EE Staff Awards, February ‘21
Five EE staff recognized for their exemplary work.
John Hennessy receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
His citation reads, "for turning computer architecture into a science and designing the processors that power today’s devices”.
Kunle Olukotun elected to the National Academy of Engineering
His citation reads “for contributions to on-chip multiprocessor architectures and advancement to commercial realization.”
James Zou and Amirata Ghorbani (PhD candidate) extend and adapt the Shapley approach to the study of data
They propose a fair way to quantify how much individual datasets contribute to AI model performance and companies’ bottom lines.
Shanhui Fan’s wireless charging goes the distance
The team's system adjusts frequency as the distance between the charger and the moving object changes.
Congratulations to PhD candidates Chuan-Zheng Lee and Leighton Pate Barnes
They received the Best Paper Award, Selected Areas of Communications at IEEE GLOBECOM 2020.
Subhasish Mitra, H.S. Philip Wong, and Mary Wootters' system can run AI tasks faster and with less energy
New algorithms combine several energy-efficient hybrid chips to create the illusion of one mega–AI chip.
Martin Hellman selected as 2020 ACM Fellow
His citation reads, "For the invention of asymmetric public-key cryptography and the promulgation of a practical cryptographic key-exchange method.”
Tom Soh and collaborators create device that could transform medical diagnostics
In real time, the lab on a chip can continuously sense levels of virtually any protein or molecule in the blood.
Stephen Boyd’s CVXGEN software helps guide SpaceX Falcon
CVXGEN generates customized flight code that enables very high-speed onboard convex optimization