2020 News Archive
Raiyan Baten, ECE PhD student and his research highlighted in UR News: Can social networks help us be more creative?
Congratulations to ECE PhD student, Raiyan Baten, who works with Prof Ehsan Hogue in the computer science human-computer interaction lab, for having his reserach highlighted in the UR News and Journal of Royal Society Interface!
Juvenal Ormachea ’16 MS ’19PhD, top “35 innovators under 35” for Latin America
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.
ECE student, Yujin Nakamoto, awarded Robert L. Wells Prize
ECE's Yujin Nakamoto is one of three outstanding students announced as this year’s recipients of the Robert L. Wells Prize, awarded to Hajim School students who also excel in the humanities.
Adapting to COVID-19
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.
Photonics researchers report breakthrough in miniaturizing light-based chips
A Rochester team led by Qiang Lin, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, has demonstrated a new way to control light as it moves through integrated circuits—paving a research avenue in communications, computing, and photonics research.
Fall 2020 Course Delivery Modes
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.
ECE UG Research Assistant, Ethan Fahnestock ’21, who awarded a Goldwater Scholarship
Congratulations to Ethan Fahnestock ’21 on receiving the Barry Goldwater Scholarship! Ethan is doing an interdisciplinary engineering degree in robotics instead of ECE proper but ECE classes play a major component of his engineering program. Read more about this prestigious award on the Rochester Newscenter page.
Joseph 'Tre' DiPassio III Awarded the 2020 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student
Joseph ‘Tre’ DiPassio III has been selected as one of the winners of the University of Rochester 2020 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student.
Professor Mujdat Cetin to serve as the Robin and Tim Wentworth Director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science
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.)
Marvin Doyley inducted to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Today, Marvin Doyley, professor of electrical and computer engineering, will be inducted remotely as a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Fellows are nominated each year by their peers and represent the top 2% of the medical and biological engineering community.
Engin Ipek, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, will share the Persistent Impact Prize at next month’s Non-Volatile Memory Workshop
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.
Stephen Wu awarded NSF Career Award
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.