A Purdue University innovator has developed a new approach to creating popular thin films used for devices across a broad range of fields, including optics, acoustics and electronics.

Each spring, Purdue University’s College of Engineering recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of our graduate students and postdocs through several prestigious awards. Graduate students also select an outstanding faculty mentor who has gone above and beyond to serve the graduate students in their program.

Karthik V. Myilswamy, a graduate student in Purdue University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected for a one-of-a-kind national training program for graduate students pursuing careers in quantum science and engineering.

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If you want power, you lose battery life. If you want battery life, you lose power. That’s the situation facing users of most electronic devices – and it’s also the dilemma for electronics manufacturers. Purdue University innovators have come up with an invention to help.

“You see, nature is unpredictable. How do you expect to predict it with a computer?” said American physicist Richard Feynman before computer scientists at a conference in 1981. Forty years later, Purdue University engineers are building the kind of system that Feynman imagined would overcome the limitations of today’s classical computers by more closely acting like nature: a “probabilistic computer.”

Shreyas Sen, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, is one of 18 leading academic researchers honored by Intel with 2020 Outstanding Researcher Awards (ORAs).

When quantum computers become more powerful and widespread, they will need a robust quantum internet to communicate. Purdue University engineers have addressed an issue barring the development of quantum networks that are big enough to reliably support more than a handful of users.

Santokh Badesha, an adjunct professor for innovation in the College of Engineering’s School of School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the manager of open innovation at Xerox Corp., has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Badesha was elected to the academy for developing materials enabling the broad use of laser printing and the creation of color laser printing.

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