Stanley Chan, the Elmore Professor of ECE, and a team of PhD students led by Bole Ma in the Elmore Family School of ECE, have advanced to the semifinal round of the DARPA Computational Imaging Detection and Ranging (CIDAR) Challenge.

From April 17-19, 2026, the student-led Humanoid Robot Club will host StarkHacks, a 36-hour hardware hackathon aiming for a Guinness World Record as the largest ever.

Muhammad Hussain is widely recognized as one of the architects of Bangladesh’s “Silicon River” vision, a national framework that integrates biotechnology, electronics, artificial intelligence, and robotics into a single innovation ecosystem.

A new Frontiers in Science lead article outlines brain-inspired hardware approaches designed to break today’s computing bottlenecks. Prof. Kaushik Roy led the research.

At Purdue University, a graduate-level course in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is helping students understand how ideas become intellectual property and how that IP creates real-world impact.

Researchers from Purdue University and Anello Photonics have demonstrated a new way to control light on silicon nitride photonic chips, overcoming a long-standing challenge in integrated optics.