Communications

Plasma science has the potential to speed advances in medicine, energy, electronics and more—including helping us deal with pandemics.

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

Mahdavifar is preparing for a future of billions of connected devices and an unprecedented increase in mobile traffic.

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

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

With the help of two NSF awards totaling $1.7m, Prof. Hessam Mahdavifar is tackling new problems to improve the reliability of communication systems for 5G and beyond.

CE undergrad Amulya Parmar designed a machine learning algorithm to curb fake news as part of the Tavtech Fellowship program.

For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, U-M ECE takes a look back – and a look forward – to how our professors, students, and alums have made their mark on the field.

Terahertz and sub-terahertz imaging can provide superior results in some biomedical imaging, spectroscopy, and water saturation detection.

U-M’s amateur radio club, headquartered in ECE, offers engineering challenges and a chance to network with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and strangers both on the other side of the world and those orbiting it.

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

Researchers built the first millimeter-scale transmitter and antenna that can talk Bluetooth Low Energy with ease.

With $7.5M MURI grant, Professor Anthony Grbic is developing metamaterials for a new generation of integrated electromagnetic and photonic systems.

Mortazawi recognized as a distinguished educator in the field of microwave engineering and science.

Kim’s research is expected to impact the future design and wireless operation of the next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices

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

His research included transportation systems, digital communications, position location, and microwave and fiber optics.

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

Shannon theorized the binary code of zeros and ones that makes cell phones, email and the Internet possible.

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

Eric is an international leader in the field of computational electromagnetics and specializes in the development of fast-solution methods and optimization algorithms.

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

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

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