Electrical & Computer Engineering at Michigan

🎉 Congrats to Prof. P.C. Ku on receiving the Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Award for Excellence in Teaching from @UMengineering —recognizing his transformative teaching and commitment to student-centered mentorship. #HigherEd #GoBlue Learn more ⬇️ bit.ly/4dGXKdH

#5 in the nation. 〽️👏 Our Electrical Engineering graduate program continues its climb in the latest @usnews rankings. A huge thank you to the students, faculty, and alumni whose work and innovation keep us at the forefront of the field. #GoBLue

🎓 Congrats to Changwoo Lee on a successful PhD defense! His research makes large neural networks more efficient by leveraging hidden low-dimensional structure—enabling faster, lower-cost models across vision, NLP, and wireless systems. #AI #MachineLearning #GoBlue

🎉 Congratulations to ECE Prof. Johanna Mathieu on receiving the Vulcans Education Excellence Award from @UMengineering recognizing outstanding teaching and a strong commitment to student development. #EngineeringEducation #GoBlue Learn more👇 bit.ly/4s6H0ju

🎓 Congrats to Jack Erhardt on a successful PhD defense! His research advances low-power, real-time AR/VR by combining dynamic CNN processing, ROI-based stereo depth, and compression techniques to reduce sensor data and improve efficiency. #PhDDefense #ARVR #ComputerVision

🎓 Congrats to Abdullah Alothman on a successful PhD defense! His research advances wireless power transfer with self-adaptive, nonlinear designs that maintain efficient and stable power under real-world conditions. #WirelessPower #EnergySystems #Goblue

🎉 Congratulations to Assistant Professor Qing Qu on receiving the @UMengineering 1938E Award for excellence in teaching, mentorship, and research. #FacultyExcellence #HigherEd #GoBlue Well deserved 👏 Read more👇 bit.ly/4vbqKAy

Congrats to Prof. Emeritus Fawwaz Ulaby on receiving the @ECEDHA Innovative Program Award! His Free Engineering Textbook initiative has significantly reduced financial barriers, providing high-quality open-access resources to the global ECE community. bit.ly/4tfEoAR

🎓 Congrats to Ruya Karagulle on a successful PhD defense! Her research combines preference learning with formal safety guarantees to enable more reliable and user-aligned autonomous systems. #PhDDefense #Autonomy #AI #ECE

Your OLED screen isn't as uniform as it looks📱 New ECE research in @NaturePhotonics reveals "nanoscale hotspots" that limit device lifespan. Lead author PhD student Joshua Springsteen & Profs Forrest & Giebink found the "rivers" of current responsible. bit.ly/4uRCxUn

🎉 Congrats to Jason Hu on his PhD defense! His research makes diffusion models more practical for inverse problems, enabling efficient 3D reconstruction and cross-modality generalization across CT, MRI, and deblurring. #PhDDefense #MachineLearning #AI #ECE

Can the U.S. power grid handle the "new normal" of extreme weather and rising demand? On The Excerpt by @USATODAY, Johanna Mathieu (U-M ECE) explains how balancing supply and demand is key to grid reliability. Listen to the full episode here: usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

🎉 Congratulations to Sal Trupiano (BSE CE ’90) on receiving the inaugural #ECE Alumni Excellence in Service Award. Through his mentorship and service on the ECE Advisory Council, he continues to support the next generation of engineers. Learn more: bit.ly/4t9CUbi

🎓 Congrats to Xiong Zeng on his PhD defense! His research studies the limits of data-driven control, showing when systems are easy to model but hard to stabilize—guiding more reliable and robust algorithms. #PhDDefense #ControlSystems #MachineLearning

🎓 Congrats to Javier Salazar Cavazos on his PhD defense! His research improves machine learning for noisy data and applies deep learning to fMRI analysis, advancing insights into Alzheimer’s and cognitive decline. #PhDDefense #MachineLearning #AI #ECE

Support ECE students this #GivingBlueDay. Your gift helps provide financial support, recognize achievement, and create opportunities for future engineers. All gifts are matched up to $1,000. Give today: bit.ly/4bvcF7L #GoBlue

🎓 Congrats to Adrian Pizano on a successful PhD defense! His research uncovers why blue OLEDs degrade faster than red and green devices, advancing more reliable and longer-lasting display technologies. #PhDDefense #OLED #ECE

Lighter than a dewdrop.💧 ECE researchers have developed a 20mg RF tag to track paper wasps in the wild. This tiny transmitter from Prof. David Blaauw’s lab is helping scientists uncover the secret lives of insects. 🐝🛰️ Full story via @IEEESpectrum: bit.ly/4bIVqRM

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Voting for Pie a Prof is LIVE 🥧 Donate to vote for the professor you want to see get pied on March 13. Proceeds support ECE students and faculty. Vote now → bit.ly/4cD25hq #GoBlue #CampusLife #ECE #PieAProf