ECE Associate Professor Predrag Spasojevic is the recipient of a new Office of Naval Research (ONR) award for the research project entitled "Post-Correction Techniques for Linearization of Wideband Analog-to-Digital Converters."  Professor Spasojevic is the Rutgers PI on a 2-year $1M collaborative effort with Expedition Technology Inc., with Rutgers share of the award being $300,000.

In this project, Professor Spasojevic  will develop post-correction mechanisms for the non-linearities in  wideband, low-resolution Analog-to-Digital Converters ( ADCs) to improve their signal to noise ratio (SNR) and spurious free dynamic range (SFDR). Wideband ADCs play a critical role in supporting high data rate low latency applications and the goal is to resolve inherent non-linearities in ADC design and manufacturing that create undesirable artifacts which reduce SNR and worsen the SFDR of the ADC.  Wideband ADCs are particularly susceptible to the non-linearity effect, as they often have lower quantization resolution which makes these artifacts more prominent.

The Rutgers Board of Governors appointed Shriram Ramanathan as the first holder of the Rodkin-Weintraub Chair in Engineering. The chair was established in 2018 through a gift from the Rodkin Family Foundation and a matching gift by an anonymous donor.

Ramanathan, who will join the faculty at Rutgers School of Engineering in the fall of 2022 from Purdue University, is widely recognized for his scholarly contributions and leadership in metastable semiconductors and device physics for artificial intelligence, robotics, brain-machine interfaces and adaptive electromagnetic materials and devices.

A professor in the School of Engineering at Purdue, Ramanathan received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and was a research staff member at Components Research Labs at Intel for over three years. He then served on the applied physics faculty at Harvard University for nearly a decade. Their group conducts research in oxide semiconductors for neuromorphic computing, optoelectronics and haptic intelligence, and collaborates with a broad set of research groups across engineering and natural sciences.

Ramanathan has a strong record of securing external funding from the U.S. Department of Defense and from the National Science Foundation, publishing more than 195 peer-reviewed articles in major research journals. He has delivered numerous invited talks and plenary addresses at international conferences, and has been invited to attend workshops organized by the United States National Academy of Sciences Keck Futures Program and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposium and has served as a Kavli Fellow Lecturer for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Roya Abdulrazeq is a junior studying Electrical and Computer Engineering with a concentration in Computer Engineering. She graduated from Middlesex Community College with the Degree of Associate in Science with a concentration in Engineering Science in May 2021. She transferred to Rutgers this fall. She is currently a member of the Society of Women Engineers and Phi Theta Kappa Society. She is passionate about computer engineering because she likes coding and solving problems.

Eoin O'Hare is a junior majoring in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. Over the summer, he was a Technology Intern at Comcast, and worked on writing scripts in various coding languages to handle account information. Outside of classes, he likes to play flag football in the intramural league, is the Build Manager for Rutgers Habitat for Humanity, and is a member of Theta Tau, the professional engineering fraternity. After graduating, Eoin plans to write code in meaningful projects that can make people's lives better and easier.