News: ECE

The event is Cornell University’s collegiate hackathon. Across three days, from October 19-21, 2018 students from across the country gathered in Cornell’s Physical Science Building to build innovative projects, meet amazing people, and win prizes from sponsors. The team won The Johnny B. Goode Hack To The Future Prize, awarded for the hack that best embodies the theme of this year's hackathon, #HackToTheFuture. Anirudh Raghavendra (ECE, M.Eng.), Karthik Dasaraju (ECE, M.Eng.), Gururaj Bhupal (ECE, M.Eng.) and Vivek R. Chettiar (CS, M.Eng.) created the project, “Cerebro”, a device a user wears... Read more

The Tisch University Professorships, one of Cornell’s highest faculty honors, were created in 2008 by Andrew H. Tisch ’71 and Ann Rubenstein Tisch to help attract and retain prominent scholars and midcareer faculty. Awarded at the discretion of the president and provost, the professorships are deployed to address critical recruitment and retention needs, give the university flexibility to pursue new initiatives, and help strengthen and fortify departments and emerging interdisciplinary fields. “The Tisch Professorships continue to be a tremendous asset for the university that supports... Read more

Cornell’s new entrepreneurship program, W.E. (women entrepreneurs) Cornell, recently announced its first cohort of students for the 2018-19 academic year. W.E. Cornell was created by Andrea Ippolito ’06, M.Eng. ’07, executive director of Cornell’s engineering management program and eLab instructor, to address persistent underrepresentation of women entrepreneurs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields and empower more women to found and lead tech startups. Read more here. Read more

Bruce Land, Ph.D. ’76, senior lecturer in electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, was named a 2018 Weiss Provost’s Teaching Fellow. Read more

A retrospective on the life of Cornell alumnus Kenneth L. Bowles was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more

Three neuroscientists discussed how birds learn to sing, an RNA editing approach to potentially cure the autism spectrum disorder Rett Syndrome, and the latest progress in functional imaging of human brains at the third annual Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium, Sept. 27 in the Biotechnology Building. Read more here. Read more

C. Richard Johnson will speak about the field of computational art history and discuss preserving and authenticating the works of Vermeer and Rembrandt Friday, Nov. 9, at 5 p.m. in the Guerlac Room of A.D. White House, followed by a buffet dinner. His talk, “Studying Vermeer’s Canvases and Rembrandt’s Papers: Two Examples of Computational Art History,” is part of the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity Speaker Series. Johnson, the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Professor of Engineering at Cornell and the fellow in computational arts and humanities at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute... Read more

Francesco Monticone, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, will help push the scientific boundaries of topological systems – and help imagine new metamaterials with exotic properties, such as the ability to bend light and other electromagnetic waves – with a three-year, $450,000 Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The field of topological physics and its engineering applications have seen a surge of interest in recent years as researchers look for ways to design new materials and combine them to gain properties that are preserved... Read more

Emeritus Professor Zygmunt J. Haas recently delivered a talk at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden as part of the ACCESS Distinguished Lecture Series. The invited lecture, “Reconfigurable Distributed MIMO for Physical-layer Security in Mobile Networks,” was presented on September 13, 2018. In his talk, Haas discussed the model and performance of the distributed MIMO architecture for mobile networks, which is referred to as Reconfigurable Distributed MIMO (RD-MIMO). In RD-MIMO, the communicating mobile nodes temporarily recruit adjacent nodes to operate as distributed... Read more

Four ECE instructors were honored at the 2018 College of Engineering Excellence in Advising and Teaching Awards, hosted on Monday, Sept. 17. David Albonesi, Professor received the Kenneth A. Goldman '71 Excellence in Teaching Award José Martínez, Professor received the Dorothy and Fred Chau MS '74 Excellence in Teaching Award Joseph Skovira, Senior Lecturer received the Michael Tien '72 Excellence in Teaching Award Bruce Land, Senior Lecturer received the Michael Tien '72 Sustained Excellence and Innovation in Engineering Education Award The annual awards recognize distinguished teaching and... Read more