2020 News Archive


Juvenal Ormachea ’16 MS ’19PhD, top “35 innovators under 35” for Latin America

December 7, 2020

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Juvenal Ormachea ’16 MS ’19PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Kevin Parker’s lab

Juvenal Ormachea ’16 MS ’19PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Kevin Parker’s lab in electrical and computer engineering, who has been selected by MIT Technology Review for its list of top “35 innovators under 35” for Latin America. Juvenal has created a non-invasive method to detect cancer and liver diseases such as cirrhosis, based on medical ultrasound images generated using ultrasound scanners.

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Adapting to COVID-19

November 2, 2020

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Here’s another great example of how our Hajim School faculty have been pitching in to help us confront the challenges of COVID-19. Our River Campus Music Department wanted to continue its traditional performance of the rousing finale of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture on the final day of classes last spring. But because of the pandemic, student musicians could not safely gather for a live performance in front of Rush Rhees Library. So, musical director Rachel Waddell worked with Steve Roessner, our Grammy Award-winning senior lecturer in audio and music engineering, who stitched together images of Rachel conducting and of students individually pre-recording their performances. The resulting video released on the University’s YouTube channel was big hit.

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Fall 2020 Course Delivery Modes

July 31, 2020

A table listing the courses and modalities for fall 2020 is listed below. Please check back frequently as it is subject to change. If you have specific questions about how an individual course will be run, feel free to contact the instructor directly. Remember that all courses will be online-only following the Thanksgiving break. See UR Student for course times and locations.

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Professor Mujdat Cetin to serve as the Robin and Tim Wentworth Director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science

April 13, 2020

Mujdat Cetin, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has accepted an offer to serve as the Robin and Tim Wentworth Director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science. Mujdat, who has served as interim director since last July, was selected after an extensive international search for the next director. He has done an outstanding job organizing working groups of faculty from across the University to explore collaborative data science projects. Mujdat has an exciting agenda to further engage students, improve educational programs, collaborate with departments on future faculty hires, engage with industry, establish external partnerships, and ensure the institute maintains its competitiveness. (Read more here.)

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Engin Ipek, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, will share the Persistent Impact Prize at next month’s Non-Volatile Memory Workshop

February 24, 2020

Engin Ipek, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, who will share the Persistent Impact Prize at next month’s Non-Volatile Memory Workshop, hosted by the Center for Memory and Recording Research and the Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory. The prize is awarded annually to a paper published at least five years prior that has had exceptional impact on the fields of study related to non-volatile memories — in this case, “Better I/O Through Byte-Addressable, Persistent Memory,” a 2009 paper Engin co-authored while he was a researcher at Microsoft.

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Stephen Wu awarded NSF Career Award

January 10, 2020

Stephen Wu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award for his exciting research on applying strain to 2D materials to induce phase changes in transistor-scale device platforms. This has the potential to transform electronics, optics, computing, and a host of other technologies. Read more here.

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