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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN
As I mentioned in the last newsletter, our department is looking for
four new faculty members in the following areas:
- Solid-state and photonics with an emphasis on nano-technology.
- Systems with an emphasis on networking and communication.
- Computer engineering with an emphasis on computer architecture and
VLSI CAD.
The faculty recruiting session has begun in full earnest. We have
received more than 200 applications for the above positions and have
decided to invite more than 10 for interviews.
I would like to inform you of the following confirmed dates for some
of the faculty candidate visits.
Monday, Feb. 3
Jean Pierre Leburton, Professor of ECE, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, Ph.D.
Univ. of Liege, Belgium
Area of Hire: Solid state and nanotechnology
Tuesday, Feb. 4
Elif Uysal, Ph.D. candidate of EE, Stanford, student of Balaji Prabhakar
and Abbas El Gamal
Area of Hire: Systems with emphasis on networking
Tuesday, Feb. 11
Aneesh Aggarwal, Ph.D. candidate of CS, Univ. of Maryland, student of
Manoj Franklin
Area of Hire: Computer engineering with emphasis on computer architecture
Thursday, Feb. 13
Milo Martin, Ph.D. candidate of CS, Univ. of Wisconsin, student of Mark
HIll and David Wood.
Area of Hire: Computer engineering with emphasis on computer architecture
Wednesday, Feb. 19
Yunjian Jiang, Ph.D. candidate of EE, UC Berkeley, student of Robert Brayton
Area of Hire: Computer engineering with emphasis on VLSI CAD.
Thursday, Feb. 20
Bharat Bharghava, Professor of CS Purdue Univ.
Area of Hire: Computer engineering with emphasis on distributed systems
Thursday, Feb. 27
Patrick Crowley Ph.D. candidate of CS, Univ. of Washington, student of
Jean-Loup Baer
Area of Hire: Computer engineering with emphasis on computer architecture
Wednesday, March 12
Gokhan Memik, Ph.D. candidate of EE, UCLA, student of Bill-Mangione-Smith
Area of Hire: Computer engineering with emphasis on computer architecture
Thursday, March 13
Seda Ogrenci Memik, Ph.D. candidate of CS, UCLA, student of Majid Sarrafzadeh
Area of Hire: Computer engineering with emphasis on VLSI CAD
Tuesday, March 18
Kati Compton, Ph.D. candidate of ECE Northwestern, student of Scott Hauck
Area of Hire: Computer engineering with emphasis on VLSI CAD
I invite all faculty and students to attend as many of the seminars as
possible. All the seminars will be held at 11AM each day, and most
will be held in the ECE conference room.
We want your feedback on the candidates. Some of them will be our
colleagues and instructors!
Regards.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
DATE: Monday, January 27, 2003
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech Room L324
TITLE: "Optical Networking: Beyond Capacity Pipelines"
SPEAKER: Dr. Stoyan Radic, Lightwave Systems Research Bell
Laboratories
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