By encouraging joint appointments, the Institute breaks down traditional academic silos and enables researchers to revolutionize the energy landscape.

The ECE Ph.D. candidate will use the support from the fellowship to continue his research on vanadium dioxide reconfigurable metasurfaces.

Hernandez-Mejia, who has worked at ECE’s National Electric Energy Testing, Research, & Applications Center (NEETRAC) since 2017, brings extensive experience to the member-driven electric utility research center.

The ECE professor, who specializes in semiconductor memory devices and circuits, was selected for his exceptional record of scholarship and service to the Institute.

The undergraduate research group presented experiments showing how encrypted sounds can help swarms of unmanned autonomous vehicles securely communicate underwater.