The global outbreak of COVID-19 continues to warrant the attention of each and every one of us as we work together to keep our students, staff, and faculty safe and healthy. While we have no cases of COVID-19 on our campus, there are confirmed cases in Indiana. We continue to make decisions in our precaution-containment-continuity framework, with our overarching focus on health and safety – especially for those in high risk categories. Ensuring health and safety now means taking actions that aim to limit exposure of Purdue community members to the virus, imposing social distancing where appropriate, and generally elevating preventive hygiene practices across the campus.

A proposal from Shreyas Sen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, will allow further exploration of the using the human body as a wire for healthcare. The research will be funded through a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Similarly to how bats use echolocation to orient themselves with their surroundings, mathematicians have found that the same can be done with microphones and a speaker on a drone with the help of algebra and geometry.

Quantum has moved beyond science and technology into our culture. This seemingly incomprehensible field might, in fact, be a straightforward way of understanding and explaining the world, with profound applicability across everything in society and our lives. An emerging “Quantum Society” is taking shape, synthesizing science, technology, work, art, artificial intelligence and cognition into a richer, more fluid understanding of life.

Purdue Engineering’s Leah Jamieson will receive the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal, which is the highest honor bestowed by the group for achievement in education.

ECE professors Sunil Bhave and Hong Z. Tan are among the recipients of the 2019 Google Faculty Research Awards. These annual awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to recognize and support the research of world-class faculty members at top universities around the world.

The most critical information that first-response agencies need during large events, disasters and emergencies is a clear understanding of the current situation — what is happening where, where their team is, and where their resources are. This is part of what is known as situational awareness. First responders typically rely on reports from personnel and media accounts for the information, but this is often sparse coverage that doesn’t provide a complete picture.

A project from Timothy Rogers, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, aims to increase the number of individuals and problems that can benefit from energy-efficient, accelerated computing. The research is being funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award.

Purdue innovators are at Silicon Valley's premier chip-design conference to unveil technology that is 100 times more resilient to electromagnetic attacks to secure Internet of Things devices.

Quantum computing is all the rage, and for good reason. This emerging technology promises three things. First, there are “quantitative” advances in numerous applications, from fully secure, unhackable quantum communications through which two parties can generate a code between each other that no eavesdropper can penetrate. Second, the technology can potentially simulate the behavior of a drug in a human body down to the atom level, which results in correctly predicting the therapeutic treatment’s effect on a patient. And third, a large-scale quantum computer can solve some crucial algorithms dramatically faster than even the largest existing supercomputers.