Category: Faculty

From ClemsonNews Cameras positioned at a bustling intersection spot a pedestrian crossing the street as a self-driving car, out of sight around a curve, approaches in her direction. To avoid a collision, data from the cameras has to be processed into actionable information that can be sent blazingly fast to the car, but how? A […]

From ClemsonNews Imagine a world where drones are continuously monitoring forests for wildfires, distributing relief to disaster zones and covering vast amounts of territory in search-and-rescue operations. This is no flight of fancy– Fatemeh Afghah of Clemson University is playing a central role in bringing the vision closer to reality. Afghah is an associate professor of electrical […]

The news that lasers are capable of rerouting lightning and could someday be used to protect airports, launchpads and other infrastructure raised a question that has electrified some observers with curiosity: Just what else can these marvels of focused light do? We took that question to Clemson University’s John Ballato, one of the world’s leading optical scientists, […]

Eleven faculty members received awards from the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences in an Oct. 26 celebration at the Owen Pavilion on the shores of Lake Hartwell. Honorees were: Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte, Jon Calhoun, Ashok Mishra, Delphine Dean, Congyue Peng, Christopher Parkinson, Christopher Saski, Lior Rennert, Fadi Abdeljawad, Prasad Rangaraju and Beshah Ayalew. Their […]

The Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to announce our newest faculty hires, Dr. Xiaolong Ma and Dr. Lianfeng Zhao. Dr. Xiaolong Ma received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University in May 2022, his M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Syracuse University in May 2016, and his B.E. in […]

By Paul Alongi A Clemson University computer engineer who is developing new tools to advance freedom of expression on the internet and help protect people in Africa from terrorists and repressive governments was selected as a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Richard Brooks, a professor in the Holcombe Department of Electrical […]

ECE professor Johan Enslin was recently re-elected as the IEEE PELS Vice President of Industry Standards and will continue to serve in the position for the next two years. Dr. Enslin is the Duke Energy Endowed Chaired Professor in Smart Grid at Clemson University in North Charleston SC and Executive Director for the Energy Systems Program […]

Yingie Lao and Judson Ryckman are among the ten CECAS faculty members receiving some of the nation’s most prestigious awards for junior faculty members this year. Congratulations to all these outstanding faculty members! Nine have received CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation, and one has secured an Early Career Research grant from the U.S. […]

Kumar Venayagamoorthy of Clemson University is among the newest Fellows of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). Venayagamoorthy serves as Clemson’s Duke Energy Distinguished Professor of Power Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. AAIA’s Fellows hail from some of the world’s leading universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the […]

Dr. Zheyu Zhang has received the prestigious 2021 IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the profession through involvement in IEEE IAS activities by a society member who is less than 35 years of age. Only one awardee is selected every year from […]