News: ECE

The President’s Council of Cornell Women has awarded a PCCW Affinito-Stewart Grant to ECE Assistant Professor Amal El-Ghazaly for her proposal titled “Highly Stretchable Pressure and Curvature Sensor for Soft Robots.” The proposed research aims to develop a stretchable material-based sensor array to provide soft robots with a high-resolution sense of “touch.” When soft robots (which are filled with air) touch an external object, air within the body is displaced and puts internal pressure on other surfaces of the robot in addition to the point of contact. These two simultaneous pressures on the... Read more

Researchers have developed collectives of microrobots - each slightly larger than a hair's width - capable of reconfiguring their swarm behavior to move in circles, bunch up into a clump, spread out like gas or form a straight line like beads on a string. Read more

ECE students, working with Senior Lecturer Joe Skovira, helped get the Bill Nye Solar Noon clock back up and running atop Rhodes Hall. Watch the videos from alumni magazine Cornellians! Read more

Is the best way to charge electric vehicles not to plug them in at all? ECE Associate Professor Khurram Afridi speaks about his research as part of Cornell Engineering Week on The Academic Minute, a project of WAMC public radio. Read more

Cornell engineers have created a deep-ultraviolet laser using semiconductor materials that show great promise for improving the use of ultraviolet light for sterilizing medical tools, purifying water and sensing hazardous gases. Read more

Used to working at home in sweatpants? ECE alum Joanna Dai ’08 has good news for your return to the office. Read more

Professor Zhiru Zhang has received a pair of honors from the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA). Read more

Ten assistant professors representing four colleges have recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards to support their research objectives. Read more

Cornell ECE associate professor Khurram Afridi was invited by the journal Nature Electronics to write a comment article related to the area of electrified transportation. The print version of this article will appear in the February 2022 issue of Nature Electronics. Read more

The IEEE Board of Directors has named Professor Huili Grace Xing an IEEE Fellow, recognized for contributions to GaN high-electron-mobility transistors. Xing is the William L. Quackenbush Professor of Engineering and Associate Dean on Research and Graduate Studies. Xing’s research is focused on fundamental work toward next generation electronic materials and devices. “We are currently engaged in doping science in polar semiconductors, ultrawide bandgap semiconductors for energy-efficient and agile power electronics, deep UV light emitters, quantum materials and technologies for secure... Read more