Electrical & Computer Engineering News

WiNC Lab in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at San Diego State University is thrilled to announce that Mr. Hamed Mojtahed, our Engineering Ph.D. student in the SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral Program (JDP), has received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE ECBIOS 2024 conference. Hamed's paper, titled "A Deep Learning Approach for Heart Rate Variability Error Correction," introduces a novel method to enhance the accuracy of heart rate variability (HRV) measurements, a critical indicator of cardiovascular health and autonomic nervous system function.

Congratulations to Dr. Junfei Xie (assistant professor, SDSU), Baoqian Wang (co-advisor, PhD student, SDSU), Ramiz Hanan, David Pierce Walker-Howell, and Leo Peralta (undergraduate students, SDSU) for winning the award in the student design competition at the 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2020). The competition is targeted for undergraduate students.

Tong Huang, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), received the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Technical Committee Prize Paper Award for his high-impact journal paper.

National Academy of Engineering Member, Dr. Longya Xu joins SDSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an Adjunct Professor. Dr. Xu, Fellow of IEEE, is the recipient of the prestigious 2018 Nikola Tesla Award which is presented annually by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was named a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Dr. Chris Mi, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering received a $959,932 grant for his work in collaboration with Solid Energies, Inc. The grant is sponsored by the California Energy Commission and is titled “High Safety, Wide-Operation-Temperature, Low-Cost All-Solid-Sates Li-Ion Battery and ASSLiB-Based Energy Storage Systems”.

Joe E. Kiani, founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Masimo Corporation, a publicly held (since 2007) global medical technology company, immigrated to the U.S. from Iran as a child of poverty to become a billionaire!

Team HADES is representing San Diego State University at the NASA Robotic Mining Competition (RMC) Lunabotics 2022 by designing, building, and operating a lunar mining robot. This student competition has been facilitated through NASA’s Artemis Generation of student competitions and projects, while for Team HADES it was also their San Diego State University Senior Design Capstone project. The competition is an engineering challenge in which students gain experience with the engineering lifecycle process, from concept development to system closeout. During the project lifecycle, the team was able to apply what they have learned inside the classroom in this hands-on project. The goal of NASA RMC is to find innovative solutions to extract material from beneath the lunar surface using a partially autonomous robot with a dust-free operation/design.

Thomas Offenbecher is an undergraduate electrical engineering student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University, Class of 2022. Thomas was awarded the 2022 College of Engineering Outstanding Student award. Professor Barry Dorr stated, "Thomas was the Outstanding ECE Student this year. His natural curiosity, technical ability, and genuine concern for fellow humans make us so proud of him. He is completely bitten by the signal processing bug and plans to develop digital radio after continuing his education at UCSD. This young man will make us all proud."

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair, Dr. Chris Mi, is the recipient of the Albert W. Johnson Research Lectureship which is SDSU's highest research honor.

The Diversity Excellence Award recognizes faculty, staff and alumni/community members who have shown an exemplary commitment to diversity, inclusion and social justice.