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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I want to inform everyone that we are having our next ECE Department Advisory Board Meeting on Friday, May 14, from 8:30AM to 6PM. During this meeting the Advisory Board (consisting of members from various companies and universities) will give us feedback on the directions of the department. A list of the Advisory Board members appears on the department web page. The Board will meet with our faculty, graduate students, undergraduates students, department chairman, and the Dean to get an idea of where the department is headed, and suggest ways to improve the department.

As part of this event, we are organizing a Graduate Student Poster Session from 2:15PM-3:15PM on Friday, May 14, in the third floor corridor near the ECE conference room. We will have coffee, cold drinks, and cookies available during this session where you can interact with the visitors in an informal manner. Students can also distribute papers and resumes to the visitors.

Let us make this a great event and show off our excellent research to our external visitors. I invite all faculty, staff, and students to attend the poster session in order to acquaint themselves with the research that is going on in the department.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

EXAMINATIONS

Monday, May 10, 2004: Ph.D. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room L324
Haohong Wang
"Optimal Object-based Video Processing and Communications"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), T. Pappas, and R. Berry

Monday, May 10, 2004: Ph.D. Final Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room 2058 Cook Hall
Shizhong Mei
"Frequency Dependent VLSI Circuit Modeling and Design"
Committee Members: Y. Ismail (chairman), P. Banerjee, A. Sahakian, R. Dick, and H. Zhou

Monday, May 10, 2004: M.S. Final Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room L324
Konstantinos E. Zachariadis
"Source Fidelity over Fading Channels"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), M. Honig, and R. Berry

Tuesday, May 11, 2004: Ph.D. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room L324
Petar Aleksic
"Audio-Visual Interactions in Multimodal Communications using Facial Animation Parameters"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), T. Pappas, and Y. Wu

Tuesday, May 11, 2004: Ph.D. Final Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room L324
Zhilin Wu
"Multimodal Signal Processing with MPEG-4 Facial Animation Parameters"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), T. Pappas, and Y. Wu

Wednesday, May 12, 2004: Ph.D. Final Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room L324
Yiftach Eisenberg
"Energy Efficiency and the Role of Quality Metrics in Wireless Video Communications"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), T. Pappas, and R. Berry

Thursday, May 13, 2004: M.S. Final Examination - 1:30 p.m.
Room L324
Kung-Piao Huang
"Fair Bandwidth Allocation based on Virtual Congestion Point Mechanism"
Committee Members: R. Berry (chairman), A. Haddad, and M. Honig

Friday, May 14, 2004: M.S. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room A230
Ning Wen
"Wireless Networking and Travel Time Predictions for Vehicle-Based Intelligent Transportation Systems"
Committee Members: R. Berry (chairman), M. Honig, and A. Ziliaskopoulos

Friday, May 14, 2004: Ph.D. Final Examination - 1:30 p.m.
Room E311
Jason Ng
"Multi-dimensional Analysis of Atrial Arrhythmias from the Surface ECG"
Committee Members: A. Sahakian (chairman), S. Swiryn, L. Henschen, and T. Pappas

INTEL FELLOWSHIP AWARD

Maged Ghoneima, Ph.D. student in computer engineering under the supervision of Prof. Yehea Ismail, received the 2004-05 Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship Award. Intel Fellows, leaders of Intel research and technology, personally recommend the candidates for this award. Each year, Intel requests about 25 departments across the country to recommend two students for this Fellowship. This is the second year that the ECE department at Northwestern was asked by Intel to recommend two students, and the first time any student in ECE received this prestigious Fellowship. Maged's application was outstanding and his success is well deserved. The fellowship award will cover one year of full tuition, required fees, and a twelve-month stipend.

-Prith Banerjee

TRAVEL

Professor Yehea Ismail traveled to Washington, DC, May 2-4, to serve as an advisor to the NSF.

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