ECE Department Update

Andreas Cangellaris, Head Power Affiliates Meeting

May 3, 2013

New ECE building • On schedule for July 2014 completion. • The design for the new ECE building has been awarded a

2012 Green Good Design Award. – The Award recognizes the most important examples of

sustainable design throughout the world.

One of the largest ECE undergraduate student bodies in the world

Undergraduate • Total students: ~1,800

• ~50% out of state • ~30% international

• CE majors: ~800 • EE majors: ~1000 Graduate • Total students: ~500

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US News & World Report 2013 Undergrad Programs Ranking EE 1. MIT 2. Stanford 3. UC Berkeley 4. UIUC (5) 5. GA Tech 6. U Michigan

CE 1. MIT 2. CMU 2. Stanford 4. UC Berkeley 5. UIUC (5) 6. GA Tech

2011-12 ECE+CS Undergraduate Enrollments: • MIT = 653 • Stanford = 375 • UC Berkeley = 1093 • UIUC = 2682 > (MIT + Stanford + UC Berkeley)

US News & World Report 2013 Graduate ECE Programs Ranking

EE 1. MIT 1. Stanford 3. UC Berkeley 3. UIUC 5. Caltech

CompE 1. MIT 2. UC Berkeley 3. CMU 4. UIUC 5. Cornell

LED 50th Anniversary Symposium October 24 & 25, 2012 Urbana-Champaign, Illinois http://www.led50years.illinois.edu/ SA

Weng C. Chew, Tom Overbye 2013 NAE Inductees

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“For contributions to large-scale computational electromagnetics of complex structures.”

“For the integration of visualization and analysis tools for power systems.”

ECE Professorship Investitures

Naresh Shanbhag – Jack Kilby Professor in ECE

Naresh investigates efficient IC implementations of signal processing and communication systems, seeking to innovate at the algorithmic, VLSI architectural and circuit levels, to minimize power and maximize performance while maintaining reliable operation.

Martin F. Wong – Ed Jordan Professor in ECE

Martin’s research focus is on methodologies and tools for the computer-aided design of 2-D and 3-D VLSI, with special emphasis on the advancement of new ideas and approaches to design for manufacturing in the presence of process-induced variations in nanoscale devices.

Liang and Nicol invested as Franklin W. Woeltge Professors in ECE

Zhi-Pei Liang is developing methods for optimal acquisition, reconstruction and processing of MR images with application to functional neuroimaging, real-time cardiac imaging, and cancer imaging.

David Nicol, who serves as director of the Information Trust Institute, is an expert on large-scale system simulation, network security and cyber-physical systems security.

Dominguez-Garcia named IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer

• The IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) has named ECE Assistant Professor Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia the 2012 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer.

• Dominguez-Garcia's research interests lie in the interface of system reliability theory and control theory, especially as applied to power and energy systems.

Investing in Young Talent… • Assoc. Prof. Eric Pop and Assist. Profs. Lynford

Goddard and Logan Liu recipients of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

• Assist. Prof. Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia recipient of the 2012 IEEE Power & Energy Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award.

• Assist. Prof. Sayan Mitra recipient of 2012 Air Force Young Investigator Award.

• Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Makela recipient of the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award.

• Assist. Prof. Yi Lu recipient of 2012 NSF Career Award.

• Assist. Prof. Max Raginsky recipient of 2013 NSF Career Award.

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L. Liu

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J. Makela

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…to ensure a lasting foundation for faculty excellence

• 2012 IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award – Joe Lyding • 2012 OSA Nick Holonyak, Jr., Award – Kent Choquette • 2012 Hans Sigrist Foundation Award – Stephen Boppart • 2012 IEEE-EMBS Technical Achievement Award – Rashid Bashir • 2012 IFMBE Otto Schmitt Award – Z.P. Liang • 2012 Fellow, Acoustical Society of America – Mark Hasegawa-Johnson • 2013 IEEE Fellows – Daniel Liberzon and Pramod Viswanath • Fellow, American Institute for MBE – B. Cunningham • 2012 Stanley H. Price Faculty Award, COE Illinois – J. Bernhard • 2012 IEEE MTT Society Distinguished Educator Award – A. Cangellaris • 2012-13 IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer – P. Moulin • 2012 ACM/IEEE DAC Best Paper Award – M. Wong • 2013 COE Illinois Faculty Scholar Award – Olgica Milenkovic

Incomplete List of Most Recent Awards

UG Students/Faculty ratio ~24

New Faculty • Asst. Prof. Yihong Wu (Princeton)

– His research focus is on algorithms for estimation with applications that encompass big data analysis, bioinformatics, statistical signal processing and communications.

• Assoc. Prof. Romit Roy Choudhury (UIUC) – His research interests are in wireless networking and

mobile computing. – Currently at Duke, Romit will be joining us in fall 2013.

• Assoc. Prof. Pavan Kumar Hanumolu (Oregon State) – His research interests are in high performance, ultra

low-power mixed-mode integrated circuits. – Currently at Oregon State, Pavan will be joining us in

fall 2013.

Plan to hire 5 more this year • Areas:

– Microelectronics/Photonics – Computer Engineering – Controls/Power Systems – Bioinformatics/Systems Biology

• New hire in Power Systems: Dr. Hao Zhu

– Area of research: monitoring and optimization of the smart grid. – She will join the ECE faculty on Jan. 1, 2014.

A Center

Systems on Nanoscale Information fabriCs

www.sonic-center.org info@sonic-center.org

design of robust, energy efficient, and intelligent computing on emerging

nanoscale devices inspired by statistical information

processing principles found in communication and biological systems

catalyzing a foundational transformation of computing – from deterministic to statistical

$30M over 5yrs (2013-17)

SRC and DARPA’s STARnet Program

23 faculty – devices, circuits, architecture, to systems

8 universities – Illinois (lead), Berkeley, CMU, Michigan,

Princeton, Stanford, UCSB, UCSD

Director: Prof. Naresh Shanbhag

Grainger Engineering Breakthroughs Initiative

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• $100M gift to the College of Engineering by the Grainger Foundation

• 35 endowed chairs and professorships • Boost and grow multi-disciplinary, high-impact research

• Primary emphasis on: • Big Data – Attract the best minds in the field to grow

Illinois’ influence and impact • Bioengineering – Attract top talent and establish world-

class facilities for multi-disciplinary research and education • Everitt renovation to house BioE

• Kickoff of a major initiative toward a $100M scholarship endowment for the College

$100M scholarship initiative kickoff

• Attract and retain the best and brightest students. – An estimated $4M annual income from

endowment provides for ~400 scholarships annually in the range of $5K - $15K.

Everitt Lab Renovation

• Everitt Lab remains an integral part of the College of Engineering. – Will house BioE along with other College

programs and instructional activities

• Renovation/remodeling cost ~$40M. – Grainger gift to offset a portion of this cost.

Endowed Chairs/Professorships

• 26 endowed chairs & professorships in the cross-disciplinary areas of bioengineering and big data. – Startup up costs assumed by the College &

Campus.

• Additional endowed chairs & professorships in other critical areas in the College.

$10M to endow seed funding for breakthrough areas of engineering research

• Grow and endow the Strategic Research Initiative program in the College. – Strategic investments in high-risk ideas. – Seed funding aimed at fostering

opportunities for successful proposals in new areas of research.

Foray into MOOCS via Coursera

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• ECE Professor Wen-mei Hwu taught “Heterogeneous Parallel Programming”

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• A near-campus institute for: – R&D projects outside normal UIUC faculty purview. – Focused on areas of national need. – Enables classified research:

• Mission agency driven: DoD, DoE, DHS,… • Targeted technologies • Larger applied programs • Permanent staff

– Commercial and proprietary opportunities. – Initial technical foci: Cyber-enabled resilient

infrastructure; Energy; Energetics; Materials.

Lighting up the future! ECE Illinois: