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EE Newsletters
News & Events
- 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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- Prucnal Receives SEAS Distinguished Teacher Award
As the 2009 winner of the SEAS Distinguished Teacher Award, Prof. Paul Prucnal joins Professors Jim Sturm, Vince Poor and Sanjeev Kulkarni as the fourth EE faculty member to win this Award. Prucnal is also a three-time recipient of the Engineering Council Teaching Awards. He previously received the Department’s Walter Curtis Johnson Prize in 2007 and the McGraw Center Graduate Mentoring Award in 2006.
<posted 6/3/09>
- Calderbank to Lead Pentagon-Funded Research Initiative
The U.S. Department of Defense has selected Prof. Robert Calderbank to lead a multi-institutional research initiatives. The project, led by Calderbank, is aimed at transforming wireless telecommunications networks . The wireless telecommunications project will develop the fundamental science needed to design and manage a new type of wireless network that will not have a backbone of fixed infrastructure such as cell phone towers. Instead, these "ad hoc" networks would consist of mobile devices that find and use each other on the fly to enable timely and reliable communication. Calderbank and his co-investigators, Prof. Mung Chiang, Prof. H. Vincent Poor and Prof. Jennifer Rexford will work with researchers from the California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of California-Irvine, the University of Pennsylvania, Arizona State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The project is funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and is among 69 recently announced by the Pentagon as part of its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program. Full article is available here.
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- Kulkarni to Receive Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award
Prof. Sanjeev Kulkarni will be honored by the Princeton chapter of Phi Beta Kappa with one of two annual awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching. The awards will be presented at the Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony to be held Monday, June 1 at 9 a.m. in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, prior to the Class Day ceremony. Princeton students elected to the academic honor society have selected recipients of the teaching prize annually since 2004. The students defined the criteria for excellence in teaching as: skill in instruction; commitment to working with and building relationships with undergraduates; and ability to spark students' intellectual interests. Each winner is presented with a plaque. Full article is available here.
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- Chou Wins Pan Wen Yuan Foundation Research Award
Prof. Steve Chou has been selected to receive the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation 2009 Outstanding Research Award. The Award is one of Taiwan’s top awards in the high-technology field and is given annually by the Foundation to usually three recipients of Chinese descent, with only one being from outside Taiwan or mainland China. The award honors those who have shown outstanding achievement in theoretical innovation, the development of experimental technology, manufacturing processes or equipment to improve production.
<posted 5/18/09>
- Bahman Hekmatshoar wins Silver Medal from MRS
EE graduate student Bahman Hekmatshoar received a Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Silver Award at the April 2009 meeting of the Materials Research Society in recognition of his excellent work over the past three years on the stability of amorphous silicon thin film transistors. Bahman has invented a new method for removing the weak bonds in amorphous silicon during the deposition process, with a resulting increase in the device lifetime by well over three orders of magnitude. Bahman’s advisor is Prof. Jim Sturm. MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction. MRS seeks to recognize students of exceptional ability who show promise for significant future achievement in materials research.
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- Schmidt ’78 named to President's Council
Eric Schmidt ’78 named to the President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). PCAST is an advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers. Schmidt is the Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the Board of Trustees for Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University.
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- Gmachl Recipient of Graduate Mentoring Award
Prof. Claire Gmachl 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. Prof. Gmachl’s research group works on the development of new quantum devices, especially lasers, and their optimization for systems applications ranging from sensors to optical communications. She will receive the award at the Graduate School's hooding ceremony on June 1st.
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- Verdu Wins “Excellence in Teaching” Award
Prof. Sergio Verdu is one of the recipients of the 2009 “Excellence in Teaching” Awards given by the Princeton University Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Council. Verdu was honored for his teaching of ELE 525 which is Random Processes in Information Systems in the Fall of 2008. 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.
<posted 4/28/09>
- Fleischer invents technique to produce sharper images
Prof. Jason Fleischer led a group of researchers in inventing a technique to produce sharper images and a wider field of view for medical diagnostics, microscopes and other imaging systems. They demonstrated their approach using green light, reflecting it off a tiny printed chart and passing it through a "nonlinear crystal" that would ordinarily distort the image. Then they created a computer algorithm that not only reconstructs the image but captures details that would otherwise be lost. Complete article can be found here.
<posted 4/24/09>
- Verdu selected winner of the 2009 Stephen O. Rice Prize
Prof. Sergio Verdu has been selected winner of the 2009 Stephen O. Rice Prize for his paper on “Optimum Power Allocation for Multiuser OFDM with Arbitrary Signal Constellations” which was co-authored by Angel Lozano, Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, Spain and Antonia Tulino, Professor at University of Naples. The award will be presented at IEEE ICC 09 in Dresden, Germany. IEEE International Conference on Communications is one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society. The conference brings together the world's leading scientists from academia and industry. Recent advances in the field of communications will be presented at the conference, facilitating scientific idea exchange, the identification of future trends in communications and the illumination of business opportunities.
<posted 4/24/09>
- Shannon Hughes wins ICASSP Best Student Paper Award
Recent EE doctoral graduate, Shannon Hughes *08, has been awarded a Best Student Paper Award at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). The award is for her paper “Connecting spectral and spring methods for manifold learning,” coauthored with her advisor, Professor Peter Ramadge. The paper reports results from Hughes’ recent doctoral dissertation. The paper is being delivered as a lecture presentation at the 2009 ICASSP conference in Taiwan this April. The ICASSP meeting is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications.
<posted 4/21/09>
- Chou Invention Named Top Emerging Technology for 2009
Technology Review magazine has named an invention developed in the labs of engineering professor Stephen Chou and physics professor Robert Austin to its 2009 list of "10 technologies that can change the way we live." Austin, a professor of physics, began exploring ways to use channels to stretch DNA molecules in the mid-1990s. He teamed up with Chou, the Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering, who began working on nanofabrication technology in 1982, to develop cheaper and faster ways to produce the channeled chips through which the DNA is passed. Complete article can be found here.
<posted 4/27/09>
- Wysocki and Stephen So receive 2nd place at Keller Center Innovation Forum
Prof. Gerard Wysocki and Electrical Engineering Postdoc Stephen So received 2nd place at the 4th Annual Innovation Forum organized by Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and the Jumpstart New Jersey Angel Network, in conjunction with Princeton's Office of Technology Licensing for their innovation entitled “Ultra Efficient Laser Spectroscopic Trace-Gas Sensors for Sensor Networks and Portable Chemical Analysis”. The new technology presented is focused on laser based trace-gas sensors suitable for sensor networks and portable sensing devices. In contrast to currently available gas sensor instrumentation, this innovation provides high-performance, ultra low power, handheld laser spectroscopy systems suitable for scalability at low cost. Hundreds of such sensor nodes with energy harvesting units (e.g. solar panels) can be deployed in a network for continuous mapping of short-to-long-term concentration trends in real-time. The technology also targets potential biomedical applications such as portable breath analyzers and long-term exposure monitors for medical studies with diagnostics away from the clinic. This work was sponsored by the NSF MIRTHE ERC, and enables new applications for the technologies produced within the center. Stephen So (PhD '08 Rice University) interests are laser spectroscopy, sensor networks, embedded circuits, control systems, and signal processing.
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- Shu Jia wins best student paper award at IMACS
EE Graduate Student Shu Jia wins best student paper award at 6th International Conference on Nonlinear Wave Phenomena of the International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS). His paper, co-authored with his advisor, Prof. Fleischer, entitled 'Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Nonlinear Schrödinger Flows'. He presented a theoretical discussion of the instability in quantum fluids and an experimental demonstration of it in the equivalent optical system. The conference focuses on computational and theoretical aspects of nonlinear wave phenomena.
<posted 4/7/09>
- Yifei Huang Wins Best Student Poster Award two years in a row at the Flexible Electronics and Displays Conference
EE graduate student Yifei Huang won first prize in best student poster award two years in a row at Flexible Electronics and Displays Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona. Huang won for his poster on Electron Injection Mechanism in Top-Gate Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Transistors with Self-Aligned Silicide Source and Drain. Huang is a third year graduate student. Huang's advisor is Jim Sturm. Over 30 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. The FlexTech Alliance is the only organization headquartered in North America exclusively devoted to fostering the growth, profitability and success of the electronic display and the flexible, printed electronics supply chain.
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- Houck awarded 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship
Prof. Andrew Houck has been awarded a 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Andrew will use the award to continue his research in fully quantum mechanical electrical circuits for the study of quantum computing and quantum optics. This award is given to outstanding early career scientists, mathematicians, and economists who are conducting research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience. The Sloan Research Fellowships have been awarded since 1955, initially in only three scientific fields: physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Thirty-eight Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in their fields. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grant making institution established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. The Foundation makes grants in support of original research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economic performance. List of Winners.
<posted 2/19/09>
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