The University of Houston and the Methodist Hospital Research Institute hosted the 2013 International Workshop on Clinical Brain-Neural Machine Interface Systems from Feb. 24-27, 2013 at The Methodist Hospital Research…
Since 2009, CenterPoint Energy has installed more than 2.2 million smart meters at homes and businesses throughout the Houston area. Every 15 minutes, these smart meters automatically record customer energy usage and send this…
Everything from environmental monitoring to medical diagnostics could benefit from recent research conducted by a professor with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering.
The research involves an advance to a…
Three University of Houston electrical engineering students were recognized as the top design team at the Texas Space Grant Consortium Design Challenge Showcase this month. Seniors Lazaro “Danny” Rodriguez, Dhruval Bhatt and…
The University of Houston Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted a seminar last week, led by Ravi Prakash, a systems engineer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) – Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL)…
An article authored by a University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering faculty member has won the Best Paper Award for an upcoming international conference hosted by the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (…
A graduate student at one of Switzerland's top universities was honored by that institution for research he conducted while visiting the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering.
Michel Akselrod won the award for the…
The world’s leading figures in the field of brain-machine interfaces (BMI) will gather in Houston next February to map the quickest route for bringing brain-controlled prosthetics to clinical patients.
The International Workshop…
A semiconductor industry group has awarded an $80,000 grant to a University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering professor to develop a new way to connect transistors in integrated circuits (ICs), which are at the heart of…
A professor with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has won a grant worth approximately $2.1 million to study the best ways to modify human immune cells to fight against cancer.
Navin Varadarajan, assistant…
It's fair to characterize Tony Kim (BSEE '09) as the quintessential star student. During his academic career at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Kim built quite a list of accomplishments. Among his…
The newest faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has joined UH with a prestigious endowed professorship.
Assistant Professor Yan Yao has…
Space stations and offshore oil rigs don’t have a lot in common, other than Wei-Chuan Shih.
Shih, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, has won…
It sounds like the setup to a bad joke: How many engineers does it take to boil water? Actually, to do so as efficiently as possible, it takes two (plus their research teams).
The two in question are Dong Liu and Paul Ruchhoeft,…
The UH Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering gathered to honor Professor Donald Wilton at a retirement reception this month.
Wilton joined the Cullen College of Engineering as a professor of electrical engineering…
Researchers with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering have developed a new neural probe that will give scientists new capabilities when studying small clusters of brain cells.
The device, dubbed the…
Friends, colleagues and students of Professor Ovidiu Crisan celebrated his career achievements at a retirement luncheon this month.
Crisan came to the Cullen College of Engineering as a visiting professor in the Department of…
Zhu Han, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, received not one, but two best paper awards as a recent international conference of the…
From cognitive neuroscience to theoretical physics, this year’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows from the University of Houston (UH) have their sights set on careers in fields ranging from medicine to…
Researchers have put in decades of hard work developing an interface that would allow the human brain to control prosthetic limbs. It’s ironic, then, that the end result may be surprisingly simple.
Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-…
