From Selfish Driving to Social Optimality

in *NEWS, *Research, Christos Cassandras, ECE - Data Science and Intelligent Systems, ECE Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE Research, Systems Engineering

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.

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Envisioning an Imperfect World

in *NEWS, *Research, Artificial Intelligence, ECE - Data Science and Intelligent Systems, ECE - Imaging and Optical Science, ECE Faculty, ECE Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Harry Chao

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 […]

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Two Eng Faculty Honored by SPIE

in *NEWS, Biomedical Engineering, ECE - Photonics, Electronics, and Nanotechnology, ECE Faculty, Irving Bigio, Siddharth Ramachandran

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 […]