UAH ECE researcher Dr. Emil Jovanov chosen a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Jan 13, 2026
Dr. Emil Jovanov, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the highest pro...
After 15 years of transformative leadership, Dr. Shankar Mahalingam, dean of the UAH College of Engineering, is set to retire
Dec 18, 2025
Following 15 years of distinguished service as dean of the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Dr. Shankar Mahalingam is retiring, concluding a tenure marked by significant growth, innovation and national impact...
Heath Hudson receives cybersecurity degree from UAH, leaves behind bright Charger Blue legacy
Dec 15, 2025
He was a mild-mannered cybersecurity major at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) College of Engineering in fall 2021 when his life as a UAH student changed forever. ...
UAH researcher wins $600K NSF grant to pioneer collaborative learning for drones to support disaster response, environmental monitoring, infrastructure inspection
Nov 21, 2025
As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, become increasingly vital to military, government and civilian applications, conventional machine-learning techniques essential to training these devices often rely on paradigms that require transmitti...
UAH assistant professor receives $500K DARPA Young Faculty Award to develop system that helps identify and understand malware
Nov 20, 2025
Dr. Bramwell Brizendine, an assistant professor of computer science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, has been selected to receive the Young Faculty Award (YFA), an award of $500,000, from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DA...
UAH moves forward on cybersecurity renovation of Bevill Center, new Track and Field Complex
Nov 10, 2025
Two significant construction projects at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) – the renovation of the Bevill Center for the new Center for Cybersecurity Research and the new Track and Field Complex ...
ECE Alumni Spotlight - Thiago Alves
Oct 07, 2025
Thiago Alves, Ph.D. CPE 2019 Thiago Alves is the creator of OpenPLC, the first widely adopted open-source programmable logic controller platform. OpenPLC is now used in classrooms, research labs, and industrial testbeds around the world. By lowerin...
UAH student group set to launch new instrument payload on NASA rocket to study harnessing reentry heat and converting it to electrical energy
Jul 29, 2025
The Terminus Spaceflight Research Group at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is set to send a new payload into space, a follow-up to the successful launch and retrieval of a previous Terminus payload in Aug. 2024. ...
UAH students receive prestigious national scholarships, fellowships in spring 2025
Jul 07, 2025
Nine undergraduate and graduate students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) received national scholarships and fellowships during the spring 2025 semester. ...
UAH announces promotion, tenure awards for 2025-26, past year’s grants of emeritus status
Jun 11, 2025
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) announced awards of tenure and/or promotion for 22 faculty members and recognized eight who were granted emeritus status over the past year at the University Awards for Excellence. ...
