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Vijay Vittal earns prestigious Regents Professor Title

Editor’s note:This story is being highlighted in ASU Now’s year in review. Read more top stories from 2019. Five Arizona State University professors are being honored with the highest faculty award possible: Regents Professor. The five are internationally recognized experts at the top of their fields, and on Thursday, they joined an elite rank when their…

Ying-Cheng Lai elected AAAS Fellow

Five outstanding Arizona State University faculty spanning the physical sciences, psychological sciences and science policy have been named as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). ASU’s Leah Gerber, Andrew Maynard, Steven Neuberg, Ying-Cheng Lai and John McCutcheon are being honored for their career contributions to science, innovation or socially distinguished efforts to advance science and its applications….

Kozicki honored for research, teaching excellence

For Michael Kozicki, a prolific engineering career doesn’t just mean spending time in the lab. The professor of electrical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University makes sure his work benefits both his students and society at large. Kozicki’s consistent, high-quality contributions to electrical engineering at ASU has earned him the 2019-2020…

Rewarding service and entrepreneurship

Jennifer Blain Christen is an associate professor of electrical engineering in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, where she teaches students about circuits and oversees electrical engineering research. Along with her many ASU faculty duties, she maintains involvement in professional organizations and runs a…

New faculty members for academic years 2020–23

2022–23 Chris BaileyProfessor Krish ChakrabartyFulton Professor of Microelectronics Josh HihathProfessor and Director, Biodesign Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors Umberto CelanoAssociate Professor Vidya ChhabriaAssistant Professor Houqiang FuAssistant Professor Nidhin Kurian KalarickalAssistant Professor Amarsagar Reddy Ramapuram MatavalamAssistant Professor Jeff (Jun) ZhangAssistant Professor James McDonaldProfessor of Practice 2021–22 Matthew MarinellaAssociate Professor Christian ArenzAssistant Professor Mike RanjramAssistant Professor Nick…

NSF CAREER Award winners for academic years 2019–22

2021–22 Deliang Fan Efficient, Dynamic, Robust, and On-Device Continual Deep Learning with Non-Volatile Memory based In-Memory Computing System Anamitra Pal Time-Synchronized Estimation in Power Systems: Unique Challenges and Innovative Solutions 2020–21 Ahmed Alkhateeb Enabling Highly-Mobile Large-Scale MIMO Systems with Machine Learning Gautam Dasarathy Learning and Leveraging the Structure of Large Graphs: Novel Theory and Algorithms…

A rising star among us

Ivan Sanchez Esqueda, an assistant professor of electrical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, has been named an Intel 2021 Rising Star Faculty Award recipient. The RSA program recognizes early-career faculty members who show great promise as future academic leaders in disruptive computing technologies. It also seeks to attract and…

Balanis earns highest achievement in electromagnetic engineering

A true pioneer, Constantine Balanis is a touchstone in his field. Arizona State University Regents Professor Constantine A. Balanis is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious IEEE Electromagnetic Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.   Recipients of the award must demonstrate “outstanding contributions to the theory or application of electromagnetics.”  Balanis not only meets…

ECEE solar energy startup shines in national competition

A bright idea developed through the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering has been selected for the final stage of a national contest meant to expand solar energy manufacturing in the United States. SunFlex Solar is a new startup venture co-founded by ASU Assistant Research Technologist Kate Fisher, Associate Professor Zachary Holman, Assistant Research Professor Zhengshan “Jason” Yu and doctoral student Barry…

ECEE student wins national award for support of women in engineering

People told Elizabeth Jones for years that she couldn’t be an engineer. But she knew that not only could she become one, but so could many others who didn’t fit engineering stereotypes. Now, the fourth-year electrical engineering student in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University has been named one of the top contributors to…