Industrial Affiliates Conference 2010
This year’s conference was held Friday, January 29, 2010. Keynote Presentation by Dr. Thomas N. Theis, Director, Physical Sciences, IBM Research, T.J. Watson Research Center.
Agenda
Professor Stephen O'Driscoll
joins the faculty at ECE
Profile
Professor Scaglione is part of the major project on Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG)
The project is funded by the U.S. Departments of Energy and Homeland Security to establish a major Resilient Smart Grid Program
The award of nearly $18.8 million covers a period five-years. Anna Scaglione is the UC Davis PI of the TCIPG team that is lead by University of Illinois a Urbana Champaign (UIUC) and consists of professors, researchers, and students from the University of Illinois, Dartmouth College, University of California at Davis, and Washington State University. More information can be found here.
Prof. Qing Zhao Taking Part in A 10-Year ARL Project
UC Davis is a general member of a $35.5 million, 10-year project that will create the Communication Networks Academic Research Center under a new Collaborative Technology Alliance for Network Science Program run by the Army Research Laboratory.
Prof. Anh-Vu Pham has been appointed as a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer
of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) for the term of 2010-2012. The IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturers are recognized experts in their fields and available to present lectures to local MTT-S chapters world-wide. MTT-S is the fifth largest IEEE society and has more than 11,000 members with 138 chapters around the globe.
Professor Shu Lin Has Recently Coauthored a Book
Channel Codes: Classical and Modern, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2009. This book contains a solid coverage of classical channel codes and an extensive and thorough coverage modern channel codes. It gives a most up-to-date presentation of the state of the art of modern channel codes.
HP Labs Innovation Research Program Award
Prof. Kwan-Liu Ma and Prof John Owens received awards from HP for their research in Intelligent Infrastructure and Digital Commercial Print. Read more.
Prof. Islam Receives a DARPA Award
The DARPA Award is worth $800,000 for Research on Quantum Advanced Detectors and Energy Conversion Devices.
2009 Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
Pinar Muyan-Ozcelik, a computer science graduate student advised by Prof. John D. Owens, has been named a finalist for the 2009 Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Google awarded scholar/finalist status to 50 women in the US.
Sandia/UCD Fellowship Award
ECE Ph.D. student, Neil Jacklin, selected for the 2009 Sandia National Laboratories/UC Davis Excellence in Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
NVIDIA Fellowship Award
ECE graduate student Anjul Patney has won the prestigious NVIDIA Fellowship, one of ten students honored worldwide.
NSF Student Award
First-year graduate student Andrew Davidson has been accepted into the National Science Foundation's East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute.
Prof. Saif Islam Receives DURIP Award
Prof. Saif Islam received a DURIP award for building Instrumentation for Integrating 3D Multifunctional Materials.
Awards won in ECE K-12 outreach effort
Under Prof. Qing Zhao's supervision, Ms. Angela Yeung, a junior student at Davis Senior High School won the first place at Sacramento Regional Science and Engineering Fair. See the poster.
Professor Shu Lin's
high performance and efficiently encodable low-density parity-check (LDPC) code has been selected for two NASA's missions:
- Landsat Data Continuation Mission (LDCM); and
- New NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Service (TDRSS) for high-rate 1.0 and 1.5 Gbps return link Service.
Prof. Zhi Ding
is appointed to the Child Family Professorship in Engineering and Entrepreneurship. He is the first person to receive this honor.
Industrial Affiliates Conference 2009
was Friday, January 16, 2009.
See the agenda for this year's conference.
Prof. Zhi Ding
is appointed a two year term as IEEE COMSOC Distinguished Lecturer from January 2008 to December 2009.
Professor Saif Islam
has received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to study techniques for integrating 3D multifunctional materials and devices on amorphous surfaces for low cost electronics and photonics. 10/03/2008
Professor Chen-Nee Chuah
is named a 2008-09 Chancellor’s Fellow
Professor Qing Zhao
is the 2008 recipient of the College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
Aaron Katzenmeyer
wins the highly competitive and prestigious National Science Foundation Fellowship
Professor Anna Scaglione
joins the faculty at ECE
Scaglione Lab
Professor Heritage
wins R. W. Wood Prize
