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MURI research grant to study brain dynamics and reinforcement learning

Samet Oymak, Assistant Professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Fabio Pasqualetti, Professor of mechanical engineering, received a $3.75 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) research grant from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory, to study brain dynamics and reinforcement learning. Oymak and Pasqualetti will serve as co-PI's in the collaborative...

Prof. Luat Vuong receives DARPA Director’s Fellowship of the Young Faculty Award Program

Luat Vuong , a Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been chosen to receive a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, Director’s Fellowship. The fellowship continues for the third year of the DARPA Young Faculty Award Vuong received in 2019. Read more here

Prof. Pasqualetti receives the 2021 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award

Together with Abed AlRahman Al Makdah (currently a PhD in ECE at UCR) and Vaibhav Katewa (currently Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and previously postdoc in ME at UCR), Prof. Pasqualetti receives the 2021 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award from the American Automatic Control Council for the paper " Accuracy...

UC Riverside offers UC system's first master's degree in robotics | News

UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering now offers a Master of Science degree in robotics , the first and only one of its kind in the University of California system. Applications for fall 2021 admission are due by July 15 for international students, and by Sept. 1 for domestic students. Read more...

Four robotics professors receive prestigious NSF CAREER Awards

Four robotics faculty members received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards this year. NSF CAREER Awards are given to early-career professors to fund research that is expected to form a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. The four CAREER Award recipients of the robotics program and the projects funded...

Jay Farrell named new endowed chair

This July, Jay Farrell will step up to the KA Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, or BCOE. The new endowed chair was made possible through a $1 million gift from anonymous donors. As one of seven new endowed chairs established at BCOE during...

Three ECE professors receive prestigious NSF CAREER Awards

Three ECE faculty members affiliated with CRIS received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards this year. NSF CAREER Awards are given to assistant professors to fund research that is expected to form a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. The four CAREER Award recipients of the ECE department and...

Prof. Pasqualetti receives two IEEE awards

Together with his students and collaborators, Prof. Pasqualetti has received the 2020 Roberto Tempo Best CDC Paper Award for the paper " A Framework to Control Functional Connectivity in the Human Brain ", awarded by the IEEE Control Systems Society, and the 2020 IEEE Control Systems Letters Outstanding Paper Award for the paper " Data-Driven...

A robot that tells growers when to water crops is on the way

To determine water needs accurately, growers hand-pluck individual leaves from plants, put them in pressure chambers, and apply air pressure to see when water begins to leak from the leaf stems. That kind of testing is time consuming and means growers can only reach so many areas of a field each day and cannot test...

NSF grant on distributed multi-robot joint localization and tracking

Professor Wei Ren received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant on distributed multi-robot joint localization and tracking. In applications such as disaster response, a network of mobile autonomous robots collectively tracks a subject over a wide area in an intermittently GPS-denied environment. As the subject and the robots move in and out of observation and...

ECE and CSE faculty receive new DARPA grant on adversarial machine learning

ECE Professor Amit Roy-Chowdhury is leading a team of ECE and CSE faculty that has received a grant totaling almost $1 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to understand the vulnerability of computer vision systems to adversarial attacks. The project is part of the Machine Vision Disruption program, which is part...

Prof. Erfan Nozari joins CRIS!

Erfan Nozari received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering-Control in 2013 from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Cognitive Science in 2019 from University of California San Diego, and was a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering. He is currently an assistant...

Hyoseung Kim receives NSF CAREER Award

Professor Hyoseung Kim received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for his work on "Real-Time Scheduling of Intelligent Applications". The CAREER is NSF's most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances...

NSF grant on information theoretic analysis of machine learning in computer vision

ECE professors, Amit Roy-Chowdhury and Ertem Tuncel, have received a new $500K grant from NSF’s Communications and Information Foundations program on information theoretic analysis of machine learning algorithms in computer vision. The recent successes in image and video analysis have been largely in the domain of supervised learning. Supervised learning methods assume the availability of...

UMD ECE Distinguished Alumni Award

Professor Amit Roy-Chowdhury has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 ECE Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Maryland (UMD). This prestigious award is presented annually to alumni that have provided leadership and meritorious contributions in the broad field of engineering.

Prof. Chen receives NSF CAREER award

Professor Chen received the NSF CAREER award for her work on " Networked Multi-User Augmented Reality for Mobile Devices ". In multi-user augmented reality (AR), multiple users are able to view and interact with a common set of virtual objects. However, users can experience poor performance (such as high latency or inconsistent views of the...

Prof. Mohsenian-Rad named IEEE Fellow

Professor Hamed Mohsenian-Rad is named as Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The honor is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, less than 0.1% of IEEE...

Oymak and collaborators received NSF grant on Cyber-Physical Systems

Prof. Samet Oymak and his collaborators Necmiye Ozay, Dimitra Panagou (University of Michigan) and Sze Zheng Yong (Arizona State University) are awarded $1.2M NSF grant to improve Cyber-Physical System safety. These systems are networks of interacting elements such as constellation of satellites and fleet of self-driving cars. This project will develop supervisors that leverage preview...

AFOSR YIP Award

Prof. Fabio Pasqualetti has been awarded a 2020 Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research! Read more here

A machine-learning approach for predicting defluorination of toxic contaminants in water

New paper from Prof. Bryan M. Wong's group on using machine learning to predict the defluorination of toxic contaminants in water. Read more here
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