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Letter from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
I hope that you are well. I invite you to explore this newsletter and our department’s website at your leisure to see all the exciting things we are working on. We are a very future-focused department, and our faculty continue to see national recognition and we are actively producing top-quality research initiatives, such as building more reliable electrical systems, developing noninvasive brain-machine interfaces, creating the next-generation artificial intelligence system to improve medical diagnostics and more. I hope that you enjoy reading through this sampling of our recent research, and if any of these projects strike your fancy, do not hesitate to reach out to me about collaborative opportunities. Let us continue working towards creating a better, more dynamic future!
Warm Regards,
Badri Roysam, Ph.D.
Member, ECEDHA Board of Directors
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor & Chair Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
University of Houston
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Harish Krishnamoorthy has won the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his work with power systems and converters. The funded project aims to build more reliable electrical systems and grow the talent pipeline for power electronics.
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Hien Van Nguyen will use a $3 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to develop an AI system that provide a more accurate diagnosis and better patient outcome.
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Aaron Becker is working to refine algorithms to devise coordinated control of drone swarms. His work is supported by the commitment of a $1.7 million grant from Kostas Research Institute at Northeastern University, LLC.
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Harish Krishnamoorthy, is the inaugural winner of the IEEE PELS Young Exceptional Service Award. This award recognizes exceptional service to the IEEE Power Electronics Society.
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A new low cost, portable brain-computer interface that connects the brain of stroke patients to powered exoskeletons for rehabilitation purposes has been validated and tested by, Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, who has pioneered the noninvasive brain-machine interfaces and robotic device inventions.
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UH ECE DEPARTMENT WELCOMES 5 NEW FACULTY MEMBERS FOR THE 2023-2024 ACADEMIC YEAR
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Pieremanuele Canepa joined the department as an assistant professor. Canepa earned his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. Since 2018, he has been an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. In 2022, he was named a Rising Star by the American Chemical Society.
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Chu Meh Chu joined the department as a senior lecturer. Chu earned his doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015. Chu is a machine learning expert with research, teaching and work experience in data visualization using data compression tools.
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Sebastian Csutak joined the department as a lecturer. Csutak earned his doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. For the past two years, he has worked as an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics at Texas Southern University. He has a strong IP record, with 45 U.S. patents, and has worked for Baker Hughes, Aramco, Motorola and IBM.
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Deepa Ramachandran, instructional assistant professor, was promoted from her role as senior lecturer for the computer engineering and analytics program at UH at Katy, which she was hired for in July 2021.
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Jianfeng Zheng joined the department as an assistant professor. Zheng has been working at UH since 2012, first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a research assistant professor. Along with Ji Chen, he has landed four grants for their work on electrical devices. Zheng earned his doctorate in 2009 from Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers
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Xiaonan Shan and a team of UH researchers will use the $700,000 grant awarded from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conversation Service to study how best to implement a Climate-Smart Sustainability Certificate program for SULR farmers.
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The Computer Engineering Ph.D. program will provide students with a doctoral-level education in Computer Engineering in preparation for successful academic, national laboratory, or industrial research and development careers in computer software and hardware.
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Subin Varghese is the author of a paper published in the journal Advanced Engineering Informatics, Varghese notes that by using AI, potential damage following natural disasters and other weather-related events could be detected. This is especially important because of the strain on inspectors and emergency personnel after these events.
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More than 250 people flocked to the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston in early November, as the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department hosted the 2003 IEEE-HKN (Eta Kappa Nu) Student Leadership Conference.
This year’s event featured sessions on community service, planning a career path for future job opportunities, and alumni talking about the things overlooked during undergrad and the next steps in grad school.
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UH Cullen College of Engineering
E421 Engineering Bldg 2, Houston, TX 77204-4007
713-743-4400
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