By Charles Hall<img width="1024" height="576" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/solar-panels-1024x576-1.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/solar-panels-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/solar-panels-1024x576-1-980x551.jpg 980w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/solar-panels-1024x576-1-480x270.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw">Optimizing data flow allows ECE researchers to dramatically improve the performance of cyber-physical systems, from autonomous vehicles to smart power grids. |Research
By Charles Hall<img width="1024" height="576" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Tianfu-Wu-AN-2020-HEADER-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Tianfu-Wu-AN-2020-HEADER-980x551.jpg 980w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Tianfu-Wu-AN-2020-HEADER-480x270.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw">AI researchers from NC State ECE—including Tianfu Wu—have improved the performance of deep neural networks by combining feature normalization and feature attention into a single module. |Research
By Charles Hall<img width="1024" height="682" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/asoggetti-rSFxBGpnluw-unsplash-copy-1024x682.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/asoggetti-rSFxBGpnluw-unsplash-copy-980x653.jpg 980w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/asoggetti-rSFxBGpnluw-unsplash-copy-480x320.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw">Researchers, including Aranya Chakrabortty, have developed a reinforcement learning approach that will allow swarms of unmanned vehicles to accomplish various missions while minimizing performance uncertainty. |Life, Research
By Charles Hall<img width="1024" height="682" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Top-structure-cat-1024x682.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Top-structure-cat-980x653.jpg 980w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Top-structure-cat-480x320.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw">NC State's Yaoyao Jia has been chosen to lead one of the new collaborative NSF programs, with a million-dollar grant aimed at improving our understanding of somatosensory feedback with the help of a cat. |Research
By Charles Hall<img width="1024" height="576" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/soybeansamplinglocation-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/soybeansamplinglocation-980x551.jpg 980w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/soybeansamplinglocation-480x270.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw">An interdisciplinary collaboration across three colleges at NC State are working together to identify and analyze beneficial fungi in the core crops of North Carolina. |Research
By Charles Hall<img width="1024" height="576" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Keung-DNA-data-storage-2020-HEADER-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Keung-DNA-data-storage-2020-HEADER-980x551.jpg 980w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Keung-DNA-data-storage-2020-HEADER-480x270.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw">A partnership of researchers from ECE and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering are laying out a fundamentally new approach to DNA data storage. |Research
By Charles Hall<img width="1024" height="576" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/StressCamSoybeans2-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="A StressCam, a low-cost camera system to monitor crop stress, over a field of soybeans at the Sandhills Research Station." loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/StressCamSoybeans2-980x551.jpg 980w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/StressCamSoybeans2-480x270.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw">Being able to identify crop problems early can make the difference between saving a crop and losing it, but high-tech solutions can be costly. An interdisciplinary team is leveraging existing technology for a solution. |Life, Research, Smart
By Staff<img width="1024" height="576" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/lobaton-huang-2020-header-1500-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/lobaton-huang-2020-header-1500-980x551.jpg 980w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/lobaton-huang-2020-header-1500-480x270.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw">Lobaton's lab leverages AI to create a software integration for existing hardware to enable people using robotic prosthetics to walk in a safer, more natural manner on different types of terrain. |Research
By Charles Hall<img width="1024" height="576" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/assist-7399-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/assist-7399-980x551.jpg 980w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/assist-7399-480x270.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw">Platforms developed in the Center for Advanced Self- Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) allow for a wide range of health applications |Research
By Charles Hall<img width="1024" height="682" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EC201766-1024x682.jpeg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EC201766-980x653.jpeg 980w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EC201766-480x320.jpeg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw">A paper outlining a hardware solution to then next generation of cryptographic solutions by Aydin Aysu and Michela Becchi was chosen as Best Paper at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference