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The 2019 Columbia EE/CE MS Student Project Expo took place at the end of the Fall semester. Fifty teams presented projects ranging from a baby cradle that can monitor a baby’s behavior to a device that can track and take care of small plants.

Date and time: Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, 1:30-5:00PM
Location: CEPSR 750
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The 17th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2019) and the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2019) were successfully held at Columbia University from Nov. 10 to Nov. 14 this November.

Out of almost 20,000 nominations this year, Kord was selected based on his achievements that were reviewed by Forbes editors and expert industry judges.

Fifty teams presented projects ranging from a baby cradle that can monitor a baby’s behavior to a device that can track and take care of small plants.

Dr. Ashutosh Dutta who received his M.Phil. and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University has been named an IEEE Fellow and has been recognized for leadership in mobility management and security monitoring in mobile networks. Dutta completed his PhD (while working at Telcordia) and was advised by Professor Henning Schulzrinne. "I am very thankful for all the training, teaching, and mentoring that I received during my time at Columbia," said Dutta.

James' research interests include optimal and robust control theory, mathematical optimization, and data privacy/sensitivity. In particular he is interested in designing distributed decision-making algorithms for cyber-physical systems. Such systems include everything from energy to the internet to transport and logistics.

Electrical engineering PhD student Min Chul Shin has been named a 2020 Facebook Fellow. He is a member of the Lipson Nanophotonics Group, led by Professor Michal Lipson, which focuses on nanophotonics and the investigation of the physics and applications of nanoscale structures that can slow down, trap, enhance and manipulate light.

Electrical engineering researcher will develop high-performance, flexible, biocompatible transistors

Researchers use atomically thin materials—1/100,000 the size of a human hair—to manipulate the phase of light without changing its amplitude, at extremely low power loss; could enable applications such as LIDAR, phased arrays, optical switching, and quantum and optical neural networks.

EE Professor John Kymissis and team first to demonstrate a robotic finger with a highly precise sense of touch over a complex, multicurved surface

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang, assistant professor of electrical engineering, with a CAREER Award, the most prestigious recognition the NSF gives to young researchers. Jiang will receive $500,000 to fund his project, “A Scalable Occupant-Driven Energy Optimization System for Commercial Buildings.”     

Tingjun Chen, a PhD candidate in electrical engineering, translates his expertise in developing algorithms and running simulations into real-world, next-gen Internet of Things technologies as part of COSMOS—a testbed for advanced wireless research headed by Professor Gil Zussman. From installing antennas on Columbia’s engineering building to implementing hardware for smart-city technologies, Chen plays a key role on the COSMOS team.

Hendon, who is an associate professor of electrical engineering, was cited for “developing optical imaging, spectroscopy, and processing tools for real time tracking and guidance of cardiac ablation therapy.” Her research is focused on biomedical optics and how optical imaging modalities can improve therapeutic procedures. She develops innovative medical imaging instruments that provide surgeons with a clear understanding of the tissue on which they are operating, including the heart, joints, and breast. She has worked on designing next-generation optical coherence tomography systems and integrated therapeutic catheters with near infrared spectroscopy, along with real-time processing algorithms to extract physiological information. In collaboration with colleagues at the Engineering School and at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, her group has developed integrative optics and therapeutic probes for improving the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. 

Columbia researchers design biocompatible ion-driven soft transistors that can perform real-time neurologically relevant computation and a mixed-conducting particulate composite that allows creation of electronic components out of a single material

In light of Covid-19, we are proud to share some positive news about some of our students and researchers in the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University who have recently accepted positions as tenure track faculty members.

Michal Lipson, Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering has been named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is among 276 artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, non-profit, and private sectors elected to the Academy, which was founded in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock, and others who believed the new republic should honor exceptionally accomplished individuals and engage them in advancing the public good. Election to the Academy is a prestigious recognition of outstanding achievements in academia, the arts, business, government, and public affairs, and induction will take place at a ceremony in October.

Ethan Katz-Bassett, associate professor of electrical engineering, was awarded a year-long, $124,667 National Science Foundation RAPID grant to study the impact of people’s changes in behavior on the internet during COVID-19. The pandemic has led to unprecedented and ongoing changes to daily life, including shelter-in-place orders, widespread closing of businesses and schools, and work-from-home and school-from-home at previously unknown levels. These changes in behavior are placing extraordinary demands on the internet .

The SPIDERS project from Columbia Intelligent and Connected Systems Lab was awarded the Best Demo Award at the 19th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN ’20). The platform was demonstrated to hundreds of participants worldwide virtually.

The end of May is a time to celebrate and to recognize student achievement in the Department of Electrical Engineering. While in person events are not possible due to Covid-19, the Electrical Engineering department at Columbia University celebrated its students remotely. 

Mateus Corato-Zanarella has been awarded a 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for their potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field.

We are proud to announce that one of our former EE PhD students, Negar Reiskarimian was selected to the receive the Morton B. Friedman Memorial Award. Her advisor was Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy in the EE department, and she focused on integrated non-reciprocal components for full-duplex wireless applications.

In their work, Ghaderi and his student provide causal scheduling algorithms for any traffic (arrival and deadline) process that evolves as an ``unknown’’ Markov chain (without knowing what packets with what deadlines arrive in future). Their algorithms significantly outperform greedy maximal scheduling policies. They have shown that it is possible to achieve a constant fraction of ``real-time’’ throughput region in any general network topology, and for any traffic Markov chain, without knowing the Markov chain. Their proposed randomized algorithms achieve at least 0.63 of optimal for collocated networks, and at least 0.5 of optimal for general networks.

Research team is developing an innovative patch device with active sensors to monitor and accelerate the wound healing process. “While wound bandages and dressings are one of the most common clinical tools for acute and chronic wound care, most are passive and cannot actively respond to variations in the wound environment,” says Shepard, a pioneer in bioelectronics. “Active sensing of the wound healing process would be a major advance for clinicians and patients alike.”

Fred Jiang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University and co-Chair of the Smart Cities Center in the Data Science Institute.

The NSF PAWR COSMOS testbed which is a collaborative effort involving Rutgers, Columbia, NYU, NYC, and several other partners has been accompanied by several  extremely impactful educational outreach activities. 

The NSF PAWR COSMOS testbed which is a collaborative effort involving Rutgers, Columbia, NYU, NYC, and several other partners has been accompanied by several  extremely impactful educational outreach activities.

Three University researchers have joined a $115 million DOE-funded center that will pioneer quantum technologies that could benefit national security, pharmaceutical development, and more.

The Optical Society (OSA) is excited to announce that Dr. Michal Lipson, Eugene Higgins Professor at Columbia University, USA, has been elected by OSA members to serve as the society’s 2021 Vice President.

EE Professors Lipson and Hendon have received a number of awards and honors this fall.

Incoming students learned about the EE/CE programs, career services, and the myriad of opportunities open to them.

Jiang and team propose to develop a technology to perform continuous skin temperature measurements at-scale and at-low-cost, enabling continuous fever screening of populations in and at entrances to their natural habitats, such as hospitals, schools, businesses, cafes, restaurants, mass transits, road and bridge toll/EasyPass booths, homes and workspaces, without disrupting their day-to-day activities. 

Lipson honored for her pioneering work in photonics.

Thanks to a generous Columbia Engineering alumni donor, 10 faculty teams (all ten teams listed here) have each won an $85,000 award to develop technology innovations for urban living in the face of COVID-19. 

Thanks to a generous Columbia Engineering alumni donor, 10 faculty teams have each won an $85,000 award to develop technology innovations for urban living in the face of COVID-19.

Profs Keren Bergman, Alex Gaeta, and Michal Lipson win funding for phase 2 of their project, Photonic Integrated Networked Energy-efficient Datacenters

This honor, which was established in 1874, recognizes the extraordinary achievements of scientists, engineers, and innovators across a wide range of disciplines.” 

Out of thousands of nominations this year, Robinson was selected based on his achievements that were reviewed by Forbes editors and expert industry judges.

Profs Keren Bergman, Alex Gaeta, and Michal Lipson win funding for phase 2 of their project, Photonic Integrated Networked Energy-efficient Datacenters.

Omar Wing, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, passed away on December 28, 2020. 

Student club one of five U.S. teams participating in NASA’s STEM on Station initiative.

Professor Christine B. Hendon, associate professor of electrical engineering, was recently named a fellow of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering. 

The NSF COSMOS-NewLAW Research Experience and Mentoring for Teachers (REM/RET) program, which is a professional development program for NYC STEM teachers is now accepting applications for Summer 2022 . Profs. Kostic, Krishnaswamy, and Zussman are co-PIs in this program.

Find out more information and application details here.

In a significant advance for impactful technologies such as quantum optics and laser displays for AR/VR, Columbia Engineering’s Lipson Nanophotonics Group has invented the first tunable and narrow linewidth chip-scale lasers for visible wavelengths shorter than red.

We sat down with the Electrical Engineering PhD student to talk about the new tunable laser platform he helped invent, the challenges of working with visible light, the importance of collaboration, and what he’s working on next.

Teachers shared success using the COSMOS Education Toolkit with students to run experiments on the testbed in Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus.

Columbia Electrical Engineering mourns the passing of Stephen H. Unger, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He passed away on July 4, 2023. Unger was 92 years old.

NEC Corporation, NEC Laboratories America, Columbia University, Duke University, and the SFI CONNECT centre at Trinity College Dublin have jointly demonstrated open transponder whitebox technology in a recent field trial to support data center interconnects and mobile traffic, achieving simultaneous communication and sensing at city-scale.

Columbia engineers were awarded for their research paper on Chablis, a geo-distributed multi-version transactional key-value store.

 Prof. Rabia Tugce Yazicigil (PhD EE '16) and her lab awarded an NSF award on Cyber-Secure Biological Systems.

A new $100 million financing deal will help building owners install the Cozy, technology initially developed in the lab of Dr. John Kymissis, featured in Fast Company magazine. 

From groundbreaking research to exemplary service and teaching, the Columbia Electrical Engineering Department recognizes the outstanding achievements of its senior students with the 2024 Senior Awards. Discover the inspiring journeys and bright futures of this year's honorees.

Explore how Columbia University's Engineering clubs are shaping the future of technology and community through innovative projects and passionate leadership.

Explore the cutting-edge projects from EE students at the Senior Design Poster Session.

Four Columbia EE students have been awarded the prestigious 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

Columbia University’s Matthias Preindl and PhD student Youssef A. Fahmy won the First Prize Best Paper Award at MDPI Energies for their innovative research on lithium-ion battery state-of-health estimation using convolutional neural networks together with McMaster University collaborators Ephrem Chemali, Phil Kollmeyer, and Ali Emadi.

Columbia University’s Department of Electrical Engineering proudly celebrates the achievements of Ph.D. students Mahshid Ghasemi (advised by Prof. Gil Zussman and Prof. Javad Ghaderi) and Jeremy Allen Johnston (advised by Prof. Xiaodong Wang), who have recently been awarded CS3 Accelerator program top honors at the CS3 Innovation Summit.

EE Professor Vishal Misra talks ChatGPT, AI and ethics, and more. 

EE Prof. Ioannis Kymissis and his students Vikrant Kumar, Keith Behrman were featured on the cover of the Physics Today for their research about the manufacturing challenges of microLEDs. 

Discover the inspiring journey of Sukanya S Meher (MS EE'17), Member of Technical Staff at Hypres and IEEE CSC co-chair, as she navigates the challenges and opportunities in the niche field of superconductor electronics.

Professor Javad Ghaderi and his PhD student Christos Tsanikidis receive the prestigious Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2024.

Teachers shared their experience using the COSMOS Education Toolkit with students to run experiments on the NSF testbed in West Harlem.

Please join us in welcoming Prof. Micah Goldblum to the Columbia University EE department. 

EE Prof. Matthias Preindl spoke with NYT on how automakers are exploring ways to use electric car batteries to help the grid, using their energy storage to help utilities and save customers money.

EE is excited to announce that PhD student Leonardo Toso, advised by Professor James Anderson, was selected to be the CAIRFI fellowship awardee for his project “Bayesian Priors for Efficient Multi-task Representation Learning.” 

At IEEE's 74th ECTC, Keren Bergman explored the complexities and breakthroughs in co-packaging photonic and electronic components. In her keynote, she discussed cutting-edge techniques to bring photonic chips closer to compute, memory, and other crucial system elements, and we had the opportunity to delve deeper into her insights.

Learn how Professor Brian Plancher, an affiliated EE professor from Barnard College, is integrating cutting-edge robotics research and education into Columbia's Engineering program, fostering innovation and collaboration among students.

Discover how groundbreaking research, led by CS Prof. Xia Zhou together with EE Prof. Fred Jiang and PhD students Qijia Shao, Emily Bejerano and Jingping Nie, uses wearable sensing fabrics to help caregivers monitor Kangaroo Mother Care practices for preterm and low birth weight infants

Alum Deidra Hodges, Chair of FIU's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, has been elected to the Board of ECEDHA, highlighting her leadership in renewable energy and photovoltaics research.

Dive into the latest updates, achievements, and stories from our vibrant EE/CE community 

EE Prof.Ioannis Kymissis featured in MIT News for his work on implantable microphone.

Tanvir Ahmed Khan has been awarded the prestigious ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Rescuing Data Center Processors."

Professors Zoran Kostic, Gil Zussman, Javad Ghaderi, and their students share their latest findings at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR).

Once overlooked, Conway’s work laid the foundation for modern computing technologies.

EE Professor Asaf Cidon and PhD student Yuhong Zhong's research on CXL memory at OSDI 2024 enhances cloud computing efficiency and sustainability.

Professor Matthias Preindl and Dr.Liwei Zhou (EE Ph.D ‘22) are transforming the field of power electronics with their book "Software-Defined Power Electronics." 

EE Professor James Anderson andhis students Han Wang, Leonardo Toso, and Donglin Zhan win the best paper award at this year's Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (L4DC).

At its second annual review, the Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC), housed within the EE department, emphasized advancements in energy efficiency, disruptive innovation, and its support for the next generation of the semiconductor workforce.

VisionPro eyeglasses, a breakthrough by alum Muneer Khan (MS EE '22), are revolutionizing mobility and independence for the visually impaired community.

Claudia Cea's pioneering research in bioelectronics and neural engineering paves the way for her new role at Yale.

Columbia Physics Prof. Sebastian Will and Electrical Engineering faculty Alex Gaeta, Michal Lipson, , and Gil Zussman, along  with Stony Brook University, Yale University, and Brookhaven National Laboratory received a grant from the NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) program.

EE wins a new grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop AI-system for sustainable waterways and ocean health.

EE Professor Dave Vallancourt was honored with the Society of Columbia Graduates’ Great Teacher Award.

EE Professor Kenneth Shepard authored the Obituary of EE Professor and Trans Rights Advocate Lynn Conway ’62, ’63. 

As part of Climate Week NYC, Columbia Engineering will celebrate a week of events bringing together researchers and experts at the forefront of developing solutions to help the planet and society. 

A team of EE students, alumni, and faculty has published pioneering research in the Proceedings of the IEEE on full-duplex wireless systems.

With seed funds from the Data Science Institute, EE/EEE Professor Bolun Xu is driving the transition to renewable power. 

A remarkable group of EE grad students has been selected for a range of prestigious fellowships in 2024. Their research spans cutting-edge fields like brain-computer interfaces, photonic devices, and renewable energy systems, further cementing Columbia’s leadership in engineering innovation.

From landing dream internships at tech giants like Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia, to mastering the art of networking and resume-building, second year MSEE/CE students reveal the strategies that helped them stand out in the competitive tech world. 

Sixteen QST graduate students have arrived on campus to join the inaugural quantum class.

IBM Quantum team discusses career opportunities and the future of quantum computing with Columbia Engineering students.

EE alum Claudia Cea (EE PhD '23) built a flexible system based on ion transistors for human-computer interfaces. She was nominated for MIT Tech Review's  35 Under 35 Innovator List.

EE Professor Asaf Cidon, along with experts from IBM, University of Michigan, Meta Fundamental AI Research, Cornell Tech, and University of Pennsylvania, explores how to reduce the carbon footprint of cloud computing amidst the rapid growth of AI.

Apple team shares career advice and industry insights during a tech talk and Q&A session with EE students, along with exclusive resume reviews and mentorship.

EE PhD students Vishal Choudhari and Cong Han and Associate Professor Nima Mesgarani developed a brain-controlled hearing system that uses neural signals to enhance speech in noisy, real-world environments with moving talkers.

EE Associate Professor Matthias Preindl, a pioneering expert in power electronics and battery management, has been promoted to Columbia Engineering's tenured faculty in 2024.

EE welcomes Dr. Homayoon Beigi as Professor of Professional Practice in Electrical joint with Mechanical Engineering, bringing decades of pioneering expertise in biometrics and machine learning

EE alum Imran Shah (BS’84, MS’86, PhD’94) returned to campus as the Silberstein Family Executive in Residence, sharing insights from his career journey with students.

In his Lecture, President Chiang discussed the pivotal role of semiconductor innovation in securing America's technological future.

EE brought together students and alumni for a night of mentorship, networking, and career advice, inspiring the next generation to navigate a challenging job market with confidence.

A Columbia Engineering startup nabs $44M to tackle energy and scalability challenges with a new platform that significantly boosts AI data performance and efficiency.

Six research labs, led by top faculty and student presenters, showcased cutting-edge projects to recruit aspiring researchers for the Spring 2025 semester.

John Levy shared insights on the challenges of scaling quantum computers and introduced SEEQC's innovative quantum computing chip during a lecture at the EE Department.

Wei Family Private Foundation recognizes the 2024 recipient of its prestigious scholarship grant at Columbia EE.

A milestone moment: Columbia EE unveils its vibrant new student and faculty space in Mudd 13th floor. 

The team is developing new AI architectures that distribute tasks intelligently across the network with support from MediaTek.

From pushing the boundaries of semiconductor research to championing women in engineering, Professor Savannah Eisner is proving that the future of technology is diverse and limitless.