ISL Student, Yashodhan Kanoria, is the recipient of the 2008 Numerical Technologies Founders Prize, which recognizes outstanding achievement among students in the PhD program in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford.  The prize is awarded annually to the student who earns the top score on the Department of Electrical Engineering PhD qualifying exam.

Prof. Robert M. Gray is the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal  for his "contributions to vector quantization and signal compression techniques.

ISL student, Jeonghun Noh, was awarded the Best Presentation in P2P Networking  and Content Distribution Track" award at the Consumer Communications & Networking Conference.

Aditya Mavlankar won the Best Student Paper Award at EUSIPCO-2007, the 15th European Signal Processing Conference, held in Poznan, Poland. His paper, "Optimal Slice Size for Streaming Regions of High Resolution Video with Virtual Pan/Tilt/Zoom Functionality," was coauthored with Visiting Assistant Professor Pierpaolo Baccichet, David Varodayan and Prof. Bernd Girod.

The winner of the 2008 IEEE Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon Award is Dr. Robert M. Gray, Lucent Technologies Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. The award honors consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. Gray will give the Shannon Lecture at ISIT 2008 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

2006 

Prof. Andrea Goldsmith is featured in the cover article of Stanford Report, "Electrical Engineers strive to optimize wireless networks".

ISL student David Varodayan won a Best Student Paper Award at the 2006 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing for his paper "Distributed Coding of Random Dot Stereograms with Unsupervised Learning of Disparity," coauthored by Aditya Mavlankar, Markus Flierl, and Bernd Girod.

ISL student, Ulrich Barnhoefer, won the Best Student Paper award at the IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics. See http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/ces/ISCE_paper.html  for further details.

A new book, "Speckle Phenomena in Optics: Theory and Applications" by Prof. Joseph Goodman is scheduled to be released for publication November 10.  The publisher is Roberts & Company of Englewood, CO.

Prof. Claire Tomlin has been named a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. MacArthur Fellowships are awarded annually across all ages and fields to individuals who show exceptional merit and promise of continued creative work. 

ISL PhD student Sikandar Samar has won the Best Student Paper Award  at the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications 2006 for Embedded Estimation of Fault Parameters in an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, coauthored with Prof. Stephen Boyd and Prof. Dimitry Gorinevsky.  

A new book  "Space-Time Wireless Systems, From Array Processing to MIMO Communications,"  was released by Cambridge University Press in July 2006 and is dedicated to Prof. Paulraj on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The book is collection of contributions from the world's foremost MIMO wireless researchers and is edited by four of Prof. Paulraj's former students -  Prof. H. Bölcskei. ETH, Switzerland, Prof. D. Gesbert, Eurecom Institute, France, Prof. C. B. Papadias,  Athens Inst. of technology, Greece, and  Prof. A.-J. van der Veen, Technische Universiteit Delf, The Netherlands.

Prof. Joseph Goodman has completed his new book, Speckle Phenomena in Optics: Theory and Applications. Publication is expected in September or October by Roberts & Company, Publishers.

The second annual Kailath Lecture and Colloquium has been set for July 6 and 7. Our distinguished featured speaker this year will be Prof. Jacob Ziv of the Technion with a lecture on universal modeling. Visit the website to see the full list of speakers for the 2006 program.

Prof. Paulraj's joint paper with C.B. Papadias, "Space-Time Processing for Wireless Communications - Improving Capacity, Coverage and Quality in Wireless Networks by Exploiting the Spatial Dimension," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 14:49-83, 1997, has been ranked number one among wireless networks papers published in the past decade (1997-2006) based on citations. Thomson Scientific, the citation specialist, will feature an analysis of the paper in May on their website: esi-topics.com.

The second annual Kailath Lecture and Colloquium has been set for July 6 and 7. Our distinguished featured speaker this year will be Prof. Jacob Ziv of the Technion with a lecture on universal modeling.

Prof. Ben Van Roy will teach a new course, EE292, Analysis and Control of Markov Chains, this spring.

Olivier Leveque will offer a new course, EE392Z, Random Matrices in Communications, this spring quarter. For more information, visit the class website: eeclass.stanford.edu/ee392z.

Prof. Paulraj has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to the theory and practice of MIMO smart-antenna technology."

EE384M, Topics in Network Algorithms, will not be offered this spring. Instead, it will be taught this winter by Prof. Ashish Goel as MSE 319 on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Prof. Ramesh Johari will co-teach MSE 246, Game Theory with Engineering Applications, a new course offered Tuesday and Thursdays during winter quarter.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society will honor Prof. Robert Gray for his many contributions to the field and to the Society with their Meritorious Service Award at the ICASSP conference in May.

In February, Prof. Thomas Kailath will be inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. For more information, visit the Silicon Valley Engineering Council website.

The IEEE's Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal will be awarded to Prof. Thomas Kailath at their honors ceremony in Minneapolis in June 2006 for "seminal contributions to the theory and applications of statistical signal processing."

Prof. Robert Gray will be a Distinguished Visitor at Auckland University in February and March of 2006. In addition, the IEEE Signal Processing Society has chosen Prof. Gray to serve as a Distinguished Lecturer in 2006. Visit this link for more information on the program.

2005

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.

2004