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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.

Andrew Owens named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

Owens will use the Sloan Research Fellowship to support his research on the development and utility of computer vision systems that learn from multisensory data.

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.

Zetian Mi receives 2025 Nick Holonyak Jr. Award from Optica

Mi is recognized for his innovations on wide energy gap nanostructures for light emission and energy generation applications.

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.

Wei Lu named U-M Innovation Champion

As a university-wide leader in tech transfer, Lu will serve as a resource to help ECE faculty connect their research with real-world applications.

L. Jay Guo elected Fellow of Optica

Guo received his honor for his pioneering work and achievements in structural colors and flexible transparent conductors, and for sustained contributions leading to their commercialization.

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.

Laura Balzano honored with Sarah Goddard Power Award

The award recognizes Prof. Balzano’s advocacy for women in electrical engineering and mathematics through her work as a teacher, scholar, and mentor.

A Q&A with new faculty member Vladimir Dvorkin

Dvorkin is an assistant professor specializing in power systems engineering, economics and computation.

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.

A Q&A with new faculty member Ziyou Song

Song is an assistant professor specializing in energy storage systems for electrified vehicles and renewable energy applications.

Six faculty receive 2025 Ted Kennedy Family Faculty Team Excellence Award

These six research scientists helped design, build, and implement the ZEUS laser facility, which is the highest power laser in the U.S.

Kamal Sarabandi receives H. Scott Fogler Award for Professional Leadership and Service

Prof. Sarabandi’s decades-long contributions to the professional community have had a profound impact on the field of applied electromagnetics.

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.

Zetian Mi receives Wise-Najafi Prize for Engineering Excellence in the Miniature World

Prof. Mi has made seminal contributions to wideband semiconductors and their applications in green energy, disinfection, and electronic devices.

Peter Seiler receives CoE Monroe-Brown Foundation Education Excellence Award

Prof. Seiler has had a major positive impact on the education of students inside and outside the classroom.

Heath Hofmann receives 2025 Herbert Kopf Service Excellence Award

Prof. Hofmann excelled during his term as Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs.

Zheshen Zhang receives 2025 Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Award

This award honors Zhang’s exemplary research, teaching, and service relating to quantum systems engineering.

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.

Seven ECE staff honored with 2024 College of Engineering Staff Incentive Awards

Amy Brooks, Jessi Cebulski, Lisa Flick, Patrick McCollum, Chris Puzzuoli, Michele Ruffino, and Grant Young received these awards for their contributions to the ECE community.

Hamed Alkhathami receives Rackham International Student Fellowship

Alkhathami’s master’s work explores the application of quantum principles to optimize signal processing systems.