News and Publications

On June 30, College of Engineering Dean Ilesanmi Adesida announced the selection of ECE ILLINOIS Professor Andreas Cangellaris as department head for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

ECE Professor Narendra Ahuja was recently honored with the T. A. Stewart-Dyer and F. Trevithick Prize for his work on the use of computer vision for railroad engineering.

Murali Venkatesan and Nicholas Watkins have developed a portable AIDS diagnostic platform that can be used to diagnose AIDS quickly and accurately. The device analyzes the number of CD-4 cells in a patient’s blood sample.

Next summer, ECE junior Sumit Dutta will have the unique opportunity to work as an intern for NASA. Dutta is a recipient of a 2009 NASA Aeronautics Scholarship, one of only 25 students to receive such an honor this year nationwide.

Researchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz held by a light-emitting diode.

After working for the last year and a half, the students involved with the 2009 Solar Decathlon finally received the most important part of the project: the house.

ECE graduate student Rui Wang won the Best Student Paper Award at the 25th International Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics held in Monterey, California in March.

ECE Professors Narendra Ahuja, Thomas Huang, and William Sanders are among an elite group of 59 professors to receive a 2009 HP Labs Innovation Research Award. The program creates opportunities for colleges, universities and research institutes to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP.

ECE graduate student Farzan Farbiz won the Best Student Paper Award for his presentation at the 2008 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS) in Phoenix Arizona. The paper, titled “Modeling of Majority and Minority Carrier Triggered External Latchup,” sets up design guidelines for designers to improve reliability, as well as time to market.

ECE Professor Michael Loui has received the King Broadrick-Allen Award for Excellence in Honors Teaching for distinguished teaching and service to the Campus Honors Program. The program gives this annual award to a faculty member who has made great contributions to the program.