Research Spotlight
Dr. Kevin Chen has received three grants from NSF and Electro-Optic Center totalling more than $700,000. These grants will fund research in fiber optics and nanotechnology.
Professor Allen Cheng, as sole PI, has been awarded a $75,000 NSF grant for his interdisciplinary forward-looking bio-implantable computing research on “Exploring Artificial Neural Networks to Develop Self-Adaptive Threat Detection Techniques for Bio-Implantable System-on-Chip.”
Professor Allen Cheng, as sole PI, has received the Cell Phone as a Platform for Healthcare Award from Microsoft Research for his interdisciplinary biomedical computing research proposal: “A Mobile Platform for Continuous Real-Time Monitoring and Automatic Detection of Cardiovascular Diseases.” This extremely competitive grant award consists of $100,000 unrestricted gift fund and a $50,000 hardware and software equipment donation. Prof. Cheng’s proposal was one of only 14 proposal worldwide (among 144 proposals received from 24 countries, or < 10% acceptance rate) to receive Microsoft Research’s Cell Phone as a Platform for Healthcare award.
Charles Jewart, PhD student under Prof. Kevin Peng Chen, received an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award. This is an interdisciplinary graduate program in sustainable engineering offering a six month research residence in Brazil from the Mascaro Sustainability Initiative.
Jun Yang has been awarded a 2008 NSF Career Award for her proposal CAREER-EHS: Thermal-Aware Scheduleing for Embedded Planar and 3D Chip Microprossesors.
Graduate students Zsolt Poole and Di Xu's research work is highlighted as the cover story of December 17, 2007's Applied Physics letters. more 
Professor Alex K. Jones has been awarded an NSF grant for research in the area of compilers for high performance computing. more
Professor Alex K. Jones has been awarded a TTC grant to develop a low-power reconfigurable computer and design automation tool. more
News
Dr. Zhi-Hong Mao has been selected to receive the Swanson School of Engineering Outstanding Educator Award for 2009. This is the only award given by the Swanson School that specifically recognizes teaching excellence. Presentation of the award will be made on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at the Senior Recognition Ceremony in David Lawrence Hall auditorium.
Congratulations to Dr. Marlin Mickle on receiving the Provost's Innovation Award for Remote Experiments for Wireless Computer Networks. Eleven teaching proposals were selected for this award. more
Dr. Gregory Reed offered his expertise for a recent article on Cyberspying and the impact on the U.S. power grid. Dr. Reed is the director of the Swanson School of Engineering's Power and Energy Initiative.
Congratulations to professors Alexander K. Jones and Jun Yang who were awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
COE students Brian Dicks, John Hill and Chris Sproull took second place overall in the Computer Science Day undergraduate poster competition.
Samuel Dickerson, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was a first place winner in the annual Big Idea Competition, sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence. He won Best New Product Idea for his idea of a low-cost, portable cytometer. A cytometer is a device for counting the number of cells in a fluid sample, such as blood. The mobile nature of the product would enable diagnostic tests, such as for AIDS, to occur more easily in rural medical clinics in developing countries. This product idea stems from his current research and his co-advisors are Professors Steven P. Levitan from ECE and Donald M. Chiarulli from Computer Science.
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation announced February 18 that it will collaborate with the University of Pittsburgh’s (Pitt’s) Swanson School of Engineering to help train students in the burgeoning electric power engineering field and usher in the next generation of power-delivery technology. more
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering invites applications in anticipation of two positions for tenure stream professors at either the assistant or associate level. more
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering welcomes Dr. Gregory Reed to the faculty. Dr. Reed will serve as Director of the Power & Engery Initiative and as an Associate Professor in ECE.
Graduate student Di Xu's research work is highlighted as the cover story of the July 21, 2008 issue of Applied Physics letters. Di's paper is titled Holographic fabrication of diamondlike photonic crystal template using two-dimensional diffractive optical elements. Di works with Dr. Kevin Chen.
COE graduate Jeremy Herrman '07 and his start-up company Chogger were featured in the recent Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about AlphaLab in the South Side. more
Prof. Kevin Peng Chen has been awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. Our congratulations go to Prof. Chen who is an expert in fiber optic sensors, radio isotope based micro power systems, and ultra-fast laser processing.
EE senior Julie Kleinman was the recipient of the 2008 Swanson School of Engineering Alumni Student Leadership Award. Her award was presented by Dean Holder at the Distinguished Alumni Banquet March 20, 2008.
ECE graduate student Michael Buric has been awarded an SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering. This $2500 scholarship is awarded to promising optical science and engineering students who are recognized as future leaders in the photonics field in the United States. SPIE is an international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light.
A team of seniors (John Bennewitz (MEMS), José Bernardo (MEMS), Michael Chrin (ECE), and Adam Wick (MEMS)) have successfully competed in NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program (RGSFOP). more
Interviews from Gayatri Mehta and Swapna Dontharaju were highlighted on the front page of the DACeZine (Vol. 3, No. 1) which is circulated to a wide audience of design automation academia and industry. full article
EDA can shine beyond IC borders, an article written by DAC Chairman and Professor Steve Levitan, was published in the EE Times May 28, 2007.
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