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The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Rutgers University has long been the home for cutting-edge engineering research and educational practices. Our 37 faculty members are involved in groundbreaking research projects that enrich the engineering landscape. Currently, our award-winning faculty is staffed with 11 IEEE Fellows, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Pres

idential Faculty Fellow, an ONR Young Investigator, and eleven NSF CAREER award winners. The ECE Department is home to 350 graduate students and 757 undergraduate students. Our research centers are internationally recognized and include CAC, a center for cyber-physical systems research, and WINLAB, an industry-university cooperative center dedicated to wireless technology research. The ECE Department faculty and students are thoroughly engaged with such areas of interest as green networks, next generation internet architectures, dynamic spectrum access, cognitive radio, resource management, information security, underwater communications, signal processing, visual computing, computational science and engineering, cloud computing, virtual reality, silicon photonics, multifunctional sensors, materials and devices for green energy, nanophotonics, bioelectronics, analog and digital integrated circuit design.

Congratulations to Rutgers IEEE student members Justin Parra, Varun Iyer, Enric Wang, and Arun Felix for earning 2nd and...
05/29/2026

Congratulations to Rutgers IEEE student members Justin Parra, Varun Iyer, Enric Wang, and Arun Felix for earning 2nd and 3rd place in the Micro Mouse Competition at the 2026 IEEE Region 1 & Region 2 Student Conference (SAC2026)!

Hosted at Rowan University, the conference brought together more than 200 students from across the Northeast and Midwest for technical competitions, engineering challenges, and an overnight hackathon.

After competing in the overnight hackathon, the Rutgers team returned the next day to place in the Micro Mouse competition — showcasing their technical skill, teamwork, and dedication under pressure.

Special thanks as well to Prof. Sasan Haghani for supporting and mentoring the students throughout the competition process.

Congratulations to everyone involved!

Congratulations to recent Rutgers ECE PhD graduate Weinan Wang and Professor Laleh Najafizadeh!Weinan received the highl...
05/27/2026

Congratulations to recent Rutgers ECE PhD graduate Weinan Wang and Professor Laleh Najafizadeh!

Weinan received the highly competitive Rutgers School of Graduate Studies Outstanding Doctoral Student Award — a university-wide honor recognizing exceptional doctoral research and scholarship across all disciplines, with only four awardees selected across Rutgers.

During his PhD, Weinan published 14 first-author peer-reviewed papers, maintained a 4.0 GPA, contributed to multiple patent applications, and developed new algorithms for blood pressure monitoring and AI-enabled cardiovascular health applications.

He also created PulseDB, a public dataset now widely used by researchers in cardiovascular monitoring research.

In addition, Weinan received the inaugural School of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award in the PhD category.

Congratulations on these well-deserved honors!

Rutgers ECE faculty and students were recognized at the IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey Section Award Dinner for their out...
05/26/2026

Rutgers ECE faculty and students were recognized at the IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey Section Award Dinner for their outstanding contributions to research, teaching, mentorship, student engagement, and service to the IEEE community.

Faculty members honored included Professors Demetrios Lambropoulos, Sasan Haghani, Laleh Najafizadeh, Bo Yuan, Sheng Wei, and Emina Soljanin.

Rutgers students were also recognized for their success in the SAC2026 Micro-Mouse Competition.

In total, Rutgers ECE received 6 of the 30 awards presented at the event — representing 20% of all recognitions awarded that evening.

Congratulations to all faculty and students recognized for their achievements and continued leadership in the IEEE community!

ECE Professor Predrag Spasojevic and doctoral student Sean Johnson received an Honorable Mention for Best Paper at WINNA...
05/25/2026

ECE Professor Predrag Spasojevic and doctoral student Sean Johnson received an Honorable Mention for Best Paper at WINNAI 2026 for their work on predictive RF propagation modeling in Factory-of-the-Future environments.

Their paper introduces SceneSense — a multimodal GenAI framework that uses inputs like text, drawings, LiDAR point clouds, and photos to enable real-time wireless channel prediction for NextG systems.

The work was completed in collaboration with researchers from Rowan University.

Congratulations to Predrag, Sean, and collaborators Rudhra Joshi, Zubair Hafeez, and Silvija Kokalj-Filipovic on this recognition!

You can learn more about the conference at WINNAI 2026: https://conference.wirelessinnovation.org/

Rutgers ECE seniors showcased their project FMCW Radar for ASL Gesture Detection at the NY 7x24 Exchange competition in ...
05/07/2026

Rutgers ECE seniors showcased their project FMCW Radar for ASL Gesture Detection at the NY 7x24 Exchange competition in NYC — and were the only team to present a live demo.

Congratulations to Chris Cho, Kyle Hammermueller, Jeremy Rebetje, Opemipo Adebayo, and advisors Sasan Haghani & Cameron Greene on this outstanding achievement! 👏

Advancing the future of Health AI 🚀Proud to see Rutgers ECE faculty: Waheed Bajwa, Shantenu Jha, and Laleh Najafizadeh l...
05/05/2026

Advancing the future of Health AI 🚀

Proud to see Rutgers ECE faculty: Waheed Bajwa, Shantenu Jha, and Laleh Najafizadeh leading multidisciplinary projects funded by Rutgers Center for Biomedical Informatics & Health Artificial Intelligence through the PAIR Fellowship.

From AI-driven surgical care to digital twins in ICUs and brain-based prediction models, these projects are shaping the next generation of healthcare innovation while mentoring future researchers.

The ECE Dept. is pleased to announce that Tingcong Jiang has been selected as a recipient of the 2025-26 Paul Panayotato...
04/30/2026

The ECE Dept. is pleased to announce that Tingcong Jiang has been selected as a recipient of the 2025-26 Paul Panayotatos Endowed Scholarship! 🎉

Tingcong is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate advised by Dr. Dario Pompili, working on ad-hoc sensing networks under challenging communication environments. His research, E2E-WAVE, transmits live video across the ocean via acoustic waves—delivering 16 frames per second where standard methods fail entirely.
Applications include monitoring coral reefs, inspecting offshore wind farms, and detecting marine pollution without dispatching vessels.

Congratulations, Tingcong! 👏

Congratulations to Taqiya Ehsan on receiving the 2025-26 Paul Panayotatos Endowed Scholarship! 🎉Taqiya is a third-year P...
04/28/2026

Congratulations to Taqiya Ehsan on receiving the 2025-26 Paul Panayotatos Endowed Scholarship! 🎉

Taqiya is a third-year Ph.D. candidate advised by Dr. Jorge Ortiz, studying human-AI interaction in physical spaces. Her most recent research develops AI systems that teach buildings to understand cause-and-effect in their own operation—achieving an 8x energy reduction on live hardware.

Her work, PolicyGRID, was presented at NeurIPS 2025 and published at AAAI 2026. Congratulations, Taqiya! 👏

Big win for ECE 👏Ashwini Subramanian, Ph.D. student under Prof. Laleh Najafizadeh, was named Runner-Up in the Rutgers 3M...
04/26/2026

Big win for ECE 👏

Ashwini Subramanian, Ph.D. student under Prof. Laleh Najafizadeh, was named Runner-Up in the Rutgers 3MT competition — a university-wide event where researchers present their work in just 3 minutes.

Her research focuses on how pain affects cognitive function and how we can design assistive technologies that remain reliable under those conditions.

A strong example of engineering research translating into real-world impact 💡

Celebrating a major milestone 🎉ECE faculty member Yao Liu has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.A well-de...
04/24/2026

Celebrating a major milestone 🎉
ECE faculty member Yao Liu has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

A well-deserved recognition of her impactful research, dedication to students, and contributions to the ECE community.

Rutgers Day is set for Saturday, April 25, 2026, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. (rain or shine) Look for the ECE tent in the Engineeri...
04/24/2026

Rutgers Day is set for Saturday, April 25, 2026, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. (rain or shine)
Look for the ECE tent in the Engineering Area (BEA) on the Busch Campus in Piscataway.

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