News: ECE

By Tom Fleischman, Cornell Chronicle With the addition this year of a few twists and turns, the end-of-semester robotics competition grew into a daylong showcase in Duffield Hall atrium. “I love that we have reached critical mass in robotics at Cornell to host such events, and we hope to make it a bigger communitywide event moving forward,” said Kirstin Petersen, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering (ECE), whose Intelligent Physical Systems course held a maze exploration competition as part of Robotics Day, Dec. 4. Petersen’s class held its competition in the morning and...

Kevin Lee (Cornell ECE) presenting his research on blue LED based quantum emitters for which he was awarded the Student Award at IWN 2018 in Japan. Kevin Lee, a Ph.D. student from the Jena-Xing Group recently received a student award at the 10th International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors (IWN) in Kanazawa, Japan. Lee’s presentation was entitled "Comparison of Standard P-up and Buried Tunnel Junction Blue Light Emitting Diodes towards Integrated Single Photon Sources". In collaboration with Prof. Gregory David Fuchs in the department of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell...

The paper introduces a MultiTrack power conversion architecture that represents a new way of combining switched capacitor circuits and magnetics. The MultiTrack architecture takes advantages of the distributed power processing concept and a hybrid switched-capacitor/magnetics circuit structure. It reduces the voltage ratings on devices, reduces the voltage regulation stress of the system, improves the component utilization, and reduces the sizes of passive components. This architecture is suitable for dc-dc and grid-interface applications that require both isolation and wide voltage conversion...

Debdeep Jena Debdeep Jena, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, was elected the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering , effective November 1, 2018. Jena joined Cornell in 2015 as a Richard E. Lunquist Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow with a joint appointment in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Material Science and Engineering. Prior to that, he was a professor at the University of Notre Dame from 2003 to 2014. Jena received the B. Tech. degree with a major in...

Original story from the Cornell Chronicle By Catie Rencricca Chloe Kanders | November 14, 2018 Johnson, the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the College of Engineering and the Jacobs Fellow in Computational Arts and Humanities at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, developed a process using digital imaging to address questions in art history scholarship. He is credited with creating the field of computational art history. “You become a detective,” he said. “The art historical questions are often linked to artist’s intent, and...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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