Student and Alumni News
Awards and accomplishments of our students and alumni
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
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.
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.
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.
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
No frontier too challenging
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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
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The Graduate School's doctoral dissertation fellowships support highly accomplished students so they can focus their efforts on completing their dissertations
Vinit Chugh and Dong Jun Lee are Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship winners
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Chugh and Lee are working on portable diagnostic devices that will positively impact access to healthcare