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Sep 11, 2026
AIResQ Startup Uses Physics-Guided AI for Flood Resilience
Co-founded by CEE PhD alumni Udit Bhatia, PhD’18, and COE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly, the startup AIResQ combines physics-guided artificial intelligence with localized data and custom low-cost sensors to help Indian cities and transportation networks predict and prepare for monsoon floods in real time.
Sep 10, 2026
Nature Spotlights the Rise of Single-Cell Proteomics — and Slavov Lab’s Role in Its Founding
Nikolai Slavov, a COE Distinguished Professor and director of the Single-Cell Proteomics Center, is featured in a Nature technology feature tracing the field’s evolution from an unproven idea to a robust, discovery-driving technology.
Sep 10, 2026
Su and Fu Receive Best Paper Award at ECCV DriveX Workshop
ECE Assistant Professor Lili Su and Professor Raymond Fu, alongside their research group, received the DriveX@ECCV 2026 Best Paper Award at the DriveX Workshop during the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026 in Malmö for their paper titled “Post-Training in End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Taxonomy, Methods, and Challenges.”
Sep 08, 2026
Patent for Robust Wi-Fi Environment Sensing Technology
ECE Associate Professor Francesco Restuccia was awarded a patent for “System and method for sensing an environment.”
Sep 08, 2026
Patent for Zeta-Based AC Link Power Converter
ECE Associate Professor Mahshid Amirabadi was awarded a patent for “Zeta-based AC link universal power converter.”
Sep 04, 2026
New Faculty Spotlight: Karthikeyan Baskaran
Karthikeyan Baskaran joined the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in August 2026 as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Oakland, California.
Sep 04, 2026
New Faculty Spotlight: Enrique del Castillo
Enrique del Castillo joined the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in July 2026 as an Assistant Professor.
Sep 04, 2026
New Faculty Spotlight: Xiu Liu
Xiu Liu joined the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in August 2026 as an Assistant Professor in Oakland, California.