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Drs. Tarek El-Ghazawi and Volker Sorger have received a 3-year $675K award from the Airforce Office of Scientific Research

Professor Tarek El-Ghazawi (ECE), as the P.I, and Professor Volker Sorger (ECE), as the Co-PI , have received a 3-year $675K award from the Airforce Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The new...

Drs. Sorger and El-Ghazawi awarded a $3M grant from ONR

Profs. Sorger and El-Ghazawi for awarded a $3M grant from Office of Naval Research, ONR. Prof. Sorger is the PI on the grant which is a collaboration between GW, UCLA, UT and...

Drs. El-Ghazawi and Sorger receive patent for reconfigurable optical computer

The United States Patent Office has issued patent number US 10, 318, 680 B2, “The Reconfigurable Optical Computer,” to Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi, Dr. Volker Sorger, and their team. The patent is the...

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Dr. Sorger wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

SEAS congratulates Dr. Volker Sorger, whom President Trump recently named as a winner of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

According to the White...

The Washington Post quoted Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi

The Washington Post quoted Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi in the June 21 article “...

NASA Astronaut Visits Oxon Hill Branch Library

NASA astronaut and ECE alumna Dr. Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor visited the Oxon Hill, MD branch library on June 10th.  Click ...

Samson March builds his own smart watch

ECE alumnus Samson March recently finished building his own smart watch from scratch as a do-it-yourself project. Word spread—eventually going viral—and Samson and his watch were featured in...

Maotong Xu wins 2019 ECE Best Dissertation Award

Data-intensive jobs need to process huge amounts of data, which is suitable to run on the cloud environment. A cloud environment provides both computing and storage resources by connecting...

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Fan Yao wins 2019 ECE Best Dissertation Award

The tremendous advancements in computing during the past decade have delivered enormous computational power to enable diversified application paradigms. Among various computing components, the...