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Announcing the 2021 Professorships

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has announced the most recent faculty members to receive a professorship. As the highest academic award a university can bestow on a faculty ...
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Hot, hot, hot!

As summer temperatures surge and an unprecedented heatwave hits parts of the U.S., we asked our College of Engineering experts about using smart phones, laptops, and other electronics in extremely hot ...
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Wireless Beamforming

For ECE Ph.D. alumnus Jingxian Wang wireless signal means more than just communication. Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. alumnus Jingxian Wang has been awarded the ACM SIGMOBILE award for his ...
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Rectennas: converting radio waves into electricity

We are constantly surrounded by energy in the form of electromagnetic waves. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could take advantage of it? In a recently published paper in the journal Nature, a future ...
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A New Minimally Invasive Method for Deep Brain Stimulation

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Health Network have developed a new method for deep brain stimulation. The technique, called “DeepFocus,” uses transcranial electrical ...
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Designing Cloud Servers for Lower Carbon Emissions

Reducing carbon emissions is crucial to curbing the effects of climate change, but usually gas-powered vehicles and manufacturers are the most conspicuous culprits. However, Information and ...
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Solving Africa’s Energy Crisis One Battery at a Time

The need for low-cost energy has been a challenge that Africa has been facing for many years as the continent moves toward a more digital future. This demand for cheaper and more accessible energy ...
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Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Unprecedented Resolution

In 2019, sitting in his office running computer simulations, Chaitanya Goswami, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon’s electrical and computer engineering department, noticed something that seemed too ...
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Atom-Thick Semiconductors Make Photodetection More Efficient

A group of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently devised a method allowing them to create large amounts of a material required to make two-dimensional (2d) semiconductors with record high ...
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Fingerprinting the IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the growing number and type of devices that are connected to the internet. IoT devices range from Amazon Alexa and Google Home to bluetooth coffee makers and ...
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Kumar Awarded 2021 SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award

Swarun Kumar was selected as the winner for the 2021 SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award. This award recognizes outstanding contributions by early career investigators in the area of embedded, ...