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Computer Information Systems lecturer Ed Ratner was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. CIS Lecturer Earns Prestigious Honor from National Academy of Inventors

Edward Ratner, a computer information systems lecturer in the Department of Information Science Technology at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, has been… Read More
Mim Rahimi, an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, is part of the 2025 cohort for the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists' 40 Under 40 Recognition Program. CEE’s Rahimi named to 40 Under 40 class by AAEES

An assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering has been recognized as a rising star in environmental engineering… Read More
University of Houston researchers (L to R): Xuqing Wu, associate professor of computer information systems; Yueqin Huang, assistant professor of information science technology and Jiefu Chen, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Cullen researchers part of $3.3M Project to Improve Undergrounding Electric Power Lines

Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy launched an ARPA-E Program called GOPHURRS, which stands for Grid Overhaul with Proactive, High-speed Undergrounding for Reliability,… Read More
Yan Yao and Zhaoyang Chen. ECE Ph.D. student Chen makes battery breakthrough, authors cover article in Advanced Energy Materials

Cullen College of Engineering Ph.D. student Zhaoyang Chen’s research article, “Manipulating Hardness to Construct Favorable Electrode Microstructures for All-Solid-State Batteries… Read More
Though last year marked 20 years of the accreditation of the Master of Science in Space Architecture program by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, program director Olga Bannova, Ph.D., still regularly encounters people who aren’t familiar with space architecture as a field of study and research. Space Architecture at UH: What Makes a House (Or a Lunar Base Camp) a Home?

The Cullen College of Engineering’s Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) and its space architecture degree program might be the University of Houston’s… Read More
Melika Shirmohammadi, assistant professor in the Cullen College of Engineering's Technology Division. Old Stereotypes of Online Gaming Upended by New Report from Cullen professor

The naysayers and detractors of online gaming and its ill effects on youth might need to stand down. That’s what science is telling us in a new report in the journal Human… Read More
[Left] Researchers Rahul Pandey, senior scientist with SRI and principal investigator, and Praveen Bollini, a University of Houston chemical engineering faculty, are key contributors to the microreactor project. Cullen professors, alum revolutionizing tech to produce sustainable fuel

A University of Houston-affiliated project that has the potential to transform sustainable fuel production was selected to receive $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’… Read More
ECE Ph.D. candidate Akash Awasthi's recent research efforts in artificial intelligence, computer vision and biomedical image analysis have been receiving significant attention from the academic community.  Akash Awasthi, ECE Ph.D. Student, Conducting Critical Research in AI and Image Analysis

Electrical and Computer Engineering senior Ph.D. candidate Akash Awasthi is making a name for himself. With a paper nominated for the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on… Read More
Hien Van Nguyen, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UH, is tracking the global spread of COVID-19. University of Houston Engineers Unveil AI Model for Predicting, Controlling Pandemic Spread

Researchers Find Reducing International Flights in Western Europe Results in Fewer Global COVID-19 Cases A team of engineers at the University of Houston has published a study in… Read More
A paper recently co-authored by Md Murad Hossain Khondaker, a civil and environmental engineering Ph.D. candidate at the University of Houston, may hold key insights that allow for better predictions of catastrophic flooding produced by hurricanes in the United States. the paper published in the August 2024 issue of the Journal of Hydrometeorology. CEE Ph.D. Candidate Khondaker Identifies New Approach to Improve Hurricane Forecast Accuracy

A paper recently co-authored by Md Murad Hossain Khondaker, a civil and environmental engineering Ph.D. candidate at the University of Houston, may hold key insights that allow… Read More

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