Kliti Kodra becomes the first ever recipient of Paul Panayotatos Endowed Scholarship. His hard work, dedication to his research, and academic achievements has earned him this award.

Kliti Kodra is currently a PhD student studying under the guidance of Prof. Zoran Gajic.

His research focuses on order reduction of large-scale microgrid models as well as control-theoretic methods for cyber-physical security in smart grid infrastructures using singular perturbation techniques. His prior work involved research on reduced-order controller design for fuel cells used in the automotive industry. 

Paul Panayotatos Endowed Scholarship was recently established in memory of Professor Paul Panayotatos who served for 30 years as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). The Scholarship is awarded to graduate students demonstrating academic excellence and pursing advanced degree in the sustainable energy areas including renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy conversion or a related area. The award for this year is $5,000, but it could be a lesser amount in future years and could be awarded to more than one person.

Congratulations to Kliti for his outstanding achievement!

Dr. Wei Jiang and his group just published a paper in Nature Communications.

Their work reported a high-density waveguide integration technology for silicon photonic chips that can lead to ultra-dense broadband optical interconnects, drastic cost-reduction for silicon photonic chips, and wide-angle, energy-efficient laser beam steering.

Read the press release here.

Congratulations to Wei and his students, Robert Gatdula and Siamak Abbaslou on this achievement.

Shubham Jain received the Best Presentation Award at the PhD Forum held at this year's ACM MobiSys conference in Florence, Italy. Shubham is a PhD student in Prof. Marco Gruteser's research group and she presented her dissertation ideas on 'Gradient Profiling for Pedestrian Services'.

As further explained on the workshop website below, the PhD Forum provides a supportive environment for doctoral students to present and discuss their dissertation research both with their peers and with a panel of experienced researchers from academia and industry.

Her trip was also supported by a Student Travel Grant from the MobiSys conference.

http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/workshops/phd/index.htm

Shubham Jain received the Best Presentation Award at the PhD Forum held at this year's ACM MobiSys conference in Florence, Italy. Shubham is a PhD student in Prof. Marco Gruteser's research group and she presented her dissertation ideas on 'Gradient Profiling for Pedestrian Services'.

As further explained on the workshop website below, the PhD Forum provides a supportive environment for doctoral students to present and discuss their dissertation research both with their peers and with a panel of experienced researchers from academia and industry.

Her trip was also supported by a Student Travel Grant from the MobiSys conference.

http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/workshops/phd/index.htm

Prof. Narayan Mandayam along with Cem U. Saraydar and David J. Goodman, have been selected for the 2015 Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication for their paper on "Efficient Power Control via Pricing in Wireless Data Networks", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 50, No. 2, February 2002, pp. 291-303.

The citation for the award reads "Award for Advances in Communication - Given to an outstanding paper published in any IEEE Communications Society publication in the previous 15 calendar years".

The award will be presented to Prof. Mandayam at IEEE ICC 2015 in London.

Nicole M. DiLeo received the Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship.

The Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program (see smart.asee.org ) has been established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The program aims to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers working at DoD laboratories.

The SMART Scholarship provides a $25,000 annual stipend and also covers tuition. Nicole will be working at Picatinny Arsenal during summers and after her graduation.

Congratulations to Nicole for this wonderful achievement!

ECE Capstone team won $10K at the 7x24 Exchange Metro New York University Challenge! The 7x24 Exchange Metro New York put in place a senior year design project (capstone project) competition with theme datacenter energy efficiency. The event took place today at Credit Suisse offices in NYC.

ECE Rutgers participated with the project "A Mesh Network of Reactive Lights for Energy Savings and Security Awareness", by Aeon Brown (EE), Parth Kanani (EE), Alam Lam (EE), and Aesha Patel (EE). The faculty advisor is Prof. Hana Godrich. The project abstract is given below. This project was based on the group's 2015 Capstone Design project   Smart Garden System.

7x24 Exchange is a leading knowledge exchange organization in the mission critical facilities space. The NY metro chapter is looking to promote visibility of datacenter industry to excellent senior students and expand senior year capstone projects and research on related topics.

Congratulations to the team and their advisor!

Project Title: A Mesh Network of Reactive Lights for Energy Savings and Security Awareness

Project Abstract:

LED technology offers significant energy savings. For larger buildings/infrastructures, such as data centers, use of LED can offer high savings and increase energy efficiency. An additional prospective for savings is described in the US DOE guidelines for "Best practices Guide for Energy-Efficient Data Center Design," from 2011. It points out the advantage of increased selectivity of lighting systems beyond zone-based occupancy to lighting load reduction and a secondary saving stemming from decrease in cooling load.

The proposed reactive lighting system is offering a simple, low cost, retrofit to existing infrastructure with the use of LED, operating in an event-based approach. Additional features, beyond surface lighting, make for a better return on investment and can potentially drive faster implementation in the Data Center space.

ECE Professors Shantenu Jha and Dario Pompili were selected to be named as Chancellor's Scholars

The Chancellor's Scholar initiative was created created through the New Brunswick Strategic Plan to recognize truly outstanding and highly promising scholars at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. As a Chancellor’s Scholars, Shantenu and Dario will each receive $5,000 towards their research accounts for innovative research initiatives and/or program development for up to five years.

Congratulations to Shantenu and Dario on these honors!

ECE student Gradeigh D. Clark received a 2015 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship!

Gradeigh is pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Janne Lindqvist and has an undergraduate degree form ECE Rutgers.

The NDSEG Fellowship is sponsored and funded by the Department of Defense (DoD) and is awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in one of fifteen supported disciplines. It lasts for three years and pay for full tuition and all mandatory fees, a monthly stipend, and up to $1,000 a year in medical insurance.

The NDSEG Fellowship is sponsored and funded by the Department of Defense (DoD) and is awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals who intend to pursue a doctoral degree

Congratulations to Gradeigh on this great accomplishment.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Congratulates the ECE Travel Award Winners

ECE Research Excellence