This Is Your Brain on Microwaves
Professor Chen Yang leads $3M investigation into the non-thermal mechanisms of bioeffects of microwaves on neurons.
Popović Podcast Touts Integrated Photonics for Quantum Computing
Pioneering photonics researcher Professor Miloš Popović appeared on the NSF’s Discovery Files Podcast this week to discuss his groundbreaking collaboration on the first electronic photonic quantum chip. Watch the video (or listen on your preferred podcast platform) to learn more about the potential advantages of integrating photonics into both traditional, and quantum, computing technologies.
Scattering Light, Showered with Praise: Professor Cheng Receives 2026 Charles Mann Award.
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng receives the 2026 Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy.
Preventative Measures for Online Scams
Professor Gianluca Stringhini and Pujan Paudel (PhD’25) received a Distinguished Paper Award at NDSS 2025 for an effective new system designed to identify fraudulent websites.
Catching Up with ECE Faculty
Awards, a TED talk, and an opportunity to vote for a professor’s impactful invention!
From Selfish Driving to Social Optimality
In a recent Nature report, titled “Smart cities drive into the future,” Christos Cassandras was interviewed and shared his proposal for a networked environment in which every vehicle shares data with another vehicle or a coordinator regarding position, velocity, and destination to optimize routing across the entire city.
Envisioning an Imperfect World
New ECE Professor Harry Chao’s Approach to Machine Learning Meets Reality Where It Is by A.J. Kleber Outside the tidy binaries of digital computation, the world is a messy place. Few things in life are clearly observable and predictable, whether you’re looking at individual human behavior, traffic, organisms, or the weather. This is a truth […]
Next-Level Networking
New Professor David Lake and the quantum architecture of the future.
Two Eng Faculty Honored by SPIE
Two College of Engineering faculty members were recently honored by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Siddharth Ramachandran For his ingenuity, and years of dedicated effort and exploration, Distinguished Professor Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE) has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 SPIE G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization. Named for Sir Gabriel […]
High-Capacity Contributions
Professor Siddharth Ramachandran receives SPIE G.G. Stokes Award.