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EE Newsletters
News & Events
- Chou Research team develops method that could lead to smaller, more powerful microchips
Stephen Chou's research team has published a report in the May 4 issue of Nature Nanotechnology on a process that could lead to smaller, more powerful microchips. You can learn more about the process on the University's home page.
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- Poor Recipient of the IEEE 2008 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
Vince Poor has been selected to receive the 2008 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society. The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award was instituted to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community. Poor will receive the award at the upcoming International Symposium on Information Theory in Toronto.
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- Kale Franz and Anthony Hoffman receive Honorific Fellowships
Kale Franz and Anthony Hoffman were both recently awarded Honorific Fellowships by the Graduate School. Franz received the Wallace Memorial Fellowship and Hoffman received the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship. Honorific Fellowships are awarded by the Graduate School annually upon the students who, in the judgment of the University faculty, display the highest scholarly excellence.
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- Vikram Vijayan '07 awarded a 2008 NSDEG Fellowship
Vikram Vijayan '07 has received a 2008 National Defense Science and Engineering (NSDEG) fellowship award. These prestigious DOD fellowships recognize individuals who have demonstrated ability and special aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering and who will pursue a graduate degree in or closely related to an area of DOD interest. He was previously awarded a 2007 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Vikram is studying for a Ph.D. degree at Harvard University in the Center for Systems Biology.
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- John Chang ’10 and Eric Cohen ’10 presenting a conference paper at IEEE Sarnoff Symposium
Two Electrical Engineering students John Chang '10 and Eric Cohen '10 will be presenting a conference paper at Sarnoff student presentations this week. The paper titled "Three Dimensional Laser Holography as it Pertains to Digital Data Storage" is a result of their Electrical Engineering Independent Work project, advised by Professor Paul Prucnal. Since 1978 the IEEE Sarnoff Symposium has been bringing together a tremendous and rich diversity of telecom experts from industry, universities, and government. Beside the technical paper presentations the Symposium will include tutorials, student paper poster presentations, executive panels, and exhibitions.
<posted 4/30/08>
- Prof. Martonosi's Zebranet featured on CNN
ZebraNet, a research project that began at Princeton, uses GPS collars to study the behavior of zebras. For further information, please refer to CNN article.
<posted 4/24/08>
- Sturm Inducted into the New Jersey High-Tech Hall of Fame
Prof. James Sturm was inducted into the New Jersey High Tech Hall of Fame. He was honored with the other inductees at a ceremony and dinner in Livingston, New Jersey on April 10th. The New Jersey High-Tech Hall of Fame spotlights the high-tech achievements of Business Leaders, Researchers, Educators, and Government Officials, who, through their leadership and accomplishments, have made New Jersey one of the premier high-tech states in the nation. These leaders were selected by the industry itself through balloting coordinated by the American Electronics Association, BioNJ, and Health Care Institute of New Jersey. Prof. Sturm, the William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, has won numerous awards for teaching excellence, including six awards from the Princeton student Engineering Council, Princeton University President’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and the W.M. Keck Foundation Award for Engineering Teaching Excellence. He is the Director of Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM), a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), president of the Device Research Conference, and is on the boards of directors of the Materials Research Society and of Aegis Lightwave. Past Princeton inductees into the New Jersey High-Tech Hall of Fame include President Shirley Tilghman, SEAS Entrepreneur In Residence Greg Olsen, and Prof. Steve Chou.
<posted 4/11/08>
- Calderbank Recipient of Graduate Mentoring Award
Professor Robert Calderbank has been named one of this year's recipients of the Graduate Mentoring Award. The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, together with the Graduate School sponsors this annual award to honor Princeton faculty members who are exemplary in supporting the development of their graduate students as teachers, scholars, and professionals. Professor Calderbank has made many contributions to the fields of coding and information theory and is a two-time winner of the IEEE Information Theory Prize Paper award. Prof. Calderbank will receive the award at the Graduate School's hooding ceremony on June 2nd.
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- Tracy Tsai Receives 2008 NSF Fellowship
Tracy Tsai, a first-year Electrical Engineering graduate student, is a recipient of the 2008 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Fellowship program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in the relevant science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees, including women in engineering and computer and information science. NSF Fellows are expected to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. These individuals will be crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation's technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic well-being of society at large. Ms. Tsai’s research with Prof. Wysocki focuses on development of new mid-infrared laser sources and detection systems for molecular spectroscopy and trace-gas sensing applications.
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- Chiang and Collaborators Research Featured in Technology Review News
With IP video entertainment and massive content sharing increasingly shaping how the Internet is used, Mung Chiang and his research group and collaborators have been investigating how to characterize and bridge the traditional divide between 'content providers' and 'pipe-providers'. Several ongoing research work, in collaboration with partners from Princeton CS, Microsoft Research, and Motorola Labs, are covered, including the topics of achieving the video streaming capacity by P2P, quantifying the debate about network neutrality, realizing the vision of video-content-aware networking, and approaching the limit of Network Distribution Capacity. More details can be found at Technology Review.
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- Don Boroson '73 *77 Wins Lincoln Lab Award
Don Boroson, group leader of the Optical Communications Technology Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, has been named the recipient of a Lincoln Laboratory Technical Excellence Award. The award recognizes exceptional, sustained individual technical excellence in a laboratory mission area. Boroson is the lead engineer on GeoLITE, the world's first successful space-based laser communication system, and lead system engineer on the Mars Laser Communication Demonstration. He was cited for his contributions to the field of modulation and coding techniques as applied to optical communication systems. [His] efforts have transformed this field from one of mainly theoretical interest to one of broad national impact. Boroson earned his B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1973 and received his Ph.D. from the University in 1977.
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- Tiffany Ko ’09 Receives Award from IEEE Princeton Central Jersey Section
EE Student Tiffany Ko’09 has received a student project award from IEEE Princeton Central Jersey Section to pursue a project concerning increasing performance and controlling the output behavior of quantum cascade lasers during the fabrication process. The objective is to experiment with grating periodicity and the point at which etching is done in the fabrication processes and analyze the resulting effects on the output behavior and performance of the QC laser. By etching gratings onto the top of the laser, depending on the periodicity of the grating, specific parasitic modes are removed and finer wavelength control of emission may also be achieved.
<posted 2/28/08>
- Wysocki Joins the EE Department
The start of the spring semester brought a new face to the EE Department. Assistant Professor Gerard Wysocki joined the Department from Rice University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering where he was a Faculty Fellow and Lecturer. Prof. Wysocki obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from Johannes Kepler University in 2003 and a M.S. Electronics from Wroclaw University of Technology in 1999. His current research interests are focused mainly on various molecular absorption spectroscopy techniques (such as direct absorption, photoacoustic or cavity enhanced techniques) and their applications to the detection of trace gases. He has developed several state-of-the-art mid-infrared spectrometers for trace-gas detection based on novel laser sources such as pulsed or continuous wave quantum cascade lasers. He has also designed and demonstrated the performance of a widely tunable mid-infrared external cavity laser based on a quantum cascade laser gain medium employing a novel coupled cavity tuning technique (patent application pending filed by Rice University). Please join us in welcoming Gerard to Princeton.
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- Mable Fok Receives First Prize in IEEE Hong Kong Section 2007 Postgraduate Student Paper Contest
Electrical Engineering Researcher Mable Fok received First Prize in IEEE Hong Kong Section 2007 Postgraduate Student Paper Contest. The awarded paper is entitled "Tunable Optical Delay Using Four-Wave Mixing in a 35-cm Highly Nonlinear Bismuth-Oxide Fiber and Group Velocity Dispersion". The proposed scheme offers a new solution for bit synchronization and tunable delay in optical processing and optical communication networks. The IEEE Hong Kong Section organizes the Annual Postgraduate Student Paper Contest to encourage student members to apply their engineering knowledge to research projects in electrical and electronic engineering and to present their work concisely and coherently.
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- Yifei Huang and Kuniqunde Cherenack Win Top 2 Best Student Poster Awards at the 2008 Flexbile Electronics and Displays Conference
Two EE grad students recently won best student poster awards at the 2008 Flexbile Electronics and Displays Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona. Yifei Huang won 1st place best student poster award for his poster on "Self-Aligned Top-Gate Schottky Source/Drain Amorphous Silicon TFT". Yifei Huang is a second year graduate student. Huang’s advisor is Jim Sturm. Kuniqunde Cherenack won 2nd place best student poster award for her poster on " Improving the Effective Field Effect Mobility in TFTs Fabricated at 300°C on a Clear Plastic Substrate". Kuni Cherenack is a fourth year graduate student. Cherenack’s advisor is Sigurd Wagner. Over 20 students participated in the poster session judged by technology experts from industry and academia. The posters were judged on the basis of originality, quality of presentation, relevance and significance of the completed work.
<posted 2/7/08>
- Robert E. Kahn *64 co-recipient of 2008 Japan Prize
Robert E. Kahn *64 is one of three recipients of this year’s Japan Prize given by The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. Dr. Kahn is being honored for his work on developing communications protocols that allow wireless networks to be connected with telephone line-linked networks. Together with Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, a co-recipient of the Prize, Dr. Kahn created the basic “network” concept that developed into the Internet now used worldwide. Dr. Kahn received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1964 and an honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Princeton in 1998. Dr. Kahn is Chairman, CEO & President of Corporation for National Research Initiatives. The Japan Prize is awarded to people worldwide whose original and outstanding achievements in science and technology are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge. The categories for each year’s prizes are determined by the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan.
<posted 1/18/08>
- Princeton Engineers Develop Silicon Replacement Paving Way for Powerful Carbon-Based Electronics
Princeton engineers have developed a novel way to replace silicon with carbon on large surfaces, clearing the way for new generations of faster, more powerful cell phones, computers and other electronics. The electronics industry has pushed the capabilities of silicon to its limit and one intriguing replacement has been carbon, said Stephen Chou, professor of electrical engineering. A material called graphene -- a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice -- could allow electronics to process information and produce radio transmissions 10 times better than silicon-based devices. Until now, switching from silicon to carbon has not been possible because technologists believed they needed graphene material in the same form as the silicon used to make chips: a single crystal of material 8 or 12 inches wide. The largest single-crystal graphene sheets made to date have been no wider than a couple millimeters, not big enough for a single chip. Chou and researchers in his lab realized that a big graphene wafer is not necessary as long they could place small crystals of graphene only in the active areas of the chip. They developed a novel method to achieve this goal and demonstrated it by making high-performance working graphene transistors. Chou, along with electrical engineering graduate student Xiaogan Liang and materials engineer Zengli Fu, published their findings in the December 2007 issue of Nano Letters, a leading journal in the field. The research was funded in part by the Office of Naval Research.
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- Peh and John Suarez Win “Excellence in Teaching” Awards
Professor Li-Shiuan Peh and Electrical Engineering Grad Student John Suarez are the recipients of two of the 2007 “Excellence in Teaching” Awards given by the Princeton University Undergraduate Engineering Council. Peh was honored for her teaching of ELE 580 in the Spring of 2007 and Suarez was honored for his teaching as a TA in ELE 208. The Excellence in Teaching Awards, initiated by engineering undergraduate students in the fall of 1988, recognizes outstanding dedication, talent, and a commitment to student learning.
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- Verdu Receives IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
Prof. Sergio Verdu received the 2008 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for fundamental contributions to information theory and the development of multiuser detection. IEEE Medals are among the IEEE’s most distinguished honors. The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal was established by the Board of Directors in 1986 'for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems and technology.' The award is named in honor of Dr. Richard W. Hamming, who has had a central role in the development of computer and computing science, and whose many significant contributions in the area of information science include his error-correcting codes. In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: scope includes information transmission, coding, storage and recovery, subject areas include information theory, coding theory, data communication, computer networks, data storage and retrieval, image and speech understanding, originality, breadth, impact on technology, patents/publications and the quality of the nomination.
<posted 12/27/07>
- Electrical Engineering in Biology
Nine members of the Department’s faculty conduct research related to biology. Projects include synthetic biology, biofluidics MEMS, sensing of biomolecules in breath, environmental sensing, processing of functional magnetic resonance images and speech recognition, bioinformatics and biomimetic compute architecture, and electronic skin. Click here to learn about faculty, their research interest, and typical publications.
<posted 12/13/07>
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