If you want power, you lose battery life. If you want battery life, you lose power. That’s the situation facing users of most electronic devices – and it’s also the dilemma for electronics manufacturers. Purdue University innovators have come up with an invention to help.

“You see, nature is unpredictable. How do you expect to predict it with a computer?” said American physicist Richard Feynman before computer scientists at a conference in 1981. Forty years later, Purdue University engineers are building the kind of system that Feynman imagined would overcome the limitations of today’s classical computers by more closely acting like nature: a “probabilistic computer.”

Shreyas Sen, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, is one of 18 leading academic researchers honored by Intel with 2020 Outstanding Researcher Awards (ORAs).

When quantum computers become more powerful and widespread, they will need a robust quantum internet to communicate. Purdue University engineers have addressed an issue barring the development of quantum networks that are big enough to reliably support more than a handful of users.

Santokh Badesha, an adjunct professor for innovation in the College of Engineering’s School of School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the manager of open innovation at Xerox Corp., has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Badesha was elected to the academy for developing materials enabling the broad use of laser printing and the creation of color laser printing.

Millions of people are waiting for a Covid-19 vaccination — but how can we make sure enough people get the shot to offer protection to large swaths of society?

Obtaining a patent is a momentous occasion for an inventor. Having more than 250? Quite a professional milestone.

A pilot program focusing on wellness that started in ECE is now available to all students, faculty, and staff within the College of Engineering. The partnership with TaskHuman is another option for support, along with the wellness programs already available through Purdue.

Debayan Das, PhD candidate in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been awarded the 2020-2021 Predoctoral Achievement Award, given by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS). This award is the highest honor presented to PhD students by the IEEE SSCS and recognizes unique contributions in advancing the state-of-the-art in circuit design. Das is the first Purdue student to receive this honor since its inception in 1983.

Two alumni of Purdue University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Khaled B. Letaief and Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport each received their BS, MS, and PhD from Purdue ECE. They are among 106 new members and 23 international members of the NAE. For contributions to the characterization of radio frequency propagation in millimeter wave bands for cellular communication networks.