November 1, 2007

Alumnus receives award at White House ceremony

J. Nicholas Laneman, who completed his doctorate in the laboratory in 2002 and is now Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, was named a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

June 9, 2006

Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement

Everest Huang, the laboratory's latest alumnus, was granted his doctoral degree in electrical engineering and computer science at commencement today.   Everest completed his doctorate in February with a thesis entitled "Circuit-Aware System Design Techniques for Wireless Communication."   He is now a member of the technical staff of MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

September 6, 2005

Four new members join laboratory

The laboratory welcomes four new members this term: Venkat Chandar, Urs Niesen, Anthony Accardi, and Aslan Tchamkerten. Venkat, who has been at MIT for several years, is currently working toward his M.Eng. degree and is a research assistant in the lab, where he is doing his thesis. Urs is joining the EECS doctoral program and is also a research assistant in the lab, having recently completed his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).  Anthony, whose bachelors and masters degrees are from MIT, is returning to MIT to pursue his doctorate after several years at Tellme Networks in Mountain View, CA.  Aslan joins us as a postdoctoral scholar, and holds a doctorate in communication and a diploma in physics from EPFL.

June 3, 2005
Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement

The laboratory's latest alumnus, Emin Martinian, was granted his doctoral degree in electrical engineering and computer science at commencement today. Emin completed his doctorate last August with a thesis entitled "Dynamic Information and Constraints in Source and Channel Coding." He is currently with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL), a local industrial research laboratory. His thesis is available for download here.

September 7, 2004
Four new members join laboratory

The laboratory welcomes four new members this term: Lane Brooks, Ying-zong Huang, Maryam Modir Shanechi, and Chen-Pang Yeang. Lane, whose bachelors and masters degrees are from MIT, joins the doctoral program after several years at SMaL Camera Technologies, a local startup. Ying-zong and Maryam both join the laboratory as research
assistants, and are entering EECS graduate students. Ying-zong recently completed his bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University, and Maryam recently completed her bachelor's degree in engineering science at the University of Toronto. Chen-Pang joins us as a postdoctoral scholar, and holds two doctorates from MIT, one in electrical engineering and one in the history of science and technology.

June 4, 2004
Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement

The laboratory's latest alumnus, Albert Chan, was granted his doctoral degree in electrical engineering and computer science at commencement today. Albert completed his doctorate in May with a thesis entitled "A Framework for Low-Complexity Iterative Interference Cancellation in Communication Systems," and joins Vanu Inc., a local software
radio startup. His thesis is available for download here.

May 27, 2004
Laboratory research wins Capocelli Award at Data Compression Conference

Doctoral candidate Emin Martinian was honored with the Capocelli Award of the 2004 Data Compression Conference for the best student-authored paper. The prize-winning paper is entitled "Source Coding with Distortion Side Information at the Encoder," and was co-authored by Greg Wornell and Ram Zamir. The paper is available for download here.

September 2, 2003
Three new members join laboratory

The laboratory welcomes three new members this term: Elif Uysal Biyikoglu, Hiroyuki Ishii, and Charles Swannack. Elif comes to us from the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, where she recently completed a doctorate in the wireless networking area. She holds a postdoctoral lecturership in our EECS department. Hiroyuki Ishii is a visiting researcher from our industrial partner NEC Corporation in Japan. He is with the Information Systems Department of the Radio Application Division, where he specializes in system design. Charles Swannack joins the laboratory as an entering EECS graduate student who recently completed his bachelor's degree at Clemson University.

June 9, 2003
Three laboratory alumni receive doctorates at commencement

Our laboratory's latest alumni --- J. Nicholas Laneman, Michael J. Lopez, and Huan Yao --- were granted their doctoral degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at commencement today. Nick completed his doctorate in July 2002 with a thesis entitled "Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks: Algorithms and Architectures," and has since joined the electrical engineering faculty of the University of Notre Dame. Mike completed his doctoral thesis, "Multiplexing, Scheduling, and Multicasting Strategies for Antenna Arrays in Wireless Networks," in August 2002, and since then has been on the technical staff of Analog Devices, Inc. in Wilmington, MA. Huan, whose thesis "Efficient Signal, Code, and Receiver Designs for MIMO Communication Systems" was completed in May, is joining MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a member of the technical staff. All three theses are available for download here.

December 15, 2002
Laboratory welcomes new postdoctoral scholar

Uri Erez joins our laboratory this week after recently completing his doctorate in the Electrical Engineering - Systems Department at Tel Aviv University, Israel. His dissertation was entitled "Coding with Known Interference and Some Results on Lattices for Digital Communication", and his interests include communication and information theory.