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Alumnus Sean Andersson receives NSF CAREER Award
Research will focus on nonlinear control for single molecule tracking.  July 2, 2009  More »

Sikorsky renews as ISR strategic partner
ISR faculty collaborating on control algorithms project.  June 24, 2009  More »

Resensys LLC joins TERP Startup Lab
ISR alumnus Mehdi Kalantari invented sensors to monitor buildings, pipelines and other structures.  June 22, 2009  More »

Alumnus Narasingarao Sreenath promoted to full professor at Case Western Reserve
Sreenath directs Case Western's Complex Systems Biology Center.  June 10, 2009  More »

Alumnus Priya Ranjan to join IIT Kanpur faculty
Former student of Eyad Abed and Richard La will become assistant professor of electrical engineering.  June 10, 2009  More »

Student research: Israel Perez
Student of Gary Rubloff is discovering how nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide can be used as a platform for energy storage.  May 26, 2009  More »

Alumna Zheng Earns Tenure at UC-Santa Barbara
Heather Zheng, a 1999 ECE Ph.D. graduate, serves as Assoc. Professor of Computer Science.  April 7, 2009  More »

Alumnus interview: Herbert Struemper
The 1997 ECE Ph.D. develops mechanistic disease models for drug discovery.  January 26, 2009  More »

Alumna Zhao Receives IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
H. Vicky Zhao (Ph.D., '04) received the IEEE Signal Processing Society award for her forensics research.  January 22, 2009  More »

Start-ups with ISR connections awarded SAIC grants
Resensys LLC and FlexEl LLC benefit from funding for alternative energy and threat detection.  January 14, 2009  More »

Best paper award to Baras, Yu, Sadler
Trio win at Army Science Conference for paper on power allocation tradeoffs.  December 18, 2008  More »

Best paper award at 2008 IEEE GLOBECOM
John Baras and three former/current advisees win in wireless networks category.  December 11, 2008  More »

Alumnus Bill Byrne promoted to Reader at Cambridge
Former student of Shihab Shamma conducts research in speech recognition and synthesis.  December 1, 2008  More »

TRX Systems wins Global Security Challenge competition
ISR alum Carole Teolis is the CEO of this company with University of Maryland ties.  November 18, 2008  More »

Alumnus Qiang Yang named IEEE Fellow
Former student of Dana Nau honored for work in intelligent planning, learning and data mining.  November 13, 2008  More »

Alumnus Nikos Sidiropoulos elected IEEE Fellow
Former student of John Baras also is an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer.  November 12, 2008  More »

Alumnus Soysal Joins Faculty of Turkey's Bahçeşehir University
Alkan Soysal (Ph.D., '08) is assistant professor of electrical and electronics engineering.  November 10, 2008  More »

Fall 2008 ISR newsletter now available online
System Solutions highlights achievements of ISR faculty, students, alumni.  November 4, 2008  More »

Manikonda Named President of Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Alumnus earned Ph.D. with Krishnaprasad in 1997.  October 28, 2008  More »

Sikorsky is new ISR strategic partner
ISR faculty collaborating on control algorithms projects.  October 24, 2008  More »

Alumnus interview: Reza Shahidi
The Qualcomm engineer talks about his career in the wireless communication industry.  October 18, 2008  More »

Alumnus Andres Kwasinski joins RIT
ISR alum is assistant professor in computer engineering.  October 13, 2008  More »

Carlos Berenstein awarded US Patent 7,424,463
Signal processing invention uses embedded thresholds and an analysis dictionary.  September 12, 2008  More »

Innovation Hall of Famer Smith Dies
EE alumnus, inventor of pulse Doppler radar was 86.  August 12, 2008  More »

Sasan Bakhtiari joins University of New South Wales faculty
ISR alumnus studied with Professor André Tits.  August 6, 2008  More »

Alumnus Tan Presents Research at Capitol Hill Science Funding Event
Xiaobo Tan, assistant professor at Michigan State, showcased his research at a June event in DC.  July 9, 2008  More »

Shayman, Khandani awarded US Patent 7,391,740
Invention is a method for quantifying reponsiveness of flow aggregates to packet drops in a communication network.  June 27, 2008  More »

Krishnaprasad gives inaugural Cymer Distinguished Lecture
Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics  June 19, 2008  More »

ISR alum Sanjeev Khudanpur earns tenure
Khudanpur has been promoted to Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University.  June 11, 2008  More »

Barua, Udayakumaran awarded patent for memory allocation
Prof. Barua and his former student were awarded a patent for a new dynamic memory allocation methodology.  June 6, 2008  More »

Alumni Introduce "Sezmi," New Broadcast TV Network
ECE alumni Pati and Wiser attract attention with creation of new network alternative to cable.  May 20, 2008  More »

ECE Students, Alumnus Among UM $50K Business Plan Competition Winners
ECE undergrad Randolph Ballard & alumnus and faculty researcher Mehdi Kalantari among competition winners.  May 15, 2008  More »

S.K. Gupta and teammates win 2007 'Invention of the Year' physical science award
Gupta also finalist in information science category; Gary Rubloff finalist in physical science.  April 24, 2008  More »

Alumnus interview: George Kantor
He tells us about the DEPTHX underwater robot project.  April 15, 2008  More »

Liu, Alumnus Han Co-Author Book on Wireless Networks
Prof. Ray Liu and alum Zhu Han co-author new book on cross-layer optimization of wireless networks.  April 13, 2008  More »

Alumnus Xiaobo Tan receives ONR grant for biomimetic robotic fish
Robots are based on biological principles and incorporate biomimetic electroactive polymers.  April 8, 2008  More »

ECE Alumnus Wins Best Paper at IEEE Wireless Conference
Onur Kaya, Ph.D. '05, received an award for the paper he co-authored on wireless networking.  April 7, 2008  More »

Researchers Win MURI Award for Multi-Scale Networks
Team that includes Profs. Baras and Ephremides wins multi-million dollar grant to develop communication networks.  March 23, 2008  More »

Chuang Earns Intel Achievement Award
Ph.D. Alumnus Wen-Hsien Chuang receives highest honor as employee at Intel.  March 11, 2008  More »

All Things Considered explores icy waters with DEPTHX
ECE/ISR alumnus George Kantor's control research contributes to autonomous underwater vehicle's success.  February 21, 2008  More »

Spring 2008 Systems Solutions available
Two symposiums, research and industry news, faculty and alumni updates, and more in ISR's newsletter.  February 20, 2008  More »

Baras Delivers ECC '07 Plenary, Publishes Paper on Wireless Security
Based on ECC plenary lecture, paper was published in special issue of European Journal of ControlJanuary 7, 2008  More »

Alum Andrew Newman wins Hart Prize for Development
Award is for automated collaborative dynamic retasking project.  December 7, 2007  More »

Alumnus interview: Ingar Grev
He talks with us about applying systems concepts in the business world.  October 15, 2007  More »

Khandani Receives NSF Grant for Research on Information Flow Theory
Research scientist & alumnus will examine flow theory in dense wireless networks.  September 27, 2007  More »

Farvardin Professorship Fund Reaches $500K
Gift from Jeong H. Kim helps fund reach milestone, supports Great Expectations campaign.  September 26, 2007  More »

Alumnus George Kantor promoted at Carnegie-Mellon
Kantor's research also featured in Sept. 2007 IEEE Spectrum magazine.  September 24, 2007  More »

NEXTOR receives $1 million NASA grant for improving air traffic control
ISR Associate Professor David Lovell is PI for Maryland portion of grant.  September 14, 2007  More »

Alumnus Trappe Appointed Associate Director of Rutgers' WINLAB
Ph.D. alumnus selected to help direct innovative wireless networking research center.  July 30, 2007  More »

ISR postdoc and alumna Mounya Elhilali to join Johns Hopkins University
Elhilali will become assistant professor in January 2008.  July 10, 2007  More »

ISR's Intelligent Servosystems Lab places two summer interns at Intelligent Automation Inc.
Matteo Mischiati and Philip Twu are the first IAI interns in a new collaborative program.  June 21, 2007  More »

John Baras invited speaker at MIT Enterprise Forum
ECE/ISR professor spoke on his patented "new method and apparatus for conditional access in broadcast/multicast systems."  June 13, 2007  More »

ISR alum Fumin Zhang joins Georgia Tech faculty
The 2004 ECE Ph.D. is currently a postdoc at Princeton working with Naomi Leonard.  June 4, 2007  More »

ISR alum Andrew Newman promoted at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Former student of P.S. Krishnaprasad has been with APL since 2003.  May 21, 2007  More »

ISR alum Wade Trappe earns tenure at Rutgers
Research focuses on wireless security, ad hoc and sensor network security, and multimedia security.  May 10, 2007  More »

Akin, recent alumni win at business plan competition
Their company, Geo-Haul LLC, takes second place in 'young alumni division.'  April 30, 2007  More »

ISR alum Ram Venkataraman Iyer earns tenure at Texas Tech
Former student of P.S. Krishnaprasad specializes in systems and control theory in the context of aerospace and smart structures.  April 2, 2007  More »

ISR alums Leonard, Tassiulas named IEEE Fellows
Both earned Electrical Engineering Ph.D.s in the early 1990s.  March 26, 2007  More »

Krishnaprasad, Baras, Moss participating in new MURI awards
ISR faculty on teams researching MANETs, sensor networks and micro air vehicles for Department of Defense.  March 8, 2007  More »

ISR alum Victor De Oliveira elected to International Statistical Institute
Former student of Ben Kedem is member of business school faculty at UT San Antonio.  March 1, 2007  More »

ISR alum Haga joins faculty at National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Former student of Rajeev Barua will continue research in compiler techniques for embedded processors.  February 28, 2007  More »

ISR alum Ajay Gupta chairs task force for incoming Maryland governor
Gupta's firm guides O'Malley's cyber security and data privacy transition.  February 26, 2007  More »

Marcus, Fu, Chang and Hu co-author Simulation-based Algorithms for Markov Decision Processes
Book explains recent sampling and population-based numerical algorithms that overcome the difficulties of computing an optimal solution in terms of a policy and/or value function.  February 23, 2007  More »

ISR alum Yan Sun wins NSF CAREER Award
Former student of K.J. Ray Liu will focus research on building trust in distributed networks.  January 25, 2007  More »

Winter Commencement Speaker Announced
BAE Systems President and CEO Mark Ronald will address December engineering graduates.  November 28, 2006  More »

ISR alumni Sarkar, Poovendran earn tenure
Both have been promoted to associate professor at their universities  November 9, 2006  More »

Krishnaprasad delivers Munich Mathematical Colloquium lecture
Control expert speaks on "Geometric Control, Cohesion and Pursuit."  November 7, 2006  More »

ISR alum Gubner author of new book on probability and random processes
Former student of Prakash Narayan now University of Wisconsin associate professor  November 3, 2006  More »

ISR alum Rajiv Laroia honored by Clark School of Engineering
Developer of wireless technologies now in 'Innovation Hall of Fame'  October 23, 2006  More »

Renowned Telecom Experts to Deliver White Symposium
October 16 event will feature Barry West, Andrew Viterbi and Rajiv Laroia.  September 20, 2006  More »

ISR alum Hamid Jafarkhani named IEEE Fellow
UC Irvine professor also wins IEEE's Marconi Prize  August 23, 2006  More »

New ISR Systems Solutions available online
Latest ISR newsletter highlights 20 years of research achievements  August 21, 2006  More »

Alumnae Chiu wins Macronix Golden Silicon Award
Tsing-Hua University professor develops new switch architecture  August 18, 2006  More »

Book by ISR alum and UMD professor enters second edition
Cryptography and coding book grew out of class the pair developed  August 17, 2006  More »

ISR alum helps develop technology to regrow teeth
Jie Chen and colleagues design wireless device to stimulate root growth  August 9, 2006  More »

Mingyan Liu promoted at University of Michigan
ECE/ISR alumna is named associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.  May 23, 2006  More »

ISR alum earns tenure at MIT
Eytan Modiano, a specialist in optical and ad hoc wireless networks, is an associate professor at MIT.  May 11, 2006  More »

ISR's 20th Anniversary Celebration Symposium
Special day features friends from throughout ISR's history  April 6, 2006  More »

Alumna Featured in MIT's Technology Review
Zheng was cited for her innovations in cognitive radio technology.  March 15, 2006  More »

Baras, Gu, Jiang awarded patent for video codec
Professor John S. Baras (ECE/ISR) and ISR alumni Junfeng Gu and Yimin Jiang were issued U.S. Patent 7,006568 on Feb. 28, 2006 for a 3D wavelet-based video encoding/decoding system.  March 7, 2006  More »

Cukier and students semifinalists in business plan competition
Company to develop computer network security risk assessment products  March 2, 2006  More »

ISR alum Xiaobo Tan wins NSF CAREER Award
ISR alum and current Michigan State University ECE Assistant Professor Xiaobo Tan has won a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his research, "Dexterous Biomimetic Micromanipulation Using Artificial Muscles: Modeling, Sensing and Control."  February 24, 2006  More »

ISR alum wins INFORMS dissertation award
Robert Day cited for best dissertation in operations research  February 19, 2006  More »

Alumnus Wins MIT Technovator Award
Balaji Sampath was recognized for his philanthropic work in India.  January 20, 2006  More »

ISR quartet writes multimedia fingerprinting book
Wu, Liu, Wang and Trappe book covers emerging digital forensics technology  January 20, 2006  More »

Wu, Liu, Wang and Trappe win best paper award
IEEE Signal Processing Society honors work in anti-collusion codes  January 16, 2006  More »

Ephremides, Ayyagari awarded patent for DS-CSMA Networks
Invention maximizes data throughput over a multicode network  November 2, 2005  More »

Mao and Karakos selected for IBM symposium
Grad student and alum among select group presenting scholarly research  October 29, 2005  More »

Berenstein, Krishnaprasad contribute to new signal processing book
Work is based on 2004 symposium honoring Berenstein  October 28, 2005  More »

ISR alumna Haitao Zheng named to 'top 35 innovators under 35' list
MIT Technology Review magazine cites her work on cognitive radios  September 5, 2005  More »

Yuichi Kato helps design new Honda Gold Wing motorcycle
Former ISR visiting scientist designes many plastic parts on new model  September 3, 2005  More »

ISR alum Sean Andersson joins Boston University faculty
Will be assistant professor in aerospace and mechanical engineering  August 16, 2005  More »

Two patents for Ephremides and Ayyagari
Inventions target power control in computer networks  July 22, 2005  More »

Wang, Trappe, Wu and Liu win EURASIP best paper award
Research focuses on group-oriented fingerprinting for multimedia forensics  July 21, 2005  More »

ISR alum George Kantor co-authors new robotics book
Principles of Robot Motion includes theory, algorithims and implementation  June 8, 2005  More »

ISR alum Koushik Kar wins NSF CAREER Award
Five-year award funds research on ad-hoc and sensor networks  June 6, 2005  More »

ISR alum Aaron Falk named chair of IRTF
USC scientist to head Internet Research Task Force  May 14, 2005  More »

ISR faculty win two Invention of the Year awards
Faculty recognized in information science and physical science categories  April 2, 2005  More »

Former ISR visiting scientist develops new engine
Honda's Kazutomo Nishida designs iGX440 general purpose engine  April 1, 2005  More »

ISR alumna Naomi Leonard delivers distinguished lecture
Underwater robotics specialist speaks at UC Santa Barbara  February 4, 2005  More »

Priya Ranjan and AID help tsunami survivors
ISR postdoc and alumnus active in the Association for India's Development  January 17, 2005  More »

Naomi Leonard profiled in New York Times
ISR alumane is MacArthur Foundation Fellow.  November 5, 2004  More »

Alum Naomi Leonard named as MacArthur Fellow
Sept 2004—Expert in underwater robotics research receives coveted, no-strings-attached "genius" grant.  September 1, 2004  More »

ISR SAC member named engineering dean at Carnegie-Mellon
June 2004—Pradeep Khosla begins his appointment July 1.  June 4, 2004  More »

ISR alum Leonard speaks at ECE Alumni Lecture
May 2004—Former student of Professor Krishnaprasad spoke about her work on"Cooperative Control and the Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network."  May 3, 2004  More »

Alumnis Jie Chen named Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
April 2004—Topics to include "Nanoscale Device Modeling and its Fault-tolerance Mesoscopic System Design" and "Joint Cross-layer Design for Wireless QoS Content Delivery."  April 5, 2004  More »

El-Gamal, recipient of 2004 NSF CAREER Award
ISR alum's research will focus on antenna diversity techniques  March 7, 2004  More »

Leonard is Principal Investigator
ISR alum heads investigation for the Department of Defense  March 2, 2004  More »

Mingyan Liu wins CAREER Award
Project develops design methodology for large-scale wireless sensor networks  October 13, 2003  More »

Saswati Sarkar wins NSF CAREER Award
ISR alum is now assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania.  October 4, 2003  More »

Leonard conducts underwater robotics research
Team launched fleets of underwater vehicles into the Pacific Ocean  September 1, 2003  More »

Wu and Liu receive one-year DDET award
The one-year grant is for $220,000  July 5, 2003  More »

Wu and Liu are PIs for AFRL anti-collusion fingerprinting
Research will design efficient and effective fingerprints for plain text and multimedia content.  July 2, 2003  More »

 

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