Howard University engineering students were named student competition winners at the National Society of Black Engineer’s 50th annual convention. Chemical engineering rising sophomore Oluchi Emenike and electrical engineering rising sophomore Nathaniel Crosse won first place in the Let’s Debate: Generative AI Competition in which they debated the pros and cons of generative AI.
Category: Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The Howard University Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science recently opened its state-of-the-art Silicon Design and Validation Lab. This cutting-edge facility, funded primarily with Apple’s generous $1.3M Innovation Grant, is designed to foster innovation and excellence in the fields of semiconductor design, testing, and validation. Electrical engineering professor and department chair Ahmed Rubaai, Ph.D., is serving as the principal investigator and lab director to further expand silicon and hardware engineering at Howard University.
Category: Research, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
A message from the department chair, Ahmed Rubaai, Ph.D.
Category: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Howard University computer science juniors Myles D. Block, Matthew A. Getachew, Malik Y. Stewart, Brandon Clarke and Ryan Taylor were named a winning team at the 8th Annual Black Enterprise Smart Hackathon. Anietie Andy, Ph.D. (MSc ’09; Ph.D. ’17), assistant professor of computer science, served as faculty advisor for the team.
Category: College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Howard University computer science assistant professor Anietie Andy, PhD (MSc ’09; PhD ’17), recently received a $500K grant from the National Institutes of Health Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) to build the Howard University Integrated Clinical Data Repository (CDR). Anietie Andy and Abiodun Otolorin, MD, MS, FAAFP, assistant professor of community and family medicine, were named PIs on the project in collaboration with MedStar Health.
Category: Alumni, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
As part of a collaboration that was announced and then subsequently expanded earlier this year, Amazon and Howard University have announced the 2023 recipients of their gift project awards and doctoral fellowship. These accolades recognize individuals whose proposed projects fulfill the collaboration’s mission to bring differentiated research to the forefront.
Category: Research, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Tenth anniversary cohort includes 14 Googlers in Residence and 14 partnering institutions across the country. Announcement marks the tenth cohort of the Google in Residence program, which has reached more than 8,000 HBCUs.
This year three outstanding College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) graduates will be presenting at our Spring 2023 CEA Awards and Recognition Ceremony, Olabisi Bello (BSChE ’23), Myles Bostic (BSCS ‘23) and Marie-Chantal Nyirahategekimana (BSChE ‘23).
Category: Alumni, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Expansion includes the creation of interdisciplinary robotics courses and RoboLab, where students will engage in prototype development and feasibility testing.
Howard University electrical engineering assistant professor Su Yan recently received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development award, known as the NSF CAREER award, for his research on the modeling and optimization of radiofrequency (RF) and microwave reconfigurable devices.
In an ongoing effort to create enduring pipelines of diverse science talent and differentiated research, Amazon today announced a collaboration with Howard University, a historically Black college or university (HBCU) located in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1867, Howard is a research university comprised of 14 schools and colleges. As part of the collaboration, which will be housed in the College of Engineering and Architecture, Amazon will fund faculty research projects with an initial focus on machine learning and natural language processing.
Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick, M.D., MBA, hosted U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III, and U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall to announce that Howard will serve as the 15th University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). With this announcement, Howard makes history as the first HBCU to lead a UARC and the first center to be funded by the Air Force.
Howard University chemical engineering senior Olabisi Bello, mechanical engineering senior Yaman Siwakoti and computer science senior Deante Taylor recently received prestigious Tau Beta Pi scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year. Scholarships are awarded annually by Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, to junior members on a competitive basis of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession.
Category: Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering
Howard University computer engineering junior Ayron Fears, mechanical engineering senior Khari Fletcher, electrical engineering Ph.D. student Cameron Lewis (BSEE 2019), and electrical engineering sophomore David Toler launched their RockOn!2022 educational payload experiment on the Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Wallops Flight Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland this past summer.
Category: Research, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering
Alumna Renetta Garrison Tull, Ph.D. (BSEE ‘91) recently received the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head Association’s (ECEDHA) Diversity Award. According to the ECEDHA website, this award is given to department(s) or individual(s) in recognition of proactive efforts to increase cultural, ethnic, and gender diversity within the ECE student body and among ECE faculty, that go well above and beyond the normal institutional recruiting practices. ECEDHA membership comprises over 250 ECE department heads or chairs from across the US and Canada.
Category: Alumni, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Howard University has been selected to lead the $15 million data science training core of the National Institutes of Health-backed consortium that seeks to close diversity gaps in the artificial intelligence and machine learning fields. Howard computer scientist Legand Burge III, Ph.D., will participate as principal investigator of the data science training aspects of the initiative.
Howard University computer science sophomores Surakshya Aryal and Taiwo Oriowo and graduate student Mikel Kengni recently won first place for their poster at the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) Eastern’s 37th Annual Regional Conference. The winning poster was titled "Predicting Racial & Gender Microaggressions Using Support Vector Machines (SVMs)". Computer engineering sophomores Anu Upadhyaya and Anu Soneye also participated.
Researchers from Howard University and Karat, the world’s leader in technical interviewing, today released new research exploring key factors that can help more Black software engineers enter the tech industry and excel in their careers. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Black engineers comprised just 6 percent of all computer programmers in the U.S. in 2020, and this research shines a light on the challenges and opportunities that exist to improve representation.
Recent computer science Ph.D. graduate Naveen Naik Sapavath and Ph.D. candidate Eric Muhati received the IEEE CSCloud 2021 Best Student Paper Award at the 8th IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing.
Howard University today announced it is one of four recipients of Apple’s new Innovation Grant, designed to support colleges of engineering in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to develop their silicon and hardware engineering curriculum in partnership with Apple’s experts. The grant was announced this year as part of Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative.
Electrical Engineering Lecturer Fadel Lashhab, Ph.D. recently received the 2021 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), International IoT, Electronics and Mechatronics (IEMTRONICS) Best Paper Award in the Mobile Communication track for his paper titled "Water Level Control System Using a Programmable Logic Controller PLC: Rujban Water Supply System". IEEE IEMTRONICS is a multidisciplinary, international conference that aims to bring together scholars from different backgrounds to recognize current research in the fields of IoT, Electronics, and Mechatronics. Research paper submissions describing original works are invited in five tracks: IoT and Data Science, Electronics, Information Technology, Mobile Communication, and Mechatronics. The paper was co-authored by Abdulbasit Alaribi, Ph.D., Yousef Ali, Ph.D., and Omar A. Zargelin, Ph.D., researchers from Al Zintan University, Libya.
Category: Research, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science Professor Legand Burge and Assistant Professor Gloria Washington have been named recipients of the 2020 Amazon Research Awards. Last week, Amazon announced the 101 award recipients who represent 59 universities in 13 countries. The award recipients’ proposals were selected from a record number of submissions in any of the five areas of AI for Information Security, Alexa Fairness in AI, AWS AI, AWS Automated Reasoning, and Robotics. Each award is intended to support the work of one to two graduate students or postdoctoral students for one year, under the supervision of a faculty member.
Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor Su Yan, Ph.D., recently received a $400K grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) for his research on “Multiphysics and Multiscale Simulation Methods for Electromagnetic Energy Assisted Fossil Fuel to Hydrogen Conversion.” Dr. Yan is working with Howard University colleague Tao Wei, Ph.D., associate professor of chemical engineering, who will serve as his co-PI. Their team will also include researchers at the University of Houston.
A native of Lagos, Nigeria, Faith Adegbenro, an electrical engineering senior graduating with honors, joined Howard University (HU) in 2017 as an international student. The warm, welcoming environment at HU made Adegbenro feel at home. It was not long before she acclimated, and her shining Bison spirit led her to a successful finish.
Computer Science Assistant Professor Gloria Washington, Ph.D. recently received the 2021 National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research (MAUR). Awardees were selected for their outstanding mentorship, high-quality research opportunities, recruitment of women and minority students, and efforts to encourage and advance undergraduates in computing-related fields.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Imtiaz Ahmed, Ph.D., recently received the Excellent Paper Award at the 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication (ICAIIC 2021) for his paper titled “Joint Demodulation and Decoding with Multi-Label Classification Using Deep Neural Networks”. ICAIIC, co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, aims at addressing advances in research on information and communications technology, covering topics ranging from ICT technology issues to emerging AI applications for ICTs. The paper is co-authored by Wenjie Xu, Ramesh Annavajjala, Ph.D., and Wook-Sung Yoo, Ph.D.
Washington DC, Howard University - Electrical engineering Ph.D. student Christian Diaz-Caez was awarded the Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Scholarship.
Recent Computer Science Ph.D. graduates Abdulhamid Adebayo (far right) and Ronald Doku (second to the right) joined tech giants IBM Research and Oracle as researchers in cybersecurity and data science. Dr. Adebayo joined IBM Research as Hybrid Cloud Security Researcher and Dr. Doku joined Oracle, Inc. as Data Scientist. Both were graduate research assistants and advisees of Danda B. Rawat, Ph.D., Computer Science Professor and Director of Howard University’s Data Science & Cybersecurity Center (DSC2).
Electrical Engineering Lecturer Fadel Lashhab, Ph.D. recently received the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), International IoT, Electronics and Mechatronics (IEMTRONICS) Best Paper Award in the Mechatronics track for his paper titled “Estimation of Dynamic Laplacian Eigenvalues in Dynamic Consensus Networks”.
