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We are proud to announce that Dr. Sean P. Meyn is the new Robert C. Pittman Eminent Scholar Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida.  Dr. Meyn is an IEEE fellow and a world leader in stochastic processes, optimization, complex networks, and information theory.  Dr. Meyn has served on the editorial boards of several journals in the systems & control, and applied probability areas. He wrote several textbooks including "Control Techniques for Complex Networks", Cambridge University Press, 2007 and "Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability", Springer-Verlag, London, 1993 (with R. Tweedie).  For the past 23 years, Dr. Meyn was at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He also has held visiting positions at universities all over the world, including the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore during 1997-1998 where he was a Fulbright Research Scholar. During his latest sabbatical during the 2006-2007 academic year, he was a visiting professor at MIT and United Technologies Research Center (UTRC).
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Dr. Vladimir Rakov has been elected a Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU). 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). Dr. Jose Fortes gave one of the keynote addresses at the CUTE 2011: 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications, December 15-17, 2011.  The title of his talk was "Towards the ubiquitous cloud: multi-cloud systems".  Click here for the abstract. 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. 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. Michael Fang gave the keynote speech, "A Few Selected Research Issues in Wireless Network Modeling, Analysis and Design," at the 30th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC'2011) held in Orlando, Florida, November 17-19, 2011 Dr. Jose Principe gave the plenary lecture at the 46th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove California. Dr. Vladimir Rakov received one of the two Best Conference Paper Awards (with over 200 papers presented) at the 7th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning, Chengdu, China, November  1-4, 2011. The paper is titled "On the Origin of Two Types of Current Pulses Observed During the Initial Stage of Upward Lightning”and is authored by  D. Flache, V.A. Rakov, F.H. Heidler, W.J. Zischank, and R. Thottappillil. D. Flache is a Masters student from the Federal University of Armed Forces, Munich, Germany, who did his thesis under Rakov's supervision at UF. Dr. Yuguang 'Michael' Fang received the 2011 Florida Blue Key/UF Homecoming Distinguished Faculty Award.  This award is given to faculty who demonstrate outstanding service and dedication to the University. October 24, 2011