The smaller-than-a-dime device is microwave-powered.
Edward Knightly, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rice University, has been named the Sheafor-Lindsay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective July 1.
The title is the highest honor that the university, one of the largest in Finland, can bestow. Aazhang is a long-time collaborator of faculty at the university.
Brown Teaching Grants support innovative undergraduate education. This is the second teaching grant from the Brown Foundation that Prof. Simar has received.
Aydin Babakhani, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, has been elected to the Microsystems Exploratory Council (MEC) by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO).
IEEE InfoCom is a top-ranked conference on networking in the research community, with a very competitive acceptance rate. Nayak is advised by ECE department chair Edward Knightly.
Postdoctoral fellows play a critical role in providing an influx of technology expertise and in forging new and stronger connections among researchers at Rice and the TMC.
The research deals with the challenge of imaging through 'scattering media', a material that scatters light, resulting in captured images losing spatial resolution and contrast.
Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests are in the area of digital and mixed-signal solid-state circuits, VLSI and integrated system designs.
First-year graduate students Bo Fan, Yash Mehta and Amurta Pai received the highest grade in ELEC 599: First-Year Research.