Rice Electrical & Computer Engineering

Our very own ECE Professors Chong Xie and Lan Luan have been awarded a NIH grant to further their groundbreaking research on spinal cord treatment. This could potentially lead to better therapies for individuals with spinal cord injuries. 🔗 bit.ly/47mdDk1

Congratulations to Professor @xiechong and Associate Professor Taiyun Chi in @RiceECE!! 👏🎉

No hype, just breakthroughs: Rice AI summit quietly makes waves in Paris. 🔗 Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/no-h… The summit was sponsored by @RiceUniversity, Rice Global, @RiceEngineering and @ricekenkennedy. @RiceECE @RiceCompSci #SolvingforGreaterGood

📢 Our own Shengxi Huang is highlighted by @NSF for using machine learning to detect light signals 🔦 emitted by molecules in diseases such as Alzheimer's! 🔗nsf.gov/science-matter… @RiceECE @RiceMSNE @RiceEngineering

🪟 @RiceEngineering researchers developed a new coating for glass that could reduce winter energy bills by 2.9%. With over 4 billion sq ft of windows installed annually in the US, the savings can add up. 🔗 news.rice.edu/news/2025/new-… @RiceECE @RiceMSNE #SolvingforGreaterGood

Principal Investigator Junichiro Kono (@JunichiroKono) along with other @RiceUniversity researchers use optical cavities, structures made of mirrors facing one another, to confine vacuum fluctuations, harnessing their effects to engineer new forms of matter.…

⚕️Wearables, AI and the future of personalized care: Rice experts are available to speak on digital health topics. 🔗Link to contact info and list of experts available to comment: news.rice.edu/news/2025/wear…

💡@RiceEngineering faculty recently hosted two premier summits on the future of AI and quantum computing that brought together global experts: QuantIPS 2025 and TL;DR 2025. 🔗 Read more here: engineering.rice.edu/news/rice-igni… @RiceECE @RiceCMOR @RiceCompSci #SolvingforGreaterGood

Excited to share that I'm joining @RiceUniversity as an assistant professor this fall! I’ll be starting the @phi_lab_rice, where we’ll work on wireless systems, energy efficient sensing, wearables, and edge intelligence. @RiceEngineering @RiceECE

Future Faculty Fellow Yingying Fan ’24, Ph.D. in @RiceECE, will soon join @WashU as an assistant professor. Congrats! 🎉 #SolvingforGreaterGood 🔗 Read about her journey: engineering.rice.edu/news/yingying-… 🔗 Learn more about the FFF program here: engineering.rice.edu/academics/futu…

🥇 @RiceECE and @RiceMECH students win top prize in global design contest with cutting-edge haptic wristband that could redefine how humans interact with virtual environments! 🎉 Congratulations! 🔗 Learn more here: news.rice.edu/news/2025/rice… #SolvingforGreaterGood

The Digital Health Institute — a recently launched joint initiative between @RiceUniversity and Houston Methodist, led by @RiceECE's Ashutosh Sabharwal, Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering — has appointed an executive director. 🔗 Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/rice…

💡 Rice scientists harness vacuum fluctuations to engineer quantum materials. 🔗 Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/rice… 🔗 Publication: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… @RiceECE @RiceMSNE @smalleycurl

⚛️ @RiceUniversity researchers report the first demonstration of low noise, room-temp quantum emitters in h-BN made through a scalable growth technique, a step toward viable quantum technologies at scale. #SolvingforGreaterGood 🔗 news.rice.edu/news/2025/near… @RiceMSNE @RiceECE

Prospective speakers are invited to submit abstracts for the @ricekenkennedy's #AIHealthConference! Abstracts should highlight algorithms, use cases, and solutions supporting data-driven discovery and decision-making for AI in Health.  Submit by July 10: aihealthconference.com/abstracts

Lei Li, assistant professor of @RiceECE at @RiceUniversity @RiceEngineering, has received a @NSF CAREER Award for a project that aims to shrink hospital-grade imaging into wearable devices. Congrats, @leilichn! 🔗 Read more here: news.rice.edu/news/2025/nsf-…

Join us at Duncan Hall on August 24th for the ECE Gene Brice Colloquium Series. We are honored to have Dr. Muriel Medard from MIT as the distinguished speaker for this event. 🔗 bit.ly/3KGsFqX

Congrats to Shengxi Huang, who has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Welch Foundation! 🎉 The award will allow her to delve deeper into research on "Unveiling the charge interaction between molecules and topological surface states." 🔗 bit.ly/3DRSLUi

Excited to share this paper with @A_Mack44, which presents a new method of tracking neural correlates of #haptic learning with multimodal devices. With @JeffMYau and @cogscimon ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10214…

🌟 ECE Professor Alessandro Alabastri and his team have made groundbreaking discoveries in energy processes and thermal management. Their research has opened up new possibilities that can change the way we harness and manage energy. 🔗 bit.ly/3qj2UpN