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February 2, 2012

Radu Marculescu Named FnTEDA Editor-in-Chief

ECE Professor Radu Marculescu has been named the new editor-in-chief of Foundations and Trends^® in Electronic Design Automation (FnTEDA), effective Jan. 1. Marculescu succeeds founding editor-in-chief, Professor Sharad Malik from Princeton University. In his role as editor-in-chief, Marculescu will contribute to the selection of the editorial board, coordinate the paper-review process and shape the long-term publication strategy of the journal. (Read more.)

December 8, 2011

Diana Marculescu Named ACM Distinguished Scientist

ECE Professor Diana Marculescu has been named a distinguished scientist for her significant impact on the computing field by the Association for Computing Machinery. "This is a great honor for me from my peers, as less than 10 percent of ACM members ever attain this accolade," Marculescu said.

A pioneer in energy-aware computing, Marculescu is developing novel power management techniques to improve the performance delivered per unit of energy consumed for computer hardware and software. (Read more.)

December 7, 2011

Rajkumar Named IEEE Fellow

George Westinghouse Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Raj Rajkumar has been named an IEEE fellow, class of 2012. He earned the distinction "for contributions to predictable real-time systems and operating systems," according to IEEE. IEEE bestows its "fellow' grade upon researchers with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. It is the highest grade of membership, and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and important career achievement. (Read more.)

November 30, 2011

ECE, CS Students Win Global Cybersecurity Contests

A team of ECE and computer science students led by ECE Assistant Professor David Brumley are using their competitive skills to rack up global victories as members of CMU's Capture the Flag team. Capture the Flag (CTF) is a computer security war game in which each participating team or individual competes to find a key source of information by solving a litany of challenges. Since late October, the CMU CTF team has won two prestigious contests. On Oct. 24, they won the SecuInside CTF contest in South Korea, winning $30,000. In early November, they entered two teams at the Polytechnic Institute of New York (NYU-Poly) CSAW contest and took first and second place, netting another $1,750. (Read more.)

October 18, 2011

Gligor Recognized for Outstanding Privacy, Security Research

ECE Professor Virgil Gligor received the Outstanding Innovation Award for computer privacy and security expertise Oct. 18 at the annual meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Chicago.

"I'm extremely honored to receive this award as I continue to focus on how to design and implement trustworthy computing systems," said Gligor, co-director of Carnegie Mellon CyLab. "It is an honor to be recognized by my peers." (Read more.)