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The
work of Linyou Cao (MSE graduate student) and Profs. Bahram
Nabet and Jonathan
Spanier on the optical properties of nanocones (as published
in Phys. Rev. Lett.) received coverage in the magazine Photonics.
To view the full story, click here.
Drs.
Kapil
Dandekar and Timothy
Kurzweg and graduate students Matthew Garfield and Chao
Liang published a paper in Microwave and Optical Technology Letters.
The reference is: M. Garfield, C. Liang, T.P. Kurzweg, K.R. Dandekar,
"MIMO Space-Time Coding for Diffuse Optical Communication," Microwave
and Optical Technology Letters, Volume 48, Issue 6, June 2006,
pp. 1108-1110. This work is funded by Dr. Dandekar and Kurzweg's
NSF grant, "Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Diffuse Optical Local
Area Networks."
Mr.
Vinayak Honkote, a Ph.D. student working with Dr. Baris Taskin,
received a student travel grant which will support travel and attendance
to the IEEE International Workshop on Defect and Fault Tolerant
Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH 2006) to be held on June 17th
in Boston, MA.
Dr.
Baris Taskin published an article (co-authored with his graduate
advisor, Prof. Ivan Kourtev of University of Pittsburgh) entitled
"Delay Insertion Method in Clock Skew Scheduling" in the IEEE
Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems (TCAD, vol 25, issue 4).
Dr.
Jaudelice de Oliveira is serving as the Travel Grant Chair
for ACM SIGCOMM 2006 (Pisa, Italy, September 11-15, 2006) and
has been awarded $20,000 from NSF to support student travel to
this conference.
Drs.
Jaudelice
de Oliveira and Steven
Weber received a $12,000 NSF REU supplement to their project
entitled "NeTS-NR: Preemption and Adaptation for Next Generation
Multiservice Networks." The supplement will support two undergraduate
students.
Professor Afshin
Daryoush visited Alcatel III-V Labs, Marcoussis, France and
gave a lecture on "Development of Opto-electronic Oscillators
employing Photonic Crystal Fibers." He also visited Institut de
Recherche en Electrotechnique et Electrnique de Nantes Atlantique,
Universite de Nantes, and gave a seminar on "Digitally Beamformed
Phased Array Antennas using All-Optical ADC for Future Communication
Satellites."
Professor
Afshin Daryoush visited near field antenna measurement facilities at NIST, Boulder,
Co to explore the idea of developing similar facilities at Drexel
University. As part of this trip, he also gave a seminar talk
on "Performance Evaluation of Opto-electronic Oscillators employing
Photonic Crystal Fibers" at the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, Co.
Dr.
Leonid Hrebien organized and chaired the panel entitled, "Genomics
Meets Aerospace Physiology" during the 77th Annual Scientific
Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association which took place
in Orlando, FL, May 14-18, 2006. Among the panel presenters was
Dr. Lit-Hsin Loo, a Ph.D. graduate student of Drs. Hrebien and
Moshe Kam
of the Data Fusion Laboratory in the ECE Department at Drexel
University. His talk was co-authored by Drs. Hrebien and Kam and
was entitled, "Criteria for Identifying Differentially Expressed
Genes in Aerospace Environmental Stress Research." Upon graduation
in 2004, Dr. Loo accepted a Post Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard
University and has since moved to the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center in Dallas Texas.
Dr.
Kapil Dandekar recently had his paper, "Reconfigurable antenna solution for
MIMO-OFDM systems," D. Piazza and K.R. Dandekar, published by
IEEE Electronics Letters in vol. 42, no. 8, April 2006. The work
discussed in the paper was funded by NSF grant "Exploiting Flexible
PHYs in Networks: Prototype and Algorithms."
Students
advised by Drs. Karen
Miu and Chika
Nwankpa won the "Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award" at
the 2006 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference
held recently in Sorrento, Italy. The paper was authored by Valentina
Cecchi, Xiaoguang Yang, Karen Miu and Chika Nwankpa, and was entitled
"Instrumentation & Measurement of a Power Distribution System
Laboratory for Network Reconfiguration Studies." The work was
done last year by Valentina, who was a senior at the time, together
with Xiaoguang, a Ph.D. doctoral candidate. Valentina presented
the paper in a special session for the student winners and received
the top prize for her work.
Drs.
Chika
Nwankpa (PI, ECE), Jeremy
Johnson (Co-PI, CS), Karen
Miu (Co-PI, ECE), and Prawat
Nagvajara (Co-PI, ECE) were recently awarded an NSF grant,
"Computation of Power System Dynamics Through Mixed-Signal VLSI
Emulation." This project involves the development of computing
techniques for large-scale power system dynamics based on current
mixed-signal VLSI emulation technology. The budget for this 3-year
project is $239,914. This project will further enhance ongoing
work with the DOE started by this investigation team.
Dr.
Timothy Kurzweg was named an Associate Editor for the
"JM3: Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS."
This is published through SPIE (The International Society for
Optical Engineering).
The
United Kingdom's Institute of Physics (IOP) recently published
a "60 seconds with ... Authors Edition" with 100 selected authors.
Professor
P. M. Shankar, Allen Rothwarf Professor of ECE, is one of
the featured authors. The interview appears at http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=featauth/-author=491/0031-9155/1.
As
the Vice President of IEEE for Educational Activities, Dr.
Moshe Kam was an official guest of the City of Guangzhou in
China from April 15-19, 2006. During this visit he met with Mr.
Shusen Lin, the Chairman of Guangzhou People's Congress and gave
a press conference on the plans of IEEE in China. The event was
televised and covered on the first pages of all major newspapers
in Guangzhou. During his visit, Dr. Kam was also recognized with
the title of Honorary Professor by the South China University
of Technology located at Guangzhou. Dr. Kam made a presentation
at the award ceremony entitled "The Way We Work Now - Electrical
and Computer Engineering in the Next Two Decades."
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