News

Professor Agung Julius's lab has received an NVIDIA Academic Research Grant to support a groundbreaking project titled Concept-based Foundation Models for Vision-Language-Action Planning & Reasoning. The research is based on the innovative work of ECSE Ph.D. student Yunshi Wen.

Two RPI-HVCC Semiconductor Scholars, Katie Ziegler and Andrew Lee, together with the faculty advisor, Dr. Muhsin Celik, Professor of Practice in ECSE, were supported to attend the 2025 TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo at Austin, TX in June 9-11, 2025. Katie and Andrew just graduated from HVCC Engineering Science program in May 2025 and will start in RPI in Fall 2025 to finish their four-year college experiences. Katie will be in ECSE and Andrew will be in ISE.

Professors Meng Wang has been promoted to Full Professor in ECSE.  Professor Tianyi Chen has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in ECSE.  

ECSE B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. graduates from August 2024, December 2024 and May 2025 gathered with their families, friends, faculty and staff to celebrate their graduation on May 8 at the Troy Hilton Garden Inn! Over lunch, graduates were honored, as were departmental awardees.

To see the slides, including the names of the graduating students, click here.

To see the slideshow of memorable ECSE moments, click here. 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has announced the appointment of Zheyu Zhang, Ph.D., as the inaugural Richard P. Felak ’66 ’67G and Joan C. Felak Endowed Faculty Fellow in Electric Power Engineering. This prestigious recognition highlights Zhang’s groundbreaking contributions to electric power engineering and honors the gifts of RPI alumnus Richard P. Felak ’66 ’67G and his wife, Joan.