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11/19/2024
Syed Rafiul Hussain, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, leads a research team addressing a variety of mobile network vulnerabilities. The team's research focuses on issues in hardware, coding and networking, that leave everyone, from the network providers to the end user of the phone, at risk.
11/18/2024
The Penn State Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase at the Bryce Jordan Center on Dec. 10 and its virtual showcase Wednesday, Dec. 11 through Friday, Dec. 20. Both versions of the event are free and open to the public.
11/15/2024
The Penn State College of Engineering invites alumni and friends to support engineering student success through a GivingTuesday gift on Dec. 3 as Penn State celebrates its tenth GivingTuesday.
11/12/2024
Joshua Benjestorf, a Penn State electrical engineering Ph.D. candidate and CEO of Non-Metallic Connectors, Inc., was awarded a Forty under 40 award by the Central Penn Business Journal.
11/8/2024
A team of researchers led by Nanyin Zhang, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Brain Imaging and professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, recently published their findings about how blood flow changes to different brain regions relate to what is happening with the brain's neurons.
11/7/2024
Richard Wilson has been named the fall 2024 student marshal for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) at Penn State. He will receive a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Penn State College of Engineering with a minor in military studies.
11/1/2024
Eight Penn State College of Engineering graduate students have received the Diefenderfer Graduate Fellowship in Entrepreneurship for the 2024-2025 academic year. The Diefenderfer Graduate Fellowship encourages and provides financial support to innovative and entrepreneurial graduate engineering students.
10/30/2024
Aneesh Kshirsagar, an electrical engineering PhD student advised by Dr. Weihua Guan, received a Best Paper Award at the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Healthcare Innovation - Point-Of-Care Technologies Conference late last month. The paper's findings could help significantly advance virus testing by providing real-time, accurate diagnostics in settings where complex lab equipment is unavailable.
10/11/2024
Three Penn State students took the stage at The Global Impact Forum (TGIF) 2024 to share the knowledge and practical experience they’ve acquired while using artificial intelligence and machine learning as part of programs offered through the Nittany AI Alliance.
10/10/2024
The J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School at Penn State recognized 110 graduate students, including 20 College of Engineering students, as recipients of the 2024-2025 University Graduate Fellowships. These students were honored at a reception held in the Bryce Jordan Center on Oct. 3.
10/9/2024
A team of Penn State researchers has been selected to lead a three-year, $8,552,388 multi-institution project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to identify cognitive threats in mixed-reality (MR) systems as part of the Intrinsic Cognitive Security program.
10/8/2024
Rui Zhang, assistant professor of computer science in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Penn State College of Engineering, will focus his NSF CAREER award on developing usable, trustworthy, responsible and safe artificial intelligence that operates under user control, reflects social norms and honors human knowledge.
10/7/2024
Saptarshi Das, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics and of electrical engineering at Penn State, was featured in a Q&A article by Tech Briefs. The article discussed the research of Das and his team that focused on Heliconius butterflies and how they process two sensory inputs — pheromones and vision — at once to find a mate.
10/4/2024
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year, $2 million Future of Semiconductors (FuSe2) grant to researchers at Penn State and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), to develop wireless communications and sensing platforms through advanced chips and packaging, the process of arranging, enclosing and protecting semiconductor devices.
10/4/2024
Twelve Penn State faculty members, including two from the College of Engineering, received Fulbright Scholar Awards for the 2024-25 academic year, according to the?Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.?An additional four faculty members, including two from the College of Engineering, have been named Fulbright Specialist Award recipients.??
10/2/2024
To enhance biosensor development via artificial intelligence (AI) and offer STEM education opportunities to K-12 students from underserved communities, the U.S. National Science Foundation recently awarded researchers at Penn State a three-year, $1.5 million grant.
9/27/2024
Zifan Zhou and Xuan Wang, both electrical engineering doctoral students at Penn State, received third place in the poster presentation competition at the Closing the Gap: Strategies for Effective Methane Emissions Reduction Symposium.
9/24/2024
Anand Sivasubramaniam, distinguished professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, has been named the program committee chair for International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) 2025.
9/23/2024
Xiaodong Jia, a Penn State doctoral student in computer science and engineering, received a distinguished paper award at the Association for Computing Machinery Program Language Design and Implementation 2024 conference.
9/19/2024
The Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering announces the inaugural cohort of students for its new undergraduate research program. The program pairs undergraduate students one-to-one with faculty across the department for the duration of this two-semester, seven-credit program.
9/12/2024
Penn State and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have announced the awardees for the 2024-25 cycle of their collaboration program. These awardees comprise four joint projects that connect Penn State and IISc researchers.
9/12/2024
Nine Penn State researchers, including three from the College of Engineering, have been named fellows of the Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE) for 2024.
9/5/2024
Ryan Jai Hokimi is one of the many budding entrepreneurs who has tapped into the University’s many resources and networks that exist to help students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members turn their ideas into viable businesses. Jai Hokimi and fellow student Braeden Davidson, a junior pursuing a degree in corporate entrepreneurship and innovation, recently co-founded Saveware, a startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the sales tax refund process for businesses and tax firms.
9/4/2024
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today (Sept. 4) that it will continue to support Penn State’s Center for Three-Dimensional Ferroelectric Microelectronics Manufacturing (3DFeM) as an Energy Frontier Research Center.
9/4/2024
Using butterfly and shrimp sight as inspiration, Penn State researchers developed a metasurface, which uses, tiny, antenna-like nanostructures to tailor light and encode the spectral and polarization information of a captured image. They also developed a neural network to decode the images.
9/3/2024
Seventeen graduate students from Penn State have been awarded research fellowships and six undergraduate students from the commonwealth have been awarded scholarships for 2024 from the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC).
8/27/2024
Electrical engineering doctoral student Ardanvan Javid was awarded second place in the student paper contest at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
8/20/2024
In the latest episode of Invent Penn State’s Dare to Disrupt podcast, host Ryan Newman interviews Jason Warner, the former chief technology officer (CTO) of GitHub and current co-founder and chief executive officer of generative artificial intelligence (AI) company poolside.
8/20/2024
Penn State has announced the selection of 23 faculty members for the Penn State Emerging Academic Leaders (PSEAL) program for fall 2024. This initiative highlights individuals who have demonstrated exceptional potential for academic leadership and innovation within their fields.
8/19/2024
Invent Penn State’s?Summer Founders Program, which provides each student team with a $15,000 grant to work on their startups over the summer at?Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank, concluded with a final "Demo Day” on Aug. 7.
8/15/2024
The Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team (AVT) took home multiple wins, including third place overall, in its third year of the AutoDrive Challenge II, which empowers student teams to develop and test a fully autonomous passenger vehicle on a controlled urban driving course over a weeklong competition.
8/8/2024
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) has awarded $600,000 to Penn State’s Silicon Carbide Innovation Alliance (SCIA) to develop a series of educational courses, workshops, and paid academic and industrial internships focused on workforce development in Pennsylvania for the growing semiconductor industry.
8/7/2024
Long He, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and colleagues in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and the College of Engineering recently received a 2024 Superior Paper Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers for their research project titled, “An Advanced Robotic System for Precision Chemical Thinning of Apple Blossoms.”
7/29/2024
Doug Werner, the John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received the Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Antennas and Propagation Society.
7/22/2024
Penn State is among the institutions partnering with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to launch a project to develop an innovative suite of tools that will employ machine learning algorithms for more effective cybersecurity analysis of the U.S. power grid.
7/16/2024
Dibya Mishra has been named the summer 2024 student marshal for the Penn State College of Engineering. Mishra will receive her bachelor of science degree in computer science with a business certificate from the Smeal College of Business at the University’s commencement ceremony.
7/3/2024
A team of Penn State researchers won the Best Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery Great Lakes Symposium on Very Large-Scale Integration (ACM GLSVLSI) 2024, held June 12-14 in Clearwater, Florida.
7/1/2024
A Penn State research team was one of eight chosen to receive funding from NASA as part of the agency’s University SmallSat Technology Partnerships (USTP) initiative within NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology (SST) program.
6/27/2024
Six College of Engineering baccalaureate graduates have been selected for the U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP). Four engineering graduates were also named honorable mentions for the NSF-GRFP.
6/20/2024
Swaroop Ghosh, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and engineering, was awarded the 2023-24 Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Award by the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS).
6/17/2024
Zaid Pervez, a doctoral student in electrical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned second place in the student paper competition at the International Union of Radio Science’s Atlantic Radio Science Meeting.
5/31/2024
Penn State and the National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU) in Taiwan announced that they will partner on the development of educational and research programs focused on semiconductor technology and photonics.
5/28/2024
Penn State engineers Madhavan Swaminathan and Daniel Lopez explain in a Q&A the importance of advanced chip packaging to the U.S. semiconductor industry and how Penn State-led initiatives help turn innovations in the lab into reliable domestic production.
5/20/2024
Emerging technologies using computer science, engineering and data are on the mind of Penn State Institute of Computational Data Sciences (ICDS) Associate Director Mahmut Kandemir, who is also a distinguished professor of computer science.
5/20/2024
Using metamaterials, a team of electrical engineering researchers from Penn State and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln created an ultrathin optical element that can control the direction of polarized electromagnetic light waves. This new control allows researchers to not only direct the light’s chirality, but also to identify the chirality of molecules by determining how polarized light interacts with them.
5/14/2024
The Erickson Discovery Grant, which funds independent research projects for undergraduate students, has been awarded to five engineering majors, who were among 43 recipients this year.
5/3/2024
In 2020, the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation committed $15.5 million to create the A. James Clark Scholars Program in the College of Engineering to support high-achieving engineering students with significant financial need. This spring, the first cohort of A. James Clark Scholars will graduate from the Penn State College of Engineering.
5/3/2024
Debarati Das, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $647,681 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for a project titled, “A Theoretical Exploration of Efficient and Accurate Clustering Algorithms."
5/3/2024
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, the A. Robert Noll Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the College of Engineering’s associate dean for innovation, has been named an Evan Pugh University Professor, one of five this year.
4/25/2024
Bin Li, associate professor of electrical engineering, was part of a team of three researchers that received the Best Demo Honorable Mention Award at IEEE VR 2024.
4/25/2024
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2024 commencement ceremony.
4/23/2024
Six members of the College of Engineering are among the winners of the 16th annual Materials Visualization Competition (MVC), a scientific visual and artistic competition sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE) and the Materials Research Institute (MRI) at Penn State.
4/19/2024
Abhronil Sengupta, the Joseph R. and Janice M. Monkowski Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State, was granted a three-year, $360,000 Early Career Program Award from the Army Research Office.
4/19/2024
Julio Urbina, professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected as a Fulbright Scholar for the 2024-25 academic year. He will spend a semester conducting research and teaching in Lima, Peru.
4/18/2024
Two computer science majors were part of a team that took first place in the 2024 Ag Springboard student business pitch contest, which took place in early April in State College. The team took home $7,500 to further their project.
4/18/2024
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, associate dean for innovation in the College of Engineering and A. Robert Noll Chair Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and Douglas Werner, John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor, are among the six Penn State faculty members elected to the 2023 cohort of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
4/16/2024
Six Penn State startups, all of which were founded or co-founded by students in the College of Engineering, have been selected to participate in the 2024 Invent Penn State Summer Founders program.
4/16/2024
Penn State and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are collaborating to enhance academic and research ties through a series of workshops and a new seed grant program for the 2024-25 academic year.
4/4/2024
Eight College of Engineering graduate students were among the forty Penn State graduate students named recipients of Penn State’s most prestigious annual graduate student recognition awards.
3/18/2024
Twelve Penn State engineering graduates have been selected to receive the Penn State College of Engineering’s Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award.
3/13/2024
Abhronil Sengupta, the Joseph R. and Janice M. Monkowski Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $500,000 U.S. NSF CAREER Award.
3/13/2024
A team of researchers led by Vishal Monga, Penn State professor of electrical engineering, received a four year, $1.6 million grant from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program for their work on imaging and classifying underwater military munitions.
3/11/2024
Yunting Liu, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $550,000 U.S. NSF CAREER Award for a project that aims to revolutionize the field of power electronics by introducing irregular modulation theory to power converters.
2/29/2024
A team of three Penn State undergraduate students placed fourth in the East Central North American Regional of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), qualifying them to advance to the North American Championship.
2/27/2024
Zoubeida Ounaies, professor of mechanical engineering, Julio Urbina, professor of electrical engineering, and Vanessa Dib, an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering, were recently recognized in Penn State Global’s 2023-24 annual awards.
2/26/2024
Alaska needs an estimated 27,500 new housing units over the next 10 years to alleviate overcrowding and unsanitary conditions, according to the Alaska Housing Foundation Corporation. A Penn State interdisciplinary team that includes researchers from the College of Engineering is looking to alleviate some of that stress with a $376,000 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant.
2/20/2024
Implantable biomedical devices — like pacemakers, insulin pumps and neurostimulators — are becoming smaller and utilizing wireless technology, but hurdles remain for powering the next-generation implants. A new wireless charging device developed by Penn State scientists could dramatically improve powering capability for implants while still being safe for our bodies, the researchers said.
2/12/2024
Mimicking the easy, instantaneous image processing power of the human eye, Penn State electrical engineering researchers created a metasurface: an optical element akin to a glass slide that uses tiny nanostructures placed at different angles to control light.
2/7/2024
Several master’s in engineering programs offered through Penn State’s World Campus earned top recognitions from the 2024 U.S. News & World Report “Best Online Programs” rankings, released today (Feb. 7).
2/2/2024
Iam-Choon Khoo, the William E. Leonhard Professor of Electrical Engineering, received the 2024 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award in Photonics from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
1/29/2024
A team of undergraduate students in Penn State’s Student Space Programs Laboratory won the 2023 Innovation Award at NASA’s annual Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge.
1/24/2024
The National Academy of Inventors named Qiming Zhang, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering in Penn State’s College of Engineering, a fellow — the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
12/14/2023
Penn State has been selected by the Department of Defense (DoD) as a partner for two of the four newly created DoD research centers of excellence. The Penn State principal investigators discuss Penn State's role in the centers and the research they plan to conduct.
12/7/2023
Yifan Lu has been named the fall 2023 student marshal for the Penn State College of Engineering. Commencement will be held at 9 a.m. on Dec. 16 in the Bryce Jordan Center at University Park.
12/7/2023
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, spoke with Penn State News on Penn State’s efforts to build relationships between India and the U.S. in higher education.
12/6/2023
One faculty member and two graduate students from the Penn State College of Engineering are among the six materials researchers that received the 2023 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award.
12/1/2023
Syed Rafiul Hussain, the Charles K. Etner Early Career Assistant Professor in Penn State’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will lead a team of graduate students in researching how to detect and avert threats to 5G communications.
