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Letter from the Chair

Salutations from Houston!

It is a privilege to serve as the Interim Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. Our department has
a long-standing tradition of excellence in education, research, and innovation, and I am deeply committed to upholding and advancing this legacy during our transitional period.

Our faculty, staff, and students are the driving force behind our department’s success, leading groundbreaking research and delivering an education thatprepares our students to excel in a rapidly changing technological landscape. Whether through pioneering research in areas such as renewable energy and healthcare or through strong collaborations with industry leaders, our department
continues to push the boundaries of knowledge and innovation.

Warm Regards,

Ji Chen, Ph.D., Fellow IEEE, Fellow AIMBE
Interim Chair and Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Cullen College of Engineering
University of Houston
Houston, Texas 77204-4005
Phone: 713-743-4423
Email: jchen18@uh.edu

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UH Joins DOE’s New Energy Innovation Hub to Advance Battery Technology

Yan Yao is the deputy lead of the soft matter scientific thrust and the principal investigator for UH’s portion of the Energy Storage Research Alliance. 

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Boosting Clean Energy With AI-Powered Catalysts Design for Micro-Plasma Technologies with $1M NSF Grant Award

With a $1M grant from the National Science Foundation, a team of UH researchers are developing cutting-edge catalysts by integrating advanced machine learning with experimental methods to enhance catalyst efficiency and accelerate renewable energy technologies.

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ECE’s Reddy Lands Renewable $629k Grant for Kidney Disease

Rohith Reddy has received a renewable grant of up to $3.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to improve his approach to the diagnosis of various forms of kidney disease.

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UH ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT WELCOMES 4 NEW FACULTY FALL 2024

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Lihong Zhao, Assistant Professor

Zhao earned his doctorate in materials science from University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign in 2020. For the past year, he has been a Research Assistant Professor at UH.

Faheem Ershad, Assistant Professor

Ershad earned his doctorate in biomedical engineering from Pennsylvania State University. His research projects specialize in the development of wearable/implantable bioelectronics for physiological sensing and treatment, focusing on cardiac/neural health, tissue engineering, and machine learning.

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Padmavati Viswanath, Instructional Assistant Professor

Viswanath brings over 11 years of experience as a lecturer to our faculty. Viswanath comes to UH from the University of Newcastle in Australia, where she served as a Lecturer. She has secured research grants from both academic and industry sources, supervised PhD students, and published widely in international journals and conferences.

Ajit Bopardikar, Senior Lecturer

Bopardikar earned his doctorate in imaging science from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2000. He has over a decade of experience working in multimedia analysis, biomedical signal analysis, and computational bioinformatics. He has also earned 6 U.S. patents.

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RESEARCH NEWS

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New Method from ECE Researchers Has Potential to Detect Cancer at Earliest Stages

Wei-Chuan Shih is reporting in Nature Communications Medicine, a new method to detect cancer with a simple blood test. With a 98.7 % accuracy rate this new test has the potential to detect cancer in the earliest stages.

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New Approach to Sleep Study Expands Potential of Sleep Medicine

Bhavin R. Sheth is redesigning sleep studies reducing the number of leads to 2. which has the potential of allowing for high quality sleep analysis outside clinical settings.

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Bao Develops Technique That Enhances Thermal Imaging and Infrared Thermography for Police, Medical, Military Use

Jiming Bao is introducing new thermal imaging and infrared thermography techniques. These techniques, which measure temperature distributions without direct contact, are gaining traction across various fields.

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ECE Faculty Distinctions

 
National Academy of Engineering

3

NAE Members

NSF

13

NSF Career

National Academy of Inventors

3

NAI Fellows

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

9

IEEE Fellows

Society for Automotive Engineering

2

SAE Fellows

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers

3

AIMBE Fellows

CPRIT

2

CPRIT Scholars

Royal Society of Chemistry

2

FRSC (UK)

International Society for Optics and Photonics

SPIE Fellow

American Physical Society

APS Fellow

Electrochemical Society

ECS Fellow

4

Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers

Optical Society of America

OSA Fellow

American Association for the Advancement of Science

AAAS Fellow

Chinese Academy of Engineering

CAE Member

>$10M

Research Expenditures

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