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- Chee Wei Tan to participate in American Institute of Mathematics Workshop
Graduate Student Chee Wei Tan has been invited to participate in the Workshop on Nonnegative Matrix Theory: Generalizations and Applications at the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) in Palo Alto, California in December 2008. Participants are invited to suggest open problems and questions for the the workshop including topics that will influence the future activity of the field. Tan’s invitation was based on his work focusing on the use of nonnegative matrix theory to solve nonconvex problems. Tan’s advisor is Prof. Mung Chiang.
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- Tiffany Tong organizes Princeton volunteers for a youth summer program
Tiffany Tong, a graduate student in Electrical Engineering, organized Princeton volunteers for a youth summer program run by the International Rescue Committee, a nonprofit organization that helps people who have suffered from natural disasters and political strife. The work of the Princeton volunteers is sponsored by the U.S.-Africa Materials Institute and is directed by Professor Wole Soboyejo. Through a partnership with Princeton engineers, children who once lived in refugee camps are learning about science and engineering as they design clay water filters and solar energy cookers. Addressing problems of clean water and affordable energy that they experienced first hand, the students also are gaining insights into the higher education process in the United States. Full Story can be found here.
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- Lee Recipient of 2008 IBM Faculty Award
Prof. Ruby Lee is the recipient of the 2008 IBM Faculty Award for her research on Hardware Trust Anchors for Secure Applications in Multicore Systems. The IBM Faculty Award program is a competitive worldwide program intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations and to promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM. The award recognizes the quality of Prof. Lee’s program and its importance in the industry. A list of the award recipients is available here.
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- Fuhrmann *84 to Chair Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan Technological University
Daniel Fuhrmann *84, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., has accepted a three-year appointment as the chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan Technological University, beginning Sept. 1. Fuhrmann's research and teaching interests are in statistical signal and image processing and related topics. The author of more than 100 technical papers, he is best known for his contributions in array signal processing, including structured covariance estimation, array calibration, remote sensing, subspace tracking and space-time adaptive processing, all areas that involve processing data from multiple-sensor systems. His experience with the mathematical modeling and statistical methodology that are central to his research interests also served him well when he developed software that made possible the first automated analysis of electrophoretic gel images collected in DNA fingerprinting. This code is being used at the British Columbia Genome Sciences Centre and has significantly reduced the time the center has to spend on genomic analysis of numerous plant and animal species.
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- Summer Student – Exciting New Research at MIRTHE
Summer Students are conducting research at Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE) institutions this summer as part of Research Experiences for Undergraduates program funded by the National Science Foundation. The Summer Students includes Anjali Bhatt (Prof. Bhatt’s daughter) who describes efforts to optimize special lasers that detect minute amounts of substances in the air and human breath. The goal of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded MIRTHE center, headquartered at Princeton and directed by electrical engineering professor Claire Gmachl, is to develop systems for sensing trace quantities of gas for use in medical diagnostics and for sensing pollutants or toxins in the atmosphere.
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- Yury Polyanskiy Receives Best Student Paper at ISIT 2008
Graduate Student Yury Polyanskiy receives Best Student Paper at 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in Toronto, Canada. The paper (co-authored by Prof. Poor and Prof. Verdu) is titled "New channel coding achievability bounds". It discusses non-asymptotic results in information theory of channel coding which is in general a problem of communicating a message (e.g. an MP3 from iTunes) over a noisy channel (e.g. over WiFi). A general approach has been proposed in the paper to analyze this problem for practically relevant delays and rates.
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- Houck Selected as Finalist in 2008 NY Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards
Andrew Houck, who will join the EE department in September as an Assistant Professor, has been selected as a finalist in the postdoctoral category for the 2008 New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. This decision was made by a panel of 52 distinguished scientists who determined Houck’s work to be outstanding with regards to its scientific potential, innovation, and broad impact. Houck's application was one of seven applications judged to be the strongest after three rounds of extensive reviewing. Houck obtained his undergraduate degree in EE from Princeton in 2000, where he graduated with highest honors and as class valedictorian. He then entered the graduate program in the Physics Department at Harvard where he completed his doctoral thesis in 2005. He is completing his final year of a prestigious three year postdoctoral fellowship in Applied Physics at Yale working with Robert Schoelkopf.
<posted 7/9/08>
- Five Graduate Students receive Wu Prize For Excellence
Five Electrical Engineering Graduate Students have been selected to receive the Wu Prize for Excellence for the academic year 2008-2009. They are Chee Wei Tan, Yogesh Mahajan, Najwa Aaraj, Kale Franz and Anthony Hoffman. The award, made possible by the generous support of Sir Gordon Y.S. Wu, who earned his B.S.E. from Princeton in 1958, supports the final year of study for graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in scholarship and research during their time at Princeton.
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- Chiang promoted to Associate Professor
Effective July 1, 2008, Prof. Mung Chiang will hold the rank of Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Prof. Chiang's research areas include optimization, distributed algorithms, and stochastic models of communication networks, with applications to broadband access networks, wireless networks, and the Internet. Accomplishments recognizing his research and teaching include a National Science Foundation Career Award, a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research, a Technology Review TR35 award, a Young Researcher Award from the Mathematical Programming Society, and a SEAS Junior Faculty Award.
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- Poor and Pun receive the Best Paper Award from 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Prof. H. Vincent Poor and Postdoctoral Research Associate Simon Pun received the Best Paper Award at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications held in Beijing in May, 2008. The paper, entitled “Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling for Ad-Hoc Communications Under Noisy Channel”, was co-authored by Dong Zheng of NextWave Wireless Inc. and Weiyan Ge and Junshan Zhang of Arizona State University. IEEE ICC 2008 is jointly organized by the Chinese Institute of Electronics, Chinese Institute of Communications, Tsinghua University, and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, under the support of the Ministry of Information Industry of China, Beijing Municipal Government, National Science Foundation of China, and major telecommunication operators.
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- Chiang selected as a participant in National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering meeting in September 2008
Prof. Mung Chiang is selected as a participant in National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering meeting in September 2008. "U.S. Frontiers of Engineering is an annual three-day meeting that brings together 100 of the nation's outstanding young engineers (ages 30-45) from industry, academia, and government to discuss pioneering technical and leading-edge research in various engineering fields and industry sectors. Participation is by invitation following a competitive nomination and selection process. The program provides an opportunity for top-notch engineers, early in their careers, to learn about cutting-edge developments in fields other than their own, thereby facilitating collaborative work and the transfer of new approaches and techniques across fields."
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- Peh promoted to Associate Professor
Effective July 1, 2008, Prof. Li-Shiuan Peh will hold the rank of Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Prof. Peh’s research focuses on a variety of areas including interconnection networks, the networks which traditionally connect shared-memory and message-passing multiprocessor systems. Accomplishments recognizing her research and teaching include the Intel Corporation gift, 2007 Anita Borg Early Career Award, Junior Faculty Advancement Award, NSF Career Award as well as Excellence in Teaching Award.
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- Deniz Gunduz receives the Alexander Hessel Award for the best PhD Dissertation from Polytechnic University
Electrical Engineering Postdoc Deniz Gunduz receives the Alexander Hessel Award for the best PhD Dissertation from Polytechnic University. This award is given in memory of the late Professor Alexander Hessel, of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Polytechnic University, to a graduate student for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation. In his thesis titled "Source and channel coding for wireless networks", he studied the fundamental limitations of end-to-end performance in transmitting sources such as multimedia signals, over wireless networks. Gunduz has received his Masters in 2004 and PhD in 2007 in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Polytechnic University in New York.
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- Lalitha Sankar receives an Academic Award from Rutgers University
Electrical Engineering Postdoc Lalitha Sankar, receives an Academic Excellence Award for 2008 from the EE Department at Rutgers University. The nominees were chosen from the pool of doctoral students who graduated over the period starting May 2007 through May 2008. The awards are given to recognize the best outgoing doctoral students from the four major fields of study in the department: solid state, signal processing and computer engineering, communications, and software engineering. Sankar received the award for the communications group. Sankar received a B.Tech degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1992, a MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 1994, and a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University in June 2007.
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- Chou Research team develops method that could lead to smaller, more powerful microchips
Stephen Chou's research team has published a report in the May 4 issue of Nature Nanotechnology on a process that could lead to smaller, more powerful microchips. You can learn more about the process on the University's home page.
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- Poor Recipient of the IEEE 2008 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
Vince Poor has been selected to receive the 2008 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society. The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award was instituted to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community. Poor will receive the award at the upcoming International Symposium on Information Theory in Toronto.
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