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CPCC
Welcomes New Faculty Member in EECS
Dr.
Athina Markopoulou, an expert in networking, has joined
the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science at UC Irvine effective January 1,
2006. Dr. Markopoulou received her Ph.D. from Stanford
University in November 2002. Prior to joining UC Irvine,
she worked at Stanford University, Sprint Advanced
Technologies Laboratories, and Arastra, a startup, as
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Member of Technical Staff,
and Research Scientist, respectively. During her Ph.D.
education, she has had internships at Aloha Networks,
Nokia Research Center, and Cisco Systems. Dr.
Markopoulou’s research interests are in voice and video
over wired and wireless packet networks, network
measurement and control, and Internet reliability and
security.
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CPCC
Authors Win Best Paper Award at ASPDAC
CPCC
Fellow and UC Irvine graduate student Sudeep Pasricha,
his advisor UC Irvine Computer Science Professor Nikil
Dutt, and Conexant coauthor Dr. Mohamed Ben-Romdhane are
the recipients of the Best Paper Award at the Asia and
South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) that
took place in Yokohama, Japan, January 24-27, 2006. The
paper, titled “Constraint-driven Bus Matrix Synthesis
for MPSoC,” proposes novel techniques to reduce the cost
and development time of communication architectures for
high performance electronic systems used in the next
generation electronic devices such as mobile phones,
video game consoles and high-speed networking
equipment.
The
paper is based on the authors’ work in a CPCC project
that has been supported by Conexant, Inc. during
2004-2005 and 2005-2006 with Dr. Ben-Romdhane serving as
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Nikil Dutt
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CPCC
Member Jafarkhani Elected IEEE Fellow
CPCC
Member Hamid Jafarkhani is one of the 271 professionals
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) has named an IEEE Fellow effective January 1,
2006. Election to the IEEE Fellow Grade is the highest
member grade the IEEE, world’s largest engineering
society, can bestow on a member.
The IEEE Grade of Fellow is
conferred by the Board of Directors upon an IEEE member
with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any
of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number
selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth
percent of the total voting Institute membership. Dr.
Jafarkhani’s citation is “for contributions to
space-time coding.”
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2005
HSSoE Research Symposium CPCC Session
There is
a research symposium organized every spring by the Henry
Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine. The theme of
the Symposium in 2005 was “California: Prosperity
Through Technology.” One of the sessions during this
symposium, titled “Precursors of the Next Wave in
Communications,” was organized by CPCC. The session took
place May 23, 2005. After a Keynote Opening by Raouf
Halim, Chief Executive Officer of Mindspeed
Technologies, Inc. (a CPCC donor), five faculty
associated with CPCC outlined their most recent
research. Presentations used during the session, as well
as its video, are available from the links on the right.
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2005
HSSoE CPCC Panel
UC
Irvine The Henry Samueli School of Engineering organized
its yearly Research Symposium in 2005 on May 23-24,
2005. Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing
contributed a panel, titled “Pervasive Communications:
All the Time, Everywhere,” held on May 23, 2005. The
eight panelists, drawn from Southern California academic
and industrial organizations, discussed the state and
the future of the telecommunications industry during the
panel. For a video of the panel as well as the Power
Point presentations, follow the links on the right.
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CPCC
Member Receives Best Journal Paper Award
CPCC
member Payam Heydari is the sole recipient of IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society’s 2005 Darlington Award.
The award is given for Prof. Heydari’s paper “Analysis
of the PLL Jitter Due to Power/Ground and Substrate
Noise,” published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits
and Systems I in December 2004. This award is given
by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
to recognize the best paper bridging the gap between theory and practice
published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems. The award is based on general quality,
originality, contributions, subject matter and
timeliness. Prof. Heydari is the youngest recipient of
this award during the award’s 37-year history.
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CPCC Welcomes New Faculty Member in EECS
Dr.
Ahmed Eltawil, an expert in system integration
especially for wireless systems, has joined the faculty
of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at UC Irvine effective January 1, 2005. Dr.
Eltawil received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2003 and worked
as the Director of VLSI Design at Innovics, a startup,
between January 2001 and August 2003 where he developed
a 3G mobile wireless broadband system employing
Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) technology. Prior to
joining UC Irvine, Dr. Eltawil was affiliated with UCLA
as a Research Engineer. His research interests are in
the design of system and VLSI architectures for
broadband wireless communication, and in implementations
and architectures for digital signal processing.
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CPCC
Member Receives NSF CAREER Award
Payam
Heydari, CPCC Member and Assistant Professor in the UC
Irvine Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, has received a Faculty Early Career Development
(CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. The
announcement was made January 2005. He was awarded this
prestigious award for his research on “Analysis and
Design of Silicon-Based Performance Optimized Integrated
Circuits for High-Frequency Wideband Wireless
Communication Systems.”
Payam
Heydari is working to design novel silicon-based
integrated circuits for use in high-performance wideband
wireless communication systems. These next generation
high data rate wireless systems will be able to transmit
at transmission speeds much higher than today’s wireless
personal area and wireless local area networks.
The
CAREER award is NSF’s most prestigious commendation for
faculty members and recognizes the early career
development activities of scholars most likely to become
the academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER
awardees are chosen on the basis of creative career
development plans that integrate research and education.
Another CPCC Member, Hamid Jafarkhani, was awarded an
NSF CAREER Award in January 2003.
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CPCC Summer 2004
Research Presentation Day for Conexant, Mindspeed, and
Skyworks Takes Place
CPCC held a Research Presentation Day for three of
its donor companies Conexant Systems, Mindspeed
Technologies and Skyworks Solutions on July 15, 2004.
The event was organized in order to bring CPCC member
and affiliate faculty together with researchers from the
three companies and to discuss research interests of
both sides. The day was part of a series of planned
events to put a process in place so that CPCC and its
donors can engage in close cooperative research. The
first phase of this plan was a CPCC/Cal-(IT)2
Poster Presentation Day held on-site at the lobbies of
the Newport Beach facilities of Conexant and Mindspeed
on May 14, 2004. The Research Presentation Day of July
15, 2004 will be followed by a number of proposals from
CPCC member and affiliate faculty, which will result in
the determination of a number of CPCC Research
Fellowships for the academic year 2004-2005.
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CPCC/Cal-(IT)2 Poster Presentation Day for Local
High-Technology Companies Takes Place
Graduate students from CPCC and Cal-(IT)2
presented their research in a poster presentation
session held on-site at the Newport Beach lobbies of Conexant Systems and Mindspeed Technologies May 14,
2004. A total
of 30 graduate students, 15 from UC Irvine and 15 from
UC San Diego, displayed their research.
The
goal of the event was to bring graduate student
researchers in close contact with the technical teams
from the companies. “It’s not easy for our technical
staff to get out of their offices and attend off-site
research presentations,” said Debbie Mountford, director
of staffing and university relations at Conexant
Systems. “We decided it was a great idea to bring the
research to them and based on the reaction it appears to
be the way to go.”
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Announcement of the CPCC/Cal-(IT)2 Poster Presentation Day
for the employees of Conexant Systems, Minspeed
Technologies, and Skyworks Solutions
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CPCC/Cal-(IT)2 posters at Mindspeed lobby |
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Multiuniversity Team with CPCC Member Jafarkhani Wins Major
DoD Grant
CPCC member faculty Hamid Jafarkhani, who is one of
the inventors of space-time coding, is part of a team of
six universities that won a grant worth $3M total over a
period of 3 years. The project is granted to develop
"space-time processing for tactical mobile ad-hoc
networks" by the Department of Defense (DoD) on behalf
of the U.S. Army. The grant is part of a major program,
called the Multidisciplinary Research
Initiative (MURI), worth $146M, a five-year effort
targeting topics of exceptional opportunity for the DoD.
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CPCC Welcomes New Faculty Member
Dr. Syed A. Jafar, a graduate of the Stanford
University Department of Electrical Engineering, has
joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at UCI, as of January
2004. With his appointment, Dr. Jafar also joined the
Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing.
Dr. Jafar's research interests are in communications
and information theory. His Ph.D. thesis is on the
fundamental capacity limits of multiple-antenna wireless
systems. During his Ph.D. work, he has characterized the
impact of channel uncertainty on the capacity of
multiple-antenna wireless systems. He has also
contributed to fundamental advances on a multi-user
transmission technique known as Dirty Paper Coding, now
known to be optimal for the multiple-antenna broadcast
channel (downlink).
Dr. Jafar received his B. Tech. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi, India in 1997, the M.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering from California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, California, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree from
Stanford University, California in 2003. He was a summer
intern with the Wireless Research group at Bell Labs,
Lucent Technologies, Crawford Hill, New Jersey during
the summer of 2001. He was a Senior Engineer at Qualcomm
Incorporated, San Diego from August 2003 to January
2004.
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H. Vincent Poor Gives Distinguished Speaker Talk
H. Vincent Poor, a worldwide known scholar,
researcher, and educator in the fields of information
theory, communications and signal processing visited UCI
and gave a Distinguished Speaker talk on February 18,
2004. The event was co-sponsored by the UCI division of
the California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology, The Henry Samueli School of
Engineering, and the Center for Pervasive Communications
and Computing. The talk was titled "Signal processing in
communications: Issues and trends." In his talk,
Professor Poor discussed a number of new areas in
communications such as turbo processing, multiple-input
multiple-output systems, cross-layer design, and quantum
communications in a multiuser detection framework.
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Digital Signal Processing Pioneer Visits CPCC
Professor Lawrence R. Rabiner, one of the pioneers of
the field of digital signal processing, and a highly
accomplished engineer, scientist, inventor, and research
leader, visited the CPCC on February 13, 2003 and gave a
presentation entitled "Telecom technology for the 21st
century." In his talk, Professor Rabiner described the
revolution that has taken place in telecommunications
during the last decade and pointed to the new
telecommunications network architecture that has arisen
as a result of this big change. He outlined what the
telecommunications network in the 21st century will look
like, and gave demonstrations of new services that have
already been built. Examples included a text-to-speech
system that delivers the emotion in the text, a highly
helpful customer care representative system based on
speech recognition, and a travel agent software which
employs speech recognition as well as facial expression
on a 3-D model. Prior to assuming professor positions at
Rutgers University and UCSB, Dr. Rabiner was most
recently Vice President of Research at AT&T
Laboratories where he managed a broad research program
in communications, computing, and information
sciences.
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Inventor of TCM Visits CPCC
Dr. Gottfried Ungerboeck, inventor of
the technique of Trellis Coded Modulation, visited the
CPCC on December 9, 2002 and gave a presentation
entitled "Coding with Euclidean-space signals: past,
present and outlook." Dr. Ungerboeck, who is currently
with Broadcom Corporation, is a well-known scientist and
engineer, who has spent most of his career at the IBM
Zurich Research Laboratory. While working on voiceband
modems, he made the critical observation that it is
possible to enlarge the signal constellation by a factor
of two, code in the new signal space, and achieve a rate
very close to channel capacity without increasing
transmission bandwidth. The invention immediately made
its way into voiceband modem standards, microwave
transmission, and many other applications. The talk is
an overview of the current state of coding and
modulation.
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Communication Theory Pioneer Visits CPCC
Dr. Marvin Simon, one of the pioneers of the field of
communication theory, visited CPCC on October 28, 2002 and
gave a talk titled "Advances in Performance Techniques for
Wireless Communications." Dr. Simon is a Principal Scientist
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, California. He has been a technology
pioneer for the last 34 years and has performed research
applied to the design of NASA's deep-space and near-earth
missions. Dr. Simon is currently on a Research Leave in the
Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of
California, Los Angeles where he is responsible from forming
research collaboration with academic institutions.
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