Professor Weiner's research focuses on ultrafast optics, notably the processing of extremely high-speed lightwave signals and ultra-broadband radio-frequency signals. He is especially well known for his pioneering work on programmable generation of arbitrary ultrashort pulse waveforms, which has found application both in fiber optic networks and in ultrafast optical science laboratories around the world.

Xiaojun Lin, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Hong Tan have been elevated, effected January 2017. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one- percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.

The College of Engineering recognizes the graduate student advisors who do an outstanding job of mentoring their MS and PhD students.

His company, SmartGait, is developing a device that will provide an easy and inexpensive assessment of fall-risk in older adults. The grant is from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Program.

The team, which includes ECE Professors Pedro Irazoqui and Zhongming Liu, is researching the stomach's neural circuitry and whether bioelectronics medicine can aid conditions such as diabetes or obesity.

The award was in recognition of his work in visual analytics, both through development of fundamental predictive techniques and as director of the Purdue/DHS Visual Analytics Center of Excellence.

The software could help grape growers and winemakers optimize quality and yields in their vineyards.

About 60 outstanding engineers under the age of 45 met for an intensive 2 1/2 day symposium. Professor Love presented a poster on the research challenges related to developing 5G and beyond wireless networks.

Both will begin their 3 year terms on January 1, 2017. The Board of Governors sets the direction and determines the strategy for the Computer Society, and provides guidance at the policy level to all Society organizational entities.

Professor Yong Chen, Haiyan Wang, the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering, and Peide "Peter" Ye, the Richard J. and Mary Jo Schwartz Professor of ECE were nominated and selected for "their exceptional contributions to the field of physics".