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ECE Department Weekly Newsletter April 26-30, 2004 |
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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN In this newsletter I wish to update everyone about the status of our faculty recruiting for this year. As you all may know, we were looking for faculty candidates in three areas: (1) Computer engineering with an emphasis on computer architecture (2) Systems with an emphasis on networking and communication, and (3) Solid-state/photonics with an emphasis on nano-technology. We received 364 applications for these three positions: 70 in computer engineering, 210 in systems, and 84 in solid-state/nanotechnology. From these applications, we identified 12 candidates for interviewing: three in computer engineering, four in systems and five in solid-state. The interviews took place during February and March. We made three offers to our three top candidates in each of the three areas. I am delighted to inform you all that all three of our first choice candidates have accepted our offers this month. They are Russ Joseph in computer engineering, Dongning Guo in systems, and Hooman Mohseni in solid-state/nanotechnology. I will outline details of each of the candidates in the following. Russ Joseph received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, his M.A. in Electrical Engineering at Princeton in October 2001, and is expected to finish his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Princeton in June 2004 under the supervision of Professor Margaret Martonosi. Russ's research interests are in computer architecture and power-aware computer systems including techniques for monitoring, characterizing, and optimizing performance and power consumption. Russ held summer internships at Microsoft Agere Systems and at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He held a Microsoft Technical Scholarship as an undergraduate and received the W. E. B. DuBois Award for Academic Excellence in 1999 at Carnegie Mellon. He entered graduate school at Princeton with a Princeton University President's Fellowship and now holds an IBM Graduate Fellowship. Russ has published five conference papers thus far. His February 27 seminar was on "Inductive Noise at the Microarchitectural Level: Analysis Techniques and Effective Solutions." Dongning Guo received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Information Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995, his M. Eng. from the National University of Singapore in 1999, and is expected to receive his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in the summer of 2004. Dongning's Ph.D. work is concerned with the design, analysis, and optimization of communication systems and networks under the supervision of Professor Sergio Verde. Dongning's research interests are primarily in the fields of wireless communications, information theory, communication networks, and signal processing. Dongning Guo has published three journal papers, 12 conference papers, and one book chapter thus far. He presented a seminar on February 26 on "Interactions of Information Theory and Estimation in Single- and Multi-User Communications." Hooman Mohseni received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology in 1993, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University in 1995, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in 2001 under Professor Manijeh Razeghi. He is currently a member of the Technical Staff at Sarnoff Corporation. He was the recipient of the best Ph.D. thesis award from the ECE department in 2001. Hooman's research interests are mainly in the fields of novel quantum structures and micro and nano-integration methods for advanced photonic and optoelectronic devices. His research area will nicely complement the ECE department faculty's expertise in the solid-state/nanotechnology field. He has published seven journal papers and ten conference papers. In 1999 he won the Best Student Paper Award at the International Device Research Conference. His March 4 seminar was on "Advanced Photonic Modulators: An Enabling Technology for Future Photonic Systems." I wish to thank all the faculty for their support of all three hires, and especially the members of the three search committees for identifying such superior candidates. I also wish to thank the faculty for being in constant email and phone communication with the candidates in the past few weeks answering their many questions, and making them feel very welcome at Northwestern. I also want to thank Dean John Birge for approving all three hires in the ECE department this year. Finally, I wish to recognize Nancy Singer for doing an outstanding job in arranging the travel arrangements and interview schedules of 12 faculty candidates in six weeks, and preparing the candidate folders for each of the candidates, and preparing the cases for their hires for the Dean's office. She deserves a big round of applause for her tireless work. We have had a 3/3 success rate this year with faculty hiring! We have never had such a successful hiring year in the recent past. Thanks a lot.
-Prith Banerjee EXAMINATIONS
Thursday, April 29, 2004: M.S. Final Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Friday, April 30, 2004: Ph.D. Final Examination - 3:00 p.m. TRAVEL Professor Yehea Ismail has traveled from April 20-23 to Portland Oregon, to give two talks at Intel Strategic CAD Labs and Intel's Circuit Research Labs. Professor Prem Kumar and Preetpaul Devgan traveled to Kauai, Hawaii, April 17-20, to attend a PTAP Program Review. They presented the paper: Photonic and Optoelectronic Modules for Ultra-Low Jitter Telecom and Signal Processing Applications based on Advanced Electroabsorption Modulators and Photonic-Crystal Fibers. Professor Hai Zhou will travel to Boston, MA, April 25-27 to attend GLSVLSI 04 (Great Lake Symposium on VLSI). He will chair a session on CAD and present a paper entitled "Minimal Period Retiming with Process Variations," which was coauthored with Jia Wang. OTHER NEWS Kellogg NanoBusiness Conference Theme: "NanoBusiness" - Exploring the Opportunities Join leading business leaders, F500 Executives, Venture Capitalists, and Northwestern faculty and students as we explore the intersection of business, technology, and application at the atomic level. Attend this special Kellogg conference to learn how billions of dollars in government funding, new scientific breakthroughs, and corporate and venture capital investments are changing the future business landscape in every industry. Presentations, panel discussions, and a poster/networking session featuring Northwestern researchers make this an event you can't miss. Conference webpage: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/conference/nanoconf/ To register: https://www1.kellogg.nwu.edu/Conf/EventRegPart.asp?event_seqno=53 When: Friday, April 30, 2004 7:30am-1:00 pm Where: Allen Center, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Cost: $20 current Kellogg/NU students You must register in advance, as we expect the conference to sell out.
This conference has been organized by a group of Kellogg Executive
Masters Program students, working in cooperation with Nanoalliance,
Northwestern's university-wide nanotechnology student interest group.
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