
Student Spotlight: YongYan (Crystal) Liang
YongYan (Crystal) Liang, is a senior majoring in 6-2, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Liang has a particular interest in bioengineering and medical devices, which lead her to join the Living Machines track as part of NEET. A SuperUROP scholar, Liang was supported by the Nadar Foundation Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar award for her project, which focused on steering systems for intravascular drug delivery devices. A world traveler, Liang has also taught robotics to students in MISTI GTL (Global Teaching Labs) programs in Korea and Germany–and is involved with the Terrascope and Medlinks communities.

A new low-power system using radio frequency waves takes a major step toward autonomous, indoor drone navigation.

The career development chair recipients are Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang, Kuikui Liu, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Kaiming He, and Alexander Rives.

Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication
The system could be used for battery-free underwater communication across kilometer-scale distances, to aid monitoring of climate and coastal change.

Artificial intelligence for augmentation and productivity
The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing awards seed grants to seven interdisciplinary projects exploring AI-augmented management.

Fadel Adib promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
The Department of EECS is proud to announce the promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure of Fadel Adib.