Program Highlights

Chellappa Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Rama Chellappa, UMD professor emeritus, College Park Professor and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, is a pioneer in the area of artificial intelligence and was selected by “for [his] contributions to digital image analysis, automatic face recognition, and applications.”

Gong Honored as Chemist of the Year; Part of UMD Team Awarded $750K by NSF Convergence Accelerator Program

Professor Cheng Gong received the 2022 Chemist of the Year Award from the Maryland Chapter of the American Chemical Society for his “innovative development of nanosensors based on two-dimensional (2D) quantum materials,” and is part of research team addressing food and nutrition security in Maryland.

Murphy Appointed in Inaugural Role

Professor Thomas Murphy was appointed as the Associate Chair for Research and Faculty Affairs, a newly developed role for ECE.

Faculty & Department News

Martins, Kara Publish Population Games Research on Excess Payoff Evolutionary Dynamics

New research published in IEEE Control Systems Letters shows that for a considered protocol class, established conditions that ensure convergence under strategy-independent revision rates may be violated when the revision rates are strategy-dependent.

Better 'Lifetime Predictions' for NAND Flash Memory

New research published in IEEE Transactions on Computers by Professor Gang Qu and his colleagues proposes techniques that can minimize redundant prediction operations by exploiting reliability variation.

Simon Awarded $149,000 Seed Grant

Professor Jonathan Simon was awarded the grant from the University of Maryland Brain and Behavior Institute (BBI) to study how age and bilingualism affect auditory stream segregation ability.

Abshire Part of CogniSense, a DARPA JUMP 2.0 Center

Center will pursue intelligent sensing to action: Sensing capabilities and embedded intelligence to enable fast and efficient generation of actions.

Nearly 50-meter Laser Experiment Sets Record in Campus Hallway

Professor Howard Milchberg and colleagues transformed a hallway into a laboratory to temporarily transfigure thin air into a fiber optic cable—or, more specifically, an air wave guide—that would guide light for tens of meters.

ECE is hiring in computer engineering, cybersecurity, nextG wireless, autonomy, and quantum

Quantum News

UMD Quantum Researchers Work Featured on Cover of AVS Quantum Science

The work, part of a collaboration led by Professor Ronald Walsworth, discusses the detector principle and the status of experimental techniques required for directional readouts of nuclear recoil tracks.

In Brief

Five Clark School Authors Part of New 'Age Of Information' Book

A comprehensive new book on the “Age of Information” network performance metric features chapters by three ECE/ISR faculty and two of their recent alumni.


Giving Back: New Solar Panels Support a Local Urban Farm

Staff, students and faculty from several UMD departments, including ECE, are giving back locally by supporting Koiner Farm, an urban farm in downtown Silver Spring, Md.

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