2005 ISL NEWS
Consulting Professor Dimitry Gorinevsky has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to distributed and learning control systems."
Former PhD student, Devavrat Shah, now an assistant professor at MIT, has been co-awarded the 2005 George B. Dantzig Award from INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, for the best doctoral dissertation.
Prof. Andrea Goldsmith's new textbook, Wireless Communications, will be available from Cambridge University Press in September.
At their annual conference in September, the IEEE Information Theory Society will bestow its Joint IT/Comsoc Best Paper Award for 2005 on Prof. Andrea Goldsmith and her co-authors, Sriram Vishwanath and Nihar Jindal, for the paper, "On the Duality of Gaussian Multiple-Access and Broadcast Channels," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 50(5):768-783, May 2004.
At their annual conference in September, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society will bestow its Neal Shepherd Best Paper Award for 2004 upon Prof. Arogyaswami Paulraj and his co-authors, Claude Oestges and Vinko Erceg, for the paper, "Propagation modeling of MIMO multipolarized fixed wireless channels," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 53(3):644-654, May 2004.
Prof. Ramesh Johari was awarded a 2005 Okawa Foundation research grant in July for his "Internet Interdomain Infrastructure" project.
The American Automatic Control Council presented Prof. Gene Franklin with the 2005 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in June "for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of digital, modern, adaptive and multivariable control, and for being mentor, inspiration and friend to five decades of graduate students."
At their meeting in May, the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) named Prof. John Pauly a Fellow of the Society for his contributions to the field of magentic resonance and for his work with the Society.
Graduate student Max Kamenetsky will receive the prestigious Walter J. Gores Award at University Commencement this year. As the University's highest award for teaching, the Gores Award celebrates excellence in educational activities that include lecturing, tutoring, advising, and discussion leading. Both faculty and teaching assistants can be recognized through Gores Awards. AND Graduate student Aaron Flores has been selected by the School of Engineering as a Centennial TA for 2004/2005. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding teaching by Stanford teaching assistants in the Schools of Engineering, Earth Sciences, and Humanities & Sciences. We might note that Prof. Bernard Widrow is the PhD advisor of both Max and Aaron!
ISL will host the first annual Kailath Lecture on Thursday, June 9, 2005. Robert Gallager, Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been chosen to give the first Kailath Lecture, entitled "The Golden Years of Information Theory". A group of Prof. Thomas Kailath's former students and associates have chosen the occasion of his 70th birthday in June to initiate this annual lecture to honor his academic legacy. If you are interested in attending or finding out more about this event, please visit the website for program information as well as the free registration form.
The IEEE Signal Processing Society has chosen Prof. Robert Gray to be among their select group of Distinguished Lecturers in 2006.
Prof. Ramesh Johari received an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2004 Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention for his MIT thesis on "Efficiency Loss in Market Mechanisms for Resource Allocation."
Electrical Engineering graduate student Paul Cuff is the recipient of the 2005 Numerical Technologies Founders Prize and Fellowship. Paul received his Bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University where he concentrated on speech denoising and synthesis. He is currently interested in medical imaging, communication and optimization. Yao-Ting Wang (PhD 1997) and his advisor, Prof. Thomas Kailath, established the Numerical Technologies Founders Prize and Fellowships this year to recognize oustanding achievement among students in the PhD program in the Electrical Engineering Department. The prize is awarded annually to the student who receives the top score on the EE Department PhD qualifying exam. The fellowships are awarded to students who achieve the highest scores on the qualifying exam each year, taking into consideration those students without other major sources of financial aid. Dr. Wang and Prof. Kailath are two of the co-founders of Numerical Technologies, Inc., which was created to commercialize the resolution enhancement techniques for optical lithography developed in Dr Wang's dissertation as part of a DARPA-sponsored project on the applications of control and signal processing to semiconductor manufacturing.
This spring ISL will offer EE378, Estimation and Detection, after a long hiatus. The course instructor is Prof. Tsachy Weissman. Focus will be on the basics of discrete-time random signal estimation, prediction, filtering, parameter estimation and spectrum estimation. This course is the natural continuation of EE278, Intro to Statistical Signal Processing.
Also this spring, Consulting Professor Dimitry Gorinevsky will teach EE392M, Control Engineering in Industry . This course will focus on a few control methods that are actually used in a majority of industrial applications and also highlight issues not covered in the standard control courses.