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As you all know, ECE has interviewed more than 20 candidates for five faculty positions in our department. We made five offers to various candidates in the areas of computer architecture, VLSI, networks, image processing, and nanotechnology.
I am delighted to inform you all that this past week, Hai Zhou, our candidate in the VLSI area, accepted our offer. Hai Zhou received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Texas, Austin (Advisor: Martin Wong), and he has spent the last two years at Synopsys. His research areas of interest are deep submicron physical design, low power synthesis, and formal verification; he has written four journal papers and 14 conference papers so far in these areas in the most prestigious conference proceedings and journals. You may recall that his interview seminar on February 26 was on "Cross-talk: Analysis and Optimizations". Please join me in welcoming Hai Zhou to the department.
In an earlier newsletter I had mentioned that Ying Wu, Ph.D., 2001, University of Illinois, our candidate in the image processing area, had also accepted our offer. We now have a two-for-two hiring record thus far with our number one choices in various areas: Ying Wu in Image Processing and Hai Zhou in VLSI. We are waiting to hear from three more candidates.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Parallel and Distributed Systems Seminar
DATE: Tuesday, May 1, 2001
TIME: 3:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: SDDS-2000: A Prototype System for Scalable Distributed Data
Structures on WINDOWS 2000
SPEAKER: Witold A. Litwin, Professor, University Paris 9
Monday, April 30, 2001: Ph.D. Final Examination - 9:00 a.m.
Room MLSB 2058
Hooman Mohseni
"Type II InAs/GaSb Superlattices for Infrared Detectors"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairperson), C. Jelen, A. Sahakian,
and K. Faber
Monday, April 30, 2001: Ph.D. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room MLSB 2058
Matthew Erdtmann
"GaInAs/InP Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors on Si Substrate for
Low-Cost Focal Plane Arrays"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairperson), C. Jelen, K. Faber, and
J. Birge
Monday, April 30, 2001: M.S. Final Examination
Szu-Kang Hsien
"Option C"
Committee Members: S.-T. Ho (chairman), L. Henschen, and P. Banerjee
Friday, May 4, 2001: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room L324
Paul Voss
"Conditional Homodyne Tomography"
Committee Members: P. Kumar (chairman), H. Yuen, H. Cao, and
M. Vasilyev
Professor Alok Choudhary traveled to San Diego, CA, April 17-20, to attend a DARPA PI Meeting - PAC/C Conference.
Professor Choudhary also traveled to Gleneden Beach, OR and San Francisco, CA, April 24-27, to serve as invited speaker at the Conference on High Speed Computing and to give keynote address at International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium.
Professor Seng-Tiong Ho traveled to San Jose, CA, April 25, to make a photonics technology presentation organized by Incubic.
Professor Jorge Nocedal is traveling to Tahoe City, April 29-May 1 to attend the 2001 International Conference On Preconditioning Techniques For Large Sparse Matrix Problems In Industrial Applications, and present a paper entitled, "Preconditioners for Constrained Optimization."
Professor Manijeh Razeghi gave an invited talk entitled, "Quantization for High Performance Infrared Laser Diodes," at the 1st Annual U.S.-Korea-Japan Workshop on Nanostructure Science/Technology (WNST), Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, April 21-27, 2001.
Professor Valerie Taylor is traveling to College Station, TX, April 29-May 2 to give an invited lecture entitled: "Prophesy: An Infrastructure for Performance Modeling and Analysis of Parallel and Distributed Applications" at Texas A & M University.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .