Best paper awards for ECE professors and students

Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Electrical and computer faculty members and students were the recipients of paper awards at two conferences held in July.
Professors Vijay Ganesh and Sebastian Fishmeister and ECE master's candidate Zach Newsham received the best student paper award at the 17th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2014) conference held in Vienna July 14-17.  The winning paper was titled Impact of Community Structure on SAT Solver Performance.
ECE doctoral student Mohammed AlShareef was honoured with the best student paper award at the 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM 2014) held in Victoria, BC July 13-16. The paper, titled Electrically Small Particles for Harvesting and Channeling Infrared Energy, was co-written with AlShareef's supervisor Omar Ramahi, an ECE professor.