Spotlights Archive

Dr. Sukumar Kamalasadan, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Distinguished Scholar of the College of Engineering, won a 2024 NC Innovation Award for his project “Grid Ancillary Services with Uninterruptible Power Supply (GAUPS)”. Funded by a $500 million state budget, NCInnovation (NCI) supports innovative researchers from North Carolina’s public universities that have been proven to have commercial […]

Dr. Hamed Tabkhi’s innovative project on advancing public safety through AI/ML has been spotlighted in NSF’s Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) program. His project, “Building Safe and Secure Communities through Real-Time Edge Video Analytics,” combines computer vision, behavioral analysis, and edge computing to address urban safety concerns. Dr. Tabkhi has received a new NSF Grant, NSF CIVIC […]

Dr. Ran Zhang, Assistant Professor of ECE, is developing new UAV communication networks with a dynamic UAV lineup.  His multi-drone prototyping project has been extended to three autonomous drones which can decide its movement via onboard intelligence and inter-communicate via onboard WiFi. The goal is to develop an autonomous multi-drone platform free of human intervention […]

Dr. Minhaj Nur Alam, Assistant Professor of ECE, is working with clinical collaborators at Wake Forest, Illinois Health, and Stanford to develop novel federated learning approaches for the prediction of geographic atrophy which is an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is one of the leading causes of severe vision loss. Clinical deployment […]

Dr. Babak Parkhideh advanced his research in broad sensing technologies by collaborating on two highly competitive projects with scientists from the University of Maryland, College Park, and UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics. In the project with UMD, Dr. Parkhideh is leading research on ultrafast, non-intrusive current sensing. If successful, this work could enable […]

Dr. Tiefu Zhao from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, along with Dr. Shen-En Chen and Dr. Nicole Braxtan from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has spearheaded groundbreaking research to develop the first wireless power transfer (WPT) technology for railway applications in the U.S. This research has secured over $1 million in […]

Distributed and Collaborative Intelligent Systems New Research Project UNC Charlotte is now one of the members of the Distributed and Collaborative Intelligent Systems and Technology (DCIST) Collaborative Research Alliance (CRA). Led by UPenn, DCIST brings together more than ten institutions including MIT and GaTech.  The DCIST team will create autonomous, resilient, cognitive, heterogeneous swarms that […]

Resilient Community Microgrids New Research Project Dr. Badrul Chowdhury, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won a Research Grant entitled “Resilient Community Microgrids with Dynamic Reconfiguration to Serve Critical Loads in the Aftermath of Severe Events” from the Department of Energy (DoE). This $3.6 million award from the DoE’s Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) will help Dr. […]

New Research Project Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have been awarded two research grants amounting to over $1M funding to develop wireless charging technology for potential train applications. This research is led by Dr. Tiefu Zhao from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC), Dr. Shen-En Chen […]

Dr. Kathryn Smith Electrical and Computer Engineering Dr. Kathryn Smith of ECE is leading a project sponsored by Ansys to develop materials for online delivery of two classes covering the fundamental principles of electromagnetics.  The intent of this work is to transform the delivery of complex electromagnetic concepts from the traditional presentation of written equations […]