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Electrical and Computer Engineering curriculum prepares students to join the AI revolution

As AI-related skills become more valuable in research and industry, ECE faculty weave these topics into courses spanning their educational journey.

 2025 CoE Staff-Faculty Partnership Award

Prof. Robert Dick is highly respectful of staff while freely praising their efforts and working as a partner to achieve goals.

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.

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.

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.
Business Wire: September 14, 2023

NTT Research PHI Lab Scientists Address Bias in AI

Doctoral student Ekdeep Singh Lubana is first author on a paper addressing bias in AI in a collaboration with researchers at Harvard, U of Cambridge, and NTT Research Inc. The authors, including Prof. Robert Dick, propose a new algorithm to help overcome bias in deep neural networks (DNNs).
December 5, 2022

Computer Engineering Education

Prof. Robert Dick participated in a virtual roundtable for IEEE on computer engineering education.

Robert Dick receives Monroe-Brown Foundation Education Excellence Award

Dick has provided outstanding contributions to undergraduate and graduate education in the area of embedded systems.

Redesigning an Electrical Engineering curriculum with a focus on systems principles and engineering design

With new courses at the freshman, sophomore, and junior levels, Michigan ECE is training tomorrow’s engineers to be leaders in a diverse workforce in service to society.

2019 EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards

Congratulations to these recipients of the EECS Outstanding Achievement Award

More efficient machine vision technology modeled on human vision

Prof. Robert Dick and advisee Ekdeep Singh Lubana developed a new technique that significantly improves the efficiency of machine vision applications

Robert Dick to apply cyber information to air quality management

The grant is part of a new $12.5M initiative by the National Science Foundation to encourage computing innovations for a sustainable society.

MCubed A Year Later: A record of fostering innovative research

Several of the cubes enabled research to progress to the point that faculty are applying for larger grants to continue the work.

ECE faculty are MCubing to find answers – fast

The goal of MCubed is to jumpstart novel, high-risk and transformative research projects.

Xi Chen and Prof. Robert Dick receive DATE Best Paper Award

The authors analyzed performance and accuracy for a variety of dynamic thermal analysis techniques and used their findings to develop a new analysis technique. Congratulations!

Yahoo! Expands M45 Supercomputing Initivative, selects U-M

The M45 program allows universities to conduct research otherwise impossible without the power and speed of an Internet-scale supercomputing resource.