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01-12-22

Charles Elachi, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science, Emeritus, has received the Distinguished Alumni Award for his distinguished leadership in space exploration and planetary science as the longtime director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he was instrumental to realizing missions across the solar system including our own planet Earth, and for his many contributions helping to map out NASA’s long-term scientific future. Caltech’s annual Distinguished Alumni Awards recognize a particular achievement of noteworthy value, a series of such achievements, or a career of noteworthy accomplishment. [Caltech story]

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01-03-22

P. P. Vaidyanathan, Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Chun-Lin Liu, Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University, have been selected to receive the 2021 IEEE SPS Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award for their paper titled "Remarks on the Spatial Smoothing Step in Coarray MUSIC". [Read the paper]

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12-06-21

Yu-Chong Tai, Anna L. Rosen Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Andrew and Peggy Cherng Medical Engineering Leadership Chair; Executive Officer for Medical Engineering, has been awarded the 2021 Innovation Award for Outstanding Researcher by The Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio). The Award is meant to recognize and celebrate the contributions of Greater Los Angeles Region's bioscience entrepreneurs, researchers, and educators.

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12-02-21

The Caltech Center for Sensing to Intelligence (S2I) has announced that, in collaboration with Rockley Photonics, a photonics-based health monitoring and communications solutions company, it will allocate $1.5 million in research grants over the next three years to jumpstart efforts to combine sensors with artificial intelligence. "We would like to have sensors in every device these days, generating a huge amount of data," says Azita Emami, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering and the director of S2I. "But it's difficult to extract the most important information from the mountains of data they create." [Caltech story]

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10-26-21

Katie Bouman, Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Astronomy; Rosenberg Scholar; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute has been selected as the 2021 Progress Medal recipient by the Royal Photographic Society. Bouman is being recognized for her work developing solutions to image such phenomenon as the first image of a black hole. Her research focuses on computational imaging and designing systems that integrate algorithms and sensor design, making it possible to observe phenomena previously difficult to capture or impossible to measure with traditional methods. [View announcement] [Past recipients]

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10-15-21

The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) has elected Professor P.P. Vaidyanathan, Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Electrical Engineering, a Foreign Fellow. The Academy honors Indian and Foreign nationals who are elected by peer committees in recognition of their personal achievements in engineering which are of exceptional merit and demonstrated distinctive eminence in the new and developing fields of technology. There are only five Foreign Fellows elected each year. [Learn more]

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10-12-21

Pietro Perona, Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering, received the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. It is awarded to candidates whose research contributions have significantly contributed to the progress of Computer Vision.

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09-01-21

Researchers have now conducted a study in which they measured how mice navigate a complicated labyrinth, suggesting a new framework with which to study complex animal behaviors and learning. The mice rapidly learned how to navigate this unfamiliar environment about 1,000 times faster than mice generally learn simple yet unnatural tasks. The research is a collaboration between the laboratories of Markus Meister, Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences, and Pietro Perona, Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering. [Caltech story]

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06-16-21

Adam Wierman, Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Director, Information Science and Technology, and Steven Low, Frank J. Gilloon Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, have received the SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award for their paper titled "Greening Geographical Load Balancing." The ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award recognizes an influential performance evaluation paper whose impact is still felt 10-12 years after its initial publication. [Past winners]

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06-07-21

Lihong Wang, Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, has demonstrated for the first time a new technology for imaging the human brain using laser light and ultrasonic sound waves. The technology, known as photoacoustic computerized tomography, or PACT, has been developed as a method for imaging tissues and organs. Now, Wang has made further improvements to the technology that make it so precise and sensitive that it can detect even minute changes in the amount of blood traveling through very tiny blood vessels as well as the oxygenation level of that blood. [Caltech story]

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