Anand D. Sarwate Awarded Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence
Anand D. Sarwate, a professor in the School of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently received a Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. The prestigious award recognizes Sarwate’s achievements as one of the university’s most outstanding young faculty members.
“Receiving this award is a great honor and was a total surprise since I didn’t know I’d been nominated,” Sarwate says. “It makes me feel like I’ve been doing something of value to Rutgers, instead of just to my subspecialty, and that it’s supporting the sum total of my efforts.”
Sarwate, who has been promoted to associate professor effective July 1, joined the School of Engineering faculty in January 2014. He is a 2015 recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award (CAREER) for his research on privacy-preserving learning for distributed data that uses practical algorithms to bridge the gap between the theoretical and actual preservation of privacy.
His ongoing research interests include privacy-preserving data analysis, machine learning and statistics, information theory, and distributed optimization and signal processing.
According to Sarwate, the financial support from the fellowship will help him and the students whose research he supervises in the coming academic year. “Perhaps construed more broadly, a recognition like this helps me remember that research is a long-term endeavor, so that I can focus on projects which may be slow to get off the ground, but which will ultimately make an impact,” he explains.
With this award, Sarwate joins a select group of Rutgers University faculty members distinguished by their exceptional scholarly contributions and achievements. “While I’m doing the research work because it interests me, this award makes me feel connected to the rest of the University,” Sarwate adds.
Rutgers University Virtual Commencement
To the Rutgers University–New Brunswick and RBHS Class of 2020:
Virtual ECE Undergraduate and Graduate Award Ceremony
On Wednesday, June 3rd, join us to recognize and honor ECE Undergraduate and Graduate students for their outstanding achievements.
Virtual SOE Celebration the Class of 2020
You and Your Guests are Cordially Invited to Attend
Rutgers University’s School of Engineering Virtual Convocation Celebration
Friday, June 5, 2020
Lauch Time: 10 a.m. EST
Once live, view the celebration HERE
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2020 ECE Capstone Awards
Thank you to all the students, advisers, faculty, and judges who took the time to join us today for the virtual capstone award ceremony!
Special thanks to Dr. Mandayam and Dean Thomas Farris for opening the award ceremony and for their address to our capstone students.
Before we announce the top ten projects, I would like to thank everyone involved with this year’s capstone program:
Capstone advisers: Many 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. Thank you to all capstone advisers for your support!
Capstone sponsors: We would like to acknowledge the support of the following industry sponsors through funding and mentorship: Siemens, Blackrock, JP Morgan, L3Harris, 7x24 Exchange Metro New York Chapter, Interactions LLC and MongodB. Special thanks to Elmer Galbi for the generous projects awards sponsorship.
Our panel of judges: Many thanks to our judges for their effort and time taken to support and celebrate our students’ achievements. The panel included: Nikhil Shenoy (Siemens Healthineers, BS’16), Ashwin Sampath (Qualcomm Inc., PhD’97), Daniel Arkins (Blackrock), Don Bachman (ASCO, BSEE, MBA), Stephen Wilkus (Spectrum Financial Partners), Salman Hoque, (L3Harris Technologies, BS’19), Anand Bhagwat (JP Morgan, MS’91, MBA’94), Dafna Shochat (Blackrock, BS’19), Kamal Abburi (Microsoft), Richard Huber (AT&T), David Galbi (Galbi Research), Soyab Khatumbra (L3Harris, BS’15), Ed Cordero (Protiviti), Srinivas Bangalore (Interactions), Donald Levy (AT&T), Marina Eskander (Stantec, BS’17), Ahmed Turk (Samsung Electronics America, BS’02, MS’05), Douglas Galbi (FCC), Gihan Oraby (US Army, BS’02), Ludwig Randazzo (Juniper Networks, Govindaraj Muthukrishnan (Morgan Stanley, BS’17), Harry Li (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, BS’18), Jonathan Ksiezopolski (KAMTech Solutions, BS’16), Marc Campos (JP Morgan), Mareesh Kumar Issar (WINLAB, Rutgers University), Umama Ahmed (L3Harris, BS’19), Bill Marushak (Lutron Electronics), Kshitij Minhas (SRI International, BS’16), Teddy Brown (Verizon), Shahab Jalalvand (Interactions), Zeid Abdulrazeq (Verizon Wireless, BS’19), Nazmul Islam (Qualcomm, PhD’14), Keon Kim (Verizon Wireless, BS’19), Nicholas Frost (Morgan Stanley, BS’17), Samuel Ramrajkar (Ford Motor Company, MS’15), Daniel Romero (Verizon, BS’19), Franke Hubertus (IBM), Sarah Hallac (Blackrock), Akanksha Pathak, Verizon (BS’18), Jane Luo, Qualcomm (PhD’04), Mhammed Alhayek (Bloomberg, BS’18), Ed Knapp (American Tower), Mike Dolan (L3Harris, BS’99), Joseph Conticchio (L3Harris), Jon Pucila (Blackrock), Nagi Naganathan, and Neharika Bhandari (NBCUniversal, BS’18).
Your expertise, care, and insights where priceless in making the hard decisions as for the top projects.
Capstone team: A very warm thank you to our wonderful ECE team Arletta Hoscilowicz, Pamela Heinold, John Scafidi, Kevin Wine, and Christopher Reid. As always, their commitment and hard work throughout the year is the force behind the program. Many thanks to Diksha Prakash who worked tirelessly to support the capstone program around the year and to all the graduate and undergraduate students who helps with capstone events.
After hours of diligent work our panel of judges selected these top ten projects and winners of special awards:
2020 ECE Capstone Award Presentation slides
Top ten projects:
The Galbiati Entrepreneurial Awards:
Congratulations to the students and advisers!!!
Hana
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Hana Godrich, PhD
ECE Department, Rutgers University
Office: CoRE 617
email: godrich @soe.rutgers.edu
Bo Yuan receives NSF Grant for Advancing On-Device Inference and Learning in Deep Neural Networks
ECE Assistant Professor Bo Yuan is the recipient of a new NSF award for the research project titled "TensorNN: An Algorithm and Hardware Co-design Framework for On-device Deep Neural Network Learning using Low-rank Tensors." Dr. Yuan is the lead PI on a three-year $1.2 million collaborative effort between Rutgers, Columbia University and University of Minnesota.
In this project, Dr. Yuan and his team aim to advance efficient on-device inference and learning for deep neural networks (DNNs). In order to achieve stronger data privacy, less response time and relaxed data transmission burden, deploying DNN functionality in a distributed manner at the edges of the network has become a very attractive proposition. However, DNN-learning on mobile devices that are at the edge of the network is very challenging due to conflicting requirements of large time and energy consumption, and limited on-device resources. In order to address this challenge, this project leverages low-rank tensors as a powerful mathematical tool for representing and compressing tensor-format data, to form a new family of ultra-low cost deep neural networks. This brings an order-of-magnitude reduction in time and energy consumption for deep neural network learning. Investigations in many areas of BigData research will benefit as well. This project involves graduate and undergraduate students, especially from underrepresented groups, through summer research experiences, and senior design projects to broaden the participation of computing. The outcomes of this project will be disseminated to the community in the format of technical publications, talks and tutorials in both academic institutions and industry.
You can find more details on the project at the NSF page https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1955909&HistoricalAward....
Congratulations Bo!
Capstone Expo 2020 Award Ceremony
SAVE THE DATE
To ECE Capstone Class of 2020,
We are not done yet with our capstone course but yesterday we crossed a significant milestone: ECE Virtual Capstone Expo 2020. Every year, this event involves so much excitement and the energy is so high. It is a celebration of our students first and foremost! We want to thank you, the class of 2020, for holding strong and pushing through in such an admirable way. It is a testament to your character and strength. We are so proud of you!
ECE Capstone Team Awarded 7x24 Exchange Metro New York 2020 Virtual University Challenge Grant
A shout out to our ‘MediHealth Tracker’ capstone team, Rameen Masood, Purna Haque, Nga Man Cheng, and Holly Smith, who represented the ECE department at the 7x24 Exchange Metro New York 2020 Virtual University Challenge for their creativity, dedication, and excellent work! You made us all proud.
Rameen Masood, Purna Haque, Nga Man Cheng, and Holly Smith are all senior year undergraduate students who developed ‘MediHealth Tracker’ for their capstone design project. The faculty advisor for the team is Dr. Hana Godrich. The team was awarded a $2,000 grant for the project. The ECE capstone program was awarded $4,000 to further invest in senior year capstone projects and research related to datacenters.
Their project tackles the issue of tracking medical records. With people constantly using different doctors and platforms controlled by their medical service providers, the objective of the team was to create a user-controlled mobile application that helps members to gain full control over their medical information in a centralized location. ‘MediHealth Tracker’ provides members with a private and secure environment to store and manage their health information. The app features include uploading files, storing immunizations and medication info, and an appointment manager.
The 7X24 Exchange is a leading knowledge exchange organization in the mission-critical facilities space for those who design, build, operate, and own data centers. The 7X24 Exchange Metro New York Chapter leadership has been holding a yearly University Challenge in the past five years, inviting selected tri-state area universities to participate in design challenges related to data centers. Participating teams and universities are awarded grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 to further advance the visibility of the data center industry to excellent students and expand capstone programs projects concentrating in this field.
Congratulations to the team for their achievements!
Capstone Expo 2020 Judges Invitation
Project evaluation will be based on two parts, offline and online.