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Jul 31, 2025
Data Analytics Student Wins Agentic AI Hackathon
Aminu Yiwere, MS’26, data analytics engineering, won first place in a recent Agentic AI Hackathon hosted by the Vancouver campus.
Jul 30, 2025
Uncovering Byproduct Concerns in Eco-Friendly Electronics
Professor of electrical and computer engineering Ravinder Dahiya and Sofia Sandhu, a postdoc working in Dahiya’s group, recently published a paper “End-of-Life usefulness of degradation by products from transient electronics” in npj Flexible Electronics.
Jul 29, 2025
Securing the Next-Generation of AI-Driven Cellular Networks
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, in collaboration with Saint Louis University, was awarded a $900,000 NSF grant for “Securing xApps in Open RANs with Reliable and Principled AI Red-Teaming.”
Jul 28, 2025
Polese Elected For AI-And-RAN Working Group
ECE Assistant Research Professor Michael Polese was elected as Chair of the WG2 AI-and-RAN Working Group.
Jul 28, 2025
Understanding Bone Change From Evolution To Everyday Movement
MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, in collaboration with Brown University, was awarded a $625,000 NSF grant for “Bones and Burrowing: Mechanoadaptation in phylogeny, ontogeny and ecology of Peromyscus.”
Jul 28, 2025
A Passion for Sustainability Leads to Energy Systems Program
Alexandra Vergara-Anglim, E’25, MS’25, energy systems, was inspired by her Dialogue of Civilizations in Norway and interest in public policy to dedicate her studies to finding ways to make energy more sustainable to benefit Earth’s climate.
Jul 24, 2025
Advancing Health Research While Safeguarding Genetic Privacy
MIE Assistant Professor Xubo Yue, in collaboration with Brown University, has received a $1M NSF grant for the project titled “SCH: Protecting Privacy and Promoting Fairness in Advanced Genomic Research using Federated Learning.” This project represents a significant step forward in advancing federated learning for large-scale, privacy-preserving analysis of biological data across multiple institutions – enabling collaboration without the need for data sharing.
Jul 24, 2025
Breakthroughs In Next-Generation Wireless Communication
ECE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, in collaboration with Princeton University (lead), Florida International University, and New York University, was awarded a $1.2M NSF grant for “Resilient Multi-User Mobile sub-THz Networks using Near-Field Wavefronts.”