ECE PhD students Morriel Kasher and Rahul Aggarwal (under the supervision of Dr. Predrag Spasojevic) were selected as a finalist team for the 2023 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) for their proposal entitled Efficient Fixed-Point Design of Wideband MIMO Radar for Autonomous Driving.
News
June 2023
June 7, 2023
Rahul Aggarwal, an ECE WINLAB Ph.D. candidate, has been selected as the recipient for the IEEE Communications Society Phoenix ISS Award 2023. Prof. Predrag Spasojevic is Rahul's advisor. Rahul's research lies at the intersection of signal processing, signal design and communication systems. His paper titled “Low Latency Adaptive Receiver Processing using Nested Complete Complementary Codes” is about an efficient adaptive processing algorithm for MIMO Radars where the transmit signal is based on Golay complementary sequences.
May 2023
May 15, 2023
Graduating senior, Arpan Gupta has been recognized as a Henry Rutgers Scholar.
Arpan is double majoring in ECE and Computer Science and completed a thesis in Computer Science. Students completing honors theses in SAS departments are recognized each year as Paul Robeson Scholars. Some of those students are then nominated by their departments and selected by the award committee to receive Henry Rutgers Scholars Awards for having written exceptionally strong theses.
May 12, 2023
Graduation and Capstone Day photos are in the Capstone Google Photo Album.
You can get there from Academics > Undergraduate > ECE Capstone page
then click on 2023 Capstone Google Photo Album,
or click this link:
ECE Google Photo Album
The graduation photos are at the very bottom, so scroll all the way to view them.
May 11, 2023
ECE Assistant Professor Shirin Jalali received a new grant titled "Compressed Sensing for Coherent Imaging Systems" from the Division of Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences (MCIS) of ONR. It is a collaboration between Rutgers and Columbia University. Our share is $239K. (Total award is $390K for three years.)
May 8, 2023
ECE Professor Michael Caggiano has been voted by the Rutgers SOE Undergraduate Student Body to receive the 2022-23 Engineering Governing Council (EGC) Professor of the Year Award from within the Department of ECE. This award is annually given to one faculty member from each department in Rutgers SOE who best exemplifies the SOE mission of “Education, Research, and Service.” Michael has been an outstanding teacher in ECE covering courses in the important area of sustainable energy.
Congratulations to Michael!
May 5, 2023
Professor Emina Soljanin has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award. This award is given by the IEEE Information Theory Society to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community. The selection committee was particularly impressed with the diversity of Emina's service activities, especially her mentorship of young researchers.
Congratulations to Emina!
May 1, 2023
Sahana Senthilkumar, a freshman student from the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, is set to participate in the 2023 Aresty Summer Science Program in the ECE department. Pursuing a double major in Biomathematics and Computer Science, Sahana has been selected to undertake an exciting research project that aims to investigate the propagation of emotions in fish schools.
April 2023
April 28, 2023
ECE Faculty Predrag Spasojevic has received a DURIP grant from ONR for a project entitled "Deployable Battlefield of Highly Reconfigurable Wideband RF Transmitters". This is a 2-year project and was funded at $750K.
This is the only DURIP grant awarded to a Rutgers Team in 2023:
https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/22/2003119888/-1/-1/1/FY23-DURIP-AWARDS.PDF
April 27, 2023
ECE faculty Mehdi Javanmard has been selected to receive the prestigious Presidential Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award for the academic year 2022-2023. This award is bestowed in recognition of Mehdi's outstanding teaching and scholarly accomplishments in his years at Rutgers. The award will be presented to him and his fellow honorees at a reception to be held by President Holloway on May 10, 2023.