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F19-20 RESEARCH GRANTS

UCR ECE MILESTONES

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

COMPUTER ENGINEERING

UNDERGRADUATE

Electrical EngineeringComputer EngineeringMaterials Science and Engineering

CONTROL AND ROBOTICS

POWER SYSTEMS AND SMART GRID

COMMUNICATIONS, SIGNALPROCESSING, AND NETWORKING 

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND VLSI

NANOTECHNOLOGY, ADVANCEDMATERIALS, AND DEVICES

F O C U S A R E A S

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND CPU DESIGN

HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

B.S.

B.S. + M.S.

M.S.Electrical EngineeringComputer EngineeringMaterials Science and EngineeringM.S. Online

Electrical EngineeringComputer Engineering

COMPILERS AND OPERATINGSYSTEMS

REAL-TIME AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

VLSI AND ELECTRONIC DESIGNAUTOMATION

DEGREES OFFERED

PH.D.Electrical EngineeringMaterials Science and Engineering

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

M.S. THEMES

COMMUNICATIONS, SIGNALPROCESSING, AND NETWORKING

POWER SYSTEMS ANDSMART GRID

Theoretical foundations and applications ofcomputer vision, machine learning, andpattern recognitionCyber-physical and autonomous systemsIntelligent transportation systems,multimedia technologies, and image/videobioinformatics

AREAS

Design and implementation of hardwareand software systemsComputer architecture, VLSI design, real-time and embedded systemsNetworked systems from small scales (e.g.Internet of Things) to large scales (e.g. datacenters)

Development and demonstration of smartgrid applicationsPower system analysis and optimizationElectricity market designRenewable energy integrationPower system security

Investigation and development ofcommunication and signal processingtheoriesAlgorithms and systems for wireless andnetwork communicationsVideo and multimedia technologies

COMPUTER ENGINEERING

NANOTECHNOLOGY, ADVANCEDMATERIALS, AND DEVICES

Theoretical, computational, andexperimental investigation ofnanostructuresDevelopment of new bio- and opto-electronic materials, devices and circuitsMEMS and photonics

OF RESEARCH

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMSCONTROL AND ROBOTICS

Theories and methods of modeling,identification and design of highlycomplex control systemsPlanning and analysis of motion,navigation and control of autonomousvehicles and robotic systems

ORION NANO-FAB

NEW E Q U I P M E N T

FACULTY NEWSBASAK GULER

Postdoc, University of Southern CaliforniaPh.D., Pennsylvania State UniversityResearch: developing scalable, privacy-preserving, and context-awarecommunication and information processingframeworks for large-scale distributednetworks.

Assistant Professor

Helium Ion Microscope (HIM)Capable of biological detection at thesingle-molecule level

HAMED MOHSENIAN-RAD

Research: developing optimization-basedand data-driven techniques for powersystems and smart grid applications withfocus on sensing, controls, andoperations.

ProfessorBourns Family Faculty Fellow

NEW FACULTY IEEE FELLOW

PROMOTIONSProfessor HamedMohsenian-RadSmart grids

Assoc. ProfessorShane CybartSuperconductivity

Assoc. ProfessorMing LiuSuper-resolutionimaging

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS AND CONTROLSYSTEMS (ARCS) LAB Fundamental robotics research enablingrobust, adaptive, and resilient planningand control of teams of legged and aerialrobots in dynamic and uncertainenvironments. 

PHONON OPTIMIZED ENGINEEREDMATERIALS (POEM) CENTER Materials characterization researchfocused on phonon and thermal propertiesof advanced materials. 

M A J O R F A C I L I T I E S A N D RESEARCH CENTERS

CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCHAND TECHNOLOGY (CE-CERT) CE-CERT is a world-leading research centerfocused on improving air quality,transportation, and energy for asustainable future. 

NANO-FABRICATION FACILITYClass 100/1000 cleanroom facility, fullyequipped for advanced nanofabricationand characterization. 

CENTER FOR ROBOTICS AND INTELLIGENTSYSTEMS (CRIS) Conducts cutting-edge research on thefoundations and applications of intelligentand autonomous systems, includingrobotics, computer vision, machinelearning, real-time systems, andbiomedical systems, among others. 

CENTER FOR UBIQUITOUS COMMUNICATIONBY LIGHT (UC-LIGHT) UC-light is a UC system-wide researchprogram focused on developing LED-basedoptical wireless communicationstechnologies and systems. 

WINSTON CHUNG GLOBAL ENERGY CENTER(WCGEC) Renewable energy center focused ondeveloping emerging energy solutionsrelated to storage, generation anddistribution.

H I G H L I G H T E D A W A R D S A N D R E S E A R C H G R A N T S

NSF-funded research for magneticmemory study

MAJOR F U N D I N GA G E N C I E S

ECE faculty receive NSF grant onmachine learning in computer vision

ECE faculty team receives an NSF grantto improve Cyber-Phyical System safety

A W A R D S A N D G R A N T S

Elaine Habererawarded NSF-fundedresearch grant for self-propellednanomaterials

F E A T U R E D

Sheldon Tan awarded NSF-fundedresearch for VLSI reliability study

ECE faculty team receives an NSF grant onembedded auto-systems

Hyoseung Kim receivesNSF CAREER Award

Bir Bhanu leads an NSF-fundedinterdisciplinary team on human-

machine synergy

ECE faculty lead team awarded $1M fromDARPA to study adversarial machine learning

Shane Cybart receives three grants fromAFOSR to develop superconducting

quantum electronics

Nanpeng Yu receives a DOE granton power grids

Alexander Balandin receives a DOEgrant for quantum materials

Aleksandr Khitun awardedNSF-funded research grant for

magnetic memory

Wei Ren receives NSF grant on distributed multi-robot joint

localization and tracking

Hung-Wei Tseng awarded NSF grant tobetter utilize tensor processors

Shaolei Ren receives NSF grant toautomate design of deep neural networks

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