Student and Alumni News
Awards and accomplishments of our students and alumni
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.
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.
Chase Anderson reverse engineers his way to a master's degree and an IEEE fellowship
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Graduate student Chase Anderson, recent recipient of the IEEE Life Members Graduate Study Fellowship talks about his path to electrical and computer engineering, his role as an IEEE student chapter officer, and his hopes after graduation.
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
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
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
Brandon Ung awarded IEEE Life Members Graduate Study Fellowship
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The fellowship supports outstanding students in their first year of an electrical engineering graduate program
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
Renata Saha receives 2022-23 MnDRIVE Graduate Fellowship
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The fellowship will support Saha's research on implantable treatment options for neuromodulation