Announcements 2008

• Dr. Dapeng Wu will give the keynote speech at the First International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Processing in Tampa, Florida on December 7, 2008. The title of his speech is, "Scalable Video Transport over Wireless Networks."
• Dr. Martin Uman's research will be included in a one-hour special called, "Science Impossible," for the History Channel.
• Dr. Dapeng Wu will give the keynote speech at the First International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Processing in Tampa, Florida on December 7, 2008. The title of his speech is, "Scalable Video Transport over Wireless Networks."
• The Department received one of two highly competitive Multidisciplinary University Reserach Initiative (MURI) awards sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Department of Defense in the area of A 21st Century Approach to Electronic Device Reliability. For more information, click here.
• The Universidade Federal do Maranhao, Sao Luis do Maranhao, Brazil, bestowed the degree of "Doutor Honoris Causa", to Dr. Jose C. Principe, for his contributions to academic excellence, neuroengineering research and its clinical impact.

• IEEE Student Chapter performs well at SoutheastCon 2008.  For more on this story, click here.
• Dr. Ken O and the engineers of Texas Instruments have crafted the world's highest frequency circuit made with a common type of semiconductor transistor, a step that could slash the price of detectors useful in medicine, environmental monitoring and military applications.  The breakthrough was presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, February 5, 2008. For more on this story, click here.
• The Office of Naval Research has just announced that Dr. Dapeng Wu was chosen as one of the 2008 Young Investigator award recipients for his proposal, "Delay-Assured Ad Hoc Networking,"  For more on this story, click here.
• Changzhi Li, Ph.D. student, and Gabriel Reyes, a pre-graduate student, were chose to receive the 2008 IEEE MITT-S Fellowship Award. The awards will be presented at the society's annual conference in June 2008. Bot students are under the direction of Dr. Jenshan Lin.
• IEEE Student Chapter wins second place in the IEEE-USA Online Engineering Video Scholarship Competition for Undergraduates. For more on this story, click here.  To go directly to the video, click here.
• Dr. Jenshan Lin and other researchers have built and successfully tested a pad that can charge cell phones, PDAs, laptops and other electronic devices via wireless technology. Rather than plug in the electronics to different cords and outlets, users simply place them anywhere atop the flat, thin pad, where they begin charging automatically. For more on this story, click here
• Dr. Ken O and the engineers of Texas Instruments have crafted the world's highest frequency circuit made with a common type of semiconductor transistor, a step that could slash the price of detectors useful in medicine, environmental monitoring and military applications.  The breakthrough was presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, February 5, 2008. For more on this story, click here.
• Retired professor Dr. Rudolf E. Kalman has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering to receive the 2008 Charles Stark Draper Prize "for the development and dissemination of the optimal digital technique (known as the Kalman Filter) that is pervasively used to control a vast array of consumer, health, commercial and defense products, January 2, 2008.
• The Department received one of two highly competitive Multidisciplinary University Reserach Initiative (MURI) awards sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Department of Defense in the area of A 21st Century Approach to Electronic Device Reliability. For more information, click here.
• Dr. Jenshan Lin, Wireless Monitor Keeps Tabs on Baby's Breathing, Science News, December 5, 2008; Medical News Today, December 3, 2008; Science:Physics:Tech:Nano:News, December 2, 2008; Scientific American podcast, December 3, 2008; UF College of Engineering, December 3, 2008
• Dr. Martin Uman, Scientists close in on source of X-rays in lightning, USAToday, July 17, 2008
• Dr. Jenshan Lin and other researchers have built and successfully tested a pad that can charge cell phones, PDAs, laptops and other electronic devices via wireless technology. Rather than plug in the electronics to different cords and outlets, users simply place them anywhere atop the flat, thin pad, where they begin charging automatically. For more on this story, click here.
• Dr. Ken O and the engineers of Texas Instruments have crafted the world's highest frequency circuit made with a common type of semiconductor transistor, a step that could slash the price of detectors useful in medicine, environmental monitoring and military applications.  The breakthrough was presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, February 5, 2008. For more on this story, click here.
• Dr. Scott Thompson, Unexpected nFET Gains for 110 Silicon, Semiconductor International, January 14, 2008

Current Students and Alumni In the News

• Amitabh Nag, a graduate student under Dr. Vladimir Rakov, was chosen for honorable mention for his paper entitled, "Measurements of Wideband Electric Fields and Their Derivatives in Conjunction with HF and VHR Radiation Produced by Lightning Discharges," presented at the 2007 American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
• Stephen Forguson and Dr. Gijs Bosman, Headset Muffles Loud, Unnerving MRI Noises, April 22, 2008
• Dr. Sachio Semmoto (PhD, 1971), "Japan's Fastest Wireless Network," Forbes, March 24, 2008 and "Disruption of Service," The Economist, February 7, 2008
• Sagar Suthram, Heterogeneous CMOS Gaining Momentum, Semiconductor International, January 10, 2008.  Suthram is a graduate student under Dr. Scott Thompson.