UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Adnan Mehonic on Winning the Prestigious EU-40 Materials Prize

We are proud to share that Dr Adnan Mehonic, Associate Professor in Nanoelectronics and RAEng Senior Research Fellow at UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering, has been awarded the EU-40 Materials Prize by the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS).

�🔗 https://www.european-mrs.com/latest-news-awards/eu-40-materials-prize

Each year, this award is presented to a single researcher based in Europe who demonstrates exceptional promise as a future leader in materials science. It honours an individual whose work is already making a significant impact and helping to shape the future of the field.

As part of the award, Dr Mehonic will be delivering a plenary talk and receiving the prize at the 2025 E-MRS Spring Meeting in Strasbourg next week. Past recipients include several distinguished UK researchers, placing Dr Mehonic among a prestigious group of researchers.

👏 Please join us in congratulating Dr Mehonic on this fantastic achievement.

-MRS - European Materials Research Society

📣Some GREAT news…

UCL’s Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering (EEE) has been ranked in the top 3 UK universities to study electrical and electronic engineering by The Guardian University Guide 2025!

This recognition reflects the incredible dedication of our staff and students who make UCL EEE such an outstanding place to learn and innovate.

We couldn’t be prouder to be part of this community, pushing the boundaries of engineering and shaping the future! 🌍

Read more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/electronic-electrical-engineering/news/2024/sep/ucl-ranks-top-three-uk-universities-study-eee-guardian

🇮🇳 Meet Naveen Veludevan from Chennai!

Naveen is an MSc student in Telecommunications with Business at UCL. He blends technical skills from Anna University and Vodafone Idea Limited with business acumen, thriving in UCL's diverse and supportive environment.

"Academic excellence, brand, and cultural diversity" define his UCL experience. Naveen loves London's vibrant culture and advises prospective students to formulate some clear goals and leverage UCL's support services.

Learn more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/electronic-electrical-engineering/news/2024/jul/naveen-veludevan-pursuing-msc-telecommunications-business-ucl

Did you know we're on the brink of revolutionising photonics with a single silicon chip?

Just as the advent of silicon integrated electronic circuits transformed electronics, our venture aims to spark a similar revolution in information and communications technologies.

UCL and partners University of Southampton, Cardiff University & University of Cambridge have spearheaded the project, redefining the boundaries of photonics.

⏩ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zaxin4gOcaI

QUDOS - Overall Video This video gives an overview of the project QUantum Dot On Silicon systems for communication, information processing and sensing (QUDOS, https://qudos.ac.uk)...

UCL alumna, Sara Berkai has been featured in Universities UK's 100 Faces campaign which celebrates first-generation students 👏.

Congratulations to Professor Christos Masouros on being elected an IEEE Fellow, in acknowledgment of his outstanding contributions to "interference exploitation and joint sensing and communications" 👏👏

The IEEE Fellow distinction is the highest level of membership and is recognised by the technical community as a prestigious honour and an important career accomplishment.

Read more about Christos’s contributions to the field⬇️

UCL’s Professor Christos Masouros Honoured as IEEE Fellow Professor Christos Masouros from UCL's Electronic and Electrical Engineering department receives prestigious IEEE fellowship for his work within joint sensing and communications.

Congratulations to our PhD student, Hadumanro Randani Malau, on receiving the Best Paper award at the prestigious 29th IEEE ICT Conference on 📡📶 this year held at Institut Teknologi Del in Indonesia.

The paper, coauthored by Malau and UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering’s Dr Kin-Fai Tong and Professor Kai-Kit Wong, explores Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) as a technology for 5G and 6G that is more efficient and intelligent than traditional reflective surfaces in current wireless networks.

Current traditional reflective surfaces have little control over how or where the signals bounce, but IRS can control the direction in which the signals bounce back and interact with the environment. This enhances the reliability of data transferring and processing, and, being low-power and low-complexity sensors, they have good potential for scaleability. However, there are barriers to the deployment of these surfaces, especially in prospective 6G networks, due to bandwidth limitations and restricted reflection phase ranges in their unit cells. Malau addresses these hurdles in this paper...

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UCL PhD student receives best paper award at IEEE Conference on Telecommunications UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering’s Hadumanro Malau receives best paper for work on Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) for next generation wireless networks.