February 15, 2009

Lih Lin Promoted

Congratulations to Professor Lih Lin on her promotion to Full Professor, effective September 16, 2009. Professor Lin has made excellent research contributions in Optical MEMS, Quantum Dot Nanophotonic Integrated Circuits, and Optical Plasmonic Tweezers. One of her recent research efforts is in biomedical applications of photonics, particularly in developing a new integrated endoscope system. The…


February 10, 2009

Sign Language By Cellphone


February 5, 2009

EE Authors Win 2009 Award for Excellence

Ehsan Saeedi, Samuel Kim, and Professor Babak Parviz have been named winners of the 2009 Awards for Excellence by the Emerald Literati Network.The winning paper is “Building flexible circuits with self-assembly”, which appeared in Circuit World volume 34 last year. The article has been named a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards…


February 1, 2009

Gupta to speak at Early Career Award Recognition Symposium March 4th

Professor Maya Gupta will be honored for her Early Career Award on March 4th. The symposium will convene in the Hogness Auditorium (Health Sciences A420) at 2:30 p.m. with welcoming comments by Provost Phyllis Wise. Maya will speak on the subject “How to Make Good Guesses”. A reception in the Health Sciences Lobby, C300, will…


January 10, 2009

Former student Cameron Charles wins NSF CAREER award

Cameron Charles, a former graduate student under David Allstot, has been given a 2009 NSF CAREER award. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Congratulations Cameron!


January 5, 2009

Gupta and Klavins Promoted

Congratulations to Professors Maya Gupta and Eric Klavins on their promotion to Associate Professors with Tenure, which is effective September 16, 2009. Professor Klavins research is well known in the areas of self-assembly, synthetic biology molecular programming and cooperative control and verification. Professor Gupta ‘s research is well known in the areas of color image…


January 4, 2009

EEK wins another CASE Award

The Department of Electrical Engineering’s EEK 2008 Magazine has received a CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) District VIII Communications Awards competition “Silver Award” in the Student & Alumni Publications Category. EEK2008, last year’s edition of the department’s annual showcase of graduate student research, was edited by Professor Howard Chizeck and Ms. Laura…


January 3, 2009

Fazel Receives NSF 2009 CAREER Award

Assistant Professor Maryam Fazel has received a 2009 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for her proposal titled “Parsimonious Modeling via Matrix Rank Minimization.” This project focuses on developing mathematical tools and algorithms for finding low-complexity or parsimonious models that explain observed data in a variety of engineering applications, using convex optimization methods. Congratulations…


January 2, 2009

Campus News and Notes


November 29, 2008

Maya Gupta receives a 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers



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