Faculty News

Dr. Laleh Najafizadeh has received the Engineering Governing Council (EGC) Students' Professor of the Year Award! 

Rutgers SOE students selected only one professor from each department who best exemplified the SOE mission of “Education, Research, and Service” in the 2024-2025 academic year for the EGC Students' Professor of the Year Award. The award is decided based on student nominations and voting for each department.

We are very proud of Laleh receiving this award voted by the students. Congratulations to Laleh on this well-deserved award!

We are delighted to announce and congratulate Dr. Shirin Jalali, Dr. Hang Liu, and Dr. Jorge Ortiz on their well-deserved tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor. This important milestone is a reflection of their outstanding achievements in research, teaching, and service.

We are proud to celebrate their success and grateful for their dedication to excellence, which strengthens not only the ECE Department but also the School of Engineering and Rutgers University as a whole.

We look forward to their continued contributions and leadership in shaping the future of our department and inspiring our students and colleagues alike. Please join us in congratulating Shirin, Hang, and Jorge on this significant accomplishment!

Each year these awards honor members of the Rutgers community selected by their colleagues for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and public service.

This year Anand D. Sarwate has been awarded the Presidential Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award.

Zhang's research focus is in high-performance computing algorithms and systems, and their applications in science and engineering. Over my career, he has worked on the world’s most powerful supercomputers, including Blue Gene/P, Stampede 2/3, Frontera, Polaris, and Perlmutter.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) the professional society cited Bajwa's significant “contributions to compressed sensing, communications, and machine learning in distributed systems.” 

ECE Distinguished Professor Athina Petropulu received 2024 IEEE SPS Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award.  The paper provides an overview on the emerging area of joint communication and radar sensing (JCR), aiming to integrate the above two functionalities into a single system by sharing the majority of hardware, signal processing modules and, in a typical case, the transmitted signal.