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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.”
Jul 23, 2025
Akcay and Martagan received 2025 EURO Award
MIE Associate Professors Alp Akcay and Tugce Martagan were awarded the 2025 EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper. This award recognizes the most outstanding paper published in the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), one of the leading journals in the field of operations research and decision sciences.
Jul 23, 2025
Seba’s Short-Tailed Bat Displays Distinctive Wing-Bone Morphological and Material Properties
Bioengineering alumni Xiaoxiang Ma, MS’23, and MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, published their research on “A proximodistal gradient in bone structure and mechanics in the wings of Seba’s short-tailed bat, Carollia perspicillata” in The Anatomical Record.
Jul 22, 2025
Advancing Weather Prediction for Defense Applications
CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly is the lead PI for a $1,000,000 grant from the Air Force Weather titled “Weather Ensemble Analytics and Visualization Environment (WEAVE)”.