Sanjay Rao, professor of electrical and computer engineering for Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Rao was nominated for outstanding scientific contributions to computer networking, especially Internet Video Streaming, and Network Verification and Synthesis.

Ashwin Boddeti, a graduate student with Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Competition by Optica (formerly OSA). This competition recognizes the innovation, research and presentation excellence of students presenting their work during Frontiers in Optics (FiO).

The Spark Challenge is a campus-wide, corporate-sponsored design competition, hosted by Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in partnership with the ECE Student Society (ECESS).

Ever since the Casimir effect has been realized, physicists have made efforts to study it- both theoretically and experimentally- attempting to create functioning devices. Tongcang Li, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Astronomy at Purdue, and his team have now created a functional device using the quantum vacuum.

A team of Purdue researchers led by professors Vladimir M. Shalaev, Bob and Anne Burnett Distinguished Professor of ECE, and Alexandra Boltasseva, Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Professor of ECE, has discovered single-photon emitters in silicon nitride that have the potential to enable direct, scalable, and low-loss integration of quantum light sources with a well-established on-chip platform.

Santokh Badesha, Adjunct Professor for Innovation with Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected to the rank of fellow with the National Academy of Inventors.

Congratulations to Purdue University researchers across all campuses and academic disciplines. They have recently received 24 patents on their intellectual property from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Sous-vide cooking inspired an idea that took promising technology out of the lab and into the barn. Researchers at Purdue University successfully developed an on-site bovine respiratory disease test that provides results within an hour.

Zhihong Chen, professor of electrical and computer engineering with Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elevated to Fellow status with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Two professors with Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been elected to the Optica (formerly OSA) 2022 Fellows Class. Zubin Jacob, Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Alexander Kildishev, associate professor of ECE, are among 106 new fellows from 24 countries who were selected based on several factors, including distinguished contributions to education, research, engineering, business and serving the community.