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Jun 06, 2024
Ensuring Safety and Evaluating Risks for Deep-Sea Missions
ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh outlines the safety certifications and risk evaluations that go into deep-sea research missions in autonomous underwater vehicles. Despite last year’s OceanGate tragedy, another manned deep dive is planned to take place in the summer of 2026.
Jun 06, 2024
$1M Air Force Award To Harness Solar and Thermal Energy for Spacecrafts
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng, in collaboration with Faraday Technology Inc., received a $1 million research grant from the U.S. Air Force, for a “Concentric Ultra-Dark Solar-Thermal Absorber and Metasurface Thermal Emitter for Thermophotovoltaic Power Conversion.”
Jun 05, 2024
Developing Next-Generation Durable and Sustainable Polymers
MIE Assistant Professor Ruobing Bai received a $110,000 Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for “Fracture and Toughening of Reconfigurable Polymers: Towards Next-Generation Durable and Sustainable Materials.”
Jun 05, 2024
Best Paper Runner-Up for X5G Open Testbed
ECE PhD students, and ECE and WIOT faculty and research staff received the Best Paper Runner-Up for their paper, “An Open, Programmable, Multi-Vendor 5G O-RAN Testbed With NVIDIA ARC and OpenAir Interface,” at the 2nd Workshop on Next-Generation Open and Programmable Radio Access Networks (NG-OPERA).
Jun 05, 2024
Best Short Paper Award for Simulating Connected Cars With ColosSUMO
ECE Research Engineer Gabriele Gemmi, Principal Research Scientist Pedram Johari, Assistant Research Professor Michael Polese, and William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received the Best Short Paper Award for their paper “ColosSUMO: Evaluating Cooperative Driving Applications With Colosseum” at the 2024 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) in Japan.
Jun 05, 2024
Patent for Single-Molecule Protein Analysis
COS/BioE Professor Meni Wanunu received a patent to create a “Method and system for linearization and translocation of single protein molecules through nanopores.”
Jun 05, 2024
Investigating the Effectiveness of the Longevity Movement
MGEN Associate Teaching Professor Ram Hariharan says the science of longevity is far more complex than much of the anti-aging marketing would suggest. As human clinical trials haven’t yielded definitive results, Hariharan advises sticking to simple and traditional recommendations for longevity.
Jun 05, 2024
Revolutionizing Refrigeration With Tiny Wireless Sensors
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella and Distinguished Professor Nian Sun received a $500,000 NSF grant for “Boosting the Cold Chain Efficiency Through Integrated, Magnetoelectric, Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Devices in pAssive on-Chip Tags (IMPACT).”