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Hu, Valavi and Zhou receive teaching awards honoring excellence within and beyond the classroom
April 23, 2025

Tuo Hu, Hoseein Valavi and Jonathan Zhou were honored on April 4 at the annual School of Engineering and Applied Science Excellence in Teaching Awards.

Material? Robot? It’s a metabot
April 23, 2025

In an experiment reminiscent of the Transformers movie franchise, engineers at Princeton University have created a type of material that can expand, assume new shapes, move and follow electromagnetic commands like a remotely controlled robot even though it lacks any motor or internal gears.

Computation-efficient wireless simulation tool wins Best Paper Award
April 21, 2025

A new approach for simulating how wireless signals travel and bounce around has won a Best Paper Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Wireless Communications and Networking Conference in March. The paper introduces a tool that provides an efficient and accurate approach to modeling wireless channels for…

For the first time, scientists map the half-billion connections that allow mice to see
April 10, 2025

After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision centers of a mouse brain, revealing the exquisite structures and functional systems of mammalian perception.

Network security expert Maria Apostolaki receives NSF CAREER Award
April 10, 2025

The National Science Foundation has awarded Maria Apostolaki a CAREER Award, part of its Faculty Early Career Development Program that supports junior faculty who exemplify leadership in education and research. The award is the NSF’s most prestigious recognition of early-career academic scientists and engineers and comes with more than $600,000 in research funding over five years.

David Radcliff receives President's Achievement Award
April 3, 2025

David Radcliff – better known as Radd – was honored as a recipient of the President’s Achievement Award (PAA) for his commitment to excellence and exceptional performance. The award was established in 1997 to recognize members of the support and administrative staffs with five or more years of service whose dedication, excellent work and special efforts have contributed significantly to the success of their departments and the University as a whole.

Eight ECE faculty commended for outstanding teaching
March 12, 2025

Eight ECE professors and lecturers received a commendation for outstanding teaching from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. The commendations cover teaching during the fall 2024 semester. Commendations are determined by course ratings by students.

Princeton researchers win Applied Networking Research Prize for improving internet performance
March 10, 2025

Research led by Princeton engineers has won an Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) for improving internet routing for smaller networks, such as those used by businesses and universities.

Sengupta group wins best journal paper of the year award for AI-designed chips
March 5, 2025

A technique that demonstrated the use of AI to slash the time and cost of designing new wireless chips for the first time has won the 2023 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 

Andrea Goldsmith receives three honors for seminal contributions to wireless technology
Feb. 18, 2025

Andrea Goldsmith, dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received three major honors recognizing her seminal research contributions to wireless communications, and for translating these contributions into widespread practice.

Prateek Mittal named ACM distinguished member
Feb. 17, 2025

Prateek Mittal has been named a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions to privacy-preserving and secure systems.

Sneha D. Goenka joins Princeton faculty with expertise in computer systems architecture for advanced genomic applications
Jan. 22, 2025

Sneha D. Goenka, an expert in computer architecture and systems for computational genomics, has joined Princeton University as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.