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Awards and Honors

ECE faculty awarded a NOAA grant for Detection, Monitoring, and Removal of Microplastics

September 4th, 2024

ECE Professor Mark Cheng was recently awarded a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration titled “Holistic Detection, Monitoring, and Removal of Microplastics Using Integrated Sensing and Filtration Systems” The project proposes (1) to create a low-fidelity product of the portable, cost-effective integrated system of microplastic filters and sensors that real-time monitor, capture, and […]

Dr. Shunqiao Sun receives a CAREER award

April 11th, 2024

Dr. Shunqiao Sun received the 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, for the project entitled, “CAREER: Towards Fundamentals of Adaptive, Collaborative and Intelligent Radar Sensing and Perception”. Automotive radar imaging represents a pressing technological need in perception for automotive active safety and autonomous driving. Automotive radar operating at millimeter-wave frequencies (typically around 77 GHz) […]

Dr. Sevgi Zubeyde Gurbuz is named Hewson Engineering Faculty Fellow

February 5th, 2024

Dr. Sevgi Gurbuz was named Hewson Engineering Faculty Fellow by the College of Engineering. Dr.  Gurbuz is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her main research focus lies in the advancement of RF-enabled Cyber-Physical Human Systems, radar signal processing, and machine learning algorithms. Gurbuz is a 2023 NSF Career Award […]

Prof. Sevgi Gurbuz receives an NSF award

August 18th, 2023

Assistant Professor Sevgi Gurbuz received an NSF award for the project titled “Collaborative Research: ECCS: Small: Personalized RF Sensing: Learning Optimal Representations of Human Activities and Ethogram on the Fly”. Radio Frequency (RF) sensing can be a game changer to reduce healthcare costs and disparities, improve quality of care, and facilitate aging-in-place because they are […]

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