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  • CI4R Students Selected as Final Four Teams in 2026 IEEE AESS Challenge

    CI4R PhD students Muhammad Moiz and Sultan Salehin were awarded $25,000 to implement their solution proposed to the 2025 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) Challenge. The topic of this year’s challenge was “Radar-based Heartbeat Monitoring in Dynamic Scenarios“. As one of four finalist teams, the students will submit a research paper and present…

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  • NC State Faculty Organize Workshop @IEEE BHI / Atlanta

    Drs. Ravi Chilukuri, Edgar Lobaton and Sevgi Gurbuz of the NC State Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering organized a workshop entitled “From Sensors to Decision Making: Delivering Precision Biomarker Insights with Resource-Constrained AI” at the IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics Conference held in Atlanta, GA on October 29, 2025. See below for more details.…

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  • CI4R Students Earn Accolades @ICCV / Honolulu

    Very happy to attend the ICCV Multi-Modal Sign Language Recognition Workshop, where we got to listen to many interesting presentations and have engaging discussions. My colleague Abraham Glasser, PhD of Gallaudet University delivered two great talks on Deaf-centered technology design, best practices, and the need and benefits of integrating Deaf researchers into sign language related…

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  • CI4R @IEEE Radar Conf. / Krakow

    Dr. Sevgi Z. Gurbuz delivered a talk on AI and machine learning in radar system design as part of the IEEE Radar Conference Radar Boot Camp held in Krakow, Poland. This is a great experience for radar students of all levels, involving talks spanning a range of critical topics, from fundamentals to advance principles, all…

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  • CI4R Students Earn Accolades at 2025 IEEE International Radar Conference

    I am happy to share the success of my PhD students Sean Kearney and Sultanus Salehin, who earned 2nd and 3rd place, respectively, in the Best Student Paper Competition of the IEEE International Radar Conference, held May 3-9 in Atlanta, GA. Out of roughly 60 student paper submissions, each student’s work is subjected to multiple…

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  • CI4R at IEEE International Radar Conference Radar Boot Camp (RBC)

    It was my great honor to serve as IEEE International Radar Conference Student Programs Co-Chair and co-organize with Austin Foote (GTRI) the Radar Boot Camp (RBC) held at the IEEE International Radar Confernece in Atlanta, GA from May 3 -4, 2025. The event was a great success, thanks to all of our wonderful, experience and…

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  • Last CI4R Gathering Before the Move

    As the Fall 2024 semester comes to a close, CI4R gathered one last time in our now mostly empty lab in the 3rd floor corner of the Northeast Engineering Research Building (NERC). The below lab picture is truly wonderful as you can see all the generations of students who I have been so lucky to…

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  • CI4R Students Earn Awards at 2024 IEEE Radar Conference

    CI4R had a great time at the IEEE Radar Conference in Denver, CO (May 6 – 10, 2024). I am so proud of my PhD students Emre Kurtoglu and Sean Kearney, who presented their work at the conference. Emre presented our research relating to “Radar-Based Joint Human Activity and Agility Recognition via Multi-Input Multi-Task Learning” and “Gamification of…

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  • CI4R Celebrates our Newest PhD: Introducing Dr. Emre Kurtoglu!!!

    Emre Kurtoglu graduated with his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alabama!! Congratulations to Emre, who will be embarking on the next chapter of his career as a Research Scientist of the Data Science Platform at Rockefeller University in New York City, NY. We will miss you, and wish you success…

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  • Dr. Gurbuz Earns Tenure and CoE Research Excellence Award

    While at the SPIE Defense+Commercial Sensing Symposium, where my student and I presented two papers related to our radar and lidar research, I was honored to learn that during our College of Engineering Faculty Meeting on April 24, 2024 I actually was recognized via a CoE award for Early Career Research Excellence and Innovation!! This…

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