Sentences with phrase «electrical engineering professor at»

By adding a specially patterned layer of silica glass to the surface of ordinary solar cells, a team of researchers led by Shanhui Fan, an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University in California has found a way to let solar cells cool themselves by shepherding away unwanted thermal radiation.

Our new near - zero - power technology could one day eliminate the need to ever change or recharge a battery,» said Patrick Mercier, an electrical engineering professor at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and the study's senior author.

«The new physics implemented here could potentially outcompete the plasmonic technologies currently in use for sensing,» said Boubacar Kanté, electrical engineering professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and senior author of the study.

In February, Robert Fodosejevs and Ying Tsui, electrical engineering professors at the University of Alberta, received $ 430,650 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to study ways to speed up fusion ignition in collaboration with the National Ignition Facility in California.

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Kumu Networks came out of the research that co-founder Sachin Katti did while a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University.

Lav Varshney is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, as well as of computer science (by courtesy) and neuroscience, at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

Wang is joined on the paper by his two thesis advisors: Nickolai Zeldovich, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and James Mickens, an associate professor of computer science at Harvard.

«This is a record performance in terms of thermal stability and a major advance for the field of thermophotovoltaics,» said Shanhui Fan, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.

To find out if that was the case, he teamed up with John Goutsias, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, to find a way to measure this controlled type of randomness, scientifically termed epigenetic stochasticity, by using the information - theoretic concept of Shannon entropy.

Eve A. Riskin, a professor of electrical engineering and director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change at the University of Washington, said that married academics might choose to wait until the end of the interview process before mentioning a spousal hiring issue.

«Just as it takes time to train a person to swing a squash racket like an expert, it takes time to train one's neurons to produce the ideal activity patterns,» says Byron Yu, associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon.

Krishna Shenoy, the Lim professor of electrical engineering, bioengineering and neurobiology at Stanford and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, noted, «This substantial reduction in training time is remarkable as it requires the new algorithm to make very efficient use of neural data coming in for so little time, under a minute in some cases, and helps point the way toward further advances of real - world importance.»

«By moving aberration estimation and correction out to computation, we can create a compact device that gives us the same surface area as the lens we want without the size, weight, volume and cost,» said Cossairt, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern.

Rosenstein was a PhD student in electrical engineering at the School at the time this work was done, and is now an assistant professor at Brown University.

Co-authors of the paper are Rice graduate students Huilong Fei and Gonglan Ye, postdoctoral researcher Nam Dong Kim, alumni Errol Samuel and Zhiwei Peng, and Pulickel Ajayan, chair of the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice; Juncai Dong and Dongliang Chen of the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; research associate M. Josefina Arellano - Jiménez and José Yacamán, chairman of the Department of Physics, at the University of Texas at San Antonio; and graduate students Zhuan Zhu and Fan Qin and Jiming Bao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, at the University ofProfessor in Engineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice; Juncai Dong and Dongliang Chen of the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; research associate M. Josefina Arellano - Jiménez and José Yacamán, chairman of the Department of Physics, at the University of Texas at San Antonio; and graduate students Zhuan Zhu and Fan Qin and Jiming Bao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, at the University ofprofessor of chemistry at Rice; Juncai Dong and Dongliang Chen of the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; research associate M. Josefina Arellano - Jiménez and José Yacamán, chairman of the Department of Physics, at the University of Texas at San Antonio; and graduate students Zhuan Zhu and Fan Qin and Jiming Bao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, at the University ofprofessor of electrical and computer engineering, at the University of Houston.

Senior author Jelena Vuckovic, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, has been working for years to develop various nanoscale lasers and quantum technologies that might help conventional computers communicate faster and more efficiently using light instead of electricity.

But Doyle, a professor of control and dynamic systems, electrical engineering, and bioengineering at Caltech, also believes the Internet can be saved.

«This is great news for us,» said Jian - Ping Wang, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota.

Zheng wants to wrap up his studies either late this year or in early 2012, at which time he hopes to focus on a start - up he formed with his advisor, Changhuei Yang, a Caltech professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering.

«A lot of countries are focused on physical science applications to biosystems,» says Saion Sinha, a professor of physics and electrical engineering at the University of New Haven in Connecticut and a researcher in nanomaterials.

The study, led by Ken Shepard, Lau Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, is published online Dec. 7 in Nature CommunProfessor of Electrical Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, is published online Dec. 7 in Nature Communprofessor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, is published online Dec. 7 in Nature Communications.

«Everything we do as faculty requires communication skills,» stresses Wendi Heinzelman, dean of graduate studies for arts, sciences, & engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Rochester.

The optical imaging system was developed in the laboratory of Andreas Hielscher, professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering at Columbia Engineering and professor of radiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

«Whispering gallery mode resonators, which are basically optical resonators, have been intensely studied for at least 20 years,» said Srinivas Tadigadapa, professor of electrical engineering.

De Montjoye is joined on the paper by his thesis advisor, Alex «Sandy» Pentland, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Erez Shmueli, a postdoc in Pentland's group; and Samuel Wang, a software engineer at Foursquare who was a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science when the research was done.

Dong - Ho Cho, a professor of the electrical engineering and the director of the Center for Wireless Power Transfer Technology Business Development at KAIST, said: «It's quite remarkable that we succeeded with the OLEV project so that buses are offering public transportation services to passengers.

The cells are held within a millimeter - scale table - top microbioreactor, containing a microfluidic chip, which was originally developed by Rajeev Ram, a professor of electrical engineering at MIT, and his team, and then commercialized by Kevin Lee — an MIT graduate and co-author — through a spin - off company.

«The sensors are everywhere now, including in smart phones and other portable electronic devices,» said Alexander Balandin, UC Presidential Chair and professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, who is the lead researcher on the project.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

«The amazing field of metamaterials brought up lots of new ideas but few real - life applications have come so far,» said Vladimir M. Shalaev, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, who was not involved in the research.

Armando Rodriguez, an associate professor in the department of electrical engineering at Arizona State University in Tempe, received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring in 1998.

Igor Aleksander is professor of neural systems engineering and head of the electrical engineering department at Imperial College, London.

In a 1999 paper, Erik Demaine — now an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, but then an 18 - year - old PhD student at the University of Waterloo, in Canada — described an algorithm that could determine how to fold a piece of paper into any conceivable 3 - D shape.

«Our experimental results show double the efficiency using the MRFE in comparison to air alone,» says David Ricketts, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the work.

The breakthrough, described in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and featured as ACS Editors» Choice for open access, addresses a decades - long challenge for electron - transport conducting polymers, said Yan Yao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering and lead author of the paper.

«We have discovered that by inserting a very thin film of gallium arsenide into the connecting junction of stacked cells we can virtually eliminate voltage loss without blocking any of the solar energy,» says Dr. Salah Bedair, a professor of electrical engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper describing the work.

«This thing is something really new,» says Fengnian Xia, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Yale University.

Data about Los Altos Hills was fed to a computational model developed by study co-author Thomas Hamacher, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at TUM.

However, because the light coming into the sensor has to pass through several layers of metal before reaching the silicon, which is a weak light absorber, the sensor detects only about 25 percent of the light that makes up the image, says Sargent, who is also a professor of electrical and computer engineering and Canada research chair in Nanotechnology at the University of Toronto.

A team of researchers, led by Sangeeta Bhatia, an associate professor at HST and in M.I.T.'s department of electrical engineering and computer science, report in Advanced Materials that they have developed and tested injectable multifunctional nanoparticles — particles billionths of a meter in size — that they expect to become a new, potent weapon against cancer.

«StimDust is the smallest deep - tissue stimulator that we are aware of that's capable of stimulating almost all of the major therapeutic targets in the peripheral nervous system,» said Rikky Muller, co-lead of the work and assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at Berkeley.

The creation of neural dust at Berkeley, led by Maharbiz and Jose Carmena, a Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, has opened the door for wireless communication to the brain and peripheral nervous system through tiny implantable devices inside the body that are powered by ultrasound.

Then there's the surgical approach, «which lets us actually look into the brain of the AI system,» says Alan Fern, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Oregon State University, who is leading one of 12 projects funded under Gunning's program.

«People have created these types of devices before, but previous attempts with dielectrics have always been paired with at least some metal,» said Willie Padilla, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University.

The key is expanded microchannel structures, says Pearce, who is an associate professor of materials science and engineering along with electrical and computing engineering at Michigan Tech.

«The concept brings together an assortment of existing nanoscale technologies and combines them in a new way,» said Dr. Joseph S. Friedman, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UT Dallas who conducted much of the research while he was a doctoral student at Northwestern University.

Led by Zak Kassas, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in UCR's Bourns College of Engineering, the team presented its research at the 2016 Institute of Navigation Global Navigation Satellite System Conference (ION GNSS +), in Portland, Ore., in September.

«We saw that there were some really good women out there who just needed some encouragement and a road map on how to translate their skills from industry into academia,» said Eve Riskin, electrical engineering professor and associate dean for diversity and access at the UW College of Engineering.

Zebker, an associate professor of geophysics and electrical engineering at Stanford University, and his colleagues know this because they have documented how volcanoes themselves change shapeslowly expanding at the surface and then collapsing back down in what seem like great, heaving sighs.

«Increasingly, voice is being used as a security feature but it actually has huge holes in it,» said Kang Shin, the Kevin and Nancy O'Connor Professor of Computer Science and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciencProfessor of Computer Science and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciencprofessor of electrical engineering and computer science at U-M.