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Team working to reduce energy burdens in Detroit recognized...

PhD students Joshua Brooks, Xavier Farrell, and Madeline Miller are part of an NSF Smart and Connected Communities project that partners with local Detroit organizations to reduce household energy insecurity.

2024 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

The EECS Department has honored four faculty for their sustained excellence in instruction and curricular development, distinguished participation in service activities, or for their significant achievements in scholarly research.
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Zetian Mi receives AVS 2025 NSTD Nanotechnology Recognition Award

This award from the American Vacuum Society honors Prof. Mi’s outstanding contributions to growth of wide bandgap semiconductor materials.

Chris Peikert receives Amazon Research Award for work on efficient, scalable encryption

The award will support his efforts to develop new methods for practical third-generation FHE.

Nishil Talati receives U-M Research Faculty Recognition Award

The award recognizes his excellence in research, particularly in the areas of computer architecture, compilers, and systems software.

Julia Gersey receives ACM SenSys 2025 Best Poster Award for work on sensing city environments

Gersey is integrating computer vision-based infrastructure analysis with mobile air quality monitoring to explore urban conditions that can affect human health.

Shubham Mondal awarded an SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship

Shubham Mondal has received a scholarship from the international society for optics and photonics to support his work on next-generation III-Nitride semiconductor devices.

Chris Peikert named Arthur W. Burks Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

This honor recognizes his excellence in teaching and research, particularly his pioneering contributions to lattice-based cryptography.

Z. Morley Mao named Farnam Jahanian Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

This honor recognizes her outstanding achievements in systems and security research and education.

Euisik Yoon named William G. Dow Collegiate Professor of EECS

Prof. Yoon has led pioneering research in neurotechnology to advance understanding of the brain, and in microfluidic biochips for cancer treatment.

Jay Guo named Emmett Leith Collegiate Professor of EECS

Prof. Guo has been a worldwide leader in nanoimprinting, nanostructure engineering, applications and manufacturing, while exploring a range of associated technology of interest to companies around the world.

Skanda Harisha receives Best Poster Award at IEEE RFID 2025 for work on tracking mmID tags

Harisha and PhD advisor Aline Eid developed a unique type of tag that can be localized using a radar system.

Advancing microelectronics and integrating sensor technologies

NAE profile of Prof. Kensall D. Wise

Advances in organic electronics and optoelectronics

NAE profile of Prof. Stephen R. Forrest

CSE instructors win ENGR 100 Section of the Year

Prof. Peter Chen and team have been recognized for their excellence and innovation in teaching ENGR 100.250: Microprocessors and Toys.

John Bowers honored with 23rd William Gould Dow Distinguished Lectureship

Bowers gave an overview of historical and current research on integrating silicon photonics and lasers into circuits.

Jeff Fessler named ISMRM Senior Fellow for outstanding work in image reconstruction

Fessler is recognized for his work advancing image reconstruction algorithms and ensuring their accessibility for other MRI researchers, improving patient care.

Mark Brehob voted 2025 HKN Professor of the Year in CSE

Dr. Mark Brehob has opened doors for students through his service and teaching.

Chris Peikert receives Eurocrypt 2025 Test-of-Time Award

The award recognizes the significant and lasting influence of his research on practical lattice-based cryptography.

Puffin Air Purifiers team are winners in national innovation competition

Rebecca Lentz and Rachel Silcox received $5K and additional mentorship from the VentureWell Accelerator program to develop their indoor CO2 monitor and air purifier technology.

2025 Undergraduate Student Awards

These students are recognized for their outstanding scholarship, research, service, leadership, and entrepreneurship.

 2025 CoE Staff-Faculty Partnership Award

Prof. Robert Dick is highly respectful of staff while freely praising their efforts and working as a partner to achieve goals.

CS student Amy Wei named Goldwater Scholar

One of the nation’s most prestigious awards for STEM students, the scholarship recognizes Amy’s academic achievements and will support her continued studies at U-M.

Julia Gersey receives DOE Fellowship supporting research to improve urban life

Gersey’s Computational Science Graduate Fellowship will be applied to the problem of homelessness using high-performance computing solutions.

Diwen Xue awarded Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement

The award recognizes his outstanding academic and research accomplishments.

Sarah Jabbour receives Towner Prize for Outstanding GSIs

The award recognizes her excellence and innovation in teaching and her dedication to student success.

Cindy Finelli receives Cinda Sue Davis STEM Equity Leadership Award

Finelli has spent her career improving the education of engineering students through her own research, and by establishing centers and programs for teaching and learning at two different institutions.

Mark Guzdial elected AAAS Fellow

Guzdial is recognized for his substantial contributions to computing education research and pedagogy.

PhD student Ruei-Che Chang named Apple Scholar in AIML

The scholarship recognizes his exceptional research achievements and will support his continued research on enhancing accessibility through AI.

Dennis Sylvester named Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan

Sylvester is an internationally recognized leader in the area of ultra-low power integrated circuit design, entrepreneur, distinguished educator, and leader.

Q&A with Dennis Sylvester: New Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan

University of Michigan’s incoming chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering talks about goals, challenges, and what’s special about ECE.

Zachary Fritts awarded Predoctoral Fellowship to support research on time-varying, electrically-small antennas

Fritts, Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is working on electrically-small antennas, with potential applications in telecommunications, health, and sensing.

Diwen Xue receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

The award recognizes Diwen’s outstanding research accomplishments and will support his continued work on internet security and measurement.

Jingying Wang receives Rackham Barbour Scholarship

Awarded to women of high academic achievement from Asian countries, the Barbour Scholarship will support Jingying’s research on AI systems for medical education.

Siyi Chen awarded Predoctoral Fellowship to support research on Controllable and Interpretable AI models

Chen, Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is working to improve the usability, safety, and reliability of AI systems in real-world applications.

Can Yaras awarded Predoctoral Fellowship to support research on deep learning and generative AI models

Yaras, Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is working to better understand the inner workings of deep learning and provide better access to foundation models in AI.

Ruya Karagulle awarded Predoctoral Fellowship to support research on human-centered autonomous systems

Karagulle, Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is working to provide human-centered approaches to autonomous systems, while ensuring their safety.

Somya Valecha receives Distinguished Academic Achievement Award

The award recognizes computer engineering student Somya Valecha for her outstanding academic record, exemplary character, and leadership as an undergraduate student.

Nouman Khan receives the Professor Pierre T. Kabamba Award

Khan, PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the award for graduate student excellence in control systems.

2025 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

The EECS Department has honored four faculty for their sustained excellence in instruction and curricular development, distinguished participation in service activities, or for their significant achievements in scholarly research.

Shubham Mondal receives Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Research

The College of Engineering award recognizes ECE doctoral student Shubham Mondal for research impacting next-generation electronics.

Rachel Newton awarded Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement in ECE

The College of Engineering award recognizes ECE doctoral student Rachel Newton for outstanding achievements in research, leadership, and academics.

Naman Kabra receives Distinguished Leadership Award

The College of Engineering award recognized Electrical Engineering undergraduate student Naman Kabra for his outstanding leadership, especially on the Solar Car team.

Justin Ting receives Distinguished Leadership Award

The College of Engineering award recognizes Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Justin Ting for his impactful efforts bringing tech communities together for social good.

Amy Liu receives Distinguished Academic Achievement Award

The College of Engineering award recognizes Electrical Engineering student Amy Liu for outstanding academic record, exemplary character, and leadership as an undergraduate student.

U-M alum Andrew Barto wins Turing Award

Barto is the 5th U-M alum to receive this honor, considered the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” in recognition of his contributions to reinforcement learning, a fundamental area of artificial intelligence.

Qing Qu receives U-M Chinese Heritage & Scholarship Junior Faculty Award

Prof. Qu joins the inaugural cohort of awardees recognized as emerging leaders in teaching, research, and service at U-M.

Nishil Talati named IEEE Computer Society Top Early Career Professional

This honor recognizes his exceptional achievements in computer architecture, compilers, and systems software.

Grad student Rishika Varma Kalidindi receives Moeller Award

The award recognizes Rishika’s exceptional scholarly achievement and will support her ongoing master’s studies in CSE.

PhD student Jaylin Herskovitz receives Susan Lipschutz Award

The award recognizes her outstanding achievements and will support her continued PhD studies in CSE.

Thatchaphol Saranurak named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

The fellowship recognizes early-career researchers who have shown exceptional creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

Andrew Owens named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

Owens will use the Sloan Research Fellowship to support his research on the development and utility of computer vision systems that learn from multisensory data.

Ke Wu receives Stellar Academic Research Grant

The award will support her development of collusion-resistant transaction fee mechanisms for blockchain networks.

Zetian Mi receives 2025 Nick Holonyak Jr. Award from Optica

Mi is recognized for his innovations on wide energy gap nanostructures for light emission and energy generation applications.

Johanna Mathieu and Anna Stuhlmacher receive HICSS Best Paper Award for work on the potential of drinking water networks as flexible electric loads

The team found that drinking water distribution networks in the U.S. represent a sizable resource when used as flexible electric loads.

Dhruv Jain and Devin McCaslin receive William Demant Foundation grant for AI-driven dizziness diagnosis

The grant will support their pioneering research to improve diagnostics and management of dizziness, a symptom associated with hearing loss, using AI technology.

Wei Lu named U-M Innovation Champion

As a university-wide leader in tech transfer, Lu will serve as a resource to help ECE faculty connect their research with real-world applications.

Master’s student Dhanush Kumar Mallu receives Dow Sustainability Fellowship

The fellowship will support his efforts in AI-driven environmental sustainability initiatives.

Lisa Li wins IEEE TCNS Best Paper Award for work on guarantees for model predictive control

Prof. Li’s paper, published in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, provides guarantees for large networks with incomplete information access.

Laura Balzano honored with Sarah Goddard Power Award

The award recognizes Prof. Balzano’s advocacy for women in electrical engineering and mathematics through her work as a teacher, scholar, and mentor.

Peter Honeyman honored with Edward Law Emeritus Outstanding Service Award

The award recognizes Honeyman’s continued contributions to teaching, mentorship, and research.

Emily Mower Provost receives Trudy Huebner Service Excellence Award

The award recognizes her transformative leadership and commitment to fostering a supportive graduate student community.

Mosharaf Chowdhury receives David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award

He was honored for his groundbreaking research on AI infrastructure and energy-efficient AI systems.

Cyrus Omar receives 1938E Award

He has been recognized for innovative teaching, mentorship, and dedication to undergraduate research.

Austin Yarger receives Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Award for Excellence in Teaching

The award recognizes his exceptional contributions to game design education and his dedication to student success.

Danai Koutra receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

PECASE is the U.S. government's highest honor for early-career scientists and engineers.

Zheshen Zhang receives 2025 Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Award

This award honors Zhang’s exemplary research, teaching, and service relating to quantum systems engineering.

Rada Mihalcea and Zhijing Jin win two Best Paper Awards at NeurIPS 2024

They and their coauthors were recognized for their papers on multilingual alignment and gender bias in LLMs.

Six CS students named CRA outstanding undergraduate researchers

They were recognized by the CRA for their research achievements and potential.

Six CSE staff recognized by College of Engineering for their outstanding contributions

Diane Crang, Amanda Feaganes, Li Harper, Yili Lin, Chris Puzzuoli, and Josh Zucal have been recognized by the College of Engineering for consistently demonstrating the College’s mission, vision, and values in their work.

Yaxuan (Kaylee) Li receives Qualcomm PhD Fellowship

The award will support her research on AI-driven intelligent sensing technologies.

Seven ECE staff honored with 2024 College of Engineering Staff Incentive Awards

Amy Brooks, Jessi Cebulski, Lisa Flick, Patrick McCollum, Chris Puzzuoli, Michele Ruffino, and Grant Young received these awards for their contributions to the ECE community.

Hamed Alkhathami receives Rackham International Student Fellowship

Alkhathami’s master’s work explores the application of quantum principles to optimize signal processing systems.

Yaxuan (Kaylee) Li receives Rackham International Student Fellowship

The award recognizes her strong academic performance and will support her continued research on advanced AI-driven sensing technologies.

Inderjeet Nair receives Rackham International Student Fellowship

The fellowship was awarded based on his outstanding academic record and will support his continued research on advanced applications of large language models.

U-M student part of winning team in IBM Call-for-Code Global Challenge

CS undergrad Alan Hou, along with his teammates at Georgia Tech, won for their development of Rita, a customizable AI dashboard for educators in Taiwan.

Staff recognized with 2025 CSE Excellence ++ Award

These individuals embody the professionalism and insight that enable the efficient operation of one of the largest units at the College of Engineering.

Chun-Wei Liu receives Rackham International Student Fellowship

Liu’s PhD work in quantum engineering explores collective effects of atom-atom interactions.

Jesse Codling receives ACM BuildSys 2024 paper award for work on heart rate monitoring

Codling’s project, aptly named “FloHR,” uses geophones to measure human heart rate through floor vibrations in home environments.

Kamal Sarabandi receives IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications

This award recognizes Prof. Sarabandi’s many outstanding accomplishments in advancing the fields of radar technologies and their applications.

Thatchaphol Saranurak named Morris Wellman Professor

Saranurak’s research focuses on making computer algorithms faster, more efficient, and more robust, as well as solving complex problems using continuous optimization techniques.

Jay Guo elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to nanoimprint technology

Guo is a world-renowned researcher who has made significant contributions to a wide variety of areas, including nanoimprinting, nanophotonics, organic solar cells, and more.

Mariko Burgin receives ECE Alumni Rising Star Award

Burgin spoke about her journey as an electrical engineer interested in space, leading her to work for NASA and Blue Origin on space missions.

Samuel H. Fuller funds early-career professorship

Fuller gave an alumni lecture on the history of computing and the current state of AI before presenting the inaugural award to Hun-Seok Kim.

Mehdi Hatamian honored with ECE Alumni Impact Award

Hatamian’s work promises to revolutionize healthcare with affordable, quick, and easy cancer screenings.

CSE researchers win Best Paper Award at ICAIF 2024

They were recognized for the excellence of their research on the impact of liquidity on market manipulation.

Xavier Farrell earns NAPS 2024 presentation award for work to predict household savings on electricity bills

Farrell’s PhD work focuses on forecasting long-term financial outcomes for households switching electricity rate plans based on recommendation systems.

Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly and Alex Peahl receive Google grant to develop AI-powered reproductive health chatbot

The funding will support Bondi-Kelly and Peahl’s development of MI-OB-Now, a multi-agent AI system that improves access to reproductive health information.

Brian Noble receives 2024 SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time award

The award recognizes the significant and lasting influence of Noble’s research on application adaptation for mobile environments.

CSE Graduate Honors Competition showcases exceptional research by PhD students

The annual competition features research presentations by a selection of outstanding PhD students in CSE.

Jiong Zhu receives 2024 CSE David J. Kuck Dissertation Prize

The annual award recognizes the excellence of his dissertation on graph neural networks for complex data.

CSE alum Fan Lai receives dissertation recognition at SOSP 2024

The honor recognizes the excellence of Lai’s dissertation on minimalist approaches for pervasive machine learning.

Mike Flynn recognized with SIA/SRC University Research Award

Prof. Flynn’s research on analog-to-digital converters has been applied in biomedicine, telecommunications, machine learning, and more.

Anhong Guo receives ISWC 10-Year Impact Award

He and his coauthors were recognized for the lasting influence of their work on wearable technology for order picking in warehouses.

Todd Austin receives 2024 IEEE Computer Society B. Ramakrishna Rau Award

The award recognizes his influential contributions to computer microarchitecture and compiler technology.

Anhong Guo receives Google funding for live visual description platform for blind people

The grant will support Guo’s continued development of WorldScribe, a system that provides context-aware live visual descriptions of everyday surroundings for those who are blind or have low vision.

Dhruv Jain receives Google funding for enhanced sound awareness for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals

The grant will support Jain’s work to develop a comprehensive auditory scene understanding system.

CSE researchers win Distinguished Paper Award at OOPSLA 2024

The award recognizes the significance of their research on SQL query equivalence checking.

Andrew Owens receives NSF CAREER Award for research to improve machine perception systems

Prof. Owens’ research will help fully autonomous systems interact with their environments without human supervision.

Real-time visual description program for people with low vision wins Best Paper at UIST 2024

CSE authors were recognized for their development of WorldScribe, a program that generates live visual descriptions to assist people who are blind or have low vision.

Leo Kempel receives ECE Distinguished Alumni Educator Award

Kempel delivered his award lecture on restructuring engineering education for the future.

Zetian Mi awarded $7.5M MURI for research on ferroelectric nitrides

Prof. Mi is the lead PI on a collaborative project that aims to advance ferroelectric nitrides for applications in next-generation microelectronics and quantum-photonic devices.

Arthur Xiao wins SID Detroit Metro Chapter Academic Award for work on red micro-LEDs

Xiao’s PhD work has focused on developing tiny, efficient, and stable red LEDs for use in virtual and augmented reality displays.

David Tarver honored with ECE Alumni Merit Award

Returning to campus to receive his award, Tarver spoke about the arc of his professional journey from electrical engineer to community advocate.

Vijay Subramanian awarded $7.5M MURI to rethink game theory in dynamic environments

Prof. Subramanian is the lead PI on a collaborative project to improve the accuracy of modern game theory predictions and produce better outcomes.

Maggie Makar receives Google Research Scholar award for work on causally motivated AI models

The award will support Makar’s work to develop machine learning models that leverage causal reasoning to detect and manage chronic pain.

CSE authors receive Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security for research on geoblocking

The award recognizes the excellence of their work examining geoblocking in the context of the Cuba embargo.

CSE researchers win Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security for work on voter privacy

Their research shows that flaws in randomization put voters’ secret ballots at risk.

CSE researchers win Area Chair Award at ACL 2024

They were recognized for the excellence of their work on structured reasoning in large language models.

Aline Eid receives MTRAC Award to commercialize radar vision for autonomous indoor navigation

Prof. Eid will partner with the industry startup Atheraxon to market technology for automated guided vehicles in warehouse environments and beyond.

Austin Lin awarded IEEE PES Prize Conference Paper for work quantifying HVAC load-shifting efficiency

PhD student Austin Lin presented his award-winning research at the 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting in Seattle.

Hun-Seok Kim appointed as inaugural Samuel H. Fuller Early Career Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Prof. Kim is a world leader in efficient algorithm and VLSI design for wireless communication, signal processing, computer vision, and machine learning.

Danai Koutra receives IBM Early Career Data Mining Research Award

The award recognizes Koutra’s outstanding contributions to the field of data science.

Muhammad Shahbaz receives Google Research Scholar award for work on distributed training in the cloud

Shahbaz is working to develop a novel system to enhance the efficiency of distributed training of large-scale deep learning models in the cloud.

Ziqiao ‘Martin’ Ma awarded Weinberg Graduate Fellowship in Cognitive Science

The award recognizes Martin’s outstanding research accomplishments and will support Martin’s ongoing work on situated language and embodied AI.

Roya Ensafi honored with U-M Henry Russel Award

U-M’s highest honor for early- to mid-career faculty, the award recognizes Ensafi’s outstanding research and teaching contributions.

Kamal Sarabandi honored as inaugural IEEE AP-S Legend of Electromagnetics

The newly established “Legends of Electromagnetics” program recognizes outstanding members of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for their impact on the field.

Reetuparna Das receives ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award

A top honor for mid-career researchers in computer architecture, the award recognizes Das’s outstanding contributions to the field.

Alexander Bandukwala awarded NSF CSGrad4US fellowship

The fellowship aims to increase the number and diversity of graduate students in computer science and will support Bandukwala’s pursuit of a PhD in CSE.

Benjamin Kuipers receives Herbert A. Simon Prize for Advances in Cognitive Systems

The award recognizes Kuipers’ lifetime achievements in AI and robotics research.

CSE researchers receive Social Impact Award at NAACL 2024

The award recognizes the importance of their research on cultural biases in large language models.

Matt Raymond receives Beyster Fellowship to support research on nanoscale particle design

Raymond’s research has the potential to aid treatment of drug-resistant bacterial infections.

Forecasting 'forever chemicals' in U.S. waterways with AI

In collaboration with the Environmental Working Group, researchers at U-M have received a Graham Sustainability Institute Catalyst Grant to develop AI tools that can predict PFAS contamination in water sources across the U.S.

A winning plan for green hydrogen trucking 

Doctoral student Rebecca Lentz is part of a six-member team that earned 2nd place in the inaugural U-M Hydrogen Grand Challenge.

Five CSE students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The fellowship recognizes graduate students in STEM fields for their outstanding research achievements.

CSE recognizes outstanding Graduate Student Instructors and Instructional Aides from Fall 2023

The awards honor outstanding student teachers for their contributions to upholding CSE’s commitment to top-level education and instruction.

CS undergrad Marcus Gozon named Goldwater Scholar

One of the nation’s most prestigious awards for STEM students, the scholarship recognizes Marcus’s academic achievement and will support his continued education at U-M.

Madelyn Gatchel receives 2024 CSE HACKS Spirit Award

The award recognizes Madelyn’s exceptional leadership, service, and embodiment of CSE’s values.

Eight graduate students recognized with CSE DEI Service Awards

The recipients were recognized for their contributions to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in CSE.

James Juett voted 2024 HKN Professor of the Year

Dr. Juett is receiving this honor for the second time.

2024 Undergraduate Student Awards

These students are recognized for their outstanding scholarship, research, service, leadership, and entrepreneurship.

CSE researchers win Best Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2024

The authors were recognized for the excellence of their research on neural-enhanced video streaming.

Roya Ensafi receives Willie Hobbs Moore Achievement Award

The award recognizes Ensafi’s outstanding achievements and contributions to promoting equity in STEM.

Nicole Lam receives Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement

She was selected for the award based on her academic and research excellence.

Chris Peikert named Fellow of the IACR

Peikert was selected for this honor based on his outstanding contributions to cryptography research.

Wei Lu named James R. Mellor Professor of Engineering

Lu is internationally renowned for his pioneering efforts in the development and commercialization of novel electrical devices, specifically memristors for memory and logic applications.

Maggie Makar receives NSF CAREER Award to develop machine learning models backed by causal reasoning

Makar’s research will leverage causal mechanisms to build more robust machine learning models.

Yasha Iravantchi receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Recognizing Iravantchi’s exceptional achievements and progress, the fellowship will support his ongoing research on privacy-preserving sensing for in-home health monitoring.

Divya Ramesh awarded Rackham Barbour Scholarship

Given to high-achieving women from Asian countries, the award recognizes Ramesh’s academic excellence and will support her continued research on algorithmic accountability for socially responsible AI.

Tianji Cong receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

The award recognizes Cong’s outstanding research progress and will support his continued scholarship on realizing AI for data management.

Xinyue Chen awarded Rackham Barbour Scholarship

Awarded to women of high academic achievement from Asian countries, the Barbour Scholarship will support Chen’s research on the use of AI in human-human communication.

Alex Rodríguez receives Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Given by the Georgia Tech College of Computing, the award recognizes the excellence of Rodríguez’s dissertation on AI in epidemic forecasting.

Three staff recognized with 2024 CSE Excellence ++ Award

These individuals provide the professionalism and insight that enable the efficient operation of one of the largest units at the College of Engineering.

CSE researchers receive Mozilla funding for research on AI energy use

The researchers were selected as recipients of the 2024 Mozilla Technology Fund for Zeus, an effort to measure and optimize the energy consumption of machine learning.

Anthony Grbic named John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering

Grbic is a world leader in the development of metamaterials and metasurfaces. Watch his lecture.

Michał Dereziński receives NSF CAREER Award to support next generation of data science algorithms

Dereziński aims to develop improved algorithms for data science applications.

Todd Austin and Valeria Bertacco receive North Campus Deans’ MLK Spirit Award

They were honored with the Community Building & Impact Award for creating the AURA program, a research exchange for undergraduate students at African universities.

H.V. Jagadish receives Stephen S. Attwood Award

The highest faculty honor awarded by the College of Engineering, the award recognizes Jagadish’s outstanding record of achievement in research, teaching, and service.

Mark Guzdial receives Monroe-Brown Foundation Education Excellence Award

The award recognizes Guzdial’s transformational impact on computer science education at U-M and beyond.

Satish Narayanasamy receives Trudy Huebner Service Excellence Award

Narayanasamy has been recognized for his extraordinary service in growing and diversifying the CSE faculty as head of the Faculty Search Committee.

J. Alex Halderman receives H. Scott Fogler Award for Professional Leadership and Service

The award recognizes Halderman’s exceptional leadership and service in the area of computer security.

Kimberly Diaz receives Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Award for Excellence in Teaching

Diaz has consistently demonstrated excellence in teaching, supporting student success and inclusion in EECS 203, a foundational computer science course.

2024 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

The EECS Department has honored four faculty for their sustained excellence in instruction and curricular development, distinguished participation in service activities, or for their significant achievements in scholarly research.

Leland Pierce receives the Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Pierce’s heroic efforts to turn a hands-on lab into a virtual learning experience were highly successful.

Zetian Mi receives CoE Rexford E. Hall Innovation Excellence Award

Prof. Mi has launched two startup companies to promote his pioneering research in artificial photosynthesis and GaN nanoLEDs for applications in sustainable energy, displays and disinfection.

CSE researchers win Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2024

The authors were recognized for their development of a principled method for localizing and recovering from type and type inference errors in programs.

Z. Morley Mao named Fellow of the ACM

Mao was selected for this honor based on her exceptional contributions to network systems and security.

Nikhil Bansal named Fellow of the ACM

This honor recognizes Bansal’s contributions to and excellence in theoretical computer science.

Six CSE staff recognized by College of Engineering for their outstanding contributions

Shannon Escobar, Karen Liska, Jamie Goldsmith, Sarah Snay, Gray Strain, and Punam Vyas have been recognized by the College of Engineering for consistently demonstrating the College’s mission, vision, and values in their work.

Seven ECE staff recognized for their outstanding contributions to the ECE community

Devon Degraffenreed, Misha Erementchouk, Jeff Horosko, Elizabeth Oxford, Eva Ruff, Ann Stals, and Punam Vyas received the CoE Staff Incentive Award for their contributions to ECE.

Greg Bodwin wins Best Paper Award at SOSA 2024

The award recognizes Bodwin’s research on light graph spanners, used to design more efficient networks.

Nouman Khan works to study and improve the operation of multi-agent systems and networks

Khan was awarded a Rackham International Student Fellowship for his research on data-driven control of multi-agent systems, as well as research that studies the spread of information in networks.

Danai Koutra receives 2023 ICDM Tao Li Award

The award recognizes her outstanding achievements in the field of data mining and machine learning.

CSE researchers win Distinguished Paper Award at CCS 2023

CSE authors were recognized for the excellence of their paper on security verification of low-trust computing architectures.

CSE researchers win SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ESEC/FSE 2023

PhD student Madeline Endres and Prof. Westley Weimer have been recognized for the excellence of their paper on student contributions to open-source software projects in EECS 481.

Rick Wallace, KLA President and CEO, on the importance of embracing challenges

Wallace, the 2023 ECE Alumni Impact Award winner, spoke to students about qualities that make successful leaders and companies.

Necmiye Ozay is the Recipient of the First Faculty Development Professorship in ECE

Dr. Enke Chen and Huiyi Luan established the fund in honor of Prof. Stéphane Lafortune.

Jenna Wiens honored with Humboldt Foundation Research Award

The award recognizes her career achievements in artificial intelligence and machine learning and will support her continued collaboration with colleagues in Germany.

Mark Guzdial wins Best Discussion Paper Award at Koli Calling conference

He and his coauthor earned the award for their work on computing education among liberal arts students.

Olgica Milenkovic receives ECE’s Distinguished Educator Award for excellence in teaching bioinformatics, machine learning, and more

Prof. Milenkovic’s research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign spans the areas of algorithm design and computing, bioinformatics, coding theory, machine learning, and signal processing.

Curtis Ling on what makes a successful technology company

As the 2023 ECE Merit Alumni Award winner, Ling chronicled his experience co-founding the semiconductor startup MaxLinear and shared his insights for those interested in pursuing a similar path.

ECE PhD student Shubham Mondal wins APL Materials award for research on ferroelectric nitrides

Ferroelectric nitrides could greatly enhance optoelectronic devices and advance IoT sensors, artificial visual systems, and more.

Alum Mo Faisal on building a successful semiconductor company

Faisal, the 2023 ECE Rising Star Alumni Award recipient, founded Movellus based on his doctoral research conducted under Prof. David Wentzloff.

ECE PhD student Inhwi Hwang awarded two fellowships from IEEE for his research on power electronics

Hwang is working to enhance the stability and robustness of power grid converters, which could help strengthen grid stability for renewable energy sources, as well as help protect against cyber attacks.

2023 CSE Honors Competition highlights outstanding research by grad students

The competition recognizes PhD students in CSE for their excellent research contributions.

Fan Lai awarded Kuck Dissertation Prize for thesis on minimalist systems for machine learning

The annual award recognizes the most impactful dissertations by PhD researchers in CSE.

J. Alex Halderman installed as Bredt Family Professor of Engineering

The endowed professorship recognizes Prof. Halderman’s record of accomplishment and excellence in computer and network security.

Gokul Ravi earns Innovation Award in ICCAD Quantum Computing for Drug Discovery Challenge

Prof. Ravi and his coauthors won the award for their development of CAFQA, which uses classical simulation to bootstrap variational quantum algorithms, enabling more accurate ground state energy estimation.

CSE researchers receive Distinguished Paper Award at OOPSLA 2023

CSE authors were recognized for the excellence of their research on live pattern matching with typed holes in modern programming systems.

Mark Guzdial receives ICER Lasting Impact Award

Prof. Guzdial’s 2012 paper on subgoal-labeled instruction was recognized for its sustained influence on computing education

Yixin Xiao awarded AVS scholarship for research that supports optoelectronic and renewable energy applications

Xiao’s work has helped advance artificial photosynthesis research, and he led a project on red micro LEDs that could expand the possibilities for AR and VR applications.

Dhruv Jain receives NIH grant to improve health education for people with sensory disabilities

Prof. Jain and his collaborators in Michigan Medicine will develop best practices to increase health literacy and access to information for patients with disabilities.

Research describing quantum-inspired computational imaging earns impact award

This Q&A with award co-recipient Alfred Hero offers a glimpse into the emerging field of single photon imaging.

Greg Bodwin named Morris Wellman Professor

Bodwin’s research centers around graph theory, combinatorics, and theoretical computer science.

NSF backs U-M research to enhance reliability of distributed systems

Researchers in CSE have received a four-year NSF grant to support their development of semantic checkers for distributed systems.

Research seeking to improve integration of renewable energy into the grid wins R&D 100 award

Led by Prof. Johanna Mathieu, the project utilizes strategic control of air conditioners to improve the overall efficiency and reliability of the power grid.

Nikola Banovic receives NSF CAREER Award to advance explainable AI

Prof. Banovic aims to use human-AI interaction to explain and justify AI decisions to end users.

Kaleo Roberts awarded fellowship for remote sensing research that could aid crop management

Roberts creates methods to better estimate the radar backscatter from corn fields, which could improve the accuracy of global biomass and soil moisture maps derived from radar observations.

Kang G. Shin receives IEEE TCCPS Technical Achievement Award

The award recognizes Prof. Shin’s substantial and lasting contributions to cyber-physical systems.

Chris Peikert receives Crypto 2023 Test-of-Time Award

The award recognizes the sustained impact of Prof. Peikert’s research on oblivious transfer protocols and lattice-based encryption.

Reetuparna Das named ACM SIGMICRO chair

Prof. Das will oversee the group’s efforts to support cutting-edge research in computer microarchitecture.

PhD student Shuyang Cao awarded Bloomberg Data Science Fellowship

Cao has been selected to join an elite cohort of PhD students performing research in topics related to data science.

George Tzimpragos receives 2023 ACM SIGARCH & IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award

The award recognizes the excellence of Tzimpragos’s doctoral thesis on computer architecture.

Honglak Lee receives RSS 2023 Test-of-Time Award

Lee and coauthors have been recognized for the sustained impact of their paper on detecting robotic grasps via deep learning.

Kyumin Kwon’s research on automating analog circuit design earns Best Paper Award at SMACD23

Kwon combines a human knowledge-based model with an existing digital synthesis tool to significantly increase the speed of characterization and design for large scale analog circuits.

Research to simplify big data graphs earns Best Paper Award at IEEE SSP 2023

Research by PhD student Neophytos Charalambides and Professor Alfred Hero addresses computational and storage bottlenecks for graphs used in statistical problems, signal processing, large networks, combinatorial optimization, and data analysis.

CSE researchers win Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2023

The CSE authors were recognized for the excellence of their paper on grounded vocabulary acquisition in vision-language models.

Michigan Engineering student team wins round two of IBM Call for Code challenge with traffic management solution

The undergraduate student team has developed Traffic AI, a system that uses machine learning to reduce traffic congestion and lower carbon emissions.

CSE recognizes outstanding Graduate Student Instructors and Instructional Aides of 2022/23

The awards honor outstanding student teachers for their contributions to upholding CSE’s mission to provide top-level education and instruction.

Kang G. Shin receives 2023 SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award

The award recognizes the substantial and lasting impact of Shin’s research on real-time dynamic voltage scaling for embedded operating systems.

Kamal Sarabandi honored with 2024 IEEE Electromagnetics Award

Sarabandi is recognized for his outstanding contributions to the theory and application of electromagnetics.

Roya Ensafi joins World Economic Forum Global Future Council focused on complex risks

The Council brings together international thought leaders across government, industry, and academia to study complex, interconnected risk clusters.

Wei Hu receives Google Research Scholar award for research on deep learning theory for real-world data

Hu has received Google support for his development of novel deep learning theoretical approaches that reflect the complex properties of high-dimensional data.

Thatchaphol Saranurak recognized with 2023 Presburger Award

The award recognizes the outstanding contributions of a young scientist in the field of theoretical computer science.

Paul Grubbs and coauthors win IEEE S&P Distinguished Paper Award for research on security risks in modern zero-knowledge proof systems

Their paper explores the dangers of incorrectly applying security measures in modern zero-knowledge proof systems commonly used in cryptocurrencies.

Mosharaf Chowdhury receives Google Research Scholar award for research on resilient deep learning

Chowdhury is working to develop new fault-tolerant techniques to enable deep neural networks to continue training even when failures occur

Olivia Lee awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for brain-machine interfaces that could improve control of robotic prostheses

Lee designs implantable and wearable electronics to help restore movement to those who have lost limbs or have been paralyzed.

Barzan Mozafari receives the EuroSys Test-of-Time award

Prof. Mozafari has been recognized for the sustained impact of BlinkDB, the first massively parallel approximate query engine.

Johanna Mathieu awarded 2023 IEEE PES Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power Award

Mathieu is a national leader on research to reduce the environmental impact, cost, and inefficiency of electric power systems.

Dhruv Jain named Google Scholar to design accessible technologies for deaf and hard of hearing people

Jain is working to design next-generation accessible technologies to give DHH people better awareness of their surroundings.

Gregory Robinson details the journey of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for Gilleo Lectureship

Under Robinson’s leadership, the James Webb Space Telescope project went from being years behind schedule and billions over-budget to one of NASA’s greatest achievements of the 21st century.

Sarah Jabbour selected for CSE HACKS Spirit Award

Through her contributions, Sarah embodies the values that are central to who CSE is as a community.

Five CSE graduate students recognized for improving diversity, equity, and inclusion at CSE

The award recognizes students who make significant contributions toward increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the division.

CSE graduate students celebrated at recognition reception

The CSE HACKS Spirit Award and DEI Service Awards were presented at the event, in addition to recognizing the contributions of the graduate community as a whole.

Researchers recognized at CHI for work on human-NLP system to create reading quiz questions

Their paper received an honorable mention for their work in making high-quality quiz questions easier to create.

Andrew DeOrio voted 2023 HKN Professor of the Year in CSE

Dr. DeOrio has established a well-earned reputation for his excellence in teaching and advancing the practice of education, and this is the third time he’s been voted HKN Professor of the Year.

2022-23 Undergraduate Student Awards

These students are recognized for their outstanding scholarship, research, service, leadership, and entrepreneurship.

Team working to reduce energy burdens in Detroit recognized with Michigan Difference Student Leadership Award

PhD students Joshua Brooks, Xavier Farrell, and Madeline Miller are part of an NSF Smart and Connected Communities project that partners with local Detroit organizations to reduce household energy insecurity.

Aayush Sujit Rajankar awarded the Michigan Difference Student Leadership Quiet Influence Award

Rajankar has played a big role in ensuring that ECE functions effectively and efficiently through his work in the copy room, and his commitment to DEI has helped ensure that ECE’s PhD Visit Day was inclusive for all.

Jane Im earns 2023 Meta Research PhD Fellowship

PhD candidate Jane Im hopes to use the fellowship to advance research into how social media companies can better implement usable privacy controls.

CS Undergrad Meera Kumar selected for WISE Sister Mary Ambrosia Fitzgerald Mentoring Award

She has been recognized as an exceptional mentor of STEM students.

Lauren Biernacki receives GSI Award from Rackham Graduate School

She is recognized for her sustained excellence in teaching, course development, and mentoring.

Julie Tashjian receives College of Engineering Staff Excellence Award

She has been a great asset to CSE as the Division has faced a changing environment.

Mingyan Liu named Alice L. Hunt Collegiate Professor of Engineering

Mingyan Liu, renowned for her research specializing in communication networks and cybersecurity, has served as Chair of ECE since 2018. (video of the talk now available)

2023 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

The EECS Department has honored four faculty for their sustained excellence in instruction and curricular development, distinguished participation in service activities, or for their significant achievements in scholarly research.

Christopher Rutledge honored with the 2023 Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lectureship

Rutledge shared his journey from growing up in rural East Texas to becoming a Distinguished Engineer at Verizon, one of the biggest telecommunications companies in the world.

CS undergrad Morgan VanderLeest named CEW+ Scholar

VanderLeest has been a mentor in the Women in Science and Engineering Residential Program, is a co-lead for the Michigan Hackers security team, and is a model for diversity in tech.

Parag Deotare awarded DURIP grant to probe exciton energy transport at nanoscale

The tool is expected to advance the study of exciton dynamics, which could help identify new research directions for clean energy and information technology.

Ishtiaque Ahmed Navid awarded the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement

Navid focuses on developing nanomaterials for artificial photosynthesis and optoelectronic devices.

Ruba Borno, VP of Amazon Web Services and ECE Alum, stresses empathy and accountability in leadership

Borno, an ECE Rising Star Award winner, recently spoke about her experience in leadership during the pandemic, how her refugee background shaped her life, and why she literally climbs a mountain a year.

Roya Ensafi receives NSF CAREER Award for efforts to combat censorship worldwide

Her goal is to advance the scientific understanding of contemporary online censorship and develop principled and effective countermeasures.

Mahdi Cheraghchi receives Vulcans Education Excellence Award

He is recognized for his work in course development, his engaging and inclusive instruction, and his compassion as an educator and mentor.

Sindhu Kutty receives Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Award for Excellence in Teaching

Her aim has been to combine the personal attention afforded to students at small liberal arts colleges with the resource-rich experience that a leading research university provides.

Five EECS faculty receive Ted Kennedy Family Faculty Team Excellence Award

These faculty each contributed toward a successful center that developed specialized hardware “building blocks” for a range of applications.

LNF Poster Winners announced

The winning research focused on emitting white light with OLEDs, improving atomic layer deposition methods, and high efficiency green and red MicroLEDs for AR/VR.

Laura Balzano receives 2023 MLK Spirit Award

Prof. Balzano has contributed in many ways to promoting an inclusive environment for her students, and is a model for her colleagues.

U-M researchers win Applied Networking Research Prize in partnership with Citizen Lab and Princeton CITP

The ANRP recognizes the most groundbreaking results in applied networking, research in Internet standards, and upcoming figures in the field.

Vijay Subramanian receives 2023 Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Award

The award recognizes Subramanian’s outstanding research, service, and teaching in the area of networked systems.

Mohammad Aamir Sohail awarded inaugural Quad Fellowship in recognition of his excellence in quantum research and international cooperation

Sohail, a PhD student, is one of four U-M students to receive the fellowship, which is given to top graduate students from Australia, India, Japan, and the United States.

Henry Fleischmann awarded prestigious Churchill Scholarship

Fleischmann is one of 16 US students chosen to complete a fully-funded year of graduate research at the University of Cambridge.

Kamal Rudra named a JN Tata Scholar

This highly selective scholarship is awarded to students from India studying overseas.

Lynn Conway to be inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame

Prof. Emerita Conway is recognized for her role in transforming the global microelectronics industry with the invention of VLSI, or Very Large-Scale Integration.

Jenna Wiens receives U-M Sarah Goddard Power Award for outstanding research and advocacy for women in academia

The award recognizes U-M faculty and staff who have significantly contributed to the betterment of current challenges faced by women.

Divya Ramesh chosen for Quad Fellowship in interdisciplinary studies in STEM

Ramesh is one of three students from U-M in the inaugural cohort of fellows from the United States, Japan, India, and Australia.

Roya Ensafi named Morris Wellman Professor

Ensafi’s research focuses on Internet security and privacy, with the goal of creating techniques and systems to better protect users online.

Prof. Danai Koutra earns ICDM 10-Year Highest Impact Paper Award for bipartite graph alignment

Her 2013 paper examines the use of bipartite graph alignment and paved the way for continued research in graph matching.

Dennis Sylvester Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Sylvester’s inventions in low-power chip design have led to multiple startup companies and products found in hundreds of millions of devices.

ECE Rising Star Tanya Das helps shape nationwide science policy to address climate change and more

Das (BSE EE 2011), who previously served the Biden Administration as the Chief of Staff of the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, is currently the Associate Director of Energy Innovation at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Zetian Mi selected as IEEE NTC Distinguished Lecturer

Prof. Mi’s talk will focus on how to break the efficiency bottleneck of micro-LEDs and deep UV optoelectronics, critical to continued advances in virtual/augmented reality, water purification, sterilization, and more

Dennis Sylvester named Edward S. Davidson Collegiate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

[Watch the lecture] Sylvester’s innovations in ultra-low-power computing led to the Michigan Micro Mote, the world’s smallest computer.

Two projects recognized with JP Morgan Chase Faculty Research Award

The award supports industry collaboration with innovative and influential research in the field of artificial intelligence.

CSE co-authors’ paper recognized at Applied Superconductivity Conference

Visiting scholar Jennifer Volk and assistant professor George Tzimpragos received an award for developing a new approach to scaling superconductor electronics in an intuitive way.

Alum Paul Debevec honored with Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award for inventing a new kind of movie magic

Debevec’s groundbreaking imaging work revolutionized the film and television industry, helping create the special effects seen in Spider-Man 2, Avatar, The Hobbit, Blade Runner 2049, Gravity, The Mandalorian, and many more.

Best paper for a low-power ADC circuit for brain-machine interface applications

Euisik Yoon’s team, led by Sungjin Oh, developed a low-power neural recording front-end circuit to interface with state-of-the-art neural probes.

Vikram Verma talks the value of engineering and leadership to society as the 2022 ECE Alumni Impact Award winner

Verma credits his distinguished 30-year executive career with leading technology companies, including Savi Technology, Lockheed Martin and 8x8 Inc., to a combination of education, leadership, and luck.

Jesse Codling wins Best Presentation award for sensors that help protect these little piggies in their pens

Known affectionately as “The Sh*tty Project,” Codling, an ECE PhD student, monitors the vibrations in pig pens to track the health of the piglets and predict when they’re in danger.

2022 CSE Graduate Student Honors Competition highlights outstanding research

The competition recognizes top research done by PhD students at CSE.

Tara Safavi honored with Kuck Dissertation Prize for impactful thesis on advanced graph learning

The award recognizes exceptionally impactful dissertations by graduate researchers.

ECE at the center of Celebrate Invention: 2022

Wei Lu talked about his innovations as the 2022 Distinguished University Innovator, followed by a panel discussion about the University's role in fueling new high tech companies in the area.

Mike Flynn named Fawwaz T. Ulaby Collegiate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Flynn is one of the world’s premier scholars of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems, analog-to-digital conversion (ADC), and other interface circuits.

Kamal Rudra receives IEEE EDS Masters Student Fellowship

Rudra works in the area of solid-state and nanotechnology, and has managed to acquire a broad range of experience in different research settings

Kaleo Roberts receives AISES scholarship for research on monitoring corn fields using remote sensing

Roberts’ work could help improve the management of corn fields, which is important for food production, biofuel, and industry raw material.

Yakshita Malhotra honored for micro-LED research that could define the future of automotive displays

Malhotra’s work on micro-LEDs could lead to more efficient, higher resolution automotive displays capable of supporting augmented reality applications.

Louise Willingale elected Fellow of APS

Willingale is a plasma science leader who is currently helping launch the ZEUS laser facility.

Scott Mahlke recognized with B. Ramakrishna Rau Award for accomplishments in microarchitecture

Mahlke’s research interests include energy-efficient processor design, machine learning, architecture synthesis, compilers for high-performance processors, and reliable computer system design.

Research on bug report model honored with ASE Most Influential Paper

“Modeling bug report quality” presents a model of bug report that reduces the overall cost of software maintenance.

Prof. Ron Dreslinski inducted into MICRO Hall of Fame

This honor recognizes outstanding researchers with eight or more papers at the International Symposium on Microarchitecture.

Rada Mihalcea receives Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award

Mihalcea is being recognized for her contributions to computational linguistics and her efforts to broaden participation in the field of computer science.

NSF Award to streamline graph analysis of large networks

Prof. Greg Bodwin plans to explore the utility of graph sketching, a more cost-effective and energy efficient analysis method of network graph analysis.

Wei Lu named Distinguished University Innovator of the Year

Prof. Wei Lu is honored with the Distinguished University Innovator of the Year Award for his pioneering efforts in the development and commercialization of novel electrical devices.

Paper by U-M researchers selected for Best Paper in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

The research on automatic speech emotion recognition is one of the five papers featured in the collection.

U-M discovery leading to LASIK is a Golden Goose

The AAAS Golden Goose awards highlight federally funded breakthroughs that go on to bring important benefits to the lives of regular people.

Ron Dreslinski named Miller Faculty Scholar

Dreslinski is known for his extensive research in new software/architecture co-design, CAD/EDA tools to democratize chip design, emerging technologies, and novel application areas.

Four papers by U-M researchers recognized in IEEE Micro Top Picks issue

A paper authored by researchers including two CSE faculty has been recognized as one of IEEE Micro’s Top Picks, with three more papers including CSE authors chosen as honorable mentions.

Austin Nguyen awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to study multi-agent reinforcement learning

Nguyen, a CSE PhD student, aims to leverage AI and machine learning to advance cooperative agents.

Valeria Bertacco named Mary Lou Dorf Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

She has been recognized for her contributions in broadening participation in CS, innovating in teaching, and in advancing the field.

CS undergraduate Dipro Prattoy earns Diana Award for his work in making college accessible for lower-income international students

Prattoy is one of over 180 philanthropists and changemakers honored this year with the Diana Award

H.V. Jagadish named Edgar F. Codd Distinguished University Professor of EECS

Professor Jagadish is being recognized for his work as one of the nation’s most visible and influential researchers in the interdisciplinary field of data science

Kamal Sarabandi named Fawwaz T. Ulaby Distinguished University Professor of EECS

Prof. Sarabandi has distinguished himself as an educator, researcher, and inventor with wide-ranging impact.

2022 IEEE APS R. W. P. King Award recognizes new theory in computational electromagnetics

Patel and Michielssen developed the Wigner-Smith time delay matrix for electromagnetics.

Lauren Cooper awarded Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship from SPIE

Cooper, an ECE PhD student, works to advance fiber lasers, which could help provide the bursts for next-generation particle accelerators and advance attosecond science.

Kamal Rudra awarded Laser Technology, Engineering and Applications Scholarship from SPIE

Rudra, an ECE Master’s student, specializes in solid state and nanotechnology, and his work could help shape the future of AR/VR technologies.

Rada Mihalcea named new council member for CRA Computing Community Consortium

Mihalcea has been appointed as one of six new members on the Council, which works to catalyze computing research activity. Her term begins July 1.

Elaheh Ahmadi receives 2022 ISCS Young Scientist Award for seminal contributions to MBE N-polar (Al,Ga,In)N and (Al,Ga)2O3 heterostructures

Ahmadi has received numerous young faculty honors and awards, and has advanced the state of the art in her field.

Yongmo Park awarded IBM PhD fellowship to support his research on in-memory computing systems

Park works with Prof. Wei Lu on advancing resistive random-access memory (RRAM, or memristor) devices to accelerate AI computing.

Amy Brooks awarded Staff Excellence Award for extraordinary efforts in difficult times

In addition to stepping up in remarkable ways during the past two years, Brooks has been known for her collaborative initiative, technical competence, and empathy to those in need.

Designing large neural codes for the next generation of communication systems

PhD candidate Mohammad Vahid Jamali won a Best Paper award at IEEE ICC for his work on Product AutoEncoders, which could help shape future generations of wireless networks, IoT, and autonomous systems.

Thomas Ryan awarded SMART Scholarship to support his studies on defense technologies

Ryan is an electrical engineering undergrad interested in military systems and devices.

Paper recognized for lasting impact on natural language processing

AAAI recognized Prof. Rada Mihalcea's 2006 paper which devised a way to semantically compare short texts.

Kang G. Shin recognized with Distinguished Leadership Award by IEEE Computer Society Technical & Conference Activities Board

His work in the area of real-time computing has spanned decades and has had impact in a broad range of applications.

David Paoletti voted 2022 HKN Professor of the Year in CSE

This is the second time that Dr. Paoletti has been named Professor of the Year by a vote of the students.

Duncan Madden receives NDSEG Fellowship for research that could revolutionize communication and radar systems

Madden works to enable full-duplex communication systems, which could double the usable bandwidth or data rate.

ECE graduate students recognized by 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship program

ECE doctoral students Rachel Newton and Austin Lin were selected for this prestigious fellowship, and Evelyn Ware was recognized with an honorable mention.

Roya Ensafi selected as finalist for ACUM Outstanding Advisor Award

Ensafi received a number of student nominations for the award.

HKN earns Outstanding Chapter Award

The student honor society is again recognized for their outstanding efforts, this time for the 2020-21 academic year.

Louise Willingale named Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences

Willingale was a featured speaker at the 2022 Kavli Frontiers of Science U.S. Symposium, where she presented on high intensity lasers, including ZEUS.

Stefany Escobedo awarded Towner prize for her outstanding contributions as a Graduate Student Instructor

Escobedo overhauled the instruction of Embedded Control Systems during the COVID-19 pandemic and permanently improved the course.

Aaditya Hambarde awarded Towner prize for his outstanding contributions as a Graduate Student Instructor

Hambarde is recognized for his tremendous dedication to students and for the creation of new course resources for Introduction to Signals and Systems.

Three staff recognized with 2022 CSE Excellence ++ Award

These individuals provide the professionalism and insight that enable the efficient operation of one of the largest units at the College of Engineering.

Siying Feng awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to accelerate performance of emerging computer architectures

The fellowship will help support her work to develop acceleration techniques for emerging computer architectures in applications including machine learning, graph analytics, and scientific computing.

Jane Im awarded Rackham Barbour Scholarship

The scholarship will support her work on creating safer social computing systems grounded in users’ consent.

Alireza Ramyar awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for his research on power processing architectures for improved sustainability

Ramyar’s research focuses on how power and energy can be transformed, extracted from clean power generation, and stored effectively and sustainably.

Touheed Anwar Atif awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for his research on quantum information and quantum computing

Atif’s coding framework addresses quantum information network coding problems and has helped uncover new insights into the world of quantum information.

Ashley Jian receives Barbour Scholarship to further her research on high-power electronics

Jian works to improve the efficiency of high-power electronics for better energy security and sustainability.

Anna Stuhlmacher awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for her research that could help integrate renewable energy sources into the power grid

Stuhlmacher is working to optimize the interaction between the power distribution network and the drinking water distribution network to improve the sustainability, flexibility, and resiliency of both systems.

David Fouhey receives NSF CAREER Award for vision system to perceive the interactive world

His goal is to build AI systems that can recognize and understand a 3D and interactive world from a single image.

Kamal Rudra receives SVCF Scholarship to pursue his studies in semiconductors and photonics

Rudra is a first year master’s student in the area of solid state and nanotechnology

Subhajit Mohanty awarded Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement

Mohanty’s research is focused on advancing high electron mobility transistors for next generation wireless technologies.

Ashley Jian awarded Marian Sarah Parker Prize from the College of Engineering

Jian’s research is focused on improving the efficiency of high-power electronics, which is important for energy security and sustainability.

Qing Qu receives CAREER award to explore the foundations of machine learning and data science

His research develops computational methods for learning succinct representations from high-dimensional data.

2022 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

The EECS Department has honored four faculty for their sustained excellence in instruction and curricular development, distinguished participation in service activities, or for their significant achievements in scholarly research.

Daniel Atkins receives Edward Law Emeritus Outstanding Service Award

Atkins’ achievements have been many as he has worked to digitally transform the College of Engineering and the University. As an emeritus, he has continued to advise leaders and promote Michigan.

Anthony Grbic receives David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award

Grbic is a world leader in the development of metamaterials and metasurfaces, and his pioneering work has led to ultra-thin electromagnetic devices with revolutionary capabilities.

Stephen Forrest receives H. Scott Fogler Award for Professional Leadership and Service

Forrest’s remarkable impact as a leader complements his profound impact as an engineer working for a carbon-neutral future.

Robert Dick receives Monroe-Brown Foundation Education Excellence Award

Dick has provided outstanding contributions to undergraduate and graduate education in the area of embedded systems.

Cindy Finelli receives Trudy Huebner Service Excellence Award

Finelli has provided leadership and vision in the area of engineering education for over 20 years and was responsible for establishing and building the Engineering Education Research graduate program.

Al-Thaddeus Avestruz receives CAREER Award to advance sustainable energy storage

Using retired electric vehicle batteries, the project plans to enable widespread and equitable access to sustainable power and energy through sustainable energy storage.

Three ECE students awarded Rackham fellowships

Cheng-Hsun Lu, Shih-Chi Liao, and Jiale Zhang have been awarded the Rackham International Students Fellowship/Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship.

Research on modeling time-variant systems earns Brockett-Willems Outstanding Paper Award

Prof. Peter Seiler co-authored the paper that focuses on reachability analysis for a variety of systems, including aircraft control and autonomous vehicles.

Ashley Jian is working to improve the efficiency of high-power electronics for better energy security and sustainability

Jian received a Best Presentation award at the Electronic Materials Conference for her research focused on enabling very high efficiency power devices.

Joyce Chai named ACL Fellow for significant contributions to grounded natural language processing and the interaction between language processing and robotics

Prof. Chai has been recognized for significant contributions to grounded natural language processing and the interaction between language processing and robotics.

Four CSE Staff recognized for their outstanding contributions

Four CSE staff have been recognized by the College of Engineering for consistently demonstrating the College’s mission, vision, and values in their work.

Six ECE staff recognized for their outstanding contributions

Six ECE staff have been recognized by the College of Engineering for their creativity, innovation, and daring approaches to their work.

Z. Morley Mao elected IEEE fellow for contributions to performance and security of internet routing and mobile systems

Prof. Mao and her students have played an important role in understanding the efficiency, security, and performance of a number of mobile systems.

Baris Kasikci named Morris Wellman Professor

Kasikci’s research is centered around developing techniques, tools, and environments that help developers build more reliable, secure, and efficient software.

Dandan Shan selected for Rackham fellowships

Students selected for the Rackham International Student Fellowship and Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship demonstrate outstanding academic and professional promise.

Kathryn Beeman named Irma M. Wyman Scholar for her efforts supporting women in STEM

Beeman, an Electrical Engineering undergrad, serves as the External Vice President for the Society for Women Engineers at U-M.

U-M Society of Women Engineers honored with top awards at national conference

ECE leaders and members in SWE share their favorite parts of the conference, including taking home three awards for the U-M chapter.

Peter Seiler named IEEE Fellow for his impactful contributions to robust control theory

Prof. Seiler’s contributions to Matlab’s Robust Control Toolbox and to the control of vehicle platoons have resulted in major industrial applications.

Four grad students chosen for Service Awards in Climate, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at CSE

The award recognizes students who make significant contributions toward increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the division.

Dr. Donnell Walton honored with the 2021 ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Lectureship

Walton spoke about his career path and his current role as the director of the Corning Technology Center Silicon Valley.

Lauren Cooper awarded Department of Energy Fellowship for her work on ultra-short pulse fiber lasers

Cooper’s research is focused on nonlinear coherent pulse stacking, a method of generating pulses with energies and pulse durations suitable for particle accelerators and attosecond science.

Cody Scarborough wins Best Student Paper Award at Metamaterials 2021

PhD student Scarborough was recognized for his work developing a more efficient method to convert signals to higher frequencies, benefiting applications that require very low power and low noise.

Three members of ECE will represent U-M at the 2021 Rising Stars in EECS Workshop

PhD students Sijia Geng, Bahareh Hadidian, and Nasimeh Heydaribeni will participate in the intensive workshop that brings together outstanding women and gender minorities interested in pursuing academic careers in EECS.

Herbert Winful receives University Diversity and Social Transformation Professorship

Winful is recognized for promoting the university’s goals around diversity, equity and inclusion.

Elaheh Ahmadi receives DARPA Young Faculty Award to support future sensor and communication systems

Ahmadi’s research is focused on using GaN and Ga2O3 materials to provide higher output power per unit area at higher frequencies.

Khalil Najafi receives Robert M. Janowiak Outstanding Leadership and Service Award

Najafi received this award for his service while a member of the ECE Department Heads Association

The artistry of mathematical models

Artist and professor Jessica Wynne features Prof. Laura Balzano’s blackboard in a photography series that captures the abstract beauty of problem solving.

The NAE invites Necmiye Ozay to symposium to advance the engineering frontier

Prof. Ozay presented on her research that is relevant to cybersecurity and the future of space exploration.

Che-Hsuan Cheng’s hybrid transistor earns Best Poster Award

Cheng’s research may help advance the design of next generation microchip devices, as well as ultrasensitive UV photodetectors.

ECE alum Linda Guillory breaks two world records for vintage video game collections

Guillory, an electrical engineer at Texas Instruments, shares her memories of U-M and how her love of fixing broken video games helped her become a world-renowned gaming collector.

High Efficiency Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diodes to sterilize pathogens, including COVID-19

Research led by Prof. Zetian Mi has been honored with the 2020 Editor-in-Chief Choice Award from "Photonics Research."

Sung Yul Chu wins IEEE Power Electronics Society PhD Thesis Talk Award

Chu is recognized for his research on wireless power transfer for electric vehicle charging.

Awards for outstanding Graduate Student Instructors and Instructional Aides of 2020/21

These awards honor the outstanding student teachers who are critical to CSE’s mission to provide top level education and instruction.

Prof. Valeria Bertacco recognized with University of Padova’s Elvira Poli Award

This newly-instituted award is given to engineering alumni who have pursued careers aligned with the university's values and dedicated their efforts to gender equality in engineering.

Using neural networks and machine learning to design the first universal decoder for the next generation of wireless systems

PhD student Mohammad Vahid Jamali has been awarded a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship to work on developing a single neural decoder that can decode several channel codes at once.

Awards for outstanding Graduate Student Instructors and Instructional Aides of 2020 and 2021

These awards honor outstanding student teachers, who are critical to ECE’s mission to provide top level education and instruction.

Thomas Wenisch selected as Maurice Wilkes Award Recipient

The award recognizes Prof. Wenisch’s contributions to memory persistency and energy-efficient systems.

Herbert Winful awarded the 2021 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award

Winful is recognized for his decades of outstanding leadership and commitment to developing a culturally and ethnically diverse University of Michigan community.

Twelve students inducted into the 2021 Excellence in ECE Honor Roll

This Honor Roll was created to recognize students who go above and beyond for our community by volunteering outside of academic, professional, and student club commitments

Three teams of graduate students awarded prizes for their final projects in Image Processing (EECS 556)

KLA sponsored prizes for three outstanding projects focused on improving image processing for neurosurgery and satellite applications and MRI reconstruction techniques.

Kelly Cormier Selected for College of Engineering Judith A. Pitney Award

Cormier has served as CSE’s UA from the start and has helped to shape one of the most dynamic and influential units at the College of Engineering.

Dr. Pilar Herrera-Fierro, senior director of the LNF, receives 2021 COE staff excellence award

Dr. Herrera-Fierro goes out of her way to support student, faculty, and external users of the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility, and is considered a key component of its success

ECE Lab Kit team recognized by the College of Engineering with the Team Staff Excellence Award

When the pandemic shut down in-person instruction, this six-member team created and delivered individual lab kits to 1,200 students around the world so hands-on lab experience could continue.

Kristen Thornton awarded College of Engineering’s Staff Excellence Award for her unwavering dedication and exemplary service to students

PhD Coordinator Kristen Thornton continues to go above and beyond for the ECE graduate student community by creating new events, new office hours, and helping to launch a new Master’s program all during the global pandemic.

Lisa Armstrong recognized with the Judith A. Pitney Staff Service Career Award for her decades of service to the college and the department

As Unit Administrator for Electrical and Computer Engineering, Armstrong has been a driving force for many of the department’s biggest advancements, and she’s known for fostering a thriving, inclusive, collaborative, and fun environment.

Sandeep Pradhan named ECE’s 2021 HKN Professor of the Year

The HKN Professor of the Year Award is determined by popular vote by all undergraduate and graduate students in the department

Cody Scarborough wins Best Student Paper Award for contributions to Metamaterials research

Scarborough was recognized by the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation for developing a superior method to model and simulate traveling-wave modulation along two dimensions in metamaterials.

Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize for new robotics course that focuses on equitable education

An interdisciplinary team of faculty created a new introductory course in robotics that is designed for inclusivity by focusing on linear algebra instead of AP calculus, opening it up to freshman students with a broad mathematical background.

Marina Minkin chosen for Facebook Fellowship

Marina’s research in security closely investigates the boundary between software and hardware.

Anatoly Maksimchuk recognized for his achievements in high-intensity lasers and laser-plasma interaction

Building on decades of groundbreaking research, Maksimchuk is a key member of the team building the $20M laser facility known as ZEUS

2021 EECS Undergraduate Student Awards

These students are recognized by the department for their outstanding scholarship, research, service, leadership, and entrepreneurship.

2021 College-wide awards for EECS undergraduate students

Students throughout the College of Engineering are eligible for these awards; ten went to EECS students for outstanding scholarship, leadership, and service.

Jaylin Herskovitz selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Through her work in augmented reality, Jaylin hopes to improve the accessibility of emerging technologies for people with disabilities and expand access to computing.

Outstanding Chapter Award for Michigan’s IEEE-HKN Honor Society

It was another outstanding year for the EECS honor society, that works hard to serve while having fun

Sky CH Wang selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Through his work in NLP and computational social science, Sky hopes to understand complex social interactions and contribute towards the democratization of technology.

Tim Dunn selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Through his work, Tim hopes to dramatically accelerate genomic sequencing analysis, enabling the use of handheld genomic sequencers to produce actionable diagnostic data within minutes.

Zhizhuo Zhou selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Zhizhuo is interested in computer vision and its ability to make breakthroughs in interdisciplinary fields such as ecology and climatology.

Jule Schatz receives WISE Aspire, Advance, Achieve Mentoring Award

Jule is active in teaching and outreach activities to help broaden participation in the field of computer science and engineering.

James Gruber receives NDSEG Fellowship to advance research in high-power THz devices

Gruber’s research is expected to further the practicality of integrated circuits for high-speed, high-power applications.

Menglou Rao awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support research in antennas for compact systems and EM radiation detection from biofilms

Rao’s research in miniaturized antennas is applicable to VHF band and 5G applications

Xin Zan awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to advance research in wireless power transfer

Zan’s research on high frequency power converters for wireless power transfer has a wide range of applications

Caroline Crockett awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for research bridging two fields

Crockett’s dissertation will integrate two fields: image processing & machine learning and engineering education research

Markus Borsch awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support research in quantum engineering

Borsch’s research in light-driven quantum electronics is expected to guide next-generation quantum devices

Four ECE graduate students recognized by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Four ECE doctoral students were selected for their outstanding research work in a variety of disciplines.

Sijia Geng receives Barbour Scholarship to further her research in renewable energy systems

Sijia is working to ensure the safety, stability and cost effectiveness of future power systems that are dominated by renewable resources, through fundamental studies of system operation.

Raj Nadakuditi receives Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Award

The award recognizes Nadakuditi’s outstanding contributions in the area of computational data science and machine learning

CSE doctoral student Tara Safavi receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

The fellowship will advance her work in inferring relational world knowledge in machines with explicit and implicit representations.

CSE doctoral student Subhankar Pal receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

The fellowship will advance his research on exploiting hardware reconfigurability in an effort to bridge the gap between programmability and efficiency that affects modern computing systems.

CSE researchers win best paper award at HPCA 2021

The paper introduces new hardware and software design principles to improve the performance of several important large-scale irregular workloads.

Caleb Belth awarded Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement

The award is given for active participation in research, leadership, and academic performance.

Qi Zhang selected as first recipient of David J. Kuck Dissertation Prize

His work is in the area of coordinating systems of autonomous agents that operate in uncertain, dynamic environments.

2021 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

The EECS Department has honored five faculty for their sustained excellence in instruction and curricular development, distinguished participation in service activities, or for their significant achievements in scholarly research.

Raytheon’s Dr. Katherine Herrick is the 2020 ECE Alumni Merit Award winner

Herrick is Senior Fellow and Director of Advanced Enabling Technology at Raytheon Company and serves on the ECE advisory council.

Entrepreneur Dr. Scott Hanson awarded 2020 ECE Alumni Rising Star Award

Hanson is founder and CTO of Ambiq Micro, a startup semiconductor company that works to advance ultra-low power electronics for next generation Internet of Things.

Navin Shenoy, Intel’s Executive Vice President, awarded ECE’s highest Alumni Award Honor

Shenoy, who also serves as General Manager of the Data Platforms Group at Intel Corporation, is the recipient of the 2020 ECE Alumni Impact Award in recognition of his distinguished career.

Prof. Tara Javidi awarded ECE’s Distinguished Educator Award for her excellence in information and system theory education

Javidi is a professor of ECE at the University of California, San Diego, where she specializes in Communication & Information Processing Systems and Networks, and works to empower engineering students of all backgrounds.

Jian-Ming Jin awarded ECE’s Distinguished Educator Award for his excellence in electromagnetics education

Jin, a chair professor of ECE at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, describes his time at Michigan, and his career as an educator.

Fairer AI for long-term equity

Prof. Mingyan Liu is a key member of a project to mitigate bias in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning systems for long-term equitable outcomes.

Zeyu Zheng selected for JP Morgan PhD Fellowship

His work on reinforcement learning is aimed at accelerating the training of RL agents.

Elaheh Ahmadi receives CAREER Award to improve efficiency in high power electrical systems

The research could improve efficiency in systems such as electric vehicles, grid systems, mass transit, and industrial automation

Demba Komma awarded Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship for research on IoT localization technologies

Komma, a PhD student, is working to develop robust low powered localization technology for Artificial Intelligence enabled Internet of Things in locations where GPS is limited or blocked.

ECE students, faculty recognized with 2021 MLK Spirit Awards

The award celebrates those who have gone above and beyond to service and support social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

Kaleo Roberts receives scholarship from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society

Roberts works to improve remote sensing of soil moisture, which is important for environmental conservation, natural resource management, and agriculture.

Cody Scarborough wins Exceptional Student Contributions Award at Metamaterials 2020

PhD student Cody Scarborough was recognized for his work advancing the understanding and study of electromagnetic waves.

Mosharaf Chowdhury named Morris Wellman Professor

Chowdhury is an expert in network-informed data systems design for big data and AI applications.

Christopher Allemang awarded IEEE EDS PhD Fellowship for his work advancing thin-film electronics

Allemang focuses on amorphous oxide semiconductor thin-film electronics, which can support the next generation of electronic skins, textiles, solar cells, and displays.

Cindy Finelli named IEEE Fellow for leadership and scholarship in engineering education

Prof. Finelli’s programs and scholarship have enriched the education of countless engineering students.

Incoming faculty Anhong Guo named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Science

This distinction recognizes young researchers with exceptional promise who are having an impact on the world.

Yuri Gurevich named AAAS Fellow

Gurevich is recognized for his distinguished contributions to logic, particularly finite model theory, and the development of abstract state machines.

Three members of ECE will represent U-M at the 2020 Rising Stars in EECS Workshop

PhD students Behnoush Rostami, Zhanni Wu, and Xueru Zhang will participate in the intensive workshop that brings together outstanding women interested in pursuing academic careers in EECS.

Three faculty inducted into MICRO Hall of Fame

This honor recognizes outstanding researchers with eight or more papers at the International Symposium on Microarchitecture.

Prof. Baris Kasikci recognized as rising star by Intel

The award recognizes early career faculty who show great promise in developing future computing technologies.

Detecting environmental pollutants with a smaller, portable, fully electric gas chromatograph

Prof. Yogesh Gianchandani and Dr. Yutao Qin received an “Outstanding Paper Award” for their fully electronic micro gas chromatography system.

Full-color nano-LEDs for better, longer lasting LED performance

Research led by Prof. Zetian Mi to advance LEDs for high-efficiency, high-performance displays is recognized with the Distinguished Paper Award from the Society for Information Display.

Research on neural probe that sheds multicolor light on the complexities of the brain recognized for its impact

Prof. Euisik Yoon and his team are recognized for their work designing low-noise, multisite/multicolor optoelectrodes that will help neurologists learn more about neural connectivity in the brain.

Melissa Haskell receives NIH Fellowship for research to improve brain imaging

ECE postdoc Melissa Haskell works on improving functional magnetic resonance imaging so we can better measure and understand brain activity.

Alumnus Yi-Jun Chang Wins PODC Dissertation Award

His work is in complexity theory of distributed computing.

Prof. Danai Koutra recognized as rising star with ACM SIGKDD Award

The Rising Star Award is based on an individual’s whole body of work in the first five years after the PhD.

Eric Michielssen named Associate Dean for Research

Eric Michielssen, the Louise Ganiard Johnson Professor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named the next Associate Dean for Research for the College of Engineering.

Eric Michielssen receives ACES Computational Electromagnetics Award

This award recognizes major contributions in the field of computational electromagnetics.

“Hiding” network latency for fast memory in data centers

A new system called Leap earned a Best Paper award at USENIX ATC ‘20 for producing remote memory access speed on par with local machines over data center networks.

Eric Michielssen receives IEEE AP-S Field Award in Computational Electromagnetics

Michielssen is a leader in the field of Computational Electromagnetics and its application to real-world problems

Johanna Mathieu receives 2020 Henry Russel Award

Mathieu is one of four U-M faculty members to receive this award, the university’s highest honor for early to mid-career faculty

Mike Flynn receives Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award

Flynn is one of five U-M professors honored with this award, which recognizes his excellence in mentoring doctoral students and commitment to fostering a supportive academic environment.

Zetian Mi selected as IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer

Prof. Mi will speak about the advances in ultraviolet optoelectronics for improved disinfection and water purification.

Improving cancer and disease treatments by understanding electromagnetic communication among biological cells

Prof. Kamal Sarabandi and ECE PhD student Navid Barani won a best paper award for their research on how biological cells may use electromagnetic signal transmission to communicate.

Ester Bentley receives NDSEG Fellowship to help the world navigate without GPS

PhD student Ester Bentley designs smaller, better 3D mechanical resonators for use in high-performance gyroscopes to help unmanned systems navigate when GPS signal is jammed or lost.

Cope Reflects on B1G Medal of Honor, Stepping Up to Continue U-M Swimming 'Legacy'

Electrical Engineering undergrad, Tommy Cope, was awarded the B1G Medal of Honor, which is given to two senior students at each conference university for highest excellence in athletics and academics.

Herbert Winful receives IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award

For pioneering the field of nonlinear optical periodic structures and for foundational contributions to nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor laser arrays.

Trevor Odelberg receives NDSEG Fellowship to help run the world with low power batteryless circuits

PhD student Trevor Odelberg’s low power circuits help us make sense of our environment while reducing battery waste.

Matthew Belz receives NDSEG Fellowship to improve the safety of autonomous systems

PhD student Matthew Belz will work to develop jamming-resistant radar systems for autonomous vehicles.

PhD student Laura Andre is awarded Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship from SPIE

Andre was chosen for her outstanding research and commitment to outreach activities.

Westley Weimer voted 2020 HKN Professor of the Year in CSE

Weimer is well known as a passionate educator, and for going the extra mile to engage with and advocate for students.

Fred Terry voted 2020 HKN Professor of the Year in ECE

Prof. Terry was teaching Introduction to Electronic Circuits when the classrooms went dark due to COVID-19.

Jacob Hayward recognized for his far-reaching impact on University systems

Jacob Hayward received a 2020 U-M Staff Impact Award for developing several systems that have made life easier for staff and administrators across the University

“Ultra low-power receivers for IoT applications” wins Outstanding Invited Paper

Prof. David Wentzloff’s paper examining the trends and techniques to achieve ultra-low power receivers was honored by the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Six ECE graduate students recognized by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Six ECE graduate students were selected for their outstanding research work in a variety of disciplines.

Heath Hofmann receives CoE Staff-Faculty Partnership Award

Prof. Hofmann was praised for his careful attention to staff and treating them as true partners in trying to improve life at Michigan for our students.

Xueru Zhang awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Zhang is working to improve data security and address important ethical issues related to AI and discriminatory data sets.

Emily Mower Provost named Toyota Faculty Scholar

Her work uses machine learning to measure mood, emotion, and other aspects of human behavior for purposes of providing early or real-time interventions for people in managing their health.

Elaheh Ahmadi receives ONR Young Investigator Award to prepare for the next generation of wireless technology

Prof. Ahmadi will contribute to the science and technology of efficient, high-frequency, high-power transistors for 5G and beyond

Zhanni Wu awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Wu is working on advanced metasurfaces, which could help next-generation wireless communication, commercial and military radar systems, imaging, and antenna systems.

Alfred Hero named Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Hero was elected "for contributions to the mathematical foundations of signal processing and data science."

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for design of robust, reliable and repairable software systems

Subarno Banerjee uses program analysis to improve software systems’ safety and security.

Herbert Winful named Joseph E. and Anne P. Rowe Professor of Electrical Engineering

Winful has made fundamental contributions to nonlinear optics and the physics of tunneling, while also championing an inclusive department.

2019-20 Undergraduate Student Awards

We congratulate these students for achieving notable success in the areas of academic achievement, research, service, and entrepreneurship

Alum Adrienne Stiff-Roberts honored with the Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Lectureship

The Duke University Professor delivered a virtual talk on enabling hybrid thin films for optoelectronics and shared her memories of Michigan.

Leland Pierce honored as outstanding student organization advisor

The College of Engineering recognized Pierce with the Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award for his support and commitment to the U-M student chapter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

Tianlin Wang recognized with Towner Prize and Distinguished Leadership Award

The College of Engineering honors ECE PhD candidate Tianlin Wang for his excellent research in remote sensing as well as his leadership and service to the community.

Hessam Mahdavifar receives CAREER award to empower next gen communication

Mahdavifar is preparing for a future of billions of connected devices and an unprecedented increase in mobile traffic.

Best paper award for optimizing wireless power transfer

Prof. Al-Thaddeus Avestruz and PhD student Xin Zan were honored at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition for their work improving the efficiency and reliability of wireless power transfer.

Brian Raeker recognized as an outstanding GSI

ECE PhD student Brian Raeker was awarded a Towner Prize for Outstanding Engineering GSIs.

Russel Lecture: Fighting climate change with organic electronics

The researcher-entrepreneur who helped bring OLED displays to the masses envisions a future of efficient lighting and next-gen solar power.

David Blaauw named Kensall D. Wise Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Blaauw’s innovations in low-power computing led to development of the Michigan Micro Mote, the world’s smallest computer.

Optimizing energy

Postdoc Fellow Shunbo Lei, who works to improve the efficiency and function of the power grid, was honored by the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

Leung Tsang elected to the National Academy of Engineering

A professor of electrical engineering and computer science is awarded one of engineering’s top honors.

Ian Hiskens receives MA Sargent Medal for a career of excellence in electrical engineering

Ian Hiskens, Vennema Professor of Engineering, is a renowned expert in power system dynamics with a special focus on renewable energy and the grid.

Upgrading signal interfaces for better wearable devices

PhD student Hsiang-Wen Chen, who works to improve integrated circuits, was awarded the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship.

John Nees wins Research Scientist Award from the College of Engineering

Nees is honored for his excellence in research and scholarship, as well as his distinguished career as a key member of the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science.

Sandeep Pradhan receives Education Excellence Award from the College of Engineering

Pradhan is honored for his dedication to students and commitment to improving education at all levels.

Laura Balzano wins Education Excellence Award from the College of Engineering

Prof. Balzano is honored for her all-around excellence in teaching, mentorship, and curriculum development.

Jamie Phillips wins Service Excellence Award from the College of Engineering

Prof. Phillips is honored for his excellence in serving the campus community through development of extracurriculars, mentorship, and academic programs.

2020 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

EECS honors four faculty members for their outstanding accomplishments to the community.

ECE students, staff, honored with MLK Spirit Awards

For “exemplifying the leadership and vision of Dr. King,” three members of ECE were honored as part of U-M’s annual MLK symposium.

Alumnus Peter Wurman inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame

Wurman and his cofounders were recognized for their invention of the Kiva system, a revolutionary warehouse order fulfillment system that uses mobile robots and control software to bring inventory shelves to workers.

Hun-Seok Kim receives CAREER Award to facilitate Internet of Things connectivity

Kim takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle challenges in heterogeneous classes of energy-efficient and versatile communication systems.

Nobel Prize winners talk research, Nobel ceremony, and are remembered by U-M colleagues

From rubbing elbows with royalty to finding yourself a casual seatmate to a member of U2, Professor Emeritus Gérard Mourou, Prof. Donna Strickland, and their former U-M colleagues shared their experiences and reflections on the 2018 Nobel Prize ceremony.

Team receives award for diversity leadership

Co-chaired by Dr. David Chesney, the team was formed to address how disabled students experience campus.

Five CSE staff recognized for reflecting College values

These individuals are recognized for taking extra steps to advance the College of Engineering's vision, mission, and values within their own department.

ECE Faculty and Staff Living the Values

Seven staff and two faculty are recognized for taking extra steps to advance the College of Engineering's vision, mission and values within Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Kamal Sarabandi named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Sarabandi is an internationally-renowned researcher in the areas of applied electromagnetics and remote sensing.

Wireless Communication Under the Sea

U-M researchers have created a new means of enabling reliable wireless underwater communication, which could aid military, environmental, and conservation purposes.

Designing the future of the human-tech interface

Rick Bergman, EVP of Computing and Graphics at Advanced Micro Devices, came to campus to accept the 2019 ECE Alumni Impact Award and spoke about his career and the future of computing and human interface.

H.V. Jagadish recognized with Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award

Prof Jagadish is an internationally recognized expert in the field of very large databases.

Xbox Kinect architect, Dawson Yee, wins 2019 College of Engineering Alumni Merit Award for ECE

Yee gave advice to students on how to best prepare for a career helping produce the next generation of high-tech electronics.

Valeria Bertacco appointed vice provost for engaged learning

Bertacco will advocate for and support university initiatives that create opportunities for action-based and engaged student learning.

Georgia Tech Dean of College of Engineering, Steve McLaughlin, wins 2019 ECE Distinguished Educator Award

McLaughlin spoke about how academic institutions can take better care of their students’ mental health while providing a fuller academic experience, as well as his love for U-M.

Two members of ECE will represent U-M at the 2019 Rising Stars in EECS Workshop

The intensive workshop brings together outstanding women who are graduate students or postdocs interested in pursuing academic careers in electrical engineering and computer science.

Elaheh Ahmadi receives AFOSR Young Investigator Program award

Prof. Ahmadi will investigate promising new materials needed for an increasingly electrified world

Two ‘U’ researchers receive Distinguished University Innovator Award

The Michigan Daily profiles Professors David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, who are this year’s recipients of the 2019 Distinguished University Innovator Award.

Engineering education trailblazer and industry innovator honored for by Michigan Engineering

For his work championing ECE from the classroom to the boardroom, Nicolaos Alexopoulos has received Michigan Engineering’s 2019 Alumni Award, the highest accolade given by the Michigan Engineering Alumni Board.

Bridge-builder for academia and industry wins distinguished alumni service award

For her outstanding dedication to electrical and computer engineering education at the University of Michigan, Karen Fireman is honored with the Distinguished Alumni Service Award.

Blaauw, Sylvester are 2019 Distinguished University Innovators

Pioneering computer technology that is spurring innovation and disruption across industries has earned David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, professors of electrical engineering and computer science, this year’s Distinguished University Innovator Award.

A World Record for Robotic Deep Freeze Walking

Cassie Blue, the bipedal robot, takes advantage of the 2019 polar vortex to set a record-breaking walk.

U-M researchers provide control software to ensure autonomous vehicles stay in their lane

The team was awarded a Best New Application Paper Award by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for their work developing reliable control systems for Lane Keeping and Adaptive Cruise Control.

Kamal Sarabandi welcomes Emperor and Empress of Japan at IGARSS 2019

Predicting future disasters is an important goal of those participating in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

DARPA Award for more responsive AI that combines human and machine

The goal of Lasecki’s proposal is to create methods for making AI systems more robust and flexible.

Xianhe Liu receives Best Poster Award at ICNS 2019

The research impacts development of high-efficiency, micro LEDs, used in a variety of applications.

Jenna Wiens Named New Precision Health Co-Director

Wiens is transitioning to Co-Director from a successful role as a Co-Lead for Precision Health’s Data Analytics & IT Workgroup, which expanded access to data and research tools across the university.

Paper recognized for lasting contributions to AI decision making

Baveja’s paper tackled the difficult problem of giving artificial intelligence a way to understand and represent knowledge collected over time.

PET Award for making privacy policies easier to read

The research generated a chatbot to help users sift through important details in privacy policies.

Best paper award for analysis of a decade of malware reports

The research suggests that common blacklist-based prevention systems are ineffective.

The National Academy of Engineering invites Prof. Johanna Mathieu to symposium to advance the engineering frontier

The symposium brings together 82 young engineers from different technical areas from around the country.

Counting snowflakes for better water resource management

Mostafa Zaky has built an award-winning model that helps estimate the amount of water stored in snowpacks, which could improve climate change and flood forecasting, as well as overall water resource management.

Alfred Hero Receives 2020 IEEE Fourier Award

Hero’s research in signal processing has explored theoretical foundations and applications including personalized health imaging and information networks.

25-year paper award for power-saving approach to high-performance computing

Mudge’s paper examined the power-saving needs of high-performance computing.

Stephen Forrest named Henry Russel Lecturer for 2020

Stephen R. Forrest has been selected as U-M’s 2020 Henry Russel Lecturer, the university’s highest honor for senior faculty members.

Two U-M students receive scholarships from the International Society for Optics and Photonics

Hanzhang Pei (ECE) and Darwin F. Cordovilla Leon (Applied Physics) were selected for their potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field.

Huanting Huang improves accuracy of remote sensing

Huang won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics for her work developing better electromagnetic models that calculate microwave interactions with tree and vegetation cover.

Nooshin M. Estakhri receives the Helen Wu Award

Estakhri is a PhD student studying quantum optics and its potential to impact communication and biomedical imaging.

Michigan takes first place at Exoskeleton Competition

The STARX suit helps first-responders bear greater weights and spend less energy.

Three papers chosen as IEEE Micro Top Picks

Top Picks is an annual special edition of IEEE Micro magazine that acknowledges the 10-12 most significant research papers.

Samir Nooshabadi looks to close the terahertz gap for better communication

As an undergrad, Nooshabadi designed tiny transmitters with big potential and received fellowships from the Department of Defense and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.

Jamie Phillips is honored by the college as a true team player

The College of Engineering has chosen Prof. Phillips as the recipient of this year’s Staff-Faculty Partnership Award. The award is given to only one faculty member in the entire college.

Ann Stals, the Woman Behind the Curtain, is honored for her excellence in ECE

Ann Stals is one of four College of Engineering staff members honored with the Staff Excellence Award. She was selected for her exemplary work as the Alumni Engagement and Events Manager for ECE.

Laura Balzano aims to improve precision medicine as a Fulbright Scholar

Balzano will work with Portuguese researcher Mário Figueiredo to develop new machine learning methods impacting medical diagnosis and treatment.

Research responsible for establishing field of medical device security recognized by IEEE

Defibrillator security paper receives Test of Time Award from IEEE Security & Privacy

Awards for outstanding graduate student instructors and instructional aides of 2019

To honor the work and integral help of the top Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) and Instructional Aides (IAs) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the division held a special awards ceremony on Friday, May 17, 2019.

Glen Chou receives the NDSEG Fellowship to improve the safety of autonomous systems

PhD student Glen Chou is focused on ensuring that autonomous systems, including cars and robots, never threaten human safety.

CAREER Award for deeper insights into interconnected data: from neurons to web searches

Danai Koutra earned the award for her proposal to innovate the way we use networks to understand the world and speed up our technology.

Elizabeth Hou recognized for her research on detecting anomalies in traffic networks

PhD candidate Elizabeth Hou was awarded an honorable mention for her presentation at the Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences on her research that could help monitor nuclear nonproliferation.

Mehrdad Moharrami aims to advance our understanding of the world with better mathematical models

For his creative, ambitious, and impactful dissertation, PhD student Mehrdad Moharrami receives the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.

Xin Zan wins the Towner Prize for his work advancing wireless power transfer

PhD student Xin Zan is helping to free the world from cords, which could advance implantable medical devices, autonomous electric vehicles, and consumer electronics.

Stéphane Lafortune Voted 2019 HKN Professor of the Year in ECE

An expert in discrete event systems, Lafortune is currently teaching a sophomore level class in Signals and Systems.

Chad Jenkins named new council member for CRA Computing Community Consortium

Jenkins has been appointed as one of seven new members on the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council, which is affiliated with the Computing Research Association (CRA). His term begins July 1.

Guzdial receives SIGCSE outstanding educator award

Guzdial is a leading expert in the field of computing education, and was one of its earliest researchers.

Bertacco recognized for efforts to bolster diversity

Bertacco is a key leader in efforts to improve the representation of women in computer science and develop more extensive cross-cultural connections within the department.

Paper award for identifying speaker characteristics in text messages

The goal of the work was to identify seven things about who the subject was talking to just by analyzing text messages.

Milad Zolfagharloo Koohi receives IEEE MTT-S Fellowship to advance 5G communications

EECS-ECE PhD student Milad Zolfagharloo Koohi is working to make smartphones faster and smaller through his research in the field of RF devices.

Prof. J. Alex Halderman named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

Halderman will work to further educate lawmakers, future cybersecurity experts, and the public about how to ensure that election results can relied upon and verified

2018-19 Undergraduate Student Awards

We congratulate these students for achieving notable success in the areas of academic achievement, research, service, and entrepreneurship

Laura Andre brings the engineering community together

EECS-ECE PhD student Laura Andre is recognized by the College of Engineering with the Distinguished Leadership Award for her outstanding contributions to the college, university, and community.

Md Salman Nazir works to improve the power grid and research papers

EECS-ECE PhD student Md Salman Nazir is recognized by the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems for his outstanding reviews of recent papers. He works at the Michigan Power and Energy Lab.

Chowdhury wins NSF CAREER award for making memory cheaper, more efficient in big data centers

Chowdhury connects all unused memory in a data cluster and treats it as a single unit.

Unravelling the mysteries of bacterial communication

EECS-ECE PhD student Navid Barani received the IEEE APS Doctoral Research Award for his work modeling how bacteria use electromagnetic waves to communicate, which could lead to medical breakthroughs.

Undergrad Michelle Gehner engineers better ways to explore new worlds

Gehner’s academic career includes advancing power electronics and crafting new extraterrestrial vehicles for MRover. She received the IEEE Power and Energy Society Scholarship for her promising future in power and energy.

2018 Nobel Prize Laureate Gérard Mourou talks high-intensity optics

Gérard Mourou, Professor Emeritus of EECS, returned to campus to discuss winning the Nobel Prize and his work in high-intensity optics.

Extreme light: Nobel laureate discusses the past & future of lasers

Lasers of tomorrow might neutralize nuclear waste, clean up space junk and advance proton therapy to treat cancer, says Gerard Mourou.

Laura Balzano receives NSF CAREER Award to improve machine learning for big data applications

Her research deciphering messy data sets will first tackle applications in genetics and computer vision.

Crafting better digital systems with ECE PhD student Jie-Fang Zhang

Zhang is recognized with the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship for his work designing hardware solutions that could help support computer vision and machine learning.

Automated software repair paper recognized for 10 years of influence

Ten years ago, Prof. Westley Weimer set out to shave off time and expenditure sunk into patch fixes.

Outstanding commitment to undergraduate mentorship

“Thanks to his tireless support and unparalleled patience, I am now equipped with a fundamental research skill set.”

Sloan Fellowship for overcoming Moore’s Law in health and AI

To meet computing demand in a post Moore’s Law future, Das develops new architectures that improve performance by orders of magnitude.

ECE student Brandon Russell explores space phenomena in a lab

PhD student Brandon Russell is awarded the Rackham International Student Fellowship for his research on magnetic fields in high-energy plasmas, which could help advance the development of clean energy and our understanding of energetic astrophysical phenomena.

2019 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

Congratulations to these recipients of the EECS Outstanding Achievement Award

Landmark microprocessor reliability paper recognized for enduring impact

Published in 1999, Todd Austin’s paper turned out to be a major contribution to the field, cited over 870 times

Johanna Mathieu receives NSF CAREER Award to help build a smarter, more sustainable grid

Mathieu will develop optimization and control methods to leverage the flexibility available from distributed energy resources.

Making a difference for women in academia

Mihalcea has dedicated substantial effort to developing programs aimed at introducing women to the world of computing

Zhengya Zhang receives CoE undergraduate education award

Prof. Zhang receives outstanding evaluations from students and opens their imagination to research in the field of VLSI circuits and systems.

College award recognizes a career dedicated to service

Kevin Compton has been committed to service in his work that has enhanced the student experience

College award for excellence in education

Bill Arthur was recognized for demonstrating sustained excellence in instruction and guidance.

Jagadish appointed director of Michigan Institute for Data Science

Jagadish will help lead MIDAS into its next stage and further expand data science efforts across disciplines.

Time-varying metamaterials for next generation communication, sensing, and defense systems

With $7.5M MURI grant, Professor Anthony Grbic is developing metamaterials for a new generation of integrated electromagnetic and photonic systems.

Recognizing a lifetime of achievement in cognitive systems

Laird has been an energetic contributor to AI and cognitive science for over 30 years

Collegiate Lecturership recognizes commitment to innovative teaching

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to education, Dr. David Chesney has been named a 2018-2019 Toby Teorey Collegiate Lecturer.

Johanna Mathieu receives Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Award

The award recognizes Mathieu’s outstanding teaching, research, and service in the area of power and energy.

Laura Balzano receives ARO Young Investigator Award to improve high-dimensional big data problems

Applications include managing large networked systems, such as sensor networks, power grids, or computer networks.

Eight ECE faculty and staff recognized for creativity, innovation, and daring

Eight ECE faculty and staff have been recognized by the College of Engineering for their creativity, innovation, and daring approaches to their work.

Dreslinski named Wellman Professor for outstanding research in energy efficient processors

Dreslinski is working with a $9.5million DARPA grant to overcome the limitations of Moore’s Law

Lynn Conway encourages graduates to embrace coming social change

Professor emerita and transgender advocate Lynn Conway delivered the 2018 Winter Commencement address to U-M graduates.

Pallab Bhattacharya to receive 2019 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal

Bhattacharya honored for the development and commercialization of quantum dot lasers.

Zachary Lemnios: Helping to shape the new Frontier in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

The Honorable Zachary Lemnios, recipient of the 2018 ECE Alumni Impact Award, believes we are entering the Golden Age of Engineering.

Toyota funds professorship in AI at U-Michigan

The new $2.5 million endowment to support a professorship is the second U-M sponsorship from Toyota

Stéphane Lafortune named N. Harris McClamroch Professor of EECS

Lafortune's research in discrete event systems includes multiple problem domains, with applications to computer and software systems.

Transformative approach to 5G funded by new Innovator program

Nine technologies competed for $75k in the ECE Innovator Program, which emphasizes a team approach to entrepreneurial success.

ECE students display their research at the 2018 Graduate Engineering Symposium

Students’ projects encompassed a wide variety of fields: revolutionizing energy systems, advancing technologies, and improving cybersecurity.

David Chesney to receive 2018 James T. Neubacher Award

“His course really opened my eyes to the difficulties that some people have when using a universally designed product.”

Computing pioneer to receive honorary U-M doctorate

Lynn Conway is a leader in the microchip design revolution that made cell phones and laptops possible, and an internationally-recognized advocate for transgender rights.

Laura Balzano receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award for research that addresses massive streaming data

Prof. Balzano uses statistical signal processing, matrix factorization, and optimization to unravel dynamic and messy data.

Amir Mortazawi receives MTT-S Distinguished Educator Award

Prof. Mortazawi recognized as a distinguished educator in the field of microwave engineering and science.

Anthony Grbic receives U-M Faculty Recognition Award

Prof. Grbic is a world leader in the development of metamaterials and metasurfaces.

Todd Austin recognized for outstanding achievements

Austin is a recognized leader in the area of computer architecture research.

Alum Rhonda Franklin honored for her accomplishments with the Willie Hobbs Moore Award

From blowing up microwaves to inspiring a new generation of microwave engineers, Professor Franklin shares her research, insights, and thoughts on the future of women in engineering.

Computing visionary Sam Fuller honored by Michigan Engineering

The highest accolade from the Michigan Engineering Alumni Board goes to a thought leader with a track record of predicting the industry’s future.

Dowson Tong, VP of Tencent, talks to students

VP of the world’s largest gaming and social company, Tong spoke to students about AI, pursuing a global maximum in your career, and what it’s like to work in China when you don’t speak Mandarin.

A champion for women in computer science

“We are trying to change the stereotypes.”

Mackillo Kira Elected OSA Fellow for contributions to quantum optics

Prof. Kira was recognized for his pioneering contributions to the theory of semiconductor quantum optics.

Nobel Prize for ‘the most powerful laser pulses known to humanity’

At U-M, Gérard Mourou advanced ‘chirped pulse amplification,’ leading to more precise LASIK eye surgery and pushing the limits of optical science.

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award for smart conversation tools

Jonathan Kummerfeld is recognized for his work in artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on language.

Solving impossible equations

Eric Michielssen has discovered a new way to rapidly analyze electromagnetic phenomena, and it’s catching on.

Google award to introduce women to computer science research

Mihalcea and Wendlandt believe a key strategy to increasing the number of women in computing research is to introduce them to the research process early on.

Deciphering GPS satellites to see inside hurricanes

To dial in on exact wind speeds, researchers needed to reverse engineering the signals from satellites.

Hun-Seok Kim receives DARPA Young Faculty Award to advance research in IoT networks

Kim’s research is expected to impact the future design and wireless operation of the next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices

Necmiye Ozay receives Henry Russel Award for extraordinary accomplishment

Ozay is one of four U-M faculty members selected to receive a Henry Russel Award for 2019. The Award is one of the university’s highest honors for junior faculty members.

Mingyan Liu named chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cybersecurity entrepreneur and interdisciplinary researcher named 15th chair of ECE

Xin Zan wins two awards for wireless power transfer research

New research into implanted medical devices and peer-to-peer charging.

Jiyue Zhu awarded Wiesnet Medal for improved snow algorithms

An award-winning method will help us better understand how much snow is on the ground.

Cafarella Receives VLDB Test of Time Award for Structured Web Data Search

This award is given to the VLDB paper published ten years earlier that has had the most influence since its publication.

Mingyan Liu, 2018 Distinguished University Innovator, talks about her company and data science commercialization

Mingyan Liu, recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Innovator of the Year award, gave a talk about her startup company and participated on a panel discussing data science commercialiation.

Laura Balzano partners with 3M to advance research in big data

Prof. Laura Balzano received a 2018 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award to advance her research in Big Data.

Mengqi Yao receives High Quality Paper Award at PowerTech Conference

In recognition of demand response research.

Stephanie Crocker Ross receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Dissertation recognized as unusually creative, ambitious and impactful.

Reetuparna Das earns Borg Early Career Award

Das is passionate about promoting diversity and mentoring women in computer science.

Mike Stander honored with CoE Staff Excellence Award

Stander has given 33 years of exceptional service to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as a Hardware and Electronics Technician

Xiang Yin receives honorable mention for ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Yin researched cyber-physical systems and discrete-event systems.

Students win prizes for improving image processing techniques for liver cancer detection and much more

Students in EECS 556: Image Processing, explore methods to improve image processing in applications such as biomedical imaging and video and image compression

Andrew DeOrio Voted HKN Professor of the Year for CSE

The Professor of the Year Award is voted on by all undergraduate and graduate students of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Kyle Min awarded Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement

Kyle Min researches how computer vision can analyze law enforcement body cameras.

Fawwaz Ulaby Voted 2018 HKN ECE Professor of the Year

The Professor of the Year Award is awarded based on popular vote by all undergraduate and graduate students in programs administered by EECS.

Three CSE faculty selected for Google Faculty Research Awards

Profs. Jia Deng, Roya Ensafi, and Manos Kapritsos have been selected to receive Google Faculty Research Awards.

Inaugural ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Alumni Lecture: Dr. Isaac R. Porche III

Porche discussed the changing definition of war and how information is playing a greater role than ever.

2017-18 Undergraduate Student Awards

We congratulate these students for achieving notable success in the areas of academic achievement, research, service, and entrepreneurship

Alfred Hero illustrates common threads of complex networks in Distinguished University Professor lecture

Lecture part of highest professorial honor bestowed on U-M faculty.

Shai Revzen receives inaugural Robotics Institute Teaching Award for hands-on approach to education

Course encourages students to come up with their own robot designs.

Igor Markov named a top Quora writer for fifth year in a row

He has answered over 3800 questions on the Q&A site, with over 41 million views.

Anonymous alumnus endows award in recognition of EECS professors

The Wise-Najafi Prize for Engineering Excellence in the Miniature World will recognize and incentivize outstanding research and scholarship related to engineering at the meso-scale, micron-scale, nano-scale and beyond.

Jia Deng selected for Sloan Research Fellowship

Prof. Deng was selected for his work in computer vision and machine learning.

Prof. Chad Jenkins Receives CoE Trudy Huebner Service Excellence Award

The award recognizes his significant and consequential contributions in service to the academy and his professional communities.

Professor Leung Tsang Receives 2018 Van de Hulst Award

Prof. Tsang is a world-renowned expert in the field of theoretical and computational electromagnetics, and in particular microwave remote sensing of the earth.

2018 EECS Outstanding Achievement awards

Congratulations to these recipients of the EECS Outstanding Achievement Award

Raj Nadakuditi receives Excellence in Teaching Award from College of Engineering

The award honors faculty “with a demonstrated sustained excellence in curricular development, instruction, and guidance.”

Mark J. Kushner receives Stephen S. Attwood Award from College of Engineering

The Stephen S. Attwood Award is the most prestigious award that the College of Engineering bestows.

PhD candidate Michael Benson wins another year leading honor society HKN

Michael Benson reelected as student governor for HKN, the national honor society for electrical and computer engineers.

Jenna Wiens named Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professor

This professorship is awarded to junior faculty members in CSE in recognition of outstanding contributions to teaching and research.

Euisik Yoon presents the 2017 LNF User Symposium keynote address

The keynote was titled, “Biointerface Technologies: Where Engineering Meets Science and Medicine.”

Kevin Fu Elected IEEE Fellow for Contributions to Embedded and Medical Device Security

Prof. Fu was named an IEEE Fellow, Class of 2018, “for contributions to embedded and medical device security.”

Wei Lu elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to neuromorphic systems

Prof. Lu is an internationally recognized leader in the development of memristors for memory and logic applications.

Two faculty named AAAS fellows

Professors H. V. Jagadish and Christopher Poulsen are honored for advancing socially impactful research.

Chris Peikert Receives TCC Test of Time Award for work in lattice cryptography

Prof. Peikert and his co-author received the award at the Fifteenth Theory of Cryptography Conference for their paper on efficient collision-resistant hashing on cyclic lattices.

Reetuparna Das inducted into the MICRO Hall of Fame

This honor recognizes outstanding researchers with eight or more papers at the International Symposium on Microarchitecture.

Kevin Fu recognized with Regents’ Award for Distinguished Public Service

Kevin Fu has been recognized for informing policy makers and Congress about issues in computer security.

Mark Ackerman receives European CSCW Lifetime Achievement award

Prof. Ackerman recognized quite early how social context could harness computing technologies for the development of systems in expertise finding and sharing, as well as in collaborative information access.

Precision health pioneer named to MIT Technology Review innovator list

The national magazine recognized Jenna Wiens as one of 2017’s 35 Innovators Under 35.

ACM to publish leading journal of human-robot interaction; Chad Jenkins serves as editor-in-chief

Jenkins hopes to cultivate new and leading-edge ideas in both robotics and the human-centered sciences.

Becky Peterson honored with 2018 U-M Henry Russel Award

Prof. Peterson has received a 2018 U-M Henry Russel Award, which is considered the University’s highest honor for faculty at the early to mid-career stages of their career.

Two students earn scholarships to pursue work in sustainable energy

Two electrical engineering students, Paul Giessner and Noah Mitchell-Ward, were awarded scholarships from the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) to support their education in wind and solar power.

Necmiye Ozay receives Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems paper prize

The authors demonstrated that it is possible to synthesize provably-correct robust feedback controllers that can handle various types of imperfections in the models or measurements.

ECE alum Kukjin Chun earns South Korea’s highest scientific honor

Alumnus Kukjin Chun receives the highest national honor for a Korean scientist and engineer.

Thomas B. A. Senior named fellow of International Union of Radio Science

Professor Senior has played key roles in URSI over the past 50 years

Students in EECS 556 win prizes for improving image processing techniques for camera motion blur and facial recognition

These students are learning to improve images in medical imaging, and improve facial recognition

Heath Hofmann recognized for excellence in teaching with the Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Award from the College of Engineering

Hofmann is great at introducing students to power electronics

Student teams earn prizes for analog-digital converter circuit designs in EECS 511

The winning projects were designed for battery-operated mobile applications as well as instrumentation and measure applications.

Mary Lou Dorf named U-M Collegiate Lecturer

Dr. Dorf has made notable contributions to instruction through her reimagining of EECS 183.

Parag Deotare voted 2017 HKN Professor of the Year for ECE

ECE students say Prof. Deotare is the best!

James Juett Voted HKN Professor of the Year for CSE

Dr. Juett was selected though a popular vote of EECS students.

Mary Lou Dorf selected for Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize

Dr. Dorf has transformed EECS 183 into an interactive and inclusive experience.

Tony England receives Susan B. Anthony Campus Award

Dean England of U-M Dearborn has been particularly good in helping women faculty and students achieve success.

2016-17 Undergraduate Student Awards

Awards covered academic achievement, research, service, and entrepreneurship

Chris Peikert named first-ever Patrick C. Fischer development professor

Peikert’s research is dedicated to developing new, stronger mathematical foundations for cryptography.

ECE Graduate Student Nathan Sawicki recognized for outstanding teaching

Sawicki was one of 4 students in the College of Engineering selected to receive a 2017 Towner Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors.

Gopal Nataraj receives U-M Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support high-impact research in medical imaging

Award for outstanding doctoral candidates near the end of their study.

Azadeh Ansari receives ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award for research in GaN-based electro-acoustic devices

Award recognizes exceptional dissertations

Barzan Mozafari named Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professor

Prof. Mozafari is passionate about building large-scale data-intensive systems that are more scalable, more robust, and more predictable.

Harsha Madhyastha selected for Google Faculty Award

Prof. Madhyastha seeks to enable the cloud provider to monitor traffic on behalf of all the web services hosted on its platform.

Valeria Bertacco named Arthur F. Thurnau Professor for contributions to undergraduate education

Prof. Bertacco is enthusiastic and passionate about teaching and has made it her mission to improve the undergraduate educational experience of all of her students.

Alum Michelle Stock elected SPIE Fellow for development of the photonics industry

SPIE chose Stock for her achievements in business development and science policy

Zetian Mi elected SPIE Fellow for contributions to photonic devices and artificial photosynthesis

Prof. Mi conducts research in the area of semiconductor optoelectronics, specifically in the areas of III-nitride semiconductors, low dimensional nanostructures, LEDs, lasers, Si photonics, artificial photosynthesis and solar fuels.

Mingyan Liu receives CoE Monroe-Brown Foundation Service Excellence Award

Prof. Liu helped implement a diversity incentive program that led to a record number of newly-admitted underrepresented PhD students in 2016 while overseeing the merger of two graduate programs.

Prof. Z. Morley Mao selected to receive CoE George J. Huebner, Jr. Research Excellence award

Prof. Mao has led inquiries into issues of Internet routing, measurement and security, wide-area and enterprise network management, malware behavior analysis and host-based security in general.

Dr. David Paoletti selected to receive CoE Thomas M. Sawyer, Jr. Teaching award

Paoletti has transformed a 600+ student course into of the best-regarded classes in the EECS department.

2017 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

Congratulations!

Alfred O. Hero receives CoE Stephen S. Attwood Award

Prof. Hero and his research group build foundational theory and methodology for data science and engineering. His recent research interests are data science, bioinformatics and personalized health, statistical signal processing and imaging, and more.

Wei Lu receives CoE David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award

Prof. Lu is an internationally recognized leader in the development of memristors for memory and logic applications. He has also developed nanowire transistors suitable for flexible electronics and opto-electronics.

Becky Peterson receives NSF CAREER Award for research in amorphous semiconductors for next generation electronics

In this project, Prof. Peterson will develop new alloys of amorphous oxide semiconductors with precisely tuned semiconductor energy band structures, in order to enable new categories of electronic and opto-electronic devices.

EE student Leonard Kapiloff earns PES scholarship to support studies in secure, sustainable grid

This $2000 scholarship recognizes outstanding students committed to exploring the power and energy field. Leonard wants to work in the energy industry towards a more sustainable and secure electric grid.

Semyon Meerkov elected Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The Academy is the highest scientific institution in Russia. According to its Charter, “only the most prominent foreign scientists recognized by the international scientific community can be elected….”

Todd Austin elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to simulation techniques and resilient system design in computer architecture

Prof. Austin is a recognized leader in the area of computer architecture research.

Prof. Trevor Mudge named ACM Fellow for contributions to power aware computer architecture

His inventive approaches have led to new technologies that reduce the energy consumption of microprocessors while maintaining acceptable performance.

Kamal Sarabandi elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

The AAAS seeks to advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people.

Prof. Jason Flinn named ACM Fellow for contributions to mobile computing and distributed systems

Prof. Flinn has been an active researcher in the field of mobile computing for a number of years.

Valeria Bertacco elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to computer-aided verification and reliable system design

Prof. Bertacco is a highly noted researcher in the area of computer architecture and is Director of the department’s Computer Engineering (CE) Lab.

Yi-Jun Chang selected for Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship

Chang’s research interest is in complexity theory of distributed computing.

Stephen Forrest receives IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal for pioneering work in OLEDs

Forrest and colleagues received the award for “pioneering work on organic devices, leading to organic light-emitting diode displays.”

Liz Dreyer earns an outstanding Collegiate Member Award for years of SWE leadership

Liz Dreyer works with Prof. Steve Rand to understand how a new interaction between light and matter can generate electricity.

Alumnus Tim Howes chosen for Arbor Networks PhD Research Impact Lecture and Award

Dr. Howes’ doctoral research focused on Internet directory services, and he co-invented LDAP, the Internet directory protocol, while a graduate student at U-M.

Harsha Madhyastha selected for Facebook Faculty Award

Prof. Madhyastha’s recent research has focused on enabling latency-sensitive web services to optimize user experience.

Jia Deng selected as recipient of PAMI Mark Everingham Prize

Prof. Deng and his collaborators received the award for their work on ImageNet.

Michael Wellman selected to serve on Financial Research Advisory Committee

Professor Wellman brings expertise on algorithmic trading and other computational techniques that are transforming financial markets and the financial system.

Michael Flynn earns U-M Faculty Recognition Award

Prof. Flynn’s pioneering research and designs have improved the performance and energy efficiency of analog-digital interfaces and transformed the field.

Lingjia Tang selected to receive Facebook Faculty Award

She recently helped develop a modular load tester platform for data centers, which is designed to help measure and mitigate tail latency.

David Blaauw honored with SIA/SRC University Research Award

Prof. Blaauw was a key member of the team that developed the world’s first millimeter-scale computer, known as the Michigan Micro Mote (M3).

Cindy Finelli invited to NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium

Prof. Finelli will discuss a more student-centered electrical engineering classroom through pre-class reading and in-class problem solving, integrating some elements of a “flipped” classroom.

Meet the new director of Michigan Robotics

Prof. Jessy Grizzle named inaugural director of Michigan Robotics

EECS students Row Blue! to victory

Four EECS students part of the Michigan Men’s Rowing team that won their 9th consecutive national championship

Mark Kushner receives Plasma Chemistry Award for lifetime of achievement

Prof. Kushner is an internationally renowned expert in the area of low-temperature plasma simulation.

Necmiye Ozay receives NASA Early Career Faculty Award for research in cyber-physical systems

Prof. Ozay’s award-winning work will be used in future space missions

Prof. Dragomir Radev honored as ACM Fellow at annual awards banquet

Prof. Radev was elected a Fellow for “contributions to natural language processing and computational linguistics.”

Researchers David Adrian and Alex Halderman receive Pwnie Award for work on DROWN attack

DROWN allows attackers to break encryption used to protect HTTPS websites and read or steal sensitive communications.

CSE alumna Adriane Chapman recognized with Test of Time Award from ACM SIGMOD

The SIGMOD Test of Time Award recognizes the best paper from the SIGMOD proceedings 10 years prior.

Stéphane Lafortune named Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

Prof. Lafortune has been a leading researcher in the field of discrete event systems (DES) for the last 25 years. His fundamental work covers the gamut from modeling, analysis, diagnosis, control, and optimization.

Danai Koutra receives 2016 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award

The annual SIGKDD doctoral dissertation award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery.

An award winning radar system for collision avoidance and imaging

Armin’s research is focused on the development of a sub-millimeter-wave radar system for the next generation of navigation and imaging sensors.

Mosharaf Chowdhury receives ACM SIGCOMM Dissertation Award

Prof. Chowdhury bridges the gap between application-level performance and network-level optimizations through the coflow abstraction.

Two papers by Michigan researchers chosen as IEEE Micro Top Picks

The two papers from Michigan introduced the Sirius personal digital assistant and the MBus bus for modular microcomputing systems.

Quora Knowledge Prize winner Igor Markov presents winning answer to packed house at MLConf

Prof. Markov is a frequent contributor to Quora, where his contributions cover subjects ranging from computer science to geopolitical affairs.

Nan Jiang receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

The award is to support his research in reinforcement learning.

Alfred O. Hero, III named John H. Holland Distinguished University Professor of EECS

Hero is honored for his extraordinary accomplishments that have brought distinction to himself, his students, and to the entire University.

Michael P. Wellman named Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Prof. Wellman’s research applies principles of computation and economics to engineer rational decision-making strategies and analyze complex systems of interacting agents.

Stephen Forrest Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Membership in the NAS is one of the highest distinctions for a scientist or engineer in the United States.

Award-winning EECS 2016 Graduate Student Instructors & Instructional Aides recognized

To celebrate the contributions of our graduate and undergraduate instructors, the department selects the best of the best, based on student evaluations, and celebrates them at a special awards ceremony.

Students earn prizes for improving image processing techniques in EECS 556 (Winter 2016)

The course covers the theory and application of digital image processing, with applications in biomedical images, time-varying imagery, robotics, and optics.

David Chesney receives 2016 Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize

Through his courses, students are able to learn the fundamentals of programming and software systems, while also seeing the social impact of computer science.

Jeff Fessler receives 2016 IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award

Prof. Fessler has revolutionized the theory and practice of medical imaging with his group’s groundbreaking mathematical models and algorithms.

Beth Lawson receives 2016 CoE Excellence in Staff Service Award

Faculty praised Beth’s willingness to provide a high level of support to faculty , her ability to work well with other departments, and her unflappable calm in the face of changes in budgets.

Kimberly Mann receives CoE Excellence in Staff Service Award

Mann is the research administrator for the AI and IS Labs.

CSE Alumna Arzucan Ozgur receives Science Academy Young Scientist Award

Her research interests include text mining, natural language processing, and bioinformatics.

Audrow Nash earns NSF Fellowship for unmanned aerial vehicle research

Audrow's research focuses on using coordinated groups of UAVs to continuously and autonomously survey biogas emissions in landfills.

Marcus Darden voted HKN Professor of the Year for CSE

Darden teaches both large sections of EECS 281 and a more specialized EECS 398 course. He also serves as a faculty advisor for CS students.

Jeff Fessler voted 2016 HKN Professor of the Year for ECE

Prof. Fessler was surprised (and happy) to learn of this unique honor at the end of his final class for the semester.

Mark Kushner Appointed Distinguished Lecturer of Plasma Physics

Prof. Kushner will share his own research as well as broader trends with the larger academic and scientific community.

Mark Kushner Honored by Eindhoven University of Technology

Kushner receives an honorary doctorate and is appointed Distinguished Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology.

CSE graduate student Vidal Borromeo recognized with CoE Towner Prize

Vidal is currently the GSI for EECS 381: Object Oriented and Advanced Programming.

Clark Zhang earns NSF Fellowship for data processing in MEMS networks

Clark proposed framing the issue of collecting data from a network of different sensors as an optimization problem, making a solution easier to formulate for different systems.

Genevieve Flaspohler selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Genevieve will continue her research in the MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute joint program, pursuing a PhD in computer science with a focus in oceanography.

Joshua Adkins Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Adkins plans to continue his graduate studies in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California Berkeley.

Ryan Marcotte selected for NSF and NDSEG Graduate Research Fellowships

Ryan works with Prof. Edwin Olson in the APRIL Lab, where his research is in the area of multi-agent search algorithms for both known and unexplored environments.

Jeff Fessler named William L. Root Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

In addition to being a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Fessler is a professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology.

Yu-Wei Chao selected for Google PhD Fellowship

Yu-Wei is a third year PhD student whose research focuses on computer vision and machine learning.

2015-16 Undergraduate Student Awards

Students, parents, and faculty gathered to celebrate the achievements of EECS students who earned a special award for academic achievement, research, service, or entrepreneurial activities.

Doowon Lee receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to improve the reliability of computer systems

His research addresses the problem of diminishing reliability in future computer systems.

Xiang Yin earns Pre-Doc Fellowship for research in cyber-physical systems

Xiang’s research focuses on developing new methods to synthesize different control and sensing strategies in a discrete-event system.

Amr Ibrahim earns Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for research in high millimeter wave radar systems

Amr is investigating both the unique advantages and the performance limitations of radar systems operating at 240 GHz in typical outdoor environments.

Avish Kosari selected as Barbour Scholar for Research in low-power devices for the Internet of Things

Avish conducts research on ultra-low power and battery-less integrated circuits.

Michael J. Cafarella selected for Sloan Research Fellowship

He has built software systems for information extraction, database integration, and feature engineering and applied these to problems in the social sciences.

Honglak Lee selected for Sloan Research Fellowship

His work impacts computer vision, audio recognition, robotics, text modeling, and healthcare.

Valeria Bertacco receives U-M Sarah Goddard Power Award

The award recognizes unwavering commitment to the betterment of women, and clear record of success and significant achievement in research and scholarship, distinguished leadership, and mentoring women.

Necmiye Ozay receives CAREER award for research in cyber-physical systems

Cyber-physical systems are smart, networked systems with embedded sensors, processors, and actuators that are designed to interact with the physical world.

Jenna Wiens receives NSF CAREER Award to increase the utility of machine learning in clinical care

Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and healthcare.

Al Hero gets a shoutout from the court

Hero was recognized as part of a program that sheds light on the University’s most distinguished faculty.

Karl Winsor named Churchill Scholar

Karl’s career goals are to obtain a Ph.D. in Mathematics, to conduct research in number theory and algebraic geometry, and to teach at the university level.

Barzan Mozafari receives NSF CAREER Award to improve predictability of database systems

Prof. Mozafari is passionate about building large-scale data-intensive systems that are more scalable, more robust, and more predictable.

2016 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

The EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards are presented annually to faculty members for their outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, and service.

Jason Mars receives CAREER Award to advance system architectures for artificially intelligent services and applications

The award will enable Prof. Mars to understand how future cloud and mobile systems should be designed to support increasing demand from users of intelligent assistants.

Two CSE Faculty selected for 2015-16 College of Engineering Awards

The recipients are Prof. Valeria Bertacco and Dr. Mary Lou Dorf.

Kamal Sarabandi receives Stephen S. Attwood award

The Stephen S. Attwood award is the highest honor awarded to a faculty member by the College of Engineering. Prof. Sarabandi has shaped the field of radar remote sensing for more than twenty years.

Cafarella and Lee named Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professors

The professorship is awarded to junior faculty members in recognition of outstanding contributions to teaching and research.

Kevin Fu named a top influencer in health information security

He is recognized for raising awareness regarding medical device cybersecurity issues by speaking out about critical concerns.

Anthony Grbic elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to the theory and design of electromagnetic metamaterials

Prof. Grbic specializes in the broad fields of electromagnetics and optics, with interests ranging from fundamental electromagnetic theory to microwave circuits.

Demosthenis Teneketzis earns George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award for solution to a class of fundamental control problems

This award is given to the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control throughout the years 2013 and 2014.

Prof. Dragomir Radev Named ACM Fellow for Contributions to NLP and Computational Linguistics

His research takes place at the intersection of information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, bioinformatics, text and data mining, social networks, social media, collective behavior, text generation, information extraction, and artificial intelligence.

Al Hero receives 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Award

This is the highest award given by the Signal Processing Society, and honors outstanding technical contributions in the field.

2015 CSE Graduate Student Honors Competition Highlights Outstanding Research

The competition is the culmination of a process that narrows a field of entrants to four finalists, each of whom give a summary presentation on an area of their research.

Ashraf Dahod: 2015 CoE Alumni Medal Award Winner

Dahod has combined an understanding of technology with a knack for recognizing market opportunities and built a string of successful technology companies.

Cynthia Finelli earns award at Frontiers in Education Conference for being an agent of change

Prof. Finelli's research is in engineering education, and she currently studies student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, and institutional change.

Eric Michielssen named Louise Ganiard Johnson Professor of Engineering

Eric is an international leader in the field of computational electromagnetics and specializes in the development of fast-solution methods and optimization algorithms.

J. Alex Halderman Named One of Popular Science's Brilliant Ten

Halderman has met significant contributions in the areas of electronic voting security, internet security, and electronic censorship resistance.

Peter M. Chen Recognized for Influential Work in Operating Systems with ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award

The paper was published at the 2002 Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation.

Prof. Jason Flinn Receives U-M's Faculty Recognition Award

Prof. Flinn joined the department in 2002 as an assistant professor.

Jeff Fessler receives Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award

Prof. Fessler has revolutionized medical imaging with groundbreaking mathematical models and algorithms that improve both safety and quality.

Honglak Lee Receives CAREER Award for Research in Advanced Deep Learning Techniques

The research outcomes will be distributed through publications, talks, and tutorials.

3 ECE companies make the Silicon 60 List – again!

Ambiq Micro, Crossbar, Inc., and PsiKick, are leading the way in ultra-low power chip design, pioneering computer memory, and ultra-low power wireless sensor platforms.

Laura Balzano receives Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program Award for research in big data

The purpose of the ECFHP is to help Intel connect with the best and brightest early career faculty members who show great promise.

Mary Lou Dorf Wins Best Paper Award at ASEE

The paper addresses the question of whether introducing an interactive textbook into introductory STEM courses can improve student grades.

Dragomir Radev Coaches US Linguistics Team to Multiple Wins at IOL

The International Linguistics Olympiad been held annually since 2003, and Prof. Radev has coached teams each year.

David Wentzloff receives Joel and Ruth Spira Excellence in Teaching Award

This award is presented annually to a faculty member in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in acknowledgement of exceptional achievements in the education of our students.

Ron Dreslinski Selected for IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award

Dr. Dreslinski conducts research in the area of energy efficient processor architectures

Duc Le Selected for Mary A. Rackham Institute Graduate Student Research Assistantship

Duc is interested in using the computer’s modeling power to better understand the inner workings of the human mind, and using this understanding to create more intelligent software programs.

Mark Brehob Named U-M Collegiate Lecturer

Brehob has been a lecturer in the department since 2000.

Michigan Researchers Win Both Best Paper Awards at AAMAS 2015

The two winning papers were selected from a field of 127 full paper submissions in the main technical track.

Stephen Forrest named Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor

Prof. Forrest is internationally-renowned and easily one of the most prolific inventors in academia today.

Michigan Researchers Win Best Poster Award at MobiSys 2015

It describes their work in measuring important network phenomena for debugging problems at the edge of a cellular network.

Two Michigan Papers Share the Best Paper Award at MobiSys 2015

In an unusual turn of events, we've tied with ourselves for this one.

Kevin Fu Named to CRA Computing Community Consortium Council

His three-year term will begin July 1.

Eta Kappa Nu Awards Professors of the Year at St. George's Day Feast

Prof. David Wentzloff (CSE) and David Paoletti (CSE) were selected by students as Professors of the Year.

CS Students Sweep Awards at 2015 Mobile Apps Challenge

The U-M Mobile Apps Challenge is held each year and is open to faculty, students, and staff from across the U-M Ann Arbor campus.

Elaine Wah Receives CoE Marian Sarah Parker Prize

Wah’s research interests lie at the intersection of finance and artificial intelligence, specifically in applying computational methods to study automated trading in financial markets.

Karl Winsor Honored with Goldwater Scholarship

Karl’s career goals are to obtain a Ph.D. in Mathematics, to conduct research in Number Theory and Random Matrix Theory, and to teach at the university level.

ECE students earn CoE Distinguished Leadership Awards

Cheng Zhang and Elizabeth Dreyer are both Ph.D. students in electrical engineering, and Lauren Bilbo is an undergraduate senior majoring in electrical engineering.

Cheng Zhang awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for research on nanophotonic materials and devices

Cheng works with Prof. L. Jay Guo on research projects in the field of micro/nano-scale optical device physics and fabrication.

2014-15 Undergraduate Student Awards

Students, parents, and faculty gathered to celebrate the achievements of EECS students who earned a special award for academic achievement, research, service, or entrepreneurial activities.

Emily Mower Provost Receives Oscar Stern Award for Research in Emotion Expression and Perception

The proposed work investigates computational methodologies to differentiate emotion perception patterns of healthy controls and individuals with Major Depressive Disorder or Bipolar Disorder.

Scott Mahlke Receives Micro Test of Time Award

His 1992 paper describes problems associated with utilizing conventional compiler support for predicated execution, a technique for dealing with conditional branches in application programs, on superscaler processors. It introduces the hyperblock, a structure to overcome those shortcomings.

Mark Kushner awarded 2015 IEEE NPSS Charles K. Birdsall Award

Prof. Kushner is an internationally renowned expert in the area of low-temperature plasma simulation.

Dave Neuhoff receives Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award

Dave Neuhoff is an internationally recognized expert in information theory, source coding and image processing.

2015 CoE Towner Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors

We thank these individuals for their commitment to excellence in teaching our students!

Z. Morley Mao Receives Google Faculty Research Award

Mao’s goal was to create a diagnosis tool to achieve responsive and energy-efficient mobile apps that work well in diverse network conditions.

Two Michigan Engineers selected for Sloan research fellowships

The foundation honors researchers it deems “rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders,” according to a statement. The fellows, who were nominated by their peers and chosen by a panel of senior scholars, each receives $50,000 to further their research.

J. Alex Halderman Selected for Sloan Research Fellowship

Prof. Halderman’s research interests span software security, network security, data privacy, anonymity, electronic voting, censorship resistance, digital rights management, computer forensics, ethics, and cybercrime, as well as the interaction of technology with law, governmental regulation, and international affairs.

Grant Schoenebeck Receives CAREER Award to Develop a Rigorous Theoretical Understanding of Complex Networks

Schoenebeck's research is in theoretical computer science, linear and semidefinite programs, the intersection of computer science and social networks, the intersection of computer science and economics, NP-complete optimization problems, and computational complexity theory.

Jacob Abernethy Receives CAREER Award for Research into the Relationship Between Machine Learning and Microeconomic Theory

Abernethy's research is in machine learning, with additional interests in game theory, decision theory, optimization, market mechanism design, and other financial applications.

Jason Corso receives Google Faculty Research Award

Prof. Corso believes that this research could make it easier to search for certain types of videos on the web.

Jia Deng Receives Google Faculty Research Award to Study Relationships Between Entities in Images

Prof. Deng’s primary research interest is in the area of computer vision, with a focus on image and video understanding, human computation, and large-scale machine learning.

Helen Hagos Selected for Dow Sustainability Fellowship

Helen has an interest in the efficient design of the hardware and software components of embedded systems to be deployed in ecofriendly applications.

2015 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

Winners are chosen for their outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, and service.

Four ECE faculty selected for 2014-15 College of Engineering Awards

Congratulations to Profs Guo, Lafortune, Liu, and Lu!

Four CSE Faculty Selected for 2014-15 College of Engineering Awards

Congratulations to the following CSE Faculty recipients of 2014-15 College of Engineering Awards.

Stephen Forrest Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Forrest started 5 companies, holds more than 260 U.S. patents, and directs the Optoelectronic Components and Materials Laboratory

Scott Mahlke Elected IEEE Fellow for Contributions to Compiler Code Generation and Automatic Processor Customization

Mahlke's research has been focused on the design of customized multicore processors, accelerators, and systems consisting of both that are higher performance, lower power, and more reliable.

Michael Flynn elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to analog-digital interfaces

Prof. Flynn has achieved important breakthroughs in the performance and energy efficiency of analog-digital interfaces.

Lynn Conway Receives 2015 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal

The James Clerk Maxwell Medal is one of the highest awards presented by IEEE.

Prof. Valeria Bertacco Named ACM Distinguished Scientist

Bertacco's research is focused on creating novel solutions to enable the sustainable development of silicon systems, by making them more powerful, more reliable and significantly cheaper to design and manufacture.

Rada Mihalcea Selected as General Chair for NAACL Conference

Prof. Mihalcea's research interests are in computational linguistics, with a focus on lexical semantics, graph-based algorithms for natural language processing, and multilingual natural language processing.

Yang Liu receives Best Applications Paper Award for cyber security research in phishing

His paper detailed his use of big data analysis to solve a major problem of cyber security.

John P. Hayes Recognized with ACM SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award

Hayes was recognized “for his pioneering contributions to logic design, fault tolerant computing, and testing.”

Trevor Mudge Recognized for Distinguished Achievement at UIUC 50th Anniversary Event

He was recognized as an “outstanding educator and researcher whose work has advanced the field of low-power computer architecture and its interaction with technology.”

Satish Narayanasamy Receives Google Faculty Research Award

His research focus is on addressing concurrency issues in mobile and cloud systems, which increasingly rely upon event-driven programming and customized processor accelerators.

Edwin Olson Receives NSF CyberSEES Award for Research in Sustainability of Municipal Solid Waste

The goal of the research is to revolutionize how Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is managed to provide a transformative means of extracting utility-scale energy from waste.

Necmiye Ozay awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award for research in cyber and physical systems

Prof. Ozay’s research interests lie at the broad interface of dynamical systems, control, optimization and formal methods with applications in system identification, verification and validation, autonomy and vision.

Prof. Valeria Bertacco Receives U-M's Faculty Recognition Award

Bertacco's research is in the area of computer design, with emphasis on reliability, design correctness, and hardware-security assurance.

Jason Mars Selected as Program Chair for CGO 2015

Mars' current research interests include cross-layer systems in software and hardware, datacenter and warehouse-scale computer architecture, and hardware/software co-design.

Khalil Najafi receives 2015 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for emerging technologies

The IEEE Daniel E. Noble award is a Technical Field Award, which is among the highest awards given.

Cheng Zhang receives Optical Sciences Scholarship

Cheng is a 4th year PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering working in field of micro/nano-scale optical device physics and fabrication.

Prabal Dutta Named to Popular Science's Brilliant Ten List

Dutta designs hardware and software for smart dust and larger sensors that don't need batteries because they can harvest energy from the world around them.

Jia Deng Wins Best Paper Award at ECCV

David Chesney Receives IBM Faculty Award

Kevin Compton Receives ACM-ICPC Coach Award

Ted Norris receives Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award

Prof. Norris is an internationally recognized expert in the field of ultrafast optics.

Kyu-Tae Lee wins Best Poster Award for colorful solar cells

Iverson Bell’s small satellite wins big

Iverson developed an experimental facility to simulate key characteristics of the space environment.

Gurkan Gok receives Paper Award for making better antenna beams

Gok’s developed antenna system promises a large bandwidth of operation and a wide angle of coverage.

Jessy Grizzle named Elmer G. Gilbert Distinguished University Professor

Prof. Grizzle is an internationally renowned researcher in the area of control systems.

Jiangfeng Wu receives Best Paper Award for research in safe fracking

The Mikio Takagi Student Prize is given to the top three Student Prize Paper Awards granted at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

Barzan Mozafari and collaborators chosen for best demo at ACM SIGMOD

Thomas Frost receives Best Paper Award for achieving a HQ QD red laser

Lasers emitting in the 600nm wavelength range have applications in medicine, optical information processing, optical storage, and more.

David Kieras wins a Best Paper Award at CHI 2014

Grant Schoenebeck selected for facebook faculty award

Eric Michielssen receives IEEE APS Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award

This award is in recognition of being an outstanding educator, mentor and role model for the next generation of faculty members.

Zakir Durumeric Selected for Google PhD Fellowship

Computer architecture innovator Trevor Mudge chosen for top recognition by ACM/IEEE

MEMS research by Muzhi Wang recognized at IMS 2014

The paper reports on the design, fabrication, and results of a directly heated phase change RF switch using germanium telluride.

Benjamin Englard Awarded Thiel Fellowship

Chia-Hsiang Chen awarded Intel PhD Fellowship

Chia-Hsiang’s research focuses on designing low-power and error-resilient circuit techniques for digital signal processing applications.

Parinaz Naghizadeh, Researcher in economic network security, is named a Barbour Scholar

Parinaz’s research is in combining communications with economics to assess the security of a network and then apply that to cyber-insurance contracts.

Doowon Lee Selected for IBM Ph.D. Fellowship

Student teams earn prizes for their ADC circuit designs in EECS 511

The two winning projects and teams were determined by an expert panel at Analog Devices. Congratulations!

Research in machine learning earns Notable Paper Award at AISTATS 2014

Prof. Scott’s research is in the field of machine learning, and his paper builds upon “supervised pattern classification.”

Awards and Slaying of the Dragon at St. George's Day Feast - 2014

Prof. Jessy Grizzle was awarded "Professor of the Year" by HKN.

Hao Sun earns 3 Paper Awards for medical imaging research

Hao’s research is focused on improving the quality of images from magnetic resonance imaging pulse design.

Thank Lynn Conway for your cell phone

Conway will be named a fellow at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

Students earn prizes for improving image processing techniques in EECS 556 (Winter 2014)

Student Spotlight: Nicholas Clift – 2014 Graduate Student of the Year

He is a founding member of Own It, and is dedicated to cultivating an engineering community that feels an inherent responsibility to live ethically.

Jason Heebl receives NDSEG Fellowship

Jason’s current research focuses on developing systems to wirelessly charge or power electronic devices.

Mina Rais-Zadeh receives 2014 ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award

Rais-Zadeh’s devices are expected to enable sensors for use in harsh environment, high-speed wireless communications, and more.

Jill Bender Chosen for CoE Distinguished Leadership Award

Isabel Martin receives CoE Distinguished Leadership Award

Isabel envisions a future working in the aerospace industry.

Six ECE Faculty Selected for 2013-14 College of Engineering Awards

Congratulations to the following ECE Faculty recipients of 2013-14 College of Engineering Awards:

Christopher Boyd awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

His research is contributing to the overall project goal of enabling navigation in GPS denied zones through the use of specialized sensors.

Student Spotlight: Christopher Boyd – From robotics to MEMS inertial sensors

Chris develops and tests control systems for MEMS inertial sensors, which are used to detect acceleration, tilt, and other attributes related to motion sensing.

Forest Agostinelli Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Mai Le receives CoE Distinguished Leadership Award

Mai has served as Community Service Co-chair of the Graduate Society of Women Engineers since arriving at Michigan in 2011.

Branden Ghena Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Meghan Clark Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Elizabeth Mamantov Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Nicholas Clift receives CoE Distinguished Leadership Award

Nick has an impressive record of service to the community throughout his years at Michigan.

David Hong awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Hong intends to apply machine learning and signal processing techniques to the massive data sets now available to researchers.

Noble and Wilson Named as Learning Analytics Fellows

Researchers Win Best Paper Award at ISPASS 2014

2014 CoE Towner Prize for Outstanding Graduate Students

These students received the award based on their participation in research, leadership, and academic performance.

Investigating a new material to help you stay connected

His final goal is to build novel RF circuits including frequency-selective switched oscillators based on his models.

Kevin Fu Selected for World Economic Forum Young Scientist Award

Keravnos Energy wants to make fast electric vehicle charging economical

The idea behind Keravnos Energy is for there to be an energy transfer between three entities: the building, a large stationary battery, and the car.

Muhammad Faisal wins business competition with technology critical to the Internet of Things

Movellus Circuits’ product is a patent-pending clock generator technology that is smaller, cheaper, and faster than existing solutions.

Michael Wellman Recognized with ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award

CSE Alum Dongyoon Lee Selected for ProQuest Dissertation Award

Narayanasamy and Olson Named Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professors

Jamie Phillips named Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

Students praise the personal attention he gives them, and his obvious concern for their personal and professional development.

Daniel Atkins Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Jun-Chieh Wang receives Best Oral Paper Award for plasma research

Wang’s research studies the glow-like atmospheric pressure microdischarges created under specialized conditions in laser printers.

Prabal Dutta Receives CAREER Award for Research into the Use of Sensors to Monitor Resource Consumption in the Built Environment

2014 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

These faculty are recognized for their unique contributions during the past year.

Gopal Nataraj earns Best Paper Award for improving MRI

Nataraj is using big data techniques to transform the field of medical imaging

Gopal Nataraj receives ISA Fellowship to support research that will improve MRIs

Nataraj’s research aims to generate higher-quality and faster MRI images, resulting in improved diagnostics of neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases.

Students rewarded for their circuit designs in EECS 413

The course, Monolithic Amplifier Circuits, has a tradition of offering prizes for the top final projects designed by the students.

Zhaoshi Meng receives Best Paper Award at CAMSAP 2013

This work will provide a way to efficiently reveal relationships between even distant entities in a network.

Héctor J. García Selected for Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

Jason Davis receives 2013 U-M Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award

Jason considers diversity and inclusiveness in all activities that he undertakes.

Al Hero named 2013 IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award Winner

Prof. Hero is an internationally recognized expert in the field of signal and image processing.

Avish Kosari receives Rackham International Student Fellowship

Avish is currently conducting research on ultra-low power radio technology and designing a low-power RF power amplifier.

Byeongseop Song receives Rackham International Student Fellowship

The Fellowship will help Song to continue his studies in the area of optoelectronics.

Pin-Yu Chen receives Rackham Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship

Chen’s work can be used in community detection in social networks, network vulnerability assessment in communication systems, and more.

Mridul Mishra receives Rackham Non-Traditional Fellowship

Mishra has strengthened his understanding of wireless communications through coursework and independent research.

Jia Deng Wins Marr Prize at ICCV

Anatoly Maksimchuk elected Fellow of APS

Dr. Maksimchuk is a world leader in the field of high intensity laser plasma interactions.

Mark Ackerman Named ACM Fellow

Mingyan Liu elected Fellow of the IEEE

Prof. Liu’s research interests are vast, and she is also active in the professional community.

H.V. Jagadish Awarded Gates Foundation Grant to leverage data for social good

Khalil Najafi receives 2013 IEEE Sensors Technical Field Award

Prof. Najafi is a world-recognized leader in the field of integrated sensors, MEMS, and microsystems.

Armin Alaghi Wins Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research

Jeff Fessler receives 2013 IEEE Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award

This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of medical imaging science.

John P. Hayes Honored with IEEE TTTC Lifetime Contribution Medal

IEEE recognized as Best Student Branch in SE Michigan

“IEEE opens up many doors for students – professionally and socially.”

Mona Attariyan Selected for SIGOPS Dennis Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award

Kyu Hyun Kim receives Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award at Frontiers in Optics Meeting

Mr. Kim was the first to demonstrate that both light and vibration could be used simultaneously in sensing.

Research that will lead to sharper photos earns best paper award

The method they developed compares favorably with the best of current techniques, while being faster and easier.

Rada Mihalcea selected for NSF INSPIRE Award

David Chen awarded NASA Fellowship to improve extreme weather prediction

The goal of the study seeks to enhance the accuracy of determining ocean surface windspeed.

Edwin Olson Awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award

Cheng Zhang awarded SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

Zhang is working on building structural color filters and is also designing ultrahigh Q optical microring resonators.

Jae Young Park receives Best Student Paper Award for research impacting structural health monitoring

SHM systems are critical for monitoring aging structures and infrastructure in a cost-effective manner.

Honglak Lee featured on "AI's 10 to Watch" list

Kamal Sarabandi honored with 2013 IEEE GRSS Education Award

Sarabandi’s lectures and presentations are known for being extremely clear and reflecting the highest research standards.

Bharan Giridhar awarded Intel PhD Fellowship

Bharan’s research focusses on developing circuit techniques for adaptive and reliable high-performance computing.

Neural Probe Research recognized with Best Paper Award at 2013 Transducers Conference

“We present a novel strategy to scale up the number of electrodes with minimized risk.”

Research in production systems engineering is recognized with Best Paper Award

“The paper introduces a new management paradigm: ensure the desired lead time while maximizing the throughput.”

MEMS research recognized with Best Poster Award at 2013 Transducers Conference

This research is targeted at developing a precision master clock for a chip-scale Timing and Inertial Measurement Unit.

Zhengya Zhang receives Intel Early Career Award

Zhang’s research is in the area of low-power and high-performance VLSI circuits and systems.

Two papers by CSE researchers chosen as IEEE Micro top picks

Daniel Molzhan will address sustainability challenges as a Dow Fellow

Molzhan’s primary concern is responding to society’s need for constant and reliable electrical energy.

Elliot Soloway selected for Google App Engine Education Award

Chris Berry receives Paper Award at IMS 2013 for Research in Terahertz Technology

Berry’s paper addresses important limitations such as low output power and poor power efficiency.

Student teams earn prizes for improved image processing techniques in EECS 556 (Winter 2013)

The course covers the theory and application of digital image processing.

Brian Noble appointed Associate Dean for undergraduate education at the College of Engineering

2013 Design Automation Conference Anniversary Awards

Congratulations to the award-winning faculty members and to the DAC for 50 years!

Researchers' work recognized amongst notable computing books and articles of 2012

Thomas Wenisch Honored with U-M Henry Russel Award

Andrew DeOrio and Fawwaz Ulaby voted HKN Professors of the Year

Starting this year, an award will be presented to a faculty member from each division – both CS and ECE.

2013 Promotions of our Faculty

Congratulations to these Professors on the next step of their careers!

Beth Stalnaker receives 2013 CoE Judith A. Pitney Staff Service Career Award

Beth’s positive influence has been felt by the students she has supported, the faculty and staff of EECS, and the entire Engineering community.

Fawwaz Ulaby named the U-M Henry Russel Lecturer for 2014

The Henry Russel Lectureship is considered the University’s highest honor for a senior faculty member.

Silvio Savarese awarded J. James R. Croes Medal

The Croes Medal is awarded to the authors of an ASCE paper that was particularly notable for its contributions to engineering science.

Research in distributed networks earns Notable Paper Award at AISTATS

The research provides a way to efficiently reveal relationships between even distant entities in a network.

Patrick Pannuto selected for NSF and NDSEG Graduate Research Fellowships

Ethan Stark awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Ethan is investigating visible light emitters using GaN microstructures for quantum dot and nanowire-based LEDs and lasers.

CSE researchers win Best Paper Award at ASPLOS 2013

CSE spinoff wins the Linley Group's Analysts' Choice Award

Prof. Kevin Fu Named a Federal 100 Award Winner for 2013

Prof. Dragomir Radev Receives U-M Faculty Recognition Award

NAE awards Mona Jarrahi a Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grant

With the support of the Grainger Foundation, Jarrahi will explore genetic therapy methods to treat diseases.

Student teams earn prizes for their ADC circuit designs in EECS 511

Dennis Sylvester receives U-M Faculty Recognition Award

He is a pioneer in the field of ultra-low power processor design, especially for the smallest computing devices in existence.

2013 CoE Towner Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors

A big thank you to these students for all their hard work and dedication!

Yunxing Dai Selected for Barracuda Networks Fellowship

Hyoun Kyu Cho Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for research aimed at improving the programmability of parallel systems

Biruk Mammo Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for research Into robust processors

Gyouho Kim awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for research in ultra-low power optical interfaces for mm-scale wireless sensor nodes

“We designed an ultra-low power optical wake-up receiver with a novel front-end circuit and communication scheme suitable for miniature wireless sensor node applications.”

Bharan Giridhar awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for research in circuit techniques for adaptive, reliable, high-performance computing

Giridhar’s research has an emphasis on developing circuit techniques for adaptive and reliable, high-performance computing.

Triantafillou wins Churchill Scholarship to study at Cambridge

David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester named Top Authors by ISSCC

Both research papers discuss ultra low-power chip design and millimeter-scale computing.

Solid-State Circuits publishes special issue with Lynn Conway’s memoir of the VLSI revolution

The issue features Prof. Conway’s 24-page memoir about the VLSI revolution and related articles by Conway’s colleagues.

David Wentzloff receives CAREER Award for research in energy-autonomous systems

His research addresses critical needs in the area of wireless communication for the growing field of ubiquitous, energy-autonomous sensing devices.

Zhaohui Zhong receives CAREER Award for research in graphene-based optoelectronics

The use of graphene-based hot carrier optoelectronics is the key novelty of Prof. Zhong’s research.

Special Recognition Award to Dr. Kurt Metzger

This award recognized Metzger’s outstanding contributions to student understanding and appreciation of applied signal processing.

2013 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

These annual awards recognize faculty's outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, and service.

Mark Kushner appointed to advisory board for DoE National Lab

PPPL is a U.S. Department of Energy funded research center established for collaborative work in fusion energy research.

Students in EECS 413 awarded prizes for their circuit designs

The specifications for the projects were close to the state of the art. Congratulations to the winning groups!

2012-13 College of Engineering Awards

Congratulations to the following recipients of 2012-13 College of Engineering Awards!

Karem Sakallah Named ACM Fellow

Ted Norris named Gérard A. Mourou Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

In the tradition of our best faculty at Michigan, Ted is a phenomenal teacher and mentor as well as researcher. Congratulations!

Seunghyun Lee takes the gold for all-graphene flexible and transparent circuit

Lee believes that graphene will play a pivotal role in realizing high speed, mechanically compliant, and transparent electronic systems in the future.

Benjamin Kuipers Named AAAS Fellow

Igor Markov Elected Fellow of the IEEE

Chris Berry awarded 2012 AP-S Doctoral Research Award

The award will support Berry’s doctoral research in the area of plasmonic photoconductive antennas for high power terahertz generation.

David Hiskens awarded two energy scholarships

David is interested in controlling the energy that flows through the nation’s grid system, particularly in optimizing the flow by minimizing distance and costs.

Nathan Roberts earns Best Paper Award for research to assist in remote patient monitoring

Roberts is helping to develop low-power sensor nodes that will be worn on the body to detect certain medical conditions.

Chih-Chun Chia Selected as First Beyster Computational Innovation Graduate Fellow

Todd Austin Receives A. Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award for 2012

2012 ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award to David Blaauw, Trevor Mudge, and EECS alumni Steve Martin and Krisztián Flautner

The research addressed voltage scaling of processors at the point where, at very low voltages, voltage leakage begins to dominate the computational power consumption.

Michael Bailey receives Research Faculty Recognition Award from OVPR

His research is focused on the security and availability of complex distributed systems.

Hacker teams from Michigan win recognitions at PennApps Hackathon

Congratulations to the two student teams!

Computer scientists named runners up for PET Award

Mina Rais-Zadeh receives NASA Early Career Grant to develop technology needed for picosatellites

Prof. Rais-Zadeh intends to develop a chip-scale timing unit that offers an order of magnitude higher performance compared to existing solutions.

Rebecca Wolkoff awarded scholarship to continue her work in sustainable energy

The UVIG works with the U.S. Department of Energy to provide a forum for the critical analysis of wind and solar technology.

Team UM::Autonomy are champions again

The interdisciplinary team went into the competition with a new electrical and vision system, and an advanced control system.

Computer Scientists Win Best Paper Award at Turing Centenary Conference

Shang-Hua Yang receives SPIE Scholarship in Optics & Photonics

Yang’s research is focused on designing plasmonic nano-structures to enhance efficiency of conventional photoconductive terahertz emitters.

Prof. Elliot Soloway Selected for AECT Distinguished Development Award

Two CSE Grad Students Receive Rackham Centennial Spring/Summer Fellowship Awards

Michael Hand receives Tau Beta Pi Fellowship to pursue his graduate studies in control systems

Hand likes the idea of being able to improve the efficiency of existing systems by implementing advanced or specialized control algorithms.

Award-winning EECS Graduate Student Instructors & Instructional Aides honored at luncheon

Congratulations to out outstanding students for their much-appreciated work!

Michael Wellman Selected for IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award for 2012

Computer Science Alum Stephanie Forrest Selected for ACM Newell Award

Mingyan Liu receives Best Paper Award at the 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks

The goal is to be able to monitor the soil moisture with as few measurements as possible and with a high degree of accuracy.

Mark Brehob voted HKN Professor of the Year

Dr. Brehob was chosen for the award because of his deep engagement with and commitment to his students and their success.

Nate Derbinsky Wins Best Poster Award at ICCM

Ph.D. candidate Nate Derbinsky has won the Best Poster Award at the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), which took place April 13 - 15 in Berlin, Germany.

Prof. Emeritus John Meyer Selected for 2012 Jean-Claude Laprie Award

Computer Scientists Win Best Paper Award at HPCA

Samuel DeBruin Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Satish Narayanasamy Receives NSF CAREER Award for work in Simplifying Parallel Programming

Thomas Frost awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

He is currently working on semiconductor lasers as part of the research group of Prof. Pallab Bhattacharya.

Mona Jarrahi receives ONR Young Investigator Award

An expected outcome of Prof. Jarrahi’s research will be increased physical perspective for utilizing unique functionalities of nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices.

Jason Clemons Receives NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship

Prof. Edmund H. Durfee to Receive Alumni Award from University of Massachusetts

Prof. Elliot Soloway to Receive Alumni Award from University of Massachusetts

Prof. H.V. Jagadish Re-Elected to CRA Board of Directors

Chris Berry awarded 2012 Michigan Space Grant Consortium Fellowship

The proposed emitter incorporates plasmonic photoconductors to more efficiently convert power from incident laser light into terahertz radiation.

Jeff Fessler honored with Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award

Prof. Fessler’s students have praised the collegial and collaborative environment of his lab, his careful balancing of freedom and guidance, and his attention to each student.

Max Seiden selected for KPCB Engineering Fellowship

Max will be employed by KPCB portfolio company One Kings Lane, where he will develop his technical skills and be mentored by an engineering executive.

Fawwaz Ulaby Receives the IEEE James H. Mulligan Education Medal

The award recognizes Prof. Ulaby's contributions to undergraduate and graduate engineering education through innovative textbooks, dedicated mentoring of students, and inspirational teaching.

George Haddad receives the IEEE MTT-S Microwave Career Award

The Microwave Career Award is very prestigious, and recognizes “a career of meritorious achievement and outstanding technical contribution.”

Four EECS Faculty recognized with College of Engineering Awards

Congratulations to these outstanding faculty members!

Igor Markov Receives the A. Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award for 2011

Students awarded prizes for their class designs of an energy harvesting circuit and a high efficiency audio amplifier

The two winning teams designed an energy harvesting circuit for implantable devices and sensor networks, and a high efficiency audio amplifier for mobile applications.

Raj Nadakuditi receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award

Prof. Nadakuditi plans to provide an analytical characterization of the fundamental limits of multi-modal sensing of weak signals.

2012 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

Congratulations to these amazing faculty members!

Prof. Raj Nadakuditi receives 2012 SPS Young Author Best Paper Award

Nadakuditi’s research has applications in biomedical signal processing, wireless communications, geophysical signal processing, array processing, and finance.

Jessy Grizzle Honored with Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize from IEEE Control Systems Society

This prestigious honor recognizes distinguished contributions to control systems science and engineering.

John Laird Named AAAS Fellow

Igor Markov Named ACM Distinguished Scientist

Martha Pollack Named Fellow of AAAS, ACM

David D. Chen awarded NSERC Fellowship for Earth Remote Sensing

The bulk of Chen’s current research centers on the detection and mitigation of radio frequency interference with microwave radiometers.

Srinath Sridhar awarded Rackham International Student Fellowship

Srinath’s research focuses on using computer vision techniques such as markerless camera tracking for creating augmented reality AR environments.

Sid Bao earns Best Student Paper Award for Computer Vision Research

Bao’s research is in Semantic Structure from Motion, a new framework for jointly recognizing objects as well as reconstructing their underlying 3D geometry.

Jinyoung Hwang receives Best Poster Award for research leading to improved solar cells

The researchers succeeded in drastically suppressing the thermal emission rate in GaSb/GaAs quantum dots — resulting in more efficient solar cells.

Biruk Mammo Awarded Rackham International Student Fellowship

Jason Clemons Wins GSRC Margarida Jacome Best Poster/Demo Award

Dr. Dennis Grimard receives Work/Life Champion Award for Supervisors

Dr. Grimard is Managing Director of the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility, a position he’s held since 1998. Congratulations!

David Blaauw Elected Fellow of the IEEE

Prof. Blaauw was a core member of the Michigan team that developed the award-winning circuit known as Razor in 2003.

Professor Emeritus Ted Birdsall receives Silver Medal in Signal Processing in Acoustics

Birdsall’s work was in sensory psychology, psychometrics, and underwater acoustics, and he often helped other researchers apply signal processing theory to their own research.

Honglak Lee Receives Google Faculty Research Award

ASK Applications Wins 2011 Student of da Vinci Award

Anne Itsuno receives William E. Spicer – Thomas N. Casselman Award

Itsuno has already pursued an in-depth theoretical and experimental investigation on the unipolar HgCdTe nBn detector, which has the potential to replace or supplement the current technology.

Mina Rais-Zadeh receives 2011 EDS Early Career Award

“Mina’s research is anticipated to bring about significant scientific discoveries in the area of resonant MEMS and is expected to significantly impact telecommunication.”

Heather Ferguson awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Heather is studying Optical Sciences here at the University and will continue her research in this field – congratulations!

Computer Scientists Win Best Paper Award at MobiCom '11 Conference

Fikadu Dagefu receives 2011 Lincoln Lab Fellowship

The applications Dagefu’s research include wireless channel characterization, radar through-wall imaging, and distributed sensor networks.

Yoonmyung Lee receives 2011 Intel Corporation PhD Fellowship

Lee is currently working closely with his colleagues to build an ultra-low power wireless sensor platform.

Zeeshan Syed Awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award

Valeria Bertacco to Receive Early Career Award from IEEE CEDA

Z. Morley Mao Leads Researchers to Two Wins in FCC Open Internet Challenge

Valeria Bertacco Receives IBM Faculty Award

Xueyang Duan receives first prize for research in soil moisture sensing

Duan’s research has important applications in global climate change studies and weather forecasting.

Researchers Win John A. Curtis Lecture Award at ASEE Conference

Russell Willmot awarded IEEE Fellowship

Congratulations, Russell!

Kang G. Shin and Collaborators Win Best Paper Award at IEEE ICAC Conference

Sung Ho Park receives 2011 IEEE MTT-S Scholarship

Sung Ho plans to design photoconductive antenna arrays with optimal radiation efficiency and broadband operation.

Morteza Nick receives Best Paper Award at IMS2011

Morteza introduces a new voltage-controlled-oscillator design technique that offers significant advantages in terms of size, DC power consumption and frequency tunability.

U-M Programming Team Places Second in World Competition

Satinder Singh Baveja Elected as an AAAI Fellow

AMD/Michigan Student Design Contest

Congratulations to the winning students!

Computer Science Students Win Spring 2011 U-M Mobile Apps Challenge with "Accessible Messaging"

Student teams earn prizes in EECS 556: Image Processing (Winter 2011)

Congratulations to the winning students!

Wayne Stark and Changhun Bae receive 2011 JCN Best Paper Award

Prof. Stark’s research relates to wireless networks and understanding their fundamental limits in terms of energy efficiency and bandwidth efficiency.

Iverson Bell awarded NSF Fellowship for Research in Space Propulsion

Bell is investigating how to use an electrodynamic, propellantless propulsion concept to push against the Earth’s magnetic field in order to maneuver satellites and counteract drag.

David Meisner Receives Yahoo! 2011 Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Program Award

Elliot Soloway Voted HKN Professor of the Year

MEMStim takes first prize in the Michigan Business Challenge

MEMStim is committed to improving the standard of patient care in neurostimulation. Congratulations, Angelique!

Eric Wustrow Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Z. Morley Mao Awarded VeriSign Grant for Mobile Internet Infrastructure Research

2010-11 College of Engineering Awards

Tanya Das earns Poetry Prize

Tanya said she believes engineers have a unique perspective on the world because of their training, making it natural to draw analogies between humans and science.

Joe Greathouse Wins Best Student Presentation Award at CGO 2011 Conference

Chris Berry awarded Michigan Space Grant Consortium Fellowship

Berry is designing an emitter to operate as a light-weight, local oscillator for a terahertz spectroscopy system suitable for use in space.

Anthony Grbic receives USNC/URSI Booker Fellowship

Prof. Gbric’s research program spans basic science and advanced technology development, with applications in antenna design and metamaterials.

Becky Turanski Receives College of Engineering Staff Excellence Award

Dennis Grimard Receives 2011 College of Engineering’s Judith A. Pitney Staff Service Career Award

Raj Nadakuditi receives ONR Young Investigator Award

Nadakuditi’s proposal aims to bring into focus fundamental statistical limits of quiet signal detection, estimation in the context of undersea signal processing, and more.

Al Hero receives Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award

Hero is an internationally recognized expert in the field of signal and image processing, an established leader in the professional community, and distinguished educator.

Mahta Moghaddam honored with U-M Faculty Recognition Award

This award recognizes faculty who have demonstrated significant achievements in scholarly research; excellence as a teacher, advisor and mentor; and distinguished participation in service activities.

Lan Bai Receives Anna Olcott Smith Award

Jamie Phillips receives University Undergraduate Teaching Award

This award recognizes faculty in the early stages of their career for their outstanding ability in teaching undergraduate students.

CSE researchers win best paper award at ASPLOS 2011

CSE alum Sushant Sinha named one of 18 "Young Innovators Under 35" in India

Tony Grbic honored as MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer

His research program spans topics such as metamaterials and near-field plates to advanced technology development like antenna research and design.

Ted Norris honored with Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award

Norris was praised by students and faculty alike for his abilities as a mentor, researcher, and educator.

David Papa receives EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award

Three EECS Teams are winners in 2011 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest

The contest is highly competitive and features the best student projects from the largest and most prestigious conferences in their respective fields.

Mona Jarrahi receives NSF CAREER Award

In her research Jarrahi will investigate, for the first time, the use of Ge as a promising candidate to tackle the thermal breakdown problem of photomixers.

James Boerkoel awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Farnam Jahanian Named NEF Entrepreneur of the Year

Jungsuek Oh, EE Grad Student, awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Oh’s research focuses on designing highly miniaturized planar antennas with vertical polarization and high radiation efficiency.

Nate Derbinsky awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Hongwei Liao, EE Systems Grad Student, awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Liao’s research contributes theoretical developments on the control of Petri nets, and has potential to be extended to a broader class of resource allocation systems.

CS students take second place with "Accessible Messaging" iPad app at Mobile World Congress

Mark Kushner elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

Sonal Verma receives Microsoft Scholarship

Verma’s work aims to marry low-power sensing with the mobile phone’s computation, communications, and display technologies.

Xi Chen and Prof. Robert Dick receive DATE Best Paper Award

The authors analyzed performance and accuracy for a variety of dynamic thermal analysis techniques and used their findings to develop a new analysis technique. Congratulations!

Mina Rais-Zadeh receives NSF CAREER Award

Rais-Zadeh’s work will ideally yield new opportunities for acoustic devices and instrumentation.

Najafi, Wise named Distinguished University Innovators

The pair is being honored for their role developing technologies in microelectromechanical systems and working to apply these innovations when making new products.

Zeeshan Syed receives NSF CAREER Award for work in computationally generated biomarkers

EECS students win 2010 U-M Mobile Apps Challenge with HiJack

The Mobile Apps Challenge was open to university students, faculty and staff and encourages the development of iOS, Android, Windows 7, and web applications.

Zhengya Zhang receives NSF CAREER Award

The proposed research addresses the frontiers of error-correction coding and very-large-scale integration by advancing algorithms and circuit techniques.

Dragomir Radev, co-founders recognized as NACLO receives Linguistics, Language and the Public Award

Jackie Vitaz receives Top Prize at USNC/URSI

Silvio Savarese receives NSF CAREER Award

There is potential for Savarese’s work to be transformative in applications such as autonomous navigation, robotics, and 3D automatic modeling.

EECS 413 students earn prizes for their final projects

“We were all impressed by the fact that most students chose highly-relevant and innovating projects,” stated Dr. Naraghi.

Farnam Jahanian named AAAS Fellow

EECS Spinoffs recognized as Key Innovators in Business Competition

Congratulations to these winning companies. Go Blue!

Students give a couple of the best among 3,000 Elevator Pitches

Congratulations to Keith Porter and Patrick Theisen!

2011 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

Congratulations to these outstanding faculty members!

Dennis Sylvester elected Fellow of the IEEE

According to IEEE, “the grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments.”

CAD Team Places Second at 2010 CADathlon

The CADathlon challenges students’ CAD knowledge and associated problem solving, programming, and teamwork skills.

EECS Researchers win Best Paper Award at ICCAD 2010

Their paper introduces new techniques that improve speed, solution quality, simplicity, and integration with other optimizations for global placement technology.

Mark Kushner awarded the AVS Medard W. Welch Award

Kushner was recognized “for contributions to modeling and understanding of plasmas, especially those used in thin film etching, deposition and surface modification.”

Eric Dattoli named National Academies Research Associate

The aim of Dattoli’s research is to improve and broaden the understanding of nanowire gas sensing behavior.

Pallab Bhattacharya receives Welker Award at ISCS 2010

The Welker Award is given to people who have achieved exceptional progress in the field of opto-semiconductors.

EECS Faculty receive 2010 HP Labs Innovation Research Awards

Jessy Grizzle named IFAC Fellow

Grizzle is well-known in the robotic community for his work with the bipedal robot MABEL, and has worked in the automotive industry for over two decades.

Kamal Sarabandi honored with 2011 IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award

Sarabandi’s research encompasses a range of topics in the area of applied electromagnetics, and has been principal investigator on NASA projects related to remote sensing.

Computer Vision Research Recognized at Innovation in AEC Conference

With D4AR models, you can monitor progress, productivity, safety, quality, constructability and even site logistics remotely.

Zhengya Zhang earns Best Paper Award at Symposium on VLSI Circuits

The resulting 65nm CMOS test chip achieved an energy efficiency of 21 pJ/bit making it a promising candidate for low-power, high-performance applications.

WIMS and CUOS among 60 Years of Sensational Research by NSF

The WIMS has impacted health care, environmental monitoring, the national infrastructure while CUOS specializes in ultrafast lasers.

Ruzbeh Akbar receives NASA Fellowship for SMAP Mission Research

SMAP is a satellite mission for mapping surface soil moisture and freeze/thaw states for the purpose of scientific advances and societal benefits.

2010 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

The EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards are presented annually to a faculty member in the areas of computer science, electrical engineering, and systems.

Analog Devices Finds Winning A/D Circuit Designs in EECS 511

Congratulations to Jeong, Park, and Yoon!

Eric Tkaczyk Named Fulbright Fellow and Whitaker Scholar

Tkaczyk plans to put his degrees to work in Estonia, where he hopes to develop a portable and affordable cataract assessment technology.

Anthony Grbic honored with Henry Russel Award

Professor Grbic is a world-class researcher in the field of electromagnetics and microwave circuits, and has won numerous awards for his work. Congratulations!

Kevin Xu awarded NSERC Fellowship

Xu is interested in identifying patterns in data that is collected over time where the underlying processes generating the data may be non-stationary.

Amit Patel Awarded SMART Fellowship

The Fellowship will support Patel’s research on the theory and development of textured electromagnetic surfaces.

Patrick O’Keefe awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

“I am confident we can do better than the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse paradigm, and I intend to find out how,” said O’Keefe.

P.C. Ku Awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award

The Award engages rising research stars and provides high-impact funding to develop their ideas in the context of Department of Defense needs.

Mona Jarrahi awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award

The award acknowledges Prof. Jarrahi’s efforts to develop a new generation of compact high power terahertz sources.

Brian Buss awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Buss’ research focusses on using control theory in order to control glucose levels in ICU patients.

2010 College of Engineering Awards

U-M researchers win 2010 Signal Processing Best Paper Award

The work, published in 2006, will be acknowledged at the EUSIPCO Conference in Denmark.

Domitilla Del Vecchio receives Donald P. Eckman Award

The award acknowledges Domitilla’s contributions to the theory and practice of hybrid dynamical systems and systems biology.

U-M team wins Clock Network Synthesis Contest at ACM ISPD 2010

The Michigan team produced circuits that were four times more power-efficient than those of the team that took second place. Congratulations!

Yong Long selected as Barbour Scholar

The Barbour Scholarship, established in 1914, recognizes women at the University of Michigan of the highest academic and professional caliber.

Kamal Sarabandi Receives Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award

He is honored for his excellence in research, mentorship, and contributions to professional organizations.

Duncan Steel Honored with Graduate Student Mentor Award

Steel is honored for his efforts as advisor, teacher, advocate, sponsor, and role model to doctoral students.

Enertia and ABC take 1st and 2nd prizes in the clean energy prize business plan competition

The competition was established by DTE Energy and the University of Michigan to encourage entrepreneurship and the development of clean-energy technologies.

Wei Lu receives CAREER Award

Lu was awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his research project, which intends to develop unconventional, high-performance memory and logic systems.

Yogesh Gianchandani elected Fellow of the IEEE

The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is given to those with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any IEEE field.

Lynn Conway honored with Computer Pioneer Award by IEEE Computer Society

The award is presented to outstanding individuals whose main contribution to the computer field was made at least fifteen years earlier.

EECS faculty and alumni awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

The Awards recognize some of the finest scientists and engineers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership.

Tony Grbic awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

Al Hero receives 2009 Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award

The paper addresses the importance of knowing where networks of sensors are located once they’ve been deployed.

Clay Scott Receives CAREER Award for Research in Signal Processing

Thomas B. A. Senior Receives the 2010 IEEE Electromagnetics Award

The award is based on outstanding contributions to electromagnetics in theory, application or education.

Best Paper Award in Automation Research

The award was given at the IEEE Conference on Automation and Engineering. Congratulations, Lindsay!

Tal Carmon receives Young Investigator Award for research in lasers and optics

The award will support Professor Carmon in three years of basic research on continuous on-chip extreme UV emitters.

Yong Long receives Best Poster Award for work in medical imaging

Long’s work describes a new algorithm for performing model-based methods in a way that requires less computation yet provides improved image quality.

Duncan Steel awarded 2010 APS Frank Isakson Prize

Steel was chosen for contributions to nonlinear optical spectroscopy and coherent control of semiconductor heterostructures.

Mark Kushner awarded 2010 APS Will Allis Prize

Kushner’s research area is low temperature plasmas, and their fundamental properties and technological applications.

David Wentzloff awarded Young Faculty Award (YFA) by DARPA

Prof. Wentzloff is working to develop a wireless 3D interconnection fabric that can provide communication channels and crossbar routing.

Ellersick Prize for Best Paper Awarded to authors in communications

“The paper studies the key enabling technologies of Cognitive Radio and makes contributions in two key areas: sensing and learning.”

Prof. Karem Sakallah shares 2009 CAV Award for fundamental work on SAT solvers

The award recognizes the researchers' contributions to the development of high-performance Boolean satisfiability solvers.

EECS researchers receive Best Paper Award at ISLPED

The paper explores logic and memory circuit topologies for a new type of transistor in development at IBM.

Ali Nazari receives Best Paper Award at ISIT 2009

Nazari’s research is focused on an information theoretic approach to the problem of multi-terminal communications systems.

Tony Grbic awarded Presidential Early Career Award

The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

Tom Senior receives the 2010 IEEE Electromagnetics Award

Senior has made contributions to electromagnetic and acoustic scattering and to the development of analytic and numerical techniques.

Matthew Fojtik awarded Intel Foundation/SRCEA Fellowship

The fellowship will support Fojtik’s work on a processor that can recover from timing errors and run without margining for worst case operating conditions.

2009 College of Engineering Awards

Dennis Schweiger receives College of Engineering Staff Excellence Award

Schweiger is sought after by students, faculty, and administrators for his expertise, which is always offered in a friendly and comfortable manner.

Barb Rice receives U-M Distinguished Research Administrator Award

Without exception, those who work with Ms. Rice appreciate her knowledge, cheerfulness, helpfulness, and attention to detail.

Karen Liska Receives CoE Judith A. Pitney Staff Service Career Award

The award recognizes the significant contributions of a single CoE staff member with at least 10 years of service. Congratulations, Karen!

Lurie Nanofabrication Facility receiving Awards and Recognition

The building itself was recognized at the Annual Masonry Awards Program for its exterior, which “emulates an abstract composition of integrated circuits”.

Luis Gomez receives 2009 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to investigate a new treatment for neurological disorders

Gomez is investigating a new technique that is receiving widespread attention for treating depression, Alzheimer’s, and other brain conditions.

Mark Brehob elected as HKN Professor of the Year

Not only is Brehob an excellent educator, he is also a fantastic Undergrad Chief Program Advisor for CE, where he advises students on program needs.

EECS students help the deaf “Feel the Music”

The competition sought solutions for a better way for the deaf and hearing-impaired population to appreciate music.

2009 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

The EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards are presented annually to a faculty member in the areas of computer science, electrical engineering, and systems.

Scott Rudolph awarded prestigious IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship

The program recognizes graduate students who show promise in pursuing a degree in microwave engineering — only six fellowships are awarded worldwide.

U-M shares 1st place prize at ISPD

Dongjin’s research is a blend of computer science with computer and electrical engineering, and can have a huge impact on upcoming integrated circuits.

Sung-Hyun Jo receives Silver Prize in SAMSUNG Human-Tech Thesis Prize

The Samsung HTP, established in 1994, is one of the most prestige thesis awards in Korea.

Carl Pfeiffer receives 2009 IEEE MTTS Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship

The scholarship is designed to encourage future leaders and key technical contributors.

Mark J. Kushner named the George I. Haddad Professor of Engineering

Ian Hiskens named Vennema Professor

This professorship recognizes Prof. Hiskens’ excellent teaching, service, and research in the area of nonlinear (hybrid) systems.

Kamal Sarabandi appointed the Rufus S. Teesdale Professor of Engineering

This professorship recognizes all the excellent work Prof. Sarabandi does on applied electromagnetics, in the classroom, and for the department.

Al Hero appointed the R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering

This professorship recognizes Hero for his impressive teaching, research, and service. Congratulations!

Tzeno Galchev’s work recognized by the President of Bulgaria

The award for which Galchev was nominated honors young scientists for their achievement in the field of computer engineering and information technology.

Stephen R. Forrest named APS Fellow

Pallab Bhattacharya To Receive 2008 John Bardeen Award

The Bardeen Award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions and is a leader in the field of electronic materials.

Mahta Moghaddam elected Fellow of the IEEE

The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments.

Microsystems research for energy scavenging and power generation

The research has applications in health care, environmental monitoring, security, energy conservation and exploration, and more.

Jerzy Kanicki’s group earns Excellence Award for Basic and Original Technology

This work investigates the fundamental effects of illumination on amorphous InGaZnO thin-film transistors.

Austin and Blaauw Receive 2008 Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award

The award recognized research that is “at least five years old and has had significant industrial impact.”

Pallab Bhattacharya elected member of the National Academy of Engineering

Election to the National Academy is among the highest professional distinctions conferred on an engineer. Congratulations!

Distinguished Faculty Governance Award, Semyon Meerkov

Meerkov has helped establish annual faculty evaluations of administrators, gather funding for need-based scholarships, and more.

Yuriy Goykhman receives MIT Lincoln Lab Fellowship

The MIT Lincoln Laboratory is a federal research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to national security.

Al Hero Receives Digiteo Chaire d'Excellence

Hero's research will be applied to both gene regulation networks and ad hoc communications networks.

2007-08 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

The EECS Outstanding Achievement Award is presented to a faculty member in recognition of excellence in research, teaching, and service.

Fawwaz T. Ulaby Named Founding Provost of KAUST

KAUST is a new world-class, graduate-level scientific research university now under development in Saudi Arabia, and scheduled to open its doors in September, 2009.

Al Hero Elected to IEEE Board of Directors

Prof. Al Hero has been elected to the IEEE Board of Directors as Director of Division IX (Signals and Applications).

Tony Grbic receives NSF CAREER Award to advance metamaterials

Grbic was awarded the grant for his project: Advances in Metamaterial Structures and Devices

Jessy Grizzle Named the Jerry W. and Carol L. Levin Professor of Engineering

Prof. Grizzle combines research excellence with teaching excellence.

Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, Jessy Grizzle

Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards honor senior faculty who consistently have demonstrated outstanding achievements in the areas of scholarly research and/or creative endeavors; teaching and mentoring of students and junior faculty; service; and a variety of other activities.

Demos Teneketzis receives 2007 Graduate Student Mentoring Award

Kamal Sarabandi Receives Humboldt Research Award

The Humboldt Research Award is a highly competitive award granted to scientists and scholars from all disciplines.

Jamie Phillips receives Young Faculty Award

Tony Grbic Receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award

This three-year grant will support research that is expected to open new opportunities in antenna design and microwave/millimeter-wave device development.