ECE Department Update
Andreas Cangellaris, Head
Power Affiliates Meeting
May 3, 2013
New ECE building
• On schedule for July 2014 completion.
• The design for the new ECE building has been awarded a
2012 Green Good Design Award.
– The Award recognizes the most important examples of
sustainable design throughout the world.
One of the largest ECE undergraduate
student bodies in the world
Undergraduate
• Total students: ~1,800
• ~50% out of state
• ~30% international
• CE majors: ~800
• EE majors: ~1000
Graduate
• Total students: ~500
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US News & World Report 2013
Undergrad Programs Ranking
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Stanford
UC Berkeley
UIUC (5)
GA Tech
U Michigan
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CMU
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UC Berkeley
UIUC (5)
GA Tech
2011-12 ECE+CS Undergraduate Enrollments:
• MIT = 653
• Stanford = 375
• UC Berkeley = 1093
• UIUC = 2682 > (MIT + Stanford + UC Berkeley)
US News & World Report 2013
Graduate ECE Programs Ranking
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Cornell
LED 50th Anniversary
Symposium
October 24 & 25, 2012
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
http://www.led50years.illinois.edu/ SA
Weng C. Chew, Tom Overbye
2013 NAE Inductees
“For the integration of
“For contributions to large-scale
visualization and analysis tools
computational electromagnetics
for power systems.”
of complex structures.”
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ECE Professorship Investitures
Naresh Shanbhag –
Martin F. Wong –
Jack K ilby Professor in ECE
Ed Jordan Professor in ECE
Naresh investigates efficient IC
implementations of signal processing and
communication systems, seeking to
innovate at the algorithmic, VLSI
architectural and circuit levels, to minimize
power and maximize performance while
maintaining reliable operation.
Martin’s research focus is on
methodologies and tools for the computeraided design of 2-D and 3-D VLSI, with
special emphasis on the advancement of
new ideas and approaches to design for
manufacturing in the presence of processinduced variations in nanoscale devices.
Liang and Nicol invested as Franklin
W. Woeltge Professors in ECE
Zhi-Pei Liang is developing methods for
optimal acquisition, reconstruction and
processing of MR images with application
to functional neuroimaging, real-time
cardiac imaging, and cancer imaging.
David Nicol, who serves as director of the
Information Trust Institute, is an expert
on large-scale system simulation,
network security and cyber-physical
systems security.
Dominguez-Garcia named IEEE PES
Outstanding Young Engineer
• The IEEE Power and Energy
Society (PES) has named ECE
Assistant Professor Alejandro
Dominguez-Garcia the 2012
IEEE PES Outstanding Young
Engineer.
• Dominguez-Garcia's research
interests lie in the interface of
system reliability theory and
control theory, especially as
applied to power and energy
systems.
Investing in Young Talent…
• Assoc. Prof. Eric Pop and Assist. Profs. Lynford
Goddard and Logan Liu recipients of
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists
and Engineers (PECASE).
E.Pop
• Assist. Prof. Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia
recipient of the 2012 IEEE Power & Energy
Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award.
L. Goddard
L. Liu
A. Dominguez-Garcia
• Assist. Prof. Sayan Mitra recipient of 2012 Air
Force Young Investigator Award.
• Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Makela recipient of the
IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching
Award.
S.Mitra
J. Makela
• Assist. Prof. Yi Lu recipient of 2012 NSF Career
Award.
• Assist. Prof. Max Raginsky recipient of 2013
NSF Career Award.
Yi Lu
M. Raginsky
…to ensure a lasting foundation
for faculty excellence
Incomplete List of Most Recent Awards
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2012 IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award – Joe Lyding
2012 OSA Nick Holonyak, Jr., Award – Kent Choquette
2012 Hans Sigrist Foundation Award – Stephen Boppart
2012 IEEE-EMBS Technical Achievement Award – Rashid Bashir
2012 IFMBE Otto Schmitt Award – Z.P. Liang
2012 Fellow, Acoustical Society of America – Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
2013 IEEE Fellows – Daniel Liberzon and Pramod Viswanath
Fellow, American Institute for MBE – B. Cunningham
2012 Stanley H. Price Faculty Award, COE Illinois – J. Bernhard
2012 IEEE MTT Society Distinguished Educator Award – A. Cangellaris
2012-13 IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer – P. Moulin
2012 ACM/IEEE DAC Best Paper Award – M. Wong
2013 COE Illinois Faculty Scholar Award – Olgica Milenkovic
UG Students/Faculty ratio ~24
New Faculty
• Asst. Prof. Yihong Wu (Princeton)
– His research focus is on algorithms for estimation with
applications that encompass big data analysis,
bioinformatics, statistical signal processing and
communications.
• Assoc. Prof. Romit Roy Choudhury (UIUC)
– His research interests are in wireless networking and
mobile computing.
– Currently at Duke, Romit will be joining us in fall 2013.
• Assoc. Prof. Pavan Kumar Hanumolu
(Oregon State)
– His research interests are in high performance, ultra
low-power mixed-mode integrated circuits.
– Currently at Oregon State, Pavan will be joining us in
fall 2013.
Plan to hire 5 more this year
• Areas:
– Microelectronics/Photonics
– Computer Engineering
– Controls/Power Systems
– Bioinformatics/Systems Biology
• New hire in Power Systems:
Dr. Hao Zhu
– Area of research: monitoring and
optimization of the smart grid.
– She will join the ECE faculty on Jan. 1, 2014.
Systems on Nanoscale Information fabriCs
Director:
Prof. Naresh Shanbhag
$30M over 5yrs (2013-17)
SRC and DARPA’s
STARnet Program
23 faculty – devices, circuits,
architecture, to systems
8 universities – Illinois (lead),
Berkeley, CMU, Michigan,
Princeton, Stanford, UCSB,
UCSD
www.sonic-center.org
info@sonic-center.org
A
Center
design of robust, energy efficient, and
intelligent computing on emerging
nanoscale devices
inspired by statistical information
processing principles found in
communication and biological systems
catalyzing a foundational transformation of
computing – from deterministic to statistical
Grainger Engineering
Breakthroughs Initiative
• $100M gift to the College of Engineering by the
Grainger Foundation
• 35 endowed chairs and professorships
• Boost and grow multi-disciplinary, high-impact research
• Primary emphasis on:
• Big Data – Attract the best minds in the field to grow
Illinois’ influence and impact
• Bioengineering – Attract top talent and establish worldclass facilities for multi-disciplinary research and education
• Everitt renovation to house BioE
• Kickoff of a major initiative toward a $100M
scholarship endowment for the College
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$100M scholarship initiative kickoff
• Attract and retain the best and brightest
students.
– An estimated $4M annual income from
endowment provides for ~400 scholarships
annually in the range of $5K - $15K.
Everitt Lab Renovation
• Everitt Lab remains an integral part of the
College of Engineering.
– Will house BioE along with other College
programs and instructional activities
• Renovation/remodeling cost ~$40M.
– Grainger gift to offset a portion of this cost.
Endowed Chairs/Professorships
• 26 endowed chairs & professorships in the
cross-disciplinary areas of
bioengineering and big data.
– Startup up costs assumed by the College &
Campus.
• Additional endowed chairs &
professorships in other critical areas in the
College.
$10M to endow seed funding for
breakthrough areas of engineering research
• Grow and endow the Strategic Research
Initiative program in the College.
– Strategic investments in high-risk ideas.
– Seed funding aimed at fostering
opportunities for successful proposals in new
areas of research.
Foray into MOOCS via Coursera
• ECE Professor Wen-mei Hwu
taught “Heterogeneous
P arallel P rogram m ing”
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• A near-campus institute for:
– R&D projects outside normal UIUC faculty purview.
– Focused on areas of national need.
– Enables classified research:
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Mission agency driven: DoD, DoE, DHS,…
Targeted technologies
Larger applied programs
Permanent staff
– Commercial and proprietary opportunities.
– Initial technical foci: Cyber-enabled resilient
infrastructure; Energy; Energetics; Materials.
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ECE Illinois:
Lighting up the future!