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July 23, 2007

ECE Researchers Win Two Best Paper Awards

ECE researchers won two best paper awards at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in Minneapolis. ECE graduate student Andrew Gallagher (center) and Tsuhan Chen (left), won the best paper award in the workshop on semantic learning applications in multimedia (SLAM). Chen, Professor and Associate Department Head of ECE, co-directs the Industrial Technology Research Institute Lab at Carnegie Mellon (ITRI Lab@CMU). Additionally, ECE graduate student Devi Parikh (right) and Chen won a best paper award in the beyond patches workshop.

July 9, 2007

ECE Graduate Student Leaders Elected

ECE's Engineering Graduate Student Organization (EGO) has elected new officers for the year with (clockwise from top left) Srinivas Chellappa as president, Kyle Anderson as vice president and fall picnic chair, Nicole Saulnier as secretary, and Adam Pennington as treasurer. Additionally, Stacey Ivol has joined the team as vice president for the winter party.

ECE Students Win NDSEG Fellowships

ECE students John Reinke and Nicholas O'Donoughue were selected for the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, which will cover their tuition and stipends over three years. Alumnus Daniel Weller (B.S. 2006) also qualified for the honor and will use his fellowship at MIT, where he is a graduate student in electrical engineering. Students at or near the beginning of doctoral study in science or engineering compete nationally for the awards, which are funded by the Department of Defense (DoD).

Mai and Higgs Win NSF CAREER Award

ECE faculty members Ken Mai and C. Fred Higgs III are winners of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Award. The award is bestowed "in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization." Each grant provides around $400,000 in funding for a period of five years.

June 25, 2007

ECE Student Awarded Intel Ph.D. Fellowship

ECE graduate student Sebastian Herbert was awarded a two-year Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship, which will cover his tuition and fees as well as a stipend. Sebastian is studying variability-adaptive power modeling and optimization in chip multiprocessors. He will be paired with a mentor from Intel and have the opportunity to intern there. In addition, he will receive an Intel architecture-based laptop and travel costs for the Fellowship Forum at Intel in October.