Category: Faculty
Jonathan Wierer Elected as Fellow Member of Optica
November 3, 2023ECE Professor Jonathan Wierer was elected as a Fellow Member of Optica by the Society’s Board of Directors this October. He is being honored specifically “For pioneering contributions to the physics and engineering of high-efficiency, high-power light- …
ECE Department Welcomes New Faculty
August 17, 2023The ECE Department has hired 4 new faculty members for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Alper Bozkurt Receives NSF Rules of Life Funding for Mussels Research
August 8, 2023The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced funding for Alper Bozkurt’s mussels research under the Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges program.
Faculty and Ph.D. Student win DesignCon Best Paper Award
August 1, 2023Dr. Paul Franzon and recent computer engineering Ph.D. graduate, Priyank Kashyap, won the DesignCon 2023 Best Paper Award for their “Data-Driven PAM4 SerDes Modeling with Generative Adversarial Network” paper.
Iqbal Husain wins the 2022 Outstanding Engagement Award
April 28, 2023Iqbal Husain has received the 2022 Outstanding Engagement Award from the Univerity Office Outreach & Engagement!
NC State Announces 2022-23 Goodnight Early Career Innovators
March 29, 2023NC State announced its 2022-23 class of Goodnight Early Career Innovators today. This program recognizes and rewards promising NC State early-career faculty whose scholarship is in STEM or STEM education. The 25 faculty selected will receive $22,000 for each of the next three years to support their scholarship and research endeavors.
Marshall Brain recognized with the John S. Risley Entrepreneur of the Year award
February 22, 2023The chancellor celebrates innovation and entrepreneurship at “The Point” where Marshall Brain received the Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Providing FREEDM Through a Better Power Grid
February 8, 2023Iqbal Husain, director of NC State’s FREEDM Systems Center and a distinguished professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is on a mission to make the world cleaner, greener and easier to travel in.
Department Head Stancil to step down, remain on faculty
February 6, 2023Serving as 9th department head for ECE at NC State, Dan Stancil is returning to faculty at the end of the 2022-23 academic year, and Veena Misra will serve as Interim Head.
Bhattacharya receives two first-place paper awards at ECCE 2022
February 6, 2023Subhashish Bhattacharya received two first-place paper awards at the ECCE 2022 conference from the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS).
ECE Professor and Alumna Receive IEEE-USA Award
January 3, 2023Leda Lunardi, ECE Professor, and Alice Parker, ECE alumna, have received the IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding and the Advancement of the Engineering Profession.
Faculty Making a Lasting Impact
December 27, 2022The students of Dr. Winser Alexander have created the WEA Endowment Committee to honor Alexander’s legacy during his time at NC State.