• Jack Thoene and Qitong Li Honored with ECE Best MS Thesis Awards

    Jack Thoene and Qitong Li Honored with ECE Best MS Thesis Awards

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    https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/electrical-computer/news-events/news/articles/2025/2025-ece-annual-award-winners.html Best MS Thesis Awards Qitong Li (MS ’25) won the Best Computer Engineering MS Thesis Award for “Phytobits: A Bioelectronic Sensor and Microcontroller-Based Curriculum for Cam Photosynthesis Education.” Li, a member of the VAK Sustainable Computing Lab, was advised by Nivedita Arora, the Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Professor of Design and assistant professor of…

  • Katie Jiang Wins UG Research Award

    Katie Jiang Wins UG Research Award

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    Congratulations to Katie Jiang, who was awarded the Best Computer Engineering Undergraduate Researcher Award. This award recognizes her outstanding achievements and dedication as an undergraduate researcher.

  • Four Students Awarded SURG Grants; Ariana Earns Special Recognition

    Four Students Awarded SURG Grants; Ariana Earns Special Recognition

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    Congratulations to Nara Jung, Ariana Blake, Alice Ping, and Valerie Wong, who were each awarded Northwestern’s Summer Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG) to pursue full-time summer research in the lab. The SURG program supports students through every stage of the research process, from formulating questions to collecting and analyzing data, and synthesizing results. We are especially…