ECE faculty Zhao Zhang received a NSF award from Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)

ECE Assistant Professor Zhao Zhang has received an award from NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC). The project is “Diamond: Democratizing Large Neural Network Model Training for Science”. The total value is $2,999,520, of which $949,528 is the Rutgers portion for a three-year period starting Fall 2023. Rutgers University is the lead institute. 

The Diamond project is led by Zhao Zhang at Rutgers University with collaboration of University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Diamond is a service designed to democratize access to cutting-edge DL methods by abstracting the use of HPC resources. Diamond combines novel computer science research with translational computer science to reduce the significant barriers that impede adoption of DL methods in science. With Diamond, domain scientists can focus on the neural network architecture design to solve their domain-specific challenges without worrying about Cyberinfrastructure management. It provides a web service-enabled programming interface supporting the DL lifecycle from development to deployment and dissemination. It offers container configuration, automatic scaling for distributed training, hyper-parameter tuning, and model sharing. It also applies crucial performance optimizations, including planning for long training jobs, performance-aware model placement, cross-cluster training, and data management. 

Congratulations to Zhao!
 

WINLAB and Open Network Foundation Team receives an award from the Biden-Harris Administration's Wireless Innovation Fund to improve 5G O-RAN Energy Efficiency

WINLAB in collaboration with the Open Network Foundation (ONF) is a recipient of an award for $1.97M announced as part of the second round of awards announced by the Biden-Harris Administration's Wireless Innovation Fund. The $1.5 billion Wireless Innovation Fund supports the development of open and interoperable wireless networks as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda. Open and interoperable wireless equipment will help drive competition, strengthen global supply chain resilience and lower costs for consumers and network operators. Please see a press release from the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) here.

WINLAB Chief Technology Officer Ivan Seskar is the Rutgers PI for the project titled "5G Energy Efficiency: Metrics, Models, and Systems Tests" and will lead a research team including Dr. N. K. Shankaranarayanan, that funds activities at WINLAB for a period of 2 years at $750k.  In partnership with ONF, WINLAB will develop testing methods that assess the energy consumption and efficiency of individual 5G network components and end-to-end Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architectures.

Congratulations Ivan, team and WINLAB!

HKN Pre-Finals Study Session

 
Are you preparing for finals? Have any projects due soon? Next week, on Wednesday December 6th from 7-10pm, HKN will be hosting our pre-finals study session! Pizza will be served and we will have a mid-session break with games and prizes! Come out, bring your friends, project or study groups and join us! 
 
Hope to see you all there!
 
Date: Wednesday December 6th
Time: 7-10pm
Location: Richard Weeks Hall Concept Lab 

ECE Research Day 2023

 

Join the annual Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Day held on Friday, December 8, from 12:00 pm - 2 pm in the Richard Weeks Hall of Engineering Building, 4th floor. The event will be attended by faculty, members of industry, alumni, and students. This event is a great opportunity to present your research projects, share your creative ideas, and network with your peers. The event is open to the public. Everyone is welcome to join and network.

 

ECE upcoming new faculty Aggelos Bletsas elevated to IEEE Fellow


The ECE Department is proud to announce that our upcoming new faculty, Aggelos Bletsas, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow 2024 with the following citation: 
for contributions to cooperative relaying and backscatter communication networks.

Congratulations to Aggelos for this mile-stone achievement!   We look forward to having him join us in January 2024. 
 

Anand Sarwate receives Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award

Associate Professor Anand Sarwate has received the Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award.   The award was presented by Dean Alberto Cuitino and Department Chair Yingying Chen.

Since joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty in 2014, Anand Sarwate has established a reputation as a leading researcher in areas such as statistics, machine learning, information theory, distributed optimization and signal processing, and privacy-preserving data analysis.  A recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER award, he has received more than $6 million in funding from federal agencies including the NSF, NIH, PNNL, and DARPA for projects on which he is PI, as well as those on which he is a co-investigator.  He has received a five-year renewal on an NIH subaward on a collaborative project for enabling decentralized analysis of neuroimaging data, as well as a research contract from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL) to develope deep neural networks for machine learning and artificial intelligence applications.  His growing publishing portfolio addresses issues in various ECE subfields, while he serves as an associate editor and consulting editor for IEEE publications.

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