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Dr. Dipankar Maity, an Assistant Professor of ECE, has received the prestigious NSF CAREER award for groundbreaking work on the design and optimization of Networked Multi-agent Systems (NMS)—the backbone of many next-generation technologies, including drone swarms, autonomous vehicles, and intelligent power grids. These complex systems rely on coordinated decisions across multiple agents—each with its own sensors, […]
UNC Charlotte PhD student Munmun Talukder has been awarded the prestigious Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2025 for his innovative research on Wi-Fi network security. His paper, “Safeguarding Wi-Fi 7 and Beyond: Tackling Protocol-Aware Jamming in Multi-AP Coordination,” was selected from over 1,400 submissions, with only 272 accepted, reflecting the highly competitive nature of […]
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 […]
In July 2024, Dr. Robert Cox was appointed as the Executive Director of the Energy Production & Infrastructure Center (EPIC). Dr. Cox was previously the Associate Director of EPIC, a position he served in since 2019. EPIC was originally created to be a hub for talent and applied research for the energy industry in the […]
IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) is the Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science Honor Society. The IEEE-HKN Student Leadership Conference is HKN’s largest annual gathering offering a unique opportunity for its students to learn from practitioners. On 15-17 November 2024, close to 350 HKN students, advisors, alumni, IEEE leaders, industry recruiters, society experts, and graduate […]
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 […]
Mason Sun has been awarded the 2025 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in the category of Math, Physical Sciences, and Engineering for his groundbreaking thesis, Wireless Power Transfer for Railway Electrification. The accolade, presented by the Graduate School, recognizes his innovative contributions to sustainable transportation technology. Sun’s thesis explores the potential of wireless power transfer (WPT) […]
Miao Wang, PhD Dr. Miao Whang is currently working on vehicular communication networks and electric vehicle charging in the smart grid. Before joining in UNC Charlotte, she was an Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, from 2018 to 2023. She received her B.E. degree from Beijing University of […]
Dr. Minhaj Nur Alam, Assistant Professor of ECE, has been recently awarded funding from the National Eye Institute (NEI) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) for the project “Domain-adaptive federated learning to develop machine learning models for predicting incident and progression of geographic atrophy”. This grant will help Dr. Alam and his clinical collaborators […]
2023-2024 Student Achievement Awards Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Outstanding Senior Computer Engineering: Elijah Thomas These awards recognize students of distinction from the Computer Engineering program. Outstanding Senior Electrical Engineering: Rachel Griffin These awards recognize students of distinction from the Electrical Engineering program. Outstanding Senior Double Major Computer & Electrical Engineering: Joelle Bailey These awards recognize […]
The Career Center recently concluded its successful fourth ‘Niner Career Challenge’ in the fall of 2023, aimed at encouraging students to actively engage in their career development. Students earned points through various activities, including event attendance, coaching appointments, and drop-in sessions, with the chance to win spring 2024 tuition and monthly prizes. Wanseok Oh, a […]
Dr. Minhaj Nur Alam, Assistant Professor of ECE, has been recently awarded funding from the National Eye Institute (NEI) at the National Institute of ealth (NIH) for the project “Distributed approaches to train machine learning models in diabetic retinopathy”. Dr. Alam, along with his clinical collaborators at Stanford and Illinois, aim to establish distributed federated […]
UNC Charlotte’s College of Engineering has teamed up with Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (HKA) and Bürkert, Germany, to offer three exceptional Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) students an unparalleled international experience. Matthew McGrew, Steve Feinstein, and Axel Knoll, the inaugural cohort, are currently undertaking an intensive internship at Bürkert in Germany from January to […]
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 […]