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Dr. Burdea and Rutgers Tele-Rehabilitation Institute Publish Landmark Research
The leading article of the Archives on Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Journal (January 2010 issue) describes Rutgers Tele-Rehabilitation Institute's groundbreaking research in collaboration with Indiana University School of Medicine on home tele-rehabilitation for adolescents with cerebral palsy.

Dr. Burdea and the Institute have pioneered the use of the Sony Playstation 3 in hand rehabilitation using a virtual Avatar.

For more information read the complete article "In-Home Virtual Reality Videogame Telerehabilitation in Adolescents With Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy".

Wolf Zimmass, MERL Chief Engineer, Serves as Mentor
H.W. (Wolf) Zimmass, chief engineer/operations manager of the Microelectronics Research Laboratory is a U.S. Army Vietnam veteran who has been mentoring student veterans at Rutgers and writing casually about some of his experiences in that long and complex war. The Rutgers Oral History Archives is planning to record his memories and thoughts.

For more information read the complete article in the Rutgers Focus.

Center for Autonomic Computing works with Microsoft to Accelerate Applications
Center for Autonomic Computing works with Microsoft to Accelerate Real-World Applications on Windows HPC Server 2008
The Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC) at Rutgers University is collaborating with Microsoft to accelerate real-world parallel and distributed applications on the Windows HPC Server 2008 platform.

For example, as part of this effort, students at at CAC are working with industry partners to enable the rapid parallel processing of large amounts of data, such as molecular data used by pharmaceutical companies, and have developed innovative autonomic solutions that can accelerate Hadoop by up to 250% for these applications.

Additional details can be found at
www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000005832.

Xiaojun Tang Wins Best Student Paper Award at VTC'09
Xiaojun Tang, an ECE Graduate Research Fellow and a Ph.D. student supervised by Prof. Predrag Spasojevic at WINLAB, ECE Department, Rutgers University, received the Best Student Paper Award sponsored by Wiley Blackwell Publishing at the IEEE 70th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, September 20, 2009.

VTC is the flagship conference of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The paper, entitled "Multi-Cell User-Scheduling and Random Beamforming Strategies for Downlink Wireless Communications" studies the issue of inter-cell interference (ICI) mitigation in multi-cell wireless downlink systems by aligning interference across cells.

The proposed scheme, based on coordinated beamforming and user scheduling, exploits the spatial dimension without joint-cell transmission, and can significantly increase throughputs while requiring minimal intra/inter-cell information exchange in wireless cellular systems.

The paper is coauthored with Dr. Sean A. Ramprashad and Dr. Haralabos Papadopoulos of NTT DoCoMo Communications Labs USA, Inc., Palo Alto, CA.

This work was performed when Xiaojun Tang worked as a research intern at DoCoMo Labs in Summer of 2008. His internship is a result of the collaboration between WINLAB and DoCoMo Labs.

Integrative Graduate Education Research Training Program
Are you interested in nanotechnology and clean energy research?

The Rutgers IGERT Program (Integrative Graduate Education Research Training Program) is seeking motivated graduate fellow for a new interdisciplinary, multi-university graduate training program. Fellows will received a Ph.D. from one of the following departments - electrical engineering, materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry or physics. Dissertation research will focus on the scientific, technical and policy issues related to sustainable and affordable energy generation and storage technologies, emphasizing innovations in nanotechnology.

For more information

Aliye Ozge Kaya, Mung Chiang and Wade Trappe Win Best Paper Award
Aliye �zge Kaya, a Rutgers ECE Ph.D. student and a member of WINLAB, Professor Mung Chiang from Princeton University and Professor Wade Trappe from Rutgers ECE and WINLAB have won a best paper award at GLOBECOM 2009, in Honolulu, HI.� GLOBECOM is the flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society. Their paper, entitled "P2P-ISP Cooperation: �Risks and Mitigation in Multiple-ISP Networks," was selected as the best paper from the Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, a track at GLOBECOM that is focused on the improving the design of the Internet and next generation networks. �The paper develops a mathematical model for exploring the unintended and counter-intuitive behaviors emerging out of P2P-ISP (Internet Service Provider) cooperation.�

Professor Zhao Elevated to IEEE Fellow
Each year the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the Institute's most prestigious honors, elevation to IEEE Fellow.

Professor Yicheng Lu, Chair of our Department announced the honor and said "It is my great pleasure to advise that at its November 2009 meeting, Dr. Jian H. Zhao of our Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2010, for contributions to vertical silicon carbide devices and process technologies".

Professor Lu states "I am sure I can speak for our entire faculty and staff in sending our sincere congratulations to Professor Zhao for this wonderful honor and achievement."

Spring Qualifying Ph.D. Exam
The Spring Qualifying Ph.D. exam has been scheduled for the week of March 22 - 26, 2010. The deadline for registration for this exam is Monday, February 1, 2010. Late registrations will not be accepted.

If you plan to take this exam, please complete the attached form and return it to the graduate secretary Mrs. Klimkiewicz in ECE 134B.

Professor Gruteser Wins NSF Career Award

Professor Marco Gruteser Wins National Science Foundation Career Award

Professor Marco Gruteser has received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (NSF CAREER) Award to study techniques to enhance wireless location privacy in client devices such as smartphones.

He will be developing models to estimate location tracking risks in location-based applications and wireless systems. These models complement existing models for transactional database records and can be used to guide system designers or to inform users about their current level of privacy. In addition, the project is expected to provide fundamental insights on physical layer techniques that limit the accuracy with which infrastructure location sensors can locate a transmitting client and techniques that can automatically detect candidate pseudoidentifiers in transmitted messages. He will incorporate these techniques in a privacy guard software component for mobile client devices.

According to the NSF program solicitation, the CAREER Program "offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations."

Congratulations to Dr. Marco Gruteser for winning the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award !

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