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A professor at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has been honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his early to mid-career contributions with the 2021 Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. Dr.…
Han chosen by IEEE for Kiyo Tomiyasu Award
Lithium-ion batteries are recognized for their high energy density in everything from mobile phones to laptop computers and electric vehicles, but as the need for grid-scale energy storage and other applications becomes more…
A Roadmap to Better Multivalent Batteries
A professor from the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has edited his second book on machine learning and signal processing, identifying it as a “rapidly developing” subject area that interests him immensely.…
UH's Prasad edits second image analysis book
Dr. Joseph W. Tedesco, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Dean of the UH Cullen College of Engineering, announced that 17 students and faculty members had been selected as recipients in the 2019-2020 Faculty and Student Excellence Awards,…
College honors 17 with yearly Faculty and Student Excellence Awards
HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA – June 18, 2020 – Yesterday MIT Technology Review announced Dr. Rose Faghih, an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, has been named to MIT Technology Review’s prestigious…
UH’s Faghih Named an MIT Technology Review 2020 Innovator Under 35
Two University of Houston professors are among a group of four that have been awarded nearly $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop a map for coronavirus response via crowdsourcing. The project combines the…
Pan, Ni among group receiving $200,000 for coronavirus response map
The research of University of Houston assistant professor Dr. Rose Faghih has been recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Women in Engineering Magazine, with a feature in its June issue. The article…
Faghih featured in IEEE publication as 'Woman to Watch'
Several members of the Cullen College of Engineering have been recognized via the Office of the Provost's 2020 Faculty and Staff Awards, headlined by Dr. Richard Willson of Biochemical & Biophysical Sciences earning the…
Willson earns Esther Farfel Award; four others tabbed for faculty, staff honors
Military installations, especially on ships and aircraft, require robust power electronics systems to operate radar and other equipment, but there is limited space onboard. Researchers from the University of Houston will use a $2…
Harnessing the Power of Gallium Nitride and Machine Learning
Researchers at the University of Houston last year reported a new imaging method capable of producing fast and inexpensive three-dimensional images, offering the potential to more easily track the progress of conditions such as…
Searchable Atlases of High-Resolution 3-D Images Would Offer New Tool for Researchers, Clinicians
Han is Noted for Work in Wireless Technologies, Game Theory An engineering professor from the University of Houston has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, joining a select group of…
UH Engineer Zhu Han Elected as AAAS Fellow
Zhu Han Recognized for Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing Zhu Han, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of electrical and computing engineering at the University of Houston, was named a 2019 distinguished member of…
UH Engineering Professor Named Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery
Research has broad implications for health care, self-driving cars and more. Imagine cruising down a highway in your self-driving car. Its operating system relies on algorithms based on data collected during dry driving…
UH Engineer’s Research on Adaptive Machine Learning Wins NSF Award
Featured UH Research Marries Health Care and Engineering Rose Faghih, assistant professor, and several other UH Cullen College of Engineering faculty and students were an integral part of the 2019 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and…
Cullen College Researchers A Big Part of EMBC 2019
Researchers say $1M Project Will Improve Understanding, Optimization Solid-state lithium batteries have generated interest because they don’t carry the same risk of fire and explosion as conventional batteries with liquid…
What Happens as Solid-State Batteries Begin to Fail?
Bao recognized for discovery, contributions and the development of new nanomaterials Jiming Bao, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the American…
UH ECE Professor Jiming Bao Elected Fellow of American Physical Society
Improving Outcomes for Prostate Cancer Patients A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the University of Pennsylvania are working to bring a new biosensor for detecting the recurrence of prostate cancer to the…
UH Engineer Leads Team Creating Point-of-Care Test for Prostate Cancer
NSF Grant Funds Collaborative Research Involving Three Universities Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), once only existing in the realm of science fiction, are now a growing part of our daily lives. If you have ever used…
UH Engineer Helps Improve Mobile Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality User Experience
Xingpeng Li Submitted Two Winning Proposals to DOE Competition Balancing electricity supply and demand is challenging, and the prospect of blackouts carries a substantial economic risk. An engineer with the University of Houston…
UH Engineer Offers Proposals to Improve Nation’s Electric Grid
Sweat Response Can Make Stimulators Responsive For 8 million adults who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder in any given year, medication and cognitive therapy have been the treatment protocol. Now, University of Houston…
Brain Stimulation for PTSD Patients