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November 30, 2011

ECE, CS Students Win Global Cybersecurity Contests

A team of ECE and computer science students led by ECE Assistant Professor David Brumley are using their competitive skills to rack up global victories as members of CMU's Capture the Flag team. Capture the Flag (CTF) is a computer security war game in which each participating team or individual competes to find a key source of information by solving a litany of challenges. Since late October, the CMU CTF team has won two prestigious contests. On Oct. 24, they won the SecuInside CTF contest in South Korea, winning $30,000. In early November, they entered two teams at the Polytechnic Institute of New York (NYU-Poly) CSAW contest and took first and second place, netting another $1,750. (Read more.)

November 15, 2011

CMU Partners With Sun Yat-sen University To Develop Graduate Engineering Programs

Carnegie Mellon will extend its global reach to China, as the first private institution to offer graduate engineering degree programs with Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU). Carnegie Mellon and SYSU will establish a joint Institute of Engineering in Guangzhou, China, initially offering master's and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering, beginning in 2013. SYSU is located in southern China in Guangzhou along the Pearl River Delta, an important economic and technology hub of the Asia-Pacific region.

"We are pleased to partner with Sun Yat-sen University, which has a long history as one of China's finest institutions," said CMU President Jared L. Cohon. "Working with SYSU, we hope to usher in a new era of engineering education in China. We look forward to bringing CMU's innovative style, technological expertise and creative problem-solving to the region." (Read more.)

October 19, 2011

Marculescu Delivers Keynote at VLSI-SoC

ECE Professor Radu Marculescu delivered a keynote talk at the 19^th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC) in Hong Kong earlier this month. His talk, "Design and Optimization of Thousand-Core Systems," explored fundamental issues related to the design, evaluation and hardware prototyping of scalable power and temperature management algorithms for next-generation, massively parallel multicore systems. (Read more.)

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.)