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October 8, 2009

McFarlin Wins Second Best Paper Award

ECE graduate student Daniel McFarlin, won the Best Paper award at the 2009 conference on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) together with his co-authors, ECE professors Franz Franchetti and Markus Püschel. The award last year also went to the Spiral group, the first time at HPEC that the award is won two years in a row by the same research group.

McFarlin's paper is in the context of the Spiral project and shows the computer generation of efficient C code for Intel's upcoming Larrabee processor.

July 10, 2009

Parolini Receives APC Fellowship

ECE graduate student Luca Parolini has won an APC Fellowship for Data Center Efficiency Research.

Parolini's research is aimed at the development of a unified, thermal-computational control scheme that implements the most appropriate trade-off between minimizing power consumption and satisfying complex workload demands in data centers. His research advisors are Bruno Sinopoli and Bruce Krogh.

June 17, 2009

Ganger Receives Second HP Innovation Award

Greg Ganger has received a prestigious HP Innovation award for the second year in a row. Ganger, professor of ECE and computer science, was among 60 recipients worldwide to receive an award as part of HP's 2009 Innovation Research Program. The program is designed to create opportunities for colleges, universities and research institutes around the world to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP.

Ganger, director of the Parallel Data Lab at Carnegie Mellon, wrote a winning proposal titled "Toward Scalable Self-Storage." He will collaborate with HP Labs on a research initiative focused on data storage infrastructure issues.

May 27, 2009

Lin Awarded NVIDIA Fellowship

ECE graduate student Yen-Tzu Lin has received a fellowship from NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), a high-performance processor that generates interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices.

Lin, whose thesis advisor is Shawn Blanton, is a member of the Advanced Chip Test Laboratory. Her research interests include VLSI test methodology development and evaluation. Her current research involves the development of cost-effective test methodologies that create high-quality test sets through utilization of the NVIDIA GPU environment.

Yu Receives Intel Fellowship

ECE graduate student Xiaochun Yu is a recipient of a prestigious Intel Fellowship. The highly competitive program awards only 40 fellowships annually to Ph.D. candidates at select universities who are doing leading edge work in fields related to Intel's business and research interests.

Yu, whose thesis advisor is Prof. Shawn Blanton, is a member of the Advanced Chip Test Laboratory. Her research focuses on controlling IC quality through automated diagnosis and characterization of IC failures.