http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/ This is an RSS feed of news stories from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. en-us Copyright 2012, ECE Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:25:48 EST 60 http://www.ece.cmu.edu/images/news/ece-rss.png http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/ ECE Professor Radu Marculescu has been named the new editor-in-chief of Foundations and Trends® in Electronic Design Automation (FnTEDA), effective Jan. 1. Marculescu succeeds founding editor-in-chief, Professor Sharad Malik from Princeton University. In his role as editor-in-chief, Marculescu will contribute to the selection of the editorial board, coordinate the paper-review process and shape the long-term publication strategy of the journal. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/02/radu_marculescu_named/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:04:00 EST ECE students made headlines across the country last week when more than 120 tinkerers and gadgeters participated in the department's Build18 initiative, a week of building and speed hacking for students, by students. Now in its third year, the engineering festival encourages groups of students to innovate and create solutions to problems they choose themselves, free from the pressure of tests, exams and formal project reviews. ECE students run the event, coordinating everything from the project applications to finding corporate sponsors. The department kicks in lab space, equipment and conference rooms. The result? A weeklong hackfest that gives students a chance to find their inner entrepreneurs. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/01/in_the_news/ Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:00:00 EST Succeeding in innovation and invention, of course, means identifying the customers' needs and satisfying them. Not everything works the first time. But whether 120 Carnegie Mellon engineering students are being playful with a new mind-controlled toy car or deadly earnest in promoting bicycle safety, their energy and ingenuity will be on display from 3 to 5 p.m., Jan. 20 in Hamerschlag Hall at the third annual Build18 Project Showcase. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2012/01/ece_students_host/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:43:00 EST ECE Professor Diana Marculescu has been named a distinguished scientist for her significant impact on the computing field by the Association for Computing Machinery. "This is a great honor for me from my peers, as less than 10 percent of ACM members ever attain this accolade," Marculescu said. A pioneer in energy-aware computing, Marculescu is developing novel power management techniques to improve the performance delivered per unit of energy consumed for computer hardware and software. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/12/diana_marculescu_named/ Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:50:00 EST George Westinghouse Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Raj Rajkumar has been named an IEEE fellow, class of 2012. He earned the distinction "for contributions to predictable real-time systems and operating systems," according to IEEE. IEEE bestows its "fellow' grade upon researchers with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. It is the highest grade of membership, and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and important career achievement. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/12/rajkumar_named_ieee/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:32:00 EST 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/11/ece_cs_students/ Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:23:00 EST 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/11/cmu_partners_with/ Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:19:00 EST ECE Professor Radu Marculescu delivered a keynote talk at the 19th 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/10/marculescu_delivers_keynote/ Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:04:00 EDT ECE Professor Virgil Gligor received the Outstanding Innovation Award for computer privacy and security expertise Oct. 18 at the annual meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Chicago. "I'm extremely honored to receive this award as I continue to focus on how to design and implement trustworthy computing systems," said Gligor, co-director of Carnegie Mellon CyLab. "It is an honor to be recognized by my peers." (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/10/gligor_recognized_for/ Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:22:00 EDT 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/10/ece_student_work/ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:08:00 EDT 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/10/ece_teams_earns/ Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:54:00 EDT 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/09/brumley_receives_presidential/ Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:48:00 EDT 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/08/ganger_narasimhan_to/ Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:34:00 EDT 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/08/cvijic_earns_award/ Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:54:00 EDT 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/07/jang_receives_symantec/ Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:49:00 EDT 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/07/ece_alum_advisor/ Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:43:00 EDT 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/07/tam_wins_acm/ Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:17:00 EDT 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 28th 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/07/mutlu_coauthors_best/ Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:47:00 EDT 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.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/06/taylor_earns_nsf/ Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:45:00 EDT ECE alumnus Bryan Parno (E'2010) has won the 2010 Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for "resolving the tension between adequate security protections and the features and performance that users expect in a digitized world." Parno's thesis, "Trust Extension as a Mechanism for Secure Code Execution on Commodity Computers," leverages the trust users have in one device, such as a cellphone or custom USB device, to enable secure use of another computer or service without sacrificing performance or features. For example, this would allow a user to safely enter tax information into his or her computer, even if it were infected with malware, or to verify the security of a website before entrusting it with personal data. (Read more.) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2011/06/parno_wins_acm/ Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:48:00 EDT