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Click Here for the 2019 Newsletter ecenews Rutgers University School of Engineering l Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering l 2019 Capstone 1st Place Winners Cancer Cell Biosensor Cancer Cell Biosensor page 15 International Woman’s Day Talk page 16 Juniper Network Competition page 23 2019 PECASE Award page 24 DARPA YFA & NSF CAREER Awards page 25 AAAS Fellow Announcement page 26 International Women’s Day Irons Endowed Lecture M. Wu and students S. Zonouz receives PECASE award at the White House G41965_ECE_Newsletter_2019.indd 1 11/12/19 5:48 PM contents Message from the Chair . 3 ECE Faculty . 4 Student News . 6 Meet an ECE Student . 8 ECE News . 10 Faculty News . 24 New Grants . 29 Alumni News . 30 Advisory Board. 31 Thank You . 31 ECE News is an annual publication of Rutgers ECE . Editors: Athina Petropulu, Waheed Bajwa, Narayan Mandayam Assistants: Pamela Heinold, John Scafidi, Elisa Servito, Michael Sherman Photography: James De Salvo, Bill Cardoni Photography, Roy Groething, Don Hamerman, Nick Romanenko, J Somers Photography LLC Design: Bart Solenthaler ECE News is also available at www.ece.rutgers.edu or can be received by mail 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 G41965_ECE_Newsletter_2019.indd 2 11/12/19 5:48 PM message from the Chair As I commence the first year of my 2nd term as 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 year we welcomed 2 new Assistant Professors: Dr . Yuqian Zhang (an expert in computer vision), and Dr . Sumati Sehajpal (an expert in electronic circuits and controls) . This makes it 9 new tenure-track and teaching faculty members we have welcomed to the department in the last 3 years, strengthening our footprint in areas such as computer vision, signal and information processing, security, privacy, cyberphysical systems, bioelectrical engineering, machine learning and high performance computing . Our faculty and students continue to make ECE one of the most vibrant departments at Rutgers, creating a community that fosters excellence in education and research . This excellence is reflected in the remarkable successes and outstanding achievements of our students and faculty members alike . Highlights include Professor Athina Petropulu (named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science), Professor Yicheng Lu (named the School of Engineering Faculty of the Year), Professor Salim El Rouayheb (named the A . Walter Tyson Endowed Assistant Professor), Professor N. Mandayam Mehdi Javanmard (2018 NSF CAREER Award), Professor Michael Wu (2019 DARPA Young Faculty Award) and Professor Saman Zonouz (2019 PECASE Award from the U .S . White House) . Professor Grigore Burdea’s research on using virtual reality for rehabilitation won two best paper awards at international conferences . Professor Yingying Chen’s research on suspicious object detection using WiFi was featured on CBS TV, and Professor Janne Lindqvist’s research on password security was featured on PBS TV . Like the year before, this year too was marked with a large number of external grants . ECE Numbers An ECE graduate team led by doctoral student Sumit Maheshwari along with master’s students Aayush Shah and Mohit Sheth won first place at the Juniper Network and Comcast Software Defined Network (SDN) Throwdown competition . 38 In addition, ECE students amassed a large number of recognitions, including a “Samsung Breakthroughs That Matter” award Faculty at the MIT Hacking Medicine Grand Hack 2019 (Mengmei Ye), Best Demo Award at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (Vidyasagar Sadhu and Mehdi Rahmati), IEEE COMSOC Phoenix ISS 4 Scholarship (Neelakantan Krishnan and Chen Wang), Chancellor’s Leadership Award (Tahsina Sanam), and Fellowship Part-Time in the Rutgers PreDoctoral Leadership Development Academy (Hafiz Imtiaz) . ECE undergraduate students were again Lecturers shining on the national stage – senior Michael Edwin won first place for his research project that applied electromagnetic waves in the detection of human vital signs and human tracking at the 6th Annual Black Doctoral Network Conference, 800 senior Jonathan Scott received the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship that will fund Undergraduate his graduate studies at Princeton, and junior Marissa Navarro-Jauregui was selected for the prestigious Brooke Owens Students Fellowship that recognizes outstanding women engineers intending to pursue a career in aerospace . Consistent with this excellence, ECE student enrollment remains the highest in the School of Engineering, with our 266 undergraduate enrollment across sophomore, junior and senior years at over 820, and the incoming graduate student Graduate class size at around 90 students . Our international program with a top tier university in China continues to flourish bringing Students in excellent students and we have expanded such partnerships to a second university . ECE students are also highly sought after by employers from a broad spectrum of industry, with the fundamentals that students are exposed to here making 115 them versatile and productive employees from day one . PhD Students 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 Space: 40,000 sq. ft. pages 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-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 G41965_ECE_Newsletter_2019.indd 3 11/12/19 5:48 PM Narayan Mandayam Distinguished Professor & Department Chair Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar and ecefaculty Associate Director of WINLAB, IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Research Interests: Cognitive radio networks and spectrum policy radio resource management Waheed U. Bajwa Marco Gruteser for smart city, privacy in IoT . Professor Associate Professor Ivan Marsic NSF Career Award, ARO YIP Award Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar Professor Research Interests: High-dimensional NSF Career Award Research Interests: Mobile computing, software inference and inverse problems, compressed ACM Distinguished Scientist engineering, computer networks . sensing, statistical signal processing, wireless Research Interests: Location-aware systems, communications, and applications in biological pervasive computing systems, privacy and Sigrid McAfee sciences, complex networked systems, and security, mobile networking, sensor networks Associate Professor Emeritus radar & image processing . and performance evaluation . Research Interests: Defects in semiconductors, nanotechnology, financial engineering . Grigore Burdea Umer Hassan Professor Assistant Professor John McGarvey NSF Initiation Award Research Interests: Biosensing, point of contact Assistant Teaching Professor IEEE Virtual Reality Career Award medicine, microfluidics, global health . Research Interests: Design and simulation Research Interests: Virtual rehabilitation, of power electronic systems, control system telerehabilitation, haptics virtual reality . Mehdi Javanmard modeling via both the classic and modern Associate Professor Yingying (Jennifer) Chen state-space techniques, and the design and NSF Career Award testing of motor control systems . Professor and Associate Research Interests: Nanobiotechnology, Undergraduate Director BioMEMS, Point of care diagnostics, Sophocles Orfanidis NSF Career Award, Google Faculty Biomarker detection, Microfluidics, Associate Professor Research Award, NJ Inventors Hall of Fame Electrokinetics, Applications of nanotechnology Research Interests: Statistical and adaptive Innovator Award to medicine and biology . signal processing, audio signal processing, Research Interests: Smart healthcare, internet of electromagnetic waves and antennas . things (IoT), smart safety systems, cyber security Shantenu Jha and privacy, large-scale sensing data analysis . Associate Professor Peter Meer NSF Career Award Distinguished Professor Emeritus Kristin Dana Research Interests: High-performance IEEE Fellow, AMiner Most Influential Scholar Professor and distributed computing, computational Research Interests: Statistical approaches NSF Career Award and data-intensive science and engineering, to computer vision . Research Interests: Computer vision, large-scale cyberinfrastructure for science pattern recognition, machine learning, convex & engineering . Laleh Najafizadeh optimization, novel cameras, camera networks, Associate Professor computer graphics, robotics, computational Janne Lindqvist Research Interests: Functional brain imaging, photography, illumination modeling .
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