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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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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Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal will use a $768K grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue developing highly specialized technical skills to study the brain with emergent technologies. |
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Zhu Han has been selected for a three-year term as a Distinguished Speaker by the Association for Computing Machinery. Han's research interests include wireless resource allocation and management, wireless communications and networking, game theory, big data analysis, security and smart grid. |
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Wei-Chuan Shih is among 20 teams and individuals chosen for the 2022 Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics annual cohort. The cohort is comprised of people in Texas-based startups addressing the world’s most significant cancer challenges. |
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Biresh Joarder has joined the department as an assistant professor for fall 2022. For the past two years, he has been an NSF Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University. |
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ECE professor 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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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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Lithium-ion batteries are the current preferred way to power electric vehicles, but they’re expensive and lithium is becoming harder to access. Yan Yao and a team of UH researchers developed a better alternative. |
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Rafiul Amin is lead author for a new research paper that reports on the behavior of two specific hormones in a cohort of patients with obesity. |
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ECE research associate professor Long Chang engraved thousands of names on tiny microchips that were launched into space on the Artemis I mission to honor the team behind NASA’s return to the moon
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