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 2009, ECE Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:26:08 EDT 60 http://www.ece.cmu.edu/images/news/ece-rss.png http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/ Even if you were up in the nosebleed section of Mellon Arena during the Stanley Cup playoffs, you could still get a closeup view of the game. Thanks to Professor Priya Narasimhan's research group and Yinz Cam, all you need is a Wi-Fi enabled device. Read all about it in this article in he newest issue of Network World. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/06/yinz_cam_watches/ Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:16:00 EDT Greg Ganger has received a prestigious HP Innovation award for the second year in a row. Ganger, professor of ECE and computer science, was among 60 recipients worldwide to receive an award as part of HP's 2009 Innovation Research Program. The program is designed to create opportunities for colleges, universities and research institutes around the world to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP. Ganger, director of the Parallel Data Lab at Carnegie Mellon, wrote a winning proposal titled "Toward Scalable Self-Storage." He will collaborate with HP Labs on a research initiative focused on data storage infrastructure issues. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/06/ganger_receives_second/ Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:55:00 EDT Yung-hui Li, received the Best Student Paper Award in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal processing 2009 (ICASSP) held in Taiwan this spring. Li's advisor is Marios Savvides, assistant research professor of ECE. Li is a graduate student in the Language Technologies Institute. Their paper, titled "A Pixel-Wise, Learning-Based Approach For Occlusion Estimation of Iris Images in a Polar Domain," proposes a novel way to solve the problem of iris mask estimation which has proven to be both efficient and accurate compared to existing methods in the literature. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/06/li_wins_best/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:03:00 EDT ECE graduate student Yen-Tzu Lin has received a fellowship from NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), a high-performance processor that generates interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. Lin, whose thesis advisor is Shawn Blanton, is a member of the Advanced Chip Test Laboratory. Her research interests include VLSI test methodology development and evaluation. Her current research involves the development of cost-effective test methodologies that create high-quality test sets through utilization of the NVIDIA GPU environment. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/05/lin_awarded_nvidia/ Wed, 27 May 2009 12:56:00 EDT ECE graduate student Xiaochun Yu is a recipient of a prestigious Intel Fellowship. The highly competitive program awards only 40 fellowships annually to Ph.D. candidates at select universities who are doing leading edge work in fields related to Intel's business and research interests. Yu, whose thesis advisor is Prof. Shawn Blanton, is a member of the Advanced Chip Test Laboratory. Her research focuses on controlling IC quality through automated diagnosis and characterization of IC failures. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/05/yu_receives_intel/ Wed, 27 May 2009 12:48:00 EDT ECE Professor Daniel Stancil and ECE alumnus Anil Prabhakar are the authors of a new book published last month by Springer. Spin Waves, Theory and Applications covers topics foundational to understanding spin waves such as the physics of magnetism and electromagnetic waves in anisotropic media, as well as both classical and quantum mechanical treatments of spin wave excitations. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/05/stancil_coauthors_new/ Tue, 19 May 2009 11:47:00 EDT Carnegie Mellon's 112th commencement ceremony was celebrated on Sunday, May 17. At ECE's Diploma Ceremony which followed, 28 students received a Doctor of Philosophy, 117 students received a Master of Science, and 134 students received a Bachelor of Science. In addition, 17 students satisfied the requirements for both a B.S. and an M.S. degree. 46 students graduated with University Honors, and 18 graduated with College Honors for having completed a Senior Honors Research Project. The following awards were presented at the ceremony: E. M. Williams Award - Ryan Sakauye Frank J. Marshall Scholar Award - Bradley Miller Frank J. Marshall Outstanding Undergraduate Award - Sarah Hsieh David Tuma Laboratory Project Award - Jack Cheung, Mark Ma, Steve Thompson, Ryan Walsh Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award - Kyle Anderson A. G. Jordan Award - Jonathan McCune A. G. Milnes Award - Tejas Jhaveri Eta Kappa Nu Award for Outstanding Teaching - Professor Markus Pueschel http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/05/congratulations_class_of/ Mon, 18 May 2009 15:09:00 EDT Second year ECE grad student Daniel S. McFarlin has received two external fellowships: a National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Graduate Fellowship and a Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Graduate Fellowship. McFarlin is a member of the SPIRAL group and is advised by Markus Püschel. He is currently conducting research into automated hardware/software co-design for signal transforms and FPGAs as part of a multi-university effort. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/05/mcfarlin_wins_two/ Fri, 15 May 2009 15:03:00 EDT ECE is proud to announce a number of graduate fellowship awards within our community: A total of 14 graduate students have received fellowships honoring alumni, parents, former faculty and local corporations. Fellowships include: Frank J. Marshall, Lamme/Westinghouse, Leo Finzi, Nicholas Minnici, Ann and Martin McGuinn, Hsu Chang, and Goel. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/05/ece_announces_graduate/ Wed, 13 May 2009 15:40:00 EDT Umpei Kurokawa and William Wong who will graduate next week with Master of Science degrees, were partially funded this year with a fellowship from DRS-Signal Solutions. The company is providing these fellowships as part of its effort to recruit top notch M. S. degree recipients with an interest in communication systems, signal processing, embedded systems or analog/microwave circuit radio design. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/05/drssignal_solutions_funds/ Mon, 11 May 2009 15:56:00 EDT ECE graduate student Dan Morris has been awarded a fellowship by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Global Research Consortium (GRC). GRC Fellows are encouraged to conduct research leading to novel, high-payoff solutions for the technology challenges faced by the semiconductor industry at and beyond the time horizons of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. Morris' research demonstrates IC design methodologies that exploit extremely regular patterning techniques capable of sub-32nm manufacturing. These methodologies reduce the cost... http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/05/grad_student_dan/ Tue, 05 May 2009 16:01:00 EDT First year ECE grad student Joel Harley has received all three of the fellowships for which he applied: a National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Graduate Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and a Department of Homeland Security Fellowship. Because he can only hold one external fellowship concurrently... http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/05/ece_grad_student/ Mon, 04 May 2009 12:15:00 EDT Congratulations to Ryan Johnson who has received an IBM Fellowship for 2009-10. Johnson's research addresses the challenges which multicore computing presents for high-performance database management systems. He currently works on techniques to accelerate transaction processing workloads, which underlie the e-commerce, banking and telecom industries. IBM's Ph.D. Fellowship Award is an intensely competitive program... http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/05/ryan_johnson_wins/ Mon, 04 May 2009 12:14:00 EDT ECE junior Samarth Bhargava won first place for his paper at the 2009 Innovative STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Symposium hosted by Morgan State University in April. Bhargava's paper, which resulted from his undergraduate project... http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/05/ece_junior_authors/ Mon, 04 May 2009 12:04:00 EDT The ECE Department and the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Colleges of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan to develop a dual Ph.D. program. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/04/joint_phd_program/ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:35:00 EDT The School of Music, College of Engineering and School of Computer Science are collaborating to offer two new degrees in Music and Technology to train the next generation of composers, engineers and programmers in music signal processing, sound production, composition and the cognition of music. Noel Zahler, head of the School of Music, worked with Roger Dannenberg, associate professor of computer science; Richard Stern, professor of electrical engineering; Thomas Sullivan associate teaching professor of electrical and computer engineering; and Riccardo Schulz, associate teaching professor/recording engineer in music to develop both the bachelor's and master's degree programs. The first graduate and undergraduate classes will enter in the Fall of 2009. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/04/two_ece_faculty/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:01:00 EDT ECE research professor Marios Savvides is an invited speaker at the National Security Agency's Identity Protection and Management Conference, April 27-30 in Miami, FL. The conference is co-sponsored by the Department of Defense and the U.S Army Biometrics Task Force. Savvides has been asked to speak about the newly formed Center for Academic Studies In Identity Sciences (CASIS), a Center of Academic Excellence under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Savvides, who is director of the Biometrics Research Lab inside Carnegie Mellon's CyLab, is one of four researchers asked to join CASIS when it was formed earlier this year. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/04/savvides_invited_to/ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:06:00 EDT Raj Rajkumar, Professor of ECE and CS, will deliver a plenary talk on the opening day at the Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPS), April 13-16 in San Francisco. CPS Week is a co-location of three conferences: The 15th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2009, The 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2009), and The 12th International Conference on Hybrid Systems (HSCC 2009). http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/04/rajkumar_delivers_plenary/ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:37:00 EDT Alfred A. Thiele, a distinguished scholar in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department's Data Storage Systems Center, died suddenly March 26 in Pittsburgh. Thiele, 71, contributed to the fundamental understanding of the physics behind magnetic bubble domains and invented some of the primary devices that were used in magnetic bubble computer chips during the early 1970s at Bell Telephone Labs in Murray Hill, N.J. The Louisville, Ky., native earned his first patent at age 19 for research involving transistor technology for electric circuits. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/04/carnegie_mellon_engineering/ Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:06:00 EDT Faculty, graduate students and postdocs from colleges and universities in the Northeast are invited to attend the fifth Northeast Control Workshop on the Carnegie Mellon campus, April 24-26. Sponsored by NSF, the conference is hosted by ECE professors Bruce Krogh and Bruno Sinopoli, and University of Maryland professor Nuno Martins. The workshop is free and is intended as a forum for presentation of research and interaction among academics. Topics of interest are Systems and Control, broadly understood, with particular emphasis on nonlinear, robust, and hybrid control and their applications. Workshop details can be found on the conference website. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/03/invitation_to_attend/ Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:14:00 EDT