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A Year in Review Artwork by Rose Anderson A Year in Review Artwork by Rose Anderson EDITORS: ADDITIONAL STORY AND Catharine June PHOTO CONTRIBUTORS: Steven Crang Bentley Historical Library Nicole Casal Moore Gabe Cherry Marcin Szczepansk Robert Coelius Joseph Xu ASSISTANT EDITORS: Katherine McAlpine Electrical and Computer Engineering Zach Champion Electrical Engineering and Hayley Hanway Computer Science Building Rose Anderson 1301 Beal Avenue The Regents of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122 Jordan B. Acker, Huntington Woods Denise Ilitch, Bingham Farms Michael J. Behm, Grand Blanc Ron Weiser, Ann Arbor GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Mark J. Bernstein, Ann Arbor Katherine E. White, Ann Arbor Computer Science and Engineering Rose Anderson Paul W. Brown, Ann Arbor Mark S. Schlissel (ex officio) Bob and Betty Beyster Building Shauna Ryder Diggs, Grosse Pointe 2260 Hayward Street A Non-discriminatory, Affirmative Action Employer. © 2019 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121 2 CONTENTS Research Briefs 5 Student News 66 TECH TRANSFER 35 Honors and Awards 75 New Doctorates Awarded 77 Department News 37 Alumni News 80 Diversity 46 Alumni Spotlights 80 New Courses + Books 48 Alumni Briefs 86 Retirements 50 Faculty News 53 New Faculty 53 Faculty Honors, Awards, and Activities 55 CSE Advisory Board New Appointments 65 and ECE Council 88 Donor News 89 In Memoriam 92 EECS Faculty Directory 94 3 Message from thE Mingyan Liu, Chair Brian Noble, Chair ChairS Electrical and Computer Computer Science Engineering and Engineering Dear Friends, The new academic year has begun, and we are delighted to Awards, and a Sloan Research Fellowship. We congratulate have our new and returning students in the halls and in our these faculty for receiving such notable endorsements of their classrooms. We are committed to their success as we continue research and promise. to expand our academic and research initiatives and deepen Gérard Mourou, the A.D. Moore Distinguished University our footprint in society. We are happy to bring you the latest Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer news from EECS at Michigan, showcasing what we’ve done this Science, was one of three winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize past year. in Physics for “groundbreaking inventions in the field of One key area is our activity in power and energy. The world is laser physics.” He is the 25th Nobel Prize winner from the increasingly impacted through severe weather events, brought University of Michigan, and the first from our Department. on largely by our changing climate. Our faculty and students Read more about this great honor and many more honors and are finding ways to increase our ability to use and produce accomplishments of our faculty in this issue, including a new energy in sustainable ways, including leading a new presidential IEEE Field Award and three new professorships. Commission on Carbon Neutrality. Remember those days as a student? It can be an Automation is being introduced into all facets of our lives at accomplishment just to survive the coursework. We want an increasing pace – largely enabled by the devices, control, our students to not just survive, but to thrive and expand and algorithms of researchers in electrical engineering and their horizons. Read about just a few of the activities being computer science. In just one exciting example, automation undertaken by today’s students in and out of the classroom. is bringing paraplegics the realistic option of walking with the Whether developing an in-course app to aid in operating rooms, help of external exoskeletons. This level of sophistication in or traveling to Nepal to install solar panels, they are using their automation, partially enabled through advances in machine engineering skills in service to society. learning, has sparked a renewed interest in artificial intelligence, In line with the University of Michigan and the College of and an expanded view of the field. Engineering, the EECS Department is strongly supportive of But do we really want automation to be pervasive in our lives? a friendly, diverse, and equitable environment for all its faculty And how can we trust autonomous systems to act ethically? and staff. We have led highly successful programs in support of These questions consume electrical engineers and computer women in computing and engineering, and continue to offer a scientists alike – and are discussed in the context of a new wide variety of events that highlight different cultural traditions series of community events called Friday Night AI, held at the around the world. Our support of Spirit Day reflects our desire Ann Arbor Public Library and recorded for viewing online. to end bullying in all its many forms. We are delighted to welcome eleven new faculty to the Our alumni are our pride and joy! This year we focus on just a department. With expertise focused on programming, few, with longer profiles on our website. We welcome all of you automation (robotics, computer vision, control), and information to send your accomplishments, large and small. science, we are excited to see what they will bring to Michigan Until we meet again – be well and Go Blue! and contribute to the betterment of society. Eight of our young faculty have earned ten early career awards, including five NSF CAREER Awards, four Young Investigator 4 4 TEXT RESEARCH5 BRIEFS Working Together for a Green Future Faculty and students in the EECS Department have a deep commitment to creating a sustainable future for all. Following are some of the ways they are helping to create this future. Could Windows Power Cities? A new $1.3M project spearheaded by Prof. Stephen Forrest is working to turn windows into efficient solar cells that could provide power to entire buildings, and maybe one day, cities. Forrest’s group has already developed thin, transparent, photovoltaic sheets that can be placed over windows with no reduction in clarity, thanks to the use of organic photovoltaics. These sheets could transform the 50-70% of sunlight that is normally reflected by windows into energy. Forrest and his team have already achieved 8% efficiency in the lab, and plan to reach nearly 15% with 50% transparency in this new project. The project is funded by the Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office, which is funding new projects that are improving the affordability, flexibility, and performance of solar technologies on the grid, while creating the solar workforce of the future. Manufacturing Sustainable Lighting A new $1.6M research project funded by the Department of Energy is bringing the promise of energy efficient and flexible lighting options to the nation’s buildings and your living room. Capitalizing on past research in organic light-emitting-diodes (OLEDs) and advanced manufacturing techniques for organic solar cells, Prof. Stephen Forrest and his team are developing a high yield, automated process to manufacture white organic solid-state lighting devices that will come off the presses like sheets of newspaper. With about 25% of all electricity in the U.S. going to lighting, taking advantage of highly- efficient OLED technology in the world of lighting could result in huge energy savings. After overcoming most of the technical barriers in using OLEDs for general lighting, Forrest is now partnering with industry to develop a fast and efficient manufacturing process. 5 RESEARCH BRIEFS Air Conditioners Could Advance a Renewable Power Grid Power plants continuously ramp up and down to produce enough electricity to meet demand. However, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are highly variable, and that can make it difficult for traditional power plants to maintain this supply-demand balance. With the goals of improving the overall efficiency and reliability of the power grid while making the grid adaptable to renewable energy, Profs. Johanna Mathieu and Ian Hiskens aim to take strategic control of air conditioners. “The goal of the project is to use air conditioners to provide the balancing support that the renewables need, so you can have more renewables on the system without affecting the consumer,” Mathieu says. By changing when air conditioners cycle on and off, the researchers believe they can better balance energy from renewable sources. “Many papers have been written on this topic, but real-life, large-scale implementation has not previously been attempted. We have an opportunity to explore how this really works in practice,” says Ian Hiskens, the Vennema Professor of Engineering. The project is funded by a $2.9 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The U-M team is partnering with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the non-profit research and development organization Pecan Street, Inc., and the University of California, Berkeley. Can Batteries Make the Nation’s Grid More Sustainable? Prof. Johanna Mathieu and Prof. Catherine Hausman (School of Public Policy) are heading a new project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to evaluate the impact of batteries on the electrical grid. This research has the potential to help guide future energy policies and investment in battery storage, especially in the area of renewable energy. “We’re estimating how increasing the number of batteries on the system may change the mix of energy generation in the future,” said Mathieu. “The goal is to determine how to change policy so that battery storage achieves both our environmental and economic goals.” Prof. Hausman will analyze data from the largest electricity market in the Northeast, the PJM Interconnection, which has had a significant growth in battery storage. She will use statistical tools and data-driven approaches to examine the effects this growth has had on the economics of the electrical grid and other generating units, and examine how past policies Sustainable and technologies affected the energy infrastructure. Semiconductor Prof. Mathieu will use the data from PJM to examine how increased battery storage affected Manufacturing PJM’s ability to integrate renewable energy, and then predict how future grids may operate.
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