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The Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at the University of Rochester is where unexpected ideas connect to bring unprecedented breakthroughs to life.
Congratulations to #URochester computer science alumnus Jie An '25, who won the ACM SIGMM award for outstanding PhD thesis in multimedia computing, communications, and applications for his work with Professor Jiebo Luo. Jie is now a research scientist at Meta’s Reality Labs #URochesterResearch
October 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Congratulations to Professor Hussein Aluie from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who was selected to be an @apsphysics.bsky.social Fellow for his work understanding how the Earth's oceans and climate systems interact. Read about some of his latest work: www.rochester.edu/newscenter/h...
October 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
#URochester researchers used state-of-the-art microchips with human tissue to see how the brain operates while healthy and is damaged through neurodegenerative diseases or conditions like sepsis
Story: www.rochester.edu/newscenter/b...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Phlotonics, co-founded by @urochester.bsky.social alumni, won a $1.1M AIM Photonics contract to launch BioproSense™, a platform advancing real-time biosensing for regenerative medicine💡🧬 www.phlotonics.com/article.cfm?... #EverBetter #Innovation #Photonics #URochesterResearch
September 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
@urochester.bsky.social is making a bold $8.5m investment in four new transdisciplinary research centers. Three of these centers are co-led by distinguished Hajim School of Engineering faculty. Learn more: www.rochester.edu/provost/four...
June 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Out of 912 submissions, Weikai Lin ’28 (PhD), Yu Feng ’23 (PhD), and Prof. Yuhao Zhu won the best paper award at #ASPLOS2025 for their publication, "MetaSapiens: Real-Time Neural Rendering with Efficiency-Aware Pruning and Accelerated Foveated Rendering."
April 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Jake Ghyzel ’24 was originally part of the @urochester.bsky.social Class of 2018 as an audio and music engineering major but left during his junior year to pursue a career in professional baseball.
March 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Barbara Zuegel ’57 (pictured right) has established the Zuegel Family Professorship in Optics in honor of her late husband, Richard Zuegel ’57 (pictured left) and and in recognition of her family’s ties to the @urochester.bsky.social.
February 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
At the @urochester.bsky.social, a team is uncovering the mechanisms behind the brain fluid flows that help clear proteins linked to diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. On 2/20 at noon (ET), Prof. Douglas Kelley, will discuss this groundbreaking work. Register: bit.ly/4hFw6wJ
February 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Please join us in congratulating @urochester.bsky.social alum Anis Kallel ’17 for being named on @forbes.com Middle East #30under30 for his hassle-free digital banking app, Flouci! Learn more: www.forbesmiddleeast.com/lists/30-und... #URAlumni
February 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
@urochester.bsky.social Trustee Barbara J. Burger ’83 has made a $2,000,000 commitment to establish a new endowed directorship at the Barbara J. Burger iZone and launch the Barbara J. Burger Chemical Sustainability Scholars pilot program. Read more: bit.ly/4gE7x1I
February 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Please join us in congratulating @urochester.bsky.social alums Sidhant Bendre ’23, Michael Giardino ’23, and Achraf Golli ’23 on being named on Forbes #30under30 for their innovative digital learning app, Quizard AI! Learn more: www.forbes.com/profile/quiz... #URAlumni #computerscience
January 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Congrats to @gracestensland.bsky.social ’23! As a #soundeffects editor for “Orion and the Dark” & #foley editor for “Jurassic World: Chaos Theory”, Grace helped earn @theemmys.tv & MPSE Golden Reel noms. Huge shoutout to Grace & Sound Rebels Post for their amazing work! #URAlumni
January 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“Your visual cortex is at the back of your brain and your auditory cortex is on the temporal lobes,” says Prof. Edmund Lalor. “How that information merges together in the brain is not very well understood.” @urneuroscience.bsky.social researchers are cutting through the noise: bit.ly/4geCwS2
January 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Did you miss @urochester.bsky.social Professor Zhen Bai on @wxxirochester.bsky.social today?

Watch now to learn how Professor Bai and @wyattehall.bsky.social are developing AI-powered, augmented reality tools to help parents of Deaf children learn ASL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elij...
January 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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January 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM