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News and Announcements Archive

2013

Prof. Tsividis Receives the Outstanding Achievement Award of the University of Minnesota (04/30/2013)
Prof. Anastassiou's Group Develops New Computational Model for Predicting Breast Cancer Survival (04/19/2013)
Ph.D. Candidate Anandaroop Chakrabarti Wins 2013 IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship (04/16/2013)
Ph.D. Student Jelena Marasevic, Jan Janak (CS), Prof. Schulzrinne, and Prof. Zussman Receive a Best Educational Paper Award (03/30/2013)
Warm Welcome to Professor Debasis Mitra (03/20/2013)
How Armstrong's Circuits Made the Radio Receiver Part of Our Lives (03/15/2013)
Faculty Research Profile: Christine Fleming (03/11/2013)
Prof. Anastassiou's Lab Wins Top Spot in Final Validation Round of Breast Cancer Prognosis Challenge (01/28/2013)

2012

Prof. Chang Awarded 2012 IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award (12/18/2012)
Assistant Professor Christine Fleming Selected for Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science (12/17/2012)
Holiday Party 2012 (11/27/2012)
Halloween Party 2012 (10/17/2012)
Ph.D. Student Christos Vezyrtzis and his Co-Advisors Profs. Steven Nowick (CS) and Yannis Tsividis (EE) Win a Best Paper Award at ICCD 2012 (10/04/2012)
Ph.D. Student Kshitij Yadav and Professors Kinget and Kymissis Win $100K First Prize in the Interdigital Innovation Challenge (09/27/2012)
Warm Welcome to Assistant Professor Christine Fleming (09/24/2012)
Warm Welcome to Assistant Professor Javad Lavaei (09/24/2012)
Prof. Anastassiou's Lab Wins Top Spot in First Round of Breast Cancer Prognosis Challenge (09/14/2012)
Professors Tsividis, Seok, Sethumadhavan, and collaborators at UT Austin Win $1.1M NSF Grant for Cyber-Physical Systems Research (09/12/2012)
Prof. Tsividis Receives Honorary Professorship at University of Patras, Greece (08/28/2012)
Graduate Student Orientation 2012 (08/19/2012)
Prof. Zussman and Collaborators at IEOR and MIT Receive a $1.05M DTRA Grant (08/17/2012)
Profs. Krishnaswamy and Kinget Win $1.13M DARPA Contract to Develop RF FPGAs (08/07/2012)
Spotlight on Columbia's IEEE Student Branch (07/29/2012)
Akshay Shah Wins IEEE MTT-S 2012 Scholarship (07/18/2012)
Prof. Wright Wins Best Paper Award at COLT 2012 (07/16/2012)
Christine Chen Receives SRC Master's Scholarship (06/14/2012)
Kishore Padmaraju Receives IBM/SRC Ph.D. Fellowship (06/14/2012)
Prof. Nowick Awarded NSF Computing and Communication Foundations Grant (06/08/2012)
In Memory of Adjunct Professor Lurng-Kuo Liu (05/22/2012)
EE & CE End-of-the-Year BBQ (05/11/2012)
Prof. Englund Awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award (05/09/2012)
Maria Gorlatova Receives the Google Anita Borg Scholarship (05/08/2012)
Wei Liu Awarded Raviv Fellowship (04/22/2012)
Brendan Jou Receives NDSEG Fellowship (04/16/2012)
Cisco Research Opportunities for Faculty and PhDs (03/28/2012)
Engineer Sets Aside One Distinguished Career to Plunge Into Cancer Research (03/22/2012)
Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs Delivers Armstrong Lecture on "Innovations at Qualcomm" (02/07/2012)
Technology and Business Innovations at Qualcomm with Impact on a World of Nearly Six Billion Cellular Subscribers (02/01/2012)
Prof. Englund and Collaborators in Chemistry and Biology Awarded $1 Million Grant by the W.M. Keck Foundation (01/13/2012)
MTA Launches Real-Time Bus Tracking Service Using Algorithms Developed by Prof. Maxemchuk and Collaborators at CCNY (01/13/2012)

2011

PhD Career Workshop for CS and EE Students (12/12/2011)
IBM Opportunities in India: Information Session (12/06/2011)
EnHANTs Demo Receives Best Student Demo Award in ACM SenSys 2011 (11/19/2011)
Prof. Edward G. Coffman Awarded Larnder Prize (11/17/2011)
Graduate Student Thanksgiving Party 2011 (11/17/2011)
EE Seniors' SwarmBot Project Chosen as Cornell Cup Finalists (11/16/2011)
Career Skills Workshop for MS Students in EE and CS (11/14/2011)
Prof. Zussman Selected to Participate in the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium (11/06/2011)
Halloween Party 2011 (10/31/2011)
IBM Opportunities in China: Information Session (10/06/2011)
Prof. Englund joins Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative to develop light-matter interfaces (09/28/2011)
Prof. Englund receives Presidential Early Career Award (09/28/2011)
Prof. Chang receives the ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award (09/20/2011)
EE Research Overview Day 2011 (09/09/2011)
Profs. Krishnaswamy and Kinget win $1.66M DARPA grant (09/04/2011)
EE and CE Graduate Student Orientation 2011 (08/31/2011)
EE Alumnus uses Cellphone Data to Track Subways (06/06/2011)
Anthony Erlinger and Robert Margolies received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. (05/09/2011)
National Inventors Hall of Fame Inducts Two Former Columbia Faculty Members (05/03/2011)
A paper about the EnHANTs project wins the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Award for Outstanding Paper on New Communication Topics (04/17/2011)
Prof. Nowick receives the 2011 SEAS Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (03/10/2011)
Berk Birand receives the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship (02/21/2011)
Internship and Job Search Workshop for EE and CE Graduate Students (02/18/2011)
Prof. Zussman Receives an NSF CAREER Award (01/03/2011)

2010

Armstrong Papers available at Columbia Rare Book Library (12/29/2010)
Prof. Englund receives prestigious YIA award (12/22/2010)
Prof. Kinget elevated to IEEE Fellow (11/22/2010)
Prof. Kinget elected to the Solid-State Circuits Society's Adcom (11/20/2010)
Prof. Osgood Graduates his 50th Doctoral Student (10/23/2010)
Research in Motion Information Session (10/12/2010)
Prof. Maxemchuk and Prof. Kinget are the Columbia members of the GreenTouch consortium (10/11/2010)
Prof. Chang receives new grants from DARPA and DOJ (10/07/2010)
EE Ph.D. Student receives prestigious Award (09/27/2010)
Profs Rubenstein (CS), Kinget, Kymissis, Wang, and Zussman receive a $1.2M NSF grant (09/26/2010)
Spectator article recommends Prof. Vallancourt's course (09/18/2010)
Profs Kymissis and Kinget are part of a $1.6M ARPA-E funded project (09/16/2010)
EE Design Challenge, Fall 2010 (09/10/2010)
NEW GRADUATE STUDENT ORIENTATION (09/01/2010)
Prof. Zussman receives an NSF grant (07/07/2010)
EE Student Jun Wang Won Prestigious Scholarship (06/21/2010)
Prof. Tsividis receives 2010 Education Award from IEEE CAS Society (06/08/2010)
Prof. Tsividis receives 2010 Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (05/18/2010)
Congratulations to all recipients of EE graduate awards! (05/11/2010)
Prof. Kinget wins collaborative NSF Award (05/10/2010)
Profs. Tsividis and Nowick win a $1 million NSF grant (05/07/2010)
Saving the Neglected History of FM Radio’s Unsung Pioneer (04/18/2010)
EE Alumnus Appointed Associate Provost at Brown University (02/04/2010)
The Smart Grid: Power for the 21st Century (01/20/2010)
EE Ph.D. Student Won Best Paper Award (01/14/2010)
Passing of Prof. Cyril M. Harris (01/12/2010)
EE Postdoc receives an IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award (01/05/2010)

2009

Profs. Chang and Ellis and students received Best Paper Nomination (12/26/2009)
Prof. Chang's team wins ONR Research Grant (12/26/2009)
EE Student Receives IEEE 2009 MGA Leadership Award (11/25/2009)
Prof. Heinz elected as vice president of The Optical Society (OSA) (10/25/2009)
EE Faculty Took Part in the Honoring of Past Dean Galil (10/22/2009)
Prof. Ellis and Prof. Chang win NGA NURI grant (10/08/2009)
EE Professor Emeritus, Mischa Schwartz, received prestigious Education Award from IEEE (10/03/2009)
EE Student, Jun Wang, selected for Google Global Intern Scholarship (09/26/2009)
Prof. Ellis selected for attending NAE "Frontiers of Engineering" Symposium (09/11/2009)
Prof. Lazar wins AFOSR award (09/05/2009)
Broad funding raised for archiving the Armstrong Collection (09/02/2009)
Professor Krishnaswamy wins NSF EAGER award (08/28/2009)
AT&T and Kodak support EE research on multimedia retrieval (08/14/2009)
Columbia Research on Cross-Layer Communication Highlighted (08/12/2009)
Prof. Anastassiou wins NIH award (07/20/2009)
Warm welcomes to Assistant Professor Dirk Englund (06/25/2009)
Reunion Luncheon 2009 (06/05/2009)
Warm Congratulations to our May 2009 Graduates (05/19/2009)
Prof. Zussman received DTRA Young Investigator Award (05/16/2009)
End of the Year BBQ (05/15/2009)
Prof. Krishnaswamy won the Best Thesis Award (05/07/2009)
Future of Networking and the Internet (05/06/2009)
Columbia to host a new Energy Frontier Research Center (04/27/2009)
Prof. Anastassiou to speak at the NAE Regional Meeting (04/14/2009)
Zussman, Kinget, Kymissis, Rubenstein (CS), and Wang won the Vodafone Foundation competition (04/12/2009)
New Electronic Circuits Lab (04/03/2009)
New York Metro Area Networking Workshop (03/27/2009)
New Book on Organic Field Effect Transistors by Prof. Kymissis (03/02/2009)
New EE Awards for Undergraduate Students (02/09/2009)
Warm welcomes to Assistant Professor Harish Krishnaswamy (02/02/2009)
Prof. Chang to Take Part in DARPA Video Retrieval Research (01/25/2009)

2008

Columbia Symposium Honoring Osgood (12/09/2008)
2008 Armstrong Memorial Lecture (12/05/2008)
IEEE Organizes a Visit to Brookhaven National Lab (11/29/2008)
Prof. Bergman and Prof. Nowick named IEEE Fellow (11/15/2008)
Steve Nowick Named IEEE Fellow (11/13/2008)
IEEE Spectrum reports on research by Prof. Tsividis's group (11/07/2008)
Prof. Bergman receives Intel grant (10/23/2008)
Prof. Bergman receives 2008 IBM Faculty Award (10/23/2008)
Grant Supports Graphene Transistors (10/12/2008)
PhD Student Shih-An Yu receives an IEEE Fellowship (10/10/2008)
New Integrated BS/MS Program In Electrical Engineering (10/04/2008)
Prof. Heinz wins Julius Springer Prize (09/26/2008)
Prof. Bergman to take part in developing next-gen integrated access networks (09/25/2008)
Warm welcomes to Assistant Professor Rui Castro (09/14/2008)
NSF to support Prof. Nowick's design tool work (08/29/2008)
Prof. Chang wins IEEE 2009 Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (08/22/2008)
EE to host Research Overview Day for students (08/03/2008)
Prof. Chang and students win Best Paper Award (07/29/2008)
Shepard is Blavatnik Finalist (07/28/2008)
Shepard Heads New Multi-Disciplinary IGERT (07/28/2008)
Ph.D. student Frank Zhang and Prof. Kinget win Best Paper Award (06/19/2008)
Professor Tsividis wins award (05/27/2008)
Student Award Recipients Honored at End of the Semester Party (05/16/2008)
Engineering Students Visit NXP's IC Fab in Fishkill, NY (05/02/2008)
Prof. Anastassiou's group develops a best-performing algorithm (03/24/2008)
Prof. Ioannis Kymissis demonstrates the inner workings of LCD displays (01/04/2008)

2007

Vikram Pandit becomes CEO of Citigroup (12/11/2007)
Dr. Gil Zussman Joins EE Faculty (11/29/2007)
Prof. Shepard, Prof. Wang, and Alumnus Dr. Guarin elected to IEEE Fellow (11/15/2007)
A new IEEE SSCS/EDS chapter (10/15/2007)
Ph.D. student Lyndon Kennedy has been selected as an IBM Watson Emerging Leader (10/06/2007)
Prof. Rubenstein, Prof. Misra and their student Joshua Reich win a best student demo contest (09/13/2007)
Prof. Chang and Prof. Ellis win an award from the NSF Cyber Trust Program (09/05/2007)
Prof. Ellis wins a 3-year $450K grant (09/05/2007)
Ph.D. student Jian Tan and Adjunct Professor Dr. Baryshnikov receive a "Best Paper Award" (09/05/2007)
Prof. Jelenkovic, jointly with Prof. Momcilovic and Dr. Squillante, receive a Best Paper Award (08/21/2007)
Prof. Jelenkovic and Ph.D. student Jian Tan win a Best Paper Award (07/26/2007)
Prof. Zukowski and PhD student Ta-chien Huang receive a Best Paper Award (07/21/2007)
Professor Vallancourt receives Faculty Teaching Award (05/14/2007)
Prof. Krishnaswamy's Group Featured by DARPA (04/05/2007)
EE hosts Music Information Meeting (01/25/2007)
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2006

Professor Heinz Directs NSEC Center (11/10/2006)
Tenure-Track Faculty Position Available (11/10/2006)
Professor Tsividis Wins Award (09/15/2006)
New Faculty Hires (07/01/2006)
Professor Shepard receives NYSTAR Faculty Development Award (04/07/2006)
Professor Heinz Receives the Annual Great Teacher Award (04/06/2006)
Kalman Receives Egleston Award (04/06/2006)
Maxemchuk Receives the 2006 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (04/05/2006)
Electrical Engineering Web Site (03/21/2006)