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ecenews Rutgers University School of Engineering l Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering l 2017 ECE Team Wins First Prize at Harvard PacBot Robotics Competition page 6 Wearable Electronics for Personalized Biomolecular Health Monitoring page 15 Connected Vehicles page 18 Teaching Signal Processing to iGEN page 20 contents Message from the Chair . 3 ECE Faculty . 4 Student News . 6 Meet An ECE Student . 8 ECE News: . 11 The WINLAB Summer Internship . 22 Faculty News . 24 New Grants . 28 Alumni News . 29 Advisory Board. 30 Thank You . 30 ECE News is an annual publication of Rutgers ECE . Editor: Narayan Mandayam Assistants: Evelyn Gora-Evans, John Scafidi, Elisa Servito, Michael Sherman Photography: James De Salvo, Nick Romanenko, J Somers Photography LLC Design: Bart Solenthaler ECE News is also available at www.ece.rutgers.edu or can be mailed by sending a request to [email protected] Visit us at www.ece.rutgers.edu 2 l ecenews l Rutgers School of Engineering l Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering message from the Chair It is my pleasure to share with you some exciting news about my department during this past academic year . Our department continues to see an influx of highly talented faculty members contributing expertise in important emerging areas . This Fall we welcomed 3 new faculty members: Professor Yingying Chen (an expert in Mobile Health), Professor Salim El Rouayheb (an expert in data privacy and security) and Professor Michael Wu (an expert in antennas and metamaterials) . This makes it 15 new tenured and tenure-track faculty members we have welcomed to the department in the last 6 years, strengthening our footprint in areas such as signal and information processing, security, privacy, cyberphysical systems, bioelectrical engineering, big data and high performance computing . Our faculty and students have made ECE at Rutgers into one of the most vibrant departments, creating a community that fosters excellence in education and research . This excellence is reflected in the remarkable successes and outstanding achievements of both our students and faculty members alike . Highlights include Professor Peter Meer N. Mandayam (2016 AMiner Most Influential Scholar in Computer Vision), Professor Vishal Patel (2016 Jimmy H . C . Lin Award for Invention at the University of Maryland), Professor Grigore Burdea (2017 IEEE Virtual Reality Career Award), Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri (2017 Rutgers School of Engineering Faculty of the Year), Professor Emina Soljanin (2017 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award at Texas A&M) and Professor Athina Petropulu (ECE Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) Diversity Award) . Professors Waheed Bajwa and Hana Godrich also received Presidential Awards ECE Numbers for Teaching Excellence at Rutgers . Professors Mehdi Javanmard and Vishal Patel’s research on biosensing and biometric authentication, respectively, was featured multiple times in mainstream national and international media . Like the year 38 Faculty before, this year too was marked with a large number of external grants . 6 Part-Time Lecturers ECE graduate students amassed a large number of awards and recognitions, including best paper awards in the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science Engineering (Parul Pandey), ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals 750 (Kazem Cheshmi), IEEE/IFIP WONS Conference (Tuyen Tran, Parul Pandey and Abolfazl Hajisami), ACM Mobicom Visibile Undergraduate Students Light Communications Workshop (Viet Nguyen, Siddharth Rupavatharam, Minitha Jawahar), IEEE/ACM Internet of Things Design and Implementation Conference (Sugang Li), IEEE VTC Future Networking Technologies Workshop (Parishad 333 Karimi, Michael Sherman, Francesco Bronzino), and a best dissertation award from the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Graduate Systems Society (Shunqiao Sun) . ECE undergraduate student teams won prizes for their research projects at several Students, 100 PhD national competitions such as first place at the Harvard PacBot Robotics competition and the Excellence Award at IEEE Robotics VEX U competition . Space: 40,000 sq. ft. Consistent with this excellence, our student enrollment has grown dramatically with our incoming sophomore class size at nearly 320 students (an increase from the 250 last year!) and the incoming graduate student class size at around New Research 100 students . Our international program with a top tier university in China continues to flourish bringing in excellent Grants: students as we seek to expand such partnerships with other universities . ECE also remains one of the most sought after $6,662,182 majors for employers from a broad spectrum of industry, with the fundamentals that ECE students are exposed to here making them versatile and productive employees from day one . This was a great year for our alumni, whose amazing success is a source of inspiration to our students and faculty . Our department has produced outstanding scholars, industry leaders, entrepreneurs . You can meet some of them on page 29-30 . In our pursuit of excellence the support of our alumni and friends is essential . I would like to thank everybody who supported us this past year . Through this support we were able to supplement startup packages of new faculty, provide student fellowships, support student travel to conferences and maintain state-of-the-art laboratories . I am very proud of the accomplishments highlighted in this newsletter . Please visit us next time your travels bring you to our area, to experience up close the vibrancy of this department . Sincerely, Narayan Mandayam Distinguished Professor and Chair Rutgers School of Engineering l Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering l ecenews l 3 Richard Mammone Professor Research Interests: Computational pattern recognition, neural networks, signal processing, technology commercialization, processes ecefaculty involved with the innovation of new technology products, entrepreneurship . Narayan Mandayam Waheed U. Bajwa Hana Godrich Distinguished Professor, Department Associate Professor Assistant Teaching Professor Chair & Associate Director of WINLAB NSF Career Award, ARO YIP Award and Undergraduate Director Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar and Research Interests: High-dimensional Research Interests: Distributed power systems, Associate Director of WINLAB, IEEE Fellow, inference and inverse problems, compressed energy resources management and storage, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE sensing, statistical signal processing, wireless energy efficiency, statistical and array signal Research Interests: Cognitive radio networks communications, and applications in biological processing, resource allocation optimization, and spectrum policy radio, resource sciences, complex networked systems, and distributed detection and estimation with management for smart city, privacy in IoT . radar & image processing . application to smart grid, microgrids, and active sensor networks . Ivan Marsic Grigore Burdea Professor Professor Marco Gruteser Research Interests: Mobile computing, NSF Initiation Award Professor software engineering, computer networks . Research Interests: Virtual rehabilitation, NSF Career Award, Sigrid McAfee telerehabilitation, haptics virtual reality . ACM Distinguished Scientist Research Interests: Location-aware systems, Associate Professor Yingying (Jennifer) Chen pervasive computing systems, privacy and Research Interests: Defects in semiconductors, Professor security, mobile networking, sensor networks nanotechnology, financial engineering . NSF Career Award, Google Faculty and performance evaluation . John McGarvey Research Award, NJ Inventors Hall of Fame Assistant Teaching Professor Mehdi Javanmard Innovator Award Research Interests: Design and simulation Research Interests: Smart healthcare, Assistant Professor of power electronic systems, control system internet of things (IoT), smart safety systems, Research Interests: Nanobiotechnology, modeling via both the classic and modern cyber security and privacy, large-scale sensing bioMEMS, point of care diagnostics, biomarker state-space techniques, and the design and data analysis . detection, microfluidics, electrokinetics, testing of motor control systems . applications of nanotechnology to medicine Kristin Dana and biology . Peter Meer Professor Professor NSF Career Award Jaeseok Jeon IEEE Fellow, AMiner Most Influential Research Interests: Computer vision, Assistant Professor Scholar pattern recognition, machine learning, convex Research Interests: Nanoelectronic Research Interests: Statistical approaches optimization, novel cameras, camera networks, materials, devices and processing technologies, to computer vision . computer graphics, robotics, computational nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS) . photography, illumination modeling . Sophocles Orfanidis Shantenu Jha Associate Professor Maryam Mehri Dehnavi Associate Professor Research Interests: Statistical and adaptive Assistant Professor NSF Career Award signal processing, audio signal processing, Research Interests: High-performance Research Interests: High-performance electromagnetic waves and antennas . computing, machine learning, numerical analysis, and distributed computing, computational compilers, and parallel systems . and data-intensive science and engineering, Laleh Najafizadeh large-scale cyberinfrastructure for science Assistant Professor Salim El Rouayheb & engineering . Research Interests: Functional brain imaging, Assistant Professor brain connectivity, diffuse optical brain