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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.

Wojciech Golab

Wojciech Golab joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an Assistant Professor in September 2012, and is interested in distributed computing. Upon completing his B.Sc. at the University of Toronto in 2002, he was awarded the Governor General's silver academic medal. He then received a M. Math degree from the University of Waterloo in 2004, and a Ph.D.

Zbig Wasilewski joined the ECE Department in July 2012. To learn more about Professor Wasilewski, please visit his profile page.

Prof. Weihua Zhuang and her collaborators have won a best paper award at the IEEE-ICC 2012 conference, as have Prof. Guang Gong and her co-author Qi Chai. See more details on page 5 of the conference newsletter.

ECE Professor, Shesha H Jayaram and Chitral J Angammana, who completed his PhD under her supervision in 2011, have been honoured with the IEEE James R. Melcher Prize Paper Award 2112, for the technical excellence displayed in the paper, entitled, "Analysis of the Effects of Solution Conductivity on Electrospinning Process and Fiber Morphology". It recognizes the best Electrostatic Processes Committee papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. The authors received the award during the 2012 Joint Electrostatics Conference in Cambridge, Ontario, June 12-14, 2012.