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AI slashes cost and time for chip design, but that is not all
Jan. 6, 2025

Researchers have harnessed artificial intelligence to take a key step toward slashing the time and cost of designing new wireless chips and discovering new functionalities to meet expanding demands for better wireless speed and performance.

Low-cost system will improve communications among industrial machines
Jan. 2, 2025

Researchers have found a low-power, inexpensive way for large numbers of devices, such as machines in factories and equipment in labs, to share information by efficiently using signals at untapped high frequencies.

Eavesdropping on underwater communications from the air
Nov. 21, 2024

Researchers from Princeton and MIT have found a way to intercept underwater messages from the air, overturning long held assumptions about the security of underwater transmissions.

Andrea Goldsmith named to Wireless Hall of Fame
Nov. 13, 2024

Goldsmith, dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, was recognized by the Wireless History Foundation for her pioneering work in wireless communications. In announcing the award, the organization cited…

Verma named Ralph H. and Freda I. Augustine Professor
Oct. 25, 2024

Verma’s research into the physics of integrated circuits has resulted in groundbreaking technologies in biomedical and advanced artificial intelligence applications. His AI chips use a mix of analog and…

From NASA to the FDA, Sapiro delivers high-impact technologies
Oct. 22, 2024

Guillermo Sapiro has joined the Princeton faculty as the Augustine Family Professor in Engineering and a professor of electrical and computer engineering, scheduled to start at Princeton in January 2025, after 13 years at Duke University. He is also a distinguished engineer with Apple, where he leads a team on health-related AI tools. 

Chengyu Wang receives Wallace Memorial Fellowship for exceptional graduate research
Oct. 16, 2024

Chengyu Wang, graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, received the Wallace Memorial Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year, the University’s highest award for graduate students in engineering.

Saien Xie wins 2024 Packard Fellowship
Oct. 15, 2024

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced that Saien Xie is one of 20 researchers to receive a 2024 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, intended for innovative, early-career scientists and engineers.

Internet researchers reach beyond academia to close major security loophole
Oct. 14, 2024

For years a potential disaster lurked in the internet’s encryption system, threatening the security of organizations and individuals worldwide. Princeton engineers have now squelched that threat, working with industry leaders to transform their research into a universal security standard that was adopted by global organizations in August and made effective Sep. 6.

Award for Excellence honors graduate student achievement
Oct. 1, 2024

The School of Engineering and Applied Science has given its annual Award for Excellence to four advanced graduate students in electrical and computer engineering who have performed at the highest level as scholars and researchers.

Malik group wins most influential paper award for their work on Boolean Satisfiability solvers
Sept. 30, 2024

Sharad Malik and members of his 2001 lab group won the DAC’s Most Influential Paper Award for developing an algorithm and a software tool to efficiently solve a class of equations that are foundational to many applications in cryptography, artificial intelligence, and hardware, software and network security and verification.

Simple shift could make low Earth orbit satellites high capacity
Sept. 18, 2024

Low-orbit satellites could soon offer millions of people worldwide access to high-speed communications, but the satellites’ potential has been stymied by a technological limitation — their antenna arrays can only manage one user at a time.