Professor Chaitali Chakrabarti has been influencing the future generations of electrical engineers for more than 30 years. Starting in 1990, Chakrabarti brought her talents and passion for algorithm-architecture co-design of signal processing and communication systems, low-power embedded system design, reliable and energy-efficient in-memory computing and secure edge computing to what is now known as the School of Electrical,…

Albert Reed, an electrical engineering PhD candidate, was recently selected to join the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship program.  Reed received the award to recognize his academic excellence in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) achievements. The program, developed in 1989 at Congress’s direction and sponsored by the Army, Navy, and Air Force,…

Senior Academic Success Advising Coordinator, Lynn Pratte, wins the inaugural Outstanding Collaboration award from the Graduate College. https://news.asu.edu/20210623-asu-graduate-college-announces-first-ever-staff-awards-excellence-winners

It’s hard not to think of the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering without picturing one of its prominent figures, Professor Emeritus Joseph Palais. The current graduate program chair has worn many hats at Arizona State University over the 64 years he’s been on campus — first as a summer student in 1957, continuing through a storied…

Beyond Silicon is the first $200K finalist in the American-Made Perovskite Startup Prize Countdown Contest. Beyond Silicon is the latest start-up to come out of the Holman Research Group. The team now moves on to the Liftoff Contest. https://www.americanmadechallenges.org/perovskiteprize/

Arizona State University (ASU) has been selected to lead a new Center of Excellence for Energy in Egypt. The five-year, $22 million project is sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and will work to improve the capacity of Egypt’s higher education institutions to drive public and private sector innovation, modernization and competitiveness; strengthen government…

As companies and government infrastructures from around the world face increasing cyber-attacks, two countries have joined forces to help prevent these catastrophic invasions. Known as the Israel-U.S. Initiative on Cybersecurity Research and Development for Energy, or ICRDE, this unique consortium will help combat attackers on energy producers by focusing their efforts on three key areas….

The online delivery of the electrical engineering master’s degree program remains among the country’s most highly ranked.

Wildfires are becoming more widespread and destructive. The total area they burn in the United States has expanded by an average of almost 200,000 acres each year for the past three decades. Financially, eight of the 10 most devastating conflagrations in American history happened during just the last five years. Meanwhile, the global incidence of extreme blazes…

Two years ago, in the early days of a novel coronavirus spreading methodically to almost every corner of the planet, it was something of a race. The planet’s best scientists were trying to keep up. “When the pandemic started, one of the things that became eminently clear was that we were way too slow at…