2026 Q2 Published Research
Faculty in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) published nearly 40 journal articles and conferences papers in the second quarter of 2026.
April
At the start of the quarter, our faculty published nearly 15 journal articles and papers. A particular highlight from the month is the recorded presentation from Y. Thomas Hou at the NDSS Symposium. He and his colleagues presented on an exciting new development, "ANONYCALL."
May
This month saw quite a few paper publications and presentations at the 2026 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. Rolando Burgos, Dong Dong, and Jih-Sheng "Jason" Lai contributed work on antiparallel diodes, power converters, and short-pulse laser drivers.
June
Faculty kicked off the summer with exciting publications and papers, including, "Noise, why can't you bend?" from the Proceedings of the 21st ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Wayne Scales also published a journal article on charged space objects.
Scroll through this quarter's research highlights below, or get connect to LinkedIn to stay updated on our research advances!
April
A megawatt ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor module for pulsed power electronics | Boyan Wang, Matthew Porter, Yuan Qin & Dong Dong
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71274-6
zkSAS: Practical Zero-knowledge Proofs for Verifiable Spectrum Access Management | Eric W. Burger, Y. Thomas Hou & Wenjing Lou
NSF Public Access
ANONYCALL: Enabling Native Private Calling in Mobile Networks | Hexuan Yu, Chaoyu Zhang, Y. Thomas Hou & Wenjing Lou
NDSS Symposium
A 75.47 TOPS/W 4-kb Single-Ended SRAM-Based Compute-in-Memory Architecture Using 16-nm FinFET Technology | Jeffrey Walling & Yang Yi
DOI: 10.1007/s11265-026-01998-7
Multi-Year Rayleigh Lidar Temperature Measurement of the Polar Middle Atmosphere at Chatanika | Brentha Thurairajah
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202636204008
Reliability-Aware Collaborative Computing for Multi-DAG Task Offloading in Vehicular Fleets | Haibo Zeng
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.23489.11369
Battery Storage in More- and All-Electric Fishing Vessels: Real-Time Simulation and Experimental Verification | Milad Beikbabaei & Ali Mehrizi-Sani
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2026.3679977
GaN-Based Multi-Channel Gate-Driver Power Supply System with MHz PCB-Based Current Transformer (CT) for MV Power Conversion | Dong Dong & Rolando Burgos
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2026.3683644
Finetune Chiplet Design Floorplan via KuanNet | Xiaomeng Wang & Yang Yi
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2026.3681746
Semi-Blind and Blind Methods for Joint Channel Estimation and Symbol Detection in MIMO Systems Using Alternative Projections | Jeff Reed
DOI: 10.1109/NCC68160.2026.11479029
Strain-driven evolution of structural and carrier recombination dynamics in germanium | Apoorva Rose, Sengunthar Karthikeyan, Ze Zong, Wei Zhou & Mantu K. Hudait
DOI: 10.1103/hg6x-dbtj
May
Microwave-acoustic-based isolated gate driver for power electronics | Liyang Jin, Zichen Xi, Joseph G. Thomas, Jun Ji, Yuanzhi Zhang, Nuo Chen, Yizheng Zhu, Linbo Shao & Liyan Zhu
DOI: 10.1038/s44172-026-00681-w
Developing koopmanism in power and energy systems: Theory, applications, and prospects | Lamine Mili
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2026.117061
Reinforcement Learning for Energy-Efficient UAV-LoRa Networks Under Vegetation Propagation Constraints | Walid Saad
DOI: 10.1109/ojcoms.2026.3691619
Enhancing Learning Motivation of Engineering Students via Minecraft: Incorporating an Embedded AI Agent | Wenxuan Wang, Zijian Shen & Michael S. Hsiao
DOI: 10.1145/3768310.3807795
Resolution investigation for dual-spherical-wave optical scanning holographic microscopy: methods and performance | Ting-Chung Poon
DOI: doi.org/10.1364/OE.599116
Photonics-integrated power electronics: a review and perspective | Liyang Jin & Linbo Shao
DOI: 10.35848/1882-0786/ae6f6d
A constrained RESET–based filament strengthening approach for analog weight control in neuromorphic ReRAM | Marius Orlowski
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2026.131818
A Universal Photodiode-Based Optical Gate Driver for GaN Power Devices | Liyang Jin & Yuhao Zhang
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2026.3688788
Jih-Sheng "Jason" Lai at the 2026 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition
Forward Recovery Aware of Antiparallel Diodes for GaN-Based Synchronous Rectifier Turn-On Delay in MHz-Class LLC
with Dong Jiao & Zhengming Hou
Decoupled Closed-Loop Control for Regenerative Testing of a 15-kW Bidirectional Synchronous-Rectifier Buck Converter
with Dong Jiao & Zhengming Hou
Rolando Burgos & Dong Dong at the 2026 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition
Evaluation of Zero Switching Loss CrM for LCC Converter in Capacitor Charging Power Supply
with Zhou He
Modeling the Electric and Magnetic Near-field Emissions from SiC-based Half-bridge Converters
with Jeet Panchal, Mamoru Sasaki, Tim Thacker & Majid Manteghi
Study of Electric and Magnetic Near-Fields from a Half-Bridge Converter and their Impacts on Conducted Emissions in Other Devices
with Jeet Panchal, Mamoru Sasaki, Tim Thacker & Majid Manteghi
PCB-Embedded MHz Wireless Power Transfer Auxiliary Power Supply With Solid Dielectric Insulation for 34 kV Systems
with Abhinav Soni
All-Switches ZVS via Minor Frequency Perturbation in Bidirectional Phase-Shift Full-Bridge Converters
with Tien-Sheng Li & Minh Ngo
Modeling of N-Level Current Balancing Transformers for Modular High Power Transformer Winding Building Blocks
Dong Dong with Minh Ngo & Aakash Kamalapu
On the significance of extreme plasma dynamics in the subauroral region | Bharat Kunduri
DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2026.1779791
Weak LFM radar parameter estimation and experimental validation of phase calculation approaches | Mary Y. Lanzerotti
DOI: 10.1186/s13634-026-01339-7
Fault Injection Attacks and Countermeasures on TinyML Algorithms | Srilalith Nampally, Aubtin Rasouli, Dustin Mazza, Krishna Chilakapati, Tinghung Chiu, Leyla Nazhandali & Wenjie Xiong
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust
An Empirical Study of LLM Serving in Confidential GPUs | Eunseong Park, Timo Thans, Vishnu Kumar Kalidasan & Wenjie Xiong
2026 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software
A Quantum-Assisted Boltzmann Machine for Wind Power Probabilistic Learning | Lamine Mili
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2026.3695640
Harmonic Mitigation and Switching Frequency Reduction in LCL-Filtered Grid-Tied Converters | Naser Souri & Ali Mehrizi-Sani
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2026.3697501
June
Investigation of plasma waves produced in the lower hybrid frequency range by charged space objects | Wayne Scales
DOI: 10.1063/5.0320712
V-PASS: Sybil-Resistant Pseudonym Self-Provisioning for V2X | Y. Thomas Hou
DOI: 10.1145/3765613.3811692
Noise, Why Can’t You Bend? Detecting Adversarial Perturbations in Wireless Sensing via Structural Fragility | MdHasan Shahriar, Naren Ramakrishnan, Y. Thomas Hou & Wenjing Lou
Proceedings of the 21st ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2026