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ECE's Shan Developing Imaging Technique to Understand How Dendrites Form in Batteries
February 24, 2022
As the world lessens its dependence on fossil fuels, industries and manufacturers are turning to lithium-ion batteries to power the machines that make modern life possible. These batteries power electric vehicles, mobile phones,… 		Xiaonan Shan and his team have developed a “novel in-situ” 3D microscopy to image and study the localized electrochemical environments and understand where dendrites start forming in batteries.
ECE Professors Receive $4.4M to Develop Clean Energy Technologies
February 16, 2022
University of Houston researchers have received $4.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for two projects developed in the Cullen College of Engineering and Texas Center… 		Yan Yao, Cullen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UH, is a leader in the development of multivalent metal-ion batteries.
Becker awarded prestigious Humboldt fellowship
February 2, 2022
A Cullen College of Engineering professor will be extending his stay in Germany to collaborate with international researchers, after being picked for the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, which started in January 2022… 		Professor Aaron Becker's research focus is to find out how tiny swarms of robots could be used in medicine in the future. [Photo credit: Markus Hörster/TU Braunschweig.]
UH NSBE receives $10k grant for community garden revamp
January 31, 2022
Reflecting the organization's commitment to the community, the Dow Promise Program has awarded a $10,000 grant to the University of Houston branch of the National Society of Black Engineers, to partner with the Blodgett Urban… 		UH NSBE members volunteering at a previous community event at the Blodgett Urban Gardens.
‘Your Brain on Dance,’ With ECE Professor, Waltzes into Theater
January 20, 2022
For two decades Musiqa and NobleMotion Dance have been breaking artistic boundaries in Houston and winning national acclaim for their adventurous programming. At the same time, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished… 		Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, director of the BRAIN Center at UH, has been pioneering nonsurgical brain-machine interfaces for rehabilitation and restoration of movement and to understand the brain in action in clinical, artistic and classroom settings.
ECE Professor, Postdoc Discover Method to Create Upward Water Fountain in Deep Water
January 18, 2022
A pair of University of Houston engineers has discovered that they can create upward fountains in water by shining laser beams on the water’s surface and have published their research in the latest Materials Today Physics. Jiming… 		Jiming Bao, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has discovered that by using laser beams on deep liquids, the fluid is pulled above the surface, generating fountains with different shapes.
Rajashekara elected asForeign Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering
January 13, 2022
Kaushik Rajashekara, a Distinguished Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, has gained another prestigious membership affiliation, thanks to his visits and his… 		Kaushik Rajashekara, a Distinguished Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Paper finds 46 Cullen College professors among Most-Cited
January 5, 2022
According to an updated paper from researchers at Stanford University, 46 past and present professors affiliated with the Cullen College of Engineering are among the Top 2 percent of cited research papers in the world. The… 		More than 45 professors and researchers affiliated with the Cullen College of Engineering have been recognized as among the most cited in the world.
Three Cullen students awarded ASIE scholarships
December 15, 2021
The American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE) has awarded three scholarships for 2021 to students attending the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston. Each student received a monetary award,… 		The American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE) has awarded three scholarships for 2021 to students attending the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston.
Biomed, ECE, McGovern collaboration leads to new epilepsy research
December 7, 2021
A recently published paper from a team of researchers and students from multiple departments at the Cullen College of Engineering and the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth proposes a way to provide real-time, continuous… 		Rose T. Faghih, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the BRAIN Center, is senior author for a new paper about tracking the seizure state of epileptic patients in real-time.. The first author for the paper is Alexander Steele, a doctoral student of Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D., Cullen Distinguished Professor and Director of the NSF IUCRC BRAIN Center, and the research is a collaboration between two UH departments and the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth.
Three UH Professors Named Highly Cited Researchers for 2021
December 2, 2021
Each year, Clarivate identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who their peers have most frequently cited over the last decade. In 2021, 6,602, or about 0.1 percent, of the world’s researchers, in 21… 		Zhu Han, Moores Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is one of three UH researchers recognized for frequent citations during the last decade.
Engineering Faculty Celebrated As Part Of 50-in-5 Achievements
December 2, 2021
At the first in-person, 50-in-5 celebration event, 116 faculty members were honored at the Wortham House on Monday, Nov. 29. President Renu Khator, Provost Paula Myrick Short and Vice President for Research Amr Elnashai… 		More than 20 Engineering faculty members were recognized for contributing to the UH 50-in-5 initiative.
UH Researcher Develops New Fluid That Light Can Cut
November 29, 2021
** See video of scientists in the Bao lab shaping water with lasers into a familiar shape.** Jiming Bao, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston, has developed a new fluid that can be cut… 		Jiming Bao, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, has developed a new fluid that can be cut open by light with potential applications in adaptive optics, mass transport and microfluidics manufacturing and molding of micro and nanostructures.
UH Researcher Creates Real-Time COVID-19 Infection Risk Assessment System
November 23, 2021
In this pandemic era, have you ever wondered when the best time to go run an errand might be, maybe when your grocery store is the least crowded, so you could reduce the chance of being exposed to a contagious disease?   Well,… 		Albert Cheng, professor of computer science and electrical & computer engineering at the University of Houston, presented his plans for real-time risk assessment at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) conference HPC (High Performance Computing) for Urgent Decision Making.
NSF grant funds research by Pan, Fu into wireless for AI
October 20, 2021
A pair of researchers from the Cullen College of Engineering have received $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to lower energy consumption and service delay, two key components of federated learning's practical… 		Miao Pan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the principal investigator for a new NSF grant, “Towards Federated Learning over 5G Mobile Devices: High Efficiency, Low Latency, and Good Privacy.”
From LEGO to Self-Assembling blocks, Becker continues to build
October 14, 2021
As he puts it, Aaron T. Becker, Ph.D., an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, is interested in finding “a new type of small-scale manufacturing method,… 		Aaron T. Becker, Ph.D., an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, has received a $299,963 grant from the NSF to hopefully develop “a new type of small-scale manufacturing method, with the precision of modules, the reusability of Legos, and the self-assembly of DNA.”
UH Engineer Reports Advance in Rapid Cancer Detection and Monitoring
October 12, 2021
When it comes to cancer detection, size matters. Traditional diagnostic imaging cannot detect tumors smaller than a certain size, causing missed opportunities for early detection and treatment. Circulating tumor exosomes are… 		Wei-Chuan Shih, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, has reported on new discoveries in cancer detection in the IEEE Sensors journal.
Han earns grant for wireless efficiency study
October 5, 2021
A professor at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has received a substantial grant from the National Science Foundation to support his research into improving the energy and spectrum efficiency of wireless… 		Zhu Han, Ph.D., Moores Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a fellow of the IEEE and AAAS, is the author of the research grant proposal, “Nonlinear and Inseparable Radar And Data (NIRAD) Transmission Framework for Pareto Efficient Spectrum Access in Future Wireless Networks.”
Fu receives NSF grant to study neural network energy improvements
October 5, 2021
A Cullen College of Engineering professor has received just shy of $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to study how to make the decision-making networks in devices like self-driving cars and medical imaging devices more… 		Xin Fu, Ph.D., an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received $499,999 in funding for her grant proposal, “Enabling On-Device Bayesian Neural Network Training via An Integrated Architecture-System Approach.”
Cullen College of Engineering promotes six professors
September 28, 2021
The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce that six professors have earned promotions, starting with the fall semester of the 2021-22 academic year. All listed positions are tenured, or on a tenure track. Professors… 		Six professors have been promoted for the 2021-22 academic year at the Cullen College of Engineering.