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The ECSE Department is heartbroken to report that Professor Mona Hella passed away on January 20, 2025. Her passing is a devastating loss to her family, and to ECSE and RPI. She will be dearly missed.
A commemorative event for Mona will be held on February 8, 1:30 pm, at the Chapel+Cultural Center, 2125 Burdett Ave., Troy, NY 12180. Please contact Gina Moore for information on including a tribute, contributing photos, and registering attendance.
ECSE Professor Ali Tajer has received multiple recent recognitions.
In November 2024, he received the RPI School of Engineering Outstanding Research Award for Senior Faculty. In December 2024, he was promoted to full professor.
ECSE student Zhaoxian Wu and faculty Prof. Tianyi Chen were awarded the 2024 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Young Author Best Paper Award, for the paper entitled “Federated Variance-Reduced Stochastic Gradient Descent with Robustness to Byzantine Attacks”, and authored with Prof. Qing Ling, and Prof. Georgios B.
ECSE Assistant Professor Dr. Liu Liu has received an NSF CAREER award from the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) for his project, “CAREER: Elastic Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Energy-Efficient and Scalable AI via Dynamic Connectivity.”
Dr. Bantval Jayant Baliga '71, '74 is the Winner of the 2024 Millennium Technology Prize for his innovation that has enabled dramatic reduction in worldwide electrical energy and petrol consumption.
The award recognizes Baliga’s leadership in the invention, development, and commercialization of the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT). Since its development in the 1980s, the IGBT has been the most important semiconductor device for making electrical energy use and petrol consumption more efficient and less polluting during the last 40 years.
In October 28-30, 2024, an RPI-HVCC Semiconductor Scholar, Andrew Lee, participated in the 2024 Microelectronics Commons Annual Meeting and NSTC Symposium held in Washington, D.C. With aspirations to become an industrial/supply chain engineer, Andrew Lee learned how his interests intersect with the semiconducto
Building on several ongoing collaborations, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and GlobalFoundries (GF) are working tog
Alex Derrickson '20 was recognized as part of the GlobalFoundries (GF) Master Inventor Class of 2024 during the 2024 GF Patent Week. As the highest honor of inventorship at GF, the title of Master Inventor is reserved for GF employees with at least 20 issued U.S. patents and who have a demonstrated track record of technical accomplishments and intellectual property (IP) asset creation.
Long-time ECSE faculty Dr. Partha Dutta, now an emeritus professor, is leading a project to grow semiconductor crystals in space on board the International Space Station (ISS). The semiconductor crystal manufacturing experimental payload was launched on the SpaceX-31 commercial resupply mission on November 4, 2024, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The payload is for the production of a novel class of Semimetal-Semiconductor Composite Bulk Crystals. The investigation will be conducted in the NASA-owned Solidification Using a Baffle in Sealed Ampoules (SUBSA) furnace.
The Douglas A. Mercer '77 Innovation and Exploration Laboratory (Mercer XLab) officially re-opened on September 25, 2024, after a year-long renovation. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was followed by the student project showcase and a panel discussion.