Spotlights: ECE

Francesco Monticone of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Cornell likes to work in the realm of theory. “The best possible project for me,” says Monticone, “would start with a...

Jayadev Acharya joined the faculty of Cornell Engineering in July, 2016. Acharya is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and a graduate field member in...

Vikram Krishnamurthy, Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at both Cornell Engineering in Ithaca and Cornell Tech in New York City, is taking what he knows about...

As a high school sophomore, Mikayla Diesch and her younger sister competed in a competition to create an energy bar for NASA—and won. The competition was focused on innovation, so Mikayla and her...

Ope Oladipo’s (ECE B.S. ’17) interest in electronics started at a young age, but it wasn’t until he moved to New York City from Nigeria as a sophomore in high school that he really started working...

Open up your cell phone and look at the board inside, and you’ll find several chips. For every frequency band your cell phone runs—Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 4GLTE, 4GSM--it uses a different chip. Hazal Yüksel...

Christina Delimitrou, assistant professor in Cornell’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), did not have a computer until she was 17. Now she spends much of her time working to improve...

When Kirstin Petersen was a high school student, she had the opportunity to spend some time at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. At the time, she pictured herself as a future...

When Shiva Rajagopal went to high school in Fallon, Nevada there were no computer science classes offered. “But that was okay,” he says. “We did have a Tech Club where we would refurbish old computers...

When a visitor walks into Joe Skovira’s office on the second floor of Cornell Engineering’s Phillips Hall, it is obvious right away that this guy is a tinkerer. If it were 1960, the parts strewn about...