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April 11, 2012

Alum Wins Young-Investigator-of-the-Month Award

The Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) selected Hsun-Hsien Chang, a bioinformatics scientist at the Children's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, as February's CHAVI Young-Investigator-of-the-Month. The award recognizes outstanding young investigators who have made significant contributions to the CHAVI mission — to solve major problems in HIV vaccine development and design — and who have been nominated by their mentors for their exceptional leadership and valuable research. Chang earned his Ph.D. in ECE with advisor José M. F. Moura in 2007. (Read more.)

April 10, 2012

ECE Forms Partnership With Portuguese Business School

Carnegie Mellon's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the University of Porto's Business School (EGP-UPBS) in Porto, Portugal, will offer a new dual-degree graduate program in engineering and business this fall. The two-year program will give participants the opportunity to study one year in Portugal at the University of Porto and another year in the U.S. at Carnegie Mellon. Students will be required to meet academic requirements from both universities to receive a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon and an MBA ("The Magellan MBA") from EGP-UPBS. (Read more.)

April 4, 2012

Pileggi Receives ACM/IEEE Impact Award

Tanoto Professor of ECE Larry Pileggi has received the ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation for his paper, "PRIMA: Passive Reduced-Order Interconnect Macromodeling Algorithm." The award, presented by the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation, honors a person or persons for outstanding technical contribution within the scope of electronic design automation, as evidence by a paper published at least 10 years before the award's presentation. The award is based on the impact of the contribution. (Read more.)

March 16, 2012

Chen Earns IBM Fellowship

Second-year Ph.D. student Vanessa Chen has received the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, a highly competitive award that honors exceptional students who display an interest in solving problems important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in the sciences and engineering. Recipients are selected based on their overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which their technical interests align with those of IBM and their academic progress to date, in the form of publications and faculty endorsements. (Read more.)

March 12, 2012

Ilic Leads Team Developing Smart Grid Models, Tools for Low-Cost Green Islands

Remote island communities from the Azores to Nome, Alaska, could experience drastic reductions in the cost of electricity and CO2 emissions by using new smart energy grid technology developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Electric Energy Systems Group (EESG). Already, ECE Professor Marija Ilic and about a dozen EESG researchers and their collaborators in Portugal have developed a real-world database for electric power grids of Flores and San Miguel, two of nine volcanic islands that sit in the middle of the North Atlantic some 900 miles west of Lisbon, Portugal. Using this database, the team has modeled and assessed the potential for residential and commercial electricity users to participate in a load-management program needed to make the most out of inexpensive, clean wind energy. (Read more.)