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.