Lab Updates and News

Lab News

Throughout the year, Professor Park and affiliated individuals with the SPEC Lab attend various gatherings. Below are a gatherings that highlight the SPEC Lab or noteworthy news items that happen.

sung yeul park at DOE EERE workshop March 2024

Sung Yeul Park attended a Department of Energy EERE Workshop in March 2024. He presented a poster titled, "Development and Validation of a new PV degradation detection method using Light Intensity Modulated Impedance Spectroscopy."

connecticut invention convention

Sung Yuel Park was a judge at the Connecticut Invention Convention in June 2024.

sung yeul park at a IEEE conference

Sung Yeul Park attended the IEEE ICON 2024 Conference. His poster was titled, "Elevation Impact on LED Panel's Irradiance for Light Intensity Modulated Impedance Spectroscopy.

Events Happening at Engineering

At the College of Engineering, we have various events happening that involve the university, the community and even non-students.

  • Feb
    18
    Doctoral Dissertation Oral Proposal, Dingbang Wang
    Homer Babbidge Library
    9:00 AM

    Title: Towards Multi-Dimensional Mobile Bug Reproduction

    Ph.D. Candidate: Dingbang Wang

    Major Advisor: Dr. Tingting Yu

    Associate Advisors: Dr. Jonathan Ji and Dr. Swapna Gokhale

    Date/Time: Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 9 AM–10 AM

    Location: HBL1947 room and webex

  • Feb
    20
    BME Seminar Series: Murat Guvendiren, PhD.
    Pratt & Whitney Engineering Building
    10:45 AM

    BME Seminar Series is proud to present Murat Guvendiren, PhD. from NJIT who will be
    joining us to present his work on Engineering Heterogeneity in 3D Bioprinted Scaffolds:
    Toward Complex Tissue Interfaces.

  • Feb
    20
    ECE Colloquium: Dr. Peyman Ahmadi
    ITE Building
    11:15 AM

    Electrical & Computer Engineering’s weekly colloquium.

  • Feb
    23
    Werth Pizza Social
    School of Business
    6:30 PM

    Meet, greet & eat pizza with other UConn students who want to explore their ideas further. Tips will be shared on how to succeed at the upcoming HackUConn 2026 event. Open to all majors and interests!

    Hosted by the Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

  • Feb
    24
    Ph.D Defense: Soroush Vahedi - Electrical and Computer Engineering
    ITE Building
    10:00 AM

    Proactive Resilience and Risk-Aware Power Systems under Extreme Weather Events Using Uncertainty-Aware Modeling, Prediction, and Optimization