Two Purdue ECE professors have been named to the list of Highly Cited Researchers 2020 from the Web of Science Group. Alexandra Boltasseva, the Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Vladimir M. Shalaev, the Bob and Anne Burnett Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering are among more than 6,000 highly cited researchers in various fields from roughly 60 nations/regions.

Purdue ECE alumna Afua Bruce (BS CmpE '05) is among 29 volunteers who have been named to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.'s agency review team for the Department of Justice. Bruce worked for the White House when Biden was vice president.

Tridib K. Saha, a graduate student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has won a Graduate Teaching Award from the Purdue University Teaching Academy. This award honors graduate students with teaching responsibilities from across campus for their dedication to Purdue students and their outstanding teaching contributions.

A paper written by Prof. Shreyas Sen has been selected as an Editor’s Choice Article. Parikha Mehrotra and Baibhab Chatterjee, graduate research assistants in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are co-authors on the paper, titled “EM-Wave Biosensors: A Review of RF, Microwave, mm-Wave and Optical Sensing.”

The Computing Research Association has awarded Purdue ECE's Seo Young Kim an Honorable mention for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for 2020. Kim earned her bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering in May 2020.

ECE postdoctoral researcher Dong-Yeop Na has won an international award for a conference paper. “Quantum Finite-Difference Time-Domain Scheme” has been selected for one of the two 2020 IEEE Ulrich L. Rohde Innovative Conference Paper Awards on Computational Techniques in Electromagnetics.

Workforce education in manufacturing has traditionally been very low-tech: in-person teaching sessions, one-on-one apprenticeship, written manuals, and perhaps a video. But to keep pace with an increasing skills gap, some manufacturers are now turning to augmented and virtual reality to teach their workers new skills. A Purdue team has entered into a $5 million cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create an augmented and virtual reality experience prototype called Skill-XR.

Purdue University innovators are taking cues from nature to develop 3D photodetectors for biomedical imaging.