Alù Wins Air Force Young Investigator Research Award

UT ECE professor Al Bovik, along with Biomedical Engineering professor Mia Markey and PhD student Gautam Muralidhar, are gaining national attention for their work on breastcancer. Their research is focused on catching breast cancer early by modeling potentially cancerous formations in mammogram images.

From the Austin American- Statesman:

UT ECE Professor and WNCG member Gustavo de Veciana and collaborators Ángel Cuevas and Manuel Urueña from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid are recipients of the best paper award at the ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems October 2010.

Their work entitled Dynamic Random Replication for Data Centric Storage develops a new energy efficient approach to store and retrieve information in distributed wireless (sensor) networks. This research was funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

UT ECE Ph.D. student Bilal Sadiq and Professor Gustavo de Veciana are recipients of the best paper award at 22nd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) held in Amsterdam this year. Their work entitled Balancing SRPT Prioritization versus Opportunistic Gain in Wireless Systems with Flow Dynamics addresses a fundamental question regarding the best possible achievable performance for file transfer or web browsing traffic on wireless systems. This research was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Prof. Ranjit Gharpurey has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation in the area of architectures for analog-to-digital conversion. The research is a collaborative effort with Prof. Peter Kinget of Columbia University, with UT as the lead proposal.

Innovations in signal digitization techniques can have a broad societal and scientific impact, since this capability is required in multiple areas including computing, wireless and wireline communications, sensors, medicine, and fundamental science.

Prof. Miryung Kim Awarded Computer and Communication Foundations Grant from National Science Foundation

By Dr. Miryung Kim (Principal Investigator)
Collaborator: Dr. Kathryn S. McKinley (UT CS)

UT ECE Professor Jacob Abraham along with UT ECE students Joonsoo Kim and Joonsoo Lee have won the Best Paper Award in the Computer Systems Design and Applications Track at the 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design for their paper entitled Toward Reliable SRAM-based Device Identification.

UT ECE students Kyle Fernald, Chao Chen, Maher Dakkak, and Bryant Tran won second place at the IET Present Around the World Americas Finals, in Ottawa, Ontario on Sept. 11th. The Present Around the World Competition is an annual event held by the Young Members and Professionals of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. The multi-stage event includes members and students from all around the world, participating from different fields of engineering.

Professor Miryung Kim of UT ECE along with two of her former students, Adam Duley and Chris Spandikow, have received the Best Paper Award at the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering for their paper A Program Differencing Algorithm for Verilog HDL.