Grad Student Bhadri Lalgudi Visweswaran has been selected to receive the Friends of Davis International Center Teaching Award for his work as an assistant in this year's carlab. Visweswaran's advisors are Profs. Sigurd Wagner and James Sturm. Princeton's Friends of Davis International Center and Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA) fund awards each year to recognize those graduate students who have made a significant contribution to undergraduate teaching.
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Profs. Gerard Wysocki, Hakan Tureci and Andrew Houck are among the recipients of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund award. Prof. Wysocki, together with Prof. Daniel Sigman, the Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, have received this award for creating a nitrogen sensor that can monitor environmental change. Profs. Tureci and Houck have received this award for developing a quantum computer which could potentially answer questions currently impossibl
EE Graduate Student Eric Mills is one of the recipients of the 2012 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG). The NDSEG Fellowship provides funding for 3 years. Eric is advised by Prof. Stephen Chou. The Department of Defense (DoD) offers these fellowships to individuals who have demonstrated the ability and special aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering.
EE graduate student Joseph D'Silva has won the Best Poster Award at the 2012 Physical Sciences Oncology Center network meeting of the National Cancer Institute. His poster was entitled "“Deterministic Separation of Cancer Cells from Blood at 10 mL/min,” is also co-authored by Kevin Loutherback *11, Liyu Liu, Princeton Physics Postdoctoral Research Associate, Robert Getzenberg, co-advisor Princeton Physics Professor Robert H. Austin, and co-advisor James C. Sturm. The National Cancer Instit
Joyelle Jones (now Harris)*10 is the recipient of the Journal of Electronic Materials (JEM) Best Paper Award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). The award was received for the publication on "Elastically Stretchable Insulation and Bilevel Metallization and its Application in a Stretchable RLC Circuit", which she co-authored with Prof. Oliver Graudejus of Arizona State University and Prof. Sigurd Wagner. The paper is a result of Dr. Harris’s Ph.D. thesis research. TMS pro
Steven McLaughlin*86 has been appointed as the new Steve W. Chaddick School Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, effective Sept. 1. Dr. McLaughlin received the B.S.E.E. degree from Northwestern University in 1985, the M.S.E. degree from Princeton University in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1992. More detailed information can be found here.
Two Electrical Engineering staff were recently honored at the Annual Service Recognition Luncheon in March. Cathy Wertz, the department's Business Manager, received the President's Achievement Award as well as an award for completing 25 years of service at the University. Stacey Weber-Jackson, one of the department's grants manager, was the recipient of the Donald Griffin'23 Management Award. Congratulations to both awardees! More information can be found here.
Prof. Mung Chiang, EE postdoctoral research associate Soumya Sen and Grad Student Felix Wong recently published an article on the use and abuse of Tweets about movies, analyzing all the tweets around the world about Oscar-nominated movies during February 2012. The set of interesting results have been widely covered in online media outlets such as WSJ blogs, Yahoo blogs, Technology Review, Mashable and many more.
Prof. Gerard Wysocki receives an Early Career Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) within Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program entitled “Developing the Next Generation of Air Quality Measurement Technology”. The Early Career STAR grants are awarded to investigators with outstanding promise at the Assistant Professor or equivalent level. Wysocki will conduct research on new quantum cascade laser based sensor nodes for detection of toxic pollutants. The
Prof. Mung Chiang, EE postdoctoral research associate Soumya Sen, Grad Student Carlee Joe-Wong and Tian Lan *10 received the 2012 IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award for their paper "Multi-resource allocation: Fairness-efficiency tradeoff in a unifying framework." INFOCOM is IEEE's flagship conference in networking. Sixteen papers were selected as finalists from over 1500 submissions and one paper selected as the winner of the best paper award.
