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Paper authored by Professor Keshab Parhi featured in Quantum Zeitgeist
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The highlighted paper offers a structural basis for the design of algorithms that can be used in multiple areas.
Professor Randall Victora honored with IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Service Award
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The award recognizes Victora's sustained service contributions to the IEEE Magnetics Society.
Professor Rhonda Franklin elevated to IEEE Fellow
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The elevation to Fellow honors Franklin's sustained leadership of and engagement in workforce development and education activities.
Research drives innovation
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Research led by Professors Rhonda Franklin and Beth Stadler reflects the impact of the work done by scientists and demonstrates the importance of supporting it.
Professor Gang Qiu receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
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The award will support Qiu's research on cryogenic cooling aimed at supporting the scaling of quantum computing hardware.
Professor Mingyi Hong awarded 2025 Egon Balas Prize by INFORMS Optimization Society
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The award recognizes Hong's contributions that have profoundly impacted modern applications in machine learning, signal processing, and AI alignment.
Professor Jian-Ping Wang: imagining a sustainable future through Niron Magnetics
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Local startup Niron Magnetics based on the research of Professor Jian-Ping Wang is changing the world with its clean technology.
ECE welcomes new department head Professor Geir Dullerud
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Professor Geir Dullerud is the new ECE department head. He joins us from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Nickel-tungsten alloy indicates strong potential for use in energy efficient spintronic devices
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Thin films made of the alloy have been shown to generate multi-directional spins with large spin-orbit torque.
Paper on HiVeGen a new framework for scaling up Verilog generation wins IEEE ICLAD award
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The new framework HiVeGen uses large language models to scale up Verilog generation