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August 28, 2008

Carnegie Mellon's Greg Ganger Earns HP Innovation Research Award

Carnegie Mellon University's Greg Ganger was one of 33 recipients worldwide to receive a 2008 HP Innovation Research Award, which is designed to encourage open collaboration with HP labs resulting in mutually beneficial, high-impact research.

Ganger, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Parallel Data Lab at Carnegie Mellon, will collaborate with HP Labs on a research initiative focused on data storage infrastructure issues. Ganger, author of the winning proposal, titled "Toward Scalable Self-Storage," will lead the collaboration.

April 14, 2008

Gallagher and Chen win Best Paper Award at Computer Vision Conference

ECE graduate student Andrew Gallagher and Professor Tsuhan Chen won a Best Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM). The paper, titled "Using Group Prior to Identify People in Consumer Images" describes a method for recognizing people in consumer images using more than just facial appearance.

Parikh and Chen Win Best Paper Award at Computer Vision Conference

ECE graduate student Devi Parikh and Professor Tsuhan Chen won a Best Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Beyond Patches Workshop. The paper titled "Unsupervised Learning of Hierarchical Semantics of Objects (hSOs)" proposes an algorithm to determine higher-level semantic relationships among objects in a scene such as an office, which is represented via a hierarchical structure.

March 26, 2008

Stern Named Fellow of ASA & Distinguished Lecturer of ISCA

Richard Stern, Professor of ECE, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) "for contributions to binaural hearing and speech recognition."

The premiere international scientific society in acoustics, the ASA was founded in 1929 by members of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. In its first year, it garnered 450 members. Approximately 7000 members strong today, the ASA is one of the three societies comprising the American Institute of Physics.

March 21, 2008

ECE Team Takes Third Place in IC Design Challenge Phase One

ECE graduate students Abhishek Jajoo, John Reinke and Leon Wang have been awarded the 3rd prize in the Phase 1 of the 2007-2008 SRC/SIA IC Design Challenge. Their contest entry integrates their Ph.D. research in RF MEMS devices and circuits into an implementable design for "A Tunable Multiband RF MEMS Transceiver Front-End."