

September 2021

September 22, 2021
ECE Professor Emina Soljanin is the recipient of a new NSF award for the research project titled "Service Rates of Codes." This three-year $500,000 project is funded by the Communication and Information Foundations (CIF) program that supports foundational computer science and engineering research and education to advance the areas of communication, information theory, signal processing and networking.
September 15, 2021
A team of Rutgers ECE researchers led by Associate Professor Dario Pompili (PI) along with co-PIs Saman Zonouz (Associate Professor) and Bo Yuan (Assistant Professor) are the recipients of a $280K supplement award from the National Science Foundation under the DARPA-NSF Real-Time Machine Learning (RTML) program for the project titled "Trustworthy Autonomous UAVs via Compiler-Accelerated Efficient AI,” in collaboration with the University of Washington (UW).

August 2021

August 30, 2021
ECE faculty members Professor Yingying Chen (PI) and Assistant Professor Bo Yuan (Co-PI) are the recipients of an award from the National Science Foundation under the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program for the project "Securing IoT and Edge Devices under Audio Adversarial Attacks.” This is a three-year $500,000 collaborative effort led by Rutgers University with University of Tennessee Knoxville, with Rutgers receiving $330,000.
August 25, 2021
An interdisciplinary team of Rutgers researchers led by WINLAB Distinguished Professor Narayan Mandayam (PI) along with co-PIs Chung-Tse Michael Wu (Assistant Professor, ECE), Ruo-Qian Wang (Assistant Professor, CEE) and Joseph Brodie (Director of Atmospheric Sciences) are the recipients of an award from the National Science Foundation under the Spectrum and Wireless Innovation enabled by Future Technologies (SWIFT) program for the project "Enabling Spectrum Coexistence of 5G mmWave and Passive Weather Sensing." This three-
August 24, 2021
ECE Professor Yingying Chen received an award from Manufacturing x Digital (MxD) for the project “Securing Voice Co
August 16, 2021
ECE Professor Yingying Chen (PI) and WINLAB Chief Technologist Ivan Seskar (Co-PI) are the recipients of an award from the National Science Foundation under the CISE Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI) program for the project "Nation-wide Community-based Mobile Edge Sensing and Computing Testbeds.” This is a three-year $1.5M collaborative effort led by Rutgers with Indiana University, Temple University, and NYIT, with Rutgers receiving $710,000.
August 16, 2021
ECE Professor Wade Trappe is the recipient of an award from the National Science Foundation under the Spectrum and Wireless Innovation enabled by Future Technologies (SWIFT) program for the project "Wideband Spectrum Coexistence Enabled by Photonic Circuits: Cross-Layer Design and Implementation." This is a three-year collaborative project with Rowan University and Princeton University funded at $750,000 with Rutgers receiving $170,000. 

July 2021

July 20, 2021
Chung-Tse (Michael) Wu, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a prestigious Director’s Fellowship Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He was a recipient of a DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) in 2019. The highly competitive DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award provides an additional year of funding and support to a select group of DARPA Young Faculty Award recipients who have demonstrated exceptional technical achievement and leadership at the end of their initial two-year base award period.
July 8, 2021
Prof. Roy Yates will serve as the new ECE Undergraduate Director for the period from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. Prof. Yates has been an outstanding researcher and educator and contributed to the department's success in many roles during his time at Rutgers. Over the last 4 years, he has been instrumental in recruiting several outstanding faculty colleagues to the department as the Chair of the ECE faculty search committee. He currently serves on the Chancellor-Provost's Strategic Diversity Planning committee.
July 7, 2021
ECE Associate Professor Mehdi Javanmard and his research group have published a paper on sensors for measuring stress hormones that was featured in the journal Science Advances (AAAS). The article titled "Single-step label-free nanowell immunoassay accurately quantifies serum stress hormones within minutes" is featured on the cover of the latest issue of AAAS.  Congratulations to Mehdi and his team! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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