Chan-Byoung Chae, supervised by Prof. Robert W. Heath, Jr., was awarded the Gold prize in the 2007 Humantech paper contest sponsored by Samsung. The contest receives about 900 submissions every year in fields including signal processing, analog circuit design, communications and networks, computer science, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, material science and process, physical devices, and physical science. Only six graduate students are awarded the Gold prize annually, and thirty four graduate students share the Silver, Bronze and honor prizes. There was only one Gold prize winner in the communications and networks area in the last five years.