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UF IEEE Student Group Wins Exemplary Student Branch and Other Awards at IEEE SoutheastCon
The UF IEEE Student Branch traveled to Orlando, FL this past weekend (March 16-18) for the annual regional conference and took home several awards.  The UF IEEE branch tied with University of Technology, Jamaica for Exemplary Student Branch out of the 48 schools in the southeastern United States that attended the conference.  The award recognizes student braches for outstanding programs and activities over the current academic year.  IEEE faculty advisor Eric Schwartz is standing on the far right of the photo. Click here for more details.
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Dr. Vladimir A. Rakov made a Keynote Presentation “Applications of lightning detection network data for lightning research and protection” at the 2012 International Lightning Detection Conference/Lightning Meteorology Conference (ILDC/ILMC), Broomfield, Colorado, April 2-5, 2012. He is also scheduled to give an Invited Lecture “Lightning parameters of engineering interest” at the 3rd Russian Conference on Lightning Protection, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 22-23, 2012. Austin Brockmeier, a PhD student under Dr. Jose Principe, has been selected for the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI). Funded by the National Science Foundation, the fellowship is to conduct a research project, entitled “Signal processing techniques to separate and analyze brainwaves” during the summer of 2012 at the Brain Science Institute RIKEN in Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan. To learn more about this program, click here. Dexiang Wang and Dr. Janise McNair's recent journal article, "Multi-Layer Simulation Design and Validation for a Two-Tier Fault-Tolerant WDM LAN," was listed among the top ten downloaded articles from the IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking in February 2012. Dr. Vladimir A. Rakov has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) "for his fundamental work on lightning modeling and identification of a number of basic lightning processes". AGU has more than 60,000 members from 148 countries. Only one in a thousand members is elected to Fellowship each year. Dr. Alan George and Dr. Herman Lam of the NSF CHREC Center were awarded the 2012 Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technology Innovation for “Novo-G: An innovative and synergistic research project and the world’s most powerful reconfigurable supercomputer.”, January 12, 2012.  The Schwarzkopf Prize recognizes faculty in an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center of the National Science Foundation that demonstrated exemplary research contribution to technology innovation.  With this award, CHREC is recognized on a permanent plaque at NSF. Dr. Yuguang Michael Fang has been selected as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer in the areas of Cross-layer design for wireless networks; Securing resource-constrained wireless networks; Small world phenomena in wireless ad hoc networks; Secure network connectivity and capacity; Privacy and security for mobile healthcare systems; Wireless medium access control protocols. Dr. Sean Meyn is establishing a new lab, C3: Laboratory for Cognition & Control in Complex Systems. For additional information on this lab, please contact Dr. Meyn. Shannon Chillingworth, ECE Graduate Advisor, wins the College of Engineering Advising Award for 2011-2012 in recognition of her excellence in advising graduate students. Dr. Jose Fortes has been elected to the rank of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow for his innovative contributions to cyberinfrastructure for science and education, particularly for the use of virtualization and distributed computing to enable computational science as a service, November 10, 2011.  The award ceremony will take place during the Association's Annual Meeting in February 2012. Dr. Vladimir A. Rakov is featured in the article "Illuminating the Dangers of Lightning Strikes" published in The Institute (IEEE) on February 3, 2012. Click here to go to the article. Dr. David Arnold has accepted an appointment as Interim Director of the Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technologies (NIMET), January 30, 2012.  Dr. Vladimir A. Rakov has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) "for his fundamental work on lightning modeling and his identification of a number of basic lightning processes". AGU (http://www.agu.org/) has more than 60,000 members from 148 countries. Only one in a thousand members is elected to Fellowship each year. Besides AGU, Dr. Rakov is a Fellow of three other major professional societies, the IEEE, American Meteorological Society (AMS), and IET (formerly IEE). Ph.D. students Yuanxiong Guo and Zongrui Ding, received the Best Paper Award of IEEE Globecom 2011 for their paper,` Cutting Down Electricity Cost in Internet Data Centers by Using Energy Storage,"  They are supervised by Dr. Michael Fang, and Dr. Oliver Wu. Dr. Vladimir Rakov has been appointed mentor of one of the four junior faculty at the Graduate School of Engineering of Osaka University, Japan, who were selected for the very competitive program "The Frontier Research Base for Global Young Researchers". He will travel to Osaka in December to take part in mid-term evaluation of the winners. Dr. Rakov will also give an invited lecture at Osaka University.