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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.

June 8, 2007

ECE Faculty Win Awards at DAC

Several ECE faculty members won awards at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) this month in San Diego. Rob Rutenbar won the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Industrial Pioneer Award, Randal Bryant received the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, and Donald Thomas won an ACM/SIGDA Distinguished Service Award. Radu and Diana Marculescu's work was nominated for a Best Paper Award; the research was co-authored with ECE graduate students Umit Ogras and Puru Choudhary.

June 5, 2007

ECE Professor Rob Rutenbar Wins IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Industrial Pioneer Award

Rob Rutenbar, Stephen Jatras Professor of ECE, received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Industrial Pioneer Award June 5 at the Design Automation Conference in San Diego. Rutenbar was recognized for his pioneering contributions in developing academic and industrial research tools for commercial applications.

June 4, 2007

Schlesinger and Bhagavatula Present Invited Talks at Optical Data Storage Meeting

ECE Department Head T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger (left) and ECE Professor Vijayakumar Bhagavatula (right) presented invited talks at the Optical Data Storage (ODS) Topical Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Schlesinger spoke on "Application-Driven Optical Storage," while Bhagavatula's talk was on "Channels Strategies for Handling Low Signal-to-Noise Ratios in Holographic Data Storage Systems." In addition, ECE alumnus Tim Rausch (Ph.D. 2003) was a program committee co-chair.