Announcements 2006

Dr. Alan George, New NSF Center Targets Reconfigurable Computing, HPCwire, November 3, 2006

Dr. Alan George, UF, Honeywell engineers building first space supercomputer, UF News, October 26, 2006

Dr. Jenshan Lin, For the future hydrogen economy, a tiny, self-powered sensor, May 24, 2006

Dr. Vladimir Rakov, Lightning Sparks Interest at Capitol Hill Educational Luncheon, May 8, 2006

Dr. W. Eisenstadt, University's Sensor Gets Fresh with Pharamceuticals and Other Goods, Electronic Design, April 13, 2006

Dr. Karl Gugel, New Student-Design Sytem Tracks Firefighters, Special Forces, April 13, 2006

Dr. Ken O, UMC Claims Silicon Frequency Record of 192-GHz, EE Times, February 21, 2006  

Congratulations to Dr. and Mrs. Shea on the birth of their daughter, December 14, 2006.

Dr. Scott Thompson has been named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to common metal oxide semiconductor technology for high-volumne manufacturing, December 2006.

The paper co-authored by Dr. Yuguang Michael Fang and his student Mr. Hongqiang Zhai entitled, "Impact of routing Metrics on Path Capacity in Multi-rate and Multi-hop wireless Ad Hoc networks," received the Best Paper Award at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, November 12-15, 2006.

Paper, "Timing with dirty templates for low-resolution digital UWB receivers," coauthored by Huilin Xu and Dr. Liuqing Yang, received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, September 24-27 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Tao Li receives 2006 IBM Faculty Award

SubjuGator comes in 1st Place in the AUVSI and ONR's 9th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competitions.  This is their second successive international championship in this event.

Dr. Dapeng Oliver Wu was invited to serve as the founding editor-in-chief of a new journal, Advances in Multimedia, beginning July 2006

2006 Aristotle Award, July 24, 2006 . The award was presented to Dr. Law on October 9, 2006.

ECE launches newly redesigned website.  Users should reset their bookmarks.

QShine 2006)  to be held August 7-9 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Jianwu Xu, PhD student under the direction of Dr. Jose Principe, is participating in the summer program at the RIKEN Brain Science Insstitute in Japan, June-August 2006. The RIKEN Institute, near Tokyo, is a world renowned neuroscience research institute that emphasizes interdisciplinary brain reearch.

Tristan Cossio, PhD student under the direction of Dr. Clint Slatton, was awarded an internship with the US Naval Surface Warfare Center for summer 2006 and a prestigious NASA Graduate Student Research Program fellowship for Fall 2006.

Dr. Jose Principe to receive the 2006 Gabor Award from the International Neural Network Society

Dr. Tao Li receives Microsoft Research Trustworthy Computing Curriculum 2005 RFP Award

James Poe, selected to receive prestigous NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award for 2006.  Poe is a PhD student under the direction of Dr. Tao Li.

Dr. Rizwan Bashirullah receives NSF Career Award

Dr. Michael Fang selected as a UF Research Foundation professor.

Dr. Vladimir Rakov to receive the 2005 Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Geophysical Research Letters .  This prestigious award will be presented at the American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly in May.

A new joint research center is currently under development at UF and George Washington University.  For more information, www.chrec.org

SubjuGator featured on Discovery's Science Channel "Discoveries this Week". To view the video click here

Lightning expert Dr. Vladimir Rakov was quoted in a January 6, 2006 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story about how lightning might have been the cause of the explosion that killed 12 West Virginia coal miners. Rakov also was interviewed Jan. 6 for “ABC World News Tonight” on the same topic.

IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society for a three year term. 

Graduate Recruiting Video Released