Student and Alumni News
Awards and accomplishments of our students and alumni
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Alumna Vidya Chhabria receives best dissertation award
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Chhabria's award winning dissertation presents machine learning and open-source solutions to resolve critical problems that have plagued electronic design automation.
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Onrí Jay Benally receives 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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Benally's interests lie in the engineering of quantum computing hardware and spintronic devices.
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Kavin Muhil Ramesh receives 2023-24 IEEE PES scholarship
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An undergraduate student in his senior year, Ramesh is particularly interested in power systems and renewable energy systems
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Alumnus Burhaneddin Yaman receives 2023 IEEE SPS Best PhD Dissertation Award
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Yaman's doctoral research improves patient experience during magnetic resonance imaging.
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In Conversation with alumna Pushpavati Paladugu
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The first woman to earn a doctoral degree from ECE, Paladugu shares with us the details of her inspirational journey to the University of Minnesota as a doctoral student and her life after graduation
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Wen Zhou receives doctoral dissertation fellowship and Early Innovation Fund award
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Zhou is designing novel integrated radar architectures for low-power, high-precision distributed integrated radar sensing systems that have a range of applications including self-driving vehicles, manufacturing, robotics, and security.