Kanupriya Gulati (who is working on her PhD with Dr. Khatri) received the Best Student Paper award for her paper "Fault Table Generation Using Graphics Processing Units" at the International Test Synthesis Workshop (ITSW) 2009.

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Dr. Paul Gratz has joined our group starting January 2009. His research interests include high performance computer architecture, processor memory systems, on-chip interconnection networks, and distributed systems. As a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, Paul Gratz designed and implemented the L2 cache sub-system of the TRIPS processor, and the network-on-chip that interconnects the cache banks and processors of a TRIPS chip. Mr. Gratz received an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and spent five years as a design engineer at Intel corporation.

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Dr. Xi Zhang will serve as the Symposium Chair for the IEEE Globecom 2008 - Wireless Communications Symposium, which has been the flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society for 51 years. The IEEE Globecom 2008 is a premier IEEE conference spanning the entire range of global achievements, innovations, and advances in the areas of communications and networking technologies, offering in-depth information on the latest developments which are promoting the next generation voice, data, image, and multimedia communications and networking techniques.

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Dr. Peng Li, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, recently received the National Science Foundation's (NSF) prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the fifth CAREER Award given to ECE faculty this year.

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Li received his CAREER Award for "Parallel CAD Algorithms on Emerging Multi-Core Platforms." Li began working in the department in 2004 in the computer engineering group. Prior to that, he was a post-doctoral research associate from December 2003 to July 2004 at Carnegie Mellon. Li received his Ph. D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, and his M.E. and B.E. degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 1997 and 1994, respectively.

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Dr. Peng Li won a Best Paper Award at the 2008 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC). Li along with his students Wei Dong, and Xiaoji Ye, received the award for their paper titled "WavePipe: Parallel Transient Simulation of Analog and Digital Circuits on Multi-core Shared-memory Machines." DAC is the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for EDA and silicon solutions. DAC features a wide array of technical presentations plus more than 250 of the leading electronics design suppliers.

Dr. Xi Zhang will serve as the Symposium Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2008 - Information and Network Security Symposium, which has been the flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society for 44 years. The IEEE ICC is a premier IEEE conference focusing on the cutting-edge research in the various areas of Communications, Networks, and Information Theory, Systems, and Engineering Applications.

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Dr. Srinivas Shakkottai has joined our group starting January 2008. Dr. Shakkottai received his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March 2007, and was a postdoctoral associate at Stanford University till December 2007. More about Dr. Shakkottai's research can be found here.