Sensing and Sensors
Careful heating unlocks unprecedented sensitivity to pressure in semiconductor materials
A simple and scalable annealing method boosts the quality of materials used in cell phones, sensors and energy harvesting devices.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.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.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.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.Pei Zhang will contribute to a new NSF Center for Insights into the Pre-Emergence Phase of Pandemics
Prof. Zhang will develop sensor systems to model the movement and risk factors of animal populations in disease spread as part of the interdisciplinary NSF center.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.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.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.Wireless and battery-free sensors for sustainable smart cities
The sensors will provide real-time data for smart decision-making by allowing the natural environment and the built environment to communicate seamlessly.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.Aline Eid seeks to better perceive the world using a 5G Wireless Power Grid
Prof. Eid is looking to design the future of smart cities and infrastructures using ultra-low power wireless sensing and communications technologies.Kamal Sarabandi honored with 2024 IEEE Electromagnetics Award
Sarabandi is recognized for his outstanding contributions to the theory and application of electromagnetics.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.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.New understanding of neurons in the hippocampus: they’re all the same
A longstanding collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists leads to new insights into how neurons work in the hippocampus.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.$1.8M to develop room temperature, controllable quantum nanomaterials
The project could pave the way for compact quantum computing and communications as well as efficient UV lamps for sterilization and air purification.Anthony England, former NASA astronaut, professor, and dean, retires
England has dedicated more than two decades of his distinguished career helping students reach for the stars to understand more about Earth and other planets.Fawwaz Ulaby retires after nearly four decades of championing students and excelling at research and leadership
Students say Ulaby, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and recipient of the Edison Medal, is one of the best professors – and people – they’ve ever known.Using remote sensing to track microplastics in the ocean
Electrical Engineering undergrad Madeline Evans is a key researcher on a project that uses NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System to monitor microplastic pollution that harms marine ecosystems.Pei Zhang solemnly swears that he’s up to some good
Sensor takes guesswork out of N95 decontamination
Demba Komma awarded Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship for research on IoT localization technologies
Kaleo Roberts receives scholarship from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Tracking Monarch Butterfly Migration with the World’s Smallest Computer
Detecting environmental pollutants with a smaller, portable, fully electric gas chromatograph
Autonomous well monitoring solution recognized with a Best Innovators award
Ester Bentley receives NDSEG Fellowship to help the world navigate without GPS
Wireless sensors for N95 masks could enable easier, more accurate decontamination
Zhanni Wu awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Tianlin Wang recognized with Towner Prize and Distinguished Leadership Award
Leung Tsang elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Electrify goes to Detroit
Kamal Sarabandi welcomes Emperor and Empress of Japan at IGARSS 2019
Beyond Apollo 11: U-M ECE’s role in advancing space exploration
Huanting Huang improves accuracy of remote sensing
A high-efficiency GaAs solar cell to power the Internet of Tiny Things
Time-varying metamaterials for next generation communication, sensing, and defense systems
Laura Balzano receives ARO Young Investigator Award to improve high-dimensional big data problems
Conducting an orchestra of sensor nodes
Deciphering GPS satellites to see inside hurricanes
An even smaller world’s smallest ‘computer’
Jiyue Zhu awarded Wiesnet Medal for improved snow algorithms
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.A shoe-box-sized chemical detector
New funding for high-fidelity nerve mapping research
Student’s digital art makes the Cube even more interactive
IGARSS Interactive Symposium Paper Award for modeling the world’s forests
$7.75M for mapping circuits in the brain
Rick Bergman, CEO of Synaptics – giving tech a sense of touch
Behzad Yektakhah earns paper award for research in seeing through walls
Michigan’s millimeter-scale computers featured at ISSCC2017, and in IEEE Spectrum
Sensors from head to toe – Todd Coleman makes measuring health simpler
Kamal Sarabandi elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Student Arun Nagpal develops new ENG 100 section to spotlight space science
Professor to Congress: ‘Internet of Things security is woefully inadequate’
The Michigan Probe: Changing the Course of Brain Research
A new, low-cost way to monitor snow and ice thickness to evaluate environmental change
Injectable computers can broadcast from inside the body
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.Xiang Yin earns Pre-Doc Fellowship for research in cyber-physical systems
Avish Kosari selected as Barbour Scholar for Research in low-power devices for the Internet of Things
Necmiye Ozay receives CAREER award for research in cyber-physical systems
Kamal Sarabandi receives Stephen S. Attwood award
Googling the physical world
A real-world approach to digital signal processing
Four EECS companies make Crain’s list of most innovative companies, and one tops the list
Researching the future of remote sensing
Steven Parkison earns NSF Fellowship to design tools for the future of autonomous cars
New Michigan-Saudi Arabia collaboration promises exciting new research – beginning with the auto industry
Alyssa Kody earns NSF Fellowship for research in energy harvesting and wireless sensing
Silicon valley entrepreneurs help bring WIMS2 technology to the world
Researchers build groundbreaking device for NASA SMAP mission
Kamal Sarabandi elected President of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
Becky Peterson awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award to investigate new materials for power semiconductor devices
Khalil Najafi receives 2015 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for emerging technologies
ECE welcomes four new faculty for 2014-15 academic year
Jiangfeng Wu receives Best Paper Award for research in safe fracking
T-ray converts light to sound for weapons detection, medical imaging
Christopher Boyd awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Paradigm shifting research advances in sensor technology
Zhaoshi Meng receives Best Paper Award at CAMSAP 2013
Research Spotlight: Better miniaturized vacuum pumps for electronics and sensors
Image processing 1,000 times faster is goal of new $5M contract
Jae Young Park receives Best Student Paper Award for research impacting structural health monitoring
Neural Probe Research recognized with Best Paper Award at 2013 Transducers Conference
James McCullagh receives Best Student Paper Award for research to keep bridges safe
Research Spotlight: Sensors and actuators for portable microsystems
Mingyan Liu receives Best Paper Award at the 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Robots Building Better Maps: For robots and other mechanical creatures
Research Spotlight: 3-D electrical force fields manipulate microscale particles
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.Raj Nadakuditi receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award
New research program aims to make better “sense” of the world
Research about resilient sensor networks for power plant monitoring is recognized with Best Track Paper Award
Fikadu Dagefu receives 2011 Lincoln Lab Fellowship
A minimally-invasive brain implant to translate thoughts into movement
Kamal Sarabandi Receives Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
He is honored for his excellence in research, mentorship, and contributions to professional organizations.Clay Scott Receives CAREER Award for Research in Signal Processing
Sensing Sensors: NSF Funding News Ways to Monitor Infrastructure for Safety
The program aims to develop revolutionary wireless sensor node, optimized for infrastructure monitoring.Michael Benson receives NASA Fellowship
Al Hero Receives Digiteo Chaire d'Excellence
Hero's research will be applied to both gene regulation networks and ad hoc communications networks.Kamal Sarabandi Receives Humboldt Research Award
The Humboldt Research Award is a highly competitive award granted to scientists and scholars from all disciplines.