Prof. Sairaj Dhople has been named McKnight Land-Grant Professor. He is one of nine recipients of the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship Program for 2017-19. His research is primarily concerned with ways by which renewable sources such as solar and wind power can be harnessed in conjunction with conventional sources such as coal and nuclear power. Among […]
Prof. Georgios Giannakis from ECE is ranked 18 worldwide in the areas of computer science and electronics, and has an H-index of 123. The author of more than 380 journal articles and 650 refereed conference proceedings publications, he has over 58,000 citations. In addition, he has authored seven books and numerous book chapters. Prof. Giannakis has served as […]
ECE doctoral student Chunhui Dai has won the Best Poster award at the 2016 Materials Research Society’s (MRS) Fall meeting. His research poster was one of only 5 Best Poster award winners from among 600 posters presented at the MRS meeting. Chunhui’s poster is titled “Nanoscale In Situ Self-Assembly Using Ion-Beam Microscopy System.” He is […]
In an international/multi-institutional undertaking, Prof. Tony Low from ECE and researchers from other institutions have conducted a study that highlights how manipulation of 2D materials could make our modern day devices faster, smaller, and better. The findings are published in the most recent edition of Nature Materials, a leading journal in materials science and engineering research. […]
ECE faculty, Prof. Steven Koester has been named an IEEE Fellow effective January 2017. He is cited by the IEEE for “contributions to group-IV electronic and photonic devices.” Prof. Koester’s research focuses on novel electronic, photonic and sensing device concepts with an emphasis on graphene and other 2D materials. He has authored or co-authored over […]
The University of Minnesota has been awarded funding by the DoE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to address challenges to system reliability and power quality by widespread stochastic renewable power generation. The project will be under the NODES (Network Optimized Distributed Energy Systems) program by ARPA-E. The $33 million undertaking will involve 12 institutions and […]
The Institute on the Environment (IonE) has invited Prof. Ned Mohan to be an IonE Fellow. As an affiliate of the Institute he will also be an IonE Educator for the 2016-2017 academic year. He will focus on the development of best practices in sustainability instruction and curriculum development. He will also pursue a year […]
Alumnus Zhong Feng Wang now at Broadcom Corporation, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to VLSI design and implementation of forward error correction coding. He earned his doctoral degree in 2000, under the guidance of Prof. Keshab Parhi. Prof. Stergios Roumeliotis has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to visual-inertial navigation and […]