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Oct 02, 2020
PhD Spotlight: Morris Vanegas, PhD’21 – Bioengineering
I finished my PhD in bioengineering with a concentration in medical imaging. For my dissertation, I designed, built, and characterized three diffuse optical imaging systems—a smartphone-based oxygen saturation sensor, a modular brain imaging system, and a diffuse optical mammography instrument.
Sep 14, 2020
ChE Graduate Student Jiaming Xu Now Published in AIChE Journal
ChE PhD Graduate Student Jiaming Xu co-authored a paper with ChE Associate Professor Francisco Hung and Associate Professor Steve Lustig titled “Power generation from waste heat: Ionic liquid‐based absorption cycle versus organic Rankine cycle” which was published in the AIChE Journal.
Sep 14, 2020
Bencherif Lab Receives NSF I-Corps Teams Award
The Bencherif lab received a $50K NSF award for “Oxygen-controlling Cryogels for Cell Culture Applications” to participate in the national NSF Innovation Corps Teams program.
Sep 11, 2020
MIE PhD Candidate Criss Zhang co-hosted the 2020 AtC-AtG International Magnetics Conference
MIE PhD Candidate Criss (Xiaoyu) Zhang served on the Program Committee and helped run the 2020 Around-the-Clock Around-the-Globe (AtC-AtG) Magnetics Conference, a brand-new virtual international conference powered by the IEEE Magnetics Society.
Aug 28, 2020
Best Paper Award at IEEE HPEC 2020
Computer engineering PhD student Mahsa Bayati (PhD’20), ECE Professor Miriam Leeser, Associate Professor Ningfang Mi were awarded the Outstanding Student Paper Award for their paper “Exploiting GPU Direct Access to Non-Volatile Memory to Accelerate Big Data Processing” at the 2020 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC).
Aug 10, 2020
Cloud Physics Conundrum: Finetuning Climate Models Using Machine Learning
CEE PhD student Nishant Yadav won the Best Student Paper Award by the AI Foundation For Good’s Fragile Earth Workshop for his paper “Machine Learning for Robust Identification of Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Applications to Earth Systems Modeling.”
Aug 06, 2020
ECE PhD Student Vageeswar Rajaram Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE IFCS-ISAF
Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Vageeswar Rajaram receives best paper award at IEEE IFCS-ISAF 2020 Virtual Conference for his paper “A Zero Standby Power MEMS Switch-based Infrared Sensor with Frequency Output”.
Jul 20, 2020
CEE PhD Alum Created a Model to Analyze the Spread of COVID-19 Cases in India
CEE Interdisciplinary PhD Alum Udit Bhatia started to model the rise in COVID-19 cases early in India and now his modeling is being used to understand the spread in real-time and forecast infection rates.