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Aug 22, 2022
Determining Human Movements After Large Scale Events
CEE Associate Professor Ryan Qi Wang, in collaboration with researchers from RPI and Columbia University, published the paper “A spatiotemporal decay model of human mobility when facing large-scale crises” in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Aug 18, 2022
Lin Wins U.S. DOT Inclusive Design Challenge Stage II
ECE Assistant Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin, together with Prof. Nicholas Giudice and Prof. Richard Corey at U Maine, and Prof. Stacy Doore at Colby College, became a Finalist Awardee and will receive $300k for winning the prize in the second phase of the national 2022 Inclusive Design Challenge from U.S. Department of Transportation. They created […]
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Aug 18, 2022
Ultra-low Power Distributed Beamforming to Harvest Indoor RF Energy
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a $400K NSF grant for “High Efficiency Distributed Beamforming RF Energy Transfer using a Closed-loop Energy Receiver.”
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Aug 18, 2022
Designing Computer Models for Multi-Area Power Grids That Isolate Divergence Anomalies
ECE Professor Ali Abur was awarded a patent for “Computer-implemented methods and systems for avoiding divergence in multi-area power grid state estimation.”
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Aug 18, 2022
Creating Radiation Shielding with Nanoparticle Composites
ChE Professor Ming Su was awarded a patent for “Enhanced radiation shielding with conformal, lightweight nanoparticle-polymer composite.”
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Aug 18, 2022
Using Spark Fund Award to Build a Better Roof with Cooling Paper
MIE Professor Yi Zheng is using the Spark Funds he received earlier this year to use passive cooling paper in designing more efficient roofing materials.
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Aug 17, 2022
Predicting Seizures in Epilepsy Patients
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia and Principal Research Scientist Pedram Johari, in collaboration with Joseph Neimat from the University of Louisville, Jorge Jimenez from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Doug Pham from Microchip Technology Inc., received a $550K NSF Partnerships for Innovation – Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) grant for “Smart Seizure Prediction System based on AI-enabled Implantable Sensor Networks.”
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Aug 17, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Derya Aksaray
Derya Aksaray joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2022 as an Assistant Professor.