News: ECE

Assistant Professor José Martínez received a 2006 IBM Faculty Award in recognition of the quality of his research program and its importance to industry. Read more

Assistant Professor José Martínez has received a National Science Foundation Early Career Award for his proposal "Power-Performance Considerations of Thread-level Parallelism in On-chip Multicore Architectures." Read more

Bruce has been teaching in the School in various capacities for the last 20 years. For the last 8 years he has taught our capstone course ECE 476 Digital Systems Design using Microcontrollers. Read more

Awarded each year by the IEEE Power Engineering Society for excellence in teaching and ability to inspire students, and leadership in electric power engineering education through publication of textbooks and writings on engineering education. Read more

José Martínez and Ph.D. students Nevin Kirman, Meyrem Kirman, and Mainak Chaudhuri, have received the Best Paper Award at the Intl. Symp. on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), for their paper "Checkpointed Early Load Retirement." Read more

Lang Tong and one of his former students, M. Dong, were selected to receive the 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for their paper, "Optimal Design and Placement of Pilot Symbols for Channel Estimation." Read more

Lang Tong was Elected to Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to statistical signal processing for communications and wireless networks." Read more

Professor C. Richard Johnson, Jr., was the recipient of one of the 2004 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships for effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students. Read more

Farhan Rana has received an award of $400,000 for his proposal, "Semiconductor Lasers for Generating High Energy Ultrashort (sub-50 fs) Optical Pulses: From Nanotechnology to Ultrafast Optics." Read more

"Speculative Synchronization: Programmability and Performance for Parallel Codes," written by Jose Martinez, with his then University of Illinois advisor Jose Torrelas, was named in the November/December 2003 issue of IEEE Micro as a "Top Pick." Read more