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PEIK Presents Record High Number of Papers at the Large IEEE ECCE Congress and Exposition

Faculty affiliated with the Power and Energy Institute of Kentucky (PEIK) together with many PhD students contributed a record number of sixteen papers to this year’s edition of the IEEE ECCE Congress.

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Awarded Millions Over Five Months

Since May 2023, UK Pigman College of Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty have received millions in grants and awards from the Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research and more.

UK Researcher Developing Anti-tracking and Robocall-free Architecture

Assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science Yang Xiao and his team are tackling a long-standing privacy challenge faced by many people who use cell phones — mobile tracking and automatic voice calls, commonly known as robocalls.

UK Bioengineer Designs Tools to Improve Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer

Caigang Zhu, assistant professor in the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, is working to develop new techniques for radiation treatment to improve survival rates of patients with a specific type of cancer.

Givens and Students Publish in AAPS Journal

Assistant Professor Brittany Givens and students Ashbey Manning, Claire Rowlands and Hope Saindon published a research article in the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Journal.

PEIK and SPARK Researchers Recieve Best Paper Award

Power and Energy Institute of Kentucky (PEIK) and SPARK Laboratory researchers received a best paper award at the 2023 International Conference on Renewable Energy Applications (ICRERA).

BREAKTHROUGH: Discovery made from within 2,000 year-old Herculaneum scrolls

The Herculaneum scrolls are among the most iconic and inaccessible of the world’s vast collection of damaged manuscripts, but since being burned and carbonized by the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE, they’ve been deemed “unreadable.” Until now.

Xiao Receives NSF Grant to Address Privacy Problems in Mobile Networks

Yang Xiao first UK faculty to receive an award from the NSF's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program.

Caigang Zhu Receives 5-year NIH R01 Grant

Caigang Zhu, an assistant professor in the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded $2,067,823 over five years from the National Institutes of Health for his work on optical metabolic spectroscopy and imaging tools for cancer research.

Herculaneum scrolls: A 20-year journey to read the unreadable

Restoring an ancient library from the ashes of Mount Vesuvius is now closer to a reality. To highlight the progress, this is the first in a four-video series featuring Brent Seales, University of Kentucky Alumni Professor in the Department of Computer Science