ECE Department celebrates our 2023-2024 Outstanding Students
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The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department is proud to recognize the remarkable accomplishments of its students for the 2023-2024 academic year. Each of these outstanding students has made significant contributions to their fields of study, demonstrating exceptional dedication, innovation, and excellence. Here, we highlight their achievements and the projects that earned them prestigious awards.
Bachelor of Science Awards
Courtney Gibbons
Award: Outstanding Bachelor of Science Award in Electrical Engineering
Bhavik Joshi
Award: Outstanding Bachelor of Science Award in Computer Engineering
Sophia Du
Award: Christina Huang Memorial Prize
Distinguished Master’s Thesis Research Awards
Xiaoying Yang
Circuits and Embedded Systems: “Interaction-Powered Internet of Things”
Advisor: Prof. Yang Zhang
Cody Fan
Physical and Wave Electronics: “Optical and Electronic Properties of the Silicon X-center”
Advisor: Prof. Chee Wei Wong
Distinguished PhD Dissertation Research Awards
Shurui Li
Circuits and Embedded Systems: “Architecture, Modeling, and Optimization of Photonic Neural Network Accelerators”
Advisor: Prof. Puneet Gupta
Murat Can Sarihan
Physical and Wave Electronics: “Building Blocks for a High-Dimensional Quantum Network”
Advisor: Prof. Chee Wei Wong
Alexander “AJ” Johnson
Signals & Systems: “Towards Inclusive Low-Resource Speech Technologies: A Case Study of Educational Systems for African American English-Speaking Children”
Advisor: Prof. Abeer Alwan