Student and Alumni News
Awards and accomplishments of our students and alumni
![Alumnus Yingjie Lao](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/medium/public/Yingjie%20Lao.JPG.webp?itok=_lPovMKw)
Students/Computer Engineering, VLSI, and Circuits
Alumnus Yingjie Lao Receives NSF CAREER Award
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Yingjie Lao Receives NSF CAREER award for work on protection of deep learning systems
![Alumnus Tianyi Chen](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/medium/public/ECSE_TianyiChen%20for%20Drupal.jpg.webp?itok=1No5cQTz)
Students/Communications, Signal Processing, and Networking
Alumnus Tianyi Chen Receives IEEE SPS Best Dissertation Award
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Alumnus Tianyi Chen'd award winning dissertation addresses some of the challenges of training machine learning models.
![Left to right: Meghna Madhusudan, Susmita Dey Manasi, Wen Zhou](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/medium/public/2020-2021%20Cadence%20Technology%20Awards.jpg.webp?itok=D0ko7Abr)
Students/Communications, Signal Processing, and Networking, Students/Computer Engineering, VLSI, and Circuits, Students/Fields, Photonics, and Magnetics
Meghna Madhusudan, Susmita Dey Manasi, and Wen Zhou Receive Cadence Technology Awards
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Doctoral students are recipients of Cadence’s Women in Technology scholarships for 2020-2021
![Professor Becky Peterson](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/medium/public/Becky%20Peterson.jpg.webp?itok=INmG4o9_)
Students/Micro and Nanostructures, Students/Student and Alumni News
Alumna Becky Peterson Named Director of Lurie Nanofabrication Facility
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As director of the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility, Peterson will lead University of Michigan's state-of-the-art cleanroom space
![Alumni Eric Severson (left), and Tong Zhang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/medium/public/Eric%20Severson%20and%20Tong%20Zhang.jpg.webp?itok=f8_EHNol)
Students/Communications, Signal Processing, and Networking, Students/Computer Engineering, VLSI, and Circuits, Students/Energy Systems and Power Electronics, Students/Student and Alumni News
Recognition for ECE Alumni Eric Severson and Tong Zhang
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Eric Severson Receives NSF CAREER Award and Tong Zhang Elevated to IEEE Fellow