Graduate students

From the internships that inspired her interest in signal & image processing and machine learning to late night study sessions at the Duderstadt to her background in classical dance, Master’s student Rucha Apte shares her journey with us.

KLA sponsored prizes for three outstanding projects focused on improving image processing for neurosurgery and satellite applications and MRI reconstruction techniques.

Scarborough was recognized by the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation for developing a superior method to model and simulate traveling-wave modulation along two dimensions in metamaterials.

Marina’s research in security closely investigates the boundary between software and hardware.

Jule is active in teaching and outreach activities to help broaden participation in the field of computer science and engineering.

Gruber’s research is expected to further the practicality of integrated circuits for high-speed, high-power applications.

Rao’s research in miniaturized antennas is applicable to VHF band and 5G applications

Zan’s research on high frequency power converters for wireless power transfer has a wide range of applications

Borsch’s research in light-driven quantum electronics is expected to guide next-generation quantum devices

Sijia is working to ensure the safety, stability and cost effectiveness of future power systems that are dominated by renewable resources, through fundamental studies of system operation.

The fellowship will advance her work in inferring relational world knowledge in machines with explicit and implicit representations.

The fellowship will advance his research on exploiting hardware reconfigurability in an effort to bridge the gap between programmability and efficiency that affects modern computing systems.

Cui is passionate about bringing a creative approach to power converter design and control, and educating the next generation of engineers.

Twelve students and faculty co-authored papers spanning several key application areas for AI.

His work on reinforcement learning is aimed at accelerating the training of RL agents.

Komma, a PhD student, is working to develop robust low powered localization technology for Artificial Intelligence enabled Internet of Things in locations where GPS is limited or blocked.

The award celebrates those who have gone above and beyond to service and support social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

Roberts works to improve remote sensing of soil moisture, which is important for environmental conservation, natural resource management, and agriculture.

PhD student Cody Scarborough was recognized for his work advancing the understanding and study of electromagnetic waves.

Allemang focuses on amorphous oxide semiconductor thin-film electronics, which can support the next generation of electronic skins, textiles, solar cells, and displays.

PhD students Behnoush Rostami, Zhanni Wu, and Xueru Zhang will participate in the intensive workshop that brings together outstanding women interested in pursuing academic careers in EECS.

Even award-winning athletes are having a hard time getting into a routine these days, but Tommy Cope wants everyone to keep working hard.

PhD student Emily Sheetz is working to design more dexterous robots to work alongside humans in space.

ECE master’s student Conner Stevons completed a remote internship at the NASA Glenn Research Center where he worked on Marconi 2.0, NASA’s plan to bridge quantum technology with a telecommunications system.

The system automatically proves the trustworthiness of a hardware design, outperforming the competition in nearly every category.

Prof. Roya Ensafi and PhD candidate Reethika Ramesh led organizing efforts for USENIX’s Tenth Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet.

Discover Computer Science provides a basic background in all the skills a student needs to pursue further education in computing.

A new system called Leap earned a Best Paper award at USENIX ATC ‘20 for producing remote memory access speed on par with local machines over data center networks.

Flynn is one of five U-M professors honored with this award, which recognizes his excellence in mentoring doctoral students and commitment to fostering a supportive academic environment.

Prof. Kamal Sarabandi and ECE PhD student Navid Barani won a best paper award for their research on how biological cells may use electromagnetic signal transmission to communicate.

PhD student Ester Bentley designs smaller, better 3D mechanical resonators for use in high-performance gyroscopes to help unmanned systems navigate when GPS signal is jammed or lost.

Michigan Engineers change the game by making a conductive coating that’s also anti-reflective.

Kuck’s impacts in the area of parallel computing are an inspiration to all of us, and this award will carry real significance for its recipients.

In observance of the holiday that marks the end of chattel slavery, faculty, students, and alumni performed music, shared personal stories, and presented a proposal to the EECS chairs for initiatives to enhance diversity and equity and realize systemic equality in the department.

The model is a practical method for robots to look for target items in complex, realistic environments.

The virtual interviewer uses therapeutic writing techniques to help users cope with difficult situations.

PhD student Trevor Odelberg’s low power circuits help us make sense of our environment while reducing battery waste.

Members of our community share their stories, their fears, and their hopes for a more inclusive, just future.

PhD student Matthew Belz will work to develop jamming-resistant radar systems for autonomous vehicles.

The web tools will help state officials identify potential hotspots as they reopen Michigan to business.

Andre was chosen for her outstanding research and commitment to outreach activities.

The projects impact voting systems, physical sensors, integrated circuit fabrication, and multiple microarchitectural side-channel vulnerabilities.

ECE graduating students reflect on their time at U-M and share their favorite memories, photos, and advice to incoming students.

Prof. David Wentzloff’s paper examining the trends and techniques to achieve ultra-low power receivers was honored by the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

ECE Master's student Sam June is The Dancing King at the popular Ann Arbor club.

Zhang is working to improve data security and address important ethical issues related to AI and discriminatory data sets.

Wu is working on advanced metasurfaces, which could help next-generation wireless communication, commercial and military radar systems, imaging, and antenna systems.

The nine students represent a broad range of research areas in the department.

The College of Engineering honors ECE PhD candidate Tianlin Wang for his excellent research in remote sensing as well as his leadership and service to the community.

From outreach programs for local kids to events that bring the U-M Engineering community together, the Optics Society exemplifies leadership and service.

Vehicles that perceive obstacles that aren’t really there could cause traffic accidents.

This award is presented to an outstanding graduate student in each degree program.

Pre-COVID-19, ECE Expeditions took thirteen students to the heart of the Big Apple to tour a variety of tech companies, including IBM.

The team says their framework can scalably and semi-automatically monitor the use of filtering technologies for censorship at global scale.

Prof. Al-Thaddeus Avestruz and PhD student Xin Zan were honored at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition for their work improving the efficiency and reliability of wireless power transfer.

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to “unlearn” sensitive identifying data from audio used to train machine learning models.

ECE PhD student Brian Raeker was awarded a Towner Prize for Outstanding Engineering GSIs.

A team at Michigan proposed an approach to generating realistic and high-fidelity stock market data to enable broader study of financial markets.

PhD student Hsiang-Wen Chen, who works to improve integrated circuits, was awarded the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship.

Researchers carried out the first study on voter behavior with electronic assistive devices, found 93% missed incorrect ballots.

The team of twelve students is one of ten worldwide working to give Amazon’s Alexa more human-like conversational skills.

Comparing graphs the team’s tool is up to an order of magnitude faster than competitive baselines.

The open-source system cuts a key step in chip testing down from days or weeks to a couple hours, on average.

U-M researchers have created a new means of enabling reliable wireless underwater communication, which could aid military, environmental, and conservation purposes.

Students toured KLA, a global capital equipment company, and Quantum Signal AI, a startup recently acquired by Ford to make robotaxis and driverless delivery vehicles a reality within two years.

Faculty, students, and staff came together in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community for the world-wide anti-bullying campaign.

The workshop brings together outstanding women interested in pursuing academic careers in electrical engineering and computer science.

The workshop attracted students from all over the country and demystified the ECE graduate school experience.

Using real-time fMRI readings, researchers linked spatial reasoning with CS problem solving.

Second Prize overall went to doctoral student Xiuzhang Cai for his radar target classification research applicable to autonomous vehicles.

Mostafa Zaky has built an award-winning model that helps estimate the amount of water stored in snowpacks, which could improve climate change and flood forecasting, as well as overall water resource management.

The global capital equipment company is looking to harness the engineering talent at U-M and power a brighter future with tech.

Hanzhang Pei (ECE) and Darwin F. Cordovilla Leon (Applied Physics) were selected for their potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field.

Huang won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics for her work developing better electromagnetic models that calculate microwave interactions with tree and vegetation cover.

Estakhri is a PhD student studying quantum optics and its potential to impact communication and biomedical imaging.

Top Picks is an annual special edition of IEEE Micro magazine that acknowledges the 10-12 most significant research papers.

To honor the work and integral help of the top Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) and Instructional Aides (IAs) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the division held a special awards ceremony on Friday, May 17, 2019.

PhD student Glen Chou is focused on ensuring that autonomous systems, including cars and robots, never threaten human safety.

PhD candidate Elizabeth Hou was awarded an honorable mention for her presentation at the Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences on her research that could help monitor nuclear nonproliferation.

For his creative, ambitious, and impactful dissertation, PhD student Mehrdad Moharrami receives the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.

PhD student Xin Zan is helping to free the world from cords, which could advance implantable medical devices, autonomous electric vehicles, and consumer electronics.

Perez’s research focuses on analyzing speech patterns of patients with Huntington Disease.

The initiative has tackled courses that make up the core curriculum for first- and second-year CS and CE majors.

Burdick has done extensive work as an instructor in EECS courses and promoter of diversity in the department.

The goal of the work was to identify seven things about who the subject was talking to just by analyzing text messages.

Eckert is working to expand the role of memory and give it a dual responsibility to both store and compute data.

EECS-ECE PhD student Milad Zolfagharloo Koohi is working to make smartphones faster and smaller through his research in the field of RF devices.

The Optics Society at U-M hosted an Industry Spotlight event, which brought academia, industry, and community together to celebrate all things optics and photonics.

EECS-ECE PhD student Laura Andre is recognized by the College of Engineering with the Distinguished Leadership Award for her outstanding contributions to the college, university, and community.

EECS-ECE PhD student Md Salman Nazir is recognized by the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems for his outstanding reviews of recent papers. He works at the Michigan Power and Energy Lab.

Zhang is recognized with the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship for his work designing hardware solutions that could help support computer vision and machine learning.

Addisie has been recognized for his work in domain-specific architectures for data-intensive applications.

PhD student Brandon Russell is awarded the Rackham International Student Fellowship for his research on magnetic fields in high-energy plasmas, which could help advance the development of clean energy and our understanding of energetic astrophysical phenomena.

“What I’m doing is trying to come up with ideas to let the agent continue learning different skills across its life.”

McDonald works to develop better privacy and security tools for marginalized communities

Kassa is developing a framework that will look at the computations of an application and decide in real time which components will best handle it

Project Music brought together students from all backgrounds across the university to originate musically-inspired creations for the first Music Makeathon.

The competition is the culmination of a process that narrows a field of entrants from each of the department research areas to a handful of finalists.

Nine technologies competed for $75k in the ECE Innovator Program, which emphasizes a team approach to entrepreneurial success.

A team of researchers unearthed new data on geographic denial of access to web content in a new paper.

A new special topics course on election cybersecurity gives students an examination of the past, present, and future of US elections.

Students’ projects encompassed a wide variety of fields: revolutionizing energy systems, advancing technologies, and improving cybersecurity.

Spirit Day activities look to make ECE and U-M a more compassionate, inclusive place.

Researchers used hierarchical trees to provide a better idea of how concepts are represented and related in a collection of text.

Keeping time in the Internet of Things with frequency scaling

Mihalcea and Wendlandt believe a key strategy to increasing the number of women in computing research is to introduce them to the research process early on.

To dial in on exact wind speeds, researchers needed to reverse engineering the signals from satellites.

MDST brings together students from many fields to get their hands dirty with real data science problems and tools.

Foofah is a tool that can help to minimize the effort and required background knowledge needed to clean up data.

Jie Song devised a method to combine summarized datasets that group information by incompatible units.

Carvalho plans to pursue research at the intersection of reinforcement learning, machine learning, and computational cognitive science.

Throughout the semester, students will work with Prof. Rada Mihalcea and PhD student Laura Wendlandt to see how computers connect to real-world applications in many disciplines.

When it comes to their smartphones, immigrants struggle to apply instinctive caution, according to a study by a team of University of Michigan researchers.

New research into implanted medical devices and peer-to-peer charging.

An award-winning method will help us better understand how much snow is on the ground.

The day when cars can talk to each other – and to traffic lights, stop signs, guardrails and even pavement markings – is rapidly approaching.

PhD student Jean Young Song offers an improved solution to the problem of image segmentation.

In recognition of demand response research.

Dissertation recognized as unusually creative, ambitious and impactful.

We want all people, everywhere, to be at the table creating the technologies that will change our lives.

Students in EECS 556: Image Processing, explore methods to improve image processing in applications such as biomedical imaging and video and image compression

An award-winning modeling method will help us better understand our natural environment

For the past year Stearns has served as President of CSEG, whose membership comprises the entire body of over three hundred CSE graduate students.

The multi-layered organic solar cells will be able to curve in clothing or be transparently built into windows.

Wagenmaker will utilize the award as he pursues his doctoral degree at the University of Washington.

Kyle Min researches how computer vision can analyze law enforcement body cameras.

A PhD student in electrical engineering, Geng researches trajectory sensitivity and renewable energy in microgrids.

Aldeneh’s research focuses on identifying the features of speech that make human interaction feel natural.

Xinchen Yan was selected for both fellowships to support his research in machine learning and its application in computer vision, graphics and robotics.

Tara Safavi’s research focuses on scalable and adaptive data mining algorithms using tools like hashing and sampling.

Students toured Amazon, Boeing, INRIX, Madrona Venture Partners, Microsoft, and Philips Healthcare in the Puget Sound area.

Hero and his team may have discovered a better way to facilitate communication using a twist on the classic game of 20 Questions.

The vulnerability allows an attacker to manipulate a new intelligent traffic control algorithm and cause severe traffic jams.

In this video, CSE PhD Student Matt Bernhard weighs in on the matter Facebook data harvesting, such as that done by Cambridge Analytica.

The researchers, including Prof. Harsha Madhyastha and CSE graduate students Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk and Muhammed Uluyol, received prize for their paper, “Vroom: Accelerating the Mobile Web with Server-Aided Dependency Resolution.”

Student prototypes new transmission for four-wheel fun.

Michael Benson reelected as student governor for HKN, the national honor society for electrical and computer engineers.

The event featured eight TED-style computer science talks by female faculty and an opera performance.

The competition is the culmination of a process that narrows a field of entrants to a handful of finalists, each of whom gives a summary presentation on an area of their research.

New techniques to construct deep UV LEDs prove prize-worthy.

Laura Andre says she “ended up just falling in love with optics.”

Lasers are typically thought of as hot. What if they were able to cool?

How a building’s thermal energy can help the power grid accommodate more renewable energy sources.

Prof. Jessy Grizzle has long said that his work in robotics could one day be used to help the disabled. Now he and his group, alongside French company Wandercraft, are working to make that claim a reality in the form of walking exoskeletons.

Built to handle falls, and with two extra motors in each leg, the new robot will help U-M roboticists take independent robotic walking to a whole new level.

New Vroom software could double its speed.

The paper outlines a better way to quantify forest structure, which has been successful in two tree species.

Fred Buhler founded Aweslome to provide custom-build chips for a broad range of applications, including machine learning, neural networks, security, and circuits testing.

Dsouza’s lessons have gone viral, his channel now has over 109,000 subscribers who tune in for Dsouza’s lessons and life updates.

Two electrical engineering students, Paul Giessner and Noah Mitchell-Ward, were awarded scholarships from the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) to support their education in wind and solar power.

By developing a fast algorithm to map out the paths light takes through yogurt, researchers aim to someday see through skin.

Lee Rutledge, CSE graduate student, is working at U-M’s autonomous robotics lab this fall to help AI agents map and navigate their surroundings on the fly.

Anna Stuhlmacher, PhD in electrical engineering, is looking for ways to change the world through power and energy.

‘Open port’ backdoors are common.

These students are learning to improve images in medical imaging, and improve facial recognition

The winning projects were designed for battery-operated mobile applications as well as instrumentation and measure applications.

Yektakhah’s system improves on the speed, portability, and accuracy of many commercial models

Kit Ng becomes president of one of the oldest amateur radio clubs in the US

Researchers have for the first time characterized a widespread vulnerability in the software that runs on mobile devices.

A celebration with traditional food, calligraphy, and musical performances.

A little silver goes a long way to improving touchscreens, displays, and much more

Trippel’s research interests lie in embedded systems and IoT security and privacy for the purpose of building safe and reliable autonomous systems.

Lee investigates how we can coordinate collaboration among users and crowd workers, especially for complex tasks that require creativity.

Sawicki was one of 4 students in the College of Engineering selected to receive a 2017 Towner Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors.

Award for outstanding doctoral candidates near the end of their study.

Student surveys of his course repeatedly praise his enthusiasm and passion, which make class a fun and interesting experience.

Andrew’s research creates cluster-scale systems that allow developers to quickly understand and debug programs.

Andrew’s research creates cluster-scale systems that allow developers to quickly understand and debug programs.

Prof. Kanicki expects breakthroughs in both the flat-panel display and imager industries using his-ITZO TFT technology in the near future.

Systems to study cancer stem cells, new methods to remotely measure snow and ice thickness, radar for autonomous vehicles, navigation systems that don’t rely on GPS, nanowire lasers, and methods to model lithium-ion batteries were just a few of the many winning projects presented by ECE students

Liz Dreyer works with Prof. Steve Rand to understand how a new interaction between light and matter can generate electricity.

EE senior Duncan Abbot and his new startup Gwydion want to make VR worth the while. Their early projects range from therapy in children’s hospitals to helping materials scientists study 3D crystals.

This performance is an outcome coming from his interdisciplinary research work, Live Writing, which transforms asynchronous written communication into a real-time experience in the context of programming, writing and performing arts.

The event took place August 28th to September 2nd on North Campus, and included programming labs, CS lab tours, field trips to local tech companies, and social events to get the participants acclimated to U-M and computer science.

DROWN allows attackers to break encryption used to protect HTTPS websites and read or steal sensitive communications.

High tail latency has been identified as one of the key challenges facing modern data center design.

For now, Grizzle and his graduate students are only attempting the easiest routes, between the grassy two- to three-foot moguls, over smaller undulations that he calls “merely very difficult.”

Armin’s research is focused on the development of a sub-millimeter-wave radar system for the next generation of navigation and imaging sensors.

Choi has developed a new technique for testing these antennas based on very-near-field measurements and a newly-developed, high-precision formula to compute the antenna’s radiation fields.

Mohammad has developed a new way to remotely measure the thickness of ice and snow with a technology he calls wideband autocorrelation radiometry (WiBAR).

The two papers from Michigan introduced the Sirius personal digital assistant and the MBus bus for modular microcomputing systems.

Hsin-Hao’s thesis provides efficient algorithms for fundamental graph problems that arise in networks.

New security ramifications exist when laptops and smartphones configured for enterprise systems are used outside the enterprise in the realm of the wider web.

QuadMetrics offers a pair of services to help companies both assess the effectiveness of their security and decide the best way to allocate (or increase) their security budget.

The award is to support his research in reinforcement learning.

The device resembles a swaddling hammock and features a heating pad charged by thermoelectrics, allowing users to light candles beneath the cells to generate power.

The robot’s feedback control algorithms should be able to help other two-legged robots as well as powered prosthetic legs gain similar capabilities.

New vulnerabilities form when hardware like electronic locks, thermostats, ovens, sprinklers, lights and motion sensors are networked and set up to be controlled remotely.

To celebrate the contributions of our graduate and undergraduate instructors, the department selects the best of the best, based on student evaluations, and celebrates them at a special awards ceremony.

The course covers the theory and application of digital image processing, with applications in biomedical images, time-varying imagery, robotics, and optics.

Audrow's research focuses on using coordinated groups of UAVs to continuously and autonomously survey biogas emissions in landfills.

Vidal is currently the GSI for EECS 381: Object Oriented and Advanced Programming.

Ryan works with Prof. Edwin Olson in the APRIL Lab, where his research is in the area of multi-agent search algorithms for both known and unexplored environments.

Yu-Wei is a third year PhD student whose research focuses on computer vision and machine learning.

His research addresses the problem of diminishing reliability in future computer systems.

Xiang’s research focuses on developing new methods to synthesize different control and sensing strategies in a discrete-event system.

Amr is investigating both the unique advantages and the performance limitations of radar systems operating at 240 GHz in typical outdoor environments.

Avish conducts research on ultra-low power and battery-less integrated circuits.

The M3 is a fully autonomous computing system that acts as a smart sensing system.

The paper describes a tunable filter for wireless communication modules in the x-band frequency range that uses germanium-telluride phase change switches.

Let's Encrypt allows anyone to request a free website security certificate without needing an invitation.

The software enables users to ask questions about the hosts and networks that compose the Internet and get an immediate reply.

The School helps to prepare undergraduate students in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for successful careers in computer science research.

Diwali is an ancient Hindu festival that signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair.

Posters and presentations were judged by faculty and a visiting group of 14 returning ECE alumni, and winners were chosen in each area of study.

Local companies set up stands in the EECS Atrium to recruit from over 200 graduate and undergraduate students.

By borrowing from kirigami, the ancient Japanese art of paper cutting, researchers at the University have developed solar cells that can move with the sun.

Prof. Hofmann’s students felt they gained a lot from the course. Several of them will likely go on to teach control courses in coming semesters.

The MLP seeks to provide outreach and education about the world of optics in general, and the optics industry in Michigan specifically.

Hamid is studying ways to increase the use of renewable energy sources on the grid.

The goal of Steven’s research is to improve vision-based perception systems on cars and to create an extra layer of safety.

Stephanie seeks to provide continuous energy balancing on the grid by automatically controlling loads.

Members will hold get-togethers, study sessions, talks, and workshops. They will also be piloting a new mentoring program.

The small-scale embedded wireless systems Alyssa works with are used in a variety of applications spanning many fields; from structural to ocean engineering.

Paul E. and Ruth E. Bauhahn of have made a planned gift of $450,000 to establish the Ruth E. and Paul E. Bauhahn Fellowship Fund to support full-time graduate students in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

In recognition of how the Electrical Engineering discipline has evolved, the two graduate programs, Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering: Systems, have merged to form one graduate program: Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Mr. Bell is investigating the potential of electrodynamic tether propulsion technology to enhance the capabilities of an emerging class of smartphone-sized satellites.

The project entails investigating a recent paper and both reproducing and extending the research.

Thomas and his group are working to improve upon artificial neural network design through a process called sparse coding.

Her research interests include analog, digital, and mixed-signal designs.

Cheng Zhang and Elizabeth Dreyer are both Ph.D. students in electrical engineering, and Lauren Bilbo is an undergraduate senior majoring in electrical engineering.

Cheng works with Prof. L. Jay Guo on research projects in the field of micro/nano-scale optical device physics and fabrication.

Her dissertation focused on “opacity,” which captures whether a given secret of the system can be inferred by intruders who observe the behavior of the system.

Dave Neuhoff is an internationally recognized expert in information theory, source coding and image processing.

We thank these individuals for their commitment to excellence in teaching our students!

The goal of the project is to augment the transmission of audio and video with the sense of touch.

The research aimed to find a happy medium between fuel economy and drivability in hybrid electric vehicles.

ECE researchers had a strong presence at this year’s event, comprising nearly 80 of the day’s more than 240 presentations.

She computationally measures, represents, and analyzes human behavior data to illuminate fundamental human behavior and emotion perception, and develop natural human-machine interfaces.

His paper detailed his use of big data analysis to solve a major problem of cyber security.

Cheng is a 4th year PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering working in field of micro/nano-scale optical device physics and fabrication.

Tal is researching fabrication techniques for a micro rate-integrating gyroscope, using a vacuum mold and blowtorch.

Iverson developed an experimental facility to simulate key characteristics of the space environment.

A weakness believed to exist in Android, Windows and iOS operating systems could be used to obtain personal information from unsuspecting users, research at the University of Michigan has shown.

Gok’s developed antenna system promises a large bandwidth of operation and a wide angle of coverage.

The Mikio Takagi Student Prize is given to the top three Student Prize Paper Awards granted at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

Lasers emitting in the 600nm wavelength range have applications in medicine, optical information processing, optical storage, and more.

The paper reports on the design, fabrication, and results of a directly heated phase change RF switch using germanium telluride.

Nick specializes in the area of machine learning and statistical signal processing.

Parinaz’s research is in combining communications with economics to assess the security of a network and then apply that to cyber-insurance contracts.

The two winning projects and teams were determined by an expert panel at Analog Devices. Congratulations!

The goal of Gomez’s research is to alleviate the communications blackout that sometimes occurs when vehicles are traveling through the earth’s atmosphere.

Hao’s research is focused on improving the quality of images from magnetic resonance imaging pulse design.

He is a founding member of Own It, and is dedicated to cultivating an engineering community that feels an inherent responsibility to live ethically.

Jason’s current research focuses on developing systems to wirelessly charge or power electronic devices.

His research is contributing to the overall project goal of enabling navigation in GPS denied zones through the use of specialized sensors.

Chris develops and tests control systems for MEMS inertial sensors, which are used to detect acceleration, tilt, and other attributes related to motion sensing.

Mai has served as Community Service Co-chair of the Graduate Society of Women Engineers since arriving at Michigan in 2011.

Nick has an impressive record of service to the community throughout his years at Michigan.

The research group is using statistical signal processing to create crisper images with only 20% of the data required by a traditional MRI scan.

Hong intends to apply machine learning and signal processing techniques to the massive data sets now available to researchers.

Instead of a battery, the chip Nathan is engineering uses two solar cells that look like they belong on a calculator.

These students received the award based on their participation in research, leadership, and academic performance.

His final goal is to build novel RF circuits including frequency-selective switched oscillators based on his models.

Elizabeth’s research is to understand how a new interaction between light and matter can generate electricity.

Girish’s research has resulted in a new paradigm in sensor technology that promises both high-speed and highly-sensitive detection.

The idea behind Keravnos Energy is for there to be an energy transfer between three entities: the building, a large stationary battery, and the car.

Movellus Circuits’ product is a patent-pending clock generator technology that is smaller, cheaper, and faster than existing solutions.

Wang’s research studies the glow-like atmospheric pressure microdischarges created under specialized conditions in laser printers.

Nataraj is using big data techniques to transform the field of medical imaging

Nataraj’s research aims to generate higher-quality and faster MRI images, resulting in improved diagnostics of neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases.

The course, Monolithic Amplifier Circuits, has a tradition of offering prizes for the top final projects designed by the students.

This work will provide a way to efficiently reveal relationships between even distant entities in a network.

Avish is currently conducting research on ultra-low power radio technology and designing a low-power RF power amplifier.

The Fellowship will help Song to continue his studies in the area of optoelectronics.

Chen’s work can be used in community detection in social networks, network vulnerability assessment in communication systems, and more.

Mishra has strengthened his understanding of wireless communications through coursework and independent research.

Mr. Kim was the first to demonstrate that both light and vibration could be used simultaneously in sensing.

The method they developed compares favorably with the best of current techniques, while being faster and easier.

The goal of the study seeks to enhance the accuracy of determining ocean surface windspeed.

Zhang is working on building structural color filters and is also designing ultrahigh Q optical microring resonators.

“We designed an ultra-low power optical wake-up receiver with a novel front-end circuit and communication scheme suitable for miniature wireless sensor node applications.”

Giridhar’s research has an emphasis on developing circuit techniques for adaptive and reliable, high-performance computing.

The specifications for the projects were close to the state of the art. Congratulations to the winning groups!

Lee believes that graphene will play a pivotal role in realizing high speed, mechanically compliant, and transparent electronic systems in the future.

Yang’s research is focused on designing plasmonic nano-structures to enhance efficiency of conventional photoconductive terahertz emitters.

Hand likes the idea of being able to improve the efficiency of existing systems by implementing advanced or specialized control algorithms.

Congratulations to out outstanding students for their much-appreciated work!

The bulk of Chen’s current research centers on the detection and mitigation of radio frequency interference with microwave radiometers.

Srinath’s research focuses on using computer vision techniques such as markerless camera tracking for creating augmented reality AR environments.

The researchers succeeded in drastically suppressing the thermal emission rate in GaSb/GaAs quantum dots — resulting in more efficient solar cells.

This was the first year Freescale opened up the competition to U.S. students—teams from U-M, U-M Dearborn, and Penn State competed against teams from Mexico and China.

Itsuno has already pursued an in-depth theoretical and experimental investigation on the unipolar HgCdTe nBn detector, which has the potential to replace or supplement the current technology.

Freyman is studying Electrical Engineering and is a member of the Michigan Integrated Circuits Laboratory.

Heather is studying Optical Sciences here at the University and will continue her research in this field – congratulations!

The applications Dagefu’s research include wireless channel characterization, radar through-wall imaging, and distributed sensor networks.

Lee is currently working closely with his colleagues to build an ultra-low power wireless sensor platform.

Duan’s research has important applications in global climate change studies and weather forecasting.

Congratulations, Russell!

Morteza introduces a new voltage-controlled-oscillator design technique that offers significant advantages in terms of size, DC power consumption and frequency tunability.

Congratulations to the winning students!

Bell is investigating how to use an electrodynamic, propellantless propulsion concept to push against the Earth’s magnetic field in order to maneuver satellites and counteract drag.

MEMStim is committed to improving the standard of patient care in neurostimulation. Congratulations, Angelique!

Berry is designing an emitter to operate as a light-weight, local oscillator for a terahertz spectroscopy system suitable for use in space.

The contest is highly competitive and features the best student projects from the largest and most prestigious conferences in their respective fields.

Verma’s work aims to marry low-power sensing with the mobile phone’s computation, communications, and display technologies.

The Mobile Apps Challenge was open to university students, faculty and staff and encourages the development of iOS, Android, Windows 7, and web applications.

“We were all impressed by the fact that most students chose highly-relevant and innovating projects,” stated Dr. Naraghi.

“Our mission is to find volunteer opportunities at the places that people want to travel to, opportunities that won’t cost the traveler a lot of money.”

Congratulations to these winning companies. Go Blue!

Until now, ubiquitous computing has been hampered by the size of necessary batteries—but Ambiq Micro is changing that, with their energy-efficient micro-controllers.

The CADathlon challenges students’ CAD knowledge and associated problem solving, programming, and teamwork skills.

Their paper introduces new techniques that improve speed, solution quality, simplicity, and integration with other optimizations for global placement technology.

With D4AR models, you can monitor progress, productivity, safety, quality, constructability and even site logistics remotely.

The system could enable new biomedical implants as well as home-, building- and bridge-monitoring devices.

Congratulations to Jeong, Park, and Yoon!

The Fellowship will support Patel’s research on the theory and development of textured electromagnetic surfaces.

“I am confident we can do better than the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse paradigm, and I intend to find out how,” said O’Keefe.

Buss’ research focusses on using control theory in order to control glucose levels in ICU patients.

The Michigan team produced circuits that were four times more power-efficient than those of the team that took second place. Congratulations!

The energy-harvesting devices are highly efficient at providing renewable electrical power from arbitrary, non-periodic vibrations.

The Barbour Scholarship, established in 1914, recognizes women at the University of Michigan of the highest academic and professional caliber.

The competition was established by DTE Energy and the University of Michigan to encourage entrepreneurship and the development of clean-energy technologies.

The award was given at the IEEE Conference on Automation and Engineering. Congratulations, Lindsay!

The paper explores logic and memory circuit topologies for a new type of transistor in development at IBM.

Nazari’s research is focused on an information theoretic approach to the problem of multi-terminal communications systems.

Thiel’s detection method allows the analysis of human backscattering within a realistic building environment.

The fellowship will support Fojtik’s work on a processor that can recover from timing errors and run without margining for worst case operating conditions.

Gomez is investigating a new technique that is receiving widespread attention for treating depression, Alzheimer’s, and other brain conditions.

The program recognizes graduate students who show promise in pursuing a degree in microwave engineering — only six fellowships are awarded worldwide.

Dongjin’s research is a blend of computer science with computer and electrical engineering, and can have a huge impact on upcoming integrated circuits.

The Samsung HTP, established in 1994, is one of the most prestige thesis awards in Korea.

The award for which Galchev was nominated honors young scientists for their achievement in the field of computer engineering and information technology.

The research has applications in health care, environmental monitoring, security, energy conservation and exploration, and more.

The MIT Lincoln Laboratory is a federal research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to national security.

Tkaczyk hopes that his technique will be used to further the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Congratulations!