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November 14, 2008

Ilic Receives Honorary Chair at Prestigious TU Delft University in The Netherlands

ECE/EPP Professor Marija Ilic has received an honorary academic chair from TU Delft University in The Netherlands for her efforts in modernizing the world's electricity infrastructures.

October 3, 2008

Wu, Marculescu Win Best Paper Award at Computer Design Conference

ECE graduate student Kai-Chiang (Alex) Wu and his Ph.D. advisor, associate professor Diana Marculescu, have won a Best Paper Award in the EDA category at the 2008 IEEE Conference on Computer Design. The paper, titled "Power-Aware Soft Error Hardening via Selective Voltage Scaling," will be presented at the conference, which will be held October 12-15 in California.

September 16, 2008

Larry Pileggi Wins SRC's Aristotle Award for Outstanding Teaching

ECE Professor Larry Pileggi has been awarded the prestigious Aristotle Award for 2008 from the Semiconductor Research Corporation. This annual award was established in 1995 to recognize faculty who have had a deep commitment to the educational experience over a long period of time. Pileggi is being recognized for his innovative teaching abilities as evidenced by the outstanding research accomplishments of his students.

August 28, 2008

Carnegie Mellon's Greg Ganger Earns HP Innovation Research Award

Carnegie Mellon University's Greg Ganger was one of 33 recipients worldwide to receive a 2008 HP Innovation Research Award, which is designed to encourage open collaboration with HP labs resulting in mutually beneficial, high-impact research.

Ganger, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Parallel Data Lab at Carnegie Mellon, will collaborate with HP Labs on a research initiative focused on data storage infrastructure issues. Ganger, author of the winning proposal, titled "Toward Scalable Self-Storage," will lead the collaboration.

April 14, 2008

Gallagher and Chen win Best Paper Award at Computer Vision Conference

ECE graduate student Andrew Gallagher and Professor Tsuhan Chen won a Best Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM). The paper, titled "Using Group Prior to Identify People in Consumer Images" describes a method for recognizing people in consumer images using more than just facial appearance.