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

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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