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When learning informs teaching

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Professor Yang Zhao receives Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award

The award supports faculty whose work enables machine learning and cloud computing at a massive scale

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Professor Rhonda R. Franklin receives IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award

A prestigious IEEE Technical Field Award, the recognition honors Franklin’s contributions to workforce development and engineering education

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Professor Sachin Sapatnekar receives 2026 ACM/SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award

Award recognizes Sapatnekar's groundbreaking contributions to EDA that have significantly advanced the ability to design high-performance integrated systems.

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Best Paper Award at ISLPED 2026 for postdoc Farzad Razi

The paper introduces an in-memory architecture called MITRA that leverages stochastic computing

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Professor Mehmet Akçakaya elevated to Fellow of the ISMRM

Akçakaya's research has consistently focused on improving patients' MRI experience while providing precise results.

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Professor Jian-Ping Wang to lead center for spintronics innovation

The new spin technology center will focus on developing new magnetics-based technologies

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