March 2020
Featured Article
Host University Spotlight: University of Miami
By: Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Computing, University of Miami
Greetings from sunny Coral Gables, Florida! We couldn’t be more excited to join you all at the 2020 ECEDHA Annual Conference and ECExpo next month in Orlando.
Established in 1925 during South Florida’s famous real estate boom, the University of Miami is a major research university engaged in $324 million in research and sponsored program expenditures annually. The University ranked No. 64 of all universities in expenditures of federal funds for research and development according to the National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development Survey.
Founded in 1947, the College of Engineering comprises five departments with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering being among its most celebrated.
With more than 1,000 undergraduate students and more than 240 graduate students, the College boasts an impressively diverse student body consisting of students from 45 different countries. Females represent 33% of the students (13% higher than the national average, according to the American Society for Engineering Education). The College boasts faculty at the forefront of research, which includes several National Science Foundation early-career awardees and three members of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
Specifically, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty are at the forefront of multiple cross-cutting research areas — such as Brain Machine Interface with the goal of understanding the brain to build neuromorphic and brain-inspired computing, computer vision with applications in biometrics and medical image analysis, signal and image processing, nanotechnology and smart devices, machine learning and cybersecurity. ECE faculty are also involved in developing computational methods for analyzing data in genomics, epigenomics, and transcriptomics, as well as mathematical models and simulation tools for modeling and simulation of biological systems. These research activities include researchers from other schools at the University of Miami, such as the Miller School of Medicine, who collaborate with ECE faculty.
Looking forward to seeing you in Orlando.