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Students Use Data Science Skills to Address USDA Ag Challenges

Posted on January 5, 2026 | Filed Under: AI/ML and Grad Students and News and Research and Summer

As USDA interns, five NC State graduate students applied data science skills to help build AI tools for agriculture.

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A Look Back at 2025

Posted on December 19, 2025 | Filed Under: Awards and Faculty and News and Research

From 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.

A group of smiling graduates in vibrant red caps and gowns celebrate during a commencement ceremony in a large arena. In the foreground, a woman with blonde-highlighted hair smiles toward the camera, holding a rolled diploma tied with a red ribbon. Beside her, another woman with long dark hair smiles warmly while making a hand gesture. In the background, a man in a red cap also smiles, and the blurred red seating of the stadium is visible behind them.

Congratulations to our Fall 2025 Graduates!

Posted on December 17, 2025 | Filed Under: Events and Grad Students and News and Undergrad Students

Congratulations to the over 150 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering graduates who were honored at Reynolds Coliseum on December 11, 2025.

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Sensing Success

Posted on December 17, 2025 | Filed Under: AI/ML and Alumni and Faculty and Giving and News and Research

A 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.

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Ishita Pai Raikar: Building a Community

Posted on December 8, 2025 | Filed Under: News and Research and Undergrad Students

Featured: Learn more about Ishita Pai Raikar – speaker, leader, entrepreneur and Fall 2025 graduate

Meet Ben Patton, Our Fall 2025 ECE Student Speaker

Posted on December 3, 2025 | Filed Under: Events and News and Undergrad Students

Ben Patton will address the Class of 2025 at NC State ECE’s Fall Graduation, sharing a message shaped by resilience, community and the power of connection.

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Researchers Unveil First-Ever Defense Against Cryptanalytic Attacks on AI

Posted on November 17, 2025 | Filed Under: News

Security researchers have developed the first functional defense mechanism capable of protecting against “cryptanalytic” attacks used to “steal” the model parameters that define how an AI system works.

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ORNL, NC State, partners secure $125M renewal for Quantum Science Center

Posted on November 14, 2025 | Filed Under: News and Quantum and Research

The Department of Energy has renewed funding for the Quantum Science Center through 2030 to create a new scientific ecosystem for fault-tolerant, quantum-accelerated high-performance computing (QHPC).

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Announcing the 2025 ECE Alumni Hall of Fame

Posted on November 11, 2025 | Filed Under: Alumni and Awards and Events and News

The NC State Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to announce the 2025 inductees to the ECE Alumni Hall of Fame, as well as the fourth recipient of the Outstanding Early Career Award.

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Mohammad Riahi Wins Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program Award

Posted on November 7, 2025 | Filed Under: Grad Students and News and Research

Congrats to Mohammad Riahi on receiving the Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program (GDEP) award. Sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, this award provides $5000 over two years to support Ph.D. students with enhanced research enrichment o …