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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.)

June 17, 2011

Tumanov Earns Canada Graduate Scholarship

ECE Ph.D. student Alexey Tumanov has earned a National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D) that will support his research on cloud computing with Jatras Professor of ECE Greg Ganger. The prestigious award is presented to Canadian citizens or permanent residents pursuing doctor's degrees, and is based on the applicant's academic excellence, research ability and potential, and communications, interpersonal and leadership abilities. The NSERC is the Canadian equivalent of the NSF, and only the top tier of post-graduate scholarship recipients earn the CGS-D. As a CGS-D winner at a non-Canadian university, Tumanov will receive $63,000 over three years to pursue his graduate degree at Carnegie Mellon. (Read more.)

June 16, 2011

Smereka Wins SMART Scholarship

Jonathon Smereka, a second-year Ph.D. student working with ECE Professor Vijayakumar Bhagavatula, has earned a Science, Mathematics & Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship to support his work on biometrics. The scholarship, sponsored by the National Defense Education Program, supports undergraduate, master's and doctoral students who have demonstrated ability and special aptitude for excelling in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. (Read more.)