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2018
April 2018
Khaligh, McCluskey to lead new $2.37M DOE solar power converter project
Nau, Gelfand, Goldstein part of MURI developing the potential of mean-field game theory
ECE Names 2017-2018 Distinguished Dissertation Fellows
UMD Celebrates Invention of Year Winners, Ventures, and Partnerships at 'Innovate Maryland'
Ulukus named Anthony Ephremides Professor in Information Sciences and Systems
Maryland researchers develop computational approach to understanding brain dynamics
Alumnus Raef Bassily joins Ohio State as tenure-track faculty
Maryland researchers awarded $1M DARPA Lagrange program cooperative agreement
Bill Regli featured at Global Industrial Cooperation Conference
Brin Family Prize to Support Excellence in Drone-Related Activity
Schizophrenia drug monitoring device research featured on
IEEE Sensors Letters
cover
Maryland researchers awarded DARPA cooperative agreement to develop robotic swarm strategies
State, university officials celebrate launch of newly formed, cross-discipline transportation institute
March 2018
Alumnus Philip Twu's exciting career in space robotics
Vishnubhotla, Espy-Wilson granted patent for improving speech extraction
Espy-Wilson named International Speech Communication Association Fellow
Kedem, De Oliveira win Canadian Journal of Statistics Award
Adomaitis, Uy win Best Poster Award at AIChE Annual Meeting
UMD Researchers Addressing Urinary Tract Infections by Developing Device for Detection and Treatment of Bacterial Biofilms in Catheters
A new unbiased stochastic derivative estimator for simulating complex systems
Alumnus Xiaobo Tan named Withrow Distinguished Scholar at Michigan State
Maryland UAS Experts Join Humanitarian Effort to Rebuild a Devastated Dominica
Improving speech intelligibility testing with new EEG methods
Work by Khaligh, Ghodssi nominated for UM 'Invention of the Year' awards
Derek Paley interviewed for WYPR's 'On the Record'
The Clark School Celebrates Women's History Month
February 2018
Maryland Robotics Center adds four faculty affiliates
Alumnus Thomas Winkler receives EU Fellowship
Ulukus Named IEEE ITSOC Distinguished Lecturer
Khaligh, McCluskey receive Boeing funding for more electric aircraft
Fischell Institute Now Accepting Fellowship Applications
Scholarship Opportunity for Transfer Students
University of Maryland Drone Pilot to Support Dominica Recovery After Hurricane Maria
Profile and interview with John Baras in
IEEE Control Systems Magazine
Article on Maryland TMV research named 'Highlight of 2017' by the journal
Nanotechnology
UMD researchers find listening to sound changes how neurons interact within the brain
January 2018
Khaligh, Dusmex granted patent for plug-in electric vehicle powertrain system
UMD Researchers Focus Energy on Current Collector Improvements
2017 Year in Review
Clark School Researchers Recognized Among "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds"
2017
December 2017
University of Maryland, Navy Control Robot From 6,000 Feet Above Ground
MSE Ph.D. Candidate Michael Van Order Discusses Study Abroad Experience
Alumni Profile: Paul Gaske
November 2017
Ephremides is PI for new ONR 'age of information' grant
UMD Hosts Third Technica with over 800 Students from Around the Country
Srivastava Named Clark School Inaugural Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs
Pamela Abshire elected IEEE Fellow
Shihab Shamma elected IEEE Fellow
Wu Named AAAS Fellow
Baras, Kenyon, Hughes Network Systems win MIPS Global Impact Award
New microsystems detect, treat bacterial biofilms that cause post-operative infections
Srivastava named Clark School Dean for Graduate Affairs
DW News Interviews Khaligh on Electric Vehicle Trends
October 2017
FPE Undergrad Benefits from University FIRE Program
Vishkin, Barua and Ghanim Introduce ICE to Eliminate Programmer’s Multi-Threading – A Productivity-Buster in Parallel Computing
QUEST Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Alumni Naomi Leonard and Xiaobo Tan part of public lecture on underwater robotics
Clark School Spinout Developing Pediatric Cancer Drug Delivery System to Prevent Hearing Loss from Chemotherapy
UMD Solar Decathlon team takes 1st place in the U.S., 2nd place in the world
UMD Researchers Develop Stable, Robust Li-ion Battery Chemistry
Five ISR faculty part of $8 million NIH grant to combat hearing loss in older people
Building Together Announcement Garners Extensive Media Coverage
Maryland Power Electronics Laboratory participates in Maryland Manufacturing Day
The Home of the Future
University of Maryland School of Engineering Announces Unprecedented Investment from A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation
Espy-Wilson's technology included in new Alcatel MOVE TIME smart watch
John Baras named AIAA Associate Fellow
September 2017
Empowering Voices in Engineering
Research Spearheaded by UMD Receives NSF RAPID Support
BBI Holds 2017 Seed Grant Symposium
Gabriel gives keynote address at First International Conference on the Economics of Natural Gas
Research Review: Combating biofilms with microsystem devices
Sarah Bergbreiter wins ISR Outstanding Faculty Award
Ayan Mallik wins ISR Graduate Student Award
Three ISR graduate students win new travel award
Alexis Jenkins wins ISR staff award
UMD Opens Outdoor Flight Laboratory to Advance Autonomy, Robotics
Salamanca-Riba Appointed 2017/2018 UMD ADVANCE Professor
Raghavan writes article on teaching for
OR/MS Today
magazine
Clark School names Hamid Jafarkhani 2017 IHOF Inductee
August 2017
Relive Totality With Clark School Images, Videos
Researchers part of two NSF Neural & Cognitive Systems grants worth more than $1.2 million
ISR researchers win additional $948K NSF Neural and Cognitive Systems grant
Schonfeld, Ryzhov team up for NSF EAGER grant
Yu Named ASME Fellow
Khaligh-led student team wins award at IEEE IFEC competition
July 2017
Former postdoc Eirini Tsiropoulou named to IEEE ComSoc "rising stars" list
Nikhil Chopra wins $380K NSF award for robotics
TEDCO Invests $1M into Innovative Companies Including Rajeev Barua’s Startup SecondWrite LLC
Banis wins poster design award at Global Grand Challenges Summit
ISR faculty leading bio-inspired robotics and transportation electrification REUs
Gang Qu receives NSF EAGER grant for hardware security
Alum Leonard Petnga to join University of Alabama Huntsville faculty
William Regli named sixth director of ISR
Smela named Clark School Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Graduate Programs
Ulukus is PI for new NSF information-theoretic physical layer security grant
June 2017
ECE Ph.D. Student Mallik Wins Kulkarni Fellowship
Nima Ghalichechian begins Ohio State tenure-track position
UMD Takes Second Place in NASA RASC-AL Competition
Coelho, Austin and Blackburn win best paper award at ICONS 2017
Ryzhov promoted, granted ISR/Smith School joint appointment
Miao Yu named Maryland Robotics Center director
Decade of TMV research leads to never-before-seen microsystems for energy storage, biosensors and self-sustaining systems
Former ISR postdoc Matthew McCarthy earns tenure at Drexel University
New TMV supercapacitor work featured in
Nanotechweb
article
Jonathan Fritz promoted to Research Scientist
ISR postdoc helps develop 'nanosponge' that erases and repairs incredibly small errors
ECE Professors Abshire, Goldsman, and Newcomb Participate in ISCAS 2017
Sandborn Awarded ASME Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award
Ghodssi, Bentley receive NSF EAGER grant to develop ingestible capsules for medical diagnosis
Alumnus Reza Ghanadan interviewed about advances for more 'human-like' robots
Four Honored at 6th Annual ECE Distinguished Alumni Awards
May 2017
UMD Engineering Gives Solar Decathlon Team a Competitive Edge
John Baras receives 2017 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
John Baras receives AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
Alum Domenic Forte receives NSF CAREER Award
Danny Kim, MWC/ARCS Lockheed Martin Scholar, will continue malware mitigation technology research
ENES 489P holds end-of-semester design contest
Congratulations, ISR graduates!
UMD's reACT Represents at the Smithsonian's Earth Optimism Summit
Miao Yu promoted to full professor
BBI FY17 Seed Grant Winners Announced
Alexander Pearse wins Dean's Doctoral Research Award
Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou receives first Susan Frazier Postdoctoral Researcher Travel Award
Sayyed Sina Miran to receive Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award from UMD Graduate School
Dipankar Maity to receive Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award from UMD Graduate School
Fritz, Shamma are collaborators on new DARPA Targeted Neuroplasticity Training Program
2017 Honors & Awards Ceremony
ECE Names 2016-2017 Distinguished Dissertation Fellows
April 2017
Sangwook Chu to receive Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award from UMD Graduate School
Flocks and Form
Tsiropoulou to join University of New Mexico faculty
Qu Gives Keynote at WOCC 2017
Wood filter removes toxic dye from water
Prof. Alireza Khaligh to receive Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from Illinois Tech
Simon is co-editor of new Springer auditory research book
New Class Inducted into Order of the Engineer
Northrop Grumman renews as an ISR associate partner for third consecutive year
Students of Khaligh, Wu win China Scholarship Council awards
Khaligh grad student team takes third place in Allegheny Region Cleantech University Prize collegiate competition
Hossein Salami wins UMD graduate research prize
Paley, Abshire, Martins promoted to full Professor by UMD President Wallace Loh
CoolCAD Electronics, LLC Wins Phase II SBIR NASA Contract
March 2017
Alumnus Fumin Zhang promoted to full professor at Georgia Tech
Alumnus Ravi Tandon receives NSF CAREER Award
Clark School women of note: Avis Cohen
Reza Ghodssi honored as "Person of Impact" by University of Wisconsin
Brain and Behavior Initiative partners with Arena Stage
February 2017
A nerve modeled on a battery
UMD Engineers Developing Robots to Compete in RoboMasters 2017
Alumnus Peng Qiu Granted Tenure at Georgia Tech
MacCarthy contributing author to new systems engineering book
A peek under a hybrid’s hood reveals wood?
UMD Pushes Beyond Line of Sight to Map Impacts of Traditional Farming in Belize
TRX Systems to Exhibit at NSF's The Arc of Science in Washington, DC
Alumnus Serban Sabau wins NSF CAREER Award for network research
Thank you, Lockheed Martin!
UMD Researchers Make Strides in Schizophrenia Diagnosis Research
Kanold study shows autism may begin early in brain development
Artificial cells that can pass the 'Turing Test'
January 2017
UMD Team Takes Top Spot in Performance & Operations at SpaceX Hyperloop Competition
IAI sponsors colloquium series for seventh year
Maryland part of $253 million federal Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute
Statistical Data Fusion
: new book by Kedem, De Oliveira, Sverchkov
UMD Research Featured on
Advanced Materials Technology
Cover
President Obama names Michael Rotkowitz a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
2016
December 2016
University of Maryland to Establish Research Center of Excellence with UTC Climate, Controls & Security and Otis
Congratulations ISR graduates!
MSSE student Jessica Knizhnik wins INCOSE/Kossiakoff Scholarship
UMD Researchers Find Ultra-thin Solution to Primary Obstacle in Solid-State Battery Development
Alumna Naomi Leonard wins Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize
S.K. Gupta leads finalist group in KUKA Innovation competition
Two UMD Teams NASA BIG Idea Challenge Finalists
UMD Receives $1M in Federal Funding to Help Increase Number of Minority Students Graduating with STEM Degrees
UMD Engineering for Social Change Class Awards Non-Profit V-LINC $10,000 Grant to Support Custom Assistive Technology Program
Paley is Principal Investigator for $2M 'SEA-STAR' grant
NSF Science Now
video features 'aging brain' research of Anderson, Simon and Presacco
Alumnus Forte Receives ARO Young Investigator Award
Aloimonos gives keynote address at Bremen University Talks
ENES 489P holds end-of-the-semester design conference
Alum Ram Iyer promoted to full professor at Texas Tech
Ciena Grants ECE Student Competitive Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Ulukus Delivers UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture
Former ISR postdocs win advanced materials awards
Khaligh wins Clark School junior faculty teaching award
NanoCenter thanks departing co-founder
November 2016
Synchronized swimming: How startled fish shoals effectively evade danger
Alumnus Xiaobo Tan elevated to IEEE Fellow
John Baras wins 2017 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
Alumni Look to Foster Entrepreneurialism through Support of Clark Hall Fund
Technica Becomes Largest All-Women Hackathon
Applications now being accepted for summer 2017 bioinspired robotics REU program
Clark School students shine at AVS annual meeting
Article about Otomagnetics in
Action on Hearing Loss
newsletter
Raghavan wins INFORMS teaching prize
Work by Raghavan, Chen, Ljubic wins Best Paper Award
Small collectives and nonlinear dynamics
Energy Research Center battery highlighted on CBS This Morning
Researchers write about Google's AlphaGo for
OR/MS Today
Gabriel invited speaker at three European energy-related workshops this fall
Paley presents at NAE 2016 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
October 2016
It’s not your ears, it’s your brain
NSF Awards $3.45M National Innovation Ecosystem Grant to University of Maryland
John S. Baras inducted into Clark School Innovation Hall of Fame
September 2016
NEXTOR celebrates 20 years of aviation operations research
Simon delivers three invited lectures in China
Khaligh named area editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Nau and colleagues publish new AI Planning book
Ott, Yorke, and Grebogi recognized by Thompson Reuters as 2016 Citation Laureates in Physics
Khaligh receives Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award
Narayan, Zhou, Schlotfeldt, Strahan win ISR outstanding awards
Srivastava is PI; Jacob co-PI for NSF "Unified Framework for 3D CPU Co-Simulation" grant
Four Clark School Professors Named Distinguished University Professor
Alumna Jing Yang begins tenure-track position at Penn State
“Lifeline Across the Bay” Marks Milestone for the University of Maryland
August 2016
Christian Brodbeck joins ISR as postdoc
Transparent Wood: Clark School Research in the News
Khaligh, Dusmez issued patent for power converter
DOE Awards $1.25M to UMERC Researchers to Develop Safer, Better Batteries
International Symposium on Networked Cyber-Physical Systems
White Named University of Maryland 2016 Faculty Advisor of the Year
Eirini Tsiropoulou is new postdoc
Gary Rubloff named Distinguished University Professor
Pradeep Rajasekaran, new ISR postdoctoral researcher
Vaughn-Cooke speaks at virtual reality event on Capitol Hill
July 2016
John Baras named IFAC Fellow
Maria Bruck wins student paper award at ASME Power & Energy Conference
Alexander Barg receives NSF grant to study theoretic aspects of local data recovery
ISR welcomes five new affiliate faculty
NanoDay2016 Features Inspiring Speakers, Poster Awards
Khaligh gives keynote speech at ITEC 2016
June 2016
FICO purchases alums' cyber risk startup
Shinkyu Park joins MIT Senseable City Lab as postdoc
Herrmann to lead 'Design Innovations' stream for UMD's first-year 'FIRE' program
Safer, Better Li-Ion Batteries
McAvoy, Researchers Investigate Link between Bacteria and Cancer of the Appendix
UMD Microrobotic Work Featured in
IEEE Spectrum
More than 175 attend national Denice Denton Emerging Leaders Workshop
Strategies, encouragement for tenure-track STEM faculty of diverse backgrounds
Didier Depireux wins inaugural Provost's Excellence Award
Abshire on “Science Goes to the Movies” Live at World Science Festival
Ephremides speaks at Princeton EE commencement event
May 2016
Thomas Winkler wins dean's doctoral research award
Matthew Gilboy wins Dean's Masters Student Research Award
Olusola-Ajayi to Deliver Student Speech for Clark School Spring Commencement
Northrop Grumman's Christopher Jones to Deliver Spring Commencement Remarks
ENES 489P holds end-of-semester design competition
A View Through Wood Shows Futuristic Applications
Adomaitis, Baras, MacCarthy speakers at UMD climate forum
ISR holds third alumni networking event
April 2016
David Lovell promoted to full professor
Richard La promoted to full professor
Rubloff, Ghodssi to speak at TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo
ECE/CS senior Ekaterina Tolstaya wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Maynord and Guha are Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship winners
Ephremides and colleagues issued U.S. Patent 9,318,232
Hyun Jung wins Distinguished Teaching Assistant award
Four ISR students named to Clark School Future Faculty Fellow program
PH.D. student Thomas Winkler awarded Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
Ph.D. student Rui Zhang is second place winner in WINFORMS competition
Steven Gabriel participates in two international academic events
Alumnus Radha Poovendran is PI for cybersecurity MURI grant
Alumnus Tassiulas Wins 2016 IEEE Kobayashi Award
Undergrad Adam Berger is awarded Goldwater Scholarship
Grad student Min Ye is finalist in Bell Labs Shannon competition
UMD to Host 2016
FIRST
Robotics District Championship
Herrmann wins IIE book award for
Engineering Decision Making and Risk Management
March 2016
Sennur Ulukus named UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Lockheed Martin's Robert Mandelbaum joins ISR Strategic Advisory Council
Maryland research contributes to Google’s AlphaGo AI system
Khaligh is co-PI on new Boeing contract
New book by Ben Shneiderman promotes integrated research concepts
Alireza Khaligh named an IEEE Industry Applications Society Distinguished Lecturer
Khaligh receives NSF Partnership for Innovation grant on electric vehicle technology
Alumna Enlu Zhou earns tenure at Georgia Tech
UMD has Largest University Showing at 2016 ARPA-E Summit
Alumnus Peng Qiu Wins NSF CAREER Award
Grad student Chuan Shi wins energy research fellowship
NAI Fellows' names read into the
Congressional Record
Workshop offers encouragment, skills, networking for emerging academic leaders
February 2016
BBI Seed Grant winners announced
CREB Kicks Off its Research and Innovation Seed Grant Program
UMD Team Selected to Participate in International Solar Decathlon
Espy-Wilson Delivers Keynote Address for Stanford’s WISE Inspirations Network
Khaligh is general chair of 2016 IEEE APEC Conference
January 2016
Derek Paley to speak at 2016 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
You’ll Never Be-Leaf What Makes up This Battery
Alum Xiaobo Tan named 'Foundation Professor' at Michigan State
Jonathan Simon gives keynote speech at SPIRE workshop
Babadi Wins NSF CAREER Award
Pal Receives NSF CAREER Award
Gabriel Named Associated Member of GERAD
Qu Wins NIST Grant
2015
December 2015
Mote Named Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Bergbreiter named director of Maryland Robotics Center
Alum Ravi Tandon joins University of Arizona's ECE Department
Baras, Shneiderman named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Piya Pal guest editor for special issue of
Digital Signal Processing
Espy-Wilson Featured in MIT’s Tech Review
Moving matters: Ethnocentric behavior decreases when societal mobility rises
Rubloff Discusses UMD Energy Storage Center and Energy Science Hot Topics
Wu Wins 2015 Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award
ENES 489P holds systems engineering design conference
Sennur Ulukus named IEEE Fellow
November 2015
Smart systems discussion at PowerMEMS Conference
William Fagan and team find whooping cranes stay the course when they follow a wise old bird
Jonathan Simon is invited speaker at Paris Workshop on Decoding of Sound and Brain
Barg, Tamo named winners of IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Awad
Networking reception brings alumni together
Gary Rubloff to receive Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Award
Grad students Winkler, Subramanian rank highly in U21 3MT video contest
October 2015
ISR participates in NSF 30th Anniversary ERC Celebration
White Symposium to Examine Collective Animal Behavior and Control of Robotic Networks
University of Maryland, College Park & Baltimore Campuses Announce Seed Grant Winners
Naomi Leonard to be inducted into Innovation Hall of Fame
Baras, Yu, Sadler issued patent for wireless communication authentication
Piya Pal delivers plenary talk at IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop
Reimagining Fuel Cells Lands UMERC Director's Technology in NATURE
September 2015
Visionary choreographer Huang Yi performs at Maryland, visits Robot Realization Lab
Robotics Realization Laboratory opens
Hadar Ben-Yoav accepts tenure-track position at Ben-Gurion University
Subramanian and Wheeler win 2015 ISR awards
New research will help cyber-physical systems understand human activities
Shamma, Horiuchi co-PIs on NSF cortical architectures grant
Pal is PI for NSF collaborative research grant
UMD Researchers Creating First Onboard Fast-Charging System for Electric Vehicles
Undergraduate Engineering Programs Earn Top Rank in U.S. News & World Report
Mesoscale Science Research Highlighted on Materials Journal Cover
Building a smarter industrial robot
New NSF-funded project targets secure and private function computation
NSF Funds Novel Research to Create Scalable Wireless Networking, Averting Usage Crisis
Elisabeth Smela named ADVANCE Professor
Two Mechanical Engineering Professors Named PROMISE Mentors
Dan Butts speaks on neural computations
Ulukus to investigate rechargable networks with energy cooperation
Loccioni USA joins ISR Associate Partners program
Gupta is PI for NSF NRI unmanned surface vehicle grant
S.K. Gupta wins NSF grant for human robot collaboration in manufacturing
Nikhil Chopra is PI for NSF EAGER grant for networked 3D printers
August 2015
UMD Invention Could Make Your Mobile Device Almost Impossible to Break Into
Alumnus Forte Accepts Position at University of Florida
Shun Watanabe joins Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Alum Himanshu Tyagi joins Indian Institute of Science
Peter Sandborn is PI for NSF performance contract engineering grant
Stuart Antman wins ASME 2015 Lyapunov Award
Khaligh Wins Best Vehicular Electronics Paper Award for Third Time
July 2015
What an upgrade!
New Battery Demonstrates “Sweet Spot” of Electrolyte Thickness and Composition
Northrop Grumman's R. Eric Reinke joins ISR Strategic Advisory Council
Reza Ghodssi named ASME Fellow
Gabriel's sabbatical year included residencies, keynote addresses
Sensing Drugged Driving: Fischell Researchers Receive SBIR for Roadside Drug Test
Bio-inspired robots invade Aspen Hill Library
Qu, Sutton speak on cyberterrorism panel at INCOSE Symposium
Jonathan Simon is invited lecturer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory summer course
Gang Qu delivers keynote address on fault tolerance and the Internet of Things
Ghodssi, Beyaz, Waits issued US patent for microgenerator
Huan Xu to become tenure-track assistant professor
Alumnus Xiaobo Tan promoted to full professor at Michigan State
Small Can Be Strong
and
Tough
Call for Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenges
Ball gives plenary address at INFORMS Workshop
Alum Ashis Banerjee joining University of Washington faculty
Cumings Named Interim Director of Maryland NanoCenter
June 2015
UMD Students Win 2015 RASC-AL Competition
Jonathan Simon is invited speaker at CHScom 2015
UMD Team Wins 2015 Robo-Ops and Sets New Course Record
Shampoo ingredient keeps nanotubes cleaner, more manageable
Reza Ghodssi named AVS Fellow
Bergbreiter, Kanold part of new MURI research teams
Thin coatings controlled at atomic scale protect high performance lithium anodes
Alum Sheryl Chocron-Spieler wins poster award at BMES/FDA Frontiers in Medical Devices Conference
Alum Sagar Chowdhury wins ASME CIE Best Dissertation Award
Two FIBs Now Available in NanoCenter's AIM Lab
ECE Announces Computer Engineering Minor
Miao Yu wins NSF grant to develop planar photonic crystals
May 2015
Desai Named ASME Fellow
Members of NEES Gather for 2015 Spring Accomplishment Meeting
Rance Cleaveland part of 'CyberHeart' cyber-physical systems grant
Maryland Robotics Center Hosts UMD/NAWCAD Autonomy Research Workshop
Sterbing-D'Angelo interviewed by
Forbes
magazine
Arellano, Carney, Austin win Best Paper Award at ICONS 2015
Bats' touch sensor cells enable precision flight
New ONR grant for bio-inspired underwater sensing and control
Shapiro wins NSF grant for magnetic focusing of magnetic particle therapies
Espy-Wilson named to NIH advisory council
Derek Paley is AIAA National Capital Section's Engineer of the Year
Rubloff, Wu win UMD Invention of the Year Awards
April 2015
Maryland Robotics Center presents demonstrations at Maryland Day
Depireux, Masri win $25K UMB UMVentures Award
Robo Raven on Display at a Major International Design Exhibit in France
Rajeev Barua promoted to full professor
Chopra Co-Authors New Book
Jeffrey Herrmann promoted to full professor
Penskiy Awarded UMD Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship
New AFOSR NIFTI Center features eight Clark School faculty
Sangwook Chu wins UMD GRID best poster award
New book by Jeffrey Herrmann:
Engineering Decision Making and Risk Management
Ph.D. candidate Thomas Winkler wins best poster award at MAMNA Symposium
Maryland hosts 2015 Chesapeake Regional FIRST Robotics competition
Maryland Robotics Center students participate in National Robotics Week kick-off
Optimal control and strong interactions imply flock cohesion
March 2015
Min Wu is finalist for Invention of the Year
UMD, MIT team for new 'superhydrophobic surfaces' patent
Alireza Khaligh was program chair for recent IEEE APEC conference
Rubloff One of 9 Finalists for UMD Invention of the Year
UMD To Celebrate Innovations and Partnerships April 29
Austin, Delgoshaei, Nguyen win MITRE Award at CSER
UMD Mourns Passing of Benefactor and Alumnus A. James Clark
Alumna Jing Yang wins NSF CAREER Award
Espy-Wilson delivers plenary address at College Board conference
Qu organizes ARO workshop on information technologies
Shihab Shamma named to NIH advisory council
Pines Recognized with Maryland Speaker's Medallion
Jonathan Simon wins $1.5M NIH NIDCD grant for 'auditory scene' research
February 2015
Alireza Khaligh promoted to associate professor with tenure
Maryland inventors issued US Patent for compounds that fight biofilms
ARC Lab holds inaugural open house
Hanrahan, Waits, Ghodssi paper selected as JMM 'Highlight of 2014'
UMD Hosts 3D Maryland Expert Group Meeting
Former ISR postdoc Matthew McCarthy wins NSF CAREER Award
January 2015
UMD Robot Visits White House
Sarah Bergbreiter gives TED Talk on microrobotics
Robots learn kitchen skills by watching YouTube videos
Flatau Promoted to AIAA Fellow
Alum Radha Poovendran named IEEE Fellow; department chair
Michael Fu wins NSF grant for simulation-based optimal decision making
Alumna Enlu Zhou wins NSF CAREER Award for optimization and sampling in stochastic simulation
UMD Online Engineering Programs Continue to Climb in Standings
2014
December 2014
Shapiro to deliver semi-plenary address at American Control Conference
Naviasky, an ECE Student, Spoke at the 2014 Winter Commencement
Northrop Grumman joins ISR Associate Partner Program
Six ISR Ph.D. students selected as Future Faculty Fellows
Workshop on Geometry of Collective Behavior organized by P. S. Krishnaprasad
Alumnus Matteo Mischiati is lead author of sensorimotor control study in
Nature
Underwriters Laboratories President to Speak at Winter Commencement
Paley Awarded 2014 E. Robert Kent Teaching Award for Junior Faculty
ENES 489P holds design competition
UMD UAS Test Site Flies Talon 240
Ph.D. Student Guannan Liu Develops Novel Micro-Heater
Steven Gabriel receives Humboldt Research Award
John Baras elected AAAS Fellow
November 2014
UMD Clark School Highlights Disaster Resilience at Mpact Week
Reza Ghodssi elected Fellow of IEEE
University of Maryland Breaks Ground for A. James Clark Hall
UMD Clark School Announces Inaugural Awards Winners
UMD UAS Test Site Receives FAA Approval to Fly
UMD President Loh hosts robotics demonstrations at University House
Ben Shapiro shows pulsing magnetic fields could push drugs to deep targets
Engineering systems for mental health work by Espy-Wilson, Resnik, Vaughn-Cooke featured in
Newsweek
Aerospace Students Excel at 14th AIAA YPSE Conference
A Billion Holes Can Make a Battery
Support Engineering Student Initiatives Through Launch UMD
October 2014
Adomaitis Wins IIT Distinguished Alumnus Award
Museum Conservation Research Wins Top Prizes in International 3-Minute Thesis Competition
Narayan, Martins participate in BIRS decentralized systems workshop
Khaligh receives grant for electric vehicle charger/converter
Itzhak Tamo Accepts Assistant Professorship
Khaligh receives U.S. Patent 8,853,888 for multiple-input DC-DC converter
Shneiderman art exhibition at National Academies opens Oct. 16
Wu Named Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
September 2014
UMD's Kanold and Losert, NIMH's Plenz receive $1.7M BRAIN Grant
Alum Dimitris Tsakiris improves propulsion of robotic octopus
Alum Xiaobo Tan developing robotic fish to 'stalk' real fish in the Great Lakes
UMD engineers create tiny, robust rubber micro-component.
Leidos Invests in Innovation Partnership with UMD
Davis, Llorca, and Milner Receive U.S. Patent No. 8,831,524
Virtual Demonstrations and Crowdsourcing Could Lead Advancements in Autonomous Robots
Brain-behavior initiative workshop draws 160 faculty, deans, adminstrators for wide-ranging discussions
Ulukus to exploit wireless network interference in new NSF grant
Gabriel Named "Professeur Invité Trottier"
Khaligh working with Boeing on power electronics-based project
Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program Approves 18 Technology Development Projects
Alum Haoyu Wang joins Shanghai Tech University
UMD Clark School to Host Mpact Week: Disaster Resilience
Piya Pal Receives Wilts Prize from Caltech
Barg receives NSF grant to develop better methods of storing large amounts of data
Mpact Week to feature robotics for disaster response
Waks, Shapiro receive NSF EAGER grant to test spintronic devices
Ulukus is PI for NSF grant on energy harvesting wireless communication devices
Gabriel to moderate DOE workshop Sept. 4
August 2014
Cleaveland, Marcus win NSF grant to develop models for cyber-physical systems
New NSF grant funds research to build network of tiny robots for bridge inspection
Reelin’ in a Whopper—A True Fish Tale
Beyond “Six Nines”: Ultra-enriched Silicon for Quantum Computing
Students Use UMD Supercomputer to Design, Test Materials
Students present final projects for 2014 NSF Microrobotics REU
Lithium-ion battery research profiled in DOE newsletter
University of Maryland Opens Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Site in Southern Maryland
Ephremides receives NSF grant to bridge wireless network theories
July 2014
UMD Researchers Bridge Gap between Microelectronics, Biological Systems
Ephremides Wins IEEE MILCOM Lifetime Acheivement Award
Bio-inspired robots storm local library
Depireux, Masri win NIH grant for dental drug delivery research
Herrmann receives NSF grant for problem decomposition in facility design
UMD Students Place Second in 2014 RASC-AL Competition
Bergbreiter to attend NAE U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Jonathan Simon and UMB's Elliot Hong win Research and Innovation Seed Grant
Shamma receives NIH grant to study spectro-temporal plasticity in the brain's neuronal networks
June 2014
Anyone have recipes for blue marlin?
International research partnership leads to major publication on controlling living cells with artificial cells
Alumna Kirsten Bohn's bat song research is
Science
cover story
UMD Professors Join Fuel Cell Projects Awarded Combined $11.4M
Sloan Foundation Funds Program of Exemplary Mentoring
Khaligh named associate editor of
IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
Department of Energy renews NEES EFRC for four years
Diagnostic anSERS introduces SERS sensor 'for the mainstream'
Clark School Faculty Promotions Announced
May 2014
Presacco, Heffner, Smith to represent Maryland at Universitas 21
ECE Ph.D. Candidate Menon Wins Kulkarni Fellowship
Greg Krummel wins Outstanding Research Award for Robo Crab
University of Maryland Establishes Orbital Debris Research Center
Jonathan Simon promoted to full professor
Ankur Srivastava promoted to full professor
Gang Qu promoted to full professor
Sarah Bergbreiter promoted to associate professor with tenure
UMD Undergrads Impress IBM, Industry Pros at QUEST Case Competition
ECE Graduate Student Sowmya Subramanian Wins 2014-15 All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship
UMD Receives $4.5M for Science of Security "Lablet"
Clark School Launches New LinkedIn Page and Clark Store
ENES 489P holds undergraduate systems design competition
University of Maryland Baltimore & College Park Campuses To Offer Joint M.D./Ph.D. in Medicine and Bioengineering
CEE Ph.D. student James Jones wins WINFORMS Student Excellence Award
Srivastava, Dey, Mirsky, King win 2014 ISR Awards
UMD Alumni Hatch Sub-$300 Consumer 3D Printer, Raise $3.3 Million on Kickstarter
Students win ECE Dissertation Fellowships
Alum Amnon Lotem wins EATCS/ACM SIGACT Gödel Prize
Radu Balan receives NSF grant for optimizing sensor arrays
Researchers at UMD, UCONN, and Rice Awarded MURI
April 2014
Clark School Faculty Recognized at Celebration of Innovation and Partnerships
What a haul!
Bergbreiter and Paley Honored at White House Ceremony
UMD neuroscience researchers publish in the journal
Neuron
ICAPS best paper award for Dana Nau, Vikas Shivashankar and colleagues
Smithsonian Secretary Clough To Deliver Special Lecture at UMD
Clark School Welcomes Corporate Partners for Summit
Cell Phone Snoopers Beware of These Invention of the Year Finalists!
UMD Hosts Regional
FIRST
Robotics Competition
RoboRaven stars in
USA Today
video
Bergbreiter's Robotics Research Featured in NSF's
Science Nation
S.K. Gupta interviewed for robotics story in
The Economist
Robotic fish research profiled in
Baltimore Sun
Alumnus Vikram Manikonda named president and CEO of Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Second edition of “Lasers and Electro-Optics” by Christopher C. Davis published
UMD to Host
FIRST
Robotics Regional Competition
Alireza Khaligh named distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
March 2014
John Baras named Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Yin, Fritz, Shamma publish neuroplasticity study in
Journal of Neuroscience
Alum Jason Li promoted to VP of Research and Development at Intelligent Automation, Inc.
UMD's Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory Featured in
The Accelerator
Foraging bats can warn each other to stay away from their dinners
Clark School Highly Ranked By Best Value Schools
UMD Hackathon Team Featured on NPR
Robo Raven appears on
60 Minutes
The Science, Technology and Society Program Build More than Just Robots
Shapiro's Otomagnetics Recipient of BioMaryland Center Award
Marcus, Fu receive NSF grant for optimization research
Reza Ghodssi named UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Chu, Subramanian win MAMNA best grad student poster awards
Gabriel named to two associate editor positions
February 2014
Raghavan finds mining social media can enhance product innovation
UMD Company CoolCAD Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Security Keychain that Locks Your Computer When You Are Away
Simon and Alumnus Ding Publish Research in NeuroImage
UMD Holds Risk and Reliability Engineering 25th Anniversary Symposium
UMD to Offer New MOOCs Multi-Course Specialization in Cybersecurity
Michael Rotkowitz wins NSF CAREER Award
Depireux, Elhilali co-edit auditory cortex techniques handbook
Kanold study in
Neuron
: A short stay in darkness may heal hearing woes
Bergbreiter wins Clark School MRI award
UMD Hosts Inaugural Project Management Symposium
Simon, Ding, Chatterjee publish paper in
NeuroImage
January 2014
Six ECE Graduate Students Selected as Future Faculty Fellows
OmniSpeech, Espy-Wilson mentioned on "Washington Business Report"
Aerospace Faculty Recognized at 15th Annual Research Leaders Luncheon
Travis Presented with CAST Award for Atomic Layer Deposition Simulations
UMD Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program Wins National Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education
Intelligent Automation Inc. continues sponsorship of colloquia series
Six graduate students participating in UMD-Trento research exchange
Srivastava selected as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design
Students Tour Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and PolyPlus Battery Company
Five Aerospace Engineering Students Win Honors at AIAA Conference
Ph.D. student Anup Menon is finalist for IEEE CDC best paper award
OmniSpeech to Demonstrate Technology at 2014 CES International
White Receives E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award for Junior Faculty
Paley Awarded Willis H. Young Jr. Faculty Fellowship
2013
December 2013
Maryland to Collaborate with VA, NJ on Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research
Derek Paley wins PECASE Award
Sarah Bergbreiter wins PECASE Award
Twelve-day test with deer shows viability of animal-borne wireless sensor network
ENES 489P students participate in systems engineering design conference
Alan Nguyen receives first ManTech Scholarship
Herrmann named SHS Diplomate
Crime and punishment: interdisciplinary researchers explain ‘third party’ evolution
UMD Among Kiplinger's Top 10 Best Values for Sixth Consecutive Year
Young Wook Kim receives best poster presentation award
Dana Nau named ACM Fellow
UMD to Host First-Ever Scholarship Day of Giving Dec. 11
Alum Mingyan Liu named IEEE Fellow
Alum Zhu Han named IEEE Fellow
Alum Wade Trappe is named IEEE Fellow
Williams Nominated to Lead ARPA-E
November 2013
Khaligh awarded MIPS grant for wind energy power conditioning system
Robo Raven highlighted in children's magazine
Shneiderman, Plaisant win Distinguished Paper Award at AMIA Symposium
Ulukus Receives $400K NSF Grant
Engineering Dynamics
textbook by Paley, Kasdin in use at top schools
UMD's Abts Featured in Discover Magazine
Ghodssi Invited to Speak at IEEE Sensors 2013
Shneiderman appears on
The Kojo Nnamdi Show
October 2013
Rubloff, Ghodssi featured in
JVST-A
special issue
Inaugural Mpact Week Showcases UMD Innovations, Robotics, Bioengineering
Alumnus Rakesh Nagi named UIUC department chair
Srivastava Awarded $925K NSF Grant to Develop Cooling Technology
ECE Ph.D. student Timir Datta wins Graduate All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship
Bergbreiter one of '25 women in robotics you need to know about'
UMD Wins First Place in Hackathon Season
Adomaitis selected to EuroCVD Advisory Board
Exaggerated gait allows limbless R2G2 robot to move quickly in confined spaces, rough terrain
Delivering Drugs to Inner Ear, Eyes, and Brain Made Easier with "Magnetic Syringe"
Srivastava Named Interim Associate Chair of Graduate Studies and Research
NSF-Backed DC I-Corps Kicks Off First Cohort with 20 Federal Laboratory, University and Regional Inventors, Entrepreneur Teams
ECE Students Take Top Prize at Michigan Hackathon for Intelligent Trashcan
September 2013
Robo Raven III harnesses solar power
Desai's Neurosurgical Robot Designed for Brain Surgery Featured on NPR
Ephremides, Rong issued patent for cooperative transmission in wireless networks
Weissberg Gift Supports Engineers Without Borders Program
Mpact Week to Showcase UMD Robotics, Bioengineering, Innovation, Oct. 23-26
EWB Hosts University of Maryland ExPO: Engineering Skills Fair
UMD Receives Largest Ever Software Grant from Siemens
Clark School Highlights Limitless Opportunities in New Video
Clark School Highly Ranked in U.S. News and World Report's "2014 Best Colleges Rankings"
Adomaitis, Burka, and Choi Participate in Major International Conferences
Shapiro, Yu Win 2013 BioE Teaching, Graduate Research Awards
Desai's Neurosurgical Robotics Technology Featured in NIH Story
UMD Hosts NSF-Funded Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Program
Khaligh wins Best Vehicular Electronics Paper Award two years running
Alum Andres Kwasinski earns tenure at RIT
Treemap Art Project showcases Shneiderman's work in a new light
Bruck, Smela, Yu receive NSF grant for compliant multifunctional robotic structures
Khaligh is PI for hybrid energy storage system NSF GOALI grant
Narayan is PI for NSF sampling rate distortion grant
Shapiro, Martin awarded MPowering seed grant for novel study of cancer cells' 'microtentacles'
Kanold, Krueger awarded MPower seed grant to study early pregnancy brain development and autism
Desai, Fermuller, Westlake awarded MPower seed grant for 'GraspVis'
August 2013
New isssue of
Systems Solutions
available online
MSSE student Xenia Barnes wins National Academies research stipend
Ball talks airline mergers on News Channel 8
Kedem will be Fulbright Specialist this fall
NSF Grants for Graphene Research Awarded to Hu, Rubloff
Galloway, Justh, Krishnaprasad publish chasing and flocking research in
Proceedings of the Royal Society A
Flatau is PI for NSF grant on rare-earth-free auxetic and magnetostrictive materials
NSF grant will allow Min Wu to explore power network attributes for information forensics
UAE students, Northrop Grumman engineers tour robotics laboratories
REU in Miniature Robotics holds final project symposium
Robotics @ Maryland Takes Fourth Place in International RoboSub Competition
Gupta research group wins three awards at ASME IDETC/CIE
Professor Peter Sandborn Elected ASME Fellow
July 2013
Khaligh's battery charger research selected as 'NSF Highlight'
New Robo Raven video highlights aerobatic moves
University of Maryland Creates Master's in Robotics Targeted at High-Tech Professionals
Krishnaprasad, Jarzynski part of 'Information Engines' MURI
Alum Serban Sabau joins Stevens Institute as assistant professor
Flatau is PI for NSF EAGER grant for glaucoma research
Shapiro is PI for NSF magnetic chemotherapy grant
UMD Takes Second at 2013 RASC-AL Competition
Two ECE Graduate Students Receive Inaugural Kulkarni Fellowship
Khaligh receives NSF grant for SiC-based battery charging
Anandalingham steps down as Smith School dean; Ball becomes acting dean
June 2013
Nikhil Chopra named to editorial board of leading systems and control journal
Alireza Khaligh chairs IEEE's ITEC'13 conference
Robo Raven flies live on Fox 5 TV
Clark School Professor Develops Game-Changing Baseball Innovation
Martins, Gupta, Aloimonos speak at 'Fostering Excellence in Robotics'
A Battery Made of Wood?
Luke Roberts awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship
ISR announces "The Charter 10" associate partners
Demeter Takes Second Place in 2013 Robo-Ops
Qu Invited to Speak at 2013 IEEE CAS-FEST
IEEE Spectrum website features quadruped microrobot
Micro-turbine research on cover of
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
New grad students: how to choose a faculty advisor
Toshiba renews partnership with ISR through 2016
May 2013
UMD's Mote Elected NAE President
Micro-turbo-generator research featured in
Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
Clark School Celebrates Students, Honors Alumni and Faculty at Spring 2013 Commencement
ECE Undergrad Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
36 Clark School Students Accepted into NIST Summer Research Program
Professors Goldsman & Peckerar Win Award from University System of Maryland
Steve Marcus wins 2013 Poole and Kent Company Teaching Award
Jaydev Desai promoted to full professor
Ben Shapiro promoted to full professor
Young Wook Kim wins KSEA-KUSCO Graduate Scholarship
Ekaterina Pomerantseva to join Drexel University faculty
Mark Austin wins ISR Outstanding Faculty Award
Jeff Coriale wins ISR staff award
Mehdi Dadfarnia wins ISR undergraduate award
Sagar Chowdhury wins ISR graduate student award
Clark Professors Honored as Top Women Professors in Maryland
Audio of John Baras' October 2012 INCOSE MBSE lecture available
ECE Ph.D. Student Accepts Assistant Professor Position
Hoppmann Wins GRID Division for Presentation on Dipstick Sensors
April 2013
Pioneering flight of ‘Robo Raven’ is major breakthrough for micro air vehicles
Alumnus Wade Trappe promoted to full professor at Rutgers
Khaligh paper places third at NDIA conference
Nacev, Chowdhury place in 2013 Dean's Doctoral Student Research Award competition
Electronic Home Plate is runner up at Invention of the Year Awards
ISR Alumni Symposium is rousing success
Dean Pines' Op-Ed in
Baltimore Sun
Stresses Need for Prizes, Competitions to Spur Innovation
Study on Bats, Rats Finds that Analysis of Many Species Is Required to Better Understand the Brain
UMD-Trento Partnership yields first graduate student exchange
Tony Ephremides is editor of top-ranked journal
Diagnostic anSERS Takes 3rd and UMD Prize at Cupid's Cup Finals
ECE Names 2012-2013 Distinguished Dissertation Fellows
Robotics Team Mentored by UMD Students Advances to FIRST Championship Competition
Nikhil Chopra promoted to associate professor with tenure
March 2013
Cynthia Moss leads international team studying multimodal sensing
Alumnus Wade Trappe wins Rutgers Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award
Clark School Hosts 2013 STEM Expo on April 6
Derek Paley is PI for new AFOSR grant
Austin, Petnga win Best Conference Paper Award at CSER-13
Srivastava & Bar-Cohen Deliver Tutorial at SEMI-THERM29
Abed Invited to Speak at Texas A & M University at Quatar
Alumnus Ayan Roy-Chowdhury and Professor John Baras issued U.S. Patent 8,397,062
MSSE student Mehdi Dadfarnia to speak at NIST seminar
Davis testifies for state Senate on traffic speed camera accuracy
Alumnus Alvaro Cárdenas joins University of Texas at Dallas faculty
Clark School Highly Ranked in 2014
U.S. News and World Report
's Best Graduate Schools
Khaligh receives NSF TUES grant for electric vehicles laboratory
‘Cocktail party effect’ helps us focus in noisy environments
February 2013
NanoOptics Lab Opens, Offers Seminar and Free Evaluation
Nano ‘Beads on a String’ Could Advance Battery Technology
Two BioE/ISR Professors Receive Maryland Industrial Partnership Funding
Alireza Khaligh is PI for new transportation electrification REU site
Diagnostic anSERS Heads to Cupid's Cup Finals
Work of Shneiderman, students featured on World Bank website
Gabriel presents seminars on network equilibrium models at ISR, Auburn
Madhavan's work for RAS-SIGHT featured in IEEE's
The Institute
Patrick Kanold wins NOHR Burt Evans Award
Alison Flatau wins ASME prize
Min Wu named Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
ManTech International Corp. joins ISR Associate Partners Program
UMD Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Nanoprecision Imaging
Alum Ara Mazumdar begins position at University of Minnesota
January 2013
Six ISR students named to Future Faculty Fellows program
Steven Gabriel gives keynote address at German Economic Research Institute
IAI again sponsors colloquia series
Shapiro, Depireux team for series of grants to combat hearing loss
Alum Xiaobo Tan improves robotic fish
Steven Gabriel named to
Journal of Energy Engineering
editorial board
Ephremides named to Institutional Council in Greece
Simon is invited speaker at otolaryngology meeting
STEM service: January 2013 robotics workshop
Alumnus Hamid Jafarkhani wins IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
Work by Mosteller, Austin, Ghodssi, Yang featured in
INCOSE Insight
Carl Landwehr named IEEE Fellow
NanoCenter members create tiny inchworm motor with flexible arms
Qualcomm sponsors microsystems seminar series
2012
December 2012
Raj Madhavan chairs new IEEE robotics special interest group
Madhavan delivers plenary address at RobMech 2012
Student team reaches finals of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship competition
Some FRESH results
Great Expectations
Campaign Reaches $1B Goal
Davis Awarded $4M Multidisciplinary Research Initiatives Contract
Hovercraft Invade Kim Building Again
Baras, Somasundaram, Jain, and Tabatabaee issued U.S. Patent 8,325,746
Cynthia Moss named AAAS Fellow
Baras Recognized with Two Greatest Economic Impact Awards
Alumnus Thomas Hicks to Serve as Commencement Speaker
Rubloff Co-Authors Major DoE Report on Emerging Energy Technologies
New Microfluidic Device Could Speed Drug Evaluation
Aloimonos interviewed by
All Things Considered
November 2012
Marvin Sambur appears on
This Week in Defense News
Alumna Carole Teolis profiled in livescience.com story
Peter Sandborn named interim director of Mtech
Engineers Without Borders Chapter Receives Grants
Diagnostic anSERS Pitches Dingman...and Wins!
October 2012
Khaligh Guest Edits Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Martins speaking as part of MIT's LIDS seminar series
Ephremides Receives 2012 AHSN Technical Recognition Award
Gang Qu organizes 'cybervehicle systems' workshop, Nov. 8-9
First Lego League holds 'Senior Solutions Challenge' event on campus
Davis and Milner Receive a $1M Contract from the Federal Highway Administration
Min Wu is named a 2012 Innovator of the Year
Shneiderman wins IEEE Visualization Career Award
Abshire elected to IEEE Circuits and Systems Society board
Martins interviewed in story about robotics use in Maryland
View video of Dr. Jane Goodall's campus lecture
Tomoki Umetsu is 17th ISR visiting scientist from Toshiba
NIH awards $2M grant to Desai, Gullapalli and Simard for surgical robot
John Baras gives invited lecture at workshop on control of CPS systems
Alexander Barg receives NSF grant for polar code research
Martins speaks at LCCC workshop on information and control in networks
Marvin Sambur named CEO of Burdeshaw Associates
September 2012
Reza Ghodssi invited speaker at MNE 2012 in Toulouse, France
Carol Espy-Wilson is PI for multi-site NSF speech recognition grant
Bergbreiter wins National Robotics Initiative grant for 'active skins'
2012 Maryland Robotics Day draws hundreds of visitors
Maryland Robotics Day featured in
The Diamondback
The Chronicle of Higher Education
publishes feature story on the Autonomous Province of Trento
Fagan, colleagues receive butterfly research grant
Alexander Barg awarded NSF grant to develop genotyping theory
Shi and Srivastava win 2012 ISVLSI Best Paper Award
Raghavan, Spyropoulos, Daily, Copeland win ISR awards
ISR MSSE alum appointed GE's Saudi Arabia Healthcare CEO
Mote Nominated to be Next NAE President
Faculty Members Take On New Responsibilities
Khaligh and co-authors win IEEE Best Vehicular Electronics Paper Award
Khaligh and Mayergoyz receive MIPS grant for EV battery charger
August 2012
Ph.D. student James Jones wins FAA research stipend
Ray-tracing paper wins 'Best of Conference' at 2012 IDETC/CIE
Chopra is principal investigator for NSF nonlinear system tracking control grant
Srivastava is PI for NSF hardware security grant
ALD work of Adomaitis, Dwivedi featured in NASA Goddard newsletter
Rankin Named UMD Senior Vice President and Provost
Ph.D. candidate Brendan Hanrahan wins silver medal in ARL competition
Loh, UMD delegation visit NAS Patuxent River
Miniature Robotics REU students give final presentations
'Open-source' robot offers new opportunities for education
MERIT-BIEN and TREND Fair Showcases Undergraduate Research
Ephremides is invited speaker at Workshop on Network Science
Gabriel, students give presentations on U.S. natural gas exports
July 2012
Derek Paley leads 'Robots and Roaches' workshop
Paper on stair-climbing robot wins award at CLAWAR 2012
Gabriel authors new book on complementarity modeling in energy markets
Five additions to faculty
New isssue of
Systems Solutions
available online
Mosteller wins Best Student Paper Award at INCOSE International Symposium
Sandborn co-author on new product obsolescence book
Martins selected for Leadership Fellows program
Simon, Ding publish auditory cortex research in PNAS
Krishnaprasad awarded AFOSR DURIP for collective behavior testbed
Steve Marcus becomes University of Maryland's Director of Faculty Leadership
June 2012
Maryland is No. 1 for Entrepreneurship, Innovation
Shayman Accepts Campus-Level Position
Anandalingam on the shift away from the MBA
Miao Yu selected for NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Chellappa Named Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ephremides Named Distinguished University Professor
Wang, Ball, Lovell win best paper award at ICRAT 2012
Espy-Wilson, Bergbreiter receive ADVANCE Seed Grants
Antbot research profiled in
Pacific Standard
magazine
Unique Program To Educate Next Generation of U.S. Cybersecurity Leaders
Alumna Mingyan Liu promoted to full professor; wins best paper award
ISR welcomes 10 REU microbotics students for the summer
Clark School Students Shine in Recent Competitions
Jonathan Simon selected for National Academies' NAKFI conference
May 2012
Alum Rick Stamper named Rose-Hulman Interim Dean of Faculty
Jeffrey Herrmann co-chairs Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference
Wu Invited to National Academies' Annual Presidents' Circle Meeting
Mosteller wins Dean's Master's Student Research Award
Clark School Honors Its Own
Dana Nau's impact celebrated with birthday symposium
Ulukus Invited to Lecture at 2012 European School of Information Theory
Shapiro co-edits new book,
Feedback Control of MEMS to Atoms
Alum Sean Andersson earns tenure at Boston University
Christopher Davis wins Clark School teaching award
Krishnaprasad delivers Princeton Baetjer Colloquium lecture
Past AIChE President Joins ChBE, ISR as Visiting Professor
Local news website names Abshire to 'brilliant women in tech' list
April 2012
Maryland Robotics Center featured on live TV broadcast
Clark School Earns Impact Award for Work with Minorities
Alumna Mounya Elhilali wins ONR Young Investigators Award
Wu, Garg and Varna win 2012 Invention of the Year
Shapiro, White receive inaugural innovation grants from UM-CERSI
Espy-Wilson gives keynote address at University of Michigan
Student team wins best paper award at Mid-Atlantic Micro/Nano Alliance Symposium
University of Maryland and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Partner on $1.6 M NIH Grant
Undergrad Carlos Casarez wins Goldwater Scholarship
Alum Xiaobo Tan's research featured in
NSF Highlight
March 2012
Baras delivers distinguished lecture at the University of Michigan
ISR organizes NSF Workshop on Micro, Nano, Biosystems
Lovell Recognized for Service Leadership
YouTube channel highlights Maryland Robotics Center research
Clark School Graduate Program Ranks 18th Nationally
Nuno Martins speaks at Queen's University colloquium
New Research and Innovation Seed Grant Program Announced
MPowering the State
Award Funds Development of Solid-State, High Power Lithium-Air Battery
Shihab Shamma is PI on €3.3M European Research Council Advanced Grant
February 2012
ECE Names 2011-2012 Distinguished Dissertation Fellows
Benjamin Kedem is co-investigator on $5.4M USDA food-safety grant
White Receives Best Paper Award from
Sensors
ISR hosts Iraqi higher education delegation
Collaborative international projects funded in solar power, cell-based systems, and ultra-low power systems
Federal Region Is Nation's Most "Tech-centric"
Sambur wins CUNY Career Achievement Award
Six ISR grad students in Clark School Future Faculty Program
Carol Espy-Wilson named 2012-2013 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Ian White wins NSF CAREER Award for inkjet-based biosensors
Alumnus Zhao Granted Tenure at University of Alberta
Researchers publish human auditory system study in
PLoS Biology
January 2012
Ghodssi invited speaker at international nano and biotechnology winter school
Gupta, Thakur, Banerjee win Elsevier Most Cited Paper Award
Ghodssi gives invited talk at Bio-Inspired Engineering International Symposium
Preventing Costly, Life-Threatening Catheter Infections
Small Fire in J. M. Patterson Injures No One
Alumna Enlu Zhou wins AFOSR Young Investigators award
Alumnus Tandon awarded best paper at GLOBECOM 2011
Garg, Varna and Wu Win 'MM 11 Best Paper Award
Cindy Moss is guest on
The Diane Rehm Show
Cukier, Maimon featured on
SC Magazine
podcast
2011
December 2011
Auditory researchers publish sensory processing research in PNAS
Pamela Abshire wins Kent Teaching Award
Tobacco mosaic virus battery research to star in NSF video
ISR SAC member Vijay Srinivasan elected AAAS Fellow
NSF features Action Science Explorer on its 'Discoveries' website
Bacteria Programmed to Re-Create UMD Logo
Alumna Ermin Wei featured in MIT publication
Profile of alumnus Parag Banerjee
November 2011
NSF Grant to Help Monitor and Protect Endangered Species
Shneiderman elected IEEE Fellow
Researchers Explore How Cyber-Attackers Think Like Regular Crooks
Alum Matteo Mischiati accepts postdoc position
Markus Gnerlich joins ISR as postdoc
Sikorsky invests in ISR, Clark School research and students
Bassi, Loh further international research agreement
Ephremides Invited to M2M 2011 as Plenary Speaker
Profesor Emeritus Thomas McAvoy receives US Patent 8,042,209
October 2011
Sennur Ulukus is PI for NSF grant on secure cognitive radio networks
Ray Adomaitis elected Fellow of AIChE
Ephremides is PI for NSF grant on energy-efficient cognitive networking
Alex Tzannes wins ACM Student Research Competition
Derek Paley featured in new NSF research video
New alumnus Mustafa Beyaz accepts faculty position in Turkey
Baras is PI for $1M NIST cooperative agreement
Alum Kevin Galloway starts postdoc at University of Michigan
Bergbreiter and students win NTF Award at IROS 2011
IEEE Spectrum
features story on jumping robots
Baras gives invited tutorial at WPMC'11
September 2011
Robotics featured in Sept. 30 issue of
The Diamondback
System Failure Averted
Oct. 9, 9 pm: Moss lab featured in National Geographic's "Brain Games"
DoE Selects UMD as One of Six Lead Universities For National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition
Former President Mote Receives Highest ASME Honor, Delivers Keynote at ASME Vibration and Noise Conference
Energy Center Celebrates Grand Opening
Vlachou, Swaroop win FAA graduate research awards
Gregorczyk Wins Second L-3 Fellowship
Baras delivers keynote lecture at GE Global Research Controls Symposium
Raj Madhavan elected VP of IEEE society board
Five hours of Maryland robotics on FOX 45 Baltimore
Moss research uncovers bats' systematic 'active sensing' strategies
Shapiro wins NSF grant for assembly of colloidal crystals
Serban Sabau will be postdoctoral researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Hundreds Flock to 2011 Maryland Robotics Day
Nuno Martins receives NSF grant for animal-borne wireless networks
ISR remembers our alumnus Charles Falkenberg and his family
Narayan is PI for NSF network function computation grant
August 2011
S.K. Gupta wins Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award
Governor O'Malley is Keynote at "State of Tech in MD" event
Kanold group research published in PNAS
Ephremides Chairs ISIT 2011 Conference in St. Petersburg
MERIT-BIEN and TREND Fair Showcases Undergraduate Research
Clark School researchers figure prominently in atomic layer deposition story
UM Launches Environmental Solutions Center
Grad student Timothy Creech receives Space Technology Research Fellowship
Averting Bridge Disasters: New Technology Could Save Hundreds of Lives
July 2011
Qu Appointed to Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Computers
Yeung, Srivastava win NSF grant for reuse distance analysis
Heavy media coverage for bat wing hair research findings
Srivastava named ACM Distinguished Speaker
Canon, Clark School Launch New Collaboration
Ben Shneiderman interviewed for
New York Times
digital medical records story
Jeff McKinney honored with USM Staff Award
Telluride newspaper writes about Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop
Controlling chemistry improves potential of carbon nanotubes
Farvardin Farewell Event Video Available
June 2011
Desai to Attend Frontiers in Engineering Symposium
Ephremides gives distinguished lecture at RWTH Aachen University
Gabriel, White join ISR as affiliate faculty
Clark School, DARPA Launch Pilot Academic Fellows Program
Baras gives invited plenary lecture at MED2011
Tiny hairs on bats’ wings act as speedometers
GameSec 2011 Call for Papers Extended
Forte and Srivastava Win AHS 2011 Best Student Paper Award
New REU site to offer research opportunities in miniature robotics
Baras Gives Invited Plenary Talk at IEEE-CYBER 2011
Clark School a Finalist in NASA X-Hab Competition
Baras delivers keynote address at Labex Comin Labs opening
Shamma, Kanold receive DURIP funding
FAA approves NEXTOR II aviation operations research contract
Article by Gupta and students named a 'most-cited paper' by
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
Jonathan Fritz receives ONR seed grant
Ghodssi invited speaker at Transducers 11
Davis and Fellow Researchers Awarded Patent for Sensor System
UMD Researchers Skeptical of Cell Phone Radiation Studies
2011 ISR Awards Ceremony winners announced
May 2011
Clark School Takes 3rd at NASA Competition
ECE Chair O'Shea Named UMD VP for Research
International partnership agreement being finalized
Dr. Gabriel Spoke at Enerday Conference in Germany
Dr. Gabriel Gave a Talk on Energy Market at IFPEN
Lovell honored with Clark School's ENGAGED Faculty designation
Rubloff quoted in story about DOE Energy Frontiers Research Centers
Davis, Balzano Critique Cell Phone Study in Journal of the American Medical Association
Ching Teo and Yezhou Yang win in Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship competition
ISR faculty earn promotions
Clark School Celebrates Hard-Working Staff
Gerasopoulos Wins Dean's Doctoral Research Award
Jeongho Jeon Earns NIST-ARRA Fellowship
Clark School ENGAGED Faculty Announced
Dean's Doctoral Research Awards Announced
Prof. Steven Gabriel Talks on WYPR-FM
Roger Brockett honored for devotion to graduate student advising
Jaydev Desai wins seed grant for diagnostic robotic system
Bing Shi Earns Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship
April 2011
Ephremides, Pantelidou co-author new wireless networks book
New issue of
System Solutions
available online
"Pocket Change Spectroscopy" Improves Detection of Toxins, Explosives
Arvind Balijepalli receives National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship
Outstanding Commitment Honors Awarded
Alex Weissman receives NIST ARRA Fellowship
Mote Named USM Regents Professor
Avis Cohen is co-PI on NSF neuromechanics and dynamics of locomotion grant
Davis, Yu, Subrahmanian finalists at Invention of the Year Awards
Maryland students impress at National Robotics Week
Baras keynote speaker at ARO Special Workshop on Hardware Assurance
Miao Yu promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Nuno Martins promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Gerasopoulos Wins MSE Graduate Research Award
Alum Kiran Hebbar promoted at Valhalla Partners
New MEMS handbook is comprehensive, practical resource for academics, engineers, students
Pines Elected to Engineering Deans Council Board
Ph.D. student Kevin Lister wins Link Foundation Fellowship
Jeffrey Herrmann gives presentation to Institute on Medicine committee
ECE Researchers Publish Article in RSC Journal on High Energy Density Flexible Galvanic Cell
March 2011
Baras Co-Editor of New Book, "Decision and Game Theory for Security"
ISR students Datta, Teo are part of finalist teams in Qualcomm competition
John Baras gives distinguished lectures in China
UMD Wins CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
Clark School #22 in Graduate School Ranking
Alumnus Hamid Jafarkhani elected AAAS Fellow
February 2011
Alumnus Ion Matei receives NIST postdoctoral fellowship
Ephremides gives invited lecture at the University of Pennsylvania
Sarah Bergbreiter wins NSF CAREER Award
Shamma, Baras receive MIPS grant funding
Cynthia Moss named ADVANCE professor
John Baras, Vladimir Ivanov interviewed for TV segment on RFID theft
ADVANCE program featured in
The Diamondback
Avis Cohen honored as 2011–2012 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Cukier leads new cybersecurity REU program
Espy-Wilson appointed ADVANCE Professor for Women Faculty of Color
January 2011
The Diamondback
features story on Tobacco Mosaic Virus battery research
Austin, former students and NASA colleague are issued US Patent 7,877,737
Techno-Sciences, Inc. sponsoring robotics seminars
State Ranked Highly in Technology and Science Index
Second Edition Released of
The Control Handbook
Schaler Earns Prestigious Churchill Scholarship
Intelligent Automation, Inc. to sponsor colloquia series
Baron Featured in
IEEE Institute
for Chapter, Society Work
Takeo Yokoyama travels the world with Honda motorcycle racing group
UM Rises Again Among Best Values
Baras and Zhou issued U.S. Patent 7,827,459 for communications protocol
Desai to speak at National Academy of Sciences seminar
Wang wins best student paper award at Winter Simulation Conference
2010
December 2010
Davis Featured in Discover Magazine, Voice of America
Martins wins IEEE Control Systems Society award
Dr. Gabriel Gave an Invited Talk in Spain
Dr. Gabriel Served as Chair of 4th Trans-Atlantic INFRADAY Conference
ISR position opening: Director, Systems Engineering
Ghodssi is guest editor for special issue of
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM)
Shamma selected as Blaise Pascal International Research Chair
ISR's busy November: NSF site visit, 25th anniversary dinner, SAC meeting
Espy-Wilson named to NIH advisory board
Wu, Swaminathan and Mao issued U.S. Patent 7,840,789 for data hiding
ISR postdoc Chen Chiu wins outstanding paper prize
Bad Virus Put to Good Use
Ephremides gives plenary talk at IEEE Globecom Conference
Wang Wins ICS 2010 Student Paper Award
November 2010
Bhattacharyya, Wu Elected IEEE Fellows
Peter Dykstra wins bioengineering poster award
Cohen is project director on NSF program to advance women faculty
Akin, Space Systems Lab featured in
The Washington Post
Siwak Honored at ARCS Scholars Ceremony
Baras is Maryland lead for Systems Engineering Research Center
Grad Students Win European Trusted Infrastructure Summer School Scholarships
Baras is co-PI on NSF cyber-physical systems award
PNAS
publishes work by Avis Cohen, Eric Tytell and colleagues
October 2010
Davis Returns From Taiwan Lecture Tour
The Diamondback
features story on Avis Cohen's research
Materials Scientists, Conservators Join Forces to Preserve Silver Artifacts and Art
Carol Espy-Wilson honored as Innovator of the Year
In Memoriam: Susan Frazier
Ph.D. student Konstantinos Gerasopoulos wins best poster award
Cohen's computer modeling of swimming fish could lead to new robots and prosthetics
How Did They Do It?
UMD Announces New Cybersecurity Center
Alum Amnon Lotem promoted to Chief Technology Officer at Skybox Security
ISR featured in current issue of
Research@Maryland
Galloway, Gregorczyk, Gremillion awarded L-3 Graduate Research Fellowships
Krishnaprasad, Cavagna begin new AFOSR collective behavior research
ISR Director of Systems Engineering Program vacancy announcement
Baras, Tabatabaee awarded new NSF NeTS grant
Ephremides Engages in Distinguished Lecture Tour in Sweden
September 2010
Moss, Horiuchi receive $1.5 million NSF grant for complex settings research
Chiu, Reddy, Xian, Krishnaprasad and Moss publish in
Journal of Experimental Biology
University of Maryland, U.S. Army RDECOM sign CRADA Agreement
Shneiderman wins NSF SoCS grant for community analysis visualization environment
Aloimonis receives NSF grant for robots with vision that find objects
Wu Receives NSF Grant for Research in Trustworthy Sensing, Communications
Clark School 3rd Nationwide in Recruiter Survey
2010 Maryland Robotics Day draws large crowd
Arya Mazumdar wins information theory student paper prize
Poovendran Promoted to Full Professor at Univ. of Washington
Baras, Theodorakopoulos Publish New Book on
Path Problems in Networks
New Battery Research Highlighted by Discovery News, Nanowerk
Baras Gives Lecture on Model Based Systems Engineering at NIST
Kedem receives NSF grant for semiparapetric regression with random covariates
August 2010
Ulukus Receives NSF Grant for Wireless Networks Research
Alumna Sun Wins Best Paper Award at IEEE SocialCom 2010
Gupta, Bruck, Bejgerowski, Gerdes, Wilkerson win ASME Best Paper Award
Jacob Part of Research Team Awarded DARPA UHPC Grant
Alum Victor De Oliveira wins ASA distinguished achievement award
Baras wins MIPS award to develop satellite communication algorithms
Kalantari, Resensys Featured in
Baltimore Sun
Miao Yu wins NSF grant for fiber optic tweezers
Clark School Ranked 13th Worldwide
OmniSpeech Wins $50K SAIC-VentureAccelerator Competition
Beiyu Rong wins Best Student Paper Award at WiOpt
ISR announces creation of Maryland Robotics Center
Qu and Wu Awarded AFOSR Grant for Trusted Computing System Design
MERIT-BIEN and TREND Fair Showcases Undergrads' Summer Research
ENES 489P: New Systems Engineering Course for Fall 2010
Sikorsky renews as ISR Strategic Partner
Marvin Sambur to speak at Air Force Systems Engineering Conference
S.K. Gupta quoted in
Science News
article
July 2010
Clark School Has Strong Showing at RoboSub Competition
Raghavan and Gamvros win EURO strategic innovation prize
Giving Robotic Flight More Buzz
Robotics@Maryland Places 3rd in AUVSI Underwater Vehicle Competition
Company Started by Professor Wins Women’s Business Plan Competition
Horiuchi, Baras, Humbert participating in Department of Defense MURI projects
Alumnus Du Earns Tenure at Temple
Alumnus Xiaobo Tan Earns Tenure at MSU
Article by auditory researchers appears in
Nature Neuroscience
Baras gives semi-plenary lecture at NTNS2010
Baras gives plenary lecture at DYCOPS 2010
June 2010
CNN airs special program on Cohen, Etienne-Cummings research
Alumnus Trappe Wins Best Paper Award at ACM Conference on Mobile Systems
Stuart Antman wins NSF grant for nonlinear problems of solid mechanics
Faculty Start-Up Wins Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Award
Ephremides is plenary speaker at ISIT 2010
Baras gives invited lecture to NITRD large scale networking group
RASC-AL "Three-peat" for Clark School
Joseph JáJá appointed university's interim vice president and CIO
Kim Inducted into UM's Alumni Hall of Fame
UM, LM Launch Strategic Relationship
Baras delivers distinguished lecture at UAEU
Mtech, Alumna-Run Companies Vie for State Awards
May 2010
S. Raghavan promoted to full professor
Min Wu wins outstanding teaching award
Grad student Daniel Garcia-Romero wins best paper award
ISR alumnus Richard Stamper named associate dean at Rose-Hulman
Work by grad student Parag Banerjee cited in
MRS Bulletin
Ulukus Receives NSF Grant for Wireless Security Research
Maryland a Top Small-Biz Supporter
Martins, Somasundaram, Frazier win awards at ISR's annual ceremony
Espy-Wilson and Pruthi win in University's Business Plan Competition
Bergbreiter, Gerratt, Penskiy win Best Conference Paper Award
Clark School honors Rajkowski, Beyaz, Banerjee for student research
Synchronized Swimming for Submarines
April 2010
Pamela Abshire queries Secretary Robert Gates at export control event
ECE Grad Students Mitra and Zhang Awarded Wylie Fellowships
Alumna Yan Sun Earns Tenure at Rhode Island
Six Clark School faculty become affiliates of ISR
Espy-Wilson, Rubloff win 'Invention of the Year' awards
Reza Ghodssi to participate in EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Espy-Wilson, Pruthi Among Business Plan Competition Finalists
Alum Fumin Zhang wins ONR Young Investigator Program award
March 2010
Moss wins DURIP Award for bat fluttering flight control research
MERIT-BIEN Poster Wins Two Awards at NSF Program Meeting
Former Postdoc Su Wins ICC 2010 Best Paper Award
Abshire, Humbert speak at robotics policy event
Article by Gupta, Hopkins and Spranklin selected as a 'Highlight of 2009'
Rance Cleaveland interviewed for TV news story on Toyota sudden acceleration
Ephremides, Laroia headline at CISS
Ulukus Awarded NSF Grant for Rechargeable Networks Research
Three ISR students are named ECE Distinguished Dissertation Fellows
Lovell Named Engineers Without Borders Advisor
Derek Paley wins NSF CAREER Award
ISR organizing interdisciplinary student group
Subrahmanian delivers distinguished lecture at UAEU
Alumnus Zhu Han Receives NSF CAREER Award
Graduate Student Delivers Micro/Nano Seminar at MIT
Cynthia Moss wins USM Regents' Faculty Award
Reza Ghodssi guest edits special issue of
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
February 2010
Seven ECE Students Named Future Faculty Fellows
Raj Madhavan joins ISR as assistant research scientist
Liu, Former Students Receive Patent for Innovation in Ultra-Wideband Communication
Ben Shneiderman one of three Clark School NAE inductees
Patrick Kanold is named Sloan Research Fellow
UM's Pres. Mote to Retire
Alumnus Xiaobo Tan receives MSU Teacher-Scholar Award
Moss's findings published in
Science
reveal bats' fundamental 'targeting' tradeoff
Maryland Tops in Tech Job Growth
Researchers' Study Reveals Surprises about How the Brain Processes Sound
Graduate student William Herring wins SHS best graduate paper prize
Baltimore Sun
quotes Shneiderman on Apple's iPad technology
January 2010
Micro-ball bearing research featured in
Micro Manufacturing
magazine
Shneiderman paper one of 'top search marketing and social media research projects of 2009'
SCARE software predicts locations from observations and known constraints
2009
December 2009
Ephremides Gives Distinguished Lectures on Wireless Networking
Baras Participates in International Panel on Control Systems Design
Work by Zhou, Lin, Marcus and Fu wins 'Best Theoretical Paper' award
Baras presents distinguished lecture at UC Irvine
Baras addresses National Science Foundation's annual ERC meeting
Rubloff Team Wins $2.8M Army Grant
Akin, Jacobs Develop Morphing Upper Torso Spacesuit
Subrahmanian's CAGE software platform recreates complex real-life situations for simulations
Former Director Eyad Abed honored at ISR reception
Clark School hosts PowerMEMS 2009 attendees for luncheon, lab tours
Mark Shayman elected IEEE Fellow
November 2009
Carl Landwehr becomes NSF Trustworthy Computing Director
Rubloff Group Research Selected for
Highlights in Chemical Technology.
Mariano Anderle visits ISR from Province of Trento, Italy
Sezmi launches customer pilot in Los Angeles
Clark School Ranked 14th Worldwide
Alum Xiaobo Tan receives new autonomous robotic fish grant
Herrmann talks to
Infection Control Today
about mass vaccination clinics
October 2009
McAvoy, Levine honored for commitment to the Clark School
Baras wins 'Innovator of the Year' Award
Graduate student William Herring honored by INFORMS health applications section
Lovell to teach 'Engineering in the Developing World'
Pati Inducted into Innovation Hall of Fame
Maryland Hosts Second Annual Robot Speedway Competition, Oct. 24
Davis, Milner receive NSF EAGER grant
Herrmann's clinic model used at UMD mass vaccination drill
Ephremides Receives ONR Grant for Wireless Networks Research
Chrisopher Davis wins ECE Faculty Venture Fair for cell phone radiation measurement
Nathan Siwak, Natalie Salaets given ARCS Fellowships
Like to Surf or Game by Mobile Device?
Srivastava receives NSF grant for thermal management in data storage centers
ISR alumnus Mehdi Kalantari receives sensor networks grant
IEEE Control Systems Magazine
covers 'MarcusFest'
September 2009
Mikhail Vorontsov joins University of Dayton Ladar and Free Space Optical Communications Institute
S.K. Gupta awarded NSF grant for autonomous optical manipulation of cells
Nikhil Chopra receives NSF grant for wireless sensor and robotic networks
AndréTits, Dianne O'Leary receive new DoE optimization grant
Martins, Abshire, Smela, Bergbreiter win $1.5 million NSF grant
ISR welcomes Toshiba's Ryuichi Teramoto
Baras, Yu win ECE Department's first Jimmy Lin Award
Marvin Sambur to be keynote speaker at
Innovations 09
Alumnus Fumin Zhang wins NSF CAREER Award
Espy-Wilson receives NSF grant for digital speech forensics
Reza Ghodssi Appointed Director of the Institute for Systems Research
New DoE grant for AndréTits, Dianne O'Leary
Alexander Barg receives NSF grant for improving error-correcting coding
Min Wu receives IEEE early career teaching award
Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center Moves to UM, Mtech
Marcus, Fu receive NSF grant for particle filtering for stochastic control and global optimization
August 2009
Barua wins NSF grant for new binary rewriter
Alumnus Hamid Jafarkhani named 'Chancellor's Professor' at UC Irvine
Alexandria University's Ahmed Sultan visits ISR to facilitate collaborations
Work of Erol, Nau, Hendler earns honorable mention for ICAPS Influential Paper Award
Baras, Martins part of $9 million funding for microelectronics and systems research
Dana Nau will be keynote speaker at KI-2009
Cukier receives NSF Trustworthy Computing grant for dynamic analysis of malcode
Cleaveland, Marcus part of $10 million NSF collaborative research grant
Baras appointed to IEEE Systems Council
ISR alumnus Buno Pati to be inducted into Clark School Innovation Hall of Fame
Srivastava, Narayan Receive New NSF Research Grant
Alumnus Matthew James wins Best SICON Paper Prize
Alumnus Xiaobo Tan to Lead New NSF Program for Secondary School Teachers
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Yiannis Aloimonos becomes ISR affiliate faculty member
Levine's
Handbook of Networked and Embedded Control Systems
Most Popular Download
Espy-Wilson Receives NIH Grant To Help Tongue Cancer Patients' Speech
July 2009
Baras, Gu and Jiang Receive NASA Patent Application Award
Ephremides Receives NSF Grant for Cooperative Networking
Barua, Cleaveland, Sussman win DARPA funding for AESOP project
Ghodssi Receives NSF Grant for Novel Nanofabrication for Energy Applications
Honda's Tetsuaki Nakano, Kensuke Iwanaga give final presentations
Abed gives plenary lecture at IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control
Alumna Mounya Elhilali wins NSF CAREER award
Richard La Receives NSF Grant for Designing Network Pricing Mechanisms
Herrmann group develops Vaccine Allocation Model v.1.4
Jonathan Simon lead author of article published in
PLoS Biology
New Edition of Davis' Experimental Research Guide Book Released
Cell-based sensors featured in
The Scientist
Jacob Introduces New Guitar Technology
Ephremides provides expertise in cell phone signal jamming story
Alumnus Sean Andersson receives NSF CAREER Award
Peter Sandborn receives NSF grant for managing product obsolescence
June 2009
Texas public health officials find eMedCheck cuts screening time in half
Simon Co-Authors Cover Article for
Journal of Neuroscience
ISR appoints three new assistant research scientists
Mark Austin, Michel Cukier receive joint appointments
Sikorsky renews as ISR strategic partner
ISR awards ceremony honors faculty, graduate student, staff member
Ephremides gives keynote address at IEEE international wireless symposium
Shihab Shamma Quoted in
New York Times
Story about Auditory Cues
New issue of
Systems Solutions
now available
Resensys LLC joins TERP Startup Lab
SCMC, SAIC release cyber security white paper
Fu, Marcus awarded NSF collaborative research grant
Ghodssi Receives NSF Grant for Microball Bearings Research
New book by ISR Visiting Researcher David Elliott
Alumnus Narasingarao Sreenath promoted to full professor at Case Western Reserve
Alumnus Priya Ranjan to join IIT Kanpur faculty
Ephremides part of Distinguished Lecture Tour
Jonathan Fritz promoted to associate research scientist
Ghodssi, Wang, Culver Awarded Nanobiotechnology Grant
Clark School to Offer New Graduate Certificate for Technology Entrepreneurs
May 2009
Baras Participates in Panel on Mobile Wireless Networks Technology
Clark School Names First UMERC Director
NSA designates University of Maryland as 'National Center of Academic Excellence'
Student research: Israel Perez
Fourteen ISR-affiliated students receive Ph.D.s
Ornithopter, optical microsensor win ISR seed grants
Thomas McAvoy helping to advance cancer research
Carlos Berenstein to retire in July
Eyad Abed to Join United Arab Emirates University
UMERC/Nanocenter Team Named "Energy Frontier" Center
Martins gives invited lecture at UCSD Cymer Center
Stuart Antman honored as SIAM Fellow
Herrmann interviewed for WTOP news radio
Dean Berlin places second in research competition
ISR faculty participating in two Department of Defense MURI projects
Enlu Zhou is a winner at Clark School Doctoral Research Award Competition
Shapiro, Smela are issued U.S. Patent 7,523,608
Anna Pantelidou accepts postdoctoral position at University of Oulu, Finland
April 2009
Herrmann's Clinic Planning Model Generator software mentioned in swine flu article
Ashis Banerjee wins campus-wide research poster competition
Symposium in honor of Ben Kedem will be held in July
Adomaitis, Ghodssi, Sandborn promoted
Clark School Retains High
U.S. News
Rankings
Steve Marcus honored as SIAM Fellow
Mathieu Aubailly is new Assistant Research Scientist
Enlu Zhou To Join Faculty at Univ. of Illinois
Baras, Goldsman win Invention of the Year Awards
Alumna Zheng Earns Tenure at UC-Santa Barbara
Ghodssi chairs PowerMEMS 2009 Conference
Parag Banerjee Wins Presidential Student Award
Student research: Yufu Zhang
Ghodssi Featured in
Mechanical Engineering
Magazine Cover Story
March 2009
Milner, Davis Awarded $1 Million AFOSR Grant for Wireless Research
ECE Grad Student Siwak Awarded ARCS Fellowship
Marvin Sambur writes
Defense News
commentary on DoD acquisition
Shapiro receives Fulbright Scholar grant
NanoCenter Improves Energy Storage Options
Paper Named 2008 'Highlight' by
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
February 2009
Paper by Krishnaprasad, Justh, Wei published in
Proceedings of the Royal Society A
Student research: Anna Pantelidou
Herrmann, Hoy win IEST Maurice Simpson Award
FederalNewsRadio covers ISR Systems Seminar on the Air Force tanker selection process
Ankur Srivastava earns tenure
Enlu Zhou is named ECE Distinguished Dissertation Fellow
Six ISR students chosen for Clark School's Future Faculty Program
Six ISR students selected for Future Faculty Program
Cukier teaches new Clark School risk assessment study abroad course
Stephan Koev wins university-wide graduate research contest
Abshire and Espy-Wilson receive MIPS grants
Wu and Liu awarded AFOSR grant for media forensics
Espy-Wilson Included in "Soul of Technology" Exhibit
January 2009
Student research: Xiaolong Luo
Alumnus interview: Herbert Struemper
Srivastava Named Associate Editor of
IEEE Transactions on VLSI
and
Integration VLSI Journal
Alumna Zhao Receives IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
Eyad Abed speaks at UCSD Cymer Center seminar
Start-ups with ISR connections awarded SAIC grants
Davis Delivers Keynote at ISSNIP Conference
Invisibility Cloak Research in Top 10 News Stories of 2008
Jeffrey Herrmann named
IIE Transactions
departmental editor
2008
December 2008
V.S. Subrahmanian elected Fellow of AAAS
Best paper award to Baras, Yu, Sadler
Nidak Sumrean appointed to Senior Executive Service
Best paper award at 2008 IEEE GLOBECOM
Bergbreiter interviewed on robot podcast
Aerospace publication highlights Miao Yu research
Avis Cohen named AAAS Fellow
Alumnus Bill Byrne promoted to Reader at Cambridge
November 2008
Stephan Koev wins MEMS Alliance best poster award
Baras Delivers Keynote Address at MobiCom 2008
TRX Systems wins Global Security Challenge competition
Alumnus Qiang Yang named IEEE Fellow
Alumnus Nikos Sidiropoulos elected IEEE Fellow
Alumnus Soysal Joins Faculty of Turkey's Bahçeşehir University
S.K. Gupta’s group pioneers new development in drive mechanisms for ornithopters
Fall 2008 ISR newsletter now available online
October 2008
Horiuchi, Humbert Developing Bio-Inspired Navigation for Micro Air Vehicles
Hiromasa Takahashi is new ISR Visiting Scholar
Manikonda Named President of Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Sikorsky is new ISR strategic partner
Raghavan, Day win INFORMS Computing Society Prize
Radu Balan is new ISR affiliated faculty member
President's Fall Video Message Available
Robotics@Maryland Places 2nd in Inaugural Competition
Alumnus interview: Reza Shahidi
Four Abshire advisees join industry
Alumnus Andres Kwasinski joins RIT
Visiting Scholars program profiled in
Maryland International
Mariko Sugimoto is new ISR Visiting Scholar
Yu, Balachandran awarded US Patent 7,428,054
September 2008
U.S. Dept. of Commerce taps Abshire for advisory committee
Ghodssi team's micro ball bearing work makes miniature machines possible
Makowski, La win NSF grant for modeling mobile wireless networks
S.K. Gupta receives NSF grant for nanoassembly research
NSF grant for Narayan funds 'common randomness' research
Barg wins NSF grant for applications of coding theory to digital circuit design
ISR's Anandalingam discusses plans for Smith School on new video
'RFF' wins 2008 International Planning Competition
Espy-Wilson awarded NSF grant; subcontractor for Navy STTR grant
Carlos Berenstein awarded US Patent 7,424,463
Shihab Shamma named to NIH study section
Live TV broadcast showcases Robotics@Maryland team
Barg gains NSF grant to study point allocations
Rajeev Barua is Principal Investigator for NSF Compiler Optimizations Grant
August 2008
S. Raghavan co-edits new book on the vehicle routing problem
ISR researcher finds bats are quieter in groups
Herrmann Receives 'Innovator of the Year' Award
Clark School Rises in Rankings
Maryland Students Win Underwater Vehicle Contest
Innovation Hall of Famer Smith Dies
Nuno Martins appointed to Conference Editorial Board
Anandalingam interviewed on
Business Week
video
Sasan Bakhtiari joins University of New South Wales faculty
Sandborn writes about obsolete systems for
IEEE Spectrum
Robotics@Maryland team wins underwater vehicle contest
S. Raghavan co-edits new operations research compendium
July 2008
S.K. Gupta is co-author of book on training in virtual environments
Seddik Joins EE Faculty at Alexandria University
Lovell, Sandborn join Clark School's Keystone distinguished professors
Space Systems Lab awarded NASA contract
Vahid Tabatabaee joins ISR as Assistant Research Scientist
Ankur Srivastava is new ISR joint appointment faculty member
Ghodssi Named Associate Editor of
JMEMS
Shneiderman interviewed about evolving government web sites
Rance Cleaveland interviewed for medical device software story
Alumnus Tan Presents Research at Capitol Hill Science Funding Event
June 2008
Shayman, Khandani awarded US Patent 7,391,740
Moss interviewed in NSF video
Ben Shneiderman wins CMPS distinguished faculty award
Krishnaprasad gives inaugural Cymer Distinguished Lecture
Nau invited speaker at ProMas 2008
ISR welcomes two Honda Visiting Scholars
ISR alum Sanjeev Khudanpur earns tenure
Barua, Udayakumaran awarded patent for memory allocation
Ghodssi, Rubloff receive bioMEMS patent
REU students spending summer in research
May 2008
Vorontsov, Koev, Wei and McKinney win at ISR awards ceremony
ISR welcomes Takeshi Yamanaka
Liu Delivers Keynote at IEEE Conference on Communications
Anandalingam named Dean of Robert H. Smith School of Business
S.K. Gupta Promoted to Full Professor
Alumni Introduce "Sezmi," New Broadcast TV Network
ISR announces Systems Symposium poster contest winners
Galloway and Tjoa Awarded Summer Research Fellowships
ECE Students, Alumnus Among UM $50K Business Plan Competition Winners
Student Wins First Prize in Professional Writing Program Contest
Ephremides is keynote speaker at IEEE International Information Theory Workshop
Espy-Wilson appointed Radcliffe Fellow
New Scientist
magazine explores Shneiderman's
911.gov
idea
'eMedCheck' Aids Public Health Workers in Dispensing Antibiotics
Clark School Researchers Collaborate on New Cell-Based Sensors
Ghodssi Named Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor
Davis, Smolyaninov awarded two patents for far-field optical microscope
ECE Faculty Honored at Inaugural Scholarship & Research Celebration
Shamma, Kanold receive DURIP award for advanced imaging technology
April 2008
Abshire, Cukier, Simon earn tenure
Adomaitis on EuroCVD-17 international organizing committee
Palathra, de Pilar Leon to gain international research experience
ISR hosts 4th Northeast Control Workshop
S.K. Gupta and teammates win 2007 'Invention of the Year' physical science award
Subrahmanian wins first ISR Faculty Venture Fair
Nuno Martins to be guest editor for control journal
Boyson co-authors chapter in World Economic Forum report
Reza Ghodssi named associate editor of
Journal of Biomedical Microdevices
Martins receives AFOSR grant for control of mobile multi-agent systems
Alumnus interview: George Kantor
Liu, Alumnus Han Co-Author Book on Wireless Networks
Ephremides Gives Distinguished Lecture at Texas A&M
Alumnus Xiaobo Tan receives ONR grant for biomimetic robotic fish
ECE Alumnus Wins Best Paper at IEEE Wireless Conference
New Advance in Biochip Research
Bergbreiter wins 2008 DARPA Young Faculty Award
March 2008
Researchers Win MURI Award for Multi-Scale Networks
Aytekin, Moss, Simon author
Neural Computation
cover story
Ephremides speaks at University of Minnesota, IBM Research Center
Shneiderman writes about future network collaboration research in
Science
magazine
Chuang Earns Intel Achievement Award
Davis Team Wins Funding for Wireless Research
STOP software predicts terror groups' reasoning and actions
February 2008
Simon Receives NIH Grant for Auditory Cortex Research
Abshire, Shapiro, Smela part of biosensor grant
All Things Considered
explores icy waters with DEPTHX
Spring 2008
Systems Solutions
available
Airline mergers are inevitable, Ball says
Ephremides Gives Two Invited Talks at Colorado State
International journal honors Ben Shneiderman with special issue
January 2008
Space Systems Laboratory featured in
Gazette
newspaper
Ben Shneiderman on visualizing data
Ephremides gives lectures on wireless network cross-layer design
Work of Cohen, Etienne-Cummings profiled in WIRED magazine
Baras Delivers ECC '07 Plenary, Publishes Paper on Wireless Security
2007
December 2007
Clark School Research Team Introduces World's First Invisibility Cloak
Clark School Research Featured in Top 100 Science Stories of 2007
ECE Student Xiang Wins Award at BioScience Day
P.S. Krishnaprasad gives Bode Lecture
Alum Andrew Newman wins Hart Prize for Development
Martins Joins Editorial Board of
Systems & Control Letters
November 2007
New Scientist
highlights cell sensor research
Liu and Siriwongpairat write book overviewing UWB multiband OFDM systems
Alexander Barg elected IEEE Fellow
Ghodssi To Give Plenary at International MEMS Conference
Michael Fu elected as IEEE Fellow
Herrmann develops public health emergency preparedness blog
Liu Co-Authors New Book on Group Communications Security
Additional $1.8M for Cancer Treatment Project
October 2007
Miao Yu Receives AFOSR YIP Award
Ephremides featured in
Computerworld
story on future mobile technologies
Toshiba's Yosuke Okamoto begins six-month visit
Ball to speak at airport systems planning and design course
Alumnus interview: Ingar Grev
UMD To Host NanoBiotechnology for Defense Applications Workshop
New ISR
System Solutions
newsletter available online
Baras Gives Plenary Lectures on Wireless Security
September 2007
Khandani Receives NSF Grant for Research on Information Flow Theory
Farvardin Professorship Fund Reaches $500K
Ephremides Establishes Chair Professorship
Srivastava Receives NSF Grant for Circuit Optimization Research
Alumnus George Kantor promoted at Carnegie-Mellon
Baras gives plenary address at CAMS'07
Ephremides, Luo receive NSF grant for wireless multicasting optimization
NSF multi-user wireless communications grant for Ulukus
Ephremides, Nguyen, Wieselthier receive U.S. Patent 7,233,584
Subrahmanian writes
Science
article on cultural modeling software
Makowski receives NSF grant for modeling wireless networks
NEXTOR receives $1 million NASA grant for improving air traffic control
August 2007
Qu in the News for Technique to Save Power in Handheld Devices
S.K. Gupta elected a Fellow of ASME
Ghodssi, Rubloff part of $2 million NSF grant
Martins to investigate optimal reference tracking
Cukier advises on wireless security
Ulukus is PI on new NSF wireless networks grant
Barua awarded NSF grant for memory management as a run-time service
New Clinic Surge Planning Model software released
Jacob Lead Author of New Book on Memory Systems
Chopra, Cleaveland, Kanold join ISR this fall
MERIT and TREND Fair Showcases Summer Research
Gupta and Abshire receive MIPS grants
July 2007
S.K. Gupta receives NSF award for context-dependent simplified models
Alumnus Trappe Appointed Associate Director of Rutgers' WINLAB
Anandalingam is new Smith School senior associate dean
Dana Nau interviewed about Texas Hold'em computer program
Faridi, Girici accept faculty positions
ISR postdoc and alumna Mounya Elhilali to join Johns Hopkins University
Wu named to
Computerworld's
"40 Under 40" list of rising stars
Patent issued to Balachandran, Al-Bassyiouni and Yu
ISR postdoc Vijay Gupta to join Notre Dame faculty
June 2007
Herrmann Joins QUEST Honors Fellows Program as Associate Director
Subrahmanian describes computer models to combat insurgencies at AAAS seminar
ECE Professor Introduces New "Desktop Supercomputing"
Advanced Short-Exposure Video Data Fusion Method Using Image Enhancement and Local Image Quality Optimization (ISR IP)
An Algorithm for Multiple Pitch Tracking in Adverse Environments (ISR IP)
Methods for Estimating the Intrinsic Pattern of Fingerprint Scanners and Using it in Biometric Authentication and for Cryptographic Key Generation (ISR IP)
Congestion Control in Satellite Networks (ISR IP)
Modified Phase Opponency with a Signal Theoretic Preprocessor for Speech Enhancement (ISR IP)
Method for Efficient Source Authentication for Multicast Communications in Hybrid Satellite/Wireless Networks (ISR IP)
Method for Performance-Aware Security of Unicast Communications in Hybrid Satellite Networks (ISR IP)
A Microcantilever Sensor with Integrated Optical Readout for Liquid Samples (ISR IP)
A Magnetic System to Push Magnetic Carriers (ISR IP)
An Atomic Layer Deposition Approach to Controlling the Shape Profiles of Nanostructures Deposited Inside Nanoporous Materials (ISR IP)
Method and Implementation for Key Generation and Replacement Using Markov Models (ISR IP)
A Computational Algorithm for Solar Reflector Optimization with Novel Applications in Concentrating Photovoltaic Solar Collector Design (ISR IP)
Simulator of the Explicit Multi-Threading (XMT) Computer Architecture and Software Tools for Programming It (ISR IP)
A Device and Method for Measuring Microcantilever Beam Displacement by Interference Fringe Shifting (ISR IP)
Methods and Systems for Confining Drugs to a Region of the Body (ISR IP)
Binary Rewriting Without Relocation Information (ISR IP)
Automatic Parallelization Using Binary Rewriting (ISR IP)
A New Method of Matrix Spectral Factorization with Applications, Including, but not Limited to, Data Compression, Filtering, Wireless Communications, and Radar Systems (ISR IP)
Integrated CMOS Capacitance Sensors for On-Chip Tracking of Cell Proliferation (ISR IP)
A Flexible, High Specific Energy Density, Rechargeable Battery (ISR IP)
Micro Fluidic Device that Allows 3 Dimensional Control of Nano and Micro Particles by Electroosmotic Flow (EOF) Actuation (ISR IP)
Motion Sensor with On-Chip Adaptation and Programmable Filtering (ISR IP)
Positioning Quantum Dots in Devices by Electroosmotic Feedback Control (ISR IP)
Microfluidic System for Sample Preparation (ISR IP)
Confidentiality Preserving Rank-Ordered Search (ISR IP)
Lateral Two-Terminal Nanotube Devices and Method for their Formation (ISR IP)
Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intracranial Robot (ISR IP)
Improved RF Power Harvesting Circuit Design (ISR IP)
Method and Implementation for Wireless Message Authentication (ISR IP)
Indexing RDF and Temporal RDF Databases (ISR IP)
The T-REX RDF Extraction System (ISR IP)
FICA: Low Profile F-Inverted Compact Antenna (ISR IP)
Dynamic Manipulation of Magnetic Fields to Focus Particles/Drugs to Deep Tissue Targets (ISR IP)
Method and Apparatus for Bandwidth-Constrained Queries in Sensor Networks (ISR IP)
Periodic Structures on Metal Films for Plasmon Assisted Selective Fluorescence Excitation (ISR IP)
A Practical Method for Resource Allocation for QoS in OFDMA Wireless Systems (ISR IP)
Shneiderman applauds new federal government web usability guide
Nanoparticle Nucleation of Protein Crystal Growth (ISR IP)
Feedback Control of Protein Crystal Growth (ISR IP)
D-Dupe: A Visual Interface for Relational DeDuplication (ISR IP)
Component Forensics of Visual Sensors and Devices (ISR IP)
Automated Kriegspiel Chess Player (ISR IP)
Detecting DDoS Attacks in Stub Domains (ISR IP)
Micro-Array for Nucleotide Amplification with 2D Positional Information (ISR IP)
Rapid Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) Assessment System (ISR-IP)
A Method for Determining the Nearest Uniformity Producing Profile (NUPP) for the Control of Thin-Film Processing Systems with Wafer Rotation (ISR IP)
Probabilistic Wavelet Synopses For Multiple Measures (ISR IP)
A Data-Bearing Approach for Pilot-Embedding in Space-Time Coded MIMO Systems (ISR IP)
Data Hiding in Compiled Program Binaries for Enhancing Computer System Performance (ISR IP)
OE-MEMS Chip-Based Mass Sensor for Chemical, Gas, and Bio-Hazard Sensing (ISR IP)
Power Controlled Channel Allocation for Multiuser Multiband Ultra-Wideband Systems (ISR IP)
Effective and Efficient Collusion-Resistant Fingerprinting for Multimedia (ISR IP)
Controlled Electromechanical Deposition of Polysaccaride Film and Hydrogel and Materials Formed Therefrom (ISR IP)
Assembly of Chitosan onto an Electrode Surface (ISR IP)
Micro-Fluidic Pumping (ISR IP)
Cell-Based Sensing: Biological Transduction of Chemical Stimuli to Electrical Signals (Nose-on-a-Chip) (ISR IP)
Cell Canary (ISR IP)
Curve-Based Data Hiding for Protecting Map Document (ISR IP)
A Tree-to-Graph Folding Procedure for Systems Engineering Requirements (ISR IP)
One Click Mold Design for Rapid Tooling Applications (ISR IP)
Micro-Knife-Edge Techniques for Sealing of Microfluidic Systems (ISR IP)
ISR's Intelligent Servosystems Lab places two summer interns at Intelligent Automation Inc.
JáJá’s Producer–Archive Workflow Network software featured in
Federal Times
Coding Techniques for Maximum Achievable Diversity in Space, Time, and Frequency for Broadband Wireless Communications (ISR IP)
Micro-Optical Sensor Systems for Displacement, Pressure, and Acceleration Measurements (ISR IP)
A Dynamic Memory Allocator for Embedded Systems with Scratch-Pad Memory (ISR IP)
Delay-Coordinates Embedding Estimator of Noisy Time Series (ISR IP)
Fiber Optic Sensor Systems for Pressure Gradient, Velocity, and Acoustic Intensity Measurements (ISR IP)
Event Based System: A Probabilistic Acoustic-Phonetic Approach to Automatic Speech Recognition (ISR IP)
Surface Plasmon Immersion Microscope (ISR IP)
The Real Time Supply Chain Course (ISR IP)
Programmable Selective Deposition of Biofunctional Polymer Surfaces (ISR IP)
Thermo-Bio-Lithography (ISR IP)
Fabrication and Integration of Polymeric BioMEMS (ISR IP)
Speech Discrimination Based on Multiscale Spectro-Temporal Modulations (ISR IP)
Enhanced Technology Obsolescence Forecasting Algorithm (ISR IP)
HCE: Hierarchical Clustering Explorer (ISR IP)
Treemap 4.0 (ISR IP)
Arbitrary and Simultaneous Control of Multiple Particles in Micro-Fluidic Systems (ISR IP)
Optimal Data Diagnosis Algorithms (ISR IP)
Process Planning Software for 3D Replication of Scanned Objects (ISR IP)
Fiber Tip Based Fiber Optic Sensor Systems (ISR IP)
Optical Wireless Networks with Adjustable Topologies for Indoor and Outdoor Communications (ISR IP)
MOCA: Mitigation of Obsolescence Cost Analysis (ISR IP)
Optical Signal Processing Based on Light Controlled Photon Tunneling (ISR IP)
Timeboxes: Interactive Query System for Reading Patterns in Time Series Data (ISR IP)
Treemap 3.0 (ISR IP)
The Dwarf Structure for Creating, Storing, and Querying Highly Compressed Data Cubes (ISR IP)
Antman receives NSF grant to study nonlinear problems of solid mechanics
Ph.D. Student Receives AVS Graduate Research Award
Power Control for Active Link Quality Protection in CDMA Networks (ISR IP)
Integrated Method for Performing Scheduling, Routing and Access Control in a Computer Network (ISR IP)
Power Control Based Admission Methods for Maximum Throughput in DS-CDMA Networks with Multi-Media Traffic (ISR IP)
EquiPSim: Equipment and Process Simulation Learning Module (ISR IP)
SimPLE: Simulated Processes in a Learning Environment (ISR IP)
GRIDL: Graphical Interface for Digital Libraries (ISR IP)
Treemap 2000 (ISR IP)
RFSQP™ Version 1.0 (ISR IP)
Source Encoding Assisted Multiple Access (SEAMA) Protocol for Voice-Data Integrated Wireless Networks: A Technique for Trading Quality of Service for Network Capacity (ISR IP)
Segmented Reactor Showerhead Design with Exhaust Gas Recirculation and Spatially-Resolved Sensing Capability for Chemical Vapor Deposition, Plasma-Enhanced CVD, and Plasma Etch Processes (ISR IP)
Improving the Performance of Agents and Web Servers (ISR IP)
Agent Based Implementation of the Supply, Procurement, Maintenance Chain (ISR IP)
Personalized Cable TV Channels (ISR IP)
IMPACT Agent Development System (ISR IP)
Excentric Labeling: Dynamic Neighborhood Labeling (ISR IP)
Polarization and Wavelength Diversity for Fade Resistance in Optical Wireless Communication Systems (ISR IP)
3D Wavelet-Based Video Codec with Human Perceptual Model: Method and Apparatus for Perceptually Based Compression and Transmission of Video Streams (ISR IP)
3D Wavelet-Based Video Codec with Human Perceptual Model: A Method and Apparatus for Conditional Access in Broadcast/Multicast Systems (ISR IP)
LifeLines for Visualizing History Records (ISR IP)
Focused Ion Beam Fabrication of Fiber Probes for Use in Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (ISR IP)
QUIS™: Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction™ 7.0 (ISR IP)
Lossy/Lossless Region-of-Interest Image Coding (ISR IP)
Combined Power Control and Space-Time Diversity (ISR IP)
CHIMP: Collaborative Heterogeneous Interactive Multimedia Platform (ISR IP)
Power Allocation and Quality of Service Control to Enhance Capacity of CDMA Network with Voice and Data (ISR IP)
Design Tool for Base-Station Placement (ISR IP)
FFSQP Version 3.5 (ISR IP)
CFSQP Version 2.3 (ISR IP)
WinSurfer® (ISR IP)
FSQP Version 2.4 (ISR IP)
TreeViz (ISR IP)
CONSOL-OPTCAD™ (ISR IP)
QUIS: Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (ISR IP)
PenPlay II: A Painting Toy for Users of All Ages (ISR IP)
John Baras invited speaker at MIT Enterprise Forum
ISR faculty host CRCNS Principal Investigators' Meeting
Welcome, REU students!
Herrmann tapes video for Centers for Disease Control
ISR alum Fumin Zhang joins Georgia Tech faculty
May 2007
Farvardin receives patent for image technology
Liu Named Fellow of the Academy of Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Ephremides Delivers Plenary Lecture at IEEE Communication Theory Workshop
Ghodssi Invited to Participate in NAE Frontiers Symposium
Engineers Sweep Movie Contest
William Levine honored at retirement celebration
NanoCenter Highly Ranked
ISR alum Andrew Newman promoted at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Wired
magazine discovers Horiuchi research
Baras, Theodorakopoulos selected for IEEE Abraham Prize
Espy-Wilson receives NSF grant for robust speech recognition
Echolocating bat research of Cindy Moss featured in
Washington Times
story
Shihab Shamma wins outstanding faculty award
Strahan receives outstanding staff award
Nima Ghalichechian receives ISR Outstanding Graduate Student Award
ISR alum Wade Trappe earns tenure at Rutgers
Farvardin Named University of Maryland Provost
Baras Delivers Keynote Address at Control Over Communication Workshop
TV news highlights Shneiderman's
911.gov
idea
April 2007
Subrahmanian software featured in
Science
Akin, recent alumni win at business plan competition
MEMS Researchers Win IEEE LEOS Best Paper Competition
Carol Espy-Wilson promoted to full professor
Levine, Elliott to speak at memorial conference for W.P. Dayawansa
Davis, Milner awarded NSF grant for directional hybrid wireless networks
Shneiderman featured in
Technology Review
story on data visualization
Rubloff, Bentley quoted in
Business Gazette's
'nanofactories' story
Guardian
article cites Cukier research
ISR alum Ram Venkataraman Iyer earns tenure at Texas Tech
Clark School Highly Ranked
March 2007
Ephremides, Nguyen, Wieselthier win NRL publication award
ISR alums Leonard, Tassiulas named IEEE Fellows
Smolyaninov, Davis superlens microscope research published in
Science
ISR students chosen for ECE dissertation fellowship awards
Srivastava, Khandelwal Win Award for Computer Engineering Research
MEMS research of Morgan and Ghodssi featured in
NASA Tech Briefs
Miao Yu wins NSF CAREER Award
Krishnaprasad, Baras, Moss participating in new MURI awards
UMD President Mote includes ISR highlights in remarks to legislators
ISR alum Victor De Oliveira elected to International Statistical Institute
February 2007
ISR alum Haga joins faculty at National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Akin, Space Systems Laboratory featured on Discovery Channel program
ISR alum Ajay Gupta chairs task force for incoming Maryland governor
Five ISR communication researchers featured in
E@M
magazine
New issue of ISR's
Systems Solutions
newsletter available
Marcus, Fu, Chang and Hu co-author
Simulation-based Algorithms for Markov Decision Processes
Richard La promoted to associate professor
Shneiderman, Preece advocate for 'online 911' system
Wu and Qu awarded AFOSR grant for high-performance trusted computing platforms
Baras, Liu, Davis receive MIPS grants
March 26: Petar Kokotovic, ISR Distinguished Lecturer
Nuno Martins receives NSF CAREER Award
Cukier's study: hackers attack computers every 39 seconds
Fischell Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering Business Plan Competition
Smolyaninov and Davis' plasmon microscope cited in APS annual review
S.K. Gupta featured in
Mechanical Engineering Magazine
story
January 2007
Grad student Sean Gahagan wins best paper award
ISR alum Yan Sun wins NSF CAREER Award
Shihab Shamma featured in National Public Radio interview
2006
December 2006
Krishnaprasad Receives IEEE Bode Prize
Ball quoted on airline mergers in
Newark Star-Ledger
K.J. Ray Liu honored as 2007-2008 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Hill Whiting-Turner Lecture Online
Baras honored for IVA membership at special reception
Welcome to Professor of the Practice Marvin Sambur
Zhang is first recipient of ENPM outstanding teacher award
November 2006
Winter Commencement Speaker Announced
K.J. Ray Liu develops 'brain' for concealed weapon detector
New legs for chitosan nanosensor story
ISR alumni Sarkar, Poovendran earn tenure
Krishnaprasad delivers Munich Mathematical Colloquium lecture
ISR alum Gubner author of new book on probability and random processes
Davis, Smolyaninov developing two-dimensional plasmon microscope
October 2006
Happy Halloween! Radio discovers Horiuchi's work with bats, micromachines
ISR alum Rajiv Laroia honored by Clark School of Engineering
Former ISR professor Wijesuriya Dayawansa dies
McAvoy Team Awarded NIH Grant
ISR undergrad Travis Young named Merrill Presidential Scholar
Ball, Lovell awarded NASA grant for air traffic flows
Lovell receives NSF grant for electrophoretic displays
September 2006
Barg receives NSF theoretic analysis grant
Ephremides Delivers Distinguished Lectures on Wireless Networks
Renowned Telecom Experts to Deliver White Symposium
Davis receives patent for optical wireless communication
Kedem receives IBM Faculty Award
Gupta, Etienne-Cummings designated as 'Trailblazers'
Vishkin, Qu, Balkan Share Best Paper Honors at ASAP Conference
NSF Funds Microscopy Facility Upgrades
Gupta, Peng receive ASME best paper award
InterDigital becomes ISR strategic partner
August 2006
$1 Million For Nano-Bio Initiative
Honda R&D becomes ISR partner
ISR alum Hamid Jafarkhani named IEEE Fellow
Computerworld
honors research by Subrahmanian; Liu and Wu
Undergrads Goldman and Chen Selected as NCMR Scholars
Raghavan receives Glover-Klingman prize; Olian Award
New ISR
Systems Solutions
available online
Alumnae Chiu wins Macronix Golden Silicon Award
Book by ISR alum and UMD professor enters second edition
Abshire, Gupta, Liu receive MIPS grants
Ephremides quoted in
Computerworld
article
Shneiderman receives software patent
ISR alum helps develop technology to regrow teeth
Berenstein, Baras, Gavilánez author network tomography article
Sambur Brings Research Collaboration Skills, Contacts
July 2006
Crab Nano-Sensor Detects Dangerous Substances
News story about Ghodssi's III-V MEMS work rockets around globe
Flu Clinic Software Required by CDC
Herrmann new associate editor of ASME journal
NIST and NanoCenter announce partnership
Liu delivers keynote address to IEEE multimedia conference
Landwehr named editor-in-chief of
IEEE Secuity and Privacy
Shayman appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Stealth strategy paper by Justh, Krishnaprasad published
June 2006
New Honda Visiting Scientist arrives at ISR
State Approves $3.65 Million for NanoCenter
Shamma, Simon, Fritz receive five-year, $1.57 million NIH grant
McAvoy elected Fellow of IFAC
Gupta quoted in story on biologically inspired robots
Twelve REU students welcomed
Ph.D. student selected for AVS Graduate Research Award
May 2006
Jiaqiao Hu accepts SUNY Stony Brook faculty position
Hendler part of DoD/MoD International Technology Alliance contract
Hendler, semantic web featured on the BBC
Mingyan Liu promoted at University of Michigan
Simon research featured on
Cerebral Cortex
cover
Baras elected to Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science
ISR awards honor faculty, grad student and staff member
Horiuchi, Shamma labs cited by
IEEE Spectrum
magazine
Ephremides wins information theory service award
ISR alum earns tenure at MIT
Cukier study: female user names receive overwhelming amount of unwanted messages
Miao Yu wins Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
JaJa wins IDEA award
Bats use 'guided missile' strategy
Herrmann edits new production scheduling book
April 2006
ECE Faculty Promotions Announced
NanoCenter to Host First NanoDay
Post-doctoral Fellow Luo Joins Colorado State Faculty
Ephremides To Deliver Keynote at IEEE Communication Theory Workshop
Wall Street Journal
columnist falls for Treemaps
Grad student's high altitude work highlighted in
GPS World
Moss, Ghose work profiled on children's web site
Martins Wins AACC Award for Theory
NetImmune wins entrepreneurship award
Herrmann receives NACo Award
ISR's 20th Anniversary Celebration Symposium
March 2006
Book edited by ISR faculty becomes best seller
Ghodssi Group Paper Featured in Journal of Micromechanics & Microengineering
Engineers Pioneer New Digital Forensics Technology
Shapiro, Barua, Ulukus and Wu receive tenure
Alumna Featured in MIT's Technology Review
Magazine highlights Ghodssi's III-V optical MEMS work
Nau, Subrahmanian are principal investigators for $3.4 million MURI
Moss and Ghose research bat signals with clutter
Baras, Gu, Jiang awarded patent for video codec
Two ISR teams awarded NSF DDDAS grants
Cukier and students semifinalists in business plan competition
February 2006
ISR alum Xiaobo Tan wins NSF CAREER Award
ISR alum wins INFORMS dissertation award
S. Raghavan wins INFORMS computing society prize
MIPS contracts for Liu, Gupta
Khosla elected to National Academy of Engineering
Moss, Ghose research published, featured in media outlets
Herrmann speaks to IBM TJ Watson Research Center
January 2006
Clark School Sends Students to Aid Katrina Victims
S.K. Gupta speaks at South Korean workshop
Alumnus Wins MIT Technovator Award
ISR quartet writes multimedia fingerprinting book
Zhang selected as Keystone Professor
Wu, Liu, Wang and Trappe win best paper award
Shneiderman gets 'high five'
Hendler writes op-ed on the future of artificial intelligence
2005
December 2005
Kedem is featured speaker at SCMA2005
S. Raghavan and G. Anandalingam edit two new operations research books
Shneiderman quoted in
New Scientist
Cukier's quantifying computer security work profiled in the media
November 2005
Herrmann's mass vaccination clinic research covered extensively in the media
Former ISR postdoc Ye Li named IEEE Fellow
Grad student Tarun Pruthi wins ASA best student paper award
Espy-Wilson named ASA Fellow
Makowski named IEEE Fellow
NanoCenter featured on PBS's
Nightly Business Report
Ephremides, Ayyagari awarded patent for DS-CSMA Networks
Espy-Wilson receives NSF grant for speech recongnition
October 2005
K.J. Ray Liu is Rutgers Distinguished Lecturer
Brockett honored with Rufus Oldenburger Medal
Mao and Karakos selected for IBM symposium
Visiting scholar Wen Long completes assignment
Berenstein, Krishnaprasad contribute to new signal processing book
ISR staff member Frank Briggs retires
Research Brief details Cukier's work on quantifying computer security
New
System Solutions
newsletter available
Grad student Om Deshmukh wins best poster award
September 2005
Narayan earns NSF grants for wireless research
Bertsimas, Poor are ISR Distinguished Lecturers
Qu Team Receives NCIIA Grant for Secure E-Payment System
Davis, Milner awarded $2.7 million ONR research contract
Gupta's Virtual Training Studio profiled by Office of Naval Research
ISR alumna Haitao Zheng named to 'top 35 innovators under 35' list
Herrmann's clinic planning software available for free download
Yuichi Kato helps design new Honda Gold Wing motorcycle
Ephremides is PI for NSF MRI grant on wireless sensor networks
Cohen is PI for five-year NSF/NIH grant on lamprey locomotion
Shamma receives grant from Honda for robotics work
August 2005
Coriale speaks at PICMET conference
Shneiderman's Treemaps work profiled in
Financial Times
Akin featured on
All Things Considered
Abed, Baras, Krishnaprasad, Justh speak at swarming workshop
ISR alum Sean Andersson joins Boston University faculty
Abshire, Horiuchi advise MERIT Fair winners
Fitzgerald wins ASME/NSF Design Essay Competition
Masaaki Nagashima lectures on control for engines and emissions
Yuichi Kato pays return visit to ISR
Three new MIPS contacts for ISR faculty
Shneiderman's Treemaps work highlighted in
Information Week
Three best paper awards for NEXTOR authors
July 2005
Ghodssi awarded ARL grant for microball bearing technology
Washington Post
columnist lauds university's nanotechnology efforts
Two patents for Ephremides and Ayyagari
Wang, Trappe, Wu and Liu win EURASIP best paper award
Nitta Haas senior vice president speaks at ISR
Jack Kustanowitz wins ACM/IEEE best student paper award
Min Wu selected for NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Vorontsov, Krishnaprasad, Justh and Beresnev receive sensor patent
Ulukus receives ITR-Cybertrust grant
Abed attends transportation symposium
Etienne-Cummings speaks at NASA-Goddard
Alexander Barg joins ISR faculty
NSF scientists speak to REU undergrad researchers
NASA-Goddard to award Space Systems Lab cooperative research agreement
June 2005
Qu Receives Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Research Award
ISR alum George Kantor co-authors new robotics book
Twelve undergrads in town for REU program
Herrmann's clinic model research lauded by NACCHO
ISR alum Koushik Kar wins NSF CAREER Award
Cohen, Etienne-Cummings featured on Australian TV
Smolyanivov, Davis, Zayats issued optical processing patent
JaJa receives NSF grant for digital preservation
Nuno Martins joins ISR
ISR organizes event honoring Pravin Varaiya
May 2005
Horiuchi featured in
Scientific American
ISR alum Aaron Falk named chair of IRTF
Shayman receives TEDCO tech transfer award
K.J. Ray Liu wins teaching award
Pruessner and Amarnath selected for Best Student Paper Award
Levine co-edits new volume on control systems
Weifeng Su to teach at SUNY Buffalo
Three MSSE students graduate
Peg Jayant honored for service
2005 ISR Awards honor Adomaitis, Nesgarani, Briggs
University of Maryland ranked No. 1 in nano research and education
April 2005
Ball's work on airport landing slots profiled in trade magazine
S. Raghavan promoted to tenured position
Abshire is PI for NSF grant on cell-based sensing
Akin appears on
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
ISR collaborations with Toshiba
American Vacuum Society honors student paper
Student paper wins multimedia signal processing award
Ghodssi selected for ROSS-2004 award
Two grad students awarded ARCS Scholarships
Ghodssi team wins best poster award
SSL's Ranger robot featured on Discovery Channel
ISR faculty win two Invention of the Year awards
Former ISR visiting scientist develops new engine
March 2005
Cohen, Etienne-Cummings interviewed by BBC
Ephremides, Ulukus, Tassiulas part of DoD MURI
Ghodssi, Horiuchi earn tenure
K.J. Ray Liu elected to prestigious publications post
Min Wu selected as ONR Young Investigator
Herrmann team conducts research at TOPOFF 3
Cohen speaker at Mathematics Colloquium
February 2005
Smith School's Sandor Boyson joins ISR
Ulukus receives NSF CAREER Award
ISR alumna Naomi Leonard delivers distinguished lecture
Ephremides speaks at LG Labs
Gupta, Davis awarded MIPS contracts
Higuchi speaks at SAE symposium
January 2005
Cohen interviewed by
Science Letter
and
Life Sciences Weekly
Michael Powers wins at Maryland Bioscience Research Review Day
Priya Ranjan and AID help tsunami survivors
Shamma named ASA fellow
Shapiro organizes NSF micro/nano workshop
Daniel Fitzgerald wins ARCS Scholarship
High-resolution microscope in
Physical Review Letters
Professor Shamma interviewed by news media after voting in Iraq election
2004
December 2004
Adomaitis, Rubloff, Kidder own U.S. Patent 6,821,910
Washingtonian
magazine names Min Wu one of 20 'young people to watch'
Yu joining Mechanical Engineering Department
Wired
magazine interviews Cohen, Cummings about lamprey research
K.J. Ray Liu is prime architect of new IEEE journal
ISR's Lee Harper earns M.A. in education policy
Coriale is featured speaker at 43rd Conference on Decision and Control
November 2004
Waits, quoted in "New Scientist" magazine
Ball, named a Fellow of INFORMS
Subrahmanian named director of UMIACS
Naomi Leonard profiled in
New York Times
Anandalingam featured on MPT's
Business Connection
Liu, Jájá to speak as Iowa State distinguished lecturers
Ephremides editor-in-chief of
Foundations and Trends in Networking
Paul Houpt named an IEEE Fellow
October 2004
Cohen interviewed in wake of Christopher Reeve’s death
Milner awarded NSF grant for broadband wireless networks
Ghodssi speaks at National Cancer Institute
Theodorakopoulos and Baras win best paper award
Dimitri Bertsekas speaks as ISR’s Distinguished Lecturer
September 2004
W.M. Keck Foundation award establishes new nano lab
Sandborn is PI for NSF SGER GOALI award
Hendler is PI for NSF ITR award
Moss is PI for "Innovative Technologies Inspired by Biosonar"
W.M. Keck Foundation gives award to M-CINSE, University of Maryland
Hendler speaks on national security panel at National Press Club
Kalluri to join Starkey Research Labs
Barua receives TEDCO "significant commercial potential" award
Min Wu named 'top young innovator' by
Technology Review
Rubloff leads new M-CINSE nanotech center
Moss, Ghose win first place in Science Engineering Visualization Challenge
Alum Naomi Leonard named as MacArthur Fellow
August 2004
Berentstein receives NSF award for 'Topics in Complex and Harmonic Analysis'
André Tits receives NSF grant for 'feasible point optimization methods for design'
K.J. Ray Liu named editor in chief of IEEE
Signal Processing Magazine
Toshiba's Iguchi joins ISR Visiting Scientists Program
Masaaki Nagashima is visiting scientist from Honda R&D, Japan
NASA announces Canadian robot, not Ranger, to be used to repair Hubble
Horiuchi's student team wins RITE competition at MERIT Fair
Liu wins 2004 EURASIP Meritorious Service Award
K.J. Ray Liu is researcher on two MIPS contracts
July 2004
Jeffrey Herrmann, students assist in mass vaccination drill
Rossoupoulos now joint appointment; Fritz is assistant research scientist
ISR visiting exchange student receives City of Toulouse Award
FAA 'close to signing' contract with NEXTOR, trade magazine reports
ISR's Xiaobo Tan joins Michigan State University
Honda Visiting Scientist Morimichi Nishigaki gives final presentation
June 2004
Dana Nau one of three authors of
Automated Planning
Rubloff, Takeuchi are co-PIs for NSF International Materials Institute
Guangming Zhang receives 2004 Poole and Kent Outstanding Teaching Award
Moss to become director of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program
Carlos Berenstein honored with celebration of his career
Akin is finalist in Hubble Space Telescope repair plan
ISR SAC member named engineering dean at Carnegie-Mellon
Xerox scientist gave lecture at ISR colloquium
Dana Nau is PI for 'Pushing the Boundaries of AI Planning'
ISR Strategic Advisory Council met on June 25
May 2004
Milner advises Gemstone 'Innovations' team
Hendler quoted in the
Jerusalem Post
MacroPhage wins graduate student category of Business Plan Competition
Akin team ties for first place at NASA competition
ISR alum Leonard speaks at ECE Alumni Lecture
Shapiro and students finalists in Invention of the Year awards
Horiuchi, Ghose, Coriale receive ISR awards
April 2004
Gupta, Ghodssi, Shapiro part of $3 million micro air vehicles MURI
Ghodssi receives NSF grant for InP-based MEMS-tunable optical filters and switches
Clark School of Engineering ranked 16 in "America's Best Graduate Schools"
Honda Visiting Scientist Morimichi Nishigaki gives seminar
Zhang receives 2004 Poole and Kent Outstanding Teaching Award
Undergrad Jennifer Roberts wins two prestigious awards
Alumnis Jie Chen named Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Adomaitis mentors Gemstone 'ChemSense' student group
CSHCN Industrial Advisory Board meeting held on April 20
Schneiderman applauds efforts to increase federal government web site usability
NSF CAREER awards honor ISR faculty
March 2004
Harper, paper selected for presentation at conference
El-Gamal, recipient of 2004 NSF CAREER Award
Shamma, Fritz receive $1.25 million NIH grant
Horiuchi, Krishnaprasad receive $286,000 AFOSR grant
NSF's Lynn Preston named 'Engineer of the Year 2003'
Space Systems Laboratory's Ranger robot is proposed to NASA
Leonard is Principal Investigator
Davis, receives a $291,047 DURIP
February 2004
Ljung, named Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering
Corson and Park have been issued US Patent #6,667,957
Congratulations to Michael Fu
Congratulations to Kaye Brubaker
Morgan, recipient of ARCS Scholarship
Moss and Horiuchi receive five-year, $1.6 million grant
Hendler, quoted in Innovations Report and The Washington Post
Moss, Horiuchi win $1.6 million NIH grant
Gupta, Shapiro, and Goldsman associated with three MIPS awards
New Toshiba visiting scientist arrives at ISR
January 2004
William Levine named AACC President
Akin PI for NASA ASTEP award
New visiting scientist arrives at ISR
Akin, Principal Investigator for NASA award
2003
December 2003
ISR faculty showcase research to Honeywell Labs delegation
Chua on campus as Distinguished Lecturer
Shneiderman is guest commentator on
The Kojo Nnamdi Show
Min Wu's research featured in
Technology Review
Hendler interviewed on WTOP Radio
Shneiderman featured on
Government Computer News
web site
November 2003
ISR welcomes engineers from Africa
Moss, Horiuchi lead Neuroscience Symposium
S. Raghavan wins second place in paper competition
Douglas Smith is Fall 2003 Distinguished Lecturer
Hideo Mizusawa is new ISR visiting scientist
Shneiderman federal government develop user-friendly web site guide
Four representatives from Honda travel to ISR
Milner and DARPA featured in
Esquire Magazine
October 2003
Graduate student Marcel Pruessner receives ARCS Scholarship
Soon Cho awarded Outstanding Paper Award
Mingyan Liu wins CAREER Award
Temporary Clark School clean room opens
Ball hosts Collaborative Decision Making project
Toshiba becomes an ISR Sustaining Partner
Ephremides gives invited talks at Ivy League schools
Anandalingam featured on CBS's
The Morning Show
Shneiderman's Treemaps impress British media
K.J. Ray Liu elected Member-at-Large of IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors
Corson and Park are issued US Patent 6,628,643
Saswati Sarkar wins NSF CAREER Award
Marcel Pruessner receives ARCS scholarship
Davis, Smolyaninov granted US Patent #6,633,711
Sun Microsystems incoporates Shneiderman's Treemap software
September 2003
Engineering Design and Pro/ENGINEER
by Guangming Zhang now in fifth edition
Cukier wins CAREER Award
ISR welcomes new Senior Research Scientist
Abed co-PI of a new NSF SGER grant
Milner is PI for $1.2 million NSF award
$1.2 million NSF grant for optical wireless sensor networks
Espy-Wilson receives Honda Initiation grant
Internetnews.com interviews Hendler about Semantic Web
Barua is co-principal investigator for five-year, $700K NSF grant
Leonard conducts underwater robotics research
August 2003
Cindy Moss's bat research features on NPR
Liu, Milner, Baras participating in MIPS awards
Baras receives ARL Certificate of Appreciation
ISR says goodbye to two Visiting Scientists
Ephremides appointed Cynthia Kim Professor
WMAL Interviews Armand Makowski
Davis receives NSF grant for nanofabricated, all-optical devices
July 2003
Wu and Liu receive one-year DDET award
ISR welcomes Liu, Sandborn, Shapiro and Vorontsov to faculty
Morimichi Nishigaki, new Visiting Scientist from Honda
Lovell now ISR joint appointment, Cohen joins ISR faculty
Wu and Liu are PIs for AFRL anti-collusion fingerprinting
June 2003
Morimichi Nishigaki arrives; new Honda visiting scientist
May 2003
Baras delivers speech on 'Engineering and Information Technology' at Charles and Helen White Symposium
April 2003
Carol Espy-Wilson receives NSF grant for acoustic-phonetic knowledge and speech recognition.
March 2003
Rubloff, Takeuchi are PIs for new NSF international materials institute
2002
November 2002
Zhang participating in NIH machinable ceramics grant
October 2002
James Hendler awarded the Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal
September 2002
Lovell to study car-following behavior
Ephremides, Baras, La, Ulukus awarded wireless networks grant
Four ISR faculty to research electronic markets for time-sensitive goods
Ghodssi wins NSF grant for microball bearing technology
August 2002
Adomaitis and Rubloff win NSF ITR grant
Herrmann, Schmidt and Sandborn awarded NSF PREMISE grant
June 2002
Nikolaos Kanlis joins Texas A&M faculty
Jafarkhani joins UC Irvine ECE department.
May 2002
Avis Cohen promoted to full professor
HCIL researchers receive NSF grant for Children's International Digital Library
April 2002
Ghodssi, Rubloff, Smela awarded DURIP for chemical mechanical planarizer
Espy-Wilson receives NIH grant for vocal tract acoustics
Milner, Davis, Liu and Shayman win scalable multilayer control MURI
January 2002
Levine named VP of the AACC
2001
October 2001
Narayan awarded NSF grant for secret key generation
September 2001
Schmidt leads new Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) program
Davis, Makowski, Milner receive optical wireless networks contracts
August 2001
Ghodssi, DeVoe awarded MRI for MEMS aligner/bonder
May 2001
Admaitis, Herrmann, Schmidt and Walsh receive tenure
March 2001
Baras, Berenstein, Ephremides, Liu and Papadopoulos win DoD URI
Faculty participating in three different MURI awards
February 2001
DeVoe wins DURIP for deep reactive ion etcher
2000
November 2000
Druin receives NSF CAREER Award; grant
ISR awarded grant for combined research and curriculum development in systems engineering
October 2000
Abed and Varaiya work named one of 39 "high impact papers" of the 20th century
April 2000
Shamma, Horiuchi, Baras, Krishnaprasad, Moss awarded acoustic sensors contract
Baras, Poovendran win integrated security services contract
March 2000
NASA AMES awards contract to NEXTOR to support air traffic management research
DARPA awards Nau contract for AcT program
Levine and Ephremides receive awards for oustanding contributions in their field
January 2000
Levine edits new Birkhauser control engineering series
1998
January 1998
Antman joins ISR as affiliate faculty member
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