New MESA Project Brings Solar Energy Education to ECE

The Maryland Educational Solar Array and had the capacity available to provide three (MESA), a new alternative energy project within times that amount. the Department of Electrical and Computer Quinn recently installed a solar array on the Engineering (ECE) organized by Director of roof of the A.V. Williams Building as part of an Technical Operations Bryan Quinn (‘01), alternative energy teaching curriculum, which was launched this spring to offer students new will ultimately expand into wind and kinetic educational opportunities in alternative energy. energy generation. The facility will support Last spring, the University of Maryland new courses in ECE including an energy/power Campus Green Fund awarded the MESA BRYAN QUINN AT MESA EXHIBIT survey course open to all students. Students project a campus sustainability grant worth will get hands on experience designing and $30,000 in funding, the largest of six grants the future, including exhibits and demonstrations testing alternative energy systems. MESA has that were awarded across campus, selected entirely powered by solar energy, thanks to MESA. already performed demonstrations for courses from more than two dozen applications. Quinn and several volunteer students from in the Honors College. When not in use “The most gratifying thing is students are Engineers Without Borders put together a solar for educational purposes, the facility will be saying they want this; they gave their money to array outside on the Jeong H. Kim Engineering open to researchers and community outreach fund these projects,” said Quinn. Building Plaza that powered engineering exhibits events. The MESA project coordinators are also On April 30, an estimated 97,000 visitors using only energy from the sun. The MESA solar constructing a mobile unit to take to area K-12 Maryland Day visitors viewed technologies of array provided over 2.25kW hours of green power schools as an educational outreach tool. C

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2457 A.V. Williams Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 FALL 2011 Vol. 17, No. 1 CONNECTIONS DEPARTMENT of ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL of ENGINEERING www.ece.umd.edu

A NEW APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH Prof. Joseph JaJa part of New NSF-Supported National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, p. 4

IN THIS ISSUE:

RAMA CHELLAPPA NAMED INTERIM CHAIR OF ECE DEPARTMENT PATRICK O’SHEA NAMED VP FOR RESEARCH, p. 3

LIN ENDOWMENT TO SUPPORT INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP MRS. ANCHEN LIN MAKES GIFT TO DEPARTMENT IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND, PROF. JIMMY LIN, p. 6 BAD VIRUS PUT TO GOOD USE TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS KEY COMPONENT OF BREAKTHROUGH BATTERIES, p. 7 NEW UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES REDEFINED PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES, p. 15 NEW MESA PROJECT BRINGS SOLAR ENERGY EDUCATION TO ECE MESA WINS CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY GRANT, HELPS MARYLAND DAY GO GREEN p. 20 mEssage from the chair PRIORITIES FOR A NEW YEAR CLARK SCHOOL RISES IN INTERNATIONAL RANKING It is a pleasure and honor to take on the role of Interim Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) for the period of July 1, 2011 – June The Clark School rose two spots to #11 30, 2012. I have served here at the University of Maryland among engineering schools ranked in as Professor since 1991, and have also been a member of the Center for Automation Research and the Institute the 2011 Academic Ranking of World for Advanced Computer Studies. As I undertake this new Universities annual list of engineering/ responsibility as Interim Chair of ECE, I wanted to share with you some of my key priorities and important issues technology and computer science schools RAMA CHELLAPPA that I will be working on in the next several months. by the Institute of Higher Education and Center for World-Class Universities. Among I would like to first thank Patrick O’Shea for serving as Chair of the all public university programs, the Clark department for the past six years. Pat provided valuable leadership and kept the department above troubled waters in difficult financial School was ranked 8th. The ranking is purely times. On behalf of the faculty and staff, I would like to express our objective based on quantitative measures of collective gratitude to Pat and wish him all the best in his new role as the Vice President for Research at the University of Maryland. productivity with no reputation component.

Over the course of the next year, I will be focusing on: STATE RANKED HIGHLY IN TECH AND SCIENCE INDEX Undergraduate education I am strongly committed to the importance of undergraduate The Milken Institute’s 2010 State Technology education, and plan to continue to enhance the undergraduate experience in our department. I will focus on the 100-200 level and Science Index ranked the State of courses in ECE, and aim to increase the number of Undergraduate Maryland #2 in the nation, just behind Teaching Fellows to make available for these courses. We also hope to bring more Honors students into our research laboratories, and Massachusetts. Maryland ranked first in help students take advantage of opportunities to participate in our academic R&D per capita and human capital Research Experiences for Undergraduates programs, such as MERIT- capacity, which takes into account factors BIEN, as well as the GEMSTONE program. 2 like the number of bachelor’s, master’s, Faculty recruitment and doctoral agrees awarded versus a state’s We plan to hire two junior faculty members in the emerging area of population. The index ranks each state’s cybersecurity this year. I have appointed a search committee that concentrates on this area to find the best prospects available. We tech and science capabilities, as well as their also hope to hire faculty members from underrepresented groups, success in converting them into companies particularly focusing on recruiting more female professors in ECE. and high-paying jobs. Fundraising We have increased the level of annual philanthropic funding to the UMD AMONG BEST VALUES department by a factor of 15 in the last eight years. I hope to continue IN PUBLIC EDUCATION increasing the level of philanthropic funding to ECE. I will work with our staff and faculty to seek out additional support to enhance our The University of Maryland continued its educational programs, make new scholarships available to students, and to improve the quality of our facilities and laboratories. rise in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s 100 Best Values in Public Colleges, In addition to these three priorities, I will focus my efforts on the ranking 5th among four-year institutions Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation renewal process, and also plan to streamline the for providing outstanding education at an nomination process for awards and named professorships. affordable price in 2011. This is a significant advancement from 8th place in 2010; 9th in The Dean of the Clark School of Engineering, Dr. Darryll Pines, has 2009; and 28th in 2008. Equally impressive is appointed a search committee to find the permanent chair, who will Maryland’s 6th place ranking for out-of-state serve a five-year term. More information will be in the nextConnections . value. Maryland was selected from a pool I look forward to contributing to our department’s continued of more than 500 colleges and universities. advance as one of the very finest programs in the country. If you The magazine ranked each according to would like to contact me about any of the priorities outlined above, please feel free to share your thoughts with me by sending them to academic quality, including admission and our new Coordinator for External Relations, Carrie Anne Hilmer, at retention rates, student-faculty ratios and [email protected]. Thank you for your support for our department. four- and six-year graduation rates, as well as on cost and financial aid. C

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2011 Chellappa Named Interim Chair of ECE Department

Minta Martin Professor of Engineering Pines. “We are fortunate to find such an from School of Engineering at USC, Rama Chellappa has been named interim able researcher and educator to ensure the the Society, Technical Achievement Chair of the Department of Electrical and department’s continued progress during and Meritorious Service Awards from Computer Engineering (ECE). Dr. this transition.” the IEEE Signal Processing Society Chellappa, who has an affiliate A faculty member at the University and the Technical Achievement and appointment in both the University of of Maryland since 1991, Dr. Chellappa Meritorious Service Awards from the Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer received his B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics IEEE Computer Society. Studies (UMIACS) and the Department of and Communication Engineering from At the University of Maryland he has Computer Science, was appointed to the the University of Madras; his M.S. in been elected as a Distinguished Faculty position effective July 1, 2011, succeeding Electrical Communication Engineering Research Fellow and Distinguished Professor Patrick O’Shea, who was recently from the Indian Institute of Science Scholar-Teacher and received numerous named Vice President for Research at the in Bangalore; and his M.S.E.E and awards for research, innovation, University of Maryland. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from mentorship and teaching, including the “Dr. Chellappa will bring to his new Purdue University. He has authored and Outstanding Invention Award from the position the leadership skills that have co-authored numerous publications, Office of Technology Commercialization, made him so effective as Director of the served as an associate editor for four the Faculty Outstanding Research Award Center for Automation Research, the first IEEE Transactions, is a fellow of IEEE, from the College of Engineering and President of the IEEE Biometrics Council IAPR and OSA, and has received an Outstanding GEMSTONE Mentor and the Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious numerous awards, including an NSF Award. Purdue University recently IEEE Transactions of Pattern Analysis and Presidential Young Investigator Award, recognized him with its Outstanding four IBM Faculty Development Awards, Electrical and Computer Engineer Machine Intelligence,” said the Dean of the 3 Clark School of Engineering, Dr. Darryll the 1990 Excellence in Teaching Award Alumni Award. C Former ECE Chair Patrick O’Shea Named UMD VP for Research

The University of Maryland’s new vice appointment. “Patrick brings that rare blend Electronics and Applied Physics. president for research, Dr. Patrick O’Shea of academic expertise, vision, administrative In addition to his time as chair of the – formerly chair of the Department of excellence and ECE Department, O’Shea led a new Electrical and Computer Engineering – is entrepreneurial spirit to strategic relationship with Lockheed proposing an aggressive plan to build the this pursuit. He is well- Martin, and the Maryland Cybersecurity institution’s research profile regionally, equipped to increase Center, a cross-campus initiative launched nationally and globally, including an the University’s research last fall. Previously he helped launch the emphasis on multidisciplinary, large- and educational impact Maryland NanoCenter and the Center scale collaborations with industry and internationally and for Applied Electromagnetics. government, and closer relationships with within this region.” He has been honored as a the University of Maryland Medical School An alumnus of Distinguished Scholar Teacher of the and other University System institutions. University College PATRICK O’SHEA University of Maryland, Fellow of the O’Shea also promises greater Cork, Ireland, and the American Physical Society, Fellow of rewards for faculty innovation and new University of Maryland, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic initiatives to encourage entrepreneurship, O’Shea has been active in interdisciplinary Engineers, and Fellow of the American commercialization and technology transfer. research and management for decades, both Association for the Advancement of Science. “This is a critical position for Maryland, in government and academia. He has served “We will be bold, diverse, adaptive, with responsibility for more than a half-billion as a project leader at Los Alamos National creative, innovative and entrepreneurial,” said dollars in research funding,” said University Laboratory, and director of the University O’Shea. “Our aim is to take our place among President Wallace D. Loh, announcing the of Maryland Institute for Research and the great institutions of the world.” C

A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL of ENGINEERING  GLENN L. MARTIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY cover STORY JaJa Part of New $27.5M Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center

Dr. Joseph JaJa, a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), is known as both a leader and a scholar in his field. His leadership talents served him well during his ten year tenure as the director of UMIACS and most recently as VP and interim CIO for the University of Maryland, College Park. It comes as no surprise that Dr. JaJa is a founding, executive team member of the University’s newest forward- thinking initiative. The National Socio- 4 Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) is a revolutionary research center focused on developing novel solutions for today’s most pressing environmental challenges. The mission of this endeavor is to “This center is different from any the computational and data-needs of all foster synthesis research, combining data, other—it is much like a think tank participants. “SESYNC will feature the models, and knowledge from multiple without a set of pre-determined projects,” latest in high-end computing, analysis, and disciplines to address challenges related to says JaJa. “Our primary goal will be visualization tools that will put scientists the structure, function, and sustainability of to engage national and international and policymakers on the same information socio-environmental systems. researchers as well as decision makers to plane,” he said. SESYNC will cultivate collaborative co-develop the research questions to be The tools JaJa will implement can research on critical issues such as water addressed by the center. We cannot be synthesize data and models from disparate fields availability, sustainable food production and prescriptive; we must be inclusive.” such as economics and biology, making complex the interaction between human activity and According to JaJa, teams of information accessible to researchers in a way healthy ecosystems. Science and engineering researchers will be invited to meet at the that promotes collaboration and innovation. faculty from the University of Maryland, center three to four times a year with an “We intend to create a new model for environmental economists from Resources agenda to tackle big problems, create a accelerating environmental discovery which for the Future, a Washington, D.C-based plan for collaboration and continue that will come from the seamless communication nonprofit research organization, and social collaboration after leaving the center. and collaboration between disciplines as scientists from the University of Michigan JaJa will manage the entire cyber- diverse as computer science, engineering, will lead the center’s activities. infrastructure of the center and support biology, public policy, geography and

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2011 economics” said Professor JaJa. Another equally important goal ECE Innovations in Located in Annapolis, Md., the center of SESYNC will be to improve and is supported primarily by the National popularize the research and problem- Spotlight at Invention Science Foundation through a $27.5 solving underpinnings of the synthesis of the Year Awards million, five-year grant. Additionally, process. As this is accomplished across SESYNC has received substantial support disciplines through the center’s projects, Researchers from the Department of Electrical from the state of Maryland. State officials SESYNC plans to develop a foundation and Computer Engineering (ECE) were expect the center to take on critical local to promote the synthesis process, which honored at the University of Maryland’s 24th annual Invention of the Year Awards, issues like the health of the Chesapeake Bay, could be integrated into educational organized by the university’s Office of while also addressing issues that affect the curricula worldwide. Technology Commercialization. mid-Atlantic region and beyond, including Education research and activities A team consisting of Christine Yurie sustainable energy and human behavior as it will be embedded throughout SESYNC’s Kim Eminent Professor of Information relates to climate adaption. programs to expand the ability of researchers Technology K. J. Ray Liu, Wan-Yi Lin, and Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and students to effectively synthesize Nathan Goergen won Invention of the Year said it is fitting for the center to have the environmental science with social science in the Information Science category for their Chesapeake Bay on its doorstep because research and knowledge. Programs will focus invention, titled, “Active Sensing for Dynamic the bay and SESYNC each perfectly reflect on teaching synthesis methods and strategies Spectrum Access.” the multifaceted challenge of today’s major for the analysis of complex information The inventors presented a new environmental issues and the essential on the environment to diverse educational framework that takes an active approach response needed. “The center’s approach to communities, with an emphasis on to spectral sensing for dynamic spectrum environmental challenges through collaborative undergraduate education. access (DSA) applications. In wireless shared science-based responses drawn from many While addressing urgent questions spectrum scenarios, licensed digital television 5 disciplines while factoring in human and on ecosystem management SESYNC will stations take a primary user role and are given ecosystem needs is exactly the approach that educate the public—homeowners, watermen, explicit first-right-of-access to the television the bay needs in our efforts to restore it.” farmers and legislators—on being part of the spectrum. When a primary user signal is not Senior staff at SESYNC will strive to solution. These efforts will be reflected in the present, broadband users are allowed to use concentrate the expertise of environmental, relationship with the greater community-- shared spectrum. The “active sensing” scheme social, and computational scientists, offering tours, visits, workshops, blogs and encourages primary users to actively help engineers, economists, and public policy online forums. spectrum sensing by embedding their own unique, ID into the transmitted signal. experts world-wide by inviting them to visit “Engineering and scientific solutions Another team, consisting of ECE and participate in the exploration of two or need to be proved feasible through social Professor Christopher Davis, Civil more major themes annually. The executive science, policy makers, and the practical Engineering Research Professor Stuart team foresees participation in ten to fifteen applications initiated by everyday people. I am Milner, and ECE alumnus Jamie Llorca, ongoing projects at a time. excited to be at the forefront of this ambitious, was a runner-up in the Information Sciences Dr. JaJa will work with a staff of and transformative endeavor,” concludes JaJa. category for their invention, titled, “Self- post-doctoral fellows and programmers to “The collaborations of this Optimization, Dynamic Positioning and lead computational projects and allocate new University of Maryland center Mobility Management in Wireless Networks.” resources; engaging participants through represent exactly the kind of innovative, The inventors developed novel models and data and model sharing and interacting with interdisciplinary approaches that are methods for controlling and positioning environments based on social networks. essential if we are to tackle the complex directional wireless backbone (DWB) The major challenge he and his staff will environmental challenges facing our platforms in order to guarantee their coverage encounter is to combine and aggregate nation and world,” said Wallace D. Loh, of mobile and user devices, while ensuring data, models, and information to foster the president of the University of Maryland, that the backhaul bandwidth and quality of synthesis process. College Park. C service are maximized. C

A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL of ENGINEERING  GLENN L. MARTIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY spotlightonENTREPRENEURSHIP Lin Endowment to Support Innovation, Entrepreneurship

Mrs. Anchen Lin, wife of trustee, Dr. James Hsu. Dr. Jimmy H. C. Lin (1919- The Jimmy H. 2009), a beloved, longtime C. Lin Award for professor in the Department Invention was awarded of Electrical and Computer to Prof. K. J. Ray Engineering (ECE), has made Liu, Wan-Yi Lin, and a gift to the University of Nathan Goergen in Maryland’s A. James Clark recognition of their School of Engineering to invention titled “Active endow a new fund in her Sensing for Dynamic husband’s name. The purpose Spectrum Access,” of the Jimmy Lin Endowment which was awarded for Entrepreneurship is to the University of provide annual awards to Maryland Invention students, staff, and faculty of the Year Award. who transform their ideas (More information PROF. JIMMY LIN (LEFT) AND MRS. ANCHEN LIN (RIGHT) into innovations through about their invention invention and technology Invention within the ECE Department can be found on p. 5 of this commercialization. at the University of Maryland. The goal Connections issue.) 6 A dedicated and popular instructor of his generous gift was to promote The Jimmy H. C. Lin Award for who missed only one class in over 20 innovation among students, staff and Entrepreneurship was awarded to Prof. years of teaching, Dr. Lin joined the faculty by stimulating, encouraging Pamela Abshire, Marc Dandin, and University of Maryland as Professor and rewarding the invention and David Sander in recognition of their of Electrical Engineering in 1969. He patenting process. entrepreneurial business plan for Ibis retired in 1990, and subsequently With her recent gift, Mrs. Lin Microtech. served as Professor Emeritus. Well followed Dr. Lin’s wish to expand the Ibis Microtech is a new venture known to his colleagues for his abundant original fund and established the Jimmy seeking to equip medical professionals, energy and his warm, familiar smile, Lin Endowment for Entrepreneurship. food quality control technicians, first Dr. Lin’s career spanned more than half Through the Hung Chang and Anchen responders, and national defense agencies a century and was punctuated with Wang Lin Fund, this endowment with cost-effective diagnostics devices many honors, awards, and inventions, will promote entrepreneurship by capable of performing laboratory-grade including the wireless microphone and supporting the following new awards analyses on-site, and in record time. the lateral transistor. and scholarships: The Jimmy H. C. Lin The Jimmy H. C. Lin Graduate The holder of 57 U.S. patents, Entrepreneurship Competition Award, Scholarship for Entrepreneurship was Dr. Lin was inducted into the Clark The Jimmy H. C. Lin Invention Award, awarded to two graduate program School of Engineering Innovation Hall The Jimmy H. C. Lin Entrepreneur applicants from Shanghai Jiao Tong of Fame in May 1990 in recognition Internship Award, and The Jimmy University, Xiangyang Liu and of his significant inventions and H. C. Lin Graduate Scholarship for Faheng Zang. contributions in semiconductor devices Entrepreneurship. More information about the new and integrated circuits. An award ceremony was held on awards created by the Jimmy Lin In 2008, Dr. Lin endowed the Wednesday, September 14, which was Endowment for Entrepreneurship can be Jimmy Lin Fund for Innovation and attended by Mrs. Anchen Lin and her found at www.ece.umd.edu/lin. C

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2011 researchNEWS Bad Virus Put to Good Use by Researchers In breakthrough batteries, virally structured nano-electrodes boost energy capacity 10-fold

Viruses have a bad rep--and rightly so. The forward in many ways and will be ideal Three distinct steps are involved in ability of a virus to quickly and precisely for use not only in small electronic producing a TMV-based battery: modifying, replicate itself makes it a destructive scourge devices but in novel applications that propagating and preparing the TMV; processing to animals and plants alike. Now an have been limited so far by the size of the the TMV to grow nanorods on a metal plate; interdisciplinary team of researchers at the required battery,” said Ghodssi, director and incorporating the nanorod-coated plates University of Maryland’s A. James Clark of the Institute for Systems Research and into finished batteries. School of Engineering and College of First a solution of TMV Agriculture and Natural Resources, is applied to a metal electrode brought together by Professor Reza plate. The genetic modifications Ghodssi, is turning the tables, program one end of the rod harnessing and exploiting the “self- shaped virus to attach to the renewing” and “self-assembling” plate. Next these viral forests properties of viruses for a higher are chemically coated with a purpose: to build a new generation of conductive metal, mainly nickel. small, powerful and highly efficient Other than its structure, no batteries and fuel cells. trace of the virus is present in The rigid, rod-shaped Tobacco the finished product, which CROSS-SECTION IMAGE OF NANOROD SHOWING THE CORE/SHELL mosaic virus (TMV), which under cannot transmit a virus to either an electron microscope looks like plants or animals. This process is Herbert Rabin Professor of Electrical and uncooked spaghetti, is a well-known and patent-pending. 7 Computer Engineering at the Clark School. widespread plant virus that devastates While the first generation of the tobacco, tomatoes, peppers, and other “The technology that we have developed Maryland researchers’ devices used the vegetation. But in the lab, engineers can be used to produce energy storage nickel-coated viruses for the electrodes, work have discovered that they can harness devices for integrated microsystems such published earlier this year investigated the the characteristics of TMV to build tiny as wireless sensors networks. These systems feasibility of structuring electrodes with the components for the lithium ion batteries have to be really small in size--millimeter active material deposited on top of each of the future. They can modify the TMV or sub-millimeter--so that large numbers nickel-coated nanorod, forming a core/ rods to bind perpendicularly to the metallic can be deployed in remote environments shell nanocomposite where every TMV surface of a battery electrode and arrange for applications like homeland security, particle contains a conductive metal core the rods in intricate and orderly patterns on agriculture, environmental monitoring and and an active material shell. The researchers the electrode. Then, they coat the rods with more; to power these devices, equally small have developed several techniques to form a conductive thin film that acts as a current batteries are required, without compromising nanocomposites of silicon and titanium collector activating the battery’s material to in performance.” dioxide on the metalized TMV template. participate in the electrochemical reactions. TMV’s nanostructure is the ideal size This architecture both stabilizes the fragile, As a result, the researchers can greatly and shape to use as a template for building active material coating and provides it with a increase the electrode surface area and its battery electrodes. Its self-replicating and direct connection to the battery electrode. capacity to store energy and enable fast self-assembling biological properties produce charge/discharge times. TMV becomes structures that are both intricate and orderly, In the third and final step, the inert during the manufacturing process; which increases the power and storage researchers assemble these electrodes into the resulting batteries do not transmit the capacity of the batteries that incorporate the experimental high-capacity lithium-ion virus. The new batteries, however, have them. Because TMV can be programmed batteries. Their capacity can be several times up to a 10-fold increase in energy capacity to bind directly to metal, the resulting higher than that of bulk materials and in the over a standard lithium ion battery. components are lighter, stronger and less case of silicon, higher than that of current “The resulting batteries are a leap expensive than conventional parts. commercial batteries. C

A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL of ENGINEERING  GLENN L. MARTIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY facultyNEWS Awards and Honors for ECE Faculty

CHELLAPPA RECEIVES POOLE in IEEE Transactions on Automatic MAYERGOYZ AMONG CLARK AND KENT SENIOR FACULTY Control. The award was presented at the SCHOOL ENGAGED FACULTY TEACHING AWARD 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and

Control in December 2010. Alford L. Ward Professor and Distinguished ECE Interim Chair and Minta Martin Scholar-Teacher Dr. Isaak Mayergoyz Professor of Engineering Rama Chellappa WAKS SELECTED TO RECEIVE was selected among the first class of Clark was awarded the 2011 Poole and Kent DARPA YOUNG FACULTY AWARD School ENGAGED Faculty. This is an Senior Faculty Teaching Award. He was honor that has been bestowed upon faculty selected for this award in recognition of Prof. Edo Waks was selected by the Defense by the Clark School of Engineering through his contributions to the Clark School of Advanced Research Projects Agency undergraduate student nominations. The Engineering as an exceptional engineering (DARPA) to receive a Young Faculty Award ENGAGED Faculty were nominated by educator, and presented with the award at (YFA) in recognition of his status as a Clark School undergraduates because: they the Commencement Ceremony on May rising star in university nanophotonics and are approachable; they take a genuine interest 20, 2011. Prof. Chellappa has successfully quantam information research. DARPA, in and have concern for their students, brought the passion of his research into in conjunction with the Navy, will provide especially outside of the classroom; are the classroom through the development of Waks with a grant of approximately accessible; they have high expectations; and the image processing and computer vision $300,000 to further develop his research. they encourage students and provide support program. He has also made an enormous Waks received the funding for his on academic & extracurricular activities. impact through his mentorship of students research proposal, titled “Ultra-Fast Quantum These faculty members have been described in the Gemstone program focusing on the Information Processing Using Quantum Dot as being dedicated and patient. Each has been Spin Coupled to Photonic Crystals.” Dr. identified as a positive mentor and role model. 8 image processing area, and received the Outstanding Gemstone Mentor Award for Waks’ research interests include studying the The ENGAGED Faculty project is a application of photonic crystals to quantum his efforts, which included projects aimed at component of the NSF funded program information processing, as well as the use of assisting visually impaired individuals through called ENGAGE: Engaging Students in photonic crystals for practical tools in optical technology. Students have described Prof. Engineering (NSF GSE #0833076). The telecommunication and sensing. Chellappa’s teaching as: “passionate,” “gifted” University of Maryland was one of ten DARPA’s Young Faculty Award program, and full of “infectious enthusiasm.” schools selected to participate in the first sponsored by DARPA’s Microsystems year of the program to implement research- MARTINS WINS IEEE CONTROL Technology Office, is designed to seek out based strategies to enhance the retention of SYSTEMS SOCIETY AWARD ideas from non-tenured faculty in order to undergraduate engineering students. identify the next generation of researchers Prof. Nuno Martins won the 2010 George working in microsystems technology. The ULUKUS AWARDED ISR Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the selected researchers focus on concepts that are OUTSTANDING FACULTY AWARD IEEE Control Systems Society. Nuno shares innovative, speculative, and high-risk. this award with Prof. Sennur Ulukus was awarded the Institute Munther Dahleh ECE FACULTY EARN PROMOTIONS of Systems Research (ISR) Outstanding Faculty of MIT for their Award. Her decade of accomplishments jointly authored ECE Professors Min Wu, Sennur Ulukus, include scholarly contributions in prestigious paper, “Feedback and Bruce Jacob were promoted to the rank journals, a high level of funding in support Control in the of full Professor. Professor Martin Peckerar, of her research, and her commitment Presence of Noisy who already held the rank of Professor, has to mentoring, graduating and placing a Channels: Bode- been approved for tenure at that rank. Professor succession of outstanding graduate students. NUNO MARTINS Like Fundamental Nuno Martins has been promoted to Associate She has also been a pivotal member of the Limitations of Professor with tenure. These appointments Green Communications initiative and has Performance.” This prestigious award is given have been approved by President Wallace Loh, pioneered interdisciplinary research in energy annually to the outstanding paper published effective July 1, 2011. harvesting for communication systems.

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ESPY-WILSON APPOINTED TO Liu Named Kim Professor, Inducted NIH ADVISORY BOARD, NAMED as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher ADVANCE PROFESSOR

Prof. Carol Espy-Wilson was appointed to Dr. K. J. Ray Liu was than one half of one percent the National Advisory Board on Medical appointed Christine Yurie of all publishing authors meet Rehabilitation Research. This board Kim Eminent Professor of the criteria for inclusion on advises the National Center for Medical Information Technology in ISIHighlyCited.com. Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR), part recognition of his sustained Prof. Liu’s research of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National and influential scientific has focused on the areas of Institute of Child Health and Human and scholarly work in the wireless communications Development at the National Institutes area of signal processing and and networking; multimedia of Health (NIH). NCMRR fosters the communications. Funds communications and signal K. J. RAY LIU development of scientific knowledge from the Christine Yurie processing; information forensics needed to enhance the health, productively, Kim endowment will further and security; biomedical imaging independence, and quality-of-life of support Liu’s research and education and bioinformatics; and signal processing people with disabilities. Prof. Espy-Wilson programs. The five-year, renewable algorithms and architectures. In all, he is developing an approach to speech appointment began in January 2011. has published over 500 refereed papers, recognition based on phonetic features to Prof. Liu was also selected for books, and book chapters. address the limitations of present recognizers. inclusion in the Institute for Scientific Prof. Liu was named a Distinguished Prof. Espy-Wilson was also selected for Information (ISI) Highly Cited list of Scholar-Teacher of the University of the position of ADVANCE Professor in researchers in the field of Computer Maryland, in 2007. He serves as Associate Science. Prof. Liu was selected to the Chair of Graduate Studies and Research of the A. James Clark School Of Engineering. 9 She will serve as the ADVANCE Professor list due to the high number of citations the Electrical and Computer Engineering for Women Faculty of Color in science, his publications have received from Department and leads the Maryland C technology, engineering, and mathematics fellow researchers and scientists. Less Signals and Information Group. (STEM). The ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence aims to transform the institutional culture of our University by facilitating networks, offering individual Dr. Michael Gaitan, of the National ECE FACULTY & STAFF HONORED mentoring and support, and offering Institute of Standards and Technology. FOR OUTSTANDING COMMITMENT information and strategic opportunities for Started in 1995, the World Micromachine ECE faculty and staff were among those honored women faculty in all areas of academia. Summit provides a micro-nano technology at the 2011 Clark School Faculty and Staff snapshot to worldwide industrial, academic GHODSSI DELEGATE TO WORLD and government initiatives. Two to five key Outstanding Commitment Award Ceremony. MICROMACHINE SUMMIT people from the most important regions The honorees included: Dorothy C. Chu, and countries in the microtechnology former ECE staff member; William W. Destler, Prof. Reza Ghodssi was one of two U.S. arena participate as delegates in the former ECE Chair, Clark School Dean and delegates at the 17th World Micromachine Summit. As part of the proceedings, Dr. Nariman Farvardin, former ECE Chair, Clark Summit in April 2011. The event was held Ghodssi and other delegates met with School Dean and UMD Provost; Olivia M. in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, His Highness Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Goetz, former ECE staff member; and Steven where Centre Suisse d’Electronique et Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Tretter, ECE alumnus and professor emeritus. Microtechnique SA partnership with the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah. The discussions The ceremony recognizes individuals in the UAE and École Polytechnique Fédérale during the Summit focused on the college whose extraordinary contributions have de Lausanne Middle East are developing challenges of using high-end micro and made the Clark School a better place to live and new activities related to renewable nanotechnologies for renewable energies, work. The names of the honorees are carved into energies. The second U.S. delegate was in particular solar energy. the fountain in the Martin Hall plaza. C

A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL of ENGINEERING  GLENN L. MARTIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY facultyNEWS continued Faculty Give Invited Talks, Distinguished Lectures

ANKUR SRIVASTAVA NAMED recognition problems are emerging. Video- Technology in Automation, Control and ACM DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER based pattern recognition has applications Intelligent Systems (IEEE-CYBER 2011),

in homeland security, healthcare, held in Kunming, China, from March 20-23, Prof. Ankur Srivastava received battlefield awareness, and video indexing 2011. IEEE-CYBER is a newly established an appointment to the Association and anomaly detection. international conference focusing on intelligent for Computing Machinery (ACM) cyber systems in automation and control. Distinguished EPHREMIDES GIVES TALKS AT Dr. Baras’ lecture was entitled “Component- Speaker Panel. IEEE GLOBECOM CONFERENCE, based Architectures for the Synthesis of This designation UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Intelligent Networked Systems,” and its theme provides a Prof. Anthony Ephremides gave a plenary was the need for the development of new platform from talk at the IEEE Globecom Conference methodologies and design environments for which Prof. on Dec 7, 2010. IEEE Globecom is the complex engineered systems. Srivastava can main flagship conference of the IEEE share his research Communications Society and was attended by MAYERGOYZ DELIVERS ANKUR SRIVASTAVA and ideas with more than 2,000 members. Ephremides’ talk, KEYNOTE AT HMM 2011 IN ITALY professional titled “To Schedule or not to Schedule: The organizations, peer institutions, and Conundrum of Channel Access,” dealt with Alford L. Ward Professor and many others who are seeking speakers medium access control in wireless networks Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Isaak in particular topic areas. One advantage in a cross-layer fashion. The talk combined Mayergoyz delivered a keynote address of earning this recognition is that Prof. recent results obtained in collaboration with at the 8th International Symposium on Srivastava will be sought after as an many colleagues and students. Hysteresis Modeling and Micromagnetics 10 expert in his field, often being offered the Prof. Ephremides also gave an invited (HMM 2011) in Levico (Trento) Italy. The opportunity to share ideas and research lecture at the University of Pennsylvania title of his talk was “Plasmon Resonances with new and unique audiences. ACM on Feb. 22, 2011 in Nanoparticles, Their Applications to Distingushed Speakers are appointed after on “Cooperation Magnetics and Relation to the Riemann completing a stringent selection process. In at the Network Hypothesis.” HMM 2011 is intended to recognition of his research and experience Level.” Dr. be a forum for presentation and discussion Prof. Srivastava will be speaking most Ephremides of the most recent advancements in often in the broad subject fields of Design covered a new the fields of hysteresis modeling and Automation and Computer Systems. His concept of computational micromagnetics. Hysteresis speaking topics will highlight his interests cooperative can be defined as the phenomenon in VLSI, design automation, and high communications TONY EPHREMIDES exhibited by a system in which the reaction performance computing. that yields of the system to changes is dependent significant performance improvements in upon its past reactions to change. CHELLAPPA INVITED TO GIVE wireless networks and for which a patent DISTINGUISHED LECTURE AT application has been filed. The talk was part LIU GIVES INVITED KEYNOTE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE of the colloquia series in the University of TALK AT VIRGINIA TECH ECE Interim Chair and Minta Martin Pennsylvania’s Department of Electrical and Christine Yurie Kim Eminent Professor Professor of Engineering Rama Chellappa Systems Engineering. of Information Technology and Associate spoke as the University of Delaware BARAS GIVES INVITED PLENARY Computer Information Sciences (CIS) Chair for Graduate Studies and Research TALK AT IEEE-CYBER 2011 K. J. Ray Liu Distinguished Speaker on May 11, 2011. Dr. delivered a keynote talk on June 3 at Virginia Tech’s 2011 His talk was titled, “Representation and Prof. John S. Baras gave the invited plenary Wireless Symposium in Blacksburg, VA. Recognition of Patterns in Video.” With lecture on March 21, 2011 at the First The focus of this three-day symposium the ubiquitous presence of video cameras, IEEE International Conference on Cyber new challenges to video-based pattern is to assist professionals and academics

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2011 in staying abreast of trends and current PUBLICATIONS IEEE SPECTRUM FEATURES LIU research in a rapidly changing, ever- ON ‘COGNITIVE RADIO GAMES’ expanding field. His talk, titled “Cognitive ECE RESEARCHERS PUBLISH An article by Prof. K. J. Ray Liu was featured Radio Games,” focused on recent ARTICLE IN RSC JOURNAL ON prominently in the April 2011 issue of advances in the use of game theoretical FLEXIBLE GALVANIC CELL IEEE Spectrum magazine. The feature, titled frameworks for cognitive radios in Martin “Cognitive Radio Games,” explores how improving robustness and security. An A paper co-authored by Professors Peckerar Neil Goldsman cognitive radio technology and game theory intelligent wireless communication system, and has been can help address the problem of overcrowded cognitive radio is aware of its surrounding published in the Royal Society of Chemistry airwaves that must accommodate increasing environment and can adaptively change its journal, Energy & Environmental Science. wireless demands in a world of ubiquitous operating parameters based on interactions The paper, titled A novel high energy density smart phones and wireless devices. with the environment and users. Using flexible galvanic cell, was co-authored Cognitive radio refers to intelligent cognitive radio technology, it is plausible by ECE alumni Zeynep Dilli, Mahsa systems of wireless communication in which Dornajafi, and Yves Ngu, as well as Robert that future wireless devices will be able radios try to achieve the best performance B. Proctor, Benjamin J. Krupsaw and to sense and analyze their surrounding possible by sensing and adapting to changes in Daniel A. Lowy. environment and user conditions, learn their electromagnetic environments, including Ultrathin galvanic cells, which can from the environmental variations, and changes in the way other radios are operating. comply with a variety of form factors adapt their operating parameters to achieve To read the feature in its entirety, visit the and electronic system packages, are of highly reliable communications and IEEE Spectrum website. efficient utilization of spectrum resources. technological importance, as they show promise for flexible electronic systems. VISHKIN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN GHODSSI GIVES INVITED TALK AT The paper describes a high energy density COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM TRANSDUCERS 11 flexible galvanic cell, which is non-toxic and environmentally friendly. As the Prof. Uzi Vishkin published an article in 11 Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor battery utilizes aqueous electrolytes, it is Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, titled “Using simple Reza Ghodssi was an invited speaker at the safe in operation, which enables its use in abstraction to reinvent computing for parallelism.” 16th International Conference on Solid- a number of settings and surroundings. In the paper, Vishkin points out that the State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems The battery can be optimized for volume recent dramatic shift from single-processor (Transducers 11). The international manufacture at low cost. Given that they computer systems to many-processor parallel conference was held June 5–9 in Beijing, function at much lower cell voltage than ones requires reinventing much of computer China. Ghodssi spoke on June 8 at the Li-ion batteries do, these cells can be science to build and program the new 3-D Integration Session. His topic was recharged remotely, at a conveniently low systems. However, parallel computing research “Microball Bearing Technology for MEMS voltage, by harvesting radio-frequency has not focused on ease of programming as a Devices and Integrated Microsystems,” (RF) energy or microwaves, as well as primary objective. Vishkin proposes what he research recently conducted with his Ph.D. other energy sources. Also, its cycle life of describes as a radical parallel programming students Mustafa Beyaz, and Brendan up to 400 charge–discharge cycles is very and architecture idea: the new parallel systems Hanrahan in his MEMS Sensors and promising for use as a secondary battery. should start with a simple abstraction that Actuators Laboratory (MSAL). Ghodssi Energy & Environmental Science is encapsulates the desired interface between is well-known for his microball bearing the #1 ranked journal in the field. programmers and system builders. research. Ghodssi’s micro-ball bearing/micro The researchers’ technology was Vishkin also describes his idea for a turbine work was recently featured in Micro awarded the University of Maryland general-purpose many-core explicit multi- Manufacturing. Also, Ghodssi was featured Invention of the Year prize, and took threaded (XMT) computer architecture in a Mechanical Engineering magazine first place in the annual University of designed from the ground up to capitalize on cover story. The piece focused on Ghodssi’s Maryland Business Plan Competition. the on-chip resources becoming available and research on microscale ball bearings for For more information about the reduce single-task completion time. use in micromachines and Micro-Electro- group’s rechargeable, thin-film battery, The article can be read in its entirety on Mechanical Systems (MEMS) devices. C visit www.flexelinc.com. the Communications of the ACM website. C

A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL of ENGINEERING  GLENN L. MARTIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY facultyNEWS continued NEW BOOKS BY FACULTY: MCKINNEY RECEIVES HIGH HONORS FROM EPHREMIDES, PANTELIDOU CO-AUTHOR NEW UNIVERSITY SYSTEM WIRELESS NETWORKS BOOK Jeff McKinney, “Scheduling in Wireless Networks” is a new book director of co-authored by Prof. Anthony Ephremides and alumna Anna Pantelidou (EE Ph.D. 2009), The book is published by now computing Publishers Inc. Providing a reference point for the rich set of for the ECE problems that arise in the allocation of resources in modern Department, and future networks, it reviews the problem of scheduled the Institute channel access in wireless networks with emphasis on ad for Systems hoc and sensor networks as opposed to WiFi, cellular, and Research, infrastructure-based networks. the Physics LIU, LIN AND ZHAO CO-AUTHOR NEW BOOK Department and ANALYZING HUMAN INTERACTION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA the Mathematics JEFF MCKINNEY Department, was Christine Yurie Kim Eminent Professor of Information Technology and Associate selected to receive a 2011 Board of Chair for Graduate Studies K. J. Ray Liu has co-authored Regents Award for effectiveness and a new book titled “Behavior Dynamics in Media- efficiency in administrative transfor- Sharing Social Networks” with his former advisees, ECE mation. This prestigious award is the alumnae W. Sabrina Lin (Ph.D., EE, ’09) and H. Vicky Zhao highest honor the Board bestows to (Ph.D., EE, ’04). Published by Cambridge University Press, publicly recognize distinguished perfor- the book demonstrates how game theory can be used to model user dynamics and optimize design of media-sharing mance and achievements. Only eight networks. The text investigates the impact of human factors recipients from the entire Maryland on multimedia design and shows how to improve system University System were selected to 12 performance by modeling and analyzing human behavior receive this honor. In his seven years using examples from real-world multimedia social networks. with UMD, McKinney has devoted his BARAS CO-EDITOR OF NEW BOOK, “DECISION AND efforts to improving technological GAME THEORY FOR SECURITY” resources and performance. C

Prof. John S. Baras is the co-editor of a new book, titled “Decision and Game Theory for Security,” published by Springer. The book, co-edited ECE FACULTY IN THE NEWS by with Tansu Alpcan and Levente Buttyán, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Decision and Game DAVIS, BALZANO CRITIQUE CELL Theory for Security, GameSec 2010, held in Berlin, Germany. The papers PHONE STUDIES ON RADIATION are organized in topical sections on security investments and planning, PROF. CHRISTOPHER DAVIS AND privacy and anonymity, adversarial and robust control, network security and RESEARCH SCIENTIST QUIRINO botnets, authorization and authentication, as well as theory and algorithms BALZANO OFFERED A CRITIQUE OF for security. The 2011 GameSec conference will be hosted by the University STUDIES THAT CLAIM CELL PHONES of Maryland at the Inn and Conference Center in College Park, on November TRANSMIT POTENTIALLY HARMFUL 14-15, 2011. Prof. Baras is the General Chair of GameSec 2011. RADIATION. DAVIS & BALZANO POINTED OUT THAT THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE NEW MEMS HANDBOOK OFFERS COMPREHENSIVE ELEVATIONS IN THE BRAIN DURING CELL RESOURCE PHONE USE ARE ON THE ORDER OF 0.1°C TO 0.2°C, TEMPERATURE ELEVATIONS The new “MEMS Materials and Processes Handbook” THAT ARE SMALLER THAN THOSE RESULTING FROM PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. is an exhaustive design reference for researchers searching for new materials, properties of known materials, or specific KALANTARI IN THE NEWS FOR processes available for MEMS fabrication. The handbook is BRIDGE SENSOR TECHNOLOGY co-edited by Reza Ghodssi, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor and Pinyen Lin, Chief Technologist and VP of ECE RESEARCHER AND ALUMNUS MEHDI Business Development, Touch Micro-System Technology KALANTARI WAS FEATURED FOR HIS Corp. Taoyuan, Taiwan. It features 35 international UNIQUE SENSOR SYSTEM THAT OFFERS contributing authors who are MEMS leaders in academic, INSTANT, AFFORDABLE WARNINGS industrial and government laboratory settings. REGARDING BRIDGE STABILITY. C

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2011 SPECIAL FEATURE Traveling Engineer: Visiting Michael Faraday by Professor Emeritus Len Taylor Astonishingly, the door was partially argued against the quackery of ajar, so I just stepped inside! Many his times. A deeply religious other times on Albemarle Street in Protestant, Faraday’s beliefs have been cited by modern anti- central London, the doors to the evolutionists as proof that great Royal Institution had been locked, scientists rejected Darwin’s theory, and my repeated knocking went the most significant issue of the unanswered.Now, across a small Victorian era. However, they vestibule a wide wooden stairway seem unable to cite any specific lead to the basement and a sign read, statements to support that claim. Faraday did say, “I have never seen “Faraday Museum”. With no one anything incompatible between in sight, I tucked my camera away, those things of man which can be and went down to the birthplace of known by the spirit of man which Electrical Engineering: the laboratory THE INNOVATION AND INGENUITY OF MICHAEL FARADY is within him and those higher where Michael Faraday had worked. things concerning his future, At the bottom of the stairs, to be attractive. I supposed they were which he cannot know by that spirit.” pretending to be at ease, I was ignored by used for demonstrations in Faraday’s Faraday died in 1867, possibly from two men in lab coats. Another sign led required presentations during the public lead poisoning incurred during his electro- me into the small softly-lit rooms which subscription lecture series at the Institution. chemical experiments.He played a leading Faraday had occupied for four decades. I Two exhibits attracted my attention— role in the formation of the electrochemical was alone for the entirety of my visit. they represented experiments that I always industries that appeared in England during Michael Faraday’s life story is a sort taught in undergraduate electromagnetics. his lifetime and is considered the founder 13 of rags-to-riches chronicle. In 1812, the The “Faraday disk” experiment showcased of electrochemistry. Some of my forebears poor printer’s apprentice attended public a copper disk which rotated between the worked in the electroplating industry: lectures by the great scientist of the era, Sir poles of a magnet to produce an electric “That’s a connection,” I thought as I left Humphry Davy. Inspired, he sent Davy potential between the center and the rim, the museum. his notes; requested a job; ; was accepted creating the first (homopolar) generator Walking back to our hotel, I tried after a long delay became Davy’s assistant; and the progenitor of modern electrical to imagine those basement rooms in the and then rose, upon Davy’s retirement, to generators. Its descendants turned the 19th early 19th Century. They were surely become director of the laboratory and a Century into the “Age of Electricity.” darker, colder, dirtier, and cluttered with renowned scientist. The second exhibit contained laboratory benches and equipment, far There is much more to the story. the hollow conducting and dielectric different from the shrine-like museum. Faraday was treated scornfully by Davy’s hemispheres that led Faraday to postulate Still, I felt that I had visited Michael patrician wife. Then Davy, who had been the existence of an electric induction field. Faraday: he had just happened to be away knighted and made a baronet, had his own The metal hemispheres were only a few from the office at the time. C class-conscious ambitions and professional inches in diameter. I had to mentally ______jealousies. He became Faraday’s enemy, resolve how they could have been so exactly Len Taylor has been a faculty member at accusing him of plagiarism and for a long made using the lathes available at that the University of Maryland since 1967 and while succeeded in blocking his election to time. And what about the hollow dielectric has been a pioneer in the field of medical the Royal Society. But Faraday persevered, hemispheres? (The first plastic was still technology. He is now a Professor Emeritus refusing other appointments and a decades in the future.) These seemed but is still actively teaching in the department. beautifully made of wood, wax, and a black knighthood, working in this basement. He is the author of over 150 journal articles resin, like pitch. A small object in front of Clear of the work benches and lab and conference papers, has had 48 funded tables that once filled them, the rooms were the spheres attracted my attention: I took research grants, contracts and projects, and now lined with glass cabinets featuring it to be a gold-leaf electroscope, a primitive holds six U.S. and 16 foreign patents. He is enlarged images of Faraday’s handwritten instrument to measure electric charge by lab notes. Shelves displayed experimental the repulsion of the leaves. a life fellow of the IEEE and of the American apparatuses that had darkened and Faraday inveighed against the pollution Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine and crumbled with age, although they had of the Thames River, refused to participate has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE been carefully made and even designed in the development of poison gases, and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. facultyNEWS continued Department Welcomes Two New Faculty Members As the fall semester begins, the department Prof. Munday is excited to be teaching the Minister of Science, Research and Technology of Electrical and Computer Engineering a course on Solar Energy Conversion this and President of Sharif University. welcomes two new professors who count semester and looks forward to future classes He is the Program Chair of the 2011 IEEE energy conversion among their research on Electricity and Magnetism and Quantum Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, interests. Drs. Jeremy Munday and Alireza Mechanics. He is also interested in music, the Program Co-Chair of the 2012 IEEE Khaligh join ECE as and in his free time he Transportation Electrification assistant professors. recently designed and Conference, and the Grants Dr. Jeremy Munday built a hybrid electric and Awards Chair of the 2012 received his B.S. in resonator guitar. IEEE Applied Power Electronics Physics and Astronomy Prior to Maryland, Conference (APEC). from Middle Tennessee Dr. Alireza Khaligh was Dr. Khaligh is an Associate Editor State University in 2003 an Assistant Professor and of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular and his Ph.D. in Physics the Director of the Energy Technology. He was a Guest Editor for from Harvard in 2008. Harvesting and Renewable Special Section of IEEE Transactions JEREMY MUNDAY ALIREZA KHALIGH His thesis work focused Energies Laboratory on Vehicular Technology on Vehicular on the first experimental (EHREL) in the ECE Energy Storage Systems and also a Guest demonstration of a repulsive Casimir force Department at Illinois Institute of Technology Editor for Special Section of IEEE Transactions on and was conducted under the supervision (IIT). Dr. Khaligh was a Post-Doctoral Research Industrial Electronics on Energy Harvesting. of Federico Capasso. After this, he became Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana- He is the principle author/co-author of more a postdoctoral scholar under Harry Atwater Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, IL. than 80 refereed papers, two pending patents, as in the departments of Applied Physics and Dr. Khaligh is the recipient of the 2010 well as two books including Energy Harvesting: Materials Science at Caltech working on Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from the Solar, Wind, and Ocean Energy Conversion 14 plasmonics and photovoltaic devices. Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and Systems (CRC Press, Dec. 2009), and Integrated His current research endeavors span a the 2009 Armour College of Engineering Power Electronics Converters and Digital Control wide range from near field optics, photonics, Excellence in Teaching Award from IIT. (CRC Press, May 2009). His research interests are and plasmonics for energy harvesting to He also received the 2001 Distinguished mainly focused in the areas of power electronics, quantum electromechanical phenomena for Undergraduate Student Award from Sharif renewable energy systems, energy harvesting, and actuating micro- and nano-mechanical devices. University of Technology presented jointly by sustainable transportation. C In Memoriam: Prof. Martin Reiser (1931-2011)

Professor Emeritus Martin Reiser passed applied electromagnetics and beam physics Center. From 1961 to 1964, he was Assistant away peacefully at his home on May 1, 2011, programs. Both nationally and internationally, Professor in the Physics Department of three weeks after celebrating his he played a major role in establishing Michigan State University, and from 80th birthday. particle beam physics as an academic 1964 to 1965 he worked as a Supervisory Throughout his long discipline, and was one of the leaders Research Physicist at the Naval Radiological career at the University of in the creation of the Beam Physics Defense Laboratory in San Francisco. In Maryland, which began in 1965, Division at the American Physical September 1965, he joined the University of he contributed greatly to the Society in the late 1980s. Maryland as Associate Professor, with a joint success of the university’s vibrant Reiser received his doctorate appointment in the Electrical Engineering research programs. Beginning in physics in 1960 from the Department and the Department of Physics,

with the design of the Maryland MARTIN REISER Johannes Gutenberg Universität and became a Full Professor in 1970. He was Cyclotron, he later moved on in Mainz, Germany, while co-founder of the University of Maryland’s to form the Charged Particle Beam Group, working as a Research Physicist at the AEG- Institute for Research in Electronics and and co-founded the Institute for Research in Forschungsinstitut Frankfurt (from 1958 to Applied Physics, established in 1981. Electronics and Applied Physics. He also led 1961) on the design of the sector-focusing Martin Reiser is survived by his wife Inge, the creation of the University of Maryland’s cyclotron for the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research daughter Bettina, and son Christopher. C

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2011 ECE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES FORMAL REDEFINITION OF UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

The Department of Electrical and Computer the new PEOs were discussed by the Undergraduate EE students Engineering (ECE) has announced a formal Department Council and ECE Advisory ECE Faculty redefinition of the program educational Board before being approved by the ECE EE Alumni objectives and program constituencies for both faculty on May 20, 2011. Local, state, and national employers of the electrical engineering (EE) and computer New Program Educational Objectives electrical engineers engineering (CP) undergraduate majors. (for both EE and CP) Relevant Graduate and Professional The Department’s two undergraduate Technical Accomplishments: Have our Programs for EE programs are guided by a set of Program graduates establish a reputation for technical The Public Educational Objectives (PEOs). The expertise and excellence among colleagues (NOTE: Only the EE constituencies are PEOs are determined by the needs of and achieve professional recognition for their listed here. CP has a similar set.) the programs’ constituents and designed work, in graduate or professional school and/ Input is regularly solicited from each to be in harmony with the department or the technical workforce. constituency with representatives from each mission statement. PEOs focus on what is Invention, Innovation, and Creativity: group being integrated in different ways expected of a program’s graduates early in Have our graduates utilize their skills into the decision making processes that their careers, specifically, within 3-5 years and resourcefulness to invent, design and impacts the EE undergraduate program. after graduation. realize novel technology; to find creative The first five constituencies are essentially Success in achieving the PEOs is and innovative solutions to engineering the same as previously defined by the regularly evaluated by soliciting feedback problems; and to identify, research and Department, though there has been a from alumni, employers, ECE faculty, and solve new technical challenges in electrical refinement in the understanding of the 15 other program constituents. Representatives engineering and related fields. needs of each of these groups. The sixth from each program’s constituencies are also Professional Development: Have our constituency is new. involved in re-evaluating and recommending graduates stay abreast of emerging technologies, As a formally recognized group, revisions to the PEOs. continually learn new skills, and actively “the Public” was added to the ECE These activities constitute just participate in professional communities to constituency list with the May 20, 2011 one component of the Department’s nourish ever-developing careers. PEOs vote. Understood in its many commitment to continuous improvement Professionalism & Citizenship: Have different senses, the Public encompasses in undergraduate education. In addition, our graduates embrace cultural, societal, local, state, regional, national, and all of these efforts directly support environmental, and ethical issues in their international communities. However, for accreditation, of both the electrical and work to help fulfill their professional purposes of generating PEO feedback, this computer undergraduate programs, under responsibilities to themselves, employers, constituency is primarily focused at the the Engineering Accreditation Commission employees, co-workers, and the local and local, state, and regional level. (EAC) of ABET, Inc. global communities. The interests and needs of the Public In 2009, ECE held a constituent Communication & Teamwork: Have as they pertain to the EE program include: retreat to review and revise the PEOs for our graduates excel on multi-disciplinary advancing the public health, safety, both undergraduate programs. Attended by and multi-cultural teams, demonstrate and well-being through technological students, alumni, leaders from industry, and leadership, and effectively employ their oral developments; innovative advocacy of faculty, the retreat was a great success. The and written communication skills to resolve the public interest through effective participants drafted new PEOs designed to problems and inform, educate and persuade communication and active engagement take the undergraduate programs in new diverse audiences. with relevant communities and cultures; and exciting directions. The proposed Constituencies engineers who are technically competent PEOs were distilled and refined during The primary constituencies with an and prepared to fulfill their professional the 2010-2011 academic year by the interest in or needs satisfied by the EE responsibilities and obligations to society; Undergraduate Affairs Committee. Finally, undergraduate program are: and enhanced economic development. C

A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL of ENGINEERING  GLENN L. MARTIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY alumniNEWS ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AWARDS & HONORS FOR ALUMNI

CARIN NAMED ECE DEPARTMENT systems, he has served as a program manager Dr. Ashok Veeraraghavan, joined the Electrical CHAIR AT DUKE UNIVERSITY and PI on several US DoD programs. He and Computer Engineering Department at is also a research professor in the Applied Rice University where he plans to set up a ECE alumnus Lawrence Carin (B.S. ‘85, M.S., Electromagnetics group of the ECE computer vision and computational imaging 86 and Ph.D. ‘89), was recently named Chair of department at the University of New Mexico. laboratory at Rice. Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke He currently serves as Senior Technical Lead University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He ALUMNA RESNIK REMEMBERED Scientist for TechFlow Inc. At UMD, he was joined Duke in 1995 as an associate professor, ON 25th ANNIVERSARY OF advised by Profs. Steven Anlage, Thomas was promoted to the rank of full professor in CHALLENGER TRAGEDY Antonsen, and Edward Ott. 2001, and named the William H. Younger Professor of Engineering in 2003. Prior to Duke, ALUMNUS SMITH PROMOTED TO Dr. Judith Resnik (‘77), an Electrical Engineering Ph.D. graduate, Space Shuttle he was on the faculty of Polytechnic University FULL PROFESSOR AT CMU astronaut, and the second American woman in Brooklyn, NY. His research focuses on Now a Full Professor of Information in space will forever be remembered as a adaptive physics-based signal processing. Technology and Marketing at the Heinz School trailblazer and a ALUMNUS WHEATLEY EARNS of Business, Michael D. Smith has served as a hero. January 28, IEEE PIONEER AWARD faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University 2011, marked the since 2000. He graduated summa cum laude 25th anniversary C. Frank Wheatley Alumnus (B.S. ’51) (B.S. EE ‘91) and studied Telecommunications of the Challenger was elected an IEEE Pioneer, at the 23rd (M.S. ‘96) at the University of Maryland. He Space Shuttle International Symposium on Power received his Ph.D. in Management Science tragedy, which Semiconductor Devices & ICs, to recognize resulted in the his significant and transformative impact on and Information Technology from the Sloan 16 deaths of Dr. the field of power electronics. He has been School of Management at MIT in 2000. JUDITH RESNIK issued 58 United States patents, published Smith’s teaching focuses on the application Resnik and six other over 150 professional papers, presented 44 of information technology to adapting astronauts on board. The Judith Resnik papers at IEEE conventions, domestically and business practices and industry structure and Memorial Fellowship Fund, established in abroad, and has received many awards. He is competition. Smith’s father, David K. Smith 1986, honors her memory and supports known for his seminal patent in 1982 of the (B.S., EE, ‘64), and sister, Virginia (Smith) fellowship awards to outstanding graduate Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), an O’Connell (B.S. in Engineering and an MBA students at the University of Maryland. electronic device that led to worldwide sales from the Smith School), are also University ALUMNUS HAMID JAFARKHANI of the IGBT that are currently estimated to of Maryland alumni. be worth over $2 billion per year.Wheatley ELECTED AAAS FELLOW was elected into the Electronics Design ECE GRADUATES TURAGA, Magazine Hall of Fame in 2010. VEERARAGHAVAN APPOINTED Alumnus Hamid Jafarkhani (EE, Ph.D. ‘97) was recently elected as a fellow of the ALUMNUS HEMMADY RECEIVES TO FACULTY POSITIONS American Association for the Advancement IEEE OUTSTANDING YOUNG of Science in the Section on Information, ENGINEER AWARD Pavan Turaga (Ph.D., 2009) and Ashok Veeraraghavan (Ph.D., 2008), both Computing, and Communication. He ECE Ph.D. alumnus Sameer Hemmady (‘06) former students of Minta Martin Professor also was named the Conexant-Broadcom Endowed Chair at UC Irvine and director of received the 2011 IEEE Outstanding Young of Engineering and Interim Chair Dr. the Center for Pervasive Communications and Engineer Award from the IEEE Albuquerque, Rama Chellappa, were appointed to Computing. His research is in communication NM Chapter for his work on reconfigurable university faculty positions. Turaga joins theory with emphases on coding, wireless Arizona State University as assistant stealth-antennas, counter-IED technologies communications, and wireless networks. He and electromagnetic weapons design, as well professor in Interactive Media and invented “space-time block coding,” a MIMO as high power microwave (HPM) effects Electrical and Computer Engineering. technology, that has become an active area and active denial technologies. An applied His research interests include automatic of research and is widely used in practice. At physicist with over 7 years experience in interpretation of multimedia signals, Maryland, he was advised by former Provost advanced directed energy weaponized computer vision, and image processing. Nariman Farvardin. C

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2011 studentNEWS ECE Student Laura Freyman Baron Featured Earns NSF Graduate Fellowship in IEEE Institute for Chapter, Laura Freyman was one of 11 outstanding graduate students in students in the A. James Clark School NSF-supported science, technology, Society Work of Engineering to be engineering, and mathematics awarded a National disciplines who are pursuing Sergio Baron, a first-year graduate Science Foundation research-based master’s and student in the ECE Department (NSF) Graduate Research doctoral degrees at accredited advised by Herbert Rabin Distinguished Fellowship. U.S. institutions. Professor and Director of the Institute Laura previously Fellows benefit from a for Systems Research Reza Ghodssi, was participated in the Electrical three-year annual stipend recognized for his work as an Institute and Computer Engineering of $30,000 along with a of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Department’s Maryland $10,500 cost of education (IEEE) member in a recent article in LAURA FREYMAN Engineering Research allowance for tuition and the IEEE Institute. Baron is a chapter Internship Teams (MERIT) fees, opportunities for organizer for the Argentina Section and summer research internship program international research and professional just recently formed a joint chapter of in 2008, and was among the students development, and the freedom to the IEEE Electron Devices and Solid- included on the Fall 2010 Dean’s List. conduct their own research at any State Circuits societies. The Graduate Research Fellowship accredited U.S. institution of graduate Sergio received an Electronics Program recognizes and supports education they choose. C Engineering degree from the National 17 University of La Plata, Argentina in Chen Honored as Outstanding 1999. Since then, he has been active in the field of microelectronics through a Student Abroad By Chinese Govt. teacher/researcher position he held at the same university. Recently, Sergio has participated in several MEMS and ECE Ph.D. student Yan Chen received Chair for Graduate Studies and Research nanotechnology science schools and did the 2010 Chinese Government Award for K. J. Ray Liu. an internship at MINATEC in Grenoble, Outstanding Students Abroad. He was Yan Chen received France. In 2009, he was awarded with one of approximately 500 students to his B.S. degree from the a Fulbright Scholarship that allowed receive the award. Each recipient was University of Science and him to start his Ph.D. studies at the awarded $5,000. Technology of China University of Maryland in Electrical and The purpose of the award (USTC) in 2004 and M.S. Computer Engineering and conduct program is to encourage students degree from Hong Kong research at the MEMS Sensors and to study abroad and engage in new University of Science and Actuators Laboratory (MSAL) since educational experiences across the Technology (HKUST) August 2010. YAN CHEN globe. Since its inception in 2003, a in 2007 before coming “All the skills I acquired during my total of more than 2,400 academic to the University of IEEE volunteer experience have been awards have been awarded to outstanding Maryland. His research interests include paramount in fulfilling my day-to-day doctoral students. multimedia social networks, game duties,” said Sergio. “My organizational skills Yan Chen is advised by Christine theory, multimedia signal processing, and improved a lot, and speaking in front of Yurie Kim Eminent Professor of cooperative multimedia communication audiences of different nationalities became Information Technology and Associate and networking. C normal for me.” C

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The University of Maryland won the 6th and CTI. Cybersecurity presentations were Stephen McCarthy, Aaron Sanders, Nick annual CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Collegiate provided by experts in the field, including Sinlock, and David Wasser; and one graduate Cyber Defense Competition (MA CCDC) Dr. Ernest McDuffie of the National Institute student, Rose Kirby. The four additional in March, earning top honors and the for Standards and Technology (NIST), members of the team that did not compete opportunity to compete against the seven Alan Paller of the SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, were Scott Tomaszewski, Josh Berenhaus, other university finalist teams in the National Network, Security) Institute, and Wende Josh Kamdjou, and Jesse Spears. All of CCDC competition in San Antonio, TX. Peters of JHU APL. the students are members of the University The MA CCDC event, held at the Throughout the MA CCDC of Maryland Cybersecurity Club, a student Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics competition, a “Red Team” of over 25 hackers organization with over 200 members, mostly Laboratory (JHU APL), in Laurel, Md., drew launched relentless attacks against the eight from the Computer Science and Electrical and over 500 competitors, spectators and industry university teams who attempted to defend Computer Engineering Departments. The and government officials from the region. The their networks. In the end, the University of team was coached by Robert Maxwell of the event was supported by the National Science Maryland team was the most successful in University of Maryland’s Office of Information Foundation, the Department of Homeland defending against the attacks. Technology Security team. The Maryland Security and several industry sponsors, The University of Maryland team that Cybersecurity Club is supported by the including Deloitte, Booz Allen Hamilton, competed in the MA CCDC competition Maryland Cybersecurity Center, and sponsored Northrop Grumman, Boeing, CSC, NetApp, included seven undergraduate students: Drew by SAIC, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Neustar, SAIC, Tenable Network Security, Bailey, Justin Chen, Travis Finkenauer, Martin, Harris Corporation, and CSC. C 18 Google Sponsors Cybersecurity Seminar Series

The University of Maryland announced the of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and creation of a new cybersecurity seminar series the Presidential Medal of Freedom. made possible by a sponsorship from Google. Additional Google seminars have featured The Google and University of Maryland Martin Roesch, Chief Technology Officer Cybersecurity Seminar Series will feature of Sourcefire®, Ari Schwartz, Senior Internet a diverse group of speakers from industry, Policy Advisor at the National Institute of academia, and government, addressing a Standards and Technology (NIST), and Dr. broad range of topics related to cybersecurity, Stefan Savage, Professor of Computer Science including technology, policy, and economics. at the University of California, San Diego. Invited speakers will also examine the impact VINT CERF SPOKE AT THE KICK-OFF EVENT The University of Maryland offers an ideal that cybersecurity threats and protective location for seminars about the nation’s growing and economics, mirroring the comprehensive measures are having on privacy, identity, social needs in cybersecurity. The State of Maryland perspective of the new seminar series that places networks, business and national security. special emphasis on “the human factor” of leads the nation in information technology The new series is organized by cybersecurity. Google committed to a three- jobs and more than half of the nation’s Internet the Maryland Cybersecurity Center, a year sponsorship of the new series, which will traffic passes through the Washington, D.C. multidisciplinary initiative at the University feature six seminars per year. metropolitan area. The region is also home to of Maryland launched in Fall 2010 aimed The series kicked off with a special talk U.S. Cyber Command and key federal agencies at research, education, and technology titled “Can We Make the Internet Safer?” by that focus on national cybersecurity, along with development in cybersecurity. The center brings Dr. Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at many area companies specializing in information together faculty experts from engineering Google, on April 7, 2011. Widely known as assurance. The University of Maryland is also and computer science with colleagues from one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Vint Cerf the alma mater of Google Co-Founder and across campus in fields such as information is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and President Sergey Brin. sciences, business, public policy, social sciences the architecture of the Internet and recipient To learn more, visit cyber.umd.edu. C

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2011 TA SELECTED AS ECEGSA PRESIDENT studentNEWS continued TUAN (JOHNNY) TA, A THIRD YEAR ECE PH.D. STUDENT, WAS NAMED THE NEW PRESIDENT OF ETA KAPPA NU WINS School of Engineering. Rebecca Baier, John THE ELECTRICAL AND OUTSTANDING STUDENT Garvey, and Pedro Peña each received an L-3 CHAPTER AWARD COMPUTER Communications Corporation Scholarship for ENGINEERING GRADUATE $4150, and Saara Khan and Prateek Kukreja The Gamma Xi Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, STUDENT the Electrical and Computer Engineering each received an L-3 Communications ASSOCIATION Corporate Partner Scholarship for $1000. (ECEGSA) FOR Honor Society at the University of Maryland, THE 2011-2012 has received the Outstanding Chapter STEVE TJOA AWARDED NSF ACADEMIC Award for 2009-2010. The purpose of the YEAR. TUAN POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH IS ADVISED Outstanding Chapter Award is to recognize FELLOWSHIP BY PROF. JOHN BARAS IN THE excellence in college chapters. The award is FIELD OF SIGNAL PROCESSING & Steve Tjoa (Ph.D., May 2011) received COMMUNICATIONS. HE RECEIVED based on the quality of activities as outlined HIS UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE in the Annual Chapter Report, submitted a National Science Foundation (NSF) WITH HIGH HONORS FROM THE by each chapter. This coveted award is a sign Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. collaboration with Imagine Research, Inc., in of great distinction for a college chapter. HE PREVIOUSLY HELD AN ECEGSA Eta Kappa Nu is a unique membership San Francisco, CA. He will develop machine OFFICE AND WAS A TEACHING organization dedicated to encouraging and learning algorithms that annotate and search ASSISTANT FOR ECE DURING SPRING AND FALL OF 2011. HE recognizing excellence in the electrical and for sound objects from large-scale multimedia RECEIVED A SCHOLARSHIP TO computer engineering field. Members consist collections. Tjoa’s ATTEND THE 5TH EUROPEAN postdoctoral TRUSTED INFRASTRUCTURE of students, alumni, and other professionals. SUMMER SCHOOL, HOSTED BY fellowship is THE INFORMATION SECURITY FORTE AND SRIVASTAVA funded through GROUP (ISG) IN 2010. HE IS WIN AHS 2011 BEST STUDENT LOOKING FORWARD TO FUTURE the NSF/ASEE PAPER AWARD RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN Small Business WIRELESS NETWORKS C 19 Domenic Forte, an ECE graduate student Postdoctoral Research Diversity attending the NASA/ESA Conference on STEVE TJOA JEONGHO JEON EARNS NIST- Fellowship Program, Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS) on ARRA FELLOWSHIP June 6-9 in San Diego, won the AHS 2011 which aims to encourage creative and highly- Best Student Paper Award. Domenic and his trained recipients of doctoral degrees in NSF- Jeongho Jeon, a graduate student in advisor, Prof. Ankur Srivastava, collaborated supported science, technology, engineering and the ECE Department, was awarded the and presented the paper, titled “Adaptable mathematical disciplines to engage in hands-on National Institute for Standards and Video Compression and Transmission Using research projects in their areas of expertise at Technology’s American Recovery and the kind of small innovative businesses that Lossy and Workload Balancing Techniques.” Reinvestment Act Measurement Science Domenic is in his fourth year of Ph.D. work historically have fueled the nation’s economic and Engineering Fellowship (NIST- studying Computer Engineering. His research regime. At Maryland, Steve has been advised ARRA). The fellowship award has a three- focus is in the VLSI Design Automation and by Christine Yurie Kim Eminent Professor year term with stipends to be funded by Embedded Systems area. The purpose of the of Information Technology K. J. Ray Liu the grant at $30,000 annually. Jeongho AHS Conference is to bring together leading and served as a member of the Signals and will work with Dr. Kamran Sayrafian-Pour researchers from the adaptive hardware and Information Group. He recently defended of the NIST Information Technology systems community to exchange experiences his dissertation, “Sparse and Nonnegative Laboratory. This Fellowship entails an and share new ideas in the field. Factorizations for Music Understanding.” His appointment as a Graduate Research research involved problems in music information FIVE ECE STUDENTS SELECTED Assistant with the Institute for Research in FOR L-3 SCHOLARSHIPS retrieval such as music transcription, factorization, and classification.information Electronics and Applied Physics. Jeongho Five ECE students have been selected theoretic and networking concepts and is advised by Cynthia Kim Eminent to receive scholarships from L-3 points to new possibilities towards a stronger Professor of Information Technology Dr. C Communications through the A. James Clark coupling between the two fields. Anthony Ephremides.

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