February 2022 Congratulations to Dan Congreve and Dorsa Sadigh!   The Sloan Research Fellowship Program recognizes and rewards outstanding early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study. The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.   "Today's Sloan Research Fellows represent the scientific leaders of tomorrow," says Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. "As formidable young scholars ..read more

February 2022 Sebastian Fernandez (EE PhD candidate), Arynn Gallegos (EE PhD candidate), Claire Anderson (Environmental Engineering PhD candidate) and Chandler Brown (Environmental Engineering PhD candidate) organized SERI as a means of providing students with the tools they need to successfully complete undergraduate research and apply to graduate school.   "Stanford Engineering Research Introductions (SERI) aims to empower underrepresented underclassmen at Stanford and other institutions to achieve their academic and professional goals both in college and after graduati ..read more

February 2022 Professor Dorsa Sadigh joins Professor Russ Altman for a recent The Future of Everything podcast, titled "How do you build a better robot? By understanding people." EPISODE NOTES Whether it's autonomous vehicles or assistive technology in healthcare that can do things like help the elderly do core tasks like feeding themselves, some of the most challenging problems in the field of robotics involve how robots interact with humans, with all of our many complexities. Drawing from fields as varied as cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral econom ..read more

February 2022 Congratulations to Professor Eric Pop, recognized as an Intel 2021 Outstanding Researcher. The annual award program recognizes the exceptional contributions made through Intel university-sponsored research. Intel sponsors and works alongside academic researchers around the globe in areas such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), artificial intelligence (AI), and other innovative technologies. Eric's team focused on improving Moore's Law scaling with two-dimensional (2D) materials by solving some of the important challenges in this field. The team made two discoveries that ..read more

February 2022 Professor Kwabena Boahen shares his journey to electrical engineering and bioengineering. In this interview, he credits his father, a professor of African history at the University of Ghana, for his interest in academia and his intuition for thinking there must be a more elegant way to bridge neurobiology, medicine, electronics and computer science to design circuits. Today Kwabena's lab focuses on how cognition arises from neuronal properties. They're using silicon integrated circuits to emulate the way neurons compute, linking the seemingly disparate fields of electronics and ..read more

January 2022 Dan's research is centered around nanoscale materials and devices. The Congreve Lab works with several other engineering departments, including chemical engineering, and materials science and engineering, to further their research with nanomaterials. Dan is also a member of Stanford's Q-FARM, Quantum Fundamentals, Architectures and Machines initiative.  Dan is a featured faculty on EE's "Meet our Faculty!" YouTube playlist. During the next few weeks, more videos about Dan and his research will post. Subscribe to receive notifications about new videos ..read more

January 2022 Professor Dan Congreve joined the EE department in 2020 and is also part of Stanford's Q-FARM initiative. His research is centered around nanoscale materials and devices. Learn more at the Congreve Lab.  Dan is featured on EE's "Meet our Faculty!" YouTube playlist. We will be adding more videos about Dan and his research during the next few weeks. Subscribe to the channel to receive notifications about new videos. Meet Assistant Professor Dan Congreve and learn about nanomaterial research in his lab.   About Asst. Professor Dan Congreve R ..read more

January 2022 Professor Subhasish Mitra has been selected to receive the 2022 IEEE Computer Society Harry H. Goode Memorial Award. Mitra directs the Stanford Robust Systems Group, leads the Computation Focus Area of the Stanford SystemX Alliance, and is a member of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. His research ranges across Robust Computing, NanoSystems, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), and Neurosciences. Results from his research group have influenced almost every contemporary electronic system, and have inspired significant government and research initiatives in multiple countri ..read more

January 2022 Congratulations to Professor John Hennessy on being selected as one of the winners of the 2022 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering by the National Academy of Engineering. Recognized as one of the world's preeminent awards for engineering achievement, the Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering honors an engineer whose accomplishment has significantly impacted society by improving the quality of life, providing the ability to live freely and comfortably, and/or permitting the access to information. The Draper Prize is awarded biennially, and recognizes achievements ..read more

January 2022 Co-lead authors Koosha Nassiri Nazif and Alwin Daus, both EE postdoctoral scholars, describe their tungsten diselenide solar cells that boast a power-per-weight ratio on par with established thin-film solar cell technologies in their recently published paper. Their prototype achieves 5.1 percent power conversion efficiency, and the team projects they could practically reach 27 percent efficiency upon optical and electrical optimizations. That figure would be on par with the best solar panels on the market today, silicon included. Their prototype realized a 100-times greater ..read more