Spotlights

Dr. Sukumar Kamalasadan, Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Electrical Engineering has been recently awarded the NC Innovation Pilot Grant for the project “Grid Ancillary Services with Uninterruptible Power Supply (GAUPS)”. This grant is funded by a state budget approved last year, which allocated $500 million to NCInnovation, an organization focused on commercializing research from North […]

Dr. Hamed Tabkhi takes the spotlight in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) program for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for public safety. His project, “Building Safe and Secure Communities through Real-Time Edge Video Analytics,” combines computer vision, behavioral analysis, and edge computing to address urban […]

Research in the Hardware and Embedded Design and Security (HEADS) lab focuses on hardware-based authentication framework using strong physical unclonable functions (PUFs), new authentication techniques, incorporating lightweight cryptographic primitives, and novel pre-boot authentication and storage encryption functions for trusted platform modules (TPM). Recent research develops, validates, and demonstrates CyberPREPS, a concurrent learning cyber-physical framework for […]

The nascent field of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have experienced unprecedented growth in recent times, especially in healthcare and biomedical applications. For example, artificial neural networks have revolutionized the analysis of nonlinear functions with millions of inputs, however, most of the work is still superficial in medical AI, primarily focusing on downstream […]

Dr. Wang and his research team tackle the critical Network-on-Chip (NoC) design challenges by developing an intelligent, adaptive, multi-layer approach design framework for multicore systems. The overarching goal is to enable cooperation and dynamic adaptation across all system abstraction layers to obtain globally optimal solutions for system-level reliability, performance, power, security, and cost. Besides the […]

Research in Quantitative Ultrasound to Enhance Soft Tissue Imaging (QUEST) lab is led by Prof. Farah Deeba with a mission to identify non-invasive imaging biomarkers as a surrogate for the underlying pathophysiological processes for the early prediction and monitoring of diseases. Ultrasound is widely accepted as the next-generation imaging modality of choice, but it is […]

2022-2023 Student Achievement Awards Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Outstanding Senior Computer Engineering: Adam HudsonThese awards recognize students of distinction from the Computer Engineering program. Outstanding Senior Electrical Engineering: Gideon Cooper & Ivy LeThese awards recognize students of distinction from the Electrical Engineering program. Outstanding Senior Double Major Computer & Electrical Engineering: Phillip Harmon & Gabriel Van […]

Dr. Yong Zhang Electrical and Computer Engineering Dr. Yong Zhang, Bissell Distinguished Professor of Engineering, of ECE at UNC Charlotte, and his collaborators recently invented a completely new device concept, solar-battery cell (SBC), that can be viewed as a single-device level hybridization of a solar cell and a battery or an electrical power storage device […]

Dr. Ahmed Arafa Electrical and Computer Engineering Dr. Ahmed Arafa, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is engaged in research on networked communication systems that is Inspired by the novel age-of-information (AoI) metric that assesses information freshness. Arafa’s research offers a pathway towards realizing the exchange of data in a timely manner in federated learning (FL), cloud computing, […]

Dr. Cecchi wins the College of Engineering Graduate Teaching Excellence Award Electrical & Computer Engineering Dr. Valentina Cecchi, ECE Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director, is the 2022 recipient of the William States Lee College of Engineering Graduate Award in Teaching Excellence.   Dr. Cecchi is committed to achieve a balance between education and research, which […]