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In this newsletter I would like to report on some good news and some bad news regarding faculty hiring and loss in the department.
We are delighted to inform you that Dr. Mary Phillips has accepted our offer for a faculty position in our department in the photonics area. Mary received her Ph.D. from MIT under her advisor, Dr. Hermann Hauss. She worked for five years at AT&T Bell Labs, from 1990-95. She worked at Scientific Atlanta from 1995-2000. Her research interests are in light-wave communication techniques and cross-talk in wavelength-division systems for cable TV networks. She will join us September 1, 2000, as an Associate Professor and will teach ECE 250 "Physical Electronics and Devices" in Winter 2001 and ECE 406 "Non-linear Optics" in Spring 2001.
Earlier this year we had started the search for three new faculty in the areas of VLSI, networks, and photonics. We have been successful with all three faculty searches this year. As reported in earlier newsletters, we have hired Dr. Yehea Ismail, Ph.D. Rochester, in the VLSI area, Dr. Randall Berry, Ph.D. MIT, in the networks area, and Dr. Mary Phillips, Ph.D. MIT, in the photonics area.
Despite these hiring successes, I regret to inform you that Professor Majid Sarrafzadeh, a professor in the area of VLSI CAD in our department, has accepted a position as Professor of Computer Science at UCLA starting August 2000. Majid is an outstanding researcher and an excellent teacher, and he will be greatly missed by all of us. I wish him and his family the best of luck.
We have started the process for recruiting several new faculty members for next year in our department.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
MEAS Technology Lecture Series
DATE: Tuesday, May 23, 2000
TIME: Reception: 5:00-5:30; Presentation: 5:30-6:15 p.m.
PLACE: Lecture Room 3
TITLE: When the Old Business Disappears: How Encyclopedia Britannica
reinvented itself as Britannica.com, the premier knowledge portal on
the Web
SPEAKER: Kent Devereaux, Senior VP, Product Development & Editorial,
Britannica.com Inc.
VLSI Design and CAD Seminar
DATE: Thursday, May 25, 2000
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: MATLAB as a Specification Language for Hardware Synthesis
SPEAKER: Anshuman Nayak, ECE Graduate Student
There are no examinations scheduled this week.
Prith Banerjee is traveling to Scottsdale, AZ, May 22-24, to attend a DARPA PI Meeting of the PACT Project.
Michael Honig traveled to Haines City, Florida, May 7-10, to present the paper entitled, "Adaptive Signal Processing Techniques for Short-Code CDMA" at the Communication Theory Workshop.
Jorge Nocedal is traveling to Stanford, CA, May 17-21, to visit the EESOR Department at Stanford to continue research collaboration with Dr. Michael Saunders and Prof. Richard Byrd.
Valerie Taylor traveled to UIUC, May 17-18, to participate in the NSF Site Visit Meeting for the Terascale Proposal.
PhD student Olga Shumsky has been awarded a W. W. Bledsoe Travel Award to attend the 17th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-17) in Pittsburgh in July. Olga will present a paper titled, "System Description: IVY" co-authored with Dr. William McCune of Argonne National Laboratory. Her advisor is Larry Henschen.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .