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February 2, 2009

Priya Narasimhan Wins 2009 Carnegie Science Center Award

ECE assistant Professor Priya Narasimhan is the winner of the 2009 Emerging Female Scientist Award announced this week by the Carnegie Science Center of Pittsburgh. She was recognized as a leader and innovator in developing embedded and mobile technologies.

January 22, 2009

Rob Rutenbar Elected ACM Fellow

Rob A. Rutenbar, Jatras Professor of ECE and CS, was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Class of 2008 for contributions to computer-aided design tools for mixed-signal integrated circuits.

Rutenbar is widely known for his contributions to computer-aided design (CAD) algorithms and software for mixed-signal integrated circuits and for the contributions that his company, Neolinear, has made to the industry. He has also been recognized numerous times for his contributions to education.

Mutlu Paper an IEEE Micro "Top Pick"

A paper authored by assistant professor Onur Mutlu and Thomas Moscibroda at Microsoft Research was selected as one of the "Top Pick" papers of 2008 in the computer architecture field by the IEEE Micro magazine. The paper titled "Parallelism-Aware Batch Scheduling: Enhancing both Performance and Fairness of Shared DRAM Systems" describes how to design intelligent memory controllers in a multi-core architecture such that system performance significantly improves. The described memory controller provides fundamental support for existing operating systems to enforce policy decisions on multi-core architectures.

January 19, 2009

O'Donoughue Wins Best Student Paper

ECE graduate student Nicholas O'Donoughue has won the Best Student Paper award at the 2008 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers held in Pacific Grove, California in October. The paper is titled "Signal-Domain Registration for Change Detection in TR-SAR" and is co-authored with his research advisor, José M. F. Moura and Yuanwei Jin, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, who was a Project Scientist in our department for the past year.

December 23, 2008

ECE Team Takes First Place in Smart Radio Challenge '08

ECE graduate students Reginald Cooper, Kevin Borries, and Xiaohui Wang came away winners of the Second Annual Smart Radio Challenge sponsored by the Software Defined Radio Forum, a non-profit international industry association dedicated to promoting the success of next generation radio technologies. The team took home three awards: Best Design, First Prize in their category, and the Grand Prize.