ECE Celebrates 2024 Annual Awards Ceremony and Reception

On Tuesday, October 8^th, the ECE Department held its annual Fall Awards Ceremony and Reception. Awards were presented to students, staff and faculty by ECE Chair Sennur Ulukus. The following awards were presented:

The George Corcoran Memorial Award for Faculty, presented annually to a young faculty member who has shown exemplary contributions to teaching and educations leadership: Professor Sanghamitra Dutta

Jimmy H.C. Lin Award for Innovation and Invention awarded annually to a faculty member who has transformed their ideas into innovations through invention and technology commercialization: Professor Dinesh Manocha for his patent, “System and Method for Multimodal Emotion Recognition”

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Staff Service Award in recognition of a staff member for outstanding service to faculty, staff and students: Darcy Long, Communications and External Relations Coordinator

The David Bader Graduate Student Service Award in recognition of exceptional service to the department: Ariana Spalter

George Corcoran Memorial Award for a Graduate Student presented to a graduate teaching assistant in recognition of excellence in teaching: Gershom Devake Seneviratne

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Dissertation Award, in recognition of recent doctoral recipients who have already made unusually significant and original contributions to their fields. This year’s recipients are:

Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy, advised by Professor Dinesh Manocha

Dissertation: Autonomous Robot Navigation in Challenging Real-world Indoor and Outdoor Environments

Yidi Shen, advised by Professor Alireza Khaligh

Dissertation: Active power decoupling (APD) converters for PV microinverter applications

Andrew Goffin, advised by Professor Howard Milchberg

Dissertation: Dynamics and applications of long-distance laser filamentation in air

Priyanka Kaswan, advised by Professor Sennur Ulukus

Dissertation: Enhancement and Robustness of Large Timely Networks

Michael Pedowitz, advised by Professor Kevin Daniels

Dissertation: Novel Graphene Heterostructures for Sensitive Environmental and Biological Sensing

Published October 15, 2024