Sarma Vrudhula
Vrudhula named IEEE Fellow for advances in energy efficiency A career dedicated to improving the energy efficiency of digital devices has resulted in Sarma Vrudhula’s elevation to a fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), one of the world’s most prominent professional organizations. Fellow is a distinction reserved for the most prestigious IEEE members and is conferred by the Board of Directors upon engineers with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in their field. Less than one-tenth of one percent earn new fellow status each year. Vrudhula, a computer science and engineering professor, was selected for his contributions to low power and energy efficient design of digital circuits and systems.
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2016 CAREER Award Recipients
Christiana Honsberg
Honsberg presented William R. Cherry Award Christiana Honsberg, professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and director of the Solar Power Laboratory, has been chosen to receive the William R. Cherry Award in recognition of her multiple contributions to the advancement of photovoltaics (PV). Honsberg was presented the award at the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference that took place in New Orleans last year. Honsberg’s notable contributions include the pioneering of advanced PV concepts ranging from the development of a generalized thermodynamic theory for determining efficiency limits of solar cells, to making seminal advances in the understanding of intermediate band, interband and quantum well approaches. She also is a co-inventor of the so-called “Very High Efficiency Solar Cell (VHESC)” and serves as director and lead investigator to the first U.S. multi-institutional Engineering Research Center (ERC) on photovoltaics, Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST), which is jointly supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Candace Chan Assistant professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Jennifer Blain Christen Assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Jingrui He Assistant professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
Ximin He Assistant professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Sefaattin Tongay Assistant professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Shimeng Yu Assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
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