ECE Department News 2017
Two ECE Students Win Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation Awards
ECE Students Matthew Dowling and Weicheng Liu received awards from the Armstrong Memorial
Research Foundation.
Robertazzi, Wang, and Skiena Receive Patent Related to Power Distribution Systems
This summer Prof. Tom Robertazzi, ex-ECE PhD student Kai Wang and Prof. Steve Skiena
of the Computer Science Dept. have been awarded a US patent (number 9,728,971) for
an elegant procedure to balance the phases of electric power distribution systems.
Professor Mikhail Dorojevets Co-Founds QUANTARCTIC
Prof. Mikhail Dorojevets with four other founding members representing four world
continents have founded QUANTARCTIC, the worldwide community of people developing Flux Quantum Architectures, Tools,
and Integrated Circuits with superconductor technology. The QUANTARCTIC mission is to connect people working on flux quantum computing and
bring new people, companies, and ideas to the field.
Studying Hardware and Software for Smart Devices
ECE Professors Fan Ye, Peter Milder, and Yuanyuan Yang receive NSF grant to study
hardware and software for pervasive edge computing. The researchers will design, create
and evaluate a novel hardware and software platform where modularized FPGA/software
computation components can be easily composed like interlocking Lego pieces, to create
customized edge sensing and computing devices for "smart" applications.
ECE Faculty and Staff Receive SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence
Mónica F. Buagllo, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received recognition for Excellence in Teaching, and Anthony Olivo, Senior Technician, for Excellence in Professional Service.
ECE Students Receive Recognition Awards
Two ECE department students—Scott Kontak and Yuriy Slashchev—have been chosen to receive Undergraduate Recognition Awards for Academic Excellence.
PhD Student Receives NSF Professional Development Award
Third-year ECE PhD student Lingqing Gan received the 2017 National Science Foundation Professional Development Award, which supported her attendance at the iREDEFINE workshop at the ECEHDA conference.
ECE Professor Wins Google Faculty Research Award
ECE assistant professor Fan Ye has been awarded a Google Faculty Research Award. This
is a competitive and prestigious award aimed to strengthen Google’s ties with researchers
and to support cutting-edge work on “problems that will impact how future generations
use technology.”
Fan Ye Studies Smart Environments
ECE assistant professor Fan Ye receives NSF CAREER award supporting his research on
foundational hardware and software for smart enviroments.
Profs. Salman and Stanacevic Research Wirelessly Powered Computing Devices
Associate Professors Emre Salman and Milutin Stanaćević are inventing new methods
to use wireless energy in computing devices. Contrary to existing methods that convert wirelessly harvested power into a direct
current (DC) voltage and rely on conventional computing methodologies, Salman and
Stanacevic propose an alternating current (AC) computing based system where the wirelessly
harvested power is directly used for computation without converting into a DC voltage.
Stony Brook's IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Wins Outstanding Chapter Award
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has awarded Stony Brook’s
Theta Mu chapter of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) with the Outstanding Chapter Award
for 2015–2016. Stony Brook’s IEEE-HKN chapter, with approximately 80 ECE students, holds a number
of events and workshops aimed at promoting ECE, giving students professional development
opportunities, and benefitting the community.
Prof. Mikhail Dorojevets Receives IARPA Contract for Cyber Security Research
Prof. Mikhail Dorojevets, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was
awarded a contract related to cyber security from the Office of Director of National Intelligence, IARPA. It is the first ever
IARPA contract awarded to Stony Brook University. Prof. Dorojevets's research interests
include energy-efficient superconductor computing, cyber security, cryptography, parallel
computer architectures, and all aspects of processor and circuit design.
ECE Faculty and Staff Hold Retreat
The faculty and staff of the ECE department started the semester with a day-long retreat
to plan for the coming year. The agenda included planning for the upcoming ABET visit,
discussing the results of internal course evaluations, and brainstorming for ways
to improve the department’s undergraduate and graduate programs.