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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.

Rising senior Ian Henriques wins award for highest academic standing
Sept. 4, 2024

Ian Henriques, undergraduate in electrical and computer engineering *25, received the Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award for having achieved the highest academic standing for all preceding college work at the University at the end of junior year.

Princeton team that invented advanced AI chip wins Edison Patent Award
Aug. 15, 2024

Princeton researchers Naveen Verma, Hongyang Jia and Hossein Valavi have been awarded an Edison Patent Award from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey, recognizing their groundbreaking computer chip architecture for advanced artificial intelligence. The award is the state’s top honor for inventors.

Mengdi Wang wins Donald P. Eckman Award for extraordinary contributions to automatic control
Aug. 6, 2024

Wang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, is a machine learning expert whose research focuses on optimization, reinforcement learning and generative artificial intelligence. Her research has led to the creation of faster and more efficient algorithms for solving complex…

Hakan Türeci and Minjie Chen promoted
July 18, 2024

Minjie Chen

Chen, promoted to associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, works on developing smaller, smarter and more energy-efficient power electronics. Those components help convert and control electrical power in robots, electric vehicles,…