Honors and Awards
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.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. WiseAdvances in organic electronics and optoelectronics
NAE profile of Prof. Stephen R. ForrestCSE 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 educationYixin 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 occurOlivia 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 moreDennis Sylvester named Edward S. Davidson Collegiate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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 settingsKaleo 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 AwardH.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 scienceKamal 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 nanotechnologySubhajit 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
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 AssociationThe 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
Herbert Winful awarded the 2021 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award
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 commitmentsThree teams of graduate students awarded prizes for their final projects in Image Processing (EECS 556)
Kelly Cormier Selected for College of Engineering Judith A. Pitney Award
Dr. Pilar Herrera-Fierro, senior director of the LNF, receives 2021 COE staff excellence award
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
Lisa Armstrong recognized with the Judith A. Pitney Staff Service Career Award for her decades of service to the college and the department
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 departmentCody Scarborough wins Best Student Paper Award for contributions to Metamaterials research
Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize for new robotics course that focuses on equitable education
Marina Minkin chosen for Facebook Fellowship
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 ZEUS2021 EECS Undergraduate Student Awards
2021 College-wide awards for EECS undergraduate students
Jaylin Herskovitz selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Outstanding Chapter Award for Michigan’s IEEE-HKN Honor Society
Sky CH Wang selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Tim Dunn selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Zhizhuo Zhou selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Jule Schatz receives WISE Aspire, Advance, Achieve Mentoring Award
James Gruber receives NDSEG Fellowship to advance research in high-power THz devices
Menglou Rao awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support research in antennas for compact systems and EM radiation detection from biofilms
Xin Zan awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to advance research in wireless power transfer
Caroline Crockett awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for research bridging two fields
Markus Borsch awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support research in quantum engineering
Four ECE graduate students recognized by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Sijia Geng receives Barbour Scholarship to further her research in renewable energy systems
Raj Nadakuditi receives Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Award
CSE doctoral student Tara Safavi receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
CSE doctoral student Subhankar Pal receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
CSE researchers win best paper award at HPCA 2021
Caleb Belth awarded Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement
Qi Zhang selected as first recipient of David J. Kuck Dissertation Prize
2021 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards
Raytheon’s Dr. Katherine Herrick is the 2020 ECE Alumni Merit Award winner
Entrepreneur Dr. Scott Hanson awarded 2020 ECE Alumni Rising Star Award
Navin Shenoy, Intel’s Executive Vice President, awarded ECE’s highest Alumni Award Honor
Prof. Tara Javidi awarded ECE’s Distinguished Educator Award for her excellence in information and system theory education
Jian-Ming Jin awarded ECE’s Distinguished Educator Award for his excellence in electromagnetics education
Fairer AI for long-term equity
Zeyu Zheng selected for JP Morgan PhD Fellowship
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 automationDemba Komma awarded Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship for research on IoT localization technologies
ECE students, faculty recognized with 2021 MLK Spirit Awards
Kaleo Roberts receives scholarship from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Cody Scarborough wins Exceptional Student Contributions Award at Metamaterials 2020
Mosharaf Chowdhury named Morris Wellman Professor
Christopher Allemang awarded IEEE EDS PhD Fellowship for his work advancing thin-film electronics
Cindy Finelli named IEEE Fellow for leadership and scholarship in engineering education
Incoming faculty Anhong Guo named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Science
Yuri Gurevich named AAAS Fellow
Three members of ECE will represent U-M at the 2020 Rising Stars in EECS Workshop
Three faculty inducted into MICRO Hall of Fame
Prof. Baris Kasikci recognized as rising star by Intel
Detecting environmental pollutants with a smaller, portable, fully electric gas chromatograph
Full-color nano-LEDs for better, longer lasting LED performance
Research on neural probe that sheds multicolor light on the complexities of the brain recognized for its impact
Melissa Haskell receives NIH Fellowship for research to improve brain imaging
Alumnus Yi-Jun Chang Wins PODC Dissertation Award
Prof. Danai Koutra recognized as rising star with ACM SIGKDD Award
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
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 problemsJohanna 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 facultyMike Flynn receives Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award
Zetian Mi selected as IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer
Improving cancer and disease treatments by understanding electromagnetic communication among biological cells
Ester Bentley receives NDSEG Fellowship to help the world navigate without GPS
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
Matthew Belz receives NDSEG Fellowship to improve the safety of autonomous systems
PhD student Laura Andre is awarded Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship from SPIE
Westley Weimer voted 2020 HKN Professor of the Year in CSE
Fred Terry voted 2020 HKN Professor of the Year in ECE
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
Six ECE graduate students recognized by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Heath Hofmann receives CoE Staff-Faculty Partnership Award
Xueru Zhang awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Emily Mower Provost named Toyota Faculty Scholar
Elaheh Ahmadi receives ONR Young Investigator Award to prepare for the next generation of wireless technology
Zhanni Wu awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Alfred Hero named Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for design of robust, reliable and repairable software systems
Herbert Winful named Joseph E. and Anne P. Rowe Professor of Electrical Engineering
2019-20 Undergraduate Student Awards
Alum Adrienne Stiff-Roberts honored with the Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Lectureship
Leland Pierce honored as outstanding student organization advisor
Tianlin Wang recognized with Towner Prize and Distinguished Leadership Award
Hessam Mahdavifar receives CAREER award to empower next gen communication
Best paper award for optimizing wireless power transfer
Brian Raeker recognized as an outstanding GSI
Russel Lecture: Fighting climate change with organic electronics
David Blaauw named Kensall D. Wise Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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
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
John Nees wins Research Scientist Award from the College of Engineering
Sandeep Pradhan receives Education Excellence Award from the College of Engineering
Laura Balzano wins Education Excellence Award from the College of Engineering
Jamie Phillips wins Service Excellence Award from the College of Engineering
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
Alumnus Peter Wurman inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Hun-Seok Kim receives CAREER Award to facilitate Internet of Things connectivity
Nobel Prize winners talk research, Nobel ceremony, and are remembered by U-M colleagues
Team receives award for diversity leadership
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
Kamal Sarabandi named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Wireless Communication Under the Sea
Designing the future of the human-tech interface
H.V. Jagadish recognized with Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
Xbox Kinect architect, Dawson Yee, wins 2019 College of Engineering Alumni Merit Award for ECE
Valeria Bertacco appointed vice provost for engaged learning
Georgia Tech Dean of College of Engineering, Steve McLaughlin, wins 2019 ECE Distinguished Educator Award
Two members of ECE will represent U-M at the 2019 Rising Stars in EECS Workshop
Elaheh Ahmadi receives AFOSR Young Investigator Program award
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
Bridge-builder for academia and industry wins distinguished alumni service award
Blaauw, Sylvester are 2019 Distinguished University Innovators
A World Record for Robotic Deep Freeze Walking
U-M researchers provide control software to ensure autonomous vehicles stay in their lane
Kamal Sarabandi welcomes Emperor and Empress of Japan at IGARSS 2019
DARPA Award for more responsive AI that combines human and machine
Xianhe Liu receives Best Poster Award at ICNS 2019
Jenna Wiens Named New Precision Health Co-Director
Paper recognized for lasting contributions to AI decision making
PET Award for making privacy policies easier to read
Best paper award for analysis of a decade of malware reports
The National Academy of Engineering invites Prof. Johanna Mathieu to symposium to advance the engineering frontier
Counting snowflakes for better water resource management
Alfred Hero Receives 2020 IEEE Fourier Award
25-year paper award for power-saving approach to high-performance computing
Stephen Forrest named Henry Russel Lecturer for 2020
Two U-M students receive scholarships from the International Society for Optics and Photonics
Huanting Huang improves accuracy of remote sensing
Nooshin M. Estakhri receives the Helen Wu Award
Michigan takes first place at Exoskeleton Competition
Three papers chosen as IEEE Micro Top Picks
Samir Nooshabadi looks to close the terahertz gap for better communication
Jamie Phillips is honored by the college as a true team player
Ann Stals, the Woman Behind the Curtain, is honored for her excellence in ECE
Laura Balzano aims to improve precision medicine as a Fulbright Scholar
Research responsible for establishing field of medical device security recognized by IEEE
Awards for outstanding graduate student instructors and instructional aides of 2019
Glen Chou receives the NDSEG Fellowship to improve the safety of autonomous systems
CAREER Award for deeper insights into interconnected data: from neurons to web searches
Elizabeth Hou recognized for her research on detecting anomalies in traffic networks
Mehrdad Moharrami aims to advance our understanding of the world with better mathematical models
Xin Zan wins the Towner Prize for his work advancing wireless power transfer
Stéphane Lafortune Voted 2019 HKN Professor of the Year in ECE
Chad Jenkins named new council member for CRA Computing Community Consortium
Guzdial receives SIGCSE outstanding educator award
Bertacco recognized for efforts to bolster diversity
Paper award for identifying speaker characteristics in text messages
Milad Zolfagharloo Koohi receives IEEE MTT-S Fellowship to advance 5G communications
Prof. J. Alex Halderman named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
2018-19 Undergraduate Student Awards
Laura Andre brings the engineering community together
Md Salman Nazir works to improve the power grid and research papers
Chowdhury wins NSF CAREER award for making memory cheaper, more efficient in big data centers
Unravelling the mysteries of bacterial communication
Undergrad Michelle Gehner engineers better ways to explore new worlds
2018 Nobel Prize Laureate Gérard Mourou talks high-intensity optics
Extreme light: Nobel laureate discusses the past & future of lasers
Laura Balzano receives NSF CAREER Award to improve machine learning for big data applications
Crafting better digital systems with ECE PhD student Jie-Fang Zhang
Automated software repair paper recognized for 10 years of influence
Outstanding commitment to undergraduate mentorship
Sloan Fellowship for overcoming Moore’s Law in health and AI
ECE student Brandon Russell explores space phenomena in a lab
2019 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards
Landmark microprocessor reliability paper recognized for enduring impact
Johanna Mathieu receives NSF CAREER Award to help build a smarter, more sustainable grid
Making a difference for women in academia
Zhengya Zhang receives CoE undergraduate education award
College award recognizes a career dedicated to service
College award for excellence in education
Jagadish appointed director of Michigan Institute for Data Science
Time-varying metamaterials for next generation communication, sensing, and defense systems
Recognizing a lifetime of achievement in cognitive systems
Collegiate Lecturership recognizes commitment to innovative teaching
Johanna Mathieu receives Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Award
Laura Balzano receives ARO Young Investigator Award to improve high-dimensional big data problems
Eight ECE faculty and staff recognized for creativity, innovation, and daring
Dreslinski named Wellman Professor for outstanding research in energy efficient processors
Lynn Conway encourages graduates to embrace coming social change
Pallab Bhattacharya to receive 2019 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal
Zachary Lemnios: Helping to shape the new Frontier in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Toyota funds professorship in AI at U-Michigan
Stéphane Lafortune named N. Harris McClamroch Professor of EECS
Transformative approach to 5G funded by new Innovator program
ECE students display their research at the 2018 Graduate Engineering Symposium
David Chesney to receive 2018 James T. Neubacher Award
Computing pioneer to receive honorary U-M doctorate
Laura Balzano receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award for research that addresses massive streaming data
Amir Mortazawi receives MTT-S Distinguished Educator Award
Anthony Grbic receives U-M Faculty Recognition Award
Todd Austin recognized for outstanding achievements
Alum Rhonda Franklin honored for her accomplishments with the Willie Hobbs Moore Award
Computing visionary Sam Fuller honored by Michigan Engineering
Dowson Tong, VP of Tencent, talks to students
A champion for women in computer science
Mackillo Kira Elected OSA Fellow for contributions to quantum optics
Nobel Prize for ‘the most powerful laser pulses known to humanity’
Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award for smart conversation tools
Solving impossible equations
Google award to introduce women to computer science research
Deciphering GPS satellites to see inside hurricanes
Hun-Seok Kim receives DARPA Young Faculty Award to advance research in IoT networks
Necmiye Ozay receives Henry Russel Award for extraordinary accomplishment
Mingyan Liu named chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Xin Zan wins two awards for wireless power transfer research
Jiyue Zhu awarded Wiesnet Medal for improved snow algorithms
Cafarella Receives VLDB Test of Time Award for Structured Web Data Search
Mingyan Liu, 2018 Distinguished University Innovator, talks about her company and data science commercialization
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
Stephanie Crocker Ross receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Reetuparna Das earns Borg Early Career Award
Mike Stander honored with CoE Staff Excellence Award
Xiang Yin receives honorable mention for ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award
Students win prizes for improving image processing techniques for liver cancer detection and much more
Andrew DeOrio Voted HKN Professor of the Year for CSE
Kyle Min awarded Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement
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
Inaugural ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Alumni Lecture: Dr. Isaac R. Porche III
2017-18 Undergraduate Student Awards
Alfred Hero illustrates common threads of complex networks in Distinguished University Professor lecture
Shai Revzen receives inaugural Robotics Institute Teaching Award for hands-on approach to education
Igor Markov named a top Quora writer for fifth year in a row
Anonymous alumnus endows award in recognition of EECS professors
Jia Deng selected for Sloan Research Fellowship
Prof. Chad Jenkins Receives CoE Trudy Huebner Service Excellence Award
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
Raj Nadakuditi receives Excellence in Teaching Award from College of Engineering
Mark J. Kushner receives Stephen S. Attwood Award from College of Engineering
PhD candidate Michael Benson wins another year leading honor society HKN
Jenna Wiens named Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professor
Euisik Yoon presents the 2017 LNF User Symposium keynote address
Kevin Fu Elected IEEE Fellow for Contributions to Embedded and Medical Device Security
Wei Lu elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to neuromorphic systems
Two faculty named AAAS fellows
Chris Peikert Receives TCC Test of Time Award for work in lattice cryptography
Reetuparna Das inducted into the MICRO Hall of Fame
Kevin Fu recognized with Regents’ Award for Distinguished Public Service
Mark Ackerman receives European CSCW Lifetime Achievement award
Precision health pioneer named to MIT Technology Review innovator list
ACM to publish leading journal of human-robot interaction; Chad Jenkins serves as editor-in-chief
Becky Peterson honored with 2018 U-M Henry Russel Award
Two students earn scholarships to pursue work in sustainable energy
Necmiye Ozay receives Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems paper prize
ECE alum Kukjin Chun earns South Korea’s highest scientific honor
Thomas B. A. Senior named fellow of International Union of Radio Science
Students in EECS 556 win prizes for improving image processing techniques for camera motion blur and facial recognition
Heath Hofmann recognized for excellence in teaching with the Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Award from the College of Engineering
Student teams earn prizes for analog-digital converter circuit designs in EECS 511
Mary Lou Dorf named U-M Collegiate Lecturer
Parag Deotare voted 2017 HKN Professor of the Year for ECE
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
Tony England receives Susan B. Anthony Campus Award
2016-17 Undergraduate Student Awards
Chris Peikert named first-ever Patrick C. Fischer development professor
ECE Graduate Student Nathan Sawicki recognized for outstanding teaching
Gopal Nataraj receives U-M Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support high-impact research in medical imaging
Azadeh Ansari receives ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award for research in GaN-based electro-acoustic devices
Barzan Mozafari named Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professor
Harsha Madhyastha selected for Google Faculty Award
Valeria Bertacco named Arthur F. Thurnau Professor for contributions to undergraduate education
Alum Michelle Stock elected SPIE Fellow for development of the photonics industry
Zetian Mi elected SPIE Fellow for contributions to photonic devices and artificial photosynthesis
Mingyan Liu receives CoE Monroe-Brown Foundation Service Excellence Award
Prof. Z. Morley Mao selected to receive CoE George J. Huebner, Jr. Research Excellence award
Dr. David Paoletti selected to receive CoE Thomas M. Sawyer, Jr. Teaching award
2017 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards
Alfred O. Hero receives CoE Stephen S. Attwood Award
Wei Lu receives CoE David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award
Becky Peterson receives NSF CAREER Award for research in amorphous semiconductors for next generation electronics
EE student Leonard Kapiloff earns PES scholarship to support studies in secure, sustainable grid
Semyon Meerkov elected Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Todd Austin elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to simulation techniques and resilient system design in computer architecture
Prof. Trevor Mudge named ACM Fellow for contributions to power aware computer architecture
Kamal Sarabandi elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Prof. Jason Flinn named ACM Fellow for contributions to mobile computing and distributed systems
Valeria Bertacco elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to computer-aided verification and reliable system design
Yi-Jun Chang selected for Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship
Stephen Forrest receives IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal for pioneering work in OLEDs
Liz Dreyer earns an outstanding Collegiate Member Award for years of SWE leadership
Alumnus Tim Howes chosen for Arbor Networks PhD Research Impact Lecture and Award
Harsha Madhyastha selected for Facebook Faculty Award
Jia Deng selected as recipient of PAMI Mark Everingham Prize
Michael Wellman selected to serve on Financial Research Advisory Committee
Michael Flynn earns U-M Faculty Recognition Award
Lingjia Tang selected to receive Facebook Faculty Award
David Blaauw honored with SIA/SRC University Research Award
Cindy Finelli invited to NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium
Meet the new director of Michigan Robotics
EECS students Row Blue! to victory
Mark Kushner receives Plasma Chemistry Award for lifetime of achievement
Necmiye Ozay receives NASA Early Career Faculty Award for research in cyber-physical systems
Prof. Dragomir Radev honored as ACM Fellow at annual awards banquet
Researchers David Adrian and Alex Halderman receive Pwnie Award for work on DROWN attack
CSE alumna Adriane Chapman recognized with Test of Time Award from ACM SIGMOD
Stéphane Lafortune named Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
Danai Koutra receives 2016 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award
An award winning radar system for collision avoidance and imaging
Mosharaf Chowdhury receives ACM SIGCOMM Dissertation Award
Two papers by Michigan researchers chosen as IEEE Micro Top Picks
Quora Knowledge Prize winner Igor Markov presents winning answer to packed house at MLConf
Nan Jiang receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
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
Stephen Forrest Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Award-winning EECS 2016 Graduate Student Instructors & Instructional Aides recognized
Students earn prizes for improving image processing techniques in EECS 556 (Winter 2016)
David Chesney receives 2016 Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize
Jeff Fessler receives 2016 IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award
Beth Lawson receives 2016 CoE Excellence in Staff Service Award
Kimberly Mann receives CoE Excellence in Staff Service Award
CSE Alumna Arzucan Ozgur receives Science Academy Young Scientist Award
Audrow Nash earns NSF Fellowship for unmanned aerial vehicle research
Marcus Darden voted HKN Professor of the Year for CSE
Jeff Fessler voted 2016 HKN Professor of the Year for ECE
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
Clark Zhang earns NSF Fellowship for data processing in MEMS networks
Genevieve Flaspohler selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Joshua Adkins Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Ryan Marcotte selected for NSF and NDSEG Graduate Research Fellowships
Jeff Fessler named William L. Root Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Yu-Wei Chao selected for Google PhD Fellowship
2015-16 Undergraduate Student Awards
Doowon Lee receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to improve the reliability of computer systems
Xiang Yin earns Pre-Doc Fellowship for research in cyber-physical systems
Amr Ibrahim earns Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for research in high millimeter wave radar systems
Avish Kosari selected as Barbour Scholar for Research in low-power devices for the Internet of Things
Michael J. Cafarella selected for Sloan Research Fellowship
Honglak Lee selected for Sloan Research Fellowship
Valeria Bertacco receives U-M Sarah Goddard Power Award
Necmiye Ozay receives CAREER award for research in cyber-physical systems
Jenna Wiens receives NSF CAREER Award to increase the utility of machine learning in clinical care
Al Hero gets a shoutout from the court
Karl Winsor named Churchill Scholar
Barzan Mozafari receives NSF CAREER Award to improve predictability of database systems
2016 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards
Jason Mars receives CAREER Award to advance system architectures for artificially intelligent services and applications
Two CSE Faculty selected for 2015-16 College of Engineering Awards
Kamal Sarabandi receives Stephen S. Attwood award
Cafarella and Lee named Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professors
Kevin Fu named a top influencer in health information security
Anthony Grbic elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to the theory and design of electromagnetic metamaterials
Demosthenis Teneketzis earns George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award for solution to a class of fundamental control problems
Prof. Dragomir Radev Named ACM Fellow for Contributions to NLP and Computational Linguistics
Al Hero receives 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Award
2015 CSE Graduate Student Honors Competition Highlights Outstanding Research
Ashraf Dahod: 2015 CoE Alumni Medal Award Winner
Cynthia Finelli earns award at Frontiers in Education Conference for being an agent of change
Eric Michielssen named Louise Ganiard Johnson Professor of Engineering
J. Alex Halderman Named One of Popular Science's Brilliant Ten
Peter M. Chen Recognized for Influential Work in Operating Systems with ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award
Prof. Jason Flinn Receives U-M's Faculty Recognition Award
Jeff Fessler receives Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
Honglak Lee Receives CAREER Award for Research in Advanced Deep Learning Techniques
3 ECE companies make the Silicon 60 List – again!
Laura Balzano receives Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program Award for research in big data
Mary Lou Dorf Wins Best Paper Award at ASEE
Dragomir Radev Coaches US Linguistics Team to Multiple Wins at IOL
David Wentzloff receives Joel and Ruth Spira Excellence in Teaching Award
Ron Dreslinski Selected for IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award
Duc Le Selected for Mary A. Rackham Institute Graduate Student Research Assistantship
Mark Brehob Named U-M Collegiate Lecturer
Michigan Researchers Win Both Best Paper Awards at AAMAS 2015
Stephen Forrest named Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor
Michigan Researchers Win Best Poster Award at MobiSys 2015
Two Michigan Papers Share the Best Paper Award at MobiSys 2015
Kevin Fu Named to CRA Computing Community Consortium Council
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
Elaine Wah Receives CoE Marian Sarah Parker Prize
Karl Winsor Honored with Goldwater Scholarship
ECE students earn CoE Distinguished Leadership Awards
Cheng Zhang awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for research on nanophotonic materials and devices
2014-15 Undergraduate Student Awards
Emily Mower Provost Receives Oscar Stern Award for Research in Emotion Expression and Perception
Scott Mahlke Receives Micro Test of Time Award
Mark Kushner awarded 2015 IEEE NPSS Charles K. Birdsall Award
Dave Neuhoff receives Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
2015 CoE Towner Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors
Z. Morley Mao Receives Google Faculty Research Award
Two Michigan Engineers selected for Sloan research fellowships
J. Alex Halderman Selected for Sloan Research Fellowship
Grant Schoenebeck Receives CAREER Award to Develop a Rigorous Theoretical Understanding of Complex Networks
Jacob Abernethy Receives CAREER Award for Research into the Relationship Between Machine Learning and Microeconomic Theory
Jason Corso receives Google Faculty Research Award
Jia Deng Receives Google Faculty Research Award to Study Relationships Between Entities in Images
Helen Hagos Selected for Dow Sustainability Fellowship
2015 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards
Four ECE faculty selected for 2014-15 College of Engineering Awards
Four CSE Faculty Selected for 2014-15 College of Engineering Awards
Stephen Forrest Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Scott Mahlke Elected IEEE Fellow for Contributions to Compiler Code Generation and Automatic Processor Customization
Michael Flynn elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to 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
Rada Mihalcea Selected as General Chair for NAACL Conference
Yang Liu receives Best Applications Paper Award for cyber security research in phishing
John P. Hayes Recognized with ACM SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award
Trevor Mudge Recognized for Distinguished Achievement at UIUC 50th Anniversary Event
Satish Narayanasamy Receives Google Faculty Research Award
Edwin Olson Receives NSF CyberSEES Award for Research in Sustainability of Municipal Solid 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
Jason Mars Selected as Program Chair for CGO 2015
Khalil Najafi receives 2015 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for emerging technologies
Cheng Zhang receives Optical Sciences Scholarship
Prabal Dutta Named to Popular Science's Brilliant Ten List
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
Kyu-Tae Lee wins Best Poster Award for colorful solar cells
Iverson Bell’s small satellite wins big
Gurkan Gok receives Paper Award for making better antenna beams
Jessy Grizzle named Elmer G. Gilbert Distinguished University Professor
Jiangfeng Wu receives Best Paper Award for research in safe fracking
Barzan Mozafari and collaborators chosen for best demo at ACM SIGMOD
Thomas Frost receives Best Paper Award for achieving a HQ QD red laser
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
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
Benjamin Englard Awarded Thiel Fellowship
Chia-Hsiang Chen awarded Intel PhD Fellowship
Parinaz Naghizadeh, Researcher in economic network security, is named a Barbour Scholar
Doowon Lee Selected for IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
Student teams earn prizes for their ADC circuit designs in EECS 511
Research in machine learning earns Notable Paper Award at AISTATS 2014
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
Thank Lynn Conway for your cell phone
Students earn prizes for improving image processing techniques in EECS 556 (Winter 2014)
Student Spotlight: Nicholas Clift – 2014 Graduate Student of the Year
Jason Heebl receives NDSEG Fellowship
Mina Rais-Zadeh receives 2014 ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award
Jill Bender Chosen for CoE Distinguished Leadership Award
Isabel Martin receives CoE Distinguished Leadership Award
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
Student Spotlight: Christopher Boyd – From robotics to MEMS inertial sensors
Forest Agostinelli Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Mai Le receives CoE Distinguished Leadership Award
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
David Hong awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Noble and Wilson Named as Learning Analytics Fellows
Researchers Win Best Paper Award at ISPASS 2014
2014 CoE Towner Prize for Outstanding Graduate Students
Investigating a new material to help you stay connected
Kevin Fu Selected for World Economic Forum Young Scientist Award
Keravnos Energy wants to make fast electric vehicle charging economical
Muhammad Faisal wins business competition with technology critical to the Internet of Things
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
Daniel Atkins Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Jun-Chieh Wang receives Best Oral Paper Award for plasma research
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
Gopal Nataraj earns Best Paper Award for improving MRI
Gopal Nataraj receives ISA Fellowship to support research that will improve MRIs
Students rewarded for their circuit designs in EECS 413
Zhaoshi Meng receives Best Paper Award at CAMSAP 2013
Héctor J. García Selected for Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
Jason Davis receives 2013 U-M Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award
Al Hero named 2013 IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award Winner
Avish Kosari receives Rackham International Student Fellowship
Byeongseop Song receives Rackham International Student Fellowship
Pin-Yu Chen receives Rackham Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship
Mridul Mishra receives Rackham Non-Traditional Fellowship
Jia Deng Wins Marr Prize at ICCV
Anatoly Maksimchuk elected Fellow of APS
Mark Ackerman Named ACM Fellow
Mingyan Liu elected Fellow of the IEEE
H.V. Jagadish Awarded Gates Foundation Grant to leverage data for social good
Khalil Najafi receives 2013 IEEE Sensors Technical Field Award
Armin Alaghi Wins Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research
Jeff Fessler receives 2013 IEEE Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award
John P. Hayes Honored with IEEE TTTC Lifetime Contribution Medal
IEEE recognized as Best Student Branch in SE Michigan
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
Research that will lead to sharper photos earns best paper award
Rada Mihalcea selected for NSF INSPIRE Award
David Chen awarded NASA Fellowship to improve extreme weather prediction
Edwin Olson Awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award
Cheng Zhang awarded SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
Jae Young Park receives Best Student Paper Award for research impacting structural health monitoring
Honglak Lee featured on "AI's 10 to Watch" list
Kamal Sarabandi honored with 2013 IEEE GRSS Education Award
Bharan Giridhar awarded Intel PhD Fellowship
Neural Probe Research recognized with Best Paper Award at 2013 Transducers Conference
Research in production systems engineering is recognized with Best Paper Award
MEMS research recognized with Best Poster Award at 2013 Transducers Conference
Zhengya Zhang receives Intel Early Career Award
Two papers by CSE researchers chosen as IEEE Micro top picks
Daniel Molzhan will address sustainability challenges as a Dow Fellow
Elliot Soloway selected for Google App Engine Education Award
Chris Berry receives Paper Award at IMS 2013 for Research in Terahertz Technology
Student teams earn prizes for improved image processing techniques in EECS 556 (Winter 2013)
Brian Noble appointed Associate Dean for undergraduate education at the College of Engineering
2013 Design Automation Conference Anniversary Awards
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
2013 Promotions of our Faculty
Beth Stalnaker receives 2013 CoE Judith A. Pitney Staff Service Career Award
Fawwaz Ulaby named the U-M Henry Russel Lecturer for 2014
Silvio Savarese awarded J. James R. Croes Medal
Research in distributed networks earns Notable Paper Award at AISTATS
Patrick Pannuto selected for NSF and NDSEG Graduate Research Fellowships
Ethan Stark awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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
Student teams earn prizes for their ADC circuit designs in EECS 511
Dennis Sylvester receives U-M Faculty Recognition Award
2013 CoE Towner Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors
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
Bharan Giridhar awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for research in circuit techniques for adaptive, reliable, high-performance computing
Triantafillou wins Churchill Scholarship to study at Cambridge
David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester named Top Authors by ISSCC
Solid-State Circuits publishes special issue with Lynn Conway’s memoir of the VLSI revolution
David Wentzloff receives CAREER Award for research in energy-autonomous systems
Zhaohui Zhong receives CAREER Award for research in graphene-based optoelectronics
Special Recognition Award to Dr. Kurt Metzger
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
Students in EECS 413 awarded prizes for their circuit designs
2012-13 College of Engineering Awards
Karem Sakallah Named ACM Fellow
Ted Norris named Gérard A. Mourou Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Seunghyun Lee takes the gold for all-graphene flexible and transparent circuit
Benjamin Kuipers Named AAAS Fellow
Igor Markov Elected Fellow of the IEEE
Chris Berry awarded 2012 AP-S Doctoral Research Award
David Hiskens awarded two energy scholarships
Nathan Roberts earns Best Paper Award for research to assist in remote patient monitoring
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
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
Computer scientists named runners up for PET Award
Mina Rais-Zadeh receives NASA Early Career Grant to develop technology needed for picosatellites
Rebecca Wolkoff awarded scholarship to continue her work in sustainable energy
Team UM::Autonomy are champions again
Computer Scientists Win Best Paper Award at Turing Centenary Conference
Shang-Hua Yang receives SPIE Scholarship in Optics & Photonics
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
Award-winning EECS Graduate Student Instructors & Instructional Aides honored at luncheon
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
Mark Brehob voted HKN Professor of the Year
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
Mona Jarrahi receives ONR Young Investigator Award
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
Jeff Fessler honored with Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
Max Seiden selected for KPCB Engineering Fellowship
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
Four EECS Faculty recognized with College of Engineering Awards
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
Raj Nadakuditi receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award
2012 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards
Prof. Raj Nadakuditi receives 2012 SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
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
Srinath Sridhar awarded Rackham International Student Fellowship
Sid Bao earns Best Student Paper Award for Computer Vision Research
Jinyoung Hwang receives Best Poster Award for research leading to improved 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
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
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
Mina Rais-Zadeh receives 2011 EDS Early Career Award
Heather Ferguson awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Computer Scientists Win Best Paper Award at MobiCom '11 Conference
Fikadu Dagefu receives 2011 Lincoln Lab Fellowship
Yoonmyung Lee receives 2011 Intel Corporation PhD Fellowship
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
Researchers Win John A. Curtis Lecture Award at ASEE Conference
Russell Willmot awarded IEEE Fellowship
Kang G. Shin and Collaborators Win Best Paper Award at IEEE ICAC Conference
Sung Ho Park receives 2011 IEEE MTT-S Scholarship
Morteza Nick receives Best Paper Award at IMS2011
U-M Programming Team Places Second in World Competition
Satinder Singh Baveja Elected as an AAAI Fellow
AMD/Michigan Student Design Contest
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)
Wayne Stark and Changhun Bae receive 2011 JCN Best Paper Award
Iverson Bell awarded NSF Fellowship for Research in Space Propulsion
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
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
Joe Greathouse Wins Best Student Presentation Award at CGO 2011 Conference
Chris Berry awarded Michigan Space Grant Consortium Fellowship
Anthony Grbic receives USNC/URSI Booker Fellowship
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
Al Hero receives Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
Mahta Moghaddam honored with U-M Faculty Recognition Award
Lan Bai Receives Anna Olcott Smith Award
Jamie Phillips receives University Undergraduate Teaching Award
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
Ted Norris honored with Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
David Papa receives EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award
Three EECS Teams are winners in 2011 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest
Mona Jarrahi receives NSF CAREER Award
James Boerkoel awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Farnam Jahanian Named NEF Entrepreneur of the Year
Jungsuek Oh, EE Grad Student, awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Nate Derbinsky awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Hongwei Liao, EE Systems Grad Student, awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
CS students take second place with "Accessible Messaging" iPad app at Mobile World Congress
Mark Kushner elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Sonal Verma receives Microsoft Scholarship
Xi Chen and Prof. Robert Dick receive DATE Best Paper Award
Mina Rais-Zadeh receives NSF CAREER Award
Najafi, Wise named Distinguished University Innovators
Zeeshan Syed receives NSF CAREER Award for work in computationally generated biomarkers
EECS students win 2010 U-M Mobile Apps Challenge with HiJack
Zhengya Zhang receives NSF CAREER Award
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
EECS 413 students earn prizes for their final projects
Farnam Jahanian named AAAS Fellow
EECS Spinoffs recognized as Key Innovators in Business Competition
Students give a couple of the best among 3,000 Elevator Pitches
2011 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards
Dennis Sylvester elected Fellow of the IEEE
CAD Team Places Second at 2010 CADathlon
EECS Researchers win Best Paper Award at ICCAD 2010
Mark Kushner awarded the AVS Medard W. Welch Award
Eric Dattoli named National Academies Research Associate
Pallab Bhattacharya receives Welker Award at ISCS 2010
EECS Faculty receive 2010 HP Labs Innovation Research Awards
Jessy Grizzle named IFAC Fellow
Kamal Sarabandi honored with 2011 IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award
Computer Vision Research Recognized at Innovation in AEC Conference
Zhengya Zhang earns Best Paper Award at Symposium on VLSI Circuits
WIMS and CUOS among 60 Years of Sensational Research by NSF
Ruzbeh Akbar receives NASA Fellowship for SMAP Mission Research
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
Eric Tkaczyk Named Fulbright Fellow and Whitaker Scholar
Anthony Grbic honored with Henry Russel Award
Kevin Xu awarded NSERC Fellowship
Amit Patel Awarded SMART Fellowship
Patrick O’Keefe awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
P.C. Ku Awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award
Mona Jarrahi awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award
Brian Buss awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2010 College of Engineering Awards
U-M researchers win 2010 Signal Processing Best Paper Award
Domitilla Del Vecchio receives Donald P. Eckman Award
U-M team wins Clock Network Synthesis Contest at ACM ISPD 2010
Yong Long selected as Barbour Scholar
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
Wei Lu receives CAREER Award
Yogesh Gianchandani elected Fellow of the IEEE
Lynn Conway honored with Computer Pioneer Award by IEEE Computer Society
EECS faculty and alumni awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Tony Grbic awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Al Hero receives 2009 Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award
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
Tal Carmon receives Young Investigator Award for research in lasers and optics
Yong Long receives Best Poster Award for work in medical imaging
Duncan Steel awarded 2010 APS Frank Isakson Prize
Mark Kushner awarded 2010 APS Will Allis Prize
David Wentzloff awarded Young Faculty Award (YFA) by DARPA
Ellersick Prize for Best Paper Awarded to authors in communications
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
Ali Nazari receives Best Paper Award at ISIT 2009
Tony Grbic awarded Presidential Early Career Award
Tom Senior receives the 2010 IEEE Electromagnetics Award
Matthew Fojtik awarded Intel Foundation/SRCEA Fellowship
2009 College of Engineering Awards
Dennis Schweiger receives College of Engineering Staff Excellence Award
Barb Rice receives U-M Distinguished Research Administrator Award
Karen Liska Receives CoE Judith A. Pitney Staff Service Career Award
Lurie Nanofabrication Facility receiving Awards and Recognition
Luis Gomez receives 2009 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to investigate a new treatment for neurological disorders
Mark Brehob elected as HKN Professor of the Year
EECS students help the deaf “Feel the 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
U-M shares 1st place prize at ISPD
Sung-Hyun Jo receives Silver Prize in SAMSUNG Human-Tech Thesis Prize
Carl Pfeiffer receives 2009 IEEE MTTS Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship
Mark J. Kushner named the George I. Haddad Professor of Engineering
Ian Hiskens named Vennema Professor
Kamal Sarabandi appointed the Rufus S. Teesdale Professor of Engineering
Al Hero appointed the R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering
Tzeno Galchev’s work recognized by the President of Bulgaria
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
Microsystems research for energy scavenging and power generation
Jerzy Kanicki’s group earns Excellence Award for Basic and Original Technology
Austin and Blaauw Receive 2008 Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award
Pallab Bhattacharya elected member of the National Academy of Engineering
Distinguished Faculty Governance Award, Semyon Meerkov
Yuriy Goykhman receives MIT Lincoln Lab Fellowship
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 DevicesJessy 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.