Category: Faculty
Sensor and AI Innovations from NC State ECE and CS Helping to Build Better Working Dogs
February 16, 2026A recently published Science magazine article highlights the urgent need for new scientific and technological solutions that enhance working dog and guide dog training and selection. These solutions are being developed at NC State’s College of Engineering.
Six COE faculty members recognized as University Faculty Scholars
February 2, 2026Almost a third of the 2025-26 cohort of NC State’s University Faculty Scholars are faculty members in the College of Engineering. This recognition honors faculty members for their academic achievements and contributions to NC State and beyond through their teaching, scholarship and service.
Three from ECE Named Goodnight Early Career Innovators
January 27, 2026Congratulations to NC State ECE Assistant Professors Amay Bandodkar, Yuan Liu and Vijay Shah on being named 2025-26 Goodnight Early Career Innovators!
Yifan Wu, NC State Research Team Wins Best Presentation Award at ACI
January 9, 2026Congratulations to NC State ECE Ph.D. student Yifan Wu on receiving the Best Presentation Award at the 2025 Animal-Computer Interaction International Conference.
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.