Four ECE faculty win patent medallions

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was well represented at the annual College of Engineering's patent medallion luncheon. Every year, College faculty and Tech Launch Arizona members are celebrated for their research advancements. 

ECE Distinguished Professor Jerzy Rozenblit accepted two medallions. One of his celebrated patents – Adaptive Risk Assessment and Mitigation – has already been commercialized.

“By virtue of my 40th year at the University of Arizona, I've seen a lot in terms of technology transfer. I have had the privilege not only of working with all of you, but I'm also a co-founder of a startup spun through TLA,” said Rozenblit, the Raymond J. Oglethorpe Endowed Chair.

Rozenblit and ECE professor emeritus Roman Lysecky co-founded BG Networks, a cybersecurity startup providing tools that protect electronic products.

Motivated by the FDA’s 2017 recall of half a million cardiac devices that were easily hacked and reprogrammed – putting patients at risk for heart failure – BG Networks developed AnCyR, or the Anomaly Detection and Cyber Resilience system.  This system combines statistical, probabilistic and machine learning algorithms to detect cyberattacks on electronic components in automobiles and medical devices like pacemakers or insulin pumps.

Other ECE patents that received medallions: 

Wolfgang Fink – Nanowired Power Sources for Implantable Devices; Systems for Real-Time Signal Processing & Fitting; Automated Network-On-Chip Design

Ivan Djordjevic – FPGA-Based LDPC Codes for Optical Communication; Global Quantum Communications Network; Joint Quantum Key Dist for Post Qtm Cryptosystems

Jerzy Rozenblit – Adaptive Risk Assessment and Mitigation; Adaptive Force Guidance for Laparoscopy Training

Kathleen Melde – Switched-Beam Array & IFN for 60-GHz C2C Comms