Follow this link to watch the CNN video featuring ECE professor James West. ECE professor James West was recently featured in CNN’s Forces of Change series, which they present with AT&T! The video, which can be watched by clicking the first link above, discusses West’s role in the creation of the microphone, as well as […]
ECE professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings has been plenty busy while on sabbatical in Seychelles. Etienne-Cummings served as a mentor for the country’s group of students competing in the global competition, First Global Challenge 2020, which is a yearly international robotics challenge that aims to ignite a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) among the […]
Muyinatu Bell, an ECE Assistant Professor and PULSE Lab Director, recently was awarded a $1 million grant through the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Smart and Connected Health (SCH) program, which aims “to accelerate the development and integration of innovative computer and information science and engineering approaches to support the transformation of health and medicine.” Bell’s […]
Najim Dehak, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently received the Whiting School of Engineering’s (WSE) William H. Huggins Excellence in Teaching Award. The award is given in recognition of outstanding teaching in WSE at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and a demonstrated dedication to students. Faculty, teaching assistants, […]
Back in the 1980s, when the study of artificial intelligence was branching out into exciting new realms, Rama Chellappa organized a national conference focused on two emerging niches: computer vision and pattern recognition. The event, he recalls, drew a modest crowd. Last year the same conference brought together more than 6,000 researchers from around the world. “It’s an exciting […]
Muyinatu Bell, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is also the principal investigator of the Photoacoustic & Ultrasonic Systems Engineering Lab (PULSE Lab), will deliver a Hot Topic talk at the SPIE Photonics West 2020 Conference, which is set to take place from February 1-6 in San Francisco. The […]
When Wilson J. Rugh, now a professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, co-wrote a paper titled “Research on gain scheduling,” back in 2000, it generated plenty of buzz. For example, Rugh found himself delivering keynote addresses at international conferences in the Netherlands and Hong Kong. He was surprised, however, to find […]
