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Christoph Studer: Doing things differently to improve wireless communications
The most exciting and interesting research problems come from working in multiple disciplines. More
Welcome Guy Hoffman
If Guy Hoffman is successful in his research, he just might redefine the word “robotic.” More
Welcome John Albertson
When John Albertson was starting his doctoral studies at UC-Davis in 1993, his advisor, Professor Marc Parlange, recommended More
Welcome Samitha Samaranayake
Samitha Samaranayake believes that we’re at the dawn of a revolution in urban transportation systems. More
Welcome David Kammer
David Kammer, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell, studies what happens at the interface where two materials slide against each other. More
Cornell ECE Faculty Profile: Professor Stephen Wicker
Stephen Wicker works in the area of information networks, with an emphasis on the application of game theory, mechanism design, and other technologies that enhance privacy and expression rights for those using large-scale information systems. More
Alumni Spotlight: Sarah Fischell
"Cornell totally prepared me to ask the right questions, to absorb new technical knowledge and to work with a group to define problems and find solutions to those problems,” said Fischell. “These skills were key to success in my engineering career.” More
Q&A with Clif Pollock and Michael Spencer
Professor Michael Spencer recently met with ECE Director Clif Pollock to discuss the devaluation of hardware and how a software-focused generation is changing the way students learn. They also discussed the ways in which the department can contribute to research improving high voltage electronics. More
ECE Teaching Snapshot: Carl Poitras
In the spring 2015 semester, Senior Research Associate and Lecturer Carl Poitras implemented changes to the syllabus of ECE 3400: ECE Practice and Design to include engineering design contests and teamwork components. More
Welcome Jamol Pender
“There is something about a proof that says ‘this is the answer’---I find that very satisfying,” says Pender.jamil More
Microsystems a Major Research Area
With the ubiquity of handheld devices and the advent of the Internet of Things—networking everything from cars to light bulbs—microsystems, which bring together functionalities such as sensing, actuation, information processing, and communication at chip-scale, has become a major area of research in electrical and computer engineering. More
Welcome Yudong Chen
When Yudong Chen was a child in Guangzhou, China he liked to build things with his father. More
Welcome Silvia Ferrari
An aerospace engineer by training, Ferrari develops new methods rooted in machine learning and More
Welcome Siddhartha Banerjee
Siddhartha Banerjee studies complex large-scale systems with many interacting agents and difficult sets of problems to solve. More
Welcome Kilian Weinberger
In his book Outliers, psychology writer Malcolm Gladwell says that achieving greatness in a field of human endeavor often rests on two essential factors More
Welcome Elaine Shi
Shi believes academic researchers can play a leading role in creating secure and protected software platforms for cryptocurrencies and smart contracts More
Welcome Qing Zhao
Qing Zhao, Cornell ECE professor, focuses her work on mathematical formulations of, and solutions to, engineering problems. More
ECE Teaching Snapshot: Bruce Land
"Seeing the creativity of the students is the best part of teaching." More
Welcome Nicole Benedek
Nicole Benedek can’t remember a time when she wasn’t fascinated by science More
Welcome Debdeep Jena
Electronic devices have become ubiquitous; they are in our kitchens, bathrooms, cars, and even our clothes. As these devices have shrunk to near More
Welcome Grace Xing
Silicon-based semiconductors have been of primary importance to the electronics revolution of the past 50 years. Professor Grace Xing is working on what comes next. She is one of More
Welcome Iwijn de Vlaminck
Iwijn de Vlaminck, the newly appointed assistant professor of biomedical engineering, brings a biophysics approach to the field of genomics. More
Dmitry Savransky
From Mars to planets around other stars, Savransky has seen more of our universe than most of us ever will. More
Gregory C. McLaskey
When people think about earthquakes, they typically imagine epic disasters that topple buildings and shatter bridges More
Christopher Batten: Sweating the details to make it right
Balance is important to Professor Christopher Batten, of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell. More
Students receive EPA P3 Award
A team of students from Cornell Engineering has been awarded an EPA P3 Award to support their development of a portable, high-rate, inexpensive water treatment unit for use in areas affected by emergencies. More
Geoffrey Abers
Most of us don’t think about what’s going on below our feet, much less several miles below. Geoffrey Abers is different. The Earth and Atmospheric Sciences professor devotes his research to the movements and behaviors of Earth’s deep interior, and to inform our general understanding about events such as volcano eruptions and earthquakes. More
Jeffrey Moses joins faculty of AEP
Jeffrey Moses wants to look at things that can barely be seen; specifically, events that happen in under a trillionth of a second. More
Three prizes with strong Cornell connections
were awarded at the recent ASME International Design & Engineering technical conferences. More
Matthew Paszek
Matthew Paszek is living his dream. As a “naive” undergrad, he attended Cornell, studying for his bachelor’s in chemical engineering. Fast forward eleven years, and here he is, an assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering More
New Faculty - Sara C. Pryor
Sara C. Pryor is an atmospheric scientist who uses a combination of field measurements and numerical tools to improve understanding of the climate system. More
Spencer included in black oral history effort
Ithaca Journal: The life and work of Cornell professor Michael G. Spencer will be included in the landmark “The HistoryMakers” collection, now archived at the Library of Congress. More
CU AUV five-time champs
Cornell's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team won the Robosub student competition for the fifth time in six years Aug. 3 in San Diego. More
Silicon Ivy: How Cornell is prepping young entrepreneurs
FORBES: Cornell ranks fourth on FORBES' annual list of most entrepreneurial colleges. More
Cornell Engineering is presenting sponsor for MakerCon New York
Keynotes to include Intel CEO Brian Krzanich; KickStarter CEO Yancey Strickler; Massimo Banzi, Arduino Co-founder; and Tim McNulty, VP, Government Affairs, Carnegie Mellon. More
Girls explore Internet of Things in 2014 CURIE Academy
Girls in the 2014 CURIE Academy explored the Internet of Things by designing, building, and testing one of several simple devices inspired by real-world applications. More
Students teach high school girls shop, leadership skills
ME Today: Designing a lamp may seem like a simple enterprise, but for Cornell's ASME student section, it served as a way to enlighten high school girls about the exhilaration of being an engineer and empower them to see that they can be successful in the profession. More
Mike Todd Retirement Celebration
ORIE announces the retirement of Professor Michael J. Todd after 41 years of wonderful inspiration and service at Cornell University. More
CUAIR takes 2nd overall
CUAIR took first in Flight/Mission and second place overall at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s 12th annual Student Unmanned Aerial Systems competition June 18-22 at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland. More
Making MOOCs
Faculty members who created Cornell's inaugural MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) shared their experiences during a recent panel discussion. More
Damian Helbling
If you ask Damian Helbling, one of CEE’s newest faculty members, which books had the most significant impact on his academic interests, he’ll list three... More
Teams celebrate Robotics Week
Cornell's autonomous submarine and aircraft teams helped the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum celebrate National Robotics Week April 4 and 5. More
The next frontier in 3-D printing: Human organs
CNN: The emerging process of 3-D printing, which uses computer-created digital models to create real-world objects, has produced everything from toys to jewelry to food. More
David Mimno
Ever dreamed of having access to the information in the millions of books you’ll never have the time to read? David Mimno is your guy. As assistant professor of Information Sciences, he examines a question that’s not often answered--even in this Age of Information. More
Malte Jung
Most of us might not think that engineering and emotions go hand-in-hand. Malte Jung, however, believes there’s an important relationship between the two. As a professor of information science at Cornell, he studies how the efficiency of engineers and other teams are affected by interpersonal dynamics, and how technology can help or hinder these interactions. More
Christoph Studer
When Christoph Studer was young, he was obsessed with computer games. “Probably before I started reading, I was playing computer games,” he says. More
Ben Cosgrove
Ben Cosgrove wants to know how stem cells make critical decisions—to live, to divide, to die—and why these choices go awry as we age. He integrates new biological measurement techniques with analytical models to untangle how cells “compute” these decisions and uses this information to design better therapies to enhance tissue regeneration in the elderly. More
Engineering student Ray Li invents electronic musical instrument, the Aura
Ray Li, BS '14 and Michael Ndubuisi, BS '14, talk about their new musical instrument, Aura, which allows the musician to control sound simply by moving their hands in the air. More
Ludmilla Aristilde
The last time Ludmilla Aristilde was at Cornell, she was an undergrad--a fact that seems slightly surreal to her. “There’s still very much a part of me that is this little girl from Haiti,” says Aristilde. That little girl has since overcome chaos and strife in her homeland, traveled great distances, and fully embraced both the sciences and the arts--bringing her to the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, where she studies the biochemical interactions of natural toxins and man-made contaminants, and their effects on the environment--“the mechanisms of why it happens, and how it happens.” More
Ross Tate
Ross Tate is taking the road less traveled. As a professor of computer sciences, his research focuses on programming language design and formalization of industry languages. It’s a field that doesn’t get much academic attention, but Tate doesn’t mind being a trailblazer. “People told me I’d never made a career of it; it’s been done a lot and it’s subjective,” but Tate’s work is coveted by many computer language designers in the industry, which has opened doors to promising research opportunities. More
Roseanna N. Zia
Somewhere between the miniscule world of the atom and the one we experience as humans is another, “middle world”--larger than atoms but smaller than what the naked eye can see. Roseanna Zia, an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is at home in this world, studying the micro-mechanical underpinnings of macroscopic material behaviors in complex fluids and gels. More
Metastatic cancer cells implode on protein contact
By attaching a cancer-killer protein to white blood cells, Cornell biomedical engineers - led by Professor Michael King - have demonstrated the annihilation of metastasizing cancer cells traveling throughout the bloodstream. More
Saxena featured on BBC's 'Click'
Cornell researcher Ashutosh Saxena explains how he is teaching robots to be grocery clerks in a video for the BBC technology program. More
Jin Suntivich
What’s it like to move from Bangkok, Thailand, to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, as a teenager? Ask Jin Suntivich. “It’s interesting--you’re going from a city of few millions to a small of town of twenty thousand people. So, in some sense, the small population and the snowy winter in Ithaca is something I am very familiar with,” Suntivich says with a smile. Even the weather in North America hasn’t brought him down. After taking turns living in Chicago, Boston, and now Ithaca--places not exactly known for their temperate climates--Suntivich is sanguine. “I like it, I’ve picked up snowboarding,” he says. “Just like life, winter is as good as you can make it.” Suntivich’s sunny outlook extends to all facets of his life, particularly his research in oxide catalysis materials science, which he talks about with the enthusiasm of a true believer. “I did a lot of research as an undergrad, and that’s where I really fell in love with pushing the boundary of science.” More
C. Lindsay Anderson
Most people agree that the world must transition away from non-renewable energy sources, but exactly how to make that transition is a hefty problem. While some scientists work to improve the renewables themselves, perfected renewable resources still have to be eased into the infrastructure and economy that exists today--one that has been built around oil and coal for over a century. C. Lindsay Anderson, assistant professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, is up to tackling this problem using applied mathematics. More
Christopher Alabi
Some folks want to know what’s beneath the surface. Chris Alabi doesn’t want to discount the surface itself, however--at least, not yet. Alabi studies the surfaces of drug-delivering nanoparticles, with the aim of determining what surface properties correlate with specific biological targets. “If you understand what’s on the surface, then by default you can understand what proteins are attracted to the surface, and why it goes to which organs,” he says. More
Lena F. Kourkoutis
It’s been a long time since the iron curtain fell, but Lena Kourkoutis still remembers that moment when she and her family were allowed to cross over from East Berlin to the other side. A ten-year-old at the time, Kourkoutis mostly recalls the grandmotherly woman who gave her and her twin sister apples as welcoming gifts. Now, Kourkoutis is half a world away, breaking her own barriers in the field of electron microscopy at Cornell’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics, free to collaborate with whomever she wishes. More
John Thompson
John Thompson has seen a lot of the Earth--and knows a lot about what lies beneath it. Originally born in England, he has since lived in Canada, Australia, and the United States, and has worked in many other far-flung locations in search of the world’s mineral bounty. Now, he’s living in Ithaca, New York, where he’ll continue his work at Cornell, “understanding the geology of the earth through time, and why the earth concentrates commodities in certain areas,” as well as “trying to understand those processes to predict where we can find mineral resources.” More
Steve Jackson
Steven Jackson grew up in a remote steel town in Northern Ontario--a town full of teachers, doctors, and steelworkers. “I didn’t grow up around academics,” says Jackson. “I don't think I had any clear idea of what universities were or what went on there.” More
