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Enabling stroke victims to "speak"
Stroke victims may regain the ability to read, write and speak with the help of technology developed by David Blaauw and Cindy Chestek.Chips for efficient and accessible AI
Faculty specializing in architecture, hardware, and software innovation accelerate machine learning across a range of applications.Efficiency upgrade for OLED screens: A route to blue PHOLED longevity
Commercial devices currently settle for less efficient blue OLEDs, but a set of design innovations has made an efficient blue that is as durable as efficient green OLEDs.The US has a new most powerful laser
Hitting 2 petawatts, the NSF-funded ZEUS facility at U-M enables research that could improve medicine, national security, materials science and more.Careful heating unlocks unprecedented sensitivity to pressure in semiconductor materials
A simple and scalable annealing method boosts the quality of materials used in cell phones, sensors and energy harvesting devices.U-M team’s genome sequencing breakthrough featured in CACM Research Highlights
Their work introduces a new computational framework that significantly increases the efficiency of genomic data processing.PURE-ECE takes off with successful pilot year, showcased at Undergraduate Research Symposium
A new research program incentivizes undergraduate students and faculty members to collaboratively tackle ambitious research projects.Alex Burgers receives NSF CAREER Award to advance quantum communications
Prof. Burgers will use atom-photon entanglement and nanophotonic structures to transmit quantum information over fiber optic cables.Advanced microelectronics: Why a next-gen semiconductor doesn’t fall to pieces
The mechanism holding new ferroelectric semiconductors together produces a conductive pathway that could enable high power transistors.Enabling stroke victims to “speak”: $19M toward brain implants to be built at U-M
Stroke victims may regain the ability to read, write and speak with the help of technology developed by David Blaauw and Cindy Chestek.Best Student Paper Award for work in universal training of neural networks
ECE alum Mohammadreza Tavasoli Naeini, a former student of Prof. Al Hero, was first author on the paper and award recipient.A new type of slot antenna for NextG communications
The antenna, designed by doctoral student Aditya Varma Muppala and Prof. Kamal Sarabandi, is featured by IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.Herbert Winful part of MURI team investigating AI-guided self-organization in nonlinear systems
Prof. Winful adds his unique expertise on the behavior of coupled semiconductor laser systems to a collaborative $9M project led by researchers at Yale University.Home AC units can balance the electrical grid without impacting comfort
A real-world frequency regulation experiment demonstrates that managing AC units can help actively balance electricity supply and demand.U-M awarded up to $7.5M to bring heat-tolerant semiconductors from lab to fab
Open-source effort led by Prof. Becky Peterson supports durable silicon carbide circuits that can operate at record high temperatures.Magnetic switch traps quantum information carriers in one dimension
Innovations in quantum sensing and computing could follow the discovery of how chromium sulfide bromide responds to magnetic fields.Research on time-varying, electrically-small antennas featured on IEEE TAP journal homepage
First author Zachary Fritts talks about the research in his newest paper, recently featured by IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.Bridging gaps in rural health care with AI-powered mobile clinics
General practitioners with AI help could make diagnoses, run and interpret tests, and perform procedures like specialists.Johanna Mathieu and Anna Stuhlmacher receive HICSS Best Paper Award for work on the potential of drinking water networks as flexible electric loads
The team found that drinking water distribution networks in the U.S. represent a sizable resource when used as flexible electric loads.Heat2Power: a hot new startup that converts stored heat into electricity
Heat2Power, co-founded by Profs. Stephen Forrest and Andrej Lenert, uses high-efficiency, low-cost thermophotovoltaic technology to turn stored heat into energy.Lisa Li wins IEEE TCNS Best Paper Award for work on guarantees for model predictive control
Prof. Li’s paper, published in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, provides guarantees for large networks with incomplete information access.Solving computationally complex problems with Ising machines
A team led by Prof. Pinaki Mazumder is designing quantum-inspired architectures from silicon to solve difficult problems more efficiently than previously possible.Boosting AI model size and training speed with lightwave-connected chips
AI growth is capped by data transfer rates between computing chips, but transferring data with light could remove the ceiling.Light, flexible and radiation-resistant: organic solar cells for space
Some carbon-based solar cells already show no drop in performance after three years’ worth of radiation, and the cause of degradation in others could be preventable.Hamed Alkhathami receives Rackham International Student Fellowship
Alkhathami’s master’s work explores the application of quantum principles to optimize signal processing systems.Kickstarter for Buddie: open source, AI-enabled earbuds
Collaborating faculty at the University of Michigan and Fudan University are crowdfunding a new wearable AI audio interface to enable always-listening context awareness, improve privacy, and allow AI application developers to try new ideas.Chun-Wei Liu receives Rackham International Student Fellowship
Liu’s PhD work in quantum engineering explores collective effects of atom-atom interactions.Toward quantum for the real world: photonic team in running for center-level funding
A team led by the University of Michigan aims to bring the extraordinary accuracy of quantum laboratory measurements to real-world devices.Jesse Codling receives ACM BuildSys 2024 paper award for work on heart rate monitoring
Codling’s project, aptly named “FloHR,” uses geophones to measure human heart rate through floor vibrations in home environments.New generative AI model can reconstruct a high-quality, sparse-view 3D CT scan with a much lower X-ray dose
Improvements move the deep learning technique towards use in 3D medical imaging.Developing StiMote, a wireless neural stimulator for restoring vision
The highly collaborative project will leverage many tiny sensing computers, called “motes,” to communicate with the visual cortex of the brain.Educating People-First Engineers: A Q&A with Cindy Finelli and Erin Cech
Preparing the next generation of engineers to consider public welfare when developing new technologies.Andrew Owens’ research group uses visual illusions to test the limits of diffusion models
Members of Andrew Owens's research group, Daniel Geng, Aaron Park, and Ziyang Chen, are using ambiguous image generation to understand diffusion models.Wei Lu earns 2024 Best Paper Award for work in spiking neural networks
The paper was published in Proceedings of the IEEE in September 2023, and already has more than 500 citations.Fifteen papers by ECE researchers to be presented at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Topics of accepted ECE NeurIPS papers include diffusion models, large language models, multi-armed bandit models, and more.ECE faculty design chips for efficient and accessible AI
Faculty specializing in architecture, hardware, and software innovation accelerate machine learning across a range of applications.Alex Burgers receives AFOSR support for research on atom-photon interactions
Prof. Burgers will use optical tweezers to create quantum mirrors from 2D arrays of atoms in a first-of-its-kind experimental demonstration.In vivo wireless readings from a bile duct stent sensor in a pig
New magnetoelastic sensor within a stent transmits information about potential blockages, demonstrating potential use for a wide range of body sizes.Zetian Mi awarded $3M DARPA grant to scale next generation semiconductor materials on silicon
Mi's team will partner with industry to integrate defect-free III-V materials with silicon.ECE Spinout company NS Nanotech releases first solid-state semiconductor to produce human-safe disinfecting UV light
NS Nanotech’s new product, enabled by ECE Prof. Zetian Mi’s research, can safely disinfect high-risk spaces like ambulances and school buses.ECE startup MemryX releases MX3 Edge AI Accelerator
MemryX has announced production availability of a new AI chip, enabled by U-M ECE research.Michigan AI Symposium showcases cutting-edge advances in embodied AI
The event brought together over 300 AI experts for a day of networking and discussions around this evolving field.Space Force establishes $35M institute for versatile propulsion and power at U-M
To optimize power, efficiency and freedom to maneuver, engineers aim to demonstrate new technologies for power generation, electric propulsion and chemical rockets.A pulsed, helical laser to control other light signals, speeding up fiber-optic communication
New device can act as an all-optical switch, the first step towards processing data encoded in lightAndrew Owens receives NSF CAREER Award for research to improve machine perception systems
Prof. Owens’ research will help fully autonomous systems interact with their environments without human supervision.Matthew Raymond recognized for research using ML techniques to design new types of medicine
Doctoral student Matthew Raymond wants to facilitate the development of new and groundbreaking nanomedicines.Can Yaras recognized for his research aimed at efficient algorithms for LLMs
Doctoral student Can Yaras wants to reduce the carbon footprint of AI.Zetian Mi awarded $7.5M MURI for research on ferroelectric nitrides
Prof. Mi is the lead PI on a collaborative project that aims to advance ferroelectric nitrides for applications in next-generation microelectronics and quantum-photonic devices.Arthur Xiao wins SID Detroit Metro Chapter Academic Award for work on red micro-LEDs
Xiao’s PhD work has focused on developing tiny, efficient, and stable red LEDs for use in virtual and augmented reality displays.An OLED for compact, lightweight night vision
Thinner than a human hair, the device amplifies and converts near infrared light into visible light with the potential for low power consumption and long battery life.In step toward solar fuels, durable artificial photosynthesis setup chains two carbons together
The system produces ethylene, an important ingredient of many plastics, with much higher efficiency, yield and longevity than competing systems.Vijay Subramanian awarded $7.5M MURI to rethink game theory in dynamic environments
Prof. Subramanian is the lead PI on a collaborative project to improve the accuracy of modern game theory predictions and produce better outcomes.Leveraging artificial intelligence for early detection of lung cancer
Predictive models developed by an interdisciplinary U-M research team have improved early lung cancer detection beyond traditional measures, with the potential to save lives.Pei Zhang will contribute to a new NSF Center for Insights into the Pre-Emergence Phase of Pandemics
Prof. Zhang will develop sensor systems to model the movement and risk factors of animal populations in disease spread as part of the interdisciplinary NSF center.Aline Eid receives MTRAC Award to commercialize radar vision for autonomous indoor navigation
Prof. Eid will partner with the industry startup Atheraxon to market technology for automated guided vehicles in warehouse environments and beyond.Austin Lin awarded IEEE PES Prize Conference Paper for work quantifying HVAC load-shifting efficiency
PhD student Austin Lin presented his award-winning research at the 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting in Seattle.OptoGPT for improving solar cells, smart windows, telescopes and more
Taking advantage of the transformer neural networks that power large language models, engineers can get recipes for materials with the optical properties they need.Fourteen papers by ECE researchers to be presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning
Accepted papers for the ICML conference span topics including deep representation learning, language model fine-tuning, generative modeling, and more.Updating the textbook on polarization in gallium nitride to optimize wide bandgap semiconductors
Understanding the phenomenon underpinning the material’s electronic performance will inform the design of smaller, faster and more efficient electronic and quantum devices.John Kustin and Vangelis Dikopoulos win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship to support work on intelligent audio systems
The pair of ECE PhD students will use the award to improve devices such as smart speakers, hearing aids, and car sound systems.Engineers have a duty to protect public well-being, but less than half learn how to do so effectively
Training in formal classes proves the most effective way to prepare engineers to protect public welfare at workRenewable grid: Recovering electricity from heat storage hits 44% efficiency
Thermophotovoltaics developed at U-M can recover significantly more energy stored in heat batteries.Andrew Park wins iWAT Student Paper Award for work on STAR antennas
PhD student Andrew Park presented his award-winning poster at the 2024 International Workshop in Antenna Technology in Sendai, Japan.AI chips could get a sense of time
Timekeeping in the brain is done with neurons that relax at different rates after receiving a signal; now memristors—hardware analogues of neurons—can do that tooUniversity of Michigan team partners with Semiwise to tackle cryogenic control electronics technology
Prof. Dennis Sylvester and PhD student Qirui Zhang are working with UK-based company Semiwise Ltd. to design cryogenic circuitry and improve the efficiency of quantum computing.Integrating battery storage into electrical grids can sometimes increase emissions due to market forces
An electricity market analysis found adding battery storage to enhance grid reliability may cause power generation markets to favor coal over natural gas.Report issued on state of intelligent vehicle dependability and security
Safe operation of fully autonomous vehicles on public roads is not anticipated in the near future.Joseph Costello awarded Rackham Predoc to support research on brain-machine interfaces
Costello is working to restore mobility to individuals by developing improved brain-machine interfaces.Anjali Devi Sivakumar awarded Barbour Scholarship to support her research on analytical wearables for health monitoring
Sivakumar is developing analytical devices to measure and analyze insensible, or vapor, sweat for disease diagnosis.Shubham Mondal awarded Rackham Predoc to support research on III-Nitride semiconductors for next generation electronics
Mondal’s materials research is expected to impact fields such as data centric computing, edge intelligence, and quantum photonic devices.GenAI diffusion models learn to generate new content more consistently than expected
Award-winning research led by Prof. Qing Qu discovered an intriguing phenomenon that diffusion models consistently produce nearly identical content starting from the same noise input, regardless of model architectures or training procedures.Auto industry deadlines loom for impaired-driver detection tech, U-M offers a low-cost solution
As the comment period closes on the new federal requirement, a U-M team led by Prof. Mohammed Islam demonstrates that upgrades to current technologies could do the jobJiangnan Liu receives SVCF Scholarship to support research in quantum photonics
Liu is a PhD student investigating new materials for future opportunities in quantum photonics.Augmented reality system for accessible play, iGYM, goes international
Using iGYM’s computer vision module, the U-M team partnered with the University of Tsukuba’s FUTUREGYM Team to develop new interactive games that allow children of all abilities to play together.Shubham Mondal receives SVCF Scholarship to support his research in semiconductor materials
Mondal works to improve the operation of electronic and optoelectronic devices using III-Nitride based semiconductor materials.Large open dataset aims to improve understanding of building electricity demand response
Data collected from 14 commercial buildings can help inform efforts to balance electrical grids, maintaining reliability.Linking online and offline social networks to better predict real world impact
Prof. Lei Ying leads a new MURI that is focused on the interplay between online and offline networks and how they could impact disruptive behavior and events.Living Labs: testing energy efficiency and flexibility in University buildings
Researchers advocate for pairing real-world data with model-based simulations to help the U.S. decarbonize and electrify commercial buildings.ECE PhD student Duncan Madden recognized for his work on antenna arrays
Duncan Madden received 2nd place in the 2024 Ernest K. Smith USNC-URSI student paper competition.Improving generative AI models for real-world medical imaging
Professors Liyue Shen, Qing Qu, and Jeff Fessler are working to develop efficient diffusion models for a variety of practical scientific and medical applications.Blue PHOLEDs: Final color of efficient OLEDs finally viable in lighting
Synchronizing light and matter adds blue to the OLED color paletteNeural Collapse research seeks to advance mathematical understanding of deep learning
Led by Prof. Qing Qu, the project could influence the application of deep learning in areas such as machine learning, optimization, signal and image processing, and computer vision.Improving the accuracy and applicability of large language models, like ChatGPT
Prof. Al Hero’s new method, which enhances the reliability of predictive models and promises to reduce the risk of AI hallucinations, was selected as a spotlight paper at NeurIPS 2023.Understanding attention in large language models
How do chatbots based on the transformer architecture decide what to pay attention to in a conversation? They’ve made their own machine learning algorithms to tell them.A coaching bot for students learning coding, computational Machine Learning, and AI
Prof. Raj Rao Nadakuditi is developing a generative AI coaching bot that provides feedback to strengthen self-regulated learning skills.Nextgen computing: Hard-to-move quasiparticles glide up pyramid edges
Computing with a combination of light and chargeless excitons could beat heat losses and more, but excitons need new modes of transportShaping the quantum future with lightwave electronics
The semiconductor-compatible technology is a million times faster than existing electronics and could give us access to an entire new world of quantum phenomena.Soon-to-be most powerful laser in the US is open for experiments
The NSF-supported facility at U-M is about to begin welcoming researchers to study extreme physics that could advance medicine, microelectronics and more.U-Michigan a partner in two CHIPS Act Midwest microelectronics hubs
The latest DoD funding announcements bolster Michigan Engineering’s efforts to support revitalization of the U.S. semiconductor sector.Research describing quantum-inspired computational imaging earns impact award
This Q&A with award co-recipient Alfred Hero offers a glimpse into the emerging field of single photon imaging.Educating engineers as whole people
Researching education leads the way to a diverse, impactful community of professionals.Wireless and battery-free sensors for sustainable smart cities
The sensors will provide real-time data for smart decision-making by allowing the natural environment and the built environment to communicate seamlessly.New global partnership aims to advance renewable energy generation with net-zero hydrogen production technologies
The Global Hydrogen Production Technologies (HyPT) Center seeks to create a viable pathway to decarbonize energy-intensive industries such as ammonia, steel, cement, aluminum, transportation, and more.Environmentally-friendly chrome-like finish for cars supports wireless sensing technologies for vehicle safety
Prof. L. Jay Guo led the design of novel thin film structures that mimic the chrome appearance, but are made with environmentally benign materials, which also work well with autonomous technology.A look back at 25 years of University of Michigan innovation in computer architecture
Nine papers by EECS researchers have been highlighted as among the most significant of the last 25 years in an ISCA retrospective.Semiconductor workforce program increases access to hands-on training
'In undergrad, you sometimes feel like you're just passing classes. But what we're doing here is science.'New kind of superresolution explores cell division
Interactions between structures at the nanoscale sync up with the way the whole cell contracts and expands during this vital process.Michigan and ECE advancing computer vision at CVPR 2023
Look at some of the ways ECE and other University of Michigan researchers are using computer vision for real-world applications.Nanobiotics: AI for discovering where and how nanoparticles bind with proteins
A new tool in the fight against superbugs goes beyond protein folding simulations like AlphaFold, potentially revealing antibiotic candidates.Organic photovoltaics offer realistic pathway to power-generating windows
A new fabrication process greatly improves the reliability of highly-efficient semi-transparent solar cells, which can be applied to windows to generate solar power.New method to produce green hydrogen offers promising path to carbon neutrality
With next gen solar cell technology, Prof. Zetian Mi leads a DoE project to develop high efficiency, low cost, and ultrastable production of green hydrogen fuels directly from sunlight and water.Inside the Quantum Research Institute
Mack Kira, co-director of the Quantum Research Institute with Steven Cundiff, is taking Michigan’s quantum activities to the next level.Eliminating the Tradeoffs Between Farming and Solar Energy Development
Testing Semi-Transparent Solar Cell Technology at U-M’s Campus Farm.Focused ambitions
While hunger for an artificial intelligence that can think like a human remains unsated, AI continues to appear in our lives in smaller ways.Advancing chips for the auto sector is the goal of new Michigan-based initiative
U-Michigan joins industry, state, education partners to develop talent and technology.Equity in the energy technology transition is new Institute’s goal
Prof. Johanna Mathieu is the new Associate Director of the Institute for Energy Solutions, which will continue U-M's 75-year legacy of leadership in energy research.Quantum entanglement could make accelerometers and dark matter detectors more precise
And yes, they are looking to miniaturize it for smartphone dead reckoning.From new material to device: Ferroelectric HEMT could be a game changer for next generation electronics
Prof. Zetian Mi’s team proved the viability of a reconfigurable, ScAlN/AlGaN/GaN ferroelectric HEMT transistor that is critical for next-generation communication and computing systemsParag Deotare awarded DURIP grant to probe exciton energy transport at nanoscale
The tool is expected to advance the study of exciton dynamics, which could help identify new research directions for clean energy and information technology.Ishtiaque Navid receives SVCF Scholarship to support his research in semiconductor materials
Navid’s research is focused on artificial photosynthesis and optoelectronics using III-Nitride based semiconductor materials.Arthur Xiao receives SVCF Scholarship to support his research in semiconductor materials
Xiao has been working on several projects in Prof. Zetian’s Mi’s group, including micro LED technology and renewable energy.Nanoscale ferroelectric semiconductor could power AI and post-Moore’s Law computing on a phone
Next-gen computing material gets down to the right size for modern manufacturing.LNF Poster Winners announced
The winning research focused on emitting white light with OLEDs, improving atomic layer deposition methods, and high efficiency green and red MicroLEDs for AR/VR.Scalable method to manufacture thin film transistors achieves ultra-clean interface for high performance, low-voltage device operation
Led by Prof. Becky Peterson, the research focuses on a category of materials important for low power logic operations, high pixel density screens, touch screens, and haptic displays.Six ECE faculty will help shape the future of semiconductors as part of the JUMP 2.0 program
Elaheh Ahmadi, David Blaauw, Michael Flynn, Hun-Seok Kim, Hessam Mahdavifar, and Zhengya Zhang bring their expertise and creativity to this nationwide undertaking in the area of semiconductors and information & communication technologies.Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power
Withstanding high temperatures and the light of 160 suns, a new catalyst is ten times more efficient than previous sun-powered water-splitting devices of its kind.A brain game may predict your risk of infection
When a person's cognitive function is highly variable, they're likely to be more infectious and have more symptoms after exposure to a respiratory virus.Open-source hardware: a growing movement to democratize IC design
Dr. Mehdi Saligane, a leader in the open-source chip design community, was among the first researchers to fabricate a successful chip as part of Google’s multi-project wafer program.Microelectronics researchers plan new initiative, enhanced collaboration to aid semiconductor industry
Leaders in microelectronics from across Michigan Engineering gathered to plan the formation of Michigan's Advanced Vision for Education and Research in Integrated Circuits, with an eye to building industry partnerships and strengthening US leadership.Streamlining home assessments for energy justice
In a partnership with Ecoworks, Pecan Street, and Jefferson East, Prof. Johanna Mathieu is helping create a better process for Detroit homes to benefit from decarbonization, electrification, and renewable energy integration.New non-invasive optical imaging approach for monitoring brain health could improve outcomes for traumatic brain injury patients
The SCISCCO system could better monitor brain and organ metabolism, helping to diagnose concussions, monitor cerebral metabolism in traumatic brain injury patients, and gauge the response of organs to treatments in an operating or emergency room scenario.Miniature and durable spectrometer for wearable applications
A team led by P.C. Ku and Qing Qu have developed a miniature, paper-thin spectrometer measuring 0.16mm2 that can also withstand harsh environments.Best paper for a low-power ADC circuit for brain-machine interface applications
Euisik Yoon’s team, led by Sungjin Oh, developed a low-power neural recording front-end circuit to interface with state-of-the-art neural probes.Jesse Codling wins Best Presentation award for sensors that help protect these little piggies in their pens
Known affectionately as “The Sh*tty Project,” Codling, an ECE PhD student, monitors the vibrations in pig pens to track the health of the piglets and predict when they’re in danger.Breakthrough in green micro-LEDs for augmented/mixed reality devices
Prof. Zetian Mi’s team are the first to achieve high-performance, highly stable green micro-LEDs with dimensions less than 1 micrometer on silicon, which can support ultrahigh-resolution full-color displays and other applications.Seeing electron movement at fastest speed ever could help unlock next-level quantum computing
New technique could enable processing speeds a million to a billion times faster than today's computers and spur progress in many-body physics.CHIPS and Science Act: Implications and Opportunities
The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 promises to revitalize the U.S. semiconductor industry. Dennis Sylvester offers his perspective on what it means for ECE.A view into what’s really happening during gene editing for Precision CRISPR
Prof. Somin Lee and her research group developed a way to reduce trial and error in gene editing by getting a look at the process in real timeFirst light soon at the most powerful laser in the US
The ZEUS laser at the University of Michigan has begun its commissioning experimentsWalking and slithering aren’t as different as you think
New mathematical model links up slithering with some kinds of swimming and walking, and it could make programming many-legged robots easier.Photosynthesis copycat may improve solar cells
The new approach moves energy efficiently and could reduce energy losses converting light into electricity.The ethical implications of tech, and why it matters for engineers
Through the Ford School’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, ECE PhD student Trevor Odelberg is studying how engineers can take better responsibility for the way their research impacts society.Next generation neural probe leads to expanded understanding of the brain
The hectoSTAR probe, with 128 stimulating micro-LEDs and 256 recording electrodes integrated in the same neural probe, was designed for some stellar brain mapping projectsZEUS Joins International Community of Extreme Light Virtuosos
As a member of the X-lites program, ZEUS joins an international community of extreme light labs working together to advance laser science for the benefit of societyDesigning Synthetic Human Gut Microbiome with AI
Prof. Al Hero was interviewed and gave a presentation about his research using machine learning to improve our understanding of the human gutEster Bentley receives Impact award for her research with the goal of GPS-free navigation
Bentley presented her research as an NDSEG Fellow. She is working to make smaller, more affordable high accuracy navigation-grade gyroscopes.Toward manufacturing semitransparent solar cells the size of windows
A peel-off patterning technique could enable more fragile organic semiconductors to be manufactured into semitransparent solar panels at scale.Task Force report on grid stability concepts receives IEEE PES Prize Paper Award
The rapid growth of renewable energy led to an international task force to study its impact on the stability of worldwide power systems.Solar-powered chemistry uses carbon dioxide and water to make feedstock for fuels, chemicals
Producing synthesis gas, a precursor of a variety of fuels and chemicals, no longer requires natural gas, coal or biomass.Machine learning begins to understand the human gut
The new computer model accurately predicts the behavior of millions of microbial communities from hundreds of experiments, an advance toward precision medicine.2022 IEEE APS R. W. P. King Award recognizes new theory in computational electromagnetics
Patel and Michielssen developed the Wigner-Smith time delay matrix for electromagnetics.Emulating impossible “unipolar” laser pulses paves the way for processing quantum information
Quantum materials emit light as though it were only a positive pulse, rather than a positive-negative oscillation.Overcoming the efficiency cliff of red micro-LEDs for virtual/augmented reality
Prof. Zetian Mi leads a team that created highly-efficient red micro LEDs suitable for augmented and virtual reality.Atkins chairs National Academies report on speeding discovery with automated research workflows
Prof. Emeritus Daniel Atkins III chaired and Prof. Al Hero served on a National Academies committee that published a new report describing the impact of artificial intelligence and automated research workflow technologies in propelling research and scientific discovery.Designing large neural codes for the next generation of communication systems
PhD candidate Mohammad Vahid Jamali won a Best Paper award at IEEE ICC for his work on Product AutoEncoders, which could help shape future generations of wireless networks, IoT, and autonomous systems.Graphene-hBN breakthrough to spur new LEDs, quantum computing
Study uncovers first method for producing high-quality, wafer-scale, single-layer hexagonal boron nitrideImmune to hacks: Inoculating deep neural networks to thwart attacks
The adaptive immune system serves as a template for defending neural nets from confusion-sowing attacksQing Qu receives CAREER award to explore the foundations of machine learning and data science
His research develops computational methods for learning succinct representations from high-dimensional data.‘Exciton surfing’ could enable next-gen energy, computing and communications tech
A charge-neutral information carrier could cut energy waste from computing, now that it can potentially be transported within chips.New understanding of neurons in the hippocampus: they’re all the same
A longstanding collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists leads to new insights into how neurons work in the hippocampus.Research on modeling time-variant systems earns Brockett-Willems Outstanding Paper Award
Prof. Peter Seiler co-authored the paper that focuses on reachability analysis for a variety of systems, including aircraft control and autonomous vehicles.Quantum tech: Semiconductor “flipped” to insulator above room temp
Discovery could pave the way to high speed, low-energy quantum computing.U-M forms collaboration to advance quantum science and technology
The Midwest Quantum Collaboratory studies quantum science and technology.Research full speed ahead on manufacturable III-V materials for next-generation electronics
A recent breakthrough in ferroelectric III-V semiconductors at the University of Michigan has been followed by several advancements and new funding to bring the technology closer to market.Optimizing the interactions between critical infrastructure systems for better flexibility, sustainability, and resiliency
PhD student Anna Stuhlmacher researches how the water distribution network can better provide services to the power network, which can allow for greater integration of renewable energy sources into the grid, reduce costs, and improve system resiliency.Batteryless next-generation cellular devices could empower a more sustainable future
PhD student Trevor Odelberg is looking to enable long range, highly reliable, and low-power cellular IoT devices that one day can run entirely on harvested energy, reducing battery waste and empowering devices to last for decades.Heath Hofmann named IEEE Fellow for his impact in the areas of electric machinery and drive systems
Prof. Hofmann’s control technology has been implemented in commercial vehicles, and he works tirelessly to enhance opportunities for underrepresented students.Peter Seiler named IEEE Fellow for his impactful contributions to robust control theory
Prof. Seiler’s contributions to Matlab’s Robust Control Toolbox and to the control of vehicle platoons have resulted in major industrial applications.Lei Ying named IEEE Fellow for fundamental research in cloud computing systems and wireless networks
Prof. Ying’s theoretical research addresses a broad range of fundamental problems arising from big-data analytics.Euisik Yoon named IEEE Fellow for groundbreaking research in Bio-MEMS
Prof. Yoon’s research has contributed to a better understanding of the brain, as well as improved detection and treatment of cancer.Zetian Mi named IEEE Fellow for his pioneering contributions to III-nitride photonics and clean energy
Prof. Mi’s research is impacting the future of alternative energy, as well as improved methods for water purification and air disinfection.Mimicking a human fingertip's sensitivity and sense of direction for robotic applications
With the help of 1.6 million GaN nanopillars per sensor, the University of Michigan team was able to provide human-level sensitivity with directionality on a compact, easily manufactured systemEgg-carton-style patterning keeps charged nanoparticles in place and suitable for a wide range of applications
Prof. Jay Guo and his team discovered a scalable way to settle down and precisely arrange micro- and nano-sized particles according to sizeNew grant aims to create better algorithms to manage big data by getting “non-real”
Professors Laura Balzano and Hessam Mahdavifar are developing new ways to compress data through randomized algorithms to remove redundanciesNew collaborative project for advancing energy justice in Detroit
In partnership with Detroit-based community organizations, Prof. Johanna Mathieu co-leads a team of researchers working to reduce disparities in household energy insecurity for low and moderate income households.Cody Scarborough wins Best Student Paper Award at Metamaterials 2021
PhD student Scarborough was recognized for his work developing a more efficient method to convert signals to higher frequencies, benefiting applications that require very low power and low noise.Elaheh Ahmadi receives DARPA Young Faculty Award to support future sensor and communication systems
Ahmadi’s research is focused on using GaN and Ga2O3 materials to provide higher output power per unit area at higher frequencies.$1.7M to build everyday exoskeletons to assist with lifting, walking and climbing stairs
The modular exoskeleton system will help workers and the elderly, boosting ankle, knee and/or hip joints by mounting new motors to off-the-shelf orthotics.$1.8M to develop room temperature, controllable quantum nanomaterials
The project could pave the way for compact quantum computing and communications as well as efficient UV lamps for sterilization and air purification.Solar cells with 30-year lifetimes for power-generating windows
High-efficiency but fragile molecules for converting light to electricity thrive with a little protection.$1M for open-source first-responder robots
An open-source perception and movement system, to be developed with NSF funding, could enable robots that partner with humans in fires and disaster areas.$1 Million DARPA contract to empower the wireless systems of the future
Prof. Elaheh Ahmadi is working to design a new kind of semiconductor that can provide high power at high frequenciesFaster path planning for rubble-roving robots
Splitting the path into difficult and easy terrain speeds up path planning for robots that use “hands” to maintain balance on uneven ground.Most powerful laser in the U.S. to begin operations soon, supported by $18.5M from the NSF
With first light anticipated in 2022, the NSF will provide five years of operations funding, ramping up as the ZEUS user facility progresses to full capacity.High Efficiency Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diodes to sterilize pathogens, including COVID-19
Research led by Prof. Zetian Mi has been honored with the 2020 Editor-in-Chief Choice Award from "Photonics Research."$20M NSF AI-EDGE Institute aims to transform 5G and beyond networks
University of Michigan is a core member of a new NSF-led Institute that is a collaboration between 11 institutions, three government research labs, and four global companiesUsing remote sensing to track microplastics in the ocean
Electrical Engineering undergrad Madeline Evans is a key researcher on a project that uses NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System to monitor microplastic pollution that harms marine ecosystems.Michigan startup MemryX, Inc. promises faster, cheaper AI processing
The ECE startup builds neuromorphic computer chips uniquely suitable for AI applicationsEmbracing Risk: Cyber insurance as an incentive mechanism for cybersecurity
This new book by Mingyan Liu offers an engineering and strategic approach to improving cybersecurity through cyber insurance$7.5M MURI to make dynamic AI smarter and safer
Researchers from four U.S. institutions aim to pull the best from control theory and machine learning to build safer mobile, intelligent systems.Nanotech OLED electrode liberates 20% more light, could slash display power consumption
A five-nanometer-thick layer of silver and copper outperforms conventional indium tin oxide without adding cost.Snails carrying the world's smallest computer help solve mass extinction survivor mystery
Tracking ocean microplastics from space
Satellites give new insights on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plus sources and flows of ocean microplastic.Dawn of nitride ferroelectric semiconductors for next-generation electronics
Helping robots learn what they can and can’t do in new situations
ADHD in engineering: Improving education for neurodiverse college STEM students
Cody Scarborough wins Best Student Paper Award for contributions to Metamaterials research
Setting the nation’s engineering research agenda
Artificial photosynthesis devices that improve themselves with use
Building ethical engineering leaders: public welfare awareness in graduate education
$6.25 million to develop new semiconductors for artificial photosynthesis
Research to advance low-power speech recognition highlighted by Intel
Michael Flynn and his group are applying their groundbreaking work in beamforming to the challenge of low-power on-chip speech recognition.“Egg carton” quantum dot array could lead to ultralow power devices
Fairer AI for long-term equity
First IFIP Workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security
The workshop, co-organized by a team including two EECS faculty, focused on ensuring the safety of Level 3 autonomous vehicles, where humans must be ready to take over control.Elaheh Ahmadi receives CAREER Award to improve efficiency in high power electrical systems
The research could improve efficiency in systems such as electric vehicles, grid systems, mass transit, and industrial automationPioneering a way to keep very small satellites in orbit
DYNAMO achieves first observation of the “charge separation effect”
Mapping quantum structures with light to unlock their capabilities
U-M, community partners tackle energy insecurity in three Detroit neighborhoods
Podcast: Artificial photosynthesis for sustainable solar fuels
First digital single-chip millimeter-wave beamformer will exploit 5G capabilities
Touchless respiratory and heart rate measurement for COVID-19 health screening
Tracking Monarch Butterfly Migration with the World’s Smallest Computer
5G and ECE: Connecting the world
5G is a technology built on the work of electrical and computer engineers, and reliant on ECE research to fulfill its promise.New grant to expand open source control software for an intuitive robotic prosthetic leg
Burn after reading
Coordination and collaboration are critical to U.S. leadership in plasma science: a Q&A with the Plasma 2020 Decadal Study co-chair
Mirror-like photovoltaics get more electricity out of heat
Magna cum Laude Merit Award for research to detect the progress of diseases such as multiple sclerosis
U-M startup SkyGig aims to take 5G to the next level
Detecting environmental pollutants with a smaller, portable, fully electric gas chromatograph
Full-color nano-LEDs for better, longer lasting LED performance
Research on neural probe that sheds multicolor light on the complexities of the brain recognized for its impact
Melissa Haskell receives NIH Fellowship for research to improve brain imaging
Autonomous well monitoring solution recognized with a Best Innovators award
The Future of Lasers
A research profile of Prof. Gérard Mourou and other ECE scientists talks about the future of lasers, from transmuting nuclear waste to shooting space junk.Urban solar energy: Solar panels for windows hit record 8% efficiency
U-M startup NS Nanotech unveils new generation of LEDs for high-efficiency, high-performance displays
Professors Jay Guo and Zetian Mi awarded MTRAC funding for research in autonomous and green vehicles
Space motor helps make robotic prosthetic leg more comfortable and extends battery life
Improving cancer and disease treatments by understanding electromagnetic communication among biological cells
Making plastic more transparent while also adding electrical conductivity
Tracking COVID-19 spread faster, and more accurately
New machine learning method improves testing of stem-like tumor cells for breast cancer research
Lights in the labs – and eyes – of researchers coming back to work
Battery-free sensor startup takes aim at industrial efficiency
Improved neural probe can pose precise questions without losing parts of the answers
Game theory and the COVID-19 outbreak: Coordinating our interests at individual to national levels
Catching nuclear smugglers: fast algorithm could enable cost-effective detectors at borders
“Ultra low-power receivers for IoT applications” wins Outstanding Invited Paper
Plasma jet wands could rapidly decontaminate hospital rooms
Elaheh Ahmadi receives ONR Young Investigator Award to prepare for the next generation of wireless technology
Live public street cams are tracking social distancing
Could a smartwatch identify an infection before you start spreading it?
Guidance on decontaminating face masks: U-M researchers contribute to national effort
Using machine learning to detect disease before symptoms manifest
Prof. Alfred Hero speaks to ECE about his work using data to predict the transmission of infectious disease among people who are pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic and how it relates to COVID-19.Small, precise and affordable gyroscope for navigating without GPS
Hessam Mahdavifar receives CAREER award to empower next gen communication
Best paper award for optimizing wireless power transfer
Building CubeSats to test electrodynamic tethering in space with MiTEE
Mi-TEE (Miniature Tether Electrodynamics Experiment) is a University of Engineering project directed by Prof. Brian Gilchrist that aims to test the tethering technology in space.Toward a portable concussion detector that relies on an infrared laser
A 3D camera for safer autonomy and advanced biomedical imaging
Hun-Seok Kim receives CAREER Award to facilitate Internet of Things connectivity
‘Green methane’ from artificial photosynthesis could recycle CO2
Creating a place where kids of all abilities can play together
Enabling large-scale testing of cancer drugs with machine learning
Beyond Moore’s Law: taking transistor arrays into the third dimension
Wireless Communication Under the Sea
U-M to become Mount Olympus with ZEUS, the most powerful laser to be built in the U.S.
Elaheh Ahmadi receives AFOSR Young Investigator Program award
Jamie Phillips named Director of the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility
Two ‘U’ researchers receive Distinguished University Innovator Award
The Michigan Daily profiles Professors David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, who are this year’s recipients of the 2019 Distinguished University Innovator Award.Machine Learning and Systems: A conversation with 2020 Field Award winners Al Hero and Anders Lindquist
Blaauw, Sylvester are 2019 Distinguished University Innovators
Commission on Carbon Neutrality talks progress, environmental justice at town hall
A World Record for Robotic Deep Freeze Walking
Most powerful laser in the US to be built at Michigan
Using extreme light to explore quantum dynamics, advance medicine and more.Channel Coding for Next Generation 5G and Beyond
Commission co-chairs: Climate change solutions need broad commitment
An update on the work done by U-M's Commission on Carbon Neutrality, co-chaired by Prof. Stephen Forrest.Can organic solar cells last – even into the next millennium? These might.
AI-powered Whatsapp Bot fights fake news in India
U-M researchers provide control software to ensure autonomous vehicles stay in their lane
Kamal Sarabandi welcomes Emperor and Empress of Japan at IGARSS 2019
The new quantum spurs action by the Michigan Quantum Science & Technology Working Group
Xianhe Liu receives Best Poster Award at ICNS 2019
Beyond Apollo 11: U-M ECE’s role in advancing space exploration
First programmable memristor computer aims to bring AI processing down from the cloud
The National Academy of Engineering invites Prof. Johanna Mathieu to symposium to advance the engineering frontier
Six teams of ECE researchers make the finals at AP-S/URSI 2019
Counting snowflakes for better water resource management
Kirigami can spin terahertz rays in real time to peer into biological tissue
Louise Willingale creates extreme plasma conditions using high-intensity laser pulses
Building community through clean energy
Computer vision: Finding the best teaching frame in a video for fake video fightback
Advancing AI for Video: Startup launches powerful video processing platform
New DOE project aims to convert a traditional engine into a hybrid OP engine with the help of control algorithms
Michigan Mars Rover Team has best ever finish at the annual University Rover Challenge
Afshari group receives Best Invited Paper award at the 2019 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
A high-efficiency GaAs solar cell to power the Internet of Tiny Things
SLAM-ming good hardware for drone navigation
Blood biopsy: New technique enables detailed genetic analysis of cancer cells
Capturing cancer cells from blood samples offers a non-invasive way to observe whether the cancer is disappearing or whether it is becoming resistant to the treatment.Communicating with the world’s smallest computers
Biopsy alternative: “Wearable” device captures cancer cells from blood
The Future is Carbon Neutral
Unravelling the mysteries of bacterial communication
2018 Nobel Prize Laureate Gérard Mourou talks high-intensity optics
Extreme light: Nobel laureate discusses the past & future of lasers
A new $1.6M energy project to develop low cost manufacturing of white organic lighting
New research for the future of sustainable power and energy
Take a look at some of the exciting new projects that will help define the next evolution of sustainable power and energy.Battery economics could power the future of energy
ECE student Brandon Russell explores space phenomena in a lab
How air conditioners could advance a renewable power grid
More efficient machine vision technology modeled on human vision
Johanna Mathieu receives NSF CAREER Award to help build a smarter, more sustainable grid
Time-varying metamaterials for next generation communication, sensing, and defense systems
Toward brain-like computing: New memristor better mimics synapses
ECE and data science: a natural connection
Miniature satellites to maximize global communication
$1.6M for solar cell windows and high-temperature solar power
A window into the future of solar power
A new company, Omniscent, is sniffing out dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in the air
$6.8M initiative to enable American laser renaissance
U-M researchers develop small device that bends light to generate new radiation
Photosynthesis and Clean Energy
Mackillo Kira Elected OSA Fellow for contributions to quantum optics
$1.8M for ‘active learning’, a step toward broader change in higher education
It takes two photonic qubits to make quantum computing possible
Conducting an orchestra of sensor nodes
Solving impossible equations
The new law that will guide the future of information processing
Deciphering GPS satellites to see inside hurricanes
Blue Sky and Research Accelerator Initiatives fund solar fuel and high-power research
Blue Sky: Up to $10M toward research so bold, some of it just might fail
Memory-processing unit (MPU) could bring memristors to the masses
Beyond Moore’s law: $16.7M for advanced computing projects
Michigan chips will be first to test next-generation hardware design tools
A new hybrid chip that can change its own wiring
Enabling anyone to design hardware with a new open-source tool
Jason Corso on artificial intelligence
Mars Rover Team tackles major redesign, places in top 10 at competition
Hun-Seok Kim receives DARPA Young Faculty Award to advance research in IoT networks
An even smaller world’s smallest ‘computer’
How to color-code nearly invisible nanoparticles
Paper award for training computer vision systems more accurately
Mingyan Liu, 2018 Distinguished University Innovator, talks about her company and data science commercialization
Exoskeletons compete to boost strength of rescue workers
Mengqi Yao receives High Quality Paper Award at PowerTech Conference
Stephanie Crocker Ross receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Harvesting clean hydrogen fuel through artificial photosynthesis
Light could make semiconductor computers a million times faster or even go quantum
Huanting Huang and the mathematical shape of trees
$6.25M MURI project will decode world’s most complex networks
Organic solar cells reach record efficiency, benchmark for commercialization
Game theory for electric vehicle charging
Solar cells enable self-powered camera
Improving communication between humans and robots in 20 noisy questions
Dmitry Berenson receives NSF CAREER Award to advance a robot’s ability to handle soft objects
SMAP Update: A mission to manage water globally
Necmiye Ozay receives ONR Young Investigator Award to advance research in autonomous systems
Louise Willingale advancing scientific knowledge of plasmas
Professor Leung Tsang Receives 2018 Van de Hulst Award
Prof. Tsang is a world-renowned expert in the field of theoretical and computational electromagnetics, and in particular microwave remote sensing of the earth.Amir Mortazawi introduces robust wireless power transfer
Semiconductor breakthrough may be game-changer for organic solar cells
A shoe-box-sized chemical detector
New quick-learning neural network powered by memristors
Stephen Forrest: ECE Bicentennial + Beyond lecture
New biodegradable hydrogel offers eco-friendly alternative to synthetics
Seed-sized U-M computers pumped into oil wells featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
Deep UV LEDs lead to two best poster awards at ISSLED 2017
U-M, Cavium partner on Big Data research computing platform
$1.6M toward artificial intelligence for data science
Cooling off with lasers
Precise pulses explore light’s magnetism
A new laser will investigate an unusual magnetic effect that may lead to efficient solar energy harvesting.Doubling the power of the world’s most intense laser
Using University of Michigan buildings as batteries
Bionic heart tissue: U-Michigan part of $20M center
Getting people moving – Walking exoskeletons could mobilize disabled patients
Latest two-legged walking robot arrives at Michigan
BigANT tackles the wave field
Best Paper Award recognizes research in electrical engineering student motivation
IGARSS Interactive Symposium Paper Award for modeling the world’s forests
$7.75M for mapping circuits in the brain
Fred Buhler builds better chips for “Aweslome” applications
Student hybrid rocket team takes first place at inaugural competition
Two students earn scholarships to pursue work in sustainable energy
Seeing through materials
Dmitry Berenson helps robots play nice with people
Next-gen computing inspired by biology
Anna Stuhlmacher: Power to change the world
‘Sister cell’ profiling aims to shut down cancer metastasis
Making learning addictive
2017 ISCA Influential Paper Award for groundbreaking research in power-efficient computing
Building more stable four-legged robots
Behzad Yektakhah earns paper award for research in seeing through walls
MICDE grant funds renewable power research
How to build a BigANT – Shai Revzen’s critter-inspired robots
Transparent Silver: Tarnish-proof films for flexible displays, touch screens, metamaterials
Ultrashort light pulses for fast “lightwave” computers
Shai Revzen part of a new five-institution MURI focused on the control of dynamic systems
Cindy Finelli: Community building and envisioning the future of engineering education research
Gopal Nataraj receives U-M Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support high-impact research in medical imaging
CASSIE: A tougher, lighter bipedal robot with eyes
Michigan’s millimeter-scale computers featured at ISSCC2017, and in IEEE Spectrum
Mingyan Liu: Confessions of a pseudo data scientist
U-M first in line for new bird-inspired walking robot
Becky Peterson receives NSF CAREER Award for research in amorphous semiconductors for next generation electronics
A fantastic voyage: ERC for WIMS
$1.1 million grant to develop robot emergency response capabilities
Ushering in the next generation of flat-panel displays and medical imagers
Wide-ranging ECE research presented at 2016 Engineering Graduate Symposium
Alum startup wins $25,000 at Accelerate Michigan Competition
The Michigan Probe: Changing the Course of Brain Research
Parag Deotare receives AFOSR Award for research in Nanoscale Exciton-Mechanical Systems (NEXMS)
COVE: a tool for advancing progress in computer vision
Cancer stem cells: new method analyzes 10,000 cells at once
Solving the “Christmas light” problem so solar panels can handle shade
Jasprit Singh: Seeking a better life through engineering
Necmiye Ozay receives NASA Early Career Faculty Award for research in cyber-physical systems
Students seek the secrets of the brain in study abroad program
Solar power plant: $1.4M grant aims to cut costs
Two Michigan papers win top awards at IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium
MARLO makes initial attempt at the Wave Field
An award winning radar system for collision avoidance and imaging
A new way to test low-frequency antennas for long-range communication
A new, low-cost way to monitor snow and ice thickness to evaluate environmental change
Two papers by Michigan researchers chosen as IEEE Micro Top Picks
Leaders in neuroscience look to the future
U-M cyber security startup purchased by FICO
Michigan shines at the National Robotics Initiative 5 year anniversary
Injectable computers can broadcast from inside the body
Injectable computers
Novel collaboration to probe brain activity in unprecedented detail
Fighting cyber crime with data analytics
Alfred O. Hero, III named John H. Holland Distinguished University Professor of EECS
Hero is honored for his extraordinary accomplishments that have brought distinction to himself, his students, and to the entire University.MARLO, the free-standing two-legged robot, conquers terrain with innovative control algorithms
Making Memory Smaller, Better, Faster, Stronger
Students receive prizes for simulating the best landing of a rocket booster
Lights Out
How the Net Was Won: Michigan Built the Budding Internet
The ARPANET came before it. And the World Wide Web and browser technology would later make it accessible for the masses. But in between, a small Ann Arbor-based group labored on the NSFNET in relative obscurity to build—and ultimately to save—the Internet.Charles F. Brush
Lighting Up the World.Emmett Leith (1927 - 2005)
Inventor of Practical HolographyClaude Shannon centennial celebrants recall U-M grad’s advances, societal impact
A better 3D camera with clear, graphene light detectors
Steven Battel elected to National Academy of Engineering
MBus is the missing interconnect for millimeter-scale systems
Necmiye Ozay receives CAREER award for research in cyber-physical systems
Somin Lee receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award for research in bioplasmonics
Googling the physical world
Mapping the brain: probes with tiny LEDs shed light on neural pathways
$5M for international neurotechnology “dream team”
Eric Michielssen named Louise Ganiard Johnson Professor of Engineering
Layered graphene beats the heat
Using energy storage in an environmentally friendly way – Yashen Lin earns a Dow Sustainability Fellowship
Inspired by art, lightweight solar cells track the sun
Using data science to achieve ultra-low dose CT image reconstruction
The economics of energy – Hamidreza Tavafoghi earns a Dow Sustainability Fellowship
Next generation laser plasma accelerator
Researching the future of remote sensing
Stephanie Crocker earns NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to bring sustainable energy to the grid
New Michigan-Saudi Arabia collaboration promises exciting new research – beginning with the auto industry
Alyssa Kody earns NSF Fellowship for research in energy harvesting and wireless sensing
What makes cancer cells spread? New device offers clues
Iverson Bell – Researching the future of space satellites
‘Space tethers’ can be used to fling spacecraft into interplanetary space
Thomas Chen earns NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for research in artificial neural networks for computer vision
ECE welcomes new engineering robotics center
Mobile Friendly – apps to improve life
Elnaz Ansari earns Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement
ECE’s ideas worth spreading – TEDxUofM
Stephen Forrest receives 2015 Distinguished University Innovator Award
Michigan Micro Mote (M3) makes history as the world’s smallest computer
A brief history of what led to the technical feat known as the Michigan Micro Mote, a tiny speck of a computer that does it all.Yi-Chin Wu receives ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award for research in network security
Researchers build groundbreaking device for NASA SMAP mission
Somin Lee receives CAREER award for research in nanoscale biotechnology
Wei Lu editor of new book – Semiconductor Nanowires: From Next-Generation Electronics to Sustainable Energy
The future of solar: $1.3M to advance organic photovoltaics
HEV fuel economy meets drivability in Outstanding Control Systems Paper
Yelin Kim wins Best Student Paper Award at ACM Multimedia 2014 for research in facial emotion recognition
Kamal Sarabandi elected President of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
Student Spotlight: Kyusang Lee: A leader in flexible solar cell technology
New approaches to solar cell technology featured in Sustainability Hour
Robert Dick to apply cyber information to air quality management
Johanna Mathieu working to bring power from sustainable sources to your home
Becky Peterson awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award to investigate new materials for power semiconductor devices
Necmiye Ozay awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award for research in cyber and physical systems
Prof. Ozay’s research interests lie at the broad interface of dynamical systems, control, optimization and formal methods with applications in system identification, verification and validation, autonomy and vision.Mapping the brain with lasers
Live long and phosphor: Blue LED breakthrough for efficient electronics
Pallab Bhattacharya to receive 2015 IEEE David Sarnoff Award
Student Spotlight: Tal Nagourney – Exploring navigation
Fighting lung cancer: Faster image processing for low-radiation CT scans
Iverson Bell’s small satellite wins big
ECE welcomes four new faculty for 2014-15 academic year
Peter Tchoryk: An entrepreneurial CEO
Shrinking the size of optical systems, exponentially
Jiangfeng Wu receives Best Paper Award for research in safe fracking
Dipak Sengupta (1931-2014): In memoriam
Wakefield and Kieras win Best Paper Award at ICAD 2014
New research program to investigate optical energy conversion
Metal particles in solids aren’t as fixed as they seem, new memristor study shows
A new way to make laser-like beams using 250x less power
T-ray converts light to sound for weapons detection, medical imaging
Leaders in ultra low power cicuits and systems presenting at VLSI Circuits Symposium
New tech could lead to night vision contact lenses
Keravnos Energy wants to make fast electric vehicle charging economical
Transparent color solar cells fuse energy, beauty
‘Photon glue’ enables a new quantum mechanical state
What are quantum computers going to do for us?
Biochips for better cancer therapy
Zhaoshi Meng receives Best Paper Award at CAMSAP 2013
Smartphone as Mentor: How tech could change behavior
Byeongseop Song receives Rackham International Student Fellowship
Pin-Yu Chen receives Rackham Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship
Two-legged robot walks outside at U-M
MCubed A Year Later: A record of fostering innovative research
Students take a field trip to a wind farm
New algorithms and theory for shining light through non-transparent media
How a metamaterial might improve a depression treatment
Making the Internet of Things happen
Research Spotlight: Better miniaturized vacuum pumps for electronics and sensors
David Chen awarded NASA Fellowship to improve extreme weather prediction
Image processing 1,000 times faster is goal of new $5M contract
Jae Young Park receives Best Student Paper Award for research impacting structural health monitoring
Faster, more powerful mobile devices: U-M startup Crossbar could disrupt the memory market
When GPS fails, this speck of an electronic device could step in
Neural Probe Research recognized with Best Paper Award at 2013 Transducers Conference
Research in production systems engineering is recognized with Best Paper Award
MEMS research recognized with Best Poster Award at 2013 Transducers Conference
New laser shows what substances are made of; could be new eyes for military
Workshop to chart the future of nano and micro manufacturing
A new laser paradigm: An electrically injected polariton laser
Research in distributed networks earns Notable Paper Award at AISTATS
ECE alum Kevin Xu wins Social Computing Challenge Competition
Advancing secure communications: A better single-photon emitter for quantum cryptography
Researchers funded to develop a leap forward in Processor Architectures
After Newtown: A new use for a weapons-detecting radar?
Scientific Milestone: A room temperature Bose-Einstein condensate
Cockroaches and Robots: Reverse engineering the balance systems of animals
Translating animal movement into better robotic design
Next-Gen E-Readers: Improved peacock technology could lock in color for high-res displays
Prof. Jay Guo found a way to lock in structural color, which is color made with texture rather than chemicals. The research could lead to advanced color e-readers, more energy efficient electronic devices, and improved data storage and cryptography.David Wentzloff receives CAREER Award for research in energy-autonomous systems
Zhaohui Zhong receives CAREER Award for research in graphene-based optoelectronics
ECE faculty are MCubing to find answers – fast
Using HERCULES to probe the interior of dense plasmas
Super-fine sound beam could one day be an invisible scalpel
Predicting your risk of illness
James McCullagh receives Best Student Paper Award for research to keep bridges safe
Seunghyun Lee takes the gold for all-graphene flexible and transparent circuit
Nathan Roberts earns Best Paper Award for research to assist in remote patient monitoring
Two CSE faculty help make the Ibn Sina School for computer science a reality
2012 ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award to David Blaauw, Trevor Mudge, and EECS alumni Steve Martin and Krisztián Flautner
Bourne Pursuit: Improving computer tracking of human activity
Developing the wireless component for personalized health devices
Combining flexible, transparent electronics with high speed communications for the first time
UG Research Spotlight: Fred Buhler spends his summer improving circuit testing
Nano-origami project combines art and engineering to further technology
Mina Rais-Zadeh receives NASA Early Career Grant to develop technology needed for picosatellites
Student Research: Amit Patel earns prize in IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition for antenna research
Silvio Savarese’s research applying computer vision techniques to construction sites leads to best paper award and a new spinoff company
Rebecca Wolkoff awarded scholarship to continue her work in sustainable energy
Research Spotlight: Sensors and actuators for portable microsystems
Shang-Hua Yang receives SPIE Scholarship in Optics & Photonics
Mingyan Liu receives Best Paper Award at the 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Robots Building Better Maps: For robots and other mechanical creatures
U-M researcher involved in $10 million project to advance computer programming
Artificial synapses could lead to advanced computer memory and machines that mimic biological brains
A new way to cool materials with light
Chris Berry awarded 2012 Michigan Space Grant Consortium Fellowship
Next-generation computer memory firm receives U-Ms first startup investment
Research Spotlight: 3-D electrical force fields manipulate microscale particles
New technology allows CT scans to be done with a fraction of the conventional radiation dose
Raj Nadakuditi receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award
Prof. Raj Nadakuditi receives 2012 SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
Sid Bao earns Best Student Paper Award for Computer Vision Research
Jinyoung Hwang receives Best Poster Award for research leading to improved solar cells
A smarter way to make ultraviolet light beams
‘Perfect black’ coating can render a 3D object flat, raises intriguing dark veil possibility in astronomy
David Blaauw Elected Fellow of the IEEE
Prof. Blaauw was a core member of the Michigan team that developed the award-winning circuit known as Razor in 2003.ePack, Inc. wins Masco Next Gen Manufacturing Award at Innovation Competition
New method for building a low-cost, high-performance electric machine and drive could result in huge energy savings
New research program aims to make better “sense” of the world
Research about resilient sensor networks for power plant monitoring is recognized with Best Track Paper Award
Modernizing the nation’s electric grid for alternative energy
Colored solar cells could make display screens more efficient
Laura Freyman awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Powering breakthrough technologies
Next-generation Systems Information Theory
New NSF Center for Photonic and Multiscale Nanomaterials
New laser could treat acne with telecom technology
Breakthrough: Researchers find wide gap in immune responses of people who did or didnt get the flu after exposure
New techniques in medical informatics lead to improved diagnosis of MDS
Making smart dust a reality
MABEL the bipedal robot
Gyemin Lee receives Best Paper Award for research in machine learning for biomedical diagnosis
Using imprint processing to mass-produce tiny antennas could improve wireless electronics
A minimally-invasive brain implant to translate thoughts into movement
Wayne Stark and Changhun Bae receive 2011 JCN Best Paper Award
Most powerful millimeter-scale energy harvester generates electricity from vibrations
Solar power without solar cells: A hidden magnetic effect of light could make it possible
Connor Field — Growing energy on a solar farm
Safer medical imaging with microwaves
Chris Berry awarded Michigan Space Grant Consortium Fellowship
Engineers rebuilding Liberian universities and infrastructure
Toward computers that fit on a pen tip: New technologies usher in the millimeter-scale computing era
Three EECS Teams are winners in 2011 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest
Xi Chen and Prof. Robert Dick receive DATE Best Paper Award
Zhengya Zhang receives NSF CAREER Award
Jackie Vitaz receives Top Prize at USNC/URSI
Paving the way for ubiquitous computing
HERCULES laser rivals a synchrotron for short pulse x-ray beams
EECS Researchers win Best Paper Award at ICCAD 2010
New equation could advance research in solar cells
A groundbreaking new equation could do for organic semiconductors what the Shockley ideal diode equation did for inorganic semiconductors.Laser-based missile defense for helicopters being developed
Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company.New work resolves long-standing questions about short pulses in quantum cascade lasers
EECS Faculty receive 2010 HP Labs Innovation Research Awards
Zhengya Zhang earns Best Paper Award at Symposium on VLSI Circuits
Soil moisture study aims for climate change insights
Organic laser breakthrough
Ambiq Micro: Taking a startup to the next level
WIMS and CUOS among 60 Years of Sensational Research by NSF
Ruzbeh Akbar receives NASA Fellowship for SMAP Mission Research
Millimeter-scale, energy-harvesting sensor system developed
P.C. Ku Awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award
Mona Jarrahi awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award
U-M researchers win 2010 Signal Processing Best Paper Award
Mini generators make energy from random ambient vibrations
EECS professors receive research grants from Google
Wei Lu receives CAREER Award
Tony Grbic awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Al Hero receives 2009 Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award
Clay Scott Receives CAREER Award for Research in Signal Processing
Thomas B. A. Senior Receives the 2010 IEEE Electromagnetics Award
The award is based on outstanding contributions to electromagnetics in theory, application or education.Best Paper Award in Automation Research
Tal Carmon receives Young Investigator Award for research in lasers and optics
Duncan Steel will advance quantum information processes in new MURI
Mark Kushner to head new $10M DoE plasma research center
Ford, U of M explore new ways to speed development of future hybrid vehicles
Yong Long receives Best Poster Award for work in medical imaging
David Wentzloff awarded Young Faculty Award (YFA) by DARPA
Ellersick Prize for Best Paper Awarded to authors in communications
Sensing Sensors: NSF Funding News Ways to Monitor Infrastructure for Safety
The program aims to develop revolutionary wireless sensor node, optimized for infrastructure monitoring.EECS researchers receive Best Paper Award at ISLPED
Ian Hiskens receives stim money for wind energy
Ali Nazari receives Best Paper Award at ISIT 2009
Michael Thiel earns first place in SEMCAD X Student Research Award
Michael Benson receives NASA Fellowship
Smart bridges under development with new grant
Pallab Bhattacharya To Receive 2008 John Bardeen Award
The Bardeen Award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions and is a leader in the field of electronic materials.Microsystems research for energy scavenging and power generation
Jerzy Kanicki’s group earns Excellence Award for Basic and Original Technology
University of Michigan Office of Technology to showcase inventions
Ted Norris and CUOS: Reaching new frontiers in ultrafast optical science
Microchip sets low-power record with extreme sleep mode
The Phoenix Processor uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market.Tony Grbic receives NSF CAREER Award to advance metamaterials
Grbic was awarded the grant for his project: Advances in Metamaterial Structures and DevicesDistinguished Faculty Achievement Award, Jessy Grizzle
Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards honor senior faculty who consistently have demonstrated outstanding achievements in the areas of scholarly research and/or creative endeavors; teaching and mentoring of students and junior faculty; service; and a variety of other activities.Kamal Sarabandi Receives Humboldt Research Award
The Humboldt Research Award is a highly competitive award granted to scientists and scholars from all disciplines.Jamie Phillips receives Young Faculty Award
Tony Grbic Receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award
This three-year grant will support research that is expected to open new opportunities in antenna design and microwave/millimeter-wave device development.In tunneling physics, a decades-old paradox is resolved
Eric Tkacyk receives Best Paper Award for research in biomedical optics
Pallab Bhattacharya: The race is on