Yung-Hsiang Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, has developed several patented technologies and helped his students start their own companies. He is a Purdue Faculty Scholar, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Virtual labs have been gaining ground in the College of Engineering. By combining mixed reality technologies with physics-based modeling and simulation and authentic machine interfaces, virtual labs are enriching learning. To expand the reach of this innovative instructional approach, the College has launched the Virtual Labs Faculty Fellows program, and has selected and engaged the first cohort of fellows.

Purdue University researchers received an Amazon Research Award for their development of a method to perform analytics on streaming video running on small devices linked together in the Internet of Things (IoT). This method can perform computationally expensive tasks, such as object detection and face recognition, in real time and provide guarantees about the accuracy.

Purdue ECE student Sarah N. Chowdhury has been awarded a 2021 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for her potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field.

For the second straight year, Saurabh Bagchi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been chosen to receive an Adobe Faculty Award.

James Stewart, who earned his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in May 2021, recently won the Best Student Paper/ Oral Presentation award at the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE): Defense and Commercial Sensing Conference for his Metamaterials Lens (Metalens) research.

An ECE grad student’s startup has won $25,000 in Purdue’s 34th annual Burton D. Morgan Business Model Competition. Mahdi Al-Husseini is the co-founder of Aura Training Systems, one of five Purdue student startups which took home part of the $92,500 in prize money.

Milind Kulkarni, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and Associate Head of Teaching and Learning for Purdue ECE, has been selected as a fellow of the 2021-22 Purdue Insights Forum Program.

The Stone Age. The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. The Industrial Revolution. Eras tend to be defined by their technology, and humans may be headed for a new one: the Quantum Age.

Aly El Gamal, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received the Online Excellence in Innovative Course Design and Use of Technology award, for the course ECE 59500 Introduction to Deep Learning.