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January 27, 2010

Veríssimo Named ACM Fellow

Adjunct Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Paulo Veríssimo has been named a fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The designation, which is the ACM's highest membership grade, is conferred on ACM members who have distinguished themselves by outstanding technical and professional achievements in information technology. Veríssimo was cited specifically for his contributions "to dependable and secure distributed computing."

Veríssimo, a full-time professor in the Department of Informatics at Portugal's University of Lisbon, focuses his research efforts on architecture, as well as middleware and protocols for distributed, pervasive and embedded systems — specifically the facets of real-time adaptability and fault/intrusion tolerance. He is an IEEE fellow, former head of the Department of Informatics, and founder and current director of the University of Lisbon's Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory (LASIGE). He's authored more than 150 refereed publications in international scientific conferences and journals; co-authored five books; and has delivered several keynote speeches, tutorials and seminars across the globe on fault- and intrusion-tolerance, real-time, and security in distributed systems.

January 21, 2010

Carnegie Mellon's Eta Kappa Nu Receives Outstanding Chapter Award

Carnegie Mellon's Sigma chapter of the Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society earned the organization's Outstanding Chapter Award for academic year 2008–2009. The award is a mark of distinction for a college chapter, which is judged according to its activities involving service to others. All chapters with exemplary programs can win, and the Sigma chapter joins 21 other chapters from colleges and universities across the country in receiving the award.

Led by the elected HKN officers and the advisory team of George Westinghouse Professor of ECE David Casasent and Director of Alumni and Student Relations Susan Farrington, the Sigma chapter celebrated unprecedented success during the 2008–2009 academic year. The chapter, which totaled nearly 100 members in that time, strategically expanded established programs in order to increase member involvement in chapter activities and provide vital services to the ECE community.

December 9, 2009

Lakshmanan Receives Best Student Paper Award

ECE Ph.D. Student, Karthik Lakshmanan, is the principal author of a paper that received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium held in Washington DC from December 2-4, 2009.

The paper, titled "Coordinated Allocation, Scheduling and Synchronization on Multiprocessors," is coauthored by Professor of ECE and CS, Raj Rajkumar, and Dr. Dionisio de Niz, ECE alum who is currently at the CMU Software Engineering Institute.

This work addresses the emerging field of chip-multiprocessors which represent a dominant new shift in the field of processor design.

Rajkumar Wins Technical Achievement Award

Raj Rajkumar, Professor of ECE and CS, has been awarded the Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award by the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems.

This award is given to one individual every year who has made exceptional contributions to the domain of real-time systems.

The award was presented at a banquet during the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium held in Washington D.C. from December 2 to 4, 2009.

December 3, 2009

Three ECE Faculty Elected IEEE Fellows

The ECE Department congratulates our three newly elected IEEE Fellows, Class of 2010: B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar, Asim Smailagic and Peter Steenkiste.

B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar, Professor of ECE, is elected "for contributions to biometric recognition methods."

Asim Smailagic, Research Professor of ECE and ICES, is elected "for contributions to wearable, pervasive, and context aware computing"

Peter A. Steenkiste, Professor of CS and ECE, is elected "for contributions to optimization and monitoring techniques for distributed communication systems

IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.