News: ECE

Zhiru Zhang, associate professor in electrical and computer engineering receives a 2023 Amazon Research Award for his research titled "A Unified Approach to Tensor Graph Optimization". According to Amazon, "these awards provide unrestricted funds and AWS promotional credits to academic researchers investigating various research topics in multiple disciplines." Recipients have access to more than 300 Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools. “Given that data is central to Amazon’s core businesses, I am excited by this opportunity to collaborate with universities on... Read more

Zhiru Zhang and his students, Niansong Zhang and Hongzheng Chen, received the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays for their work "Formal Verification of Source-to-Source Transformations for HLS". This research is a collaboration with with Colorado State University. The International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) is a premier conference for presentation of advances in FPGA technology. Read more

Thirteen Cornell faculty members have received Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. The awards recognize faculty who have recently developed community-engaged learning, leadership or research activities that create opportunities for students. Read more

Cong Chen and Zeki Hayran are the winners of this year's ECE Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Research Award. The annual award is given to graduating Ph.D. students from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) based on the significance of their doctoral research. Chen’s research aims to drive the global energy transition toward a carbon-neutral future, which relies on the large-scale integration of renewables and electrification across transportation, civil infrastructure, and industrial manufacturing sectors. Her thesis addresses two challenges of energy transition: (i) the... Read more

Eight projects have been selected from the Fall 2023 application cycle to receive Ignite Innovation Acceleration grants. The grants are designed to help project teams pursue licensing, form startups, and forge industry collaborations. Read more

Using 3-D stacks of reflectors on microchips could triple data rates of wireless links to help speed development of 6G communications, a new study finds. Most current wireless communications technology, such as 5G phones, operate at frequencies below 6 gigahertz. For greater data rates, researchers are striving to develop 6G communications that use frequencies above 20 GHz for data rates 100 times great as 5G. However, at 6G‘s anticipated higher frequencies, transmissions also experience greater attenuation and losses from the environment. Read the full article here: 6G Reflector Chip Tech... Read more

The device could be particularly helpful for patients with geriatric heart failure and other serious conditions. Read more

Researchers developed a semiconductor chip that will enable ever-smaller devices to operate at the higher frequencies needed for future 6G communication technology. Read more

For the first time in Cornell Engineering’s history, every school and department currently has, or will soon have, a woman faculty member on the college’s executive leadership team. The milestone comes as the college celebrates the 140th anniversary of its first woman engineer. Read more

Researchers studying large-scale artificial intelligence, microbial biomanufacturing and causal inference methods are among the Cornell researchers who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Read more