Student and Alumni News
Awards and accomplishments of our students and alumni

Alumnus Kejun Huang receives NSF CAREER Award
Posted February 1, 2023
Huang is working on tackling some of the challenges in machine learning

Sai Sanjay Balaji awarded UMII-MnDRIVE Graduate Assistantship
Posted January 19, 2023
The UMII-MnDrive assistantship award will support Sanjay's research that will lead to the development of a graph neural network for identifying seizure onset zones

Renata Saha's team wins third place at MMM 2022 Magnetic Sensor Challenge
Posted December 20, 2022
The Magnetic Sensor Challenge combined technical expertise with fun which allowed teams to be as innovative and entertaining as possible

Alumnus Thomas Coughlin is 2023 IEEE President-Elect
Posted December 12, 2022
A 1981 graduate, Coughlin is an expert in digital storage technologies and is President of Coughlin Associates, a technology consulting firm.

Alumnus Karthik Srinivasan and CEMS student Pang-Hsiao Liu win best poster at MMM 2022
Posted December 9, 2022
The poster presents a new exfoliation technique that could be the ultimate “cold-process” for materials integration.

Driven by curiosity
Posted November 3, 2022
Graduate student Bryan Chantigian shares his experience as a NASA intern and what influenced him to pursue a major in electrical engineering

Lulu Ge places first at IEM Annual Conference Poster Competition
Posted October 13, 2022
Ge's winning poster presents the possibility of customizing transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment

Lulu Ge receives IEM doctoral fellowship
Posted September 20, 2022
Ge's doctoral research explores the application of hyperdimensional computing in the diagnosis of neurological disorders

No frontier too challenging
Posted September 20, 2022
Read about Aditya Dave's experience participating in and ultimately winning the prestigious Caltech Space Challenge

Chatterjee, de Sousa, and Zhang receive doctoral dissertation fellowships
Posted September 12, 2022
The Graduate School's doctoral dissertation fellowships support highly accomplished students so they can focus their efforts on completing their dissertations