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EE Newsletters
News & Events
- Princeton EDGE Lab Opens
The Princeton EDGE Lab opened November 8th. The Lab, founded by Prof. Chiang and his group and sponsored by many new grants in 2009, bridges the theory-practice divide in networking and builds on the combined core of rigor in the answers and relevance in the questions. Through collaboration across many disciplinary boundaries, as well as the academia-industry boundary, the Lab constantly re-examines the mathematical crystallization of engineering artifacts in networking. The research topics consist of an evolving set of research projects spanning the modeling, analysis, and design of networks, both technological and human ones, as motivated by social interactions, content sharing, and clean tech solutions. The challenges in the associated fundamental research include nonconvexity, dynamics, and high dimensionality. The lab will also provide a unique platform for technology transfer and engineering education. For more information about the lab, please visit the website.
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- Christopher Barsi Wins Best Student Paper Award at OSA
hristopher Barsi, an EE Grad student has won the Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2009 annual conference of the Optical Society of America (OSA). His presentation, entitled “Digital Reconstruction of Optically Induced Potentials,” was voted the best paper in the category Optics in Information Science. It described an extension of computational imaging to include the effects of spatial nonlinearity. Chris’s advisor is Prof. Jason Fleisher. Founded in 1916, OSA was organized to increase and diffuse the knowledge of optics, pure and applied; to promote the common interests of investigators of optical problems, of designers and of users of optical apparatus of all kinds; and to encourage cooperation among them.
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- Prucnal awarded Walter Curtis Johnson Prize
Prof. Paul Prucnal is the recipient of the 2009 Walter Curtis Johnson Prize for Teaching Excellence in Electrical Engineering. The award was given for his teaching of the course ELE 454 : Photonics and Light Wave Communications. In addition to this award, Prucnal has also received the SEAS Distinguished Teacher Award. The Walter Johnson Prize was established in 1986 by an anonymous alumnus to recognize outstanding undergraduate teaching in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton. It is named in honor of Walter C. Johnson who served on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department from 1937 to 1981 including 15 years as chair of the Department from 1950 to 1965. During his tenure at Princeton, Walter Johnson established a reputation among students as an excellent teacher.
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- Wagner receives Nevill Mott Prize
Prof. Sigurd Wagner was honored at the International Conference on Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors in Utrecht, Netherlands, by the award of the Nevill Mott Prize "for his groundbreaking research, both fundamental and applied, on amorphous semiconductors as well as chalcopyrites." Prof. Wagner also gave the plenary opening lecture of the conference. The award recognizes Prof. Wagner for his inventions of photovoltaic solar cells, his contributions to the science and technology of amorphous silicon for solar cells and transistors, and his role in the development of large area flexible electronic surfaces.
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- Poor Elected Fellow of UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering
Prof. Vince Poor has been elected an international fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom. The academy described Poor as a world-leading engineering researcher and educator in signal processing, wireless communications and related fields. Prof. Poor is the dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and is a member of National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former Guggenheim fellow. The academy, established in 1976, is a professional organization composed of Britain’s most eminent and distinguished engineers. Complete article can be found here.
<posted 10/15/09>
- Schmidt Fund Endowment for Transformative Technology
Google CEO Eric Schmidt ’76 and his wife, Wendy, have created a $25 million endowment fund at Princeton University for the invention, development and utilization of cutting-edge technology that has the capacity to transform research in the natural sciences and engineering. Schmidt earned a BSE in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1976. Complete article can be found here.
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- Houck Wins 2009 Packard Fellowship Science & Engineering
Prof. Andrew Houck has won the 2009 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering for his work in physics; to generate desired quantum states, implementing extreme optical non-linearities inaccessible in conventional materials and to build towards a scalable quantum computer. He is one of sixteen researchers to be awarded the fellowship this year. The Fellowship Program was established in 1988 and arose out of David Packard's commitment to strengthening university-based science and engineering programs. By supporting unusually creative researchers early in their careers, the Packard Foundation hopes to develop scientific leaders, further the work of promising young scientists and engineers, and support efforts to attract talented graduate students into university research in the United States.
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- Jha and Chun-Yi Lee win Best Paper Award
Prof. Niraj Jha and his EE graduate student Chun-Yi Lee have won a best paper award for the processor architecture track at the recently-concluded IEEE International Conference on Computer Design. The paper entitled "FinFET-based Dynamic Power Management of On-chip Interconnection Networks through Adaptive Back-gate Biasing" introduces a very fine-grain (clock cycle level) power management method for a double-gate CMOS technology called FinFETs, which shows the feasibility of the approach by demonstrating how the performance and power consumption of on-chip networks can be adjusted automatically based on incoming traffic, thus using just enough power for the performance needed.
<posted 10/12/09>
- Wysocki co-develops a sensor for detecting nitric oxide gas
Prof. Gerard Wysocki worked with colleagues at Rice University to develop a highly portable and sensitive sensor for detecting nitric oxide gas, a key player in pollution and human physiology. The device uses a laser and an innovative type of polarizing filter to detect very small quantities of the gas. Such a portable device, suitable for large-scale deployment, could be of great value to atmospheric science, pollution control, biology and medicine. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation through a larger grant to the MIRTHE (Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment Engineering) Research Center based at Princeton, and by the Department of Energy as part of larger grants from Aerodyne Research Inc. and the Robert Welch Foundation. Complete article can be found here
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- Jakub Szefer awarded NSF EAPSI Fellowship
EE graduate student Jakub Szefer was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship at National Taiwan University for the summer of 2009. During his time at the National Taiwan University, he worked on writing a CPU simulator, a simulator which could be used to investigate new CPU instructions that could be useful in accelerating cryptographic applications.
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- Someya Appointed as Princeton Global Scholar
Prof. Takao Someya of the University of Tokyo has been appointed in the Department of Electrical Engineering as a Princeton Global Scholar. Prof. Someya is the world’s leading expert in large-area organic electronics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1997. He has received a number of awards, most recently a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science prize and the 1st prize of the newly established German Innovation Award. He is a member of the board of directors of the U.S. Materials Research Society. Please check the SEAS Events page for more information on his seminar on September 21 "Ultra-flexible, foldable, and stretchable electronics using organic transistors with self-assembled monolayers”.
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- Malik and Former Students receive 2009 CAV Award
Prof. Sharad Malik and his former students, Conor Madigan ’00, Kateeva, Inc., Matthew Moskewicz ’00, University of California, Berkeley, Ying Zhao, *01, Wuxi Capital Group, Lintao Zhang *03, Microsoft Research were recipients of the 2009 CAV Award presented in June at the 21st annual CAV Conference. The award was presented to individuals who made major advances in creating high-performance Boolean satisfiability solvers. The recipients of this year’s award worked in two different teams, one at the University of Michigan and one at Princeton University. Their work touched off a flurry of activity which is on going. SAT solvers have had profound impact on the field of computer-aided verification, a field dedicated to the creation of tools that allow hardware and software designers to detect possible flaws in their systems and programs. The 2009 CAV Award recognized the contributions of these individuals to their field. The Princeton team’s Chaff solver was able to handle SAT problems of far greater size than anyone had imagined possible. They identified memory performance as a critical bottleneck in DPLL SAT solvers and devised clever data structures to reduce the portions of a formula that must be rechecked as the effects of the variable assignments are propagated. The CAV conference is the premier international event for reporting research on Computer Aided Verification.
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- Houck Named Top Innovator by Technology Review
Prof. Andrew Houck has been named one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by Technology Review magazine. The magazine gives its TR35 awards annually to “young innovators for accomplishments that are poised to have a dramatic impact on the world as we know it.” Houck, an assistant professor, was honored for his work to build a quantum computer by using superconducting circuits as quantum bits, or qubits. Controlling the qubit without destroying the information tucked inside is a major challenge, Houck has developed a superconducting qubit called a transmon that helps keep quantum information intact. Normally a qubit is read directly by measuring changes in charge, but that is not possible with the transmon. Houck coupled it to a microwave photon. By measuring the photon, it is possible to infer the qubit’s state and extract its information. Complete article can be found here.
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- Malik Receives President's Award for Distinguished Teaching
Prof. Sharad Malik is one of four Princeton faculty who received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching for 2009. The award was presented at Commencement on June 2. These awards were established in 1991 through gifts by Princeton alumni Lloyd Cotsen '50 and John Sherrerd '52 to recognize excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching. A committee of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students and academic administrators selected the winners from the submitted nominations.
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