A team of researchers from Purdue ECE has received an award from the National Spectrum Consortium for a project titled “DSARC: 5G Dynamic Spectrum Access and Radar Coexistence.” This is a roughly $8-million effort over a period of three years. Raytheon BBN Technologies is the lead institution, with Purdue ECE and Novowi LLC being the two collaborative institutions.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Purdue ECE Prof. Samuel P. Midkiff as one of its 64 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. All 2020 inductees are longstanding ACM members and were selected by their peers for a range of accomplishments that move the computing field forward.

Jan P. Allebach, the Hewlett-Packard Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the 2020 Johann Gutenberg Prize from the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T). The prize has been granted every year since 1987 to recognize outstanding technical achievement in, or contribution to, printing technology.

Mung Chiang, Purdue University’s John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, has been elected one of seven international fellows of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2020.

Technology similar to massive search engines used to scour the web may soon be used to provide new insights into consumer behavior and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on economies across the world. The technology also may be a useful tool for reducing misinformation in news media.

Is it possible to read a person’s mind by analyzing the electric signals from the brain? The answer may be much more complex than most people think.

Jay Knepp, a computer engineering major, created the light level meter for which Purdue has received the 2020 APPA Effective and Innovative Practices Award. The portable light level meter has changed the way campus light levels are collected and analyzed and has been transformative for project planning within the department.

Well before the reality of a global pandemic, Purdue was creating online versions of many of its engineering labs, so the College of Engineering’s virtual lab initiative didn’t start with COVID-19 in mind.

Electronics are increasingly being paired with optical systems, such as when accessing the internet on an electronically run computer through fiber optic cables. But meshing optics — which relies on particles of light called photons—with electronics—relying on electrons — is challenging, due to their disparate scales. Electrons work at a much smaller scale than light does. The mismatch between electronic systems and optical systems means that every time a signal converts from one to the other, inefficiency creeps into the system.

Yung-Hsiang Lu, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been chosen to the 2021 class of newly elevated fellows of the IEEE. Lu was named for his contributions to energy efficiency of computer systems. His research focus is mobile and cloud computing, energy-efficient computing, and image and video processing.