Dear Students and Colleagues:
We had a very successful ECE Capstone EXPO yesterday with 52 teams presenting their capstone projects. A panel of 50 judges from industry and academia joined us to select the top projects. In addition, three special awards (best in research, best in impact, and best in commercialization) were selected.
News
April 2024
April 15, 2024
The Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs (EVPAA) awarded a Presidential Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence for the academic year 2023-2024 to Bo Yuan as one of the university's most distinguished young faculty members. This award is bestowed in recognition of his outstanding scholarly accomplishments in his years at Rutgers, as documented in the evaluation that has led to his recent recommendation for promotion to Associate Professor, subject to approval by the Board of Governors.
April 15, 2024
The Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs (EVPAA) awarded a Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence for the academic year 2023-2024 to Umer Hassan as one of the university's most distinguished young faculty members. This award is bestowed in recognition of his outstanding teaching accomplishments in his years at Rutgers, as documented in the evaluation that has led to his recent recommendation for promotion to Associate Professor, subject to approval by the Board of Governors.
April 8, 2024
ECE Professors Kristin Dana and Shantenu Jha have been invited to speak at the NJ AI Summit in Princeton, NJ on April 11th. Governor Murphy will be giving remarks at the event.
April 8, 2024
On Friday April 5th, the 2023-2024 Chancellor and Provost Awards for Faculty Excellence were announced. The annual Chancellor and Provost Awards for Faculty Excellence recognize Rutgers–New Brunswick faculty members who have made outstanding contributions through innovative teaching; cross-disciplinary research, inquiry, or artistic expression; public engagement; and service.
April 5, 2024
Rutgers ECE assistant professors Zhao Zhang, Bo Yuan, and Hang Liu have received a CSSI Framework award from NSF. The project is “hpcGPT: Enhancing Computing Center User Support with HPC-enriched Generative AI”. This is a collaboration between Ohio State University, Princeton University, University of California San Diego, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, the University of Texas at Austin and Rutgers University with Rutgers as the lead. The total amount of the award is $2,996,103 with $1,199,126 at Rutgers.
March 2024
March 18, 2024
With deep sadness we report that Professor Emeritus Sophocles Orfanidis suddenly passed away on March 2nd. Prof. Orfanidis retired just last year from the ECE Department. Dr. Orfanidis, who lived in Highland Park, was a physicist and signal processing engineer. He spent 45 years teaching at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University. He is survived by his wife, son, grandson, daughter-in-law, and several nieces and nephews.
March 6, 2024
Rutgers Electrical and Computer Engineering alumnus, Shunqiao Sun (Ph.D., 2016) has been awarded the 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for the project “CAREER: Towards Fundamentals of Adaptive, Collaborative and Intelligent Radar Sensing and Perception”. The NSF CAREER program fosters the career development of outstanding junior faculty, combining the support of research and education of the highest quality and in the broadest sense.
February 2024
February 14, 2024
February 12, 2024
On February 3, 2024, Rutgers' IEEE VEXU division recently went to Vaughn College in New York City to compete against 6 other teams. The Rutgers SCAR team placed first and won home the Tournament Champions award! Congratulations to all the members that competed and thank you to Vaughn college for hosting the event.