Category: Faculty
A Look Back at 2025
December 19, 2025From new milestones to career-defining awards, faculty, staff and students at NC State continue to lead the pack into a new year of innovation and success.
Sensing Success
December 17, 2025A professorship established by John Amein ’84 and his wife Happy supports Professor Michael Kudenov’s research on sensor development that is growing more success for North Carolina agriculture.
Paschalis Gkoupidenis Wins Sherwin I. Seligsohn Innovation Award
October 27, 2025Congratulations to Paschalis Gkoupidenis, joint associate professor with #NCStateECE and the Department of Physics, on winning the inaugural Sherwin I. Seligson Innovation Award for his work in developing organic, brain-inspired electronics.
NC State Professor Vijay K. Shah Launches AI Startup to Make Machine Learning Accessible
October 7, 2025NC State Assistant Professor Vijay K. Shah is bringing his research into the real world through his startup All Things Intelligence Inc., with a mission to simplify machine learning (ML) for everyone. Its product, NeuralSmith, allows users to build production-ready machine learning models in plain English, by automating data preparation, model training, and evaluation in minutes to hours, which typically takes weeks or months.
Cheung Named to NIST Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology
September 15, 2025Congratulations to #NCStateECE Assc. Prof. Stan Cheung on his nomination to the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology for the National Institute of Standards and Technology!
Suresh Venkatesh Selected to Participate in 2025 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Program
September 10, 2025Congrats to #NCStateECE Asst. Prof. Suresh Venkatesh on being selected to participate in the 2025 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering program. At the symposium, Venkatesh will present his lab’s research on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) platforms.
Vijay K. Shah Wins Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
July 7, 2025Congratulations to Assistant Professor Vijay Shah on receiving an NSF CAREER Award for his project, “O-DSM: An Open Dynamic Spectrum Management Framework for Enhanced 6G Coexistence.”
Transforming Guide Dog Training with AI and Sensor Technology
July 2, 2025Researchers at NC State, led by ECE’s Alper Bozkurt and David Roberts from the Department of Computer Science, have been pioneering innovative sensor technologies and AI algorithms to transform guide dog training and selection processes.
NC State ECE, IConS and NSF ASSIST Center Join Interdisciplinary Exhibit: Your Brain on Art at the Gregg Museum
July 1, 2025Electrical engineering plays a pivotal role in transforming how art is created, experienced, and understood—powering interactive installations, enabling immersive sensory experiences, and bridging the gap between technology and human expression. NC State’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Alper Bozkurt joined an extraordinary interdisciplinary collaboration that has culminated in the launch of the new exhibition, Your Brain on Art: Reimagining the Gregg Museum Collection, currently on view at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design.
Cheung, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Researchers Published in Nature Communications
June 12, 2025NC State researchers have demonstrated a new method for searching and storing information in a system using semiconductor lasers and silicon photonics. Practical applications include improving the speed and efficiency of AI and machine learning.
Extension Agents Explore AI for Agriculture
May 17, 2025Artificial intelligence promises to transform agriculture, and a recent workshop at NC State’s Plant Sciences Building aims to position agricultural agents as key links in ensuring that farmers benefit.
NC State ECE Researchers Secure DARPA Funding for New Project, HAPPI
May 8, 2025Researchers from NC State’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have secured a three-year, $5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aimed at improving energy efficient communications for a variety of applications. Stan Cheung, Jonathan Wierer and Fred Kish lead NC State’s team.