ECE Newsletter
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
Badri Roysam

Dear Colleagues,

 

Please join me in congratulating Professor Wilton for his election to the National Academy of Engineering, Professor Shih on his election to SPIE Fellow, and Professor Contreras-Vidal on his election to AIMBE Fellow. The department’s public ECE Lunch and Learn webinar series has been a success. Our online graduate programs are accepting applications!

 

I am delighted to share more of our department’s recent highlights with you, including some exciting research breakthroughs and newly-funded projects.

 

Warm Regards,

 

Badri Roysam, D.Sc., Fellow IEEE and AIMBE

Member, ECEDHA Board of Directors

Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor & Chair

Electrical & Computer Engineering Department

University of Houston

FACULTY DISTINCTIONS

2 NAE Members
2 NAI Fellows, 5 NAI Senior Members
7 IEEE Fellows
1 SPIE Fellow
1 SAE Fellow
2 AIMBE Fellows
1 AAAS Fellow
1 Fellow of the Royal Society (UK)
1 OSA Fellow
1 APS Fellow
2 Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers
1 Distinguished ACM Member
10 NSF CAREER Awardees
2 CPRIT Scholars

TOP NEWS

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Dr. Donald R. Wilton, a professor emeritus of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, has added another impressive honor to his career of distinction with his election to the 2021 Class of the National Academy of Engineering.
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FEATURED VIDEO

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Magnetic Induction Remotely Operated Vehicles for Subsea Collision Avoidance

 

Dr. Aaron Becker’s Robotic Swarm Control Lab at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering tests subsea ROV transmission and receiving technology at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab. Research is supported by the Subsea Systems Institute at the University of Houston.

NEW RESEARCH GRANTS

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Dr. Hien Van Nguyen, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, received an R01 sub-award of $319,285 for his grant, “Convergent AI for Precise Breast Cancer Risk Assessment,” from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.
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NEW JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

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A clinical trial reported in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical, led by Dr. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, director of the Non-Invasive Brain Machine Interface Systems Laboratory and Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston, found that stroke survivors gained clinically significant arm movement and control by using an external robotic device powered by the patients’ own brains.
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Dr. Xiaonan Shan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, in collaboration with other researchers reported in Nature Communications, the development of a new battery anode using seawater that overcomes the limitations of lithium-ion batteries. The discovery offers promise for energy storage and other applications, including electric vehicles.
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Dr. Wei-Chuan Shih, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UH, is the corresponding author for a paper featured in Nature Communications, reporting about a new optical imaging technology for nanoscale objects, relying upon unscattered light to detect nanoparticles as small as 25 nanometers in diameter.
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Dr. Yan Yao, Cullen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, along with researchers from the University of Houston and the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), reported in Nature Energy that they have developed a new cathode and electrolyte — previously the limiting factors for a high-energy magnesium battery — to demonstrate a magnesium battery capable of operating at room temperature and delivering a power density comparable to that offered by lithium-ion batteries.

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FACULTY ACCOLADES

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Dr. Jose Contreras-Vidal, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at UH, has been elected as a Fellow by AIMBE, for pioneering contributions to development of brain-machine interfaces for controlling wearable exoskeletons for rehabilitation, and for mapping art-evoked brain activity.
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Dr. Hien Nguyen, along with two other faculty at the Cullen College of Engineering, was elected to the NAI Senior Member Class of 2021.
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Dr. Wei-Chuan Shih, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UH, has been promoted to a Fellow by SPIE, for his contributions in novel imaging methods, spectroscopic techniques and plasmonic nanostructures with various applications in chemical and biosensing.

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Dr. Kaushik “Raja” Rajashekara, Cullen College of Engineering professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, was recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers with the 2021 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies.
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Dr. Rose Faghih, an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the director of the Computational Medicine Lab, was selected to participate in the 2020–21 Interstellar Initiative.
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STUDENT SUCCESS
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Srikanth Yerra, a doctoral student in electrical engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, was the recipient of the 2020 Harendra Bhatt scholarship. Srikanth was one of five students in the college awarded a scholarship from the American Society of Indian Engineers and Architects (ASIE).
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Dilranjan Wickramasuriya, a UH electrical & computer engineering doctoral student, authored a research paper highlighting the “Computational Medicine Lab” featured on the IEEE Xplore website.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
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A graduate of the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering is a member of the team at Weiler Labeling Systems providing customized labels for the new COVID-19 vaccine labels.

 

Austin Dodge, a December 2017 graduate of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, said this sort of work was what she had in mind when she graduated.

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