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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.)

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.)