News & Events

• Prof. Weiss receives SEAS Faculty Advancement Award
  Prof. Ron Weiss has been awarded an E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr./Emerson Electric Company Faculty Advancement Award for 2003 by the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). <posted 4/11/03>

• Prof. Poor ASEE Fellow
  In recognition for his outstanding contributions to the American Society for Engineering Education, Prof. Vince Poor has been elected a Fellow. <posted 4/11/03>

• Fellowships Awarded
  Congratulations to EE Ph.D students Amber Post and Russ Joseph. Amber Post, who works with Prof. Will Happer of the Physics Department, received an NDSEG Fellowship. Her research involves the miniaturization of atomic clocks. She is currently studying the contributions of different atomic interactions to the total linewidth of the clock resonances. Russ Joseph has received an IBM Fellowship. His research examines ways to characterize program behavior using frequency and time-scale analysis to isolate patterns that impact performance and power for microprocessors. Russ works with Prof. Margaret Martonosi. <posted 4/1/03>

• ACM Paris Kannellakis Theory and Practice Award to Peter A. Franaszek
  Peter A. Franaszek, *65, has been selected to receive this year's Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) "Paris Kannellakis Theory and Practice Award." He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1964 and 1965 respectively, studying under Professor Bede Liu. He is currently at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. "The Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award is given to an individual or group for a specific theoretical accomplishment that has had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing. The nature of the theoretical accomplishment may be either an invention itself or a major analytic study of an existing technique that led practitioners to adopt it." <posted 4/1/03>

• IEEE/ACM Best Paper Award
  The paper "Validating SAT Solvers Using an Independent Resolution-Based Checker: Practical Implementations and Other Applications," by Lingtao Zhang and co-author Prof. Sharad Malik was selected by the DATE '03 Award Committee as Best Paper in the CAD category at the European Conference. <posted 3/24/03>

• Terman Award to Prof. Wolf
  Prof. Wayne Wolf has been selected to receive the 2003 ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award. "The Terman Award is bestowed annually upon an outstanding young electrical engineering educator in recognition of the educator's contribution to the profession." <posted 3/13/03>

• Basu Award
  Graduate student Subhayu Basu, with co-authors David Karig and Prof. Ron Weiss, received the Best Student Paper Award at the June 2002 DNA Computer Conference in Saphiro, Japan. The paper, titled "Engineering Signal Processing in Cells: Towards Molecular Concentration Band Detection," is one of eight chosen to be published in the 2003 Natural Computing journal. It will also be published in "Lectures in Computer Science" by Springer-Verlag. <posted 2/21/03>

• Stephen R. Forrest elected to the NAE
  Prof. Forrest is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering. He has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2003, with the citation: For advances in optoelectronic devices, detectors for fiber optics, and efficient organic LEDs for displays. <posted 2/14/03>

• Wang Receives Best Student Paper Award.
  Electrical Engineering graduate student Weidong Wang received the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on VLSI Design held in Jan. '03 for the paper titled, ``High-level synthesis of multi-process behavioral descriptions.'' His co-authors are Anand Raghunathan from NEC, Princeton, NJ, Prof. Niraj K. Jha, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, and Prof. Sujit Dey, University of California, San Diego. <posted 1/23/03>

• NSF Career Award to Peh.
  Prof. Li-Shiuan Peh received a NSF Career award for her proposal "Self-Regulating Power-aware Interconnection Networks." <posted 1/22/03>

• Best Paper Award.
  Robert Dick, graduate student Li Shang and Prof. Niraj Jha were awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2002 IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems. The awarded paper is titled, "An economics-based power-aware protocol for computation distribution in mobile ad-hoc networks." Robert Dick graduated from the Dept. Ph.D. program in 2002 and is currently an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, Chicago. <posted 1/16/03>

• Prof. Chou's LADI Technology one of Top Innovations.
  MIT's Technology Review (February 2003 issue) has selected technology developed by Prof. Stephen Chou as one of 10 emerging technologies likely to change the world. Chou's Laser Assisted Direct Imprint (LADI) technology involves pressing a mold against a piece of silicon while applying a laser pulse for 20 billionths of a second. The laser pulse melts the surface of the silicon which then resolidifies around the mold. University press release. <posted 1/11/03>

• Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report.
  Steve Chou's invention of Laser-Assisted Direct Imprint (LADI) technology has been chosen by the Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report as the "top nanotech breakthrough of 2002." More detail. <posted 12/19/02>

• Yunnan Wu Microsoft Fellow.
  Grad Student Yunnan Wu has been selected as a Microsoft Fellow for the next two years. "Competition for Microsoft Fellowships...is extremely intense" and the "award is a tremendous honor and recognition" of Yunnan's achievements. <posted 12/16/02>

• Scientific American looks at Steve Chou's nano research.
  Steve Chou's research and "nanomanufacturing" is explored in an article in the July 2002 issue of Scientific American. <posted 12/16/02>

• Sharad Malik Named Associate Director.
  Prof. Sharad Malik has been named Associate Director of the Gigascale Silicon Research Center. In this role, he will be helping coordinate a multi-university effort spanning 14 universities and 37 faculty dedicated to addressing electronic system design methodology challenges over a ten year horizon. The center is funded by DARPA and MARCO (Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation, an industrial consortium). <posted 11/21/02>