A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit – but not if the transistor “type” is undetectable. Purdue University engineers have demonstrated a way to disguise which transistor is which by building them out of a sheet-like material called black phosphorus. This built-in security measure would prevent hackers from getting enough information about the circuit to reverse engineer it.

An important part of senior year for Purdue ECE students is senior design. Teams incorporate all of their previous coursework to take on a challenging engineering project. Students decide on a project and then design and test a system, component, or process to meet the goals they have set.

Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone to make a payment, what if you could simply touch the machine with your finger? A prototype developed by Purdue University engineers would essentially let your body act as the link between your card or smartphone and the reader or scanner, making it possible for you to transmit information just by touching a surface.

Stanley Chan, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and statistics, and Abhiram Gnanasambandam, a PhD student in ECE, have found a new way to break through the high dynamic range imaging problem using single-photon image sensors.

Gerhard Klimeck, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS fellow is a lifetime honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. This year, 489 members have been awarded this distinction.

Two Purdue ECE professors have been named to the list of Highly Cited Researchers 2020 from the Web of Science Group. Alexandra Boltasseva, the Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Vladimir M. Shalaev, the Bob and Anne Burnett Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering are among more than 6,000 highly cited researchers in various fields from roughly 60 nations/regions.

Purdue ECE alumna Afua Bruce (BS CmpE '05) is among 29 volunteers who have been named to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.'s agency review team for the Department of Justice. Bruce worked for the White House when Biden was vice president.

Tridib K. Saha, a graduate student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has won a Graduate Teaching Award from the Purdue University Teaching Academy. This award honors graduate students with teaching responsibilities from across campus for their dedication to Purdue students and their outstanding teaching contributions.

The Computing Research Association has awarded Purdue ECE's Seo Young Kim an Honorable mention for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for 2020. Kim earned her bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering in May 2020.

A paper written by Prof. Shreyas Sen has been selected as an Editor’s Choice Article. Parikha Mehrotra and Baibhab Chatterjee, graduate research assistants in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are co-authors on the paper, titled “EM-Wave Biosensors: A Review of RF, Microwave, mm-Wave and Optical Sensing.”