Students, parents, and faculty gathered Friday, March 16, 2012 to celebrate the achievements
of those students who earned a special award for academic achievement,
research, service, and entrepreneurial activities. Khalil Najafi,
Chair for the ECE Division, and Marios Papaefthymiou, Chair for the CSE Division, presented the awards.
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College of Engineering Awards
Distinguished Academic Achievement Award
This award is presented by the College of Engineering to an outstanding student from each program offered within the College of Engineering. Students are selected by each department on the basis of academic and personal excellence.
Rebecca Frank, Computer Engineering
Paul Rigge, Electrical Engineering
Patrick Theisen, Computer Science
Arlen R. Hellworth Award
This award is presented by the College of Engineering to undergraduate student leaders
who have made valuable contributions to the College, University, and/or community.
Eric Rossetti, Computer Engineering
Henry Ford II Prize
This award is presented by the College of Engineering to an outstanding junior who has demonstrated academic excellence.
Calvin McCarter, Computer Science
Cooley Writing Prize
This award is presented by the College of Engineering to encourage engineering students
to explore non-technical fields to develop, broaden, and enrich the their education.
Nick Ruff, Computer Science
EECS Awards
Outstanding Achievement Award
This award is presented by the EECS Department to an outstanding senior student from each of the three programs of study (EE, CE, and CS) in EECS. Students are selected on the basis of outstanding overall academic and personal excellence.
Rebecca Frank, Computer Engineering
Rebecca Moore, Computer Science
Paul Rigge, Electrical Engineering (also Computer Science)
William L. Everitt Student Award of Excellence
This award is presented by the EECS Department to a top student from each of the three programs of study (EE, CE, and CS). These students are in the top 10% of their class and have an interest in communications and computers, as well as professional interests and activities.
David Bernthal, Computer Science
Anthony Bonkoski, Computer Engineering
Haoran Li, Electrical Engineering
Outstanding Research Award
This award is given to students who completed an outstanding research project with a faculty member or graduate student over and above the requirements of a course or an independent project.
Rebecca Frank, Computer Engineering
Brett Kuprel, Electrical Engineering
Alex Robinson, Computer Science
Outstanding Service Award
This award is presented to students who have shown exceptional leadership in their student organizations, service to the University, College, or Department, or service to the community.
Sam DeBruin, Computer Engineering
Ayrn Lipnicki, Computer Science
Caroline Thompson, Electrical Engineering
Commercialization/Entrepreneurship
This award is presented to one or more students who exemplify a partnership between engineering and business through involvement in or startup of a private business, patents, or partnerships with corporations, furthering their field of knowledge or interest.
Mitch Adler, Computer Engineering
Connor Field, Electrical Engineering
Kedao Wang, Computer Science (also Electrical Engineering)
William Harvey Seeley Prize
This award is presented to an electrical engineering student who stands first in his/her class at the completion of the freshman year.
David Hiskens, Electrical Engineering
EECS Scholars
This award is given to EECS undergraduates of senior standing with a cumulative 3.9 GPA or greater as of Fall 2011.
Ryan Anderson (CS)
William Beyer (CE)
Stephen Brown (CS)
Matthew Chegash (CS)
Weicong Chen (CE)
Haoyang Chen (CS)
Holly Chiang (EE)
Ari Chivukula (CS)
Steven Clarkson (EE)
Dejiu Fan (EE)
Connor Field (EE)
Zichao Fu (CS)
Jerome Grunnagle (EE)
Chenxiao Gu (EE)
Di Hu (EE)
Yifei Huang (CE)
Adam Hug (CE)
Tyler Johnson (CS/EE)
Wei Xiang Khoo (EE)
Kevin Kiningham (CE)
Ziyun Kong (EE)
Brett Kuprel (EE)
Bowen Li (EE)
Erdong Li (CS)
Guoxing Li (CS)
Haoran Li (EE)
Yongdong Li (EE)
Yuzhou Liu (EE)
Calvin McCarter (CS)
Teja Ravipati (CS)
Paul Rigge (CS/EE)
Alex Robinson (CS)
Noam Samuel (CS)
Shiming Song (EE)
Caroline Thompson (EE)
Nicholas Triantafillou (CS)
Bochao Wang (EE)
Kevin Wang (EE)
Yuan Xiang (EE)
Kaiyu Yan (EE)
Mei Yang (EE)
Zhen Zeng (EE)
Tianhua Zhang (EE)
Yiqun Zhang (EE)
Yuan Zong (EE)
SURE Awards
These awards provided funding for students to work with faculty members on research projects of mutual interest. Following is a list of projects and participants.
Botnet Detection and Mitigation
Student Researcher: Ari Chivukula
Faculty Mentor: Farnam Jahanian
Brain-inspired Unsupervised Feature Learning for Pattern Recognition
Student Researcher: Joshua Alberts
Faculty Mentor: Honglak Lee
Development and Characterization of Self-Aligned Chip-Level Bonding/Sealing Techniques of Integrated Microsystems
Student Researcher: Bing Zhang
Faculty Mentors: Khalil Najafi, Becky Peterson
Graduate Student Mentor: Ali Besharatian, PhD Candidate
Development of an Embedded Computer Vision Appliance
Student Researcher: Mitch Adler
Faculty Mentor: Edwin Olson
Distributed Sensing System Prototyping
Student Researcher: Yu Guan
Faculty Mentor: Robert Dick
Do You Hear What I See
Student Researcher: Haishan Frances Zhu
Faculty Mentor: Todd Austin
Efficient Memory Utilization in Highly Parallel Digital Signal Processing
Student Researcher: Shuanghong Sun
Faculty Mentor: Zhengya Zhang
Evaluation and Development of Wireless Receivers
Student Researcher: Aramis Alvarez
Faculty Mentor: Michael Flynn
Hardware Security Assurance
Student Researcher: Jialin Li
Faculty Mentor: Valeria Bertacco
High-performance Channel Codes for Power-efficient Wireless Communication
Student Researcher: Haorin Lee
Faculty Mentor: Zhengya Zhang
iPod Audio Jack Energy Harvester
Student Researcher: Andrew Wysocki
Faculty Mentor: David Wentzloff
Micro-scale Electrochemistry
Student Researcher: Alyssa Franken
Faculty Mentor: Becky Peterson
MobiPerf Introduction
Student Researcher: Cheng Chen
Faculty Mentor: Z. Morley Mao
Modeling and Analysis of Discrete Event Systems Using DESUMA
Student Researcher: Xinning Shen
Faculty Mentor: Stéphane Lafortune
Non-programmatic Layouting on iPhones and iPads
Student Researcher: Zhongshu Jin
Faculty Mentor: Georg Essl
Optimization of Thermoelectric Thin-film Co-evaporation Process
for Energy Harvesting Applications
Student Researcher: Yi Yuan
Faculty Mentors: Khalil Najafi, Becky Peterson
Graduate Student Mentor: Niloufar Ghafouri
Optomechanics
Student Researcher: Paul Stanfield
Faculty Mentor: Tal Carmon
Piezoelectric Thin Film Layer Transfer Using Wafer Level Eutectic Bonding
Student Researcher: Sui Yu
Faculty Mentor: Mina Rais-Zadeh
Power Cube (Gemini Power Meter)
Student Researcher: Samuel DeBruin
Faculty Mentor: Prabal Dutta
Quantitative Web Search
Student Researcher: Alex Wozniak
Faculty Mentor: Michael Cafarella
Recognizing Visual Categories from Images and Videos
Student Researchers: Zhen Zeng, Huade Zhang and Stephanie Gillespie
Faculty Mentor: Silvio Savarese
Solar Cell Device Modeling
Student Researcher: Connor Field
Faculty Mentor: Jamie Phillips
Solving Hard Problems by Solving Harder Problems Halfway
Student Researcher: Sean Zimmerman
Faculty Mentor: Igor Markov
Ultra High-Speed Processor Simulation
Student Researcher: Qingkun Li
Faculty Mentor: Valeria Bertacco
Ultra-low Power Circuit Design for Millimeter Sized Sensor Nodes
Student Researcher: Shimming Song
Faculty Mentor: David Blaauw
Unwanted Traffic: Stop the Spam in Emerging Networks
Student Researcher: Haoyu Jia
Faculty Mentor: Z. Morley Mao
Witricity
Student Researcher: Kenny Akametalu
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Grbic
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