For the past two years students in the Cornell Custom Silicon Systems (C2S2)project team have enabled Cornell undergraduates to use emerging open-source hardware to design, test and fabricate their own microchips – a complex and expensive process that is rarely, if ever, available to students.
The next generation of wireless communication not only requires greater bandwidth at higher frequencies – it also needs a little extra time. Read more about the research in the Cornell Chronicle article "3D reflectors help boost data rate in wireless communications."
Bitar receives this recognition for his partnership with “New York State Electric and Gas (NYSEG) since 2016 to understand how the growing adoption of electric vehicles will impact the power grid, and how to effectively coordinate EV charging patterns to minimize their collective strain on the grid”
Each will receive a minimum of $400,000 over a five-year period from the program, which supports early-career faculty “who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
Zhang received a 2023 Amazon Research Award for his research titled "A Unified Approach to Tensor Graph Optimization" and an Intel 2023 Outstanding Researcher Award for his research titled "Verifying Domain-Specific Optimization in HeteroCL using Polyhedral Analysis."
