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October 6, 2011

ECE Student Work Receives Best Paper Award

A paper authored by ECE Ph.D. students Gokce Keskin and Jonathan Proesel, along with Tanoto Professor of ECE Larry Pileggi, earned the Best Student Paper Award at the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) for 2010. The 2011 CICC conference, held recently in San Jose, Calif., honored the winners from the previous year. Their paper, "Statistical Modeling and Post Manufacturing Configuration for Scaled Analog CMOS," presents a novel statistical element selection (SES) method to address the mismatch issues for scaled analog circuits. Keskin, who recently graduated, accepted the award at the 2011 conference's keynote session. (Read more.)

October 5, 2011

ECE Teams Earns ICCAD Best Paper Award

ECE post-doc Matthias Althoff, Ph.D. students Akshay Rajhans and Soner Yaldiz, and faculty members Bruce Krogh, Xin Li, and Larry Pileggi received the 2011 IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award for their paper "Formal Verification of Phase-Locked Loops Using Reachability Analysis and Continuization." The award will be presented at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) next month in San Jose, Calif. (Read more.)

September 26, 2011

Brumley Receives Presidential Early Career Award

Assistant ECE Professor David Brumley has won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) — the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young scientists and engineers. Brumley will receive the award at a White House ceremony this fall. The PECASE program recognizes scientists and engineers who, early in their careers, show exceptional leadership at the frontiers of knowledge. Brumley was one of 20 nominated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the PECASE. His award is in recognition of his "innovation and vital research on malware (malicious software) analysis and for strong educational and outreach activities." (Read more.)

August 9, 2011

Ganger, Narasimhan To Head New Intel Science and Technology Centers

Carnegie Mellon's Gregory Ganger and Priya Narasimhan will head two new Intel Science and Technology Centers (ISTC) based at CMU that will focus on cloud and embedded computing. Each center involves multiple universities and will receive $15 million over the next five years.

"This will be an excellent platform for open collaboration research into underlying technologies essential to allowing cloud computing to reach the promise of dramatically improving efficiency, ubiquity and productivity for large-scale and user-facing applications across so many critical areas of information technology, from social networks to medicine, science and government," said Ganger. (Read more.)

Cvijic Earns Award at NAPS

ECE Ph.D. student Sanja Cvijic won second prize for Best Paper and Presentation at the North American Power Symposium (NAPS2011) in Boston earlier this month. The paper, co-authored with thesis advisor and ECE and EPP Professor Marija Ilic, is entitled "On Limits to Graph — Theoretic Approaches in Electric Power Systems," and concerns fundamental differences between transportation and electric circuit networks that make it difficult to directly draw on the rich literature in operations research. The paper proposes a sequence of unique transformations that map a physical meshed network into a non-physical, tree-structured network. Optimization is accomplished using well-established methods for transportation networks in this nonphysical network, and the results are uniquely mapped back to the physical network. (Read more.)