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EECS Professor Erik Perrins has received the “Best Paper” award at the 2015 International Telemetering Conference
A paper co-authored by EECS Professor Erik Perrins has received the “Best Paper” award at the 2015 International Telemetering Conference (ITC’15), which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada in October, 2015. The paper is titled "Maximum Likelihood Detection From Multiple Bit Sources,” and is authored by Prof. Michael Rice, of...
EECS Alumnus Brian McClendon Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering
Distinguished EECS alumnus Brian McClendon will receive one of the engineering profession’s highest honors in a ceremony next month in Washington. McClendon, who co-created Google Earth and earned his degree in electrical engineering from the KU School of Engineering in 1986, will be inducted into the National Academy of Engineering...
EECS Students Spend Summer at Defense Research Labs
Three KU EECS students participated in summer internships at defense research laboratories around the country. Ph.D. students John Jakabosky and Cenk Kahn and undergraduate Dana Memmingsen were involved with cutting edge research, obtained real-world experience and made connections for future career opportunities. Defense summer internships programs exist at myriad agencies...
EECS Faculty Receive $500,000 from the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program to Create a High Performance Computing and Visualization Infrastructure at KU
The DURIP funding from the Army Research Office (ARO) will enable KU to acquire an HPC cluster and Mini CAVE to support research projects involving simultaneous parallel computing and parallel visualization. Suzanne Shontz, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, led the effort to coordinate KU researchers and define...
Lumumba "Lu" Harnett Receives NSF Graduate Fellowship to Pursue a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at KU
Lumumba "Lu" Harnett has been selected to receive an NSF graduate fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at KU. Harnett completed his undergraduate degree at Hampton University and arrived at KU in August 2014 on a University of Kansas Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellowship. His research focuses on the development...
EECS Researchers Land $800,000 NASA Grant for Development of Anti-Collision Radar for Small UAVs
EECS Professor Chris Allen is leading an effort to develop a multichannel radar suitable for installation on small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAVs). Guanghui Wang and Heechul Yun, assistant professors of electrical engineering and computer science, are also contributing to this effort. The radar will provide information regarding the relative position...
EECS continues to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Information Assurance (IA)/Cyber Defense (CD) by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
The University of Kansas EECS department recently received notification of its renewal as a National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Information Assurance (IA)/Cyber Defense (CD) by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ...
EECS Ph.D. Students Spend the Summer at Major Telecommunications and Semiconductor Companies
EECS Ph.D. student, Hao Chen, secured a highly competitive summer intern position in Samsung Research America – Dallas. During his summer internship, Hao worked on the next generation of cellular systems under the direction of Gary Xu and Charlie Zhang (Vice President and Lab Head of Wireless Communications...
Dr. Yang Yi Selected as a 2015 U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow
Yang Yi, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer scienc was selected as a U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) Fellow to conduct advance circuit design research in collaboration with Air Force researchers in Rome, N.Y. The SFFP offers opportunities for university faculty to conduct research at one...
EECS Students Compete in the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
In February 2015, the KU Information Security Club, took a team of 8 members, a.k.a. the JayHackers, to the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (RMCCDC) in Denver. As the regional qualifier for the National CCDC teams from Kansas, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Colorado participated in this regional...
EECS Professor Elected Secretary of SIAM Computational Science and Engineering Activity Group
EECS Professor Suzanne Shontz has been elected for a one year term as the Secretary of the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering (CS&E). The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics-SIAM CS&E Activity Group is the largest activity group and currently has approximately 1800 members. The SIAM...
EECS researchers developing technologies to improve the performance of optical networks.
EECS researchers recently received support from the National Science Foundation to develop new technologies to improve Internet performance by increasing high spectral efficiency and robustness against signal quality corruption and which enables flexible spectrum and grid-less transmission in optical networks. ...
EECS's Eta Kappa Nu has received an Outstanding Chapter Award for the 2013-2014.
KU’s Gamma Iota chapter of Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) has received an HKN Outstanding Chapter Award for the 2013-2014 school year. HKN is an invitation-only honor society for Electrical and Computer Engineers in their junior and senior years. The Gamma Iota chapter was selected on the basis of...
PROFESSOR YANG YI RECEIVES FUNDING FROM AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB FOR NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING RESEARCH
Dr. Yang Yi, Assistant Professor in EECS, has received support from Air Force Research Lab for her research on understanding the fundamentals of neuron design in neuromorphic computing systems. Dr. Yi is serving as the sole principal investigator (PI) of this project. She and her students will conduct research to...
EECS RECEIVES NSF FUNDING FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN RESEARCH
Dr. Yang Yi, Assistant Professor in EECS, has received support from Natioanl Science Foundation (NSF) for her research on energy efficient three-dimensional integrated circuit design and analysis. Intel Research and NVidia are collaborating with Dr. Yi in this research. Dr. Yi is serving as the sole principal investigator (PI)...
EECS researchers on drone radars and on the cutting edge of creating an anti-collision system for commercial drones
This article was originally posted at University Daily Kansan by Travis Diesing | @travis_diesing...
Brian McClendon to speak to ACM/IEEE students, Friday, January 30th
Google Vice President and KU Alum Brian McClendon is coming to speak to the ACM/IEEE student organizations on Friday, January 30th, from 4pm-5:30pm in Learned 2112. He will discuss the life cycle of cloud based services followed by a Q&A. Refreshments will be provided. ...
Researchers to design smartphone app that gauges Ebola risk
This article was originally posted on KU News...
EECS Team Wins Regional Competition
Students from the University of Kansas School of Engineering earned first place in a cyber defense competition. The KU team, the “JayHackers,” won the inaugural computer security competition at the Central Area Networking and Security Workshop, hosted by KU in late October. ...
KU, Garmin Leaders Dedicate Min Kao Engineering Design Studios
Innovation and creativity have found a new home at the University of Kansas Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. ...
Bo Luo Receives NSF Funding for Privacy Research
Professor Bo Luo has received support from NSF to conduct research on privacy protection in social networks to bridge the gap between user perception and privacy enforcement. Online social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, have become extremely popular. They have significantly changed our behaviors for sharing information...
Lingjia Liu Receives NSF Funding for Wireless Research
Lingjia Liu has received NSF support for his research on understanding the fundamentals of energy-efficiency in delay-sensitive wireless communications. Dr. Liu and his students will conduct research to enhance our understanding of delay-sensitive communications using smartphones which depend upon advanced wireless systems and networks. These wireless devices are an...
EECS Student Accepts Position at Air Force Research Lab
LAWRENCE — EECS PhD student Justin Metcalf has accepted a position as a Research Electronics Engineer with the Sensors Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). ...
High School Summer Camp Puts Spotlight on Electrical Engineering
High school students have a summertime opportunity to learn more about Electrical Engineering. During the summer of 2014, EECS participated in the KU School of Engineering annual Engineering Summer Camp – Project Discovery for students entering ninth through 12th grades. The purpose of the camp is to introduce high school...
Project Discovery: A Computing Experience for High School Students
During the summer of 2014, EECS provided a computing experience for high school students. In the one-week Computer Science camp that is part of Engineering Summer Camp – Project Discovery students build websites from the bottom up. ...
EECS Faculty Study Cloud Security
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas researchers have received a multimillion-dollar Department of Defense grant designed to build user trust and confidence in the security of cloud computing and to develop techniques that ensure projects run as predicted, without interference. ...
EECS Hires New Faculty
Alessandro Salandrino is joining the department as an Assistant Professor. He received his "Laurea" degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Applied Electromagnetics, from the University of Rome RomaTre. After graduating with a Ph.D. in Optics and Photonics from CREOL, the College of Optics at the University of Central...
JAYHAWK MOTORSPORTS
Jayhawk Motorsports is looking for students to help design and build electrical systems on our electric race car. The team currently designs and manufactures two cars every year: One combustion car and one electric car. The electric car has many systems that we are looking to implement: battery...
Dr. Frost new Chairperson
A nationally known researcher in communication systems and networks and a longtime KU administrator and professor will become the new chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). ...