Graduating ECE Seniors  Michael Zhao and Morriel Kasher have been selected for their Capstone Design project "Radio Frequency Machine Learning (RFML): Streamlining SDR Implementation of Neural Networks Through GNURadio " to compete in the  US Airforce Research Laboratory (AFRL) Beyond 5G SDR University Challenge 2021/22,  a nation-wide  competition that includes both  graduate and undergraduate student teams. AFRL also provided  funding for the project with high end software defined radio (SDR) equipment that helped significantly in  project execution. Michael and Morriel's work advised by ECE Associate Professor Predrag Spasojevic was one of only 11 invitees to the AFRL Beyond Showcase this May 2022. 

Congratulations to the ECE Class of 2022 !

Here is the link to the Capstone and Graduation Award photos

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The University has announced that Professor Yingying Chen will be honored at the Chancellor-Provost’s Celebration of Faculty Excellence on May 19.  She will be recognized for the following accomplishments this past year- (i) Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, and (ii) Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery.

Congratulations Yingying!

The Rutgers ECE Department is proud to announce that graduating ECE senior Justine Catli will receive the Champion of Teaching and Learning Award at the 7th Annual Chancellor-Provost’s Student Leadership Awards Gala on May 4th, 2022. This award is for "a student who has taken full advantage of their collegiate experience by engaging inside and outside of the classroom while creating learning opportunities for their peers.” Awardees are selected among all undergraduate students at Rutgers-New Brunswick.

Throughout her time at Rutgers, Justine has been deeply involved in peer learning and mentoring. She is a leader and tireless advocate for all students in the ECE Department and in the School of Engineering more broadly. In addition to working extensively with the Rutgers Learning Centers as a Learning Assistant, she has organized new extracurricular workshops with industry sponsors and developed the IEEE Social Good Hackathon, now in its second year. Justine is currently the President of Rutgers IEEE, leading their many activities. She previously created and held the new position of External Vice President to build bridges with other student groups, the ECE Department, and industry. She has also been active in recruiting students to ECE through our Open House, Admitted Students’ Day, and Intro to Engineering. The impact of her work will last long after she graduates: due to her advocacy, the School of Engineering is working with the Learning Centers to create an anti-bias training workshop for all Learning and Teaching Assistants that will be implemented beginning in Fall 2022.

As stated in the criteria for the award, Justine has made a strong impact in the area of teaching and learning while fostering learning opportunities through peer mentoring or leadership,
dedicated time, resources, or efforts beyond what is expected of her position, upheld the values of peer instruction such as student-centered active learning, an inclusive and safe learning environment, and a well-developed pedagogical approach to peer instruction. The ECE Department is lucky to have such a committed advocate and educator among our students.

Congratulations to Justine on this well-deserved honor!

A team of Rutgers WINLAB/ECE faculty, led by Distinguished Professor Roy Yates as the PI, has received a three-year, $1,000,000 grant entitled "RINGS: REALTIME: Resilient Edge-cloud Autonomous Learning with Timely Inferences" from the NSF as part of NSF's recent multi-million dollar program aimed at the development of intelligent, resilient, and reliable next generation -- or NextG -- networks. More details about this NSF investment, termed RINGS—short for Resilient and Intelligent Next-Generation Systems, can be found in an NSF press release.
 
In this project, the team comprising of ECE faculty members Roy Yates, Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Anand Sarwate and Waheed Bajwa, will design and experimentally validate a mobile edge cloud (MEC)-based distributed machine learning (ML) system that will act as an enabler of emerging real-time applications, ranging from augmented reality and smart cities to autonomous vehicles, with strict latency requirements in the next generation of mobile networks.
 
Overall, the ECE department has received two of the 37 awarded RINGS grants (the other one being led by Professor Salim El Rouayheb), which speaks to the quality of the research being conducted in the department.

Congratulation to this year’s senior students who participated in the ECE capstone program and their advisers for a job well done!

The Capstone Expo was back in person this year and was held in the BSC. Capstone Expo Day demonstrated our students’ exceptional capabilities.

A panel of judges joint us to identify the top ten projects, recognized 3 special awards (best in research, best in impact, best in commercialization) and award three Galbiati Entrepreneurial awards (total of $5,000). Our judges were very impressed with the quality of the projects and commended our students’ capabilities and enthusiasm. The capstone teams did a fantastic job and made us all proud!

Before we announce the winning projects, I would like to thank everyone involved with this year’s capstone program:

Many advisers undertook students’ guidance this year. We would like to thank the ECE faculty who supported the program and advisers inside and outside of Rutgers who contributed their time and effort to help our students. Their efforts and support are key to the success of our capstone program and the students’ learning experience.

We would like to acknowledge the support of the following industry sponsors: 

• Don Bachman, Head of Strategy, Russelectric, a Siemens Business, and board member at 7x24 Exchange Metro New York Chapter;
• Joe Rambala, President, Electronic Warfare, Space & Airborne Systems, L3Harris;
• BlackRock;
• Galbiati family.

Many thanks to our panel of judges for their effort and time taken to support and celebrate our students’ achievements. The panel included: Minning Zhu (Rutgers ECE), Soyab Khatumbra (L3Harris), Alexander Loh (BAE Systems), Adam Novak (General Dynamics Mission Systems), Yaniv Myszkin (Audible), Don Bachman (Siemens), Milap Shah (Microsoft), Niral Shah (Apple), Will Cheng, Sabian Corrette (Rutgers), Pragati Sharma (Rutgers), Darshan Singh (Intel), Aditi Satish (Rutgers), Umama Ahmed (L3Harris), Roshni Shah (American Express), Scott Yappen (Foley Power Systems), Swetha Angara (TD Securities), Xuemeng Li (Hunter College), Marina Eskander (Concord Engineering Group), James Bibby (Schindler Elevator Corp), Steven Wu (Nuro Inc), Bhargav Tarpara (Capable Health), Parth Kanani (Empire Circuits), Anish Seth (Rutgers), Pavan Desai (Johnson & Johnson), Tim Petersen (L3Harris), Frank Hoffman (Lockheed Martin), Akash Nayak (Fidelity Investments)

Their expertise, care, and insights where priceless in making the hard decisions as for the top projects.

A very warm thank you to our wonderful ECE staff: Arletta Hoscilowicz, Pamela Heinold, John Scafidi, Kevin Wine, and Christopher Reid. As always, their commitment and hard work made this event and others happen. Many thanks to Demetrios Lambropoulos who worked tirelessly to support the capstone program around the year and to all the undergraduate students who helps with capstone expo: Aayushi Kasera, Shreya Pandey, Ritika Rao, Anisha Barde, Anurag Vattipalli, Roshan Patel, Sreetulasi Mannepalli, Aaron Soner, Adam D'Souza, Rohan Rahalkar, Emma Heinold, Harvey Zhang and Arthur Patlewicz.

After hours of diligent work, here are the awards granted by our panel of judges:

Top ten projects: 

Dean Thomas Farris announced early today the appointment of Yingying Chen as the new Chair of the ECE Department.