Carnegie Mellon University Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

José Moura, the Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the prestigious IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for contributions to theory and practice of statistical, graph, and distributed signal processing.

Each year the IEEE Awards Board recommends a select group of recipients to receive IEEE’s most prestigious honors. These are individuals whose exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society, and the engineering profession.

Moura Awarded the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal - Electrical and Computer Engineering - College of Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University José Moura, the Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the prestigious IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for contributions to theory and practice of statistical, graph, and distributed signal processing.

Can the facial expressions of traders predict the market? Mario Savvides has embarked on a study using facial-recognition algorithms to track the expressions of traders. His goal: finding correlations between mood swings and market swings. Read the Washington Post article here:

Analysis | Traders Can’t Predict the Market. Maybe Their Faces Can. Researchers want to use facial recognition to predict price swings.

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We will be forever grateful for Dr. Giorgio Coraluppi's generosity he showed to the electrical and computer engineering department. His name will live on in the department as his gift will support multidisciplinary research initiatives that will address emerging global and societal challenges for decades to come.

We’re thrilled to announce that has been ranked #1 in computer engineering and #8 in electrical engineering in the 2023 US News and World Report Undergraduate Program Rankings.

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Transformational growth at CMU-Africa A historic partnership with the Mastercard Foundation will expand the engineering and technology, research, and entrepreneurship programs at CMU-Africa, helping to strengthen Africa’s technology, innovation, and research ecosystem.

Congratulations to 's Vyas Sekar and fellow researchers on receiving the 2022 SIGCOMM Test of Time Award for their paper "Understanding the impact of video quality on user engagement" which motivate streaming giants like Netflix and YouTube, among others, to develop new technical solutions such as better pro-active bitrate selection, rate switching and buffering techniques, to capture and retain audiences using their platforms.

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/news-and-events/story/2022/07/sekar-earns-acm-sigcomm-test-of-time-paper-award.html

Sekar earns ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award - Electrical and Computer Engineering - College of Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University Professor Vyas Sekar and fellow researchers explore the impact of video quality on user engagement.

ECE Assistant Professor Marc Dandin has received Oracle’s inaugural Research Project Award for his innovative approach to single-cell cancer research. https://bit.ly/3PiIuV3

ECE Assistant Professor Vanessa Chen has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 Symposium, which will bring together 84 accomplished early-career engineers performing exceptional research in a variety of disciplines.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering are setting out on a mission to transform constellations of nanosatellites into sophisticated distributed computing platforms, building the foundation for a wide range of innovative applications. https://bit.ly/3P4iNaZ

ECE Associate Professor, Phil Koopman, a leading expert in Autonomous Vehicle safety, has been selected by the National Safety Council to join its inaugural Mobility Safety Advisory Group. https://www.nsc.org/road/future-of-mobility

Future of Mobility - National Safety Council American roadways are more dangerous today than they have been in decades– especially for those who are not inside a motor vehicle. Even before the surge in traffic deaths during the pandemic, U.S. traffic deaths rose 17% from 2010 to 2019, with cyclist and pedestrian deaths rising almost three ti...

Congratulations to ECE Assistant Professors Gauri Joshi and Xu Zhang, who have been named to the 2022 class of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35" list.

As many of us leave for summer vacation, protect your security and privacy with these tips from Carnegie Mellon University CyLab faculty. https://bit.ly/3ODGuGz

Dubbed the "SelfieStick," ECE Associate Professor Swarun Kumar has developed a novel, affordable handheld antenna device that combines several weak transmission signals to capture weather antenna quality images of earth. https://bit.ly/3a8CH54

In a new article from Inverse, ECE Associate Professor Swarun Kumar explains how beam-steering helps improve wireless speed for cellular tech users.
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/horizons-radio-communication

Beam-steering radio technology could help autonomous cars finally hit the road In this edition of HORIZONS, read about a new antenna that steers radio waves to bolster mobile internet — an innovation that could make autonomous cars and 6G communication possible.

Last semester, AI developer and processor manufacturing company, Quadric, donated two of its developer kits for projects in ECE's Entrepreneurship course.

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Here are a few moments from the Diploma Ceremonies. Check out the full albums here: bit.ly/3mJqNkR

A temporary part-time position turned into a full-time career for Jessica Tomko at Carnegie Mellon.

Today, she is the assistant director of admissions and chair of the diversity committee in .

“I am grateful for how lucky I was to end up with such a great team doing — and enjoying — something I never imagined. I was lucky to learn from experience that this work is a good fit for me.” https://bit.ly/3aDLQm5