Professor Xuemin (Sherman) Shen has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Please read the full news release.
Video is available of a talk by Professor Solomon Golomb of the University of Southern California titled "A Career in Engineering", given on August 12, 2015.
One of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers from Waterloo receives JELF grant from CFI to help cover infrastructure costs to support their cutting-edge research. Those researchers, their projects and funding included in today's announcement are:
Professors Vijay Ganesh and Krzysztof Czarnecki, along with their PhD student Jimmy Liang won a best paper award at the top-tier SPLC 2015 conference held in Nashville, TN, USA from July 20-24, 2015. The paper titled "SAT-based Analysis of Large Real-world Feature Models is Easy" explains why very large and complex feature models, encoded as Boolean satisfiability instances, are easy for SAT solvers to solve.
The paper titled "A 0.4 V 75 kbit SRAM Macro in 28 nm CMOS Featuring a 3-Adjacent MBU Correcting ECC" by professors Adam Neale and Manoj Sachdev, has been awarded the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2014 Best Poster Paper Award.
The award consists of a plaque and $300. The award will be presented at the keynote session of CICC 2015.
Electrical and Computer Engineering professors Amir Khandani, Lin Tan and Raafat Mansour have received research funding from the Ontario government. Please read the full university news release for details.
Ming Yu, an electrical and computer engineering professor, has been elected a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, recognized for his outstanding abilities.
Receiving a DAS grant of $120,000 is Lin Tan, an electrical and computer engineering professor, who is generating novel program repair techniques that automatically generate fixes for real-world bugs. Please read the full university news release.
The Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student was given to Adam Neale at convocation on June 13.
A paper by ECE MASc student, Jonathan Shahen, professor Jianwei
Niu of the University of Texas-San Antonio, and ECE professor Mahesh Tripunitara has been awarded "Best paper runner up" at the ACM
Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), 2015. The paper is titled "Mohawk+T: Efficient Analysis of Administrative Temporal Role-Based Access Control (ATRBAC) Policies".