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Program Highlights

Professor & Chair Sennur Ulukus Appointed to NextG Alliance Research Council

The NextG Alliance was formed to promote North American wireless technology through private-sector-led efforts.

Alumnus Chance Glenn Establishes New Scholarship at UMD

Building on the ideals of his Morningbird Foundation—education as the key to opportunity—alumnus Chance Glenn (’91, electrical engineering) has established the Morningbird Foundation Current-Use Scholarship in Engineering.

The Falcon and the Flock

Newly published research by Professor P. S. Krishnaprasad (ECE/ISR) and four former students offers insights into, and applications for, the complex nature of bird flocking behavior.


Faculty & Department News

MSAL’s Work on Serotonin Characterization And Detection Results in Two Journal Covers

Newly published work on serotonin characterization, detection and measurement by researchers in the MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory (MSAL) featured on two journal covers.

Min Appointed Christine Yurie Eminent Professor in Information Technology

Professor Min Wu was selected in recognition of her esteemed research in the information security and forensics and multimedia signal processing, as well as her extraordinary teaching and leadership abilities. 

ECE Faculty Among Maryland Engineers Awarded Grants to Address Humanity's Grand Challenges

Twelve projects led by or involving Maryland Engineering faculty have been awarded funding through the Grand Challenges Grants Program, the largest and most comprehensive program of its kind ever introduced at the University of Maryland.

Quantum News

New Quantum Framework Yields Generalizations of Bosonic ‘Cat Codes’

In a new paper, “Quantum Spherical Codes,” Professor Alexander Barg and colleagues demonstrate a framework that yields generalizations of a class of bosonic codes called “cat codes” and unifies such codes with several others.

Student News

Junior Tejas Guha Published as First Author in eLife Journal

Guha’s paper, “Generating colorblind-friendly scatter plots for single-cell data,” discusses creating accessible visualizations in bioinformatics research.

Junior Elijah Taeckens Co-authors Paper Accepted into IEEE Conference

Taeckens’ paper, “A Biologically Plausible Spiking Neural Network for Decoding Kinematics in the Hippocampus and Premotor Cortex,” co-authored Professor Sahil Shah, has been accepted into the 11th International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Conference on Neural Engineering.

UMD’s SeaDroneSim Can Generate Simulated Images and Videos to Help UAV Systems Recognize ‘Objects Of Interest’ In The Water

Ph.D. student Xiaomin Li part of research team developing new benchmark suite that allows users to generate synthetic data and create photo-realistic aerial image datasets with ground truth for segmentation masks of any given object.

Alumni News

Leading By Example: Mentorship and Collaboration

Alum Vikram Manikonda (M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’97) is signaling to future generations of Terps that he is ready and willing to mentor and collaborate with them, and he has made a generous commitment to establish the Vikram Manikonda Endowed Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Alumnus Awarded a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship

Dr. Shou Sun (Ph.D. 2019, ECE/IREAP, Advisor: Edo Waks) is one of 125 recipients of the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship.

Alumnus’ Work Published as Cover Article in Proceedings of The Royal Society A

New research by alumnus Udit Halder (Ph.D., ’19) and his colleagues presents physiologically accurate mathematical models of the three muscle types.

In Brief

Steer the Turtle

Engineering students compete in annual Alumni Cup Challenge.

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