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2009 Personal Mentions
NovemberThe deadline for CIT Staff Awards nominations has been extended to November 30. Please nominate a deserving staff member for the Rookie, Staff Recognition, or Burritt Education awards. Visit the staff awards website for more details.
Two CIT alums, Eric Giler and Scott Griffith, have been featured as All Stars in Mass High Tech, The Journal of New England Technology. Both undergraduate engineering alumni, Giler is the CEO of Witricity Corp. and Griffith is the CEO of Zipcar. Read Mass High Tech's features on Giler and Griffith.
ChemE undergraduate Abigail Ondeck presented the
research she is conducting with ICES Special Faculty Nisha Shukla at
the Research Posters at the Pennsylvania (PA) Capital Conference, in
Harrisburg. Shukla and Ondeck, who is supported by Intel's First Year
Research Experience, have been working on "Shape and Size Controlled
Synthesis Nanoparticulate Catalysts." This work
serves as an example of how nanoparticulate catalysts have been applied
to solve issues pertaining to ecologically friendly fuel burning. Read More
Several MechE graduate students have been awarded prestigious awards. Jeremiah Mpagazehe was awarded a fellowship through NASA's Graduate Student Researchers Program; Elizabeth Traut and Casey Kute were named NSF Fellows; and Scott Moreland received a Postgraduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
ECE graduate students Anthony Rowe
and Vikram Gupta and ECE professor Raj Rajkumar received the Best Paper Award at the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded
Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009).
Their paper entitled "Low-power clock synchronization using electromagnetic energy radiating from AC power lines"
presents a novel low-power hardware module for achieving global clock
synchronization. This synchronization is very desirable in many sensor
networking applications because it enables event ordering, coordinated
actuation, energy-efficient communication, and duty cycling. The method
that Rowe, Gupta, and Rajkumar present in their paper allows nodes in
the network to receive a stable global clock tick from existing power
lines in way that is low-cost and low-powered. The system allows
synchronization to continue when nodes become disconnected from the
wireless network for extended periods of time. Read More
The January/February issue of IEEE Micro Top Picks will include two articles by ECE professors Babak Falsafi and Anastasia Ailamaki, ECE Ph.D. student Michael Ferdman, and former Ph.D. student Tom Wenisch.
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ECE graduate student Tudor Dumitras has won the prestigious John
Vlissides Award at the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on
Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA). This award is given to the doctoral student showing significant
promise in applied software research and the most potential for having
a significant impact on the practice of software development. Dumitras' thesis advisor is ECE Professor Priya Narasimhan. His work
involves dependable software upgrades in distributed systems. He also
won the ACM Student Research Competition at OOPSLA 2009.
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ChemE graduate student Drew Cunningham has been asked to
participate in a Best of BIOT (the
ACS division of biochemical technology) Webinar for his talk given at the August Washington DC ACS
Meeting.
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OctoberSeveral CIT alumni will be receiving Carnegie Mellon alumni awards during Homecoming Weekend, October 29 - November 1. The CIT winners are:
- Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award: William L. "Red" Whittaker (CIT'75, '79), the Fredkin University Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon
- Alumni Distinguished Service Award: Wayne S. Balta (CIT'82), IBM vice president for Corporate Environment Affairs and Product Safety and William Thomas Wood II (CIT'74), widely recognized as the behind-the-scenes hero of Carnegie Mellon's Buggy Sweepstakes tradition
- Alumni Achievement Award: Carol A. Dudley-Williams (CIT'80), senior vice president of the Basic Chemicals Division, Dow Chemical Co.; Shree K. Nayar (CIT'91), Department of Computer Science Chair, Columbia University; Benjamin A. Pontano (CIT'65), retired from role as company president at Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT)
- Recent Alumni Award: Markus Klausner (CIT'98), chairman, Bosch Automotive Group and Ram Kumar Krishnamurthy (CIT'98), senior principal research engineer, Intel Corp.'s Microprocessor Technology Labs
- Faculty Service Award: Chris T. Hendrickson, Duquesne Light Company Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
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Nokia Research Center (NRC), Palo Alto has named two new Ph.D. student
fellows at Carnegie Mellon’s Silicon Valley campus, in
association with the CyLab Mobility Research Center.
Feng-tso "Lucas" Sun and Heng-Tze "Michael" Cheng will each receive
this appointment for the academic year. As Nokia Fellows, Sun and
Cheng will both focus on context-aware mobile computing. Read More
EPP Post Doc Inês Lima Azevedo presented the keynote, "The Transition to Solid State Lighting" at the EE Times LED and Lighting Virtual Conference on October 21st.
MechE Professor Alan McGaughey received an Air Force Young Investigator Award. His proposal was among the 37 proposals selected out of 202 submitted proposals. He is also the only one from Carnegie Mellon! McGaughey will investigate quantum mechanics-driven prediction of nanostructure thermal conductivity. Read More
The Department of Biomedical Engineering has launched
a new 9-12 month, course-based MBME master program that is particularly
appealing to students of traditional engineering or basic sciences. The program is designed to facilitate entry into the exciting
biomedical engineering job market, or to build a strong credential for
entering M.D. or Ph.D. programs. Read More
Ray Bareiss,
Professor of the Practice and Director of Educational Programs at
Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, was recently the keynote speaker for the first International Symposium on Tangible Software Engineering Education, sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Bareiss, along with Software Engineering director Todd Sedano,
co-wrote the invited paper for the symposium entitled "Developing
Software Engineering Leaders at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley." The
paper focuses on Carnegie Mellon's innovative master's degree in
Software Engineering, with technical and development management tracks,
targeted at working software professionals in Silicon Valley.
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A team of students from CMU won the 8th Annual HUST Creative and Fun
Capture the Flag competition earlier this month. Sponsored by the
University Security Team at Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea, the
competition lasted 48 hours with over 150 teams from around the world
competing. The team, which also won HackJam a few weeks ago, is advised by ECE assistant professor David Brumley.
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ChemE graduate student Teresa Kirschling has received an Award of Excellence from the American
Chemical Society Division of Environmental Chemistry for her
presentation "Impact of nanoscale zero-valent iron treatment on the
geochemistry and microbial diversity of trichloroethylene contaminated
aquifers" at the 238th ACS National Meeting in August 2009. Teresa is
conducting her Ph.D. research with Chemical Engineering faculty member
Bob Tilton and courtesy faculty member Greg Lowry of the Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering. Read More
MechE Professor Metin Sitti's research group was awarded "Best Paper" at this year's IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Conference in St. Louise, MO. It was selected out of around 1,400 submitted robotics papers. The research was done by graduate students Chytra Pawashe and Steven Floyd.
The MySecureCyberspace Game and Carnegie Cyber Academy companion Web site have earned finalist status in the Japan Prize, a prestigious contest for educational media. Read More
Carnegie Mellon's "Capture the Flag" team won third place at the
HackJam Competition on September 19-21. The team, named "Plaid Parliament Of
Pwning" was made up of students from INI, ECE, and CS.
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ECE graduate student Daniel McFarlin, won the Best Paper award at the
2009 conference on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) together
with his co-authors, ECE professors Franz Franchetti and Markus
Püschel. Only one award is given among about 70 accepted submissions.
The award last year also went to the Spiral group, the first time at
HPEC that the award is won two years in a row by the same research
group. Read More
BME seniors Rebecca Asher, Ryan Chehanske, Marina Musicus, and Julie Ng were inducted as Andrew Carnegie Society Scholars. The award is given to
students who show not only academic excellence but also
multi-dimensional characteristics such as volunteerism, involvement in
student organizations, participation in sports or the arts, and
leadership.
BME Professor Gustavo Rohde has been awarded an NIH R21 grant, entitled
"Deformation-Based Computational Morphometry for Cell Biology
Applications." The project aims to develop sophisticated informatics
tools for analyzing images acquired in cell biological studies.
SeptemberECE alumni Bowei Gai, Samir Shah,
and Ajay Panagariya have created Snapture, a new iPhone app that went on sale September 21 at Apple's
AppStore and is designed to change the way people take pictures on their
iPhone.
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INI student Karan Kumar held a summer internship with VMware, a recognized leader in virtualization technology. Kumar was one of three interns to win trip to VMworld 2009 by winning a technical poster contest at the company. Read More
A paper co-authored by BME/ECE professor
Jelena Kovacevic, P. Vandewalle, and M. Vetterli was one of the top 100
most downloaded on IEEE Xplore in the six month period from November
2008 to April 2009, even though it as published at the end of the
cycle. The paper, titled "What, why and how of reproducible research in
signal processing," was published in the May 2009 issue of IEEE Signal
Processing Magazine. Kovacevic is the director of the Center for Bioimage Informatics in the Biomedical Engineering Department.
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Engineering and Public Policy Department Head M. Granger Morgan was selected to receive the 2009 Distinguished Educator Award by the Society for Risk Analysis. The award will be presented during the SRA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland in December 2009.
Larry Biegler, the Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering, and his former Ph.D. student Andreas Waechter have been awarded the 2009 INFORMS Computing Society Prize, which is given for the best paper dealing with the Operations Research/Computer Science interface. Their paper, "On the Implementation of an Interior-Point Filter Line-Search Algorithm for Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming," was published in Mathematical Programming, Series A in 2006. The award will be presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting, Oct.11-14 in San Diego. Read More
MSE's Tom Nuhfer and CEE's Donna Marano won this year's Andy Awards for Dedication and University Citizenship, respectively.
Peter Adams, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
and Engineering and Public Policy, gave an invited talk at the Gordon
Conference for Atmospheric Chemistry held in Waterville Valley, NH, in
August 2009. The talk, entitled "CCN Formation on the Global Scale:
Microphysics and Chemistry" discussed the chemistry and physics of
cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). Read More
CEE undergraduate Jenae Pennie (Class of 2011) has been awarded a
two-year Science, Mathematics & Research for Transformation (SMART)
Scholarship, established by the Department of Defense to support
undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines. The program aims
to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers working
at Department of Defense laboratories. Read More
ECE alumnus Yevgen Voronenko (Ph.D. 2008) has been selected as a Kauffman Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Fellow. Voronenko is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Spiral Group,
an interdisciplinary of researchers in the areas of signal processing,
algorithms, scientific computing, compilers, computer architecture, and
mathematics. Read More
BME and MSE junior Ellen Tworkoski has been awarded the Joseph F. Mulach Jr. Scholarship from the Pittsburgh Foundation for excellence in pursuing a degree in engineering.
AugustChemE Professor Lorenz Biegler has been appointed the 2009 Olaf A. Hougen Visiting Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, an award given to distinguished chemical engineering scholars.
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CEE Professor and Department Head Jim Garrett has been elected a fellow
of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Fellows occupy
ASCE's second-highest membership grade, and fellow status must be
attained by professional accomplishments via application and election
by the Membership Application Review Committee. Read More
BME Professor James Antaki
received ARRA funding from NIH to study a new technique of treating
malaria through magnetic separation technology. As over 500 million
people worldwide are afflicted with the disease, the project is
expected to have an enormous impact.
BME/ECE Professor Jelena Kovacevic will deliver a plenary talk at the 14th
General Meeting of European Woman in Mathematics. Her talk is titled
"Problems in Biological Imaging: Opportunities for Mathematical Signal
Processing." Earlier this summer, Kovacevic delivered a plenary talk at the "20
Years of Wavlets" Conference at DePaul University in Chicago titled
"Wavelets in the Real World." DePaul hosted the conference to
commemorate the twentieth anniversary of their 1989 conference on
computational and applied harmonic analysis that featured the newly
emerging topic of wavelets.
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The 2009-2010 Dowd-ICES Fellowship recipients have been announced: Jueun Lee from Mechanical Engineering, Jacob Melby from Materials Science and Engineering, Scott Peterson from Engineering and Public Policy, and Chris Highly from Biomedical Engineering. This fall, both the new fellows and the outgoing 2008-2009 fellows will present their research projects to the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) community and to Philip and Marsha Dowd at the Dowd Fellowship Symposium.
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Several CIT staff members have been nominated for Andy Awards! Congratulations to: Andrea Francioni
Rooney, Tom Nuhfer, Jennifer Engleson, Bonita Olson, Christa Jones, Donna Marano, Kelly McQuoid, and the ICES
Administrative Staff Team: Christina
Cowan, Yvonne
Brewster, Alicia
Brown, Becca
Gray, Tim
Kelly, Charlie
Matous, Rhonda
Moyer, and Daniel
Shapiro.
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ECE professors Franz Franchetti and Markus Püschel and Ph.D. students Frédéric
de Mesmay and Daniel McFarlin won a best
paper award at the Conference on Domain Specific Languages, July 2009,
in Oxford, UK. Read More
BME Head Yu-li Wang delivered the opening
keynote speech, entitled "Fluorescence Imaging of Live Cells—Seeing
and Understanding Leaves, Trees and Forests," for the 2009 European
Light Microscopy Initiative Meeting held in Glasgow, Scotland on June
9-12, 2009.
Four papers by INI and Silicon Valley students and faculty were accepted for presentation at The International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE 2009). Another paper was accepted at the Second International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking in GPS-Less Environments (MELT09). Read More
The Center for Silicon System Implementation (CSSI) hosted its annual
alumni and friends reception at the 46th IEEE/ACM Design Automation
Conference (DAC) on July 28th in San Francisco. Read More
Silicon Valley graduate student Deven Alimchandani recently won the Golden Bee
marketing contest at his company, Yahoo!. The contest encourages its
employees to dream up marketing ideas to create buzz for the company's
website. Deven devised the very economic idea of giving away air
fresheners to customers in line for a car wash. The marketing team
fully supported and executed the event, which included handing out the
air fresheners, emblazoned with the Yahoo! logo and a map of Silicon
Valley. Read More
ECE Professor Markus Püschel gave the opening plenary talk at the 2009
International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC)
on July 29 in Seoul, Korea. Read More
JulyECE alumnus Satashu Goel and ECE Professor Rohit Negi received a best paper
award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2009
held in Dresden, Germany in June. Their paper, titled "Analysis of
Delay Statistics for the Queued-Code," presented both a theoretical
analysis and a practical implementation of the novel queued-code which
combines ideas from queuing theory and communication theory into a
cross-layer framework. Read More
ECE graduate student Siddarth Garg is the official blogger for the 46th annual Design Automation Conference being held July 26-31 in San Francisco. Read More
Dr. Eranda Nikolla, who recently received her Ph.D. from the University
of Michigan, will join the Department of Chemical Engineering as an
Assistant Professor after she completes a postdoctoral appointment. Her
doctoral research was in catalysis and solid oxide fuel cells. She will
join the Energy Science and Engineering group. The department is elated
to add a promising young scientist to this important area of research. Read More
Research conducted by Peter Adams, Professor of CEE and EPP, and Jeff
Pierce from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, previously highlighted in the May 1, 2009 issue of Science Magazine, is now featured in Nature.
Adams and Pierce tested a hypothesis that says changes in the sun are
causing global warming. They found very small changes in the
concentrations of particles that affect clouds and determined these
changes are too small to impact climate, disputing the controversial
hypothesis. Read More
Carnegie Mellon Professors Larry Biegler, Ignacio Grossman, and Art
Westerberg have been recognized as the 2009 recipients of AICHE's
Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education. The Warren K.
Lewis Award is a major honor; its list of awardees is a Who's Who of
chemical engineering research and education. Among other criteria, the
award recognizes distinguished and continuing contributions to chemical
engineering education based on contributions of lasting educational
influence such as superior textbooks, lectures, and laboratory
techniques or models. Read More
Chemical Engineering alumnus Soni Oyekan (Ph.D. 1977) has received the 2009 Percy L. Julian Award from the
National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black
Chemists and Chemical Engineers. The Percy L. Julian Award is the most
prestigious award presented by NOBCChE. The award recognizes and honors
a recipient's scientific contributions and achievements, dedication to
research, commitment to the educational development of others and
passion for the chemistry profession. Dr. Oyekan was specifically
recognized for his contributions in oil refining and chemical
engineering. He has 10 patents and numerous publications on a variety
of topics in petroleum refining and catalysis. Read More
ECE alumnus and IBM Fellow John Cohn (E '91) is among the cast of characters in the new Discovery Channel reality show The Colony
which premiered Tuesday, July 21. The show is about volunteers from all
walks of life who participate in a controlled experiment to see what it
would take to survive and rebuild in the wake of a global catastrophe. Read about Cohn and his educational outreach efforts to kids on the university's website.
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ICES graduate student Gail Siewiorek and BME graduate student Dennis Trumble have received the John and Claire Bertucci Fellowship. The fellowship is offered by the College of Engineering (CIT) to outstanding graduate students to help with their tuition costs.
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CEE Professor Greg Lowry has been named the 2009 recipient of the Malcolm
Pirnie/AEESP Frontier in Research Award, given to recognize an
environmental engineering or science professor who has advanced the
environmental engineering and science field through recognized research
leadership and pioneering efforts in a new and innovative research
area. He will be recognized at an awards ceremony at the 2009
Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP)
Research and Education Conference in Iowa City, IA on July 28th. Read More
CEE Professor Jeanne VanBriesen has been named the 2009 recipient of the
McGraw-Hill/AEESP Award for Outstanding Teaching in Environmental
Engineering & Science, given to honor a faculty member who has made
substantive contributions directly through class-oriented teaching. She
will be recognized at an awards ceremony at the 2009 Association of
Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Research and
Education Conference in Iowa City on July 28th. Read More
ECE graduate student Paul Bogdan has received a 2009 fellowship from the Roberto Rocca Foundation. Read More
ECE graduate student Luca Parolini has won an APC Fellowship for Data Center Efficiency Research. Read More
CEE graduate student Ricardo Taborda has been selected to receive a
Bertucci Graduate Fellowship. Created through the generosity of John
and Claire Bertucci, this highly competitive fellowship was established
to provide merit fellowships to graduate students pursuing doctoral
degrees in the College of Engineering. Read More
EPP Professor Lester Lave's article, "The Potential of Energy Efficiency: An Overview," was published in The Bridge, the quarterly journal of the National Academy of Engineering. In the article, Lave explains that efficient technology that requires less energy has fueled the growth of our economy for more than a century. If the energy intensity of the U.S. economy hadn't fallen as dramatically as it did, it would now take four times as much petroleum, coal, and natural gas to produce the current GDP, at the 1919 energy-intensity level. Producing, transporting, and using that much energy, even if it were technically feasible, would devastate the natural environment and contribute to carbon dioxide emissions that would exceed the atmospheric concentration some scientists think would be catastrophic.
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ECE Professor and CyLab Technical Director Adrian Perrig and CyLab graduate student Ahren Studer and researcher Jonathan McCune were among the authors of paper named Best Paper at MobiSys 2009.
MobiSys 2009, the 7th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications
and Services was held from June 22 to June 25, 2009 in Kraków, Poland.
The event, jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and the USENIX
Association, focused on "innovative and significant research on the
design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of mobile computing and
wireless systems, applications, and services." Read More
Burak Kara has been granted a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation for his proposal "Sketch Based Construction and Interaction with Geometric Content in Creative Design Environments."
JuneMechE Professor Jeremy Michalek is the award recipient of the 2009 ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award.
Graduate student 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. Read More
A team of INI students at Carnegie Mellon CyLab Japan
(Kobe MSIT-IS) won first place in an IT incident handling competition
for students at a cyber security conference in Japan. The competition
was held by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan on
June 5, 2009, at the 13th annual Shirahama Cyber Crime Symposium.
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MayECE 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. Read More
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. Read More
ECE's Priya Narasimhan was on Washington DC's WJLA TV discussing cell phone spying. Read the transcript.
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. Read More
ECE's Raj Rajkumar will appear on KDKA TV at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20th to discuss the issue of GPS shortages.
ECE grad student Daniel 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. In addition, McFarlin's
first year of study has been funded by a fellowship from the National
Physical Science Consortium (NPSC). Read More
Professor Jacobo Bielak has been named University Professor at
Carnegie Mellon, the highest academic distinction university faculty
members can achieve. The title is awarded on the basis of national or
international recognition for research and other scholarly activities.
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Several ECE students have received graduate fellowships:
Frank J. Marshall Graduate Fellowship:
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Philip Bergeron (Advisor: Gary Fedder)
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Michael Chuang (Advisor: Priya Narasimhan)
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Andrews Rodriguez-Perez (Advisor: Vijayakumar Bhagavatula)
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Aveek Purohit (Advisor: Pei Zhang)
Lamme/Westinghouse Graduate Fellowship:
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Shahriyar Amini (Advisor: Priya Narasimhan)
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Matthew Beckler (Advisor: Shawn Blanton)
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Katharine Brigham (Advisor: Vijayakumar Bhagavatula)
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Joel Harley (Advisor: Jose' Moura)
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Michelle Mazurek (Advisor: Greg Ganger)
Leo Finzi Memorial Graduate Fellowship:
Weinan Ma (Advisors: Ken Mai, Onur Mutlu)
Nicholas Minnici Graduate Fellowship:
Sanja Cvijic (Advisor: Marija Ilic)
Ann and Martin McGuinn Graduate Fellowship:
Hsu-Chun Hsiao (Advisor: Adrian Perrig)
Hsu Chang Memorial Graduate Fellowship
Darmindra Arumugam (Advisor: Dan Stancil)
Goel Graduate Fellowship
Junsung Kim (Advisor: Raj Rajkumar)
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Second year ICES Ph.D. student Judy Shum has been chosen as one of only four podium presenters for the Young Investigators' Symposium to be held at the 2009 Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging Conference. The conference is being organized by the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science in Nashville, Tenn. Shum's research is entitled "Quantitative Assessment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Shape and Rupture Potential." She co-authored this paper with her advisor Associate ICES Research Professor Ender Finol, as well as former ICES researcher Elena DiMartino, former ICES visiting scholar Giampaolo Martufi, J. Grisafi, and S.C. Muluk. Read More
ECE Professor Priya Narasimhan was profiled as one of Pittburgh TEQ's Women in Technology for her work with the "YinzCam," a free mobile application used by Penguins fans at Mellon Arena.
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CEE Professor Kaushik Dayal has been awarded a grant from the Air Force
Office of Scientific Research to support a project entitled "Multiscale
Methods for the Systematic Analysis and Design of Nanostructures and
Nanostructed Materials."
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Congratulations to the winners of the CIT Honors Research Poster Competition at Meeting of the Minds:
- First Place: Mark Fuge (MechE), "A Testing Method and Cognitive Model of
Human Diagram Understanding for Automating Design Sketch Recognition"
- Second Place: Nicholas Wren (MSE), "Computational Modeling of the Nuclear Lamina"
- Third Place: Amanda DiIenno (BME), "Development of a Rational Approach for
Finding Formulations that Physically Stabilize Human Growth Hormone"
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Carnegie Mellon President Jared Cohon has been named a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Those elected to this highest grade of membership have attained
acknowledged eminence in their field and have contributed to the
public's welfare. President Cohon is recognized for his exemplary career as educator,
researcher and administrator, most notably his water resource systems
analysis research, leadership of national committees on critical
environment and energy issues, regional leadership of water
infrastructure improvements, and inspired leadership of Carnegie Mellon
University. President Cohon will be inducted officially on October 29
in Kansas City at the 2009 ASCE Convention.
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MSE Professor Marc De Graef was recently name as a Fellow of the Microscopy
Society of America (MSA). MSA fellowship is limited to a small fraction of
the membership who have made significant contributions to the advancement of
the science and practice of microscopy. De Graef has been elevated the rank
of Fellow for pioneering, seminal research in the development and
application of quantitative Lorentz methods for magnetic materials
characterization, theoretical magnetostatics for nanoscale magnetism, and
graduate and undergraduate microscopy education. The MSA will formally present the fellowship certificate on July 27, during the plenary session of the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2009 meeting in Richmond, VA.
EPP Professor Baruch Fischhoff was named
chair of a new National Research Council Committee on Behavioral and
Social-Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National
Security. Supported by the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence, the committee is charged with reviewing the science
regarding analytical approaches the intelligence community could use
and the organizational processes needed to support them.
EPP Associate Professor Francisco Veloso won the Decision Sciences
Institute's Stan Hardy Award for the "outstanding paper published in
2008 in the field of Operations Management" as co-author of the
publication, "ISO 9000 practices and financial performance: A
technology coherence perspective," published in the Journal of
Operations Management.
ECE graduate student Joel Harley has received three fellowships: a National Defense Science and
Engineering (NDSEG) Graduate Fellowship, a National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship, and a Department of Homeland Security
Fellowship. Read More
ECE student Ryan Johnson 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. Read More
ECE graduate student Dan Morris has been awarded a fellowship by the
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Global Research Consortium
(GRC). Read More
ICES graduate student Gail Siewiorek was awarded second place in the
podium presentation competition at the fourth annual Biomedical
Engineering & Biotechnology Research Symposium (BEBRS 2009). The
event was hosted by the Graduate Biomedical Engineering Society and the
Biomedical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon. Gail was awarded
for her presentation on "In vitro performance assessment of embolic
protection filters under pulsatile flow conditions." She is a graduate
advisee of ICES Associate Research Professor Ender Finol and is
currently pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering.
A paper by BME graduate students Yajuan Wang and Onur Dur was recently accepted by the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. The students analyzed cardiac fluid dynamics in early embryonic great vessels. The
results identified a number of geometric and fluid mechanical
parameters that may regulate cardiac morphogenesis during
cardiovascular development.
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. Read More
AprilECE Faculty members Richard Stern and Thomas Sullivan are part of a collaborative team offering 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. Based in the School of Music, the Bachelor of Science in Music and
Technology and the Master of Science in Music and Technology programs
bring together faculty from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the
School of Computer Science and the School of Music to explore new ways
of performing, creating, presenting and archiving music. Carnegie
Mellon will usher in the first undergraduate and graduate classes in
fall 2009.
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CEE Professor Jeanne VanBriesen and her colleagues are being recognized for their
paper, entitled "Efficient Sensor Placement Optimization for Securing
Large Water Distribution Networks," as the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Engineering
Best Policy Oriented Paper for 2008. This paper was authored by Andreas
Krause, Jure Leskovec, Carlos Guestrin, Jeanne VanBriesen, and Christos
Faloutsos. Read More
ECE senior Celestine Lau along with Carnegie Mellon Computer Science sophomores Tom Conerly and Alan Pierce finished third among North American teams at the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, also known as the "Battle of the Brains."
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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. Read More
CEE Professor Burcu Akinci and CEE Ph.D. candidate Pingbo Tang recently were awarded a best paper award at the 2009 Construction Research Congress for their paper entitled, "Extracting Surveying Goals from Point Clouds to Support Construction and Infrastructure Inspection."
Raj Rajkumar, Professor of ECE and CS, will deliver a plenary talk
on the opening day at the [Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPS)]
(http://www.cpsweek.org/) 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).
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MarchChemE Ph.D. student Teresa Kirschling has been selected to attend the Microbial Diversity course at the world famous Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Described as "an intensive six-and-a-half-week course for graduate or postdoctoral students, as well as established investigators," the course has a strictly limited attendance of only 20 participants. The course emphasizes methodologies "for recognizing the metabolic, phylogenetic, and genomic diversity of cultivated and as yet uncultivated bacteria." Teresa is a third year Ph.D. student working with Bob Tilton to determine how iron nanoparticles that are being developed for in situ groundwater remediation technologies influence the activity of natural microbial communities. Read More
Marios Savvides, ECE professor and head of the Biometrics Lab, and his team of graduate students, will be a feature story on the March 20 WTAE TV, channel 4 newscast at 6:10 p.m.
Scott Kelly, MechE alumnus and Senior VP of Operations at Dayton Power & Light was awarded the President's Award during the 2009 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Conference. According to the BEYA website, "The Black Engineer of the Year Award rewards excellence in the development and delivery of technology, as well as concern for others."
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CEE Professor Greg Lowry has been selected as one of five people to receive this year's ASCE Huber Prize. Huber Prizes are extremely competitive national awards. Lowry will receive the award at the EWRI Congress, May 17 - May 21, 2009, in Kansas City, MO. Read More
ECE and BME Professor Jelena Kovacevic is the co-author of a paper among the Ten Top Cited for the Journal of Applied and Harmonic Analysis since the journal began publication in 1993.
The paper, "Quantized Frame Expansions with Erasures," Volume 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pp 203-233, V.K. Goyal, J. Kovacevic, and J. A. Kelner, looks into how to provide robustness in the transmission of data in the presence of losses (erasures) by using redundant signal representations known as frames.
The article introduced the mathematical community to the problem, by phrasing it in simple terms: how does one design a rectangular matrix of size MxN (M>N) such that any NxN submatrix is full rank. The article had a large body of work follow it.
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CEE Professors Christopher Weber and H. Scott Matthews' paper, "Food Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States" was named Environmental Science & Technology's 2008 top policy paper. The paper discussed the environmental benefits of eating less red meat and dairy and has been much-covered in the news media since it was released last year.
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ECE Professor Diana Marculescu and graduate student Siddarth Garg have won a Best Paper Award at the upcoming 10th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design from March 16-18 in San Jose, California. Their paper is titled "3D-GCP: An Analytical Model for the Impact of Process Variations on the Critical Path Delay Distribution of 3D ICs."
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CEE Professor Cliff Davidson was selected to receive the 2009 William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching, a significant and well-deserved university-wide recognition. He will receive his award at the Celebration of Teaching, where all university teaching awards will be presented. The event will be held on Thursday, April 23, and all are welcome to attend.
Celebration of Teaching
Thursday, April 23, 2009
4:30 p.m.
Reception
Rangos 1 & 2, University Center
5:15 p.m.
Awards Presentation
Rangos 1 & 2, University Center
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CEE Professor Jeanne VanBriesen has been selected as a 2009 Leopold Leadership Fellow. She is among the 19 mid-career academic environmental scientists named as Fellows this year. The group was selected through a highly competitive process on the basis of their exceptional scientific qualifications, demonstrated leadership ability, and strong interest in communicating science beyond traditional academic audiences. The Fellows will take part in intensive leadership and communications training designed to hone their skills in delivering scientific information to decision makers, the media, and the public. They also become part of a network of past Fellows and program advisors who are leaders in conducting scientific outreach beyond traditional academic and scientific circles.
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As part of National Engineers Week, CIT students showcased their innovative product designs from a MechE senior capstone design project to students at Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Va.
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FebruaryCEE undergraduates Jennifer Lawrence and Paz Gilboa have received awards and scholarships from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Lawrence received the American Bridge Leadership Award and a $5,000 scholarship while Gilboa was selected as a finalist for the same award and was awarded a $500 scholarship. CEE alumnus Tony Gioia Jr. (CE '56, '57, '60) received the Distinguished Civil Engineer of the Year Award from the ASCE; Dick Gray (CE '56) was awarded the Michael A. Gross Meritorious Service Award.
CEE Alumni Wayne Balta (B.S. 1982) and Markus Klausner (Ph.D.
1998) will be honored with university-level alumni awards at
Homecoming. Mr. Balta will receive the Alumni Service Award and Dr.
Klausner will receive a Recent Alumni Award. The alumni awards ceremony
is at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, October 30, 2009 in the University Center.
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MSE Head Gregory Rohrer was honored by the American Ceramic Society with its Robert B. Sosman Award, the highest recognition of scientific accomplishment given by the Society’s Basic Science Division. This award is given in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science of an area that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics. As part of the award, Rohrer will present a plenary lecture at the Annual Meeting, where a symposium will be held in his honor. This prestigious lecture is given each year by the awardee who has been deemed by the award committee to have made the most significant contribution to the field of ceramics.
MSE Professor Robert Davis received the John Berdeen Award from The Mineral, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) for outstanding contributions and leadership in the field of electronic materials. MSE Professor David Laughlin received the Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award from the Electronic, Magnetic, and Phontonic Materials Division of TMS for research excellence related to electronic, magnetic, and photonic materials science; technological impact; broad, sustained commitment to teaching or mentoring; service to TMS and/or the profession; and impact upon governmental or policy-making bodies.
MSE Professor Richard Fruehan has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Charles W. Briggs Award for Best Paper for his paper entitled "Decarburization and Slag Formation Model for Electric Arc Furnace" (with Raimundo A. F. O. Fortes, Hiroyuki Matsuura). This award is presented to the author of a paper selected by the AIST Steelmaking Technology Division, and judged by the Electric Steelmaking Technology Committee to be the best technical paper submitted. As the recipient of this award, the paper will automatically be considered for the AIST Hunt-Kelly Outstanding Paper Award next year.
CIT has announced the winners of its 2008-2009 Faculty Awards. Congratulations to our outstanding professors for receiving the following awards.
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The George Tallmann Ladd Research Award was given to Mohammad Islam, Materials Science & Engineering and Chemical Engineering, and David Ricketts, Electrical & Computer Engineering, in recognition of their research, professional accomplishments, and potential.
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William Messner, Mechanical Engineering, received the Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award for his excellence in teaching, course development, leadership, and contributions to curriculum development and implementation.
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The Philip L. Dowd Fellowship Award, which recognizes educational contributions and encourages the undertaking of an educational project, has been awarded to Jose Moura, Electrical & Computer Engineering.
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Vijayakumar Bhagavatula and Marios Savvides of Electrical & Computer Engineering received the Outstanding Research Award for their collaborative research.
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The Steven J. Fenves Award, which acknowledges significant contribution to systems research in areas relevant to the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, has been awarded to James Antaki.
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MechE Professor Metin Sitti and MechE graduate students Michael Murphy and Burak Aksak published a paper in the journal Small. The team's paper was about their latest research on microstructures based on gecko toes. Sitti's team previously was able to mimic the sticking forces of the gecko's toes. The team's latest discovery was how to get their strong "gecko tape" to let go. The research was also featured in MIT Technology Review.
ECE Professor Priya Narasimhan won the 2009 Emerging Female Scientist Award announced by the Carnegie Science Center of Pittsburgh. She was recognized as a leader and innovator in developing embedded and mobile technologies. Read More
JanuaryCEE Professor Jeanne VanBriesen was named the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Pittsburgh Section's Professor of the Year. This award is given for outstanding teaching ability and significant contributions toward improving professional aspects of civil engineering education. VanBriesen will receive the award at a ceremony on February 21, during National Engineers Week. Read More
MechE Professor Burak Kara was recently featured in an article in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)'s Mechanical Engineering magazine. Read More
Carnegie Mellon's Sigma Chapter hosted the 2008 Eta Kappa Nu National Leadership Conference on November 8. Read More
ECE Professor Rob Rutenbar was elected a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Class of 2008 for contributions to computer-aided design tools for mixed-signal integration circuits. Read More
ECE Professor Onur Mutlu authored a paper with Microsoft Research's Thomas Moscibroda that was selected as one of the "Top Pick" papers of 2008 in the computer architecture field by the IEEE Micro Magazine. Read More
ECE graduate student Nicholas O'Donoughue has won the Best Student Paper award at the 2008 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. Read More
BME Professor Kris Dahl was awarded a grant from the Progeria Research Foundation to study premature aging. Her research will examine protein interactions with purified membranes.
The ICES staff recently announced a College of Engineering fundraising project it is coordinating to benefit the National Pancreas Foundation (NPF). The CIT Staff and Faculty Cookbook will gather favorite recipes from Carnegie Mellon faculty and staff of their most beloved dishes—the ones they make at home for family and friends. The mission is to raise money through the sales of this cookbook and donate it to the National Pancreas Foundation for pancreatic research. All net proceeds from the sale of this cookbook will be sent directly to the NPF. Read More
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