Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department
Please join us for our annual EECS Spring Barbecue, hosted by the student chapter of NU-IEEE on Thursday, May 21st, 11am-2pm, Garrett Lawn.
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Prof. Uri Wilensky
Prof. Uri Wilensky has been praised in a recent article discussing his newly published book, which teaches modeling natural, social, and engineered complex systems with NetLogo.

Rapid technological advances are revolutionizing work in science, mathematics, and complex theories. To introduce the powers of agent-based computer modeling for investigating complex problems, Prof. Wilensky has written a widely praised book called 'An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling: Modeling Natural, Social, and Engineered Complex Systems with NetLogo'. Read More 
Prof. Cossairt & Matsuda
  Prof. Oliver (Ollie) S. Cossairt, Lisa Wissner-Slivka and Benjamin Slivka Junior Professor of Computer Science has developed a 3-D capture camera that is inexpensive, produces high-quality images, and works in all environments-including outdoors. Inspired by the Microsoft Kinect, the camera can be used in more environments and produces better images than existing technology.

Supported by the Office of Naval Research and the US Department of Energy, the research is described in the paper "MC3D: Motion Contrast 3D Scanning," presented on April 24 at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography . Nathan Matsuda , a graduate student in Cossairt's lab, is first author, and Mohit Gupta from Columbia University is co-author and collaborator. Read More  
EECS Faculty
The 4th Annual Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR 2015) was held at the UIC Forum in downtown Chicago on Monday, April 27, 2015, which saw numerous Northwestern EECS Faculty & Students participate.

 

EECS was represented at GCASR through talks by Prof. Jennie Duggan and  Prof. Alok Choudhary, and six posters on current research by Majed Beigi,  Yigit Demir,  Prof. Peter Dinda, Kyle Hale, Prof. Nikos Hardavellas,  Ali Gok, Prof. Gokhan Memik, Prof. Seda Ogrenci-Memik, Besnik Pashaj, Maciej Swiech, and Georgios Tziantzioulis. Read More 

Prof. Aydin, Li, Palacios
  Prof. Koray Aydin and his team from the Metamaterials and Nanophotonic Devices Lab (MNDL), have created visible-frequency metasurfaces for broadband 'anomalous' reflection and high-efficiency spectrum splitting, which has been published in Nano Letters and recently highlighted in Nature Photonics . Nature Photonics is one of the best photonics journals and has very high impact in the academic community.

  

EECS PhD students, Zhongyang Li and Edgar Palacios from Aydin's group have proposed a highly-efficient yet a simple metasurface design comprising of a single, trapezoid silver antenna and demonstrated broadband (450 - 850 nm) anomalous reflection and spectrum splitting at visible and near-IR frequencies with high conversion efficiency. The metasurfaces design could suggest application of achieving flat high signal-to-noise optical spectrometers, polarization beam splitters, directional emitters and spectrum splitting surfaces for photovoltaics. Read More 

Abbas Haddadi
EECS Ph.D Student  Abbas Haddadi has been awarded a   2015 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship in the amount of $5000 by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) for his potential contributions to the field of photonics.

Haddadi is an EECS PhD candidate at Center for Quantum Devices (CQD) at Northwestern University under Prof. Manijeh Razeghi. He received the B.Sc degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2007. His research interests include III-V optoelectronic device modeling, design, epitaxial growth, and characterizations. Read More 

Microsoft Tech Talk: Tim Benroeck, Technical Evangelist, Fri 4/17 @ 2pm in Harris Hall 107



2015 Undergrad Research & Arts Expo, Apply by Sun 4/19


 
Wednesday May 20
Events [ details]

Wed May 20 @ 7:00PM in Ford ITW Auditorium: Microsoft Tech Talk: Tim Benroeck, Technical Evangelist

Thur May 21 @ 11:00AM in Garrett Lawn: IEEE BBQ

Fri May 22 @ 11:00AM in Tech Room L324: PHD Prospectus: Cheng Chen, "Pricing Methods for Distributed Resource Allocation in Cellular Networks"

Fri May 22 @ 12:30PM in Jacobs 1246: Kellogg Mini-Course: Matthew Rabin, "Errors in Statistical Reasoning: Evidence, Models, Implications"

Fri May 22 @ 3:30PM in Ford Room 3-340: PHD Final Defense: Vaibhav Rastogi, "Towards a Trustworthy Android Ecosystem"

Sat May 23 @ 12:00PM in Ford Engineering Design Center: 2015 McCormick Autonomous Robot Design Competition

Wed May 27 @ 2:00PM in the Ford ITW Auditorium: EECS Distinguished Speaker: Prof. Lang Tong, Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor in Engineering, School of ECE, Cornell University, "Energy Management in Distribution Networks under Uncertainty: Pricing, Control, and Learning"

Wed May 27 @ 4:00PM in the Ford Design Studio: Segal Seninar Series: Dyson US President Ed Culley

Wed May 28 @ 9:00AM in Tech Room L440: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Presentation

Thur May 28 @ 12:00PM in Ryan Room 4003: NU Photonics Club Faculty Talk: Prof. Teri W. Odom, "Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions in PlasmonicNanocavities"
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WorldTeach International Teaching Positions & Programs

 
Full-time Job Opportunity @ Google - The Engineering Residency Program


College Graduate Career Opportunities with Intel

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