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Brain-to-brain communication demo receives DARPA funding
Wireless linkage of brains may soon go to human testing
Rice’s Yingyan Lin receives NSF CAREER Award
Engineer recognized for advances in ubiquitous on-device intelligence and green AI
Rice ECE helps launch Embench 1.0 Benchmark Suite for IoT Class
Embench provides an excellent industry-standard, open-source set of benchmarks that enable users to make complex design decisions
Rice Eclipse Rocketry Team receives grant from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The $1,000 grant will be used to fund the new ARCA engine control hardware and develop an actively-guided parachute recovery system for Eclipse's rockets
Esteemed Professor, Yuji Zhao will be joining Rice ECE, July 2021
Zhao, joining the department as an Associate Professor, previously led a research group focused on semiconductor materials and devices at Arizona State University
Lihong Wang, Rice Alum and Junichiro Kono, current Rice ECE Professor, were Co-Principle Investigators on project awarded 1M.
An Automated Early Warning System to Help Doctors Save Babies
Rice D2K Lab students working with Texas Children’s Hospital created machine-learning algorithms to increase detection time before cardiac arrest
Samantha Fuentes and Nicholas Glaze announced as this year's ECE Chevron Scholarship winners
The award is granted to undergraduate students pursuing a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phil Layton Award of Excellence in the Arts goes to ECE student, Zach Alvear
Zach Alvear was recognized for his contributions to music and the Rice community as a whole by participating in Mariachi Luna Llena, Rice University's student-run professional mariachi group.
Frank Yang, ECE senior, receives Best Poster Award, Fall 2020 for the Materials Research Society
Yang's poster was recognized along with 19 other winners from universities worldwide
Santiago Segarra presented with the 2020 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
Award winning paper focused on network topology inference from spectral templates
ECE Professors Kevin Kelly and Richard Baraniuk selected for a 2020 IEEE Best Paper Award
Both professors will receive the accolade at the ICASSP 2021 in Toronto, Canada
Ken Kennedy Institute graduate fellowship program awards $50,000
Awards to help seven fellows in five Rice Engineering departments further pursue research.
What is the difference between the ECE PhD program and the MECE program?
The chart below highlights some of the key differences between our PhD and MECE electrical and computer engineering program
Sabharwal elected a fellow of National Academy of Inventors
ECE chair and professor named one of 175 academic inventors in 2020 class.
Rice ECE offers two new courses for Spring 2021
New courses in systems and optics
Rice physicist shares grant to advance imaging
Junichiro Kono lab, part of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to use quantum light for understanding disease
This self-described 'geek' came to Rice to learn about business, leadership and his career ambitions
Vinay Pai BA '88 BS '88 MS '91 now serves as a senior vice president of engineering with Bill.com.
New endowed chair honors longtime ECE faculty member, C. Sidney Burrus
A virtual event was held to celebrate C. Sidney Burrus and establish an endowed chair in his honor.