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Advising a Tech Giant
Posted on August 2, 2023 | Filed Under: Alumni
Wilson White ’03 brings his computer engineering background and a law degree to work as a vice president at Google.
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Faculty and Ph.D. Student win DesignCon Best Paper Award
Posted on August 1, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards and Faculty and Grad Students and News
Dr. 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.
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Two ECE students win 2022-23 Graduate Program Awards
Posted on July 22, 2023 | Filed Under: Grad Students and News
The College of Engineering recognized two ECE students in the 2022-23 Graduate Program Awards. Ashwini Ganesh won COE Doctoral Scholar of the Year in Citizenship and Service, and Mihir Khara won COE Master Scholar of the Year in Scholarly A …
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ECE Students win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
Posted on July 20, 2023 | Filed Under: Grad Students and News
Fin Amin, Tse-Han Pan, Joseph Carlson and Nitish Deshpande, all ECE Ph.D. students, were selected as winners in the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship North America 2023!
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ECE Alumna, Karen Jansen, Named Head of the Poole College’s Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Posted on July 7, 2023 | Filed Under: Alumni
Karen Jansen is returning to NC State as the head of Poole College’s Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship after receiving her undergraduate degree in computer engineering, right here at NC State.
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#ThrowbackThursday ECE Alum Cracks the Mars Rover Code
Posted on July 1, 2023 | Filed Under: Alumni
Over two years ago, NC State ECE Alum cracks the hidden code NASA planted on Mar’s Rover robot.
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Charles Hall Voted Chair Elect of Staff Senate
Posted on June 8, 2023 | Filed Under: News
Charles Hall, ECE Digital Communications Manager, has been voted the Chair Elect of the North Carolina State University Staff Senate
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Dr. Edgar Lobaton Receives the 2023 William F. Lane Outstanding Teaching Award
Posted on June 6, 2023 | Filed Under: News
Edgar Lobaton, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the 2023 William F. Lane Outstanding Teaching Award
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Dr. Amro Awad Receives the 2022-23 R. Ray Bennett Faculty Fellow Award
Posted on June 6, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards
Amro Awad, ECE Assistant Professor, is the recipient of the 2022-23 R. Ray Bennett Faculty Fellow Award.
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New Method Improves Efficiency of ‘Vision Transformer’ AI Systems
Posted on June 2, 2023 | Filed Under: AI/ML and Research
The work also improves the vision transformer AI’s ability to identify, classify and segment objects in images.
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Christina Koch is headed to the moon, exactly like she dreamed she would
In 2025, she will be one of four astronauts who will head to the moon as a part of Artemis II. The North Carolina State University graduate stopped by the WUNC studio during a recent visit back to the Tar Heel State.
Posted on May 9, 2024
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Injectable Microchip Tracks Animal Health
Around the world, many pets and working animals are microchipped. It’s a simple process: A tiny transponder with an identification number is enclosed in a rice-grain-sized cylinder and injected under the skin, so that if an animal is lost it can be identified. This new devices does more, including tracking and reporting heart rate, breathing, movement, and temperature sensing in a 4-mm-wide package.
Posted on March 12, 2024
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NC State innovation on display at CES 2024 in Las Vegas
Posted on January 11, 2024
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Stress Monitors for Plants Can Spot Dehydration
In a forthcoming paper to be published in IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics(TAFE), James Reynolds, a postdoctoral research scholar at NC State’s iBionicS Lab and first author of the paper, and fellow researchers at North Carolina State University explored how plant tissue’s impeding of electrical current can be monitored to identify plants under stress with relative immediacy—less than an hour, in some cases.
Posted on December 11, 2023
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‘We’re hitting new limits.’ NC quantum computing bullish on a coveted breakthrough
Superconductors, the other prominent approach to quantum computing, are the focus of North Carolina State University and its partner corporation, IBM. Nicknamed “chandeliers,” IBM’s machines are gold-plated, multi-level apparatuses with a progression of wires and tubes funneling down to single silicon processor chips. While Duke has ion-trap computers in the Triangle, NC State researchers remotely access the chandeliers, which are housed at the IBM facility in Yorktown Heights, New York. “Each technology kind of has its strength,” said Daniel Stancil, executive director of the IBM Quantum Hub at NC State. “I think there have been some significant developments in the hardware in the past year.”
Posted on December 4, 2023
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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up
Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere. It’s in the sun’s rays and radio waves, the skin’s sweat and body heat, a person’s motion and their footfalls. And today, technology is maturing to the point that meaningful amounts of these energy giveaways can be harvested to liberate wearables from ever needing a battery. Which seems plenty attractive to a range of companies and researchers.
Posted on November 1, 2023