2021 News Archive
Bochen Li selected for Outstanding Dissertation Award
May 29, 2021
Congratulations to Bochen Li, PhD '20, selected for the Outstanding Dissertation Award
Continue ReadingCongratulations Class of 2021!
May 24, 2021
It was a beautiful weekend to celebrate the ECE Class of 2021! Congratulations to all the graduates!
Continue ReadingMark Bocko - EDMUND A. HAJIM OUTSTANDING FACULTY AWARD
May 24, 2021
Since 1985, our University and our school have benefited from the exceptional leadership and vision of Mark Bocko, who has twice served as the chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Continue ReadingThe University Remembers Professor David Blackstock
May 18, 2021
David T. Blackstock, a former electrical engineering faculty member here, passed away last month at the age of 91. David joined the department in 1963 and helped pioneer “weak shock theory” which became a key foundation for the field of nonlinear acoustics, says Kevin Parker, the William F. May Professor of Engineering and dean emeritus of engineering and applied sciences. David joined the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 but continued to return here for many years to teach graduate level Acoustics and Nonlinear Acoustics as a summer course. “His continued collaboration with Professor Ed Carstensen in the 1990s lead to a revolution in nonlinear imaging using medical ultrasound,” Kevin says. An icon in the Acoustical Society of America, David was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992. Memorial Donations may be made to UT’s recently established David T. Blackstock Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship in Acoustics. Read more here.
Continue ReadingHonor Society Inductees, May 2021
May 10, 2021
Congratulations to these ECE students who were recently inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic honor society. Inductees are chosen based on exceptional academic performance and a letter of recommendation from a faculty or staff member. Particularly strong candidates are elected as juniors, the rest as seniors. (Note: many of these students are also completing majors outside the Hajim School.)
Continue ReadingSenior Design Day 2021
May 10, 2021
Please join the ECE department, Hajim School of Engineering, and the Class of ’21 in viewing the Senior Design and Capstone projects starting May 10, 2021 at:
Continue ReadingGonzalo Mateos co-author of a paper selected for the 2020 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
May 5, 2021
Congratulations to Gonzalo Mateos, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and Asaro Biggar Family Fellow in data science, who is co-author of a paper selected for the 2020 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award. The paper, by lead author Santiago Segarra, is entitled “Network Topology Inference from Spectral Templates,” originally published in IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, September 2017. The award will be presented during ICASSP'21 in Toronto, Canada.
Continue ReadingEthan Fahnestock ’21 receives Goldwater Scholarship
May 4, 2021
Ethan Fahnestock ’21 has received the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious national award for undergraduate science majors. The Madbury, New Hampshire, resident is a major in physics and astronomy as well as robotics engineering, an interdepartmental, self-designed major, at the University of Rochester.
Continue ReadingProfessor Michael Heilemann receives National Science Foundation Award
April 7, 2021
Congratulations to Michael Heilemann for receiving this NSF award for research in Smart Acoustic Surfaces as Multimodal Interfaces which is detailed below.
Continue ReadingGonzalo Mateos ‘connects the dots’ of complex networks
February 9, 2021
How do you make sense of the millions, even billions of data points that represent the interactions of neurons across the human brain? Or the interconnections of our country’s vast, network of power grids? Or the rates of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations as they surge in some parts of the country, but not others?
Continue ReadingEngineering Diversity: A Series Celebrating Equity and Inclusion in the Hajim School of Engineering
February 8, 2021
We are proud to recognize the contributions of Marvin Doyley (at left), Melodie Lawton, and Gonzalo Mateos as part of our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative, which includes profiles of Hajim School underrepresented minority faculty members, staff members, and alumni who serve as outstanding role models.
Continue ReadingMarvin Doyley puts priority on addressing underrepresentation
February 8, 2021
Marvin Doyley is accustomed to attending major conferences of electrical engineers where he is one of only a handful of black delegates.
“It doesn’t bother me now as much as it did before,” Doyley says. “Now, I am a senior member, I have worked my way up, people know me, we have common experiences to talk about. But I’ll be looking at someone else who is a minority just starting to come up, who will be standing at the back, hesitant to speak or ask questions.”
The professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Hajim School is now in a position to help address the underrepresentation of minorities and women in STEM fields.
Kevin Parker Collaborating on a NIH Grant for Optical Coherence Tomography (OTC)
January 4, 2021
Kevin Parker, the William F. May Professor of Engineering and dean emeritus of engineering and applied sciences; Maiken Nedergaard, professor of neurology and neuroscience; and Jannick Rolland, the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering and director of the Center for Freeform Optics (also affiliated with the Materials Science Program), are collaborating on a $421,880 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. They will use optical coherence tomography (OCT) elastography, a high-resolution imaging modality, to perform bio-mechanical measurements in mice, showing the variations in the softness and stiffness of brain tissue over time that are associated with aging and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.
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