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Jul 21, 2021
Advancing How AI Can Augment Designer Performance
MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam is the PI of a $614K NSF grant with co-PIs Tucker Marion (D’Amore-McKim) and Paolo Ciuccarelli (CAMD), in collaboration with Lu Wang from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, for the project “From User Reviews to User-Centered Generative Design: Automated Methods for Augmented Designer Performance.”
Jul 20, 2021
RFDataFactory: Categorized and Searchable Research Datasets
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury (PI), William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor Tommaso Melodia (co-PI), and Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia (co-PI) are leading a $1.8M NSF grant, in collaboration with Ashutosh Sabharwal from Rice University, for “RFDataFactory: Principled Dataset Generation, Sharing and Maintenance Tools for the Wireless Community.” RFDataFactory aims to make available categorized datasets suitable for research related to machine learning in 5G and beyond networks, and advance fundamental understanding and design tools for accessing, creating, sharing and storing wireless datasets.
Jul 20, 2021
ECE PhD Student Wins Best Student Paper Award at EFTF-IFCS 2021
ECE student Hussein M. E. Hussein, PhD’24, was awarded the 2021 Joint Conference of European Frequency and Time Forum & the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (EFTF-IFCS) Best Student Paper Award for Paper “Parametric Acoustic-Based Passive Transponders for Ultra-Sensitive Temperature and Temperature-Threshold Sensing.”
Jul 20, 2021
Investigating the Dynamics of Biochemical Systems
University Distinguished Professor Eduardo Sontag, ECE/BioE, is the PI of a $305K NSF grant for designing “New Techniques for Analyzing the Long-term Behavior of Intracellular Networks.” The project aims to develop an approach to the computer-aided analysis of biochemical networks and is based on research done in the Sontag Lab by Senior Research Scientist Muhammad Ali Al-Radhawi.
Jul 19, 2021
Yeh Named Inaugural Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh has been named the inaugural Area Editor in Networking and Computation for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. The IEEE Transactions on Information Theory is a leading journal that publishes theoretical and experimental papers concerned with the transmission, processing, and utilization of information.
Jul 19, 2021
MIE Student Wins Prestigious DoD SMART Scholarship
Paola Kefallinos, E’23, ME’24, mechanical engineering, was recently awarded the Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship.
Jul 16, 2021
Abigail Koppes Selected for 2021 NASA STAR Program
ChE Associate Professor Abigail Koppes was selected to be part of the highly competitive NASA’s Spaceflight Technologies, Application, and Research (STAR) Program for working with NASA and flight-ready experiment design.
Jul 15, 2021
Understanding microRNA Roles in Stochastic Multistable Networks
BioE Assistant Professor Mingyang Lu and Physics/BioE University Distinguished Professor Herbert Levine, in collaboration with Leonidas Bleris from the University of Texas at Dallas, were awarded a $1.4M NSF grant for “Genome Editing Approaches to Unravel microRNA Roles in Stochastic Multistable Networks.”