Her tenure as chair began on November 7th. She joined the department 21 years ago as an assistant professor. She becomes the first woman chair in the department’s history.

Babadi holds joint appointments with ECE and the Institute for Systems Research, and is an affiliate faculty member with the Brain and Behavior Institute. 

Induction celebrates Bader’s work to democratize supercomputing through the creation of the first Linux supercomputer.

Researchers’ robotic activity sensor system travels around your body to optimize monitoring.

New paper by Professor Cheng Gong and colleagues published in Matter, shows a 50,000,000,000 ON/OFF ratio in van der Waals ferroelectric tunnel junctions, surprisingly at room temperature. This is a record-high value, at least 10,000X higher than the best conventional memories.

FedGradNorm is a distributed dynamic weighting algorithm that balances learning speeds across tasks by normalizing the corresponding gradient norms in PF-MTL. HOTA-FedGradNorm by uses over-the-air aggregation with FedGradNorm in a hierarchical FL setting.

Paper is titled "Learning Gait Emotions Using Affective and Deep Features."

UMD's new spring actuator, microneedle innovations bring therapeutic ingestible capsules for GI tract diseases closer to reality.

Professor Ankur Srivastava, director of the Institute for Systems Research, has been elevated to the rank of Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “for contributions to chip hardware security.”

QTC is partnering with the federal department to supply the department with technical information and input regarding the latest developments in quantum technologies and related enabling technologies.

Nikolaos Sidiropoulos (EE Ph.D. '92), former student of John Baras, won the SPS Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award, the Best Paper Award, and the Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award.

Q & A deep dive with 2022 Innovation Hall of Fame inductee, David Bader (electrical engineering, Ph.D. ’96)