November 21, 2017
Prof. Thomas Budinger has won the 2018 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology. The award is presented “for exceptional contributions to technologies and applications benefitting healthcare, medicine, and the health sciences.” Budinger, who was the founding chair of the Bioengineering department, a division…
November 21, 2017
Prof. Eli Yablonovitch has been awarded the 2018 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Edison Medal. Named for Thomas Edison and presented since 1909, the IEEE Edison Medal is awarded for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts. Yablonovitch, who co-founded the…
November 21, 2017
Profs. Pieter Abbeel and Sanjit Seshia have been elected fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) class of 2018. The objectives of the IEEE, the world’s largest association of technical professionals, are the educational and technical advancement of electrical and electronic engineering, telecommunications, computer engineering and allied…
November 20, 2017
EE alumnus Mark Heising (M.S. ’83) has been appointed to the board of trustees for The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). The IAS is one of the world’s leading centers for curiosity-driven basic research and serves as a model for protecting and promoting independent inquiry, prompting the establishment of similar institutes around…
November 20, 2017
EECS alumnus Warren “Woody” Hoburg (MS’11, Ph.D.’13) was named R&D Magazine’s 2017 Innovator of the Year at the 55th annual R&D 100 Awards last Friday. Hoburg recently left his position as an assistant professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT when he was selected by NASA to join the 2017…
November 20, 2017
CS Prof. Bernd Sturmfels has won the 2018 George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics for “his instrumental role in creating the field of applied algebraic geometry.” This prize is jointly awarded by the American Math Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Math (SIAM) every 3 years for “an outstanding…
November 20, 2017
Dr. Jennifer Listgarten will join the EECS faculty effective Jan 1, 2018. Listgarten received her B.S. in CS and Physics at Queen’s University in Canada, and her M.S. (CS/computational vision) and Ph.D. (CS/bioinformatics/machine learning) from the University of Toronto. She has spent the past 10 years as a researcher at Microsoft;…
November 17, 2017
A new book, Rain Falling on Tamarind Trees, by EE alumnus C. L. Hoang (M.S. ’82), is set to be released by Willow Stream Publishing tomorrow. Hoang was born and raised in Vietnam during the war and came to the US in the 1970s. He wrote this travelogue about his…
November 17, 2017
The life and contributions of CS Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy are profiled in a Philadelphia Inquirer article titled “Philly honors experts in robotics, genetics, evolution.” Bajcsy, who helped launch the field of computer vision, is being presented with a John Scott Award in science and medicine at the American Philosophical Society this…
November 16, 2017
Alumnus Sanjay Mehrotra (EECS B.S. ’78/M.S. ’80) has been named the 2018 Vice Chair of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The SIA is a trade association and lobbying group positioned as “the voice of the U.S. semiconductor industry.” Mehrotra, who is currently CEO of Micron, led the growth of SanDisk…