New Study: Immersive Engagement in Mixed Reality Can Be Measured with Reaction Time
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have developed a possible system tool to measure the subjective feeling of presence with an objective metric.
College of Engineering Students Win All Four Prizes in the UMass Tech Challenge
The competition, focused on technology innovation, is open to all UMass students; competitors pitch their ideas to a panel of judges for $15,000 in prize money.
Nianqiang Wu and Qiangfei Xia Make Annual List of World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers
List of “Highly Cited Researchers” places Wu and Xia among global researchers “who have demonstrated exceptional influence through their published papers.”
ECE’s Amir Arbabi Plays Key Role in Impressive $5-million Grant from Healey-Driscoll Administration
Arbabi is a UMass Amherst co-principal investigator for the project to establish the first open-access R&D facility for advanced optical components in the U.S.
Blazing a Trail for Massachusetts in Advanced Metaoptics
UMass Amherst and industry partner EMA are accelerating development and adoption of critical emerging metalense technology in the commonwealth.
ECE Alum Eric Swanson Receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation Alongside Two Colleagues
The invention of optical coherence tomography has transformed ophthalmology by allowing rapid detection of ophthalmic diseases.
ECE’s Tongping Liu and Colleagues Win Best Paper Award at Prestigious IEEE Conference
Their paper presents a pioneering software tool called “MemTrace” that conveniently analyzes dynamic-memory-management behavior in autonomous-driving software.
College of Engineering Welcomes Four New Faculty Members
The College of Engineering is privileged to engage four highly motivated and gifted faculty working in the BME and ECE departments, as well as the MSE Program.
Arbabi, Rao, and Srimathveeravalli Garner Technology Development Fund Awards from the UMass President’s Office
The awards provide supplemental funding to support UMass System research discoveries and proven technology to address local, national, and global challenges.
ECE’s Michael Zink and Collaborators Log Two Award-winning Papers at International IEEE Conference
Zink and colleagues score a Best Paper Award and a Best Paper Runner-up at the IEEE Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research Using Testbeds.