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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I am delighted to inform everyone that two of our faculty members received some very prestigious awards this week.

First, Professor Peter Scheuermann was elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow "for contributions to logical and physical database design". Getting elected to the Fellow grade of IEEE is one of the highest honors that senior ECE faculty strive to achieve. Peter's election to the grade of IEEE Fellow brings the total number of Fellows in the department to eight.

Second, Assistant Professor Ying Wu has received an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal on "Visual Analysis of High Dimensional Motion: A Distributed/Collaborative Approach." Getting an NSF CAREER award is one of the most prestigious awards that a junior faculty can received. As part of this award, Ying will be funded at $100,000 per year for five years. This brings the total number of NSF PYI/NYI/CAREER Awardees in the department to eight.

Please join me in congratulating Professors Peter Scheuermann and Ying Wu on these awards.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

TRAVEL

Professor Yehea Ismail traveled to Cairo, Egypt, last week to give a tutorial in the IEEE International Conference on MicroElectronics.

Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos is traveling to Singapore, December 15-20, to give a plenary talk entitled "Bayesian resolution enhancement of compressed video" at the International Conference on Numerical Methods in Imaging Science and Information Processing, organized by the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore.

Professor Manijeh Razeghi traveled to Arlington, VA, December 9-10, for a Proposal Review Panel at the National Science Foundation (NSF), Nano Science and Engineering Program.

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