Content Tagged with: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical engineering professor receives highly competitive grant
Ran Cheng, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has recently received a $250,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to explore the possibility of using an emerging class of materials known as magnetic topological insulators to build electronics with extremely low power consumption.
DOE awards $300,000 to UCR professor for accelerating EV integration
UCR electrical and computer engineering team wins $300,000 prize from the U.S. Department of Energy for developing a data-driven planning platform for the nation’s largest electrical utility.
Electrochemical carbon capture shows promise in climate fight
The perspective of UCR electrical and computer engineering professor Mihri Ozkan about using electrochemical technology to fight climate change was featured in an online Voices segment of CHEM, a scientific journal focusing on chemistry and interconnected fields.
UCR professor’s insights featured in major scientific journal
The insights of UCR professor Mihri Ozkan are featured this week in an online edition of a highly respected scientific journal.
$1.2 million grant awarded for robotics software development
A $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow UCR to develop better software architecture for robotics and other autonomous systems.
Professor Ozkan wins prized Selcuk Yasar Award in Turkey
Mihrimah Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, is recognized in Turkey for her work in addressing climate change by receiving the Selcuk Yasar Award.
Addressing the nation’s need for strong domestic semiconductor industry and infrastructure
Last year, UC Riverside scientists Shane Cybart and Ludwig Bartels and colleagues at UC Irvine received $5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, to team up with Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in building a diverse educational pipeline in the field of microelectronics. Developing expertise and infrastructure in...
UCR research “blew our minds,” says Scientific American
Recognition keeps coming in for UCR assistant research professor Hossein Taheri for his work with “time crystals,” which are being studied as a new state of matter. Scientific American last month named Taheri’s work as one of “6 Times Quantum Physics Blew Our Minds in 2022.” The article is an end-of-year wrap up that summarized a more detailed...
Teaching professor receives Regents Faculty Fellowship
J ia Chen, an assistant teaching professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded a Regents Faculty Fellowship by the UCR Academic Senate’s Committee on Research to support her design and development of new models that can improve our ability to handle heterogeneous data used in machine learning and data science. The one-year, $9...
Engineering faculty join center to improve STEM pipeline for underrepresented students
Jia Chen and Vagelis Papalexakis collaborate with UT Rio Grande Valley on project
Multimodal sensing and learning project receives Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant
Salman Asif will develop a new framework to co-design sensing and learning algorithms to capture and efficiently process only the most essential data
Will Brillouin spectroscopy become as indispensable for science as Raman spectroscopy?
Review paper identifies new twists and turns in light scattering spectroscopy
Jay Farrell named new endowed chair
The KA Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering established through $1 million gift
Bir Bhanu named a National Academy of Inventors fellow
Bhanu holds 18 U.S. and international patents with several others pending
Electro-magnetic capacitors could eventually rival gasoline for energy storage
Incorporating a magnetic field could help capacitors store more energy without breaking down
Two BCOE professors join DOE Energy Frontier Research Center
Alexander Balandin’s Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials Center will contribute to the Ultra EFRC’s research efforts by investigating acoustic phonons and thermal conduction in wide-band gap materials
Mihri Ozkan elevated to National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Ozkan is the first woman in the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering and the fifth UC Riverside professor to join the National Academy of Inventors.
Data-driven discovery of one-dimensional materials
Balandin and Bartels receive $1.12 million grant to discover new van der Waals materials
Electrical engineer receives the Faculty Research Lecturer Award
Bir Bhanu is a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns Endowed Presidential Chair in Engineering
New group of light pulses for a faster internet
Dissipative pure quartic solitons carry similar amounts of power at different frequencies, making them particularly suitable for power-efficient high-data-rate optical communication