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RPI hosted two Class 2029 admitted students day on March 22 and April 12. The response has been enthusiastic! ECSE opened up JEC 6th floor to all students interested in ECSE and their families. There are exhibits and discussions on embedded control, robotics, power electronics, power systems, microelectronics, lighting systems, ECSE overview and student clubs. Mercer XLab and several studio classrooms were open for the occasion.
Mohammed Nowaz Rabbani Chowdhury, a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been named a recipient of the distinguished
A garage door opener, the Voyager 1 space probe, and the card reader in front of the Darrin Communications Center. What do these have in common? Radio waves! Radio waves are everywhere, and it is only recently in human history that we learned how to use them to our advantage, in conjunction with emerging technologies.
Graduate student, Lily Donaldson, recently coordinated a high school outreach event where students from Richmond Hill Highschool (Richmond Hill NY) had a chance to direct science questions to astronauts on the international space station (ISS). NASA flight engineers Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers participated on this ISS Expedition 72 In-Flight Education Event.
ECSE Faculty Rich Radke will have his first solo photography exhibition, Street/Sheep, at the Mean Max Brew Works, 251 River Street, Troy, NY, from March 24 to April 25. The opening reception is on Friday March 28 5-7pm.
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.
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.