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Jul 31, 2023
Using Visual Correspondences To See the World in Motion
ECE Associate Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin, in collaboration with Khoury Assistant Professor Huaizu Jiang, was awarded a $600,000 NSF grant for “Toward Efficient and Robust Dynamic Scene Understanding Based on Visual Correspondences.”
Jul 26, 2023
Creating Next-Gen Robotic e-Skin With Sensing and Actuation Capabilities
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya was awarded a $230,000 NSF Eager grant for “Flexible and Compressible e-Skin Integrated with Soft Magnetic Coil Based Ultra-thin Actuator and Touch Sensor for Robotics Applications.”
Jul 26, 2023
Chowdhury Selected as Finalist for Blavatnik National Award in Physical Sciences & Engineering
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering for addressing the global need of telecommunications spectrum scarcity, as well as improve connectivity by designing next generation wireless systems and machine learning-based network operations.
Jul 26, 2023
Eco-Friendly Passive Cooling With Recycled Packaging Plastics
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng’s research group Nano Energy Laboratory published their research on “Oil-Paper-Umbrella-Inspired Passive Radiative Cooling Using Recycled Packaging Foam” in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A and “Eco-friendly Passive Radiative Cooling Using Recycled Packaging Plastics” in Materials Today Sustainability.
Jul 25, 2023
Predicting River Floods in New England
MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Muñoz is using satellite imagery and AI to develop a predictive model for river flooding in New England.
Jul 25, 2023
Enhancing Security for Brain-Inspired Computing
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with Shaolei Ren from the University of California-Riverside, was awarded a $600,000 NSF grant for “Securing Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing Against Design-time and Run-time Attacks for Edge Devices.”
Jul 24, 2023
$1.2M NSF Award for Enabling Data Privacy With GPU-Accelerated Encryption
ECE Professor David Kaeli, in collaboration with Ajay Joshi from Boston University, was awarded a $1.2 million NSF grant for “Architecting GPUs for Practical Homomorphic Encryption-based Computing.”
Jul 24, 2023
Burning Iron Particles To Generate Clean Energy
MIE Professors Yiannis Levendis, Hameed Metghalchi, and Associate Professor Randall Erb were awarded a $600,000 NSF grant for “A Study on Burning Iron Particles as Carbon-Free Circular Fuels With Co-Generation of Value-Added Nanomaterials.”