Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Jeyavijayan "JV" Rajendran plans to develop comprehensive cybersecurity for industrial-control systems found in power plants, gas pipelines, oil refineries and nuclear facilities as part of the Texas A&M University ASCEND program.

Dr. Mladen Kezunovic is leading a team of Texas A&M researchers as part of a larger consortium of experts to bridge the gap between smart grid, storage and renewable energy research and facilitate their subsequent adoption by utilities worldwide.

Former electrical engineering student Dr. Bryton Praslicka and educational human resource development master’s student Mary Beth Graham are the overall grand prize winners of the prestigious Rice Business Plan Competition, resulting in $350,000 in prize money.

Dr. Chao Tian and Dr. Ruida Zhou are developing balanced and comprehensive understandings of the tradeoffs between general information retrieval systems constraints.

Thomas Simms is combining his entrepreneurial spirit with his interest in magnetic gear research to make a difference in the electrical engineering industry.

Dr. Dileep Kalathil is investigating the robustness, safety and adaptivity of these algorithms so that they can be successful in real-world settings.

Bryton Praslicka and Thomas Simms participated in the Department of Energy’s EnergyTech UP competition, which aims to cultivate the next generation of energy innovators while accelerating the transfer of energy technologies to market.

Dr. Ceyhun Eksin received the award in support of his research and in recognition of his growing leadership in his research area.

Dr. H. Rusty Harris and his doctoral student identified a new circuit element known as a meminductor which is a variation of its classical counterpart, the inductor.

Dr. Arum Han is leading a project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop and implement a corrosion mitigation strategy by repurposing existing corrosion-causing microbes into a corrosion-resistant "living" coating.