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January 27, 2011

Rajkumar Earns Westinghouse Chair

ECE Professor Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar has received the George Westinghouse Professorship in Electrical Engineering for driving Carnegie Mellon research in the automotive industry. "Raj is an outstanding researcher and a stellar example of our longstanding tradition of collaborative, problem-solving research designed to advance engineering practice for the benefit of consumers and industry," said ECE Department Head Ed Schlesinger. (Read more.)

January 25, 2011

Moura To Receive SPS Technical Achievement Award

University Professor of ECE José M. F. Moura has earned the 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Technical Achievement Award. According to the SPS, the annual award "honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the society, as demonstrated by publications, patents or recognized impact on the field." Moura is being recognized for his fundamental contributions to statistical signal processing. He will receive the award, which consists of a cash prize, plaque and certificate, at the 2011 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing this coming May in Prague. (Read more.)

Mutlu Paper Published as CACM Research Highlight

ECE Assistant Professor Onur Mutlu's paper, "Phase Change Memory Architecture and the Quest for Scalability," was published as a selected Research Highlight in the July 2010 issue of Communications of the ACM (CACM) magazine. The paper proposes architectural enhancements to enable phase change memory — an emerging non-volatile memory technology — to replace dynamic random access memory (DRAM) as the primary physical memory in computer systems. Mutlu and his colleagues hope phase change memory will create a more technology-scalable, cost-efficient and energy-efficient memory system than can be obtained with DRAM. To this end, the paper proposes microarchitectural techniques to mitigate latency, energy and endurance shortcomings of phase change memory vis-à-vis DRAM. (Read more.)

January 14, 2011

Tonguz Delivers Keynote at IEEE 2010 VNC

ECE Professor Ozan Tonguz delivered the keynote address at the IEEE 2010 Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), held Dec. 13–15 in Jersey City, NJ. The conference emphasized the research challenges of vehicular ad hoc networks at all layers of the protocol stack, and attracted nearly 100 researchers from academia and companies like Toyota, Honda, BMW, Audi, Intel, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Denso. Tonguz's talk, "Emerging and Future Applications of Vehicular Networks: A Vision," elaborated on the importance of vehicular networks to sustainable energy (via electric cars), a greener environment, reduced carbon footprint and smart grid. He also discussed the burgeoning role of vehicular ad hoc networks as an important enabler. (Read more.)

December 17, 2010

Zhu Earns IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award

ABB Professor of Engineering and current DSSC Director Jimmy Zhu has received the IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award "for contributions to magnetic storage devices through magnetic modeling." The award, which consists of a diploma with citation and cash prize, honors one of the society's members each year for his or her lifetime professional achievement. It is the society's highest award. "I am truly honored to receive this award from the IEEE Magnetic Society, especially considering the list of people who have received this award in the past," Zhu said. (Read more.)