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July 26, 2011

Jang Receives Symantec Graduate Fellowship

ECE Ph.D. student Jiyong Jang has earned the Symantec Research Labs (SRL) Graduate Fellowship for helping researchers better understand and protect against new online threats. The fellowship is awarded to promising graduate students who demonstrate leadership and technological prowess in confronting some of the world's most complex security, storage and system-management challenges. "This is a wonderful honor as I continue to work on tools and new approaches to make online commerce more secure," Jang said. (Read more.)

July 12, 2011

ECE Alum, Advisor Earn Recognition From National Research Council of Thailand

ECE alumnus Sooksan Panichpapiboon, who earned his Ph.D. in 2006 under the supervision of ECE Professor Ozan Tonguz, received the 2011 Dissertation Award from the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) for his doctoral thesis, "Practical Design Issues in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Transmit Power, Topology and Routing." His Excellency Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva, prime minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, presented him with the award earlier this year. In addition to recognizing Panichpapiboon, the NRCT also honored Tonguz, "as the major advisor who contributed advice and support" to Panichpapiboon's thesis. (Read more.)

July 11, 2011

Tam Wins ACM Student Research Competition

Wing Chiu (Jason) Tam, a fifth-year Ph.D. student advised by ECE Professor and CSSI Director Shawn Blanton, recently earned first place in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Research Competition (SRC) held during the Design Automation Conference in San Diego. Sponsored by Microsoft Research, the SRC offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research at well-known ACM-sponsored and co-sponsored conferences before a panel of judges and attendees. Tam took top honors for his project, "Physically Aware Analysis of Systematic Defects in Integrated Circuits." (Read more.)

July 7, 2011

Mutlu Co-Authors Best Paper

The paper "Concurrent Autonomous Self-Test for Uncore Components in System-on-Chips," co-authored by ECE Assistant Professor Onur Mutlu, has been selected as the best paper published in the 28^th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) Proceedings in 2010. The selection was made by the VTS program committee from 45 papers published in the proceedings. Co-authors of the paper include Yanjing Li, a Ph.D. student at Stanford who previously interned with Mutlu; Intel's Donald Gardner; and Subhasish Mitra, a professor at Stanford. (Read more.)

June 30, 2011

Taylor Earns NSF Fellowship

ECE Ph.D. student Malcolm Taylor has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) fellowship for "outstanding abilities and accomplishments as well as the potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the U.S. science and engineering enterprise." The GRFP provides three years of support for graduate education and cost-of-education allowance for individuals who have demonstrated their potential for significant achievements in science and engineering research. (Read more.)