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Professor Wesley Lawson (pictured, left) has been promoted to Full Professor, effective July 1, 1997. In addition, Lawson has been appointed as the Director of the Electrical Engineering Honors Program, replacing Professor Adrian Papamarcou. Lawson received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park. His research interests are in relativistic electronics and high power microwave sources. |
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Professor Leandros Tassiulas (pictured, right) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective July 1, 1997. Tassiulas received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Maryland. His research interests cover a wide range of topics in the area of communcations and systems. |
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Professor Adrian Papamarcou has been appointed the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, replacing Professor James Pugsley. Papamarcou was previously serving as Director of the Electrical Engineering Honors Program.
Papamarcou received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. His primary research interests are in information theory and statistical communications.
Professor Rama Chellappa gave an invited talk at the First International Conference on Audio and Video Biometrics-Based Person Authentication, held in Krans Montana, Switzerland, on March 12, 1997.
Chellappa also gave an expert summary on “Image Analysis,” at the International Conference on Acoustics Speech & Signal Processing, in Munich, Germany, on April 25, 1997.
Professor Mario Dagenais served on the program committee for the High Speed Semiconductor Lasers for Communication session of the SPIE sponsored meeting on Optoelectronics '97: Integrated Devices and Applications, in San Jose, Calif., on Feb 8-14, 1997.
Dagenais also gave an invited lecture titled ''Issues in Optoelectronic Packaging," at the Optoelectronic Interconnects and Packaging session of the SPIE sponsored meeting Optoelectronics '97: Integrated Devices and Applications, in San Jose, Calif., on Feb 8-14, 1997.
Professor Kazuo Nakajima gave an invited talk entitled “How to Promote PARTHENON in The U.S.A.,” at the 10th Aniversary Workshop on PARTHENON, in Kyoto, Japan, on April 3 and 4, 1997.
Nakajima also attended the invitation-only “Science and Science Policy of Japan Forum.” While there, he promoted the University of Maryland’s Gemstone Program to educate young people now to deal with large scale and complicated real-world problems. The forum was sponsored by The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Department of Energy, National Institue of Health, National Science Foundation, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. It was held in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 1997.
Professor Martin Reiser was Chair of the Program Committee for the 1997 Particle Accelerator Conference in Vancouver, Canada, held on May 12-16, 1997. The conference focuses on all aspects of accelerator science and technology, and was sponsored by the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, in conjunction with the American Physical Society's Division of Physics of Beams. It is held every two years, and is the largest conference in the field, bringing to it and average of more than 1,000 scientists and engineers.
Reiser also gave an invited plenary review at the Annual Plasma Physics Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), titled "Space-Charge Dominated Beams for Advanced Accelerator Applications," in Denver, Colo., last November.
Professor David Stewart gave an invited talk titled “Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems,” to Telogy Networks, Inc., Germantown, Md. on May 27, 1997.
Stewart also presented a talk titled “Dynamically Reconfigurable Embedded Systems,” to Philips Research Laboratories, in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., on June 16, 1997.
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Professor Anthony Ephremides (pictured, below) is the recipient of the 1996 ACM SIGMOBILE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing. The award is for “significant and lasting contribution to the research on mobile communications and wireless networking.” Ephremides was recognized in the April 1997 issue of Mobile Computing and Communication Review for lasting contributions to a number of wireless networking topics - including distributed routing protocols, access protocols for multi-media traffic, neural networking approaches for optimized routing, and server scheduling policies. He was also recognized by ACM SIGMOBILE for his work with graduate students and professional involvement within SIGMOBILE. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), founded in 1947, is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the art, science, engineering, and application of information technology. |
Professor Leandros Tassiulas is the recipient of an Office of Naval Research Young Invesigator Award, for his proposal entitled “Mobile Radio Network Architectures and Protocols for Reliable Information Transport in Dynamic Environments.”
Tassiulas’s proposal is one of 29 selected from 300 submitted for this award. This distinction carries with it $300,000 in research funding over the next three years.
Control Handbook Wins Award
The Control Handbook, edited by Professor William S. Levine, was given the award for “Best Engineering Handbook of 1996” by the Association of American Publishers. The Control Handbook is published by CRC Press, in coopertion with IEEE Press. It is regarded by some as the biggest, most comprehensive, and prestigious compilation of articles on control systems.
Fuja Serving as Program Director Communications Research at NSF
Associate Professor Tom Fuja is spending 1997 in a visiting position as Program Director for Communications Research at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia. Fuja will be the program officer in charge of NSF's $5 million budget in support of physical-layer communication system research - including modulation, coding, spread-spectrum, and data compression.
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