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February 2024

February 5, 2024
The Maryland Robotics Center at the University of Maryland, in partnership with the Microsoft Robotics and Diversity Initiative, has selected ECE graduate student and Rutgers SOCRATES fellow Faith Johnson as a speaker to the Future Leaders in Robotics and AI: Celebrating Diversity and Innovation Seminar Series.  See: 
February 1, 2024
ECE Assistant Professor Jorge Ortiz has been awarded a significant grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the project entitled "Developing the Context-Aware Multimodal Ecological Research and Assessment (CAMERA) Platform for Continuous Measurement and Prediction of Anxiety and Memory State" (Project Number: 1R61MH135405-01). The grant aims to fund the development of the CAMERA platform, an advanced multimodal hardware/software system designed for the nuanced measurement and predictive analysis of anxiety and cognitive performance.
February 1, 2024
Dr. Narendra Nath Puri was a professor of Electrical Engineering at Rutgers for 38 years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was intentional about moving Rutgers Engineering forward and countless students, faculty, staff, and alumni have benefited from his efforts. Dr. Puri passed away on Dec. 4, 2015, at the age of 82. Dr. Puri’s wife, Dr. Kamal Puri, has generously donated this scholarship in honor of her husband and his work.      

January 2024

January 31, 2024
ECE Assistant Professor Zhao Zhang has successfully transfered a NSF Medium award to Rutgers. The project is from the NSF CNS program and titled as “Collaborative Research: CSR: Medium: Fortuna: Characterizing and Harnessing Performance Variability in Accelerator-rich Clusters”. The total value is $1,000,000 ($333,105 at Rutgers, Wisconsin lead) for a three-year period.
January 26, 2024
ECE Assistant Professor Umer Hassan has received a collaborative R01 grant from NIH/NIAID on the project "Urine Colorimetry for Tuberculosis Pharmacokinetics Evaluation in Children and Adults".  Dr. Hassan is a Co-Investigator in the grant. Lead institution is University of Virginia led by Scott Heysell (PI); other collaborating institutions include Haydom Global Health Research Centre in Tanzania, Rutgers Schools of Pharmacy (Leonid Kagan), Engineering (Umer Hassan) and Medicine (Yingda Xie).
January 25, 2024
We are happy to report that Professor and Department Chair Yingying Chen has been elevated to ACM Fellow.  The following is the news release came out from ACM today: === ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 68 Fellows for transformative contributions to computing science and technology.  All the 2023 inductees are longstanding ACM Members who were selected by their peers for groundbreaking innovations that have improved how we live, work, and play.
January 19, 2024
The International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) is a highly selective invitation-only international networking group for leaders from a range of professions. In December 2023, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) professor and chair Yingying Chen was chosen by the IAOTP, based on her credentials, as the Top Professor of the Year in ECE.
January 18, 2024
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.
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:

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