News
June, 2023
Dr. Dimitrios Sounas has been selected to receive the Brillouin medal from the International Phononics Society with his colleagues Andrea Alu from CUNY and Romain Fleury from EPFL for their work on acoustic nonreciprocity.
November, 2022
Dr. Dimitrios Sounas received a 45-month grant from IARPA with a total amount of 450k to develop techniques for the broadband matching of electrically small antennas.
Dimitrios Sounas received two 12-month STTR Phase I grants from OSD with a total amount of 200k to develop nonreciprocal devices at microwave and optical frequencies.
February, 2023
Dr. Alhawari receives NSF CAREER award to improve power management for systems-on-chip. His project, “Power Management Solutions for Systems-on-Chip,” merited a five-year, $517,887 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, the organization’s most prestigious accolade for up-and-coming researchers.
September, 2022
Hamza Al Maharmeh, advised by Dr. Mohammed Ismail, successfully defended his PhD thesis, and joined TSMC in Texas as a design engineer Haysam M Kadry, advised by Dr. Mohammad Alhawari, successfully defended his PhD thesis, and joined Molex in Michigan as a director of engineering.
June, 2022
Mohammad Moein Moein, advised by Dimitrios Sounas, successfully defended his PhD thesis in June 2022 and joined the ECE Department at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow.
2022
Dr. Dimitrios Sounas received a 45-month grant from IARPA with a total amount of 450k to develop techniques for the broadband matching of electrically small antennas.
Dimitrios Sounas received two 12-month STTR Phase I grants from OSD with a total amount of 200k to develop nonreciprocal devices at microwave and optical frequencies.
March, 2020
Dr. Dimitrios Sounas was selected to receive the 2020 Felsen award for excellence in electromagnetics. The award is given once a year by the European Association on Antennas and Propagation to an early stage researcher in electromagnetics in honor of Prof. Leopold Felsen.
February, 2020
Dr. Mohammad Alhawari has received the 2020 Richard Barber Interdisciplinary Research Award. The project is a collaboration with the medical school.
February 13, 2020: The paper "Virtual perfect absorption through modulation of the radiative decay rate" authored by D. Sounas was accepted in Phys. Rev. B.
February 10, 2020: The paper "Angular-momentum biased circulator with a common-differential mode topology for RF-modulation isolation" co-authored by H. Kadry and D. Sounas was accepted for presentation in 2020 International Microwave Symposium (IMS).
October, 2019
WINCAS and ECE host Automotive SerDes Alliance meeting at Wayne State. Representatives from more than 20 global companies visited the campus of Wayne State University on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. Among those in attendance for the meeting were leaders from BMW, JAE, FTZ, Broadcom, NXP, Marvell, Continental, Fraunhofer IIS and others.
August, 2019
August 20, 2019: Dr. Dimitrios Sounas was selected to become a full member of USNC-URSI Commission B.
August 19-21, 2019: Dr. Dimitrios Sounas attended IEEE Rapid in Miramar Beach, FL, where he gave an invited talk about nonreciprocal metasurfaces.
August 5, 2019: The paper "Optically-driven Faraday rotation in instantaneous nonlinear media" co-authored by Dr. Dimitrios Sounas and colleagues at the City University of New York and the University of Texas at Austin was accepted in Optica.
Dr. Zahra Katbay, Dr. Dimitrios Sounas, and Dr. Mohammed Ismail have filed a U.S. patent disclosure titled "Metamaterial Reflectors Radio-frequency Wireless Power Transfer".
A paper submitted by Hamza AlMaharmeh, Dr. Mohammad Alhawari, Dr. Chung-Chih Hung, and Dr. Mohammed Ismail, titled "Hardware Security Threats and Countermeasures: A Study of Obfuscation, Camouflaging, and PUFs" has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Multimedia Intelligence and Security.
July, 2019
Prof. Mohammed Ismail attended the 2019 Cadence Automotive Design Summit in San Jose, CA, where he gave an invited talk on Recent Advances in Wireless Charging. click here for more information
Prof. Sounas attended the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation in Atlanta, GA, where he gave two invited talks on nonreciprocal devices.
November, 2018
In recognition of his contributions to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies, Professor Mohammed Ismail was among 10 prominent scientists to receive the UNESCO Medal in November at the organization's headquarters in Paris, France.
October, 2018
The Semiconductor Research Corporation recently presented Professor Mohammed Ismail with the SRC Board of Directors Recognition Award to acknowledge pioneering semiconductor research in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
October, 2017
Professor Mohammed Ismail Elnaggar, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, joined a team of researchers from the Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on a project that received a Best Paper Award at the Sensors, Networks, Smart and Emerging Technologies (SENSET) conference last month in Lebanon. click here to read the full article