News and annoucements

Materials science and engineering assistant professor Alina Kirillova’s background in polymer synthesis has evolved into an interest in creating materials to interact beneficially with biological systems.

A team of Iowa State researchers is starting a new semiconductor experiential training program launching in early 2026.

“In this paper, we enhance the Local Deadline Partition (LDP) algorithm by introducing a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) integrated with a Deep Q-Network (DQN) reinforcement learning framework to achieve improved interference coordination in multi-cell, multi-channel networks.”

“I was an Eagle Scout,” says Nathan, “and I love the idea of being able to have a positive impact on the environment – particularly in refining materials in a more sustainable way.”

“I chose Iowa State because the Cyclone spirit really spoke to me,” says Sofia. “The whole campus has a positive buzz and a drive for innovation.”

This program aims to increase the number of undergraduate students pursuing graduate degrees (M.S. and Ph.D.) in aerospace engineering, focusing on space technology research.

CommHEAT is a multi-year collaborative project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop and test a community-focused, indoor heat emergency alert system to help vulnerable residents and city planners.

Iowa State researchers are working with Polk County Emergency Management to develop an online, multiplayer training game to help emergency forces plan and practice their disaster responses.

For industrial engineering senior Olivia Andersen, a central Iowa community college was the “perfect starting place” after high school. She then attended an Iowa State career fair and secured an internship even before transferring here in the fall of 2024.

Nico Nevarez, a senior in mechanical engineering, transferred from his Chicago-area community college. A friend from the robotics club there had encouraged him to visit Iowa State — the start of his Cyclone Engineering story.

Mechanical engineering PhD student Md Jalal Uddin Rumi’s review article has been accepted in the Science of The Total Environment.

This award recognizes the TMS Conference paper “Al-Ce-Based Alloys: Processing, Mechanical Properties, and High-Temperature Stability.”

Rupsa Roy, a graduate student in civil engineering, is creating a model to understand new aspects of geotechnical emergencies to enable future rapid response technology.

The Surveying and Geomatics Educator Society (SaGES) grants an award to an exceptional educator, mentor, and leader within the surveying and geomatics profession.

Jacob Eisbrenner, a PhD student in electrical engineering, hopes to make an impact through his work in prosthetics and biomimetic design. “My passion lies in bridging the gap between engineering and biology to create innovative solutions that improve people’s lives,” he says.

Electrical engineering grad student Ruoyu Meng and his advisor Dr. Aditya Ramamoorthy have published the following paper: “Quantum advantage in zero-error function computation with side information“, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 2025.

ECpE grad student Seonghun Son (Hun) is advancing hardware and systems security with papers at top-tier conferences and industry recognition.

The papers were featured at each of the two top machine learning conferences (the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems and the International Conference on Machine Learning).

Iowa State engineers are joining researchers from across the country to develop new tools to simulate electrochemical processes critical to energy, health care and manufacturing. The U.S. National Science Foundation is supporting the project.

The project develops learning-based control strategies for sustainable network operations with enhanced energy efficiency and improved resource usage in future mobile networks.