A paper by ECE graduate students Frank Imeson and Ariq Emtenan, and professors Siddharth Garg and Mahesh Tripunitara, has won the Best Student Paper award at the 2013 Usenix Security Symposium.
Professor Vijay Ganesh has received his second Google Research Award.
ECE PhD graduate Carlos Moreno and Professors Sebastian Fischmeister and M. Anwar Hasan received the best paper award at the 2013 Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2013) conference in Seattle, Washington in June. The paper was entitled "Non-Intrusive Program Tracing and Debugging of Deployed Embedded Systems Through Side-Channel Analysis".
ECE PhD student Alireza Sharifi and ECE Professor Mahesh Tripunitara won the Best Paper Award at the 2013 ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT). The paper was entitled "Least-Restrictive Enforcement of the Chinese Wall Security Policy".
Wayne Loucks, an electrical and computer engineering faculty member, has been reappointed as associate dean, undergraduate studies from July 1, 2013 to December 31, 2015. Loucks has served as the associate dean for engineering undergraduate studies since 1998.
"He continues to work in the interests of our growing number of undergraduates," says dean of engineering Pearl Sullivan in a memo to faculty and staff about Loucks' reappointment. "I know that all the departments are grateful that he has agreed to continue leading this important portfolio for the Faculty."
Jonathan Eyolfson, an electrical and computer engineering graduate student, is one of just four campus-wide recipients of the 2013 Amit & Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student. Eyolfson, a teaching assistant and instructor for various courses for several years, is noted by his students as having a deep understanding of the material and dedication to teaching. He's described as “a knowledgeable and approachable teaching assistant who really understands our confusion.”
The paper titled "Performance Analysis of Cooperative ADHOC MAC for Vehicular Networks" by Sailesh Bharati, a PhD student, and Professor Weihua Zhuang of ECE Department was honored with one of the "Best Paper Awards" at the IEEE Global Communication Conference 2012 (Globecom'12), the annual flagship conference organized by the IEEE Communication Society. The conference was held at Anaheim, California, USA from December 03-07, 2012 and included 12 technical symposia, for which the total of 2560 submissions were made, 21 workshops, and 11 tutorial sessions.
A paper by Rafael Lotufo, an ECE PhD student, Zeeshan Malik, a CS Masters student, and their supervisor professor Krzysztof Czarnecki were honored with the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Maintenance, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 23rd - 30th, 2012. Their paper, titled "Modelling the 'Hurried' Bug Report Reading Process to Summarize Bug Reports" was singled out from 181 submissions. For more details see conference website.
Prof. Simarjeet Saini and his group had their research on a new optical sensor based on nanophotonics highlighted as a news item in Laser Focus World. For more information see the Laser Focus World Website.
Vijay Ganesh is an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo since September 2012. Prior to his current appointment, he was a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2012.