Student and Alumni News
Awards and accomplishments of our students and alumni
Doctoral student Zihao Lin recognized with multiple MRS awards
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Lin’s research focuses on patterning materials onto 3D micro- and nanoarchitectures, particularly those with high curvature.
Alumna Xinmiao Zhang elevated to IEEE Fellow
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Zhang is being recognized for her significant contributions to VLSI architecture designs for error-correcting codes.
Innovating for early disease detection
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Doctoral student Hyeonjeong Jeong shares her journey working at the cutting edge of disease diagnosis for early detection of neurodegenerative diseases.
Alumnus Aditya Prabhu's start-up company adopts original approach to tackle Japanese beetles
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Alure, the company co-founded by Prabhu, has developed an environmentally safe method to eliminate Japanese beetles.
Visual technique to detect misfolded proteins could aid early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases
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Detection of misfolded proteins in biological samples by observing capillary behavior can make for a cost-effective diagnostic technique
Alumnus William Moy wins prestigious Activate fellowship
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The fellowship will support Moy as he continues work on COBI, a transformative physics-based computing technology that aims to solve hard optimization problems.
Alex Wege wins best student poster at IEEE WAMICON 2024
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Wege's poster presents technology that can support the easy commercialization of chipless RFID technology
Aditya Prabhu wins ‘Student Entrepreneur of the Year’
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Aditya Prabhu's entrepreneurial spirit recognized at University of Minnesota Founder's Day
Hüsrev Cılasun, Alireza Khataei, and Siliang Zeng awarded doctoral dissertation fellowships
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The dissertation fellows are exploring unconventional and energy efficient ways of computing, aligning artificial intelligence systems with human norms and values, and developing innovative hardware accelerators that consume fewer resources.
Alumnus Prakash Palamedu Sundaram wins best paper award at CS MANTECH
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The paper marks a significant step towards commercializing beta-gallium oxide devices for the development of more efficient, high-power electronic systems.