News
December 2021
December 7, 2021
The Rutgers Board of Governors appointed Shriram Ramanathan as the first holder of the Rodkin-Weintraub Chair in Engineering. The chair was established in 2018 through a gift from the Rodkin Family Foundation and a matching gift by an anonymous donor.
November 2021
November 11, 2021
President Jonathan Holloway has announced that ECE Associate Professor Waheed Bajwa has been selected to receive the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching for the academic year 2020-2021. The Warren I.
November 8, 2021
November 3, 2021
ECE Associate Professor Laleh Najafizadeh is the recipient of a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) award for the research project titled "Augmenting Implanted Neuroprosthetics with Targeted Health Monitoring for Spinal Cord Injury - the LIFELINE" through the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. This 4-year collaborative R01 grant led by Case Western Reserve University is funded at $2.6 million with Rutgers share being $262,560.
November 1, 2021
ECE Associate Professor Salim El Rouayheb is the recipient of a new award from the Army Research Lab (ARL) for the project titled "Machine Learning Algorithms and Optimizations for Resource-Constrained Tactical Edge." Dr. El Rouayheb is the Rutgers PI on a three-year $1.2 million collaborative effort with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), with Rutgers share of the award being $497,000.
October 2021
October 12, 2021
ECE Assistant Professor Chung-Tse Michael Wu is the recipient of a new award from the Army Research Lab (ARL) for the project “Power Efficient Metamaterial Intelligent Surfaces and Antenna Arrays using Liquid Metal-based Heterogeneous Integration.” This project is funded at $200,000 for the first year with an option to extend to $750,000 over three years.
September 2021
September 22, 2021
ECE Professor Emina Soljanin is the recipient of a new NSF award for the research project titled "Redundancy for Storage in the Edge." This is a three-year project in partnership with Technion, Israel that is supported under the NSF US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) Collaborative Research Opportunities. Rutgers' share of the award is $500,000.
September 22, 2021
ECE Professor Emina Soljanin is the recipient of a new NSF award for the research project titled "Service Rates of Codes." This three-year $500,000 project is funded by the Communication and Information Foundations (CIF) program that supports foundational computer science and engineering research and education to advance the areas of communication, information theory, signal processing and networking.
September 15, 2021
A team of Rutgers ECE researchers led by Associate Professor Dario Pompili (PI) along with co-PIs Saman Zonouz (Associate Professor) and Bo Yuan (Assistant Professor) are the recipients of a $280K supplement award from the National Science Foundation under the DARPA-NSF Real-Time Machine Learning (RTML) program for the project titled "Trustworthy Autonomous UAVs via Compiler-Accelerated Efficient AI,” in collaboration with the University of Washington (UW).