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ECSE Assistant Professor Dr. Ish Jain presented a breakthrough approach that could define how future 6G networks deliver faster, more reliable, and more scalable connectivity. The new technology, called FlexLink, introduces a fundamentally new way to structure wireless communication by splitting a signal into separate components so that critical information can be prioritized. This allows next-generation networks to handle vastly more devices while maintaining high speed and reliability.
The CSAW AI Hardware Attack Challenge is a well-regarded global competition in the hardware security community. The participant's task was to leverage AI tools, particularly large language models, to insert and exploit hardware vulnerabilities and Trojans in open-source hardware designs. They were tasked with using only open-source designs and EDA tools for development and evaluation.
The 2025 Albany Nanotechnology Symposium, hosted at the Albany Nanotech Complex and supported by RPI, brought together researchers across quantum computing, microelectronics, materials, and semiconductor manufacturing. The symposium emphasized cross-disciplinary innovation in advanced hardware, fabrication, and secure computing, creating a platform for academic groups, national labs, and leading industry researchers from companies such as IBM and Xanadu to present emerging results on novel computing systems.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) officially cut the ribbon on its new Center for Smart Convergent Manufacturing Systems (CSCMS) during an all-day launch event on October 23, 2025. A New York State Center for Advanced Technology, CSCMS will redefine the very nature of manufacturing by combining robotics, artificial intelligence, advanced processing, and human ingenuity to create systems that think, adapt, and evolve alongside human operators.
Led by ECSE Professor Luigi Vanfretti, the group was hosted by AGILe's Dr. Reza Pourramezan and Dr. Rahul Kadavil. The AGILe team began by providing a comprehensive overview of the facility and its mission: to enable an affordable, reliable, and low-carbon future for the state's power grid.
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) announced the winners of a recent project call awarded through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech). The project call, Improvements in Manufacturing Productivity via Additive Capabilities and Techno-Economic Analysis 3.0 (IMPACT 3.0
ECSE welcomes multiple faculty members in fall 2025:
On Wednesday, July 16, a group of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff from the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department enjoyed a summer hike at Boehm
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.