$3M Grant from National Science Foundation Supports Research Traineeship for Robotics of the Future Program to Improve Quality of Life.
A new group of socially-cognizant roboticists will emerge from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey thanks to a $3M National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) grant.
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September 25, 2020
5G Wireless May Lead to Inaccurate Weather Forecasts
Upcoming 5G wireless networks that will provide faster cell phone service may lead to inaccurate weather forecasts, according to a Rutgers study on a controversial issue that has created anxiety among meteorologists.
September 11, 2020
ECE Associate Professor Dario Pompili is the recipient of a new NSF award for the project titled “xl_NGRAN–Navigating Spectral Utilization, LTE/WiFi Coexistence, and Cost Tradeoffs in Next Gen Radio Access Networks through Cross-Layer Design." This is a 3-year $450K grant from the Spectrum and Wireless Innovation enabled by Future Technologies (SWIFT) program.
August 2020
August 20, 2020
A team of ECE researchers led by Distinguished Professor Athina Petropulu (PI) have received a new NSF award titled “MIMO Radar With Sparse Linear Arrays - Theory, Implementation and Applications." This project includes Professor Yingying Chen and Assistant Professor Chung-Tse Michael Wu as co-PIs. The total award amount for the three-year project is $450,000.
August 20, 2020
Mehdi Javanmard, an associate professor in the School of Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has received a two-year, $500,000 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA). The award also includes a $500,000 option phase for a third year.
August 12, 2020
ECE Professor Yingying Chen (PI) and WINLAB CTO, Ivan Seskar are the recipients of a new NSF planning award titled "Hardware-accelerated Trustworthy Deep Neural Network” from the NSF Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems (PPoSS) program. This is a one-year $250,000 collaborative effort among Rutgers, Indiana University, Temple University and NYIT, covering the disciplines of electrical and computer engineering, computer science, security and data science.
August 10, 2020
ECE Professor Kristin Dana is the PI for a $3M National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) grant to Rutgers entitled SOCRATES: Socially Cognizant Robotics for a Technology Enhanced Society. The co-PIs are Kostas Bekris (CS), Clinton Andrews (Bloustein School), Jacob Feldman (Psychology), and Jingang Yi (MAE).
August 10, 2020
Rutgers School of Engineering is hosting a YouTube live event on Wednesday, August 12 from 3:30 PM to 4:40 PM. Nicholas Paraskevopoulos is an alumnus of the ECE Department and will be interviewed by ECE student ambassador Atmika Ponnusamy (class of 2021) , a member of the Rutgers Engineering Honors Academy and currently interning at Google.
Dr. Paraskevopoulos is currently the Sector Vice President for Emerging Capabilities Development and Chief Technology Officer for Northrop Grumman Mission Systems.
August 10, 2020
A team of Rutgers researchers is part of a multi-university initiative that has been awarded a $300K/1yr Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SII) Planning Grant from the NSF. The other universities in this collaborative effort are Virginia Tech, CMU, University of Florida, MIT, Purdue University, UT Austin and University of Washington.The Rutgers team is led by Professor Wade Trappe (PI). The co-PIs from Rutgers include ECE Professor Yingying Chen and Physics and Astronomy Professor Andrew Baker.
August 7, 2020
ECE Professor Emina Soljanin is the recipient of a new NSF award for the research project titled "Towards Full Photon Utilization by Adaptive Modulation and Coding on Quantum Links." This is a two-year $500,000 collaborative effort between Rutgers and UCLA.