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The ECE Distinguished Lecture Series continues on Wednesday, November 11 with a lecture by Dr. M. Nisa Khan, President, LED Lighting Technologies. Dr. Khan's talk entitled "Making LED Lighting a Part of Green Living" will begin at 11AM in the CoRe Building Auditorium and will be followed by a brief question and answer session.

Click here for more information on Dr. Khan's lecture (pdf announcement)

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 !

Robotics & Computer Vision Captsone Design Projects

The students in the Robotics & Computer Vision Capstone class, taught by Professor Kristin Dana, produced very creative and interesting projects. These capstone design projects are available for viewing online at Capstone Design - Robotics & Computer Vision.

According to Professor Dana, the first group listed on the website is actually a group of juniors who did the course as non-capstone students. They are also members of the IEEE robotics club and the link on the website shows a video of their custom robot and project.

The emphasis of this senior/graduate level class is the study of modern day computer vision including theory and application. To gain hands-on experience in this field, students build mobile LEGO robots to obtain real time video data.

Achievements

Professor Narayan Mandayam has been selected the winner of the 2009 Fred W. Ellersick Prize for his paper on "Dynamic Spectrum Access Models: Toward an Engineering Perspective in the Spectrum Debate" featured in IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 1, January 2008, pp. 153-160.

The award will be formally presented to Dr. Mandayam at the IEEE International Conference on Communications on June 15, 2009 in Dresden, Germany. Congratulations to Professor Mandayam for this prestigious award for his excellent paper.

The Engineering Governing Council announces Excellence in Teaching Award. The 2008-2009 Excellence in Teaching Award for Electrical and Computer Engineering has been awarded to Professor Christopher Rose of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Rose has now won the Excellence in Teaching Award for the second time in three years!

This award is given each year to one faculty member in each department, based on a vote of undergraduate students, who has done an outstanding and exceptional job of teaching and is dedicated to educational excellence. The award was formally presented on Sunday May 3rd at the Engineering Governing Council (EGC) Leadership Conference.

Congratulations to Professor Rose on winning the 2008-2009 Excellence in Teaching Award !

Cosmic Communications It's almost a 'given' that remote civilizations will try to contact us using radio waves. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence was first tried by Giuseppe Coccone and Philip Morrison 50 years ago. Since then 2 million years of CPU timehas been donated to the SETI@home project. Professor Chris Rose and Gregory Wright propose a new take on extraterrestrial contact. The message-in-a-bottle idea of sending physical objects across space is highly energy efficient and we should be searching for artifacts in the solar system now.

To read more, see the original article in Nature, the NY Times article and the NY Times editorial. For further information, see the Cosmic Commuications page at Winlab (Rutgers Wireless Information Network Laboratory).

Professor Eduardo Sontag, a member of our graduate faculty, and a professor of mathematics at Rutgers, has become a SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Fellow. Dr. Sontag has been elected a Fellow of SIAM for his contributions to control theory and mathematical biology.

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