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

In memoriam: Jack Reid (OAA)
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Jack Reid's contributions to the field of biomedical imaging significantly impacted the lives of patients

Burhaneddin Yaman recognized with best dissertation award
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Yaman's research improves patient experience during magnetic resonance imaging and was deemed the best in the physical sciences and engineering category of the award.

Alumnus Kejun Huang receives NSF CAREER Award
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Huang is working on tackling some of the challenges in machine learning

Sai Sanjay Balaji awarded UMII-MnDRIVE Graduate Assistantship
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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
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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
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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
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The poster presents a new exfoliation technique that could be the ultimate “cold-process” for materials integration.

Driven by curiosity
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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
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Ge's winning poster presents the possibility of customizing transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment

Lulu Ge receives IEM doctoral fellowship
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Ge's doctoral research explores the application of hyperdimensional computing in the diagnosis of neurological disorders