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I hope that this message finds you well! This holiday season, we have so many reasons to be grateful. As I reflect on the notable accomplishments of our UH ECE community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni), I'm filled with an enormous sense of gratitude and pride. |
I'm also thankful for all of our colleagues, such as you, with who we have had the great fortune of collaborating to make astounding advances sure to better our world for all. |
On behalf of the Cullen College electrical and computer engineering department, I wish you all joy and peace this holiday season and a happy new year! |
Warm Regards, Badri Roysam, D.Sc., Fellow IEEE, Fellow AIMBE Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor Chair, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department University of Houston |
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Hao Huang has been named a Fellow of The National Academy of Inventors. Huang will be officially inducted along with 169 distinguished inventors at the academy’s annual meeting in June 2023. Election to the NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. |
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Two top battery experts at UH Yan Yao and Yanliang “Leonard” Liang contend that the gold-standard lithium-ion battery is about to get some competition. They are betting on humble aqueous batteries — with water-based electrolytes — generally regarded as safe, reliable and affordable. Yao and Liang were recently invited by Nature Reviews Materials, a high-impact academic journal, to review the evolution of rechargeable aqueous batteries. |
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Featured Video: Junior Faculty Spotlight on Harish Krishnamoorthy |
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Jiming Bao and Yan Yao, were recognized among the world’s elite researchers for the significance of their work. |
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The most coveted prize in the field of international energy — the Global Energy Prize bestowed by the Global Energy Association — was awarded to Distinguished ECE professor Kaushik Rajashekara, who historically helped bring electric cars to the marketplace. |
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Yan Yao and Harish Krishnamoorthy used a recent $4.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Project’s Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for two projects developed in the Cullen College of Engineering and Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH (TcSUH). |
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Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal revealed the next generation of stroke rehabilitation: a robotic arm controlled by the user’s brainwaves to restore upper limb function. This device requires no surgery and can be used in the clinic and at home. |
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Harish Krishnamoorthy is leading a team to develop the next generation of miniaturized pulsed power systems. What they create will lead to more reliable and energy-efficient ways for powering essential equipment in the energy and healthcare industries. |
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Jiming Bao for the first time experimentally discovered that a cubic boron arsenide crystal offers high carrier mobility for both electrons and holes, suggesting a major advance for next-generation electronics. |
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