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How a scientific breakthrough is making ‘green methane’
Scientists are creating “green methane” out of a process called artificial photosynthesis — which could make natural-gas-powered devices carbon neutral.‘Green methane’ from artificial photosynthesis could recycle CO2
Prof. Zetian Mi’s new artificial photosynthesis approach uses sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into methane, which could help make natural-gas-powered devices carbon neutralScientists develop new catalyst that uses light to convert carbon dioxide to fuel
EECS-ECE professor Zetian Mi’s research on artificial photosynthesis is featured in Interesting Engineering.
Taking a cue from plants, new chemical approach converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel
EECS Professor Zetian Mi’s research on artificial photosynthesis is described in Science.Tomorrow’s industries: from OLEDs to nanomaterials
Prof. Stephen Forrest lends his expertise to this piece by Nature.USA Today: Researchers level playing field for disabled kids
VIDEO: A University of Michigan research team, including ECE Prof. Hun-Seok Kim, has created an augmented reality system that allows people with different levels of mobility to play and exercise together (Dec. 10).ABC News: iGym levels playing field for disabled, able-bodied children
A University of Michigan research team, including ECE Prof. Hun-Seok Kim, has created an augmented reality system that allows people with different levels of mobility to play and exercise togetherAssociated Press: iGym levels playing field for disabled, able-bodied children
Prof. Hun Seok Kim helped perfect an augmented reality system that helps level the playing field between disabled and able-bodied players.Michigan News: Inclusive play: U-M art professor leads creation of interactive game for kids with and without disabilities
Prof. Hun Seok Kim is a member of the team that created the augmented reality system called iGYMHerbert Winful – The Birth and Amazing Life of Nonlinear Optics
Prof. Herbert Winful presents “The Birth and Amazing Life of Nonlinear Optics” as part of Saturday Morning Physics.The Future of Organic Electronics OLED Displays
Professor Stephen Forrest discusses what makes organic electronics special and how its attributes create exciting new opportunities to finally realize its promise after 70-plus years of applied research, during a Distinguished Lecture Series held at the Office of Naval Research.How UM degrees propelled careers in T-shirts, robots and photo archives
MLive profiles the Ann Arbor T-shirt Company, co-founded by alums Jerry Kozak (Business) and Ricky Winowiecki (Computer Engineering).Only Appropriate Data
ECE Research Scientist Ranjan Pal co-wrote a blog based on his multi-university collaborative research on issues surrounding the mass collection of data from apps, how it impacts our privacy, and what the future may look like. The article is based on an ongoing international collaboration of the authors with the following faculty: Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge), Edgar Whitley (London School of Economics), Yong Li (Tsinghua University) and Swades De (IIT Delhi).Elon Musk says he has the solution for California’s fire-related blackouts. It starts at $15,000.
Prof. Ian Hiskens comments on using rooftop-mounted solar and battery storage as a way to achieve energy independence.PG&E’s role in Sonoma fire questioned as power outage frustrations grow
Prof. Ian Hiskens serves as an expert-commentator in a Washington Post story about the potential role Pacific Gas & Electric equipment played in the wildfires ravaging Northern California.Meet the super robots that are about to lap the world’s fastest humans
Prof. Jessy Grizzle’s robot, Mabel, is profiled in this piece by Popular Mechanics.U-M MUSEUM OF ART BRINGS ROBOTS TO THE ART WORLD
U-M Robotics members, including Robotics Director and ECE Professor Jessy Grizzle, are working with the University of Michigan Museum of Art to test a prototype robot docent.Carnegie Mellon appoints new dean for College of Engineering
William Sanders received a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering; a master’s degree in computer, information and control engineering; and a doctoral degree in computer science and engineering, each from the University of Michigan.Dr. James W. Albers Earns Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. James Albers (BSE EE 1965; MS Bioengineering 1966; MS Psychology 1968; PhD Bioengineering 1970; MD 1972) was named winner of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine’s (AANEM) 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, for his unparalleled contribution to neuromuscular and electrodiagnostic medicine through efforts in teaching, research, and scholarly publications.Can organic solar cells stand the test of time?
Stephen Forrest’s research group demonstrated it’s possible to create organic solar cells that reliably work for 27,000 years outdoors.Students from the United States visiting various work groups of BrainLinks-BrainTools this summer
Jenny is a student at the University of Michigan (member of IPAN), studying Neuroscience, and she visited Prof. Dr. Carola Haas’s lab.Ford Buys Defense Contractor to Get Robot Rides on the Road
Quantum Signal will still operate independently, with its own human resources department, and continue to be run by co-founder and ECE Council Member Mitchell Rohde (BSE MSE EE 1994 1996; MSE PhD BME 1997 2000).
Army-funded researchers earn top scientific honors
U.S. Army announces Prof. Alfred Hero’s 2020 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing.
Michigan co-launches competition to help build the next generation of AI-driven dialog systems
IBM Research AI and the University of Michigan are spearheading the development of algorithms that can learn goal-oriented dialog interactions effectively from human-to-human chatlogs by organizing a public competition to inspire and evaluate novel approaches that will lead to the next generation of AI-driven dialog systems.
First programmable memristor computer
EECS-ECE professor Wei Lu explains the power of his lab’s new memristors.
Univ. of Michigan: Hun-Seok Kim describes approach to low-cost, high-accuracy location solution
Prof. Hun-Seok Kim outlines the progress his team has made to develop an infrastructure-light location solution that is designed to leverage 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz Wi-Fi signals to deliver location data that is accurate within 10 centimeters.
Mingxin Liu receives award for advancements in green chemistry
Dr. Mingxin Liu received a 2019 IUPAC-Zhejiang NHU International Award for Advancements in Green Chemistry from the Int. Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Liu is a visiting researcher working with Prof. Zetian Mi on photo-catalyzed material and energy conversion using semiconductors.
Proprietary chip design allows PsiKick, now Everactive, to power wireless sensors entirely from harvested energy, eliminate the need for batteries
PsiKick, the company pioneering wireless, batteryless Internet of Things (IoT) systems and co-founded by a U-M Prof. David Wentzloff, today announced it has changed its name to Everactive and closed a $30 million funding round.
Analog AI Accelerator Startup Raises $30m
AI accelerator chip start-up Mythic, founded in 2012 at U-M by EECS alumnus Mike Henry and Dave Fick, has raised $30 million in a B1 funding round.
Organic Solar Cells Achieve the Highest Efficiency Rate
GineersNow profiles EECS-ECE Prof. Stephen Forrest’s research improving the efficiency and longevity of organic solar cells.
Microscopic ‘smart dust’ sensors are set to revolutionise a range of sectors
The New Economy interviews Prof. David Blaauw about millimetre-scale devices that could reinvent the Internet of Things and lead to breakthroughs in a variety of applications, including biomedical implants.
Blue Clover Devices Brings Silicon Valley Innovation to Germany
Pete Staples (B.S. EE), the founder and President of Blue Clover Devices, gives first public demonstration of the Production Line Tool (PLT), a cloud native test automation device at the Automotive Testing Expo.
In a lab at U-M, working on technology that helps the blind see and other brain-computer connections
The Lansing State Journal explores the history of U-M’s contributions to the development of bionic implants going back to Kensall Wise, the William Gould Dow Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of EECS-ECE, and his team of researchers who engineered a series of neural probes capable of measuring and influencing activity in the brain at the cellular level.
Wearable Device Acts as Biopsy Alternative
EECS-ECE PhD alum Tae Hyun Kim is part of a project that has made a prototype for a wearable device with a cancer-cell-capturing chip that could be used in place of a biopsy to more accurately test a patient for cancer.
UMass Amherst Names Sanjay Raman Dean of the College of Engineering
EECS-ECE alum Sanjay Raman (MSE PhD EE 1993 1998) will serve as the new dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Purdue selects Peroulis to lead School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
EECS-ECE alum Dimitrios (Dimitri) Peroulis (MSE PhD 1999 2003) has been selected to head Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Symposium marks growth for Princeton’s materials institute
EECS-ECE Prof. Stephen Forrest was honored at Princeton as a keynote speaker where he spoke about innovation and the importance of cooperation among science, academia, and industry.
Katie Bouman: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
EECS-ECE alum Katie Bouman is the researcher who led the creation of an algorithm that allowed scientists to capture images of a black hole for THE VERY FIRST TIME.
Movellus Raises $6M in Venture Funding, Led by Stata Venture Partners
Movellus is a U-M startup founded by EECS-ECE alum Dr. Mo Faisal (now CEO) and EECS-ECE Prof. David Wentzloff.
Teeny-Tiny Bluetooth Transmitter Runs on Less Than 1 Milliwatt
Bluetooth low-energy data packets can now be sent by millimeter-size IoT motes
An electronically tunable metasurface that rotates polarization
Phys.org highlights EECS-ECE Prof. Anthony Grbic’s research in developing a transparent, electronically tunable metasurface as part of a $7.5M MURI project. Also featured is ECE PhD student, Zhanni Wu, who is a member of Grbic’s team.
AI needs memory to get cozier with compute
EECS-ECE professor Wei Lu’s company, Crossbar, is featured in EE Times.
3 New Chips to Help Robots Find Their Way Around
IEEE Spectrum highlights a new chip designed by Professors Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, and Hun-Seok Kim, along with PhD student Ziyun Li, that helps robots better navigate the world
Congratulations to all 2019 Women of Influence Winners and Nominees!
Dr. Katherine Herrick (EE: BS MS PhD), an ECE Council Member, was honored with the Technology Champion Award by Tuscon Local Media.
Governor Whitmer declares 03/28/19 “Chirped Pulse Amplification Day” in recognition of the work that led to the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for ECE Prof. Emeritus Gerard Mourou
Governor Whitmer declares Thursday, February 28, 2019 “Chirped Pulse Amplification Day” in recognition of the work that led to the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for Gerard Mourou, the A. D. Moore Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of ECE.
U-M could invest up to $20 million in four of its startups
Prof. Wei Lu’s startup, MemryX, receives $1M from U-M for developing an in-memory computing system.
Hygieia gets FDA approval for mobile app for diabetes care services
Thomas Knoll wins Academy Award
VIDEO: Thomas Knoll (BSE Physics ’82 MSE CICE ’84) wins the Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement for inventing Photoshop. Also honored are Knoll’s brother, John Knoll, for the original architecture, design and development, and Mark Hamburg for his continued development and engineering of Adobe Photoshop.
Innovative project tests the boundaries of HVAC demand response systems
Electric Light & Power highlights Prof. Johanna Mathieu’s $2.9M ARPA to use air conditioners to advance a renewable power grid.
Stateside: MI’s energy infrastructure; mother of modern office design; pushback on Title IX changes
Prof. Johanna Mathieu talks to NPR about what we learned about Michigan’s energy infrastructure during the Polar Vortex, and what we could do to avert a similar situation in the future.
University launches Commission on Carbon Neutrality
Prof. Stephen Forrest serves as co-chair of the new commission that will define carbon neutrality in the context of U-M and set a timeline and recommend strategies to achieve that goal.
The punishing polar vortex is ideal for Cassie the robot
EECS-ECE professor Jessy Grizzle explains how the polar vortex was used to push current robotics to its limits to improve designs in the future.
Why space weather is being made in the lab
Lousie Willingale, assistant professor ECE, discusses her research using HERCULES to study magnetized space winds in a lab.
A stellar achievement: Magnetized space winds in the laboratory
The international team that includes Prof. Louise Willingale is investigating the role of intense magnetic fields dragged by high-speed plasmas through astrophysical environments. HERCULES was used in the experiments.
The Quest to Build Robotic Hands
Humans can readily manipulate all kinds of objects. But robots need better mechanics – and a lot more intelligence. Prof. Dmitry Berenson teaches robots with large “arms” how to manipulate even soft, malleable objects.
KLA-Tencor Announces Plans to Establish R&D Facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan
“We’re confident that we can continue to create and deliver impactful technologies that ultimately help enrich the human experience. Our expansion into Michigan will help us realize our vision,” said alumnus Rick Wallace, chief executive officer.
Zetian Mi joins PBS SciTech Now for interview
EECS-ECE professor Zetian MI is featured in PBS SciTech Now.
Ashkin, Mourou, Strickland Win Nobel Prize in Physics
EECS-ECE Professor Emeritus Gerard Mourou and two other Nobel Prize awardees are featured.
Physics Nobel prize won by Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland
EECS-ECE Professor Emeritus Gérard Mourou and two other Nobel Prize awardees are detailed.
Nobel prize in physics awarded to scientists who put light to work
Gérard Mourou and two other researchers were awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Former University of Michigan professor awarded Nobel Prize
Michigan Engineering Professor Emeritus Gérard Mourou and two other researchers were awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.
University of Michigan professor wins Nobel Prize in Physics
Michigan Engineering Professor Emeritus Gérard Mourou and two other researchers have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.
PsiKick Brings Patented Batteryless IoT Sensor to Steam Traps
Prof. David Wentzloff’s startup company PsiKick is helping companies and their customers save money by ensuring equipment such as steam traps are functioning properly.
Michigan is making tech tiny … very tiny
David Blaauw explains the newest and smallest dust-sized computing system developed by a team of electrical and computer engineers.
‘Foreshadow’ attack affects Intel chips
EECS-CSE professor Thomas Wenisch explains how Foreshadow was discovered and the implications of the security risk.
University of Michigan team creates an even smaller world’s smallest ‘computer
Computer the size of a speck of dust created at University of Michigan
EECS professors David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester and Jamie Phillips and BE professor Gary Luker discuss the world’s smallest computer.
Michigan researchers demonstrate memristor-based PDE solver
EECS-ECE professor Wei Lu is featured in HPCwire.
The world’s smallest computer can fit on the tip of a grain of rice
EECS professors David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, and Jamie Phillips led the development of the system.
Researchers create world’s smallest ‘computer’
David Blaauw, EECS-ECE professor, led the development of the new system together with EECS-ECE professor Dennis Sylvester, and Jamie Phillips, an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of ECE.
The world’s smallest computer revealed: Incredible image shows tiny machine dwarfed by a grain of rice
David Blaauw, EECS-ECE professor, led the research with fellows EECS-ECE professors Jamie Phillips and Dennis Sylvester.
World’s tiniest ‘computer’ makes a grain of rice seem massive
David Blaauw, EECS-ECE professor, led the development of the new system together with EECS-ECE professor Dennis Sylvester, and Jamie Phillips, an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of ECE.
Researchers create world’s smallest ‘computer’
EECS professors David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, and Jamie Phillips led the development of the system. TechXplore reports.
U.S. Spy Agencies Seek Tech to Identify Deadly Chemicals From 30 Meters Away
Mohammed Islam, electrical engineering and computer science professor, and his team’s research into chemical sensing is profiled in IEEE Spectrum.
Lasers Could Make Computers 1 Million Times Faster
Researchers from Germany and the University of Michigan created a new computing technique that uses laser-light pulses to make a prototype of the fundamental unit of computing, called a bit, that could switch between its on and off, or “1” and “0” states, 1 quadrillion times per second.
From accident prevention to bike parking, Ann Arbor’s 100 mobility companies cover plenty of ground
Read about the Jason Corso’s company Voxel51, Ed Olson’s company May Mobility, alumnus Ansgar Strother’s company Movatic, and many more.
Crossbar pushes resisted RAM into embedded AI
The company, co-founded by Wei Lu, EECS professor, hopes to move artificial intelligence systems into mobile devices.
Lasers Could Make Computers 1 Million Times Faster
Researchers from Germany and University of Michigan pulsed infrared laser light on honeycomb-shaped lattices of tungsten and selenium, allowing the silicon chip to switch from “1” to “0” states just like a normal computer processor — only a million times faster.
Watch robot casually strut its stuff through fire
Jessy Grizzle, EECS and ME professor, sent bipedal robot Cassie Blue through fire.
Video Friday: Cassie on Fire
If you’ve ever wondered why Cassie continually takes steps like she’s walking across something hot, this video will make sense to you.
Cassie Blue robot at capitol building
Jessy Grizzle, EECS and ME professor, is quoted. WILX reports.
Michigan engineers develop solar-powered imaging sensor
This device developed by Sung-Yun Park, Kyuseok Lee, Hyunsoo Song and Professor Euisik Yoon can simultaneously capture an image and harvest energy.
Self-driving car industry confronts trust issues after Uber crash
Matthew Johnson-Roberson, assistant EECS professor, is quoted.
The self-driving Uber in fatal crash didn’t have a vision problem
Matthew Johnson-Roberson, assistant EECS professor, is quoted.
How May Mobility is spearheading autonomous driving in the form of shuttle services
Edwin Olson, associate EECS professor, is the CEO of May Mobility.
Pacemakers, defibrillators are potentially hackable
Kevin Fu, Associate EECS professor, is quoted.
An afternoon with U-M Robotics’ newest robot
ClickonDetroit spends time in Jessy Grizzle’s lab to witness his latest two-legged robot, known as Cassie Blue.
The Internet of Things: From Hype to Reality
The web of connected objects has so far failed to live up to its billing. But that should change.
Computers could get 100,000 times faster thanks to laser light pulses
Quantum computers get a step closer
Laser pulse study could lead to ultrafast computers
We’re talking about computers 100,000 times faster than current machines.
Lasers Could Lead To Computers That Are 100,000 Times Faster Than Today
When you consider what today’s computers are capable of, it’s fairly mind-boggling to imagine what a computer would be like that’s 100,000 times faster.
Laser breakthrough could make computers 100,000 times faster
The result is a step towards lightwave electronics which could eventually lead to a breakthrough in quantum computing