Device could enable rapid testing and improved triaging for infections and aid treatment for cancer or mental illness
A Rutgers researcher, through his spinoff company, has led a team to design and test a device that quickly counts a person’s white blood cells with a single drop of blood, similar to the way glucometers rapidly scan for blood sugar levels.
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January 2024
January 18, 2024
A team of 5 students (Rohan Gorajia, Erwei He, Olivia Doung, Surabhi Panda, and Arpan Gupta) and 2 Rutgers ECE Professors (Haghani and Striki ) presented 6 papers at the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) in January 2024 in Las Vegas, NV. ICCE is the IEEE Consumer Technology Society’s annual flagship conference.
December 2023
December 13, 2023
On Friday, December 8, 2023, the annual ECE Research Day was held. This event was an excellent opportunity for ECE students to present their research projects, share their creative ideas, and network with their peers. More than 20 posters were presented by graduate and undergraduate students, covering a diverse range of research topics. Also, six Fall 2024 Capstone teams had a chance to showcase their senior design project:
December 4, 2023
ECE Professor Yingying Chen has been selected as Top Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Year 2023 by the International Associate of Top Professionals (IAOTP).
December 4, 2023
ECE Associate Professor Anand D. Sarwate has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society for 2024 to 2025.
December 1, 2023
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.
November 2023
November 29, 2023
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.
November 27, 2023
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.
November 20, 2023
Associate Professor Anand Sarwate has received the Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award. The award was presented by Dean Alberto Cuitino and Department Chair Yingying Chen.
November 20, 2023
ECE Assistant Professor Zhao Zhang has received his career award from NSF. The project is “CAREER: Efficient and Scalable Large Foundational Model Training on Supercomputers for Science”. The total value is $599,707 for a five-year period starting Summer 2024.