FALL 2009 Vol. 16, No. 1 CONNECTIONS DEPARTMENT of ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL of ENGINEERING www.ece.umd.edu

Meet ECE’s Guitar Hero Prof. Bruce Jacob has designed his own line of guitars that expand sound range and control, and he has also introduced a new course on guitar design for undergrads. More on p. 4

IN this issue: what’s new in ECE ECE Research Review Day, OCT. 9, p. 2

POWERING THE FUTURE DOE NAMES MARYLAND ENERGY FRONTIER RESEARCH CENTER, p. 2

SMALL MATTERS Researchers Introduce New Era of Miniaturization,, p. 6

WORLD-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY Liu Selected for IEEE Panel FOR RESEARCH THAT COULD HELP PREDICT EARLY CANCER DEVELOPMENT, p. 9

Professor, Innovator DIES AT 89 ECE SAYS GOODBYE TO Hung C. Lin, INVENTOR OF THE LATERAL TRANSISTOR, p. 13 mEssage from the chair RESEARCH REVIEW DAY WILL SHOWCASE ECE PROGRAMS HIGHLY INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP RANKED IN LATEST SURVEYS

We use the terms “entrepreneur” and The U.S. News & World Report’s 2010 “entrepreneurship” in conjunction with education, Best Colleges and Best Graduate Schools research and emerging technology, but we are rarely offered a clear definition of these terms. surveys ranked the University of Maryland’s Department of Electrical and Computer In my opinion, an entrepreneur is a person who Engineering (ECE) undergraduate and PATRICK O’SHEA establishes sustainable enterprises of any sort. graduate programs among the top 20 in the nation. Computer Engineering was ranked A measure of our success will be the real-world, long-term impact of 16th among undergraduate programs and our education, service and research programs, through the problems we solve and the lives we improve. We must do sustainable good 17th among graduate programs. Electrical for society, and therefore, we must establish sustainable enterprises Engineering was ranked 17th among based on our education and research. undergraduate programs and 15th among graduate programs. It is entrepreneurial explorers who will lead us to a bright future.

University of Maryland Entrepreneur \en’ tre • pre • neur\ , noun Named Energy Frontier Research Center Defn: someone who organizes a sustainable enterprise and assumes the risks for it The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) named the University of Maryland an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) as part of An entrepreneur must be willing to accept risk. We rarely can predict which of the horses is going to win the race. Years may pass before a major new program. EFRCs are a means 2 we back a winner. Therefore, we must place our bets far and wide. In to enlist the talents and skills of the very best the years to come, I hope to see a whole spectrum of students and American scientists and engineers to address faculty who take diverse approaches to technology development. current fundamental scientific roadblocks to We must ask ourselves: “If I succeed, will anybody care?” In order U.S. energy security. to be truly great, we must make a solemn commitment to solve The University of Maryland EFRC will some of the great challenges of humanity, and not simply to do address the “Science of Precision Multifunctional research on them. Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage.” Its In this spirit, the Department of Electrical and Computer objective is to understand how nanostructures Engineering (ECE) will hold a special ECE Research Review Day formed from multiple materials behave and their on Friday, October 9 from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm in the Jeong H. Kim potential for a new generation of electrical energy Engineering Building on the University of Maryland’s College Park storage technology. campus. We will present research in key areas impacting the nation and global community: Communications and Networks; Advanced The Maryland team includes researchers Information Systems; Energy and Sustainability; Biomedical from the University of Maryland Energy Technology; Security; and Robotics and Automation. After the Research Center (UMERC) and the Maryland morning talks and mid-day poster sessions, we will host a Faculty Venture Fair competition to highlight entrepreneurial research. NanoCenter. Both research centers are Faculty will present their emerging technologies to a panel of comprised of faculty from three colleges – the venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, focusing on the commercial Clark School of Engineering, Chemical and Life market for their recent inventions. The winner will receive a special Sciences, and Computer, Math and Physical award and plaque for presenting the technology with the most promising commercial—or entrepreneurial—potential. Sciences. The effort will be led by Professor Gary Rubloff, Director of the NanoCenter. For more information about Research Review Day, and to register Maryland is joined by university and online, visit: www.ece.umd.edu/rrd. We hope to see you on Oct. 9. federal laboratory partners at the University of California, Irvine, Sandia National Laboratory, the University of Florida, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Yale University. C

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2009 University Establishes New Center for Applied Electromagnetics New research center will contribute valuable technology innovations to Navy and Department of Defense future systems

The university recently established a the Department of Physics, the new, multi-million dollar Center for Department of Materials Science Applied Electromagnetics (AppEl) and Engineering, the Department of with funding from the Office of Naval Aerospace Engineering, the Institute Research (ONR). for Research in Electronics and Dr. Patrick O’Shea, Professor Applied Physics, the Institute for and Chairman of the Department of Physical Science and Technology, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute for Systems Research and (ECE), will serve as executive the Institute for Advanced Computer director of the new center. AppEl Studies. The center will also be will be the “focal point for basic working with other institutions, such research on topics that promise to as the Naval Postgraduate School and lead to significant improvement and Boise State University; among others. valuable new concepts in Navy and The opportunity for the center Department of Defense (DoD) future came when Rear Admiral William systems,” said O’Shea. E. “Bill” Landay III, chief of naval The Center’s research will focus research, was the featured speaker on electromagnetic phenomena in at a Division of Research-sponsored the spectral range from microwaves to research seminar last February. During Landay’s remarks, he spoke about visible light. The research will form a 3 basis for all-electric ships, speed-of-light RESEARCH FOCUS WILL INCLUDE ALL-ELECTRIC SHIPS the Navy’s interest in dominating the weapons and advanced communication electromagnetic spectrum and fighting technologies for the U.S. Navy. 19 faculty researchers from seven academic at the speed of light. “The admiral’s Victor Granatstein, a professor with departments and research institutes across vision intersected with the concept I had in ECE, will be the research director of the campus. These include the Department mind for the Center,” said O’Shea. C center, which will include approximately of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Story by Lisa Gregory, Graphic by Jennifer Paul NSA Designates Maryland as ‘National Center of Academic Excellence’

The National Security Agency (NSA) has Professor John Baras, Associate Professor a process that will present opportunities designated the University of Maryland as a Sennur Ulukus, and Associate Professor for IA research centers to drill deeper into National Center of Academic Excellence in Min Wu. much needed solutions to securing the Information Assurance Research. The university NSA and the Department of global information grid and provide NSA, received the formal award at the 13th Colloquium Homeland Security (DHS) jointly DHS, and other federal agencies with for Information Systems Security Education. sponsor the National Centers of Academic insight into academic IA programs that “This award is a recognition of the Excellence Programs and began the can support advanced academic research critical role that University of Maryland Information Assurance (IA) Research and development capabilities. research is playing in the protection of the program in 2007 to promote robust Universities designated as Centers information and communications resources information assurance technology, policy, of Academic Excellence in Information essential to 21st century life,” said Gerry and practices that will enable the United Assurance Education and Centers of Sneeringer, Director of Information States to effectively prevent and respond Academic Excellence in IA Research are Technology Security in the University of to catastrophic events. The program eligible to apply for scholarships and grants Maryland Office of Information Technology. recognizes schools that foster an IA through both the Federal and Department ECE faculty members provided ideas research focus in curriculum as well as labs. of Defense Information Assurance and material for the proposal, including The vision for this program is to establish Scholarship Programs. C

A. James Clark School of Engineering  Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology spotlightonENTREPRENEURSHIP ECE Professor Introduces New Guitar Technology

Electrical and Computer Engineering they wanted from a guitar. Jacob then red, intense red, pale red. But basically (ECE) Professor Bruce Jacob pried open designed the guitars to put them in. In everything you could do with it is red. As his new electric guitar and wondered why July, the Coil team officially launched soon as you can throw in blue, well, you he couldn’t get can make red more sounds and blue -- and out of it. purple. Throw in It was the yellow, you get first guitar green and orange Jacob had and all sorts of purchased stuff.” since he was a Jacob wanted teenager, but every available he found that option from his the instrument’s guitar’s pickups. tones were Rather than more limited rewiring them, as than the guitars many guitarists he grew up do, he connected playing. The each pickup to engineer in a circuit board 4 him sought an in the back of JACOB’S NEW GUITARS OFFER A WIDE RANGE FOR MUSICIANS | PHOTO BY BENJAMIN SOLOMON answer. the guitar. That “I decided circuit board is to catalog every cool sound a guitar could sales of their dream guitars at equipped with small jumpers or pegs that naturally make,” said Jacob, a Clark www.coil-guitars.com. can be set into different slots to configure School Keystone Professor and Director of What makes Coil guitars unique? An the pickups to almost any combination to the Computer Engineering program. “But electric guitar’s distinct sounds come from produce various sounds. the problem was, as every engineer knows, its pickups, magnets wrapped in copper “Paul Reed Smith was one of the first when you investigate how things work, wire that “pick up” the vibrations of a guys to come up with a custom switch to you begin to realize what is possible.” guitar’s strings, convert them into electrical give you all the permutations available,” In 2006 Jacob launched Coil LLC to currents and send them to an amplifier, said Paul Schein, guitar guru for Chuck make his ideal guitar. Jacob also created a speaker or recording device. Guitarists can Levin’s Washington Music Center. “What new course at the University of Maryland select different pickups through a switch [Jacob] has done is take it to the next that covers the physics and circuit details on the guitar to produce different sounds. level. Here is how you get these two coils behind electric guitars, titled ENEE 159b: How those pickups are configured—for in parallel, these in series. These are the Electric Guitar Design. instance, if they are wired to one another five or so I want. That’s a cool thing Five ECE students who studied or not —also determines the sounds any because it allows people to go in and under Jacob joined Coil: Justin one guitar can make. configure the guitar.” Ahmanson and Tim Babich, now both “If you have a bunch of paints, you Each of Coil’s pickup switches offers alumni, current graduate student Joseph can create any paint you want from the a different circuit board and switch Gross and undergraduates Franklin three or four fundamental colors. With configuration. The Tonefly™ E/P switch DeHart and Christopher Monaghan. guitars, it’s the exact same thing, “ said offers seven different sounds, with five Together they developed patent-pending Jacob. “But most guitars have just one available through a five-way switch when electronics to give them all of the sounds color. You could have deep red, light playing the guitar. The CustomWire™

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2009 model also uses a five-way switch, but can says. “It is a low-pass filter, cutting off New Battery, Security be customized to more than 50 wildly high frequencies and sapping some of your different tones. The Jacob’s Ladder™ model signal. We were wondering how to make a Key Technology Wins gives musicians 22 unique sounds, but tone knob that really changes the guitar’s Invention of the Year combines a three-way switch with a five- resonant frequency.” way switch to make 15 of the 22 tones Enter Qtone™ (one knob) and Qfreq™ ECE researchers won in two of three available at play time. (two knob), tone controls that revive categories at the University of Maryland’s For guitarists, this means they don’t and enhance one of the most effective 22nd annual Invention of the Year Awards, organized by the university’s Office of have to rewire a guitar to get the sounds technologies that has ever appeared in Technology Commercialization. they want. It also means they may need electric guitars, according to Jacob: the In the Physical Science category, Prof. to carry fewer guitars with them to passive parametric EQ filter, which allows Martin Peckerar and Prof. Neil Goldsman performances, since they can get more you to change central frequency and filter won for their invention, titled “World’s Highest sounds out of one guitar. bandwidth (“the Q”). Coil’s tone knobs, Energy Density Thin-Film Battery.” Their “Last night I dragged four guitars, developed by DeHart and Monaghan, millimeter-thick, rechargeable batteries offer more capacity than any other thin-film battery “Last night I dragged four guitars to in the world. The batteries are comprised entirely of environmentally friendly materials, and can a recording session. Reducing that be manufactured using a cost-effective printing number by having a guitar that is process. Remotely rechargeable, the batteries gather energy from environmental sources, such more versatile would make life easier as solar energy, vibrations and radio waves. They when going to gigs or to record.” can even be recharged simply by pointing a cell phone at them. They are well suited to power ultra-small electronics, including implantable 5 including a Telecaster, a Gibson, and an old can make a guitar sound rich and full, medical devices and wireless sensor networks, sixties model that does something a little bright and chimey, nasal and funky, and and can outlast many of these devices. Yves different, to a recording session,” said Ron everything in between. Ngu, Zeynep Dilli and George Metze from Haney, a music producer and a guitarist Coil is sponsoring further audio the National Security Agency also worked on for Alicia Keys who has also played with electronics development at the University this project. Peckerar and Goldsman formed a Bono, Gwen Stefani and Sheryl Crow. of Maryland through a $135,000 start-up company, FlexEl LLC, to commercialize the battery. The FlexEl team was the winner of “Reducing that number by having a guitar Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) $20K in the information technology division that is more versatile would make life easier project. The company is located in the of the University of Maryland’s $75K Business when going to gigs or to record.” new TERP Startup Lab, a technology Plan Competition, held on May 8. Jacob’s next invention, called incubation program for university faculty, In the Information Science category, LevelHeaded™, makes it easier to students, and regional entrepreneurs. Prof. John Baras was recognized for his work combine different pickup combinations. Coil has donated electronics, circuit with the Army Research Laboratory on a key For instance, when guitarists switch components, guitars and recording exchange system to secure Internet transactions, from a crunchy humbucker sound to equipment to the university for use in its titled “Efficient Key Exchange for Symmetric a clean, crisp, single coil, the volume instructional facilities. Cryptosystems.” Baras and his fellow researchers drops, making it difficult to play live. Jacob’s new guitars were featured in discovered a method of efficiently updating LevelHeaded™ gives each switch setting its The Chronicle of Higher Education, The and exchanging secret keys that exploits the randomness of Markov models in selecting own volume, so single coils come out as Washington Post, the IEEE Spectrum, and a new key. This new method eliminates the loud as humbuckers. NPR’s All Things Considered. Visit www. need for third-party key management, public “We put the volume adjustment after coil-guitars.com to see the company’s key infrastructure, and large amounts of the switch,” says Jacob. “No one has done guitars, videos of musicians playing them, storage space. His invention is of interest for that before.” and interactive demonstrations of how its national defense systems and major banking The Coil team next turned to the tone electronics work. C companies. Paul Yu and Brian Sadler also knob. “Most people don’t use it,” Jacob Story by Eric Schurr, Mtech worked on this project. C

A. James Clark School of Engineering  Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology spotlightonRESEARCH Ghodssi, Researchers Introduce New Era of Miniaturization with Micro-Machines Technology The modern-day soldier carries a heavy Ghodssi’s lab, microball bearings have been power the vehicles’ electrical systems without load. Try to imagine running hard in a implemented in electrically-actuated rotary weighing them down. desert environment toting some 100 pounds platforms for controlled angular positioning To create their machines, Ghodssi of weapons, body armor, simple medical as well as high-speed turbomachinery for and his team first had to conquer the supplies, food and water, and an array of microscale fuel pumps. The successful science of microscale “tribology” or the digital communications and computing development of these devices will lead friction, wear, and lubrication of tiny rolling devices. Every pound matters, components. They then applied this including the 20 pounds of lithium knowledge in building different types ion and other batteries that power of micromachines using conventional those digital devices. manufacturing processes, and finally A team of researchers at the A. in integrating these devices into tiny James Clark School of Engineering, systems that can reliably accomplish led by Herbert Rabin Distinguished a task such as power generation over Professor of Engineering Reza a reasonable period of time, and not Ghodssi and funded by the U.S. simply burn up. Army Research Laboratory and U.S. Prof. Ghodssi and his fellow Army Research Office, has recently researchers recently received a three- succeeded in manufacturing year, $330,000 NSF grant for research micromachines—tiny pumps, on microball bearing systems with an 6 motors, and turbines that, emphasis on material interfaces for SCHEMATIC OF THE TURBOGENERATOR AND VISCOUS PUMP integrated in a microscale liquid- MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) fuel power generation system, could applications. Ghodssi is the principal directly to the realization of small-scale power significantly reduce a soldier’s battery load. investigator (PI) for the research project, generators and high-performance directional The engineers’ advances also hold promise titled “Tribologically-Enhanced Encapsulated in technologies for health care (micropumps sensors systems.” Microball Bearings for Reduced Friction for implantable medical devices) and first “The Army needs small-scale, liquid- and Wear in High-Performance Rotary responders (bio-chemical sensors). fueled power generators that can provide Microactuators and PowerMEMS Devices.” The Clark School researchers have higher energy, at lighter weight and lower The objective of this work is to develop high- successfully miniaturized ball bearing support cost, than current fielded power sources,” performance rotary ball bearings for MEMS mechanisms with microballs as wide as a said Bruce Geil, Acting Branch Chief for using special, tribologically-enhanced thin- few human hairs and nearly invisible to the the Power Components Branch of the U.S. film coatings. naked eye. Using these components, they Army Research Laboratory. “Dr. Ghodssi’s “We focused on feasibility—building have built tiny silicon pumps, motors, and team is developing key fuel delivery and pumps and motors that are fast enough turbines demonstrating rotational speeds of electrical generator components to meet our to do the jobs required, reliable enough to up to 87,000 rpm, comparable to the speed of requirements.” last, and easy enough to manufacture in large-scale machinery. Micromachine systems also will help power the real world,” said Ghodssi. “As in the “Traditional actuators built for micro land or air-based “micro vehicles” (also under miniaturization of electronics, we expect systems are restrained to linear motion or development at the Clark School in partnership to achieve successive generations of higher small-angle rotation,” adds Dr. Rajinder P. with government agencies) that will venture and higher efficiency and refinement in Khosla, program director in the Division into risk-filled environments ahead of soldiers micromachine systems, and to see the of Electrical, Communications, and Cyber or first responders and send back information. creation not only of new defense and medical Systems of the National Science Foundation’s Microgenerators fabricated completely in silicon products, but of entirely new technologies no Directorate for Engineering. “In Dr. and supported on microball bearings could one has yet imagined.” C

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2009 New Research Grants for ECE Faculty BIOMEDICAL and Princeton University on this four-year, and embedded software, this research project $11.5M DARPA-sponsored program, with will extend the MCAI paradigm to systems Espy-Wilson Receives NIH Grant To Help Tongue Cancer Maryland’s share consisting of $2.53M. Rajeev with complex continuous dynamics and Patients’ Speech Barua is the lead UMD PI; Alan Sussman probabilistic behaviors. and Rance Cleaveland are co-PIs. Reflecting The research will include: understanding Prof. Carol Espy-Wilson’s research has been the belief that serial programs will continue the precursors and course of pancreatic cancer; funded by a new grant from the National to represent the vast majority of programs in predicting the onset of atrial fibrillation; and Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Control the world, the goal of the AESOP project is obtaining deep design-time insights into the and Population Sciences (DCCPS), part of to compile serial programs automatically into behavior of automotive and aerospace control the U.S. National Institutes of Heath (NIH). parallel programs. The AESOP project will use systems. Ultimately, the project is expected to Espy-Wilson is co-principal investigator (Co-PI) an aggressive suite of existing methods and new provide vital tools that will enable health care for the new grant, titled “Predictors of Speech techniques that the researchers have developed researchers to discover better treatments for Quality after Tongue Cancer Surgery.” The to extract large-amounts of scalable parallelism, disease and will allow engineers to build safer PI for the grant is Dr. Maureen Stone of the even from seemingly serial irregular programs. aircraft and other complex systems. This will enable software to exploit the full University of Maryland Dental School, and Dr. The researchers hope to develop potential of the hardware in the modern multi- Jerry Prince of Johns Hopkins University is revolutionary techniques for automatically core era. Further, the compiler will accurately the other Co-PI. The five-year grant is worth a analyzing and predicting the behavior of characterize and compile to a wide variety of total of $2,760,296. Espy-Wilson’s portion of biological and control systems. Using the computer systems without any manual effort. the grant is worth $422,761. The researchers new techniques, scientists and engineers will try to improve the speech outcome of MARCUS PART OF FIVE-YEAR, $10M will be able to greatly accelerate the pace of tongue cancer surgery by minimizing the their discoveries by automating tasks that ‘EXPEDITIONS IN COMPUTING’ GRANT 7 impact of tongue reconstruction, so patients currently must be performed manually. can communicate more clearly and confidently. Prof. Steve Marcus is co-principal investigator The work is intrinsically Espy-Wilson’s role will be to develop 3-D (co-PI) for the University of Maryland’s portion multidisciplinary. Cleaveland works on vocal tract models based on cine-MRI data to of a major new National Science Foundation embedded software. Marcus studies control perform acoustic analysis of the patients’ speech collaborative research grant, “Next-Generation and systems theories and will develop signals in order to understand the effects of Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation mathematical models that take into account tongue surgery on speech quality. with a Focus on Embedded Control and uncertainties. Wu, whose research interests Systems Biology.” The five-year, $10M project include computational statistics and statistical Computing is part of NSF’s “Expeditions in Computing” genetics, will focus on cancer classification and Barua WinS DARPA Funding for initiative. Maryland’s part of the project is the genetic determination of diseases. AESOP Project worth $1.8M. Carnegie Mellon University is the Along with Marcus, Prof. Rance lead institution for the program. In Prof. Rajeev Barua is the University of Cleaveland is the principal investigator (PI) for addition to the University of Maryland, Maryland’s principal investigator (PI) for the project, and Prof. Tongtong Wu is a co-PI. other collaborating institutions are the City a large research grant recently acquired The consortium will develop new University of New York, New York University, through the Defense Advanced Research computational tools to help scientists SUNY Stony Brook, Cornell University and Projects Agency (DARPA). This research and engineers analyze and understand NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. program, known as AESOP, or Adaptive the behavior of the complex models they Environment for Supercompiling with Vishkin Receives NSF Grant develop for application domains ranging Optimized Parallelism, represents a major for Asynchrony in Desktop multi-institution collaboration to develop a from systems biology to embedded control. Supercomputer Technology state-of-the-art compiler that can compile Building on the success of model checking serial programs automatically into parallel and abstract interpretation (MCAI), two Prof. Uzi Vishkin is co-Principal Investigator programs to a wide variety of platforms. well-established methods for automatically (PI) for a National Science Foundation Maryland will collaborate with BAE Systems verifying properties of digital circuit designs (NSF) grant that will support his research, (Continued on p. 8) A. James Clark School of Engineering  Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology spotlightonRESEARCH continued

New Research Grants for ECE Faculty (cont.)

(Continued from p. 7) MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) collaborative project with researchers at the titled “Design and Tools for Easy-to-Program Applications.” Prof. James Culver from the Northwestern University and the University of Massively Parallel On-Chip Systems: Deriving University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute Texas, Austin. Maryland’s portion of the grant Scalability through Asynchrony.” The grant, is Co-PI. The objective of the research is to is worth $371,166. This research initiative worth nearly $1 million, was one of only two make use of the self-assembly and metal- goes beyond the physical layer in defining and large-scale team proposals awarded by NSF in binding properties of a biological nanostructure, analyzing cooperative techniques for wireless the “Design Automation for Micro and Nano the TMV, in the development of novel networks. By incorporating higher layer Systems” area for its Computing Processes functional materials and fabrication processes properties, such as traffic dynamics and access and Artifacts program. The research is being for energy microsystems applications. The control, Ephremides and his fellow researchers will develop a new theoretical framework conducted jointly with Prof. Steven Nowick of researchers also received a $250,000 FY2009 for analyzing and designing cooperative Columbia University, an expert in asynchronous Maryland Nanobiotechnology Research networking algorithms across the layers. computing. The researchers are engaged in and Industry Competition Grant for this research, awarded by the Maryland Technology new parallel processing technology aimed at Wu Receives Grant FOR Cross- Development Corporation (TEDCO) and the improving scalability and power consumption in layer Secure Communications the next generation of computers. Maryland Biotechnology Center.

NETWORKS AND WIRELESS Prof. Min Wu is the principal investigator for Srivastava, Narayan Receive NSF COMMUNICATIONS a 3-year, $300K National Science Foundation Grant for Thermal Management grant. This effort focuses on “Addressing Physical- on Multi-Core Processors Milner, Davis Awarded $1 Layer Challenges via CLAWS: Cross-Layer Million AFOSR Grant Prof. Ankur Srivastava and Prof. Prakash Approaches to Wireless Secure Communications.” 8 Narayan have been awarded a new, three- Prof. Christopher Davis and Prof. Stuart The research will investigate the role of physical- layer properties and systematic engineering year National Science Foundation (NSF) Milner have been awarded a three-year grant modeling in designing secure communications grant worth $450,000 for a research project worth $1,048,279 from the Air Force Office systems, and jointly optimize overall system titled “Information Theoretic Multi-Core of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The grant performance to provide secure communications Processor Thermal Profile Estimation.” will support their research proposal, titled for current and future generation networks. Srivastava is principal investigator (PI) for the “Quantifying and Assuring Information Transfer research grant while Narayan is Co-PI. The in Dynamic Heterogeneous Wireless Networks.” La Receives NSF Grant for researchers seek to improve the performance Milner will serve as Principal Investigator (PI) Network Pricing Mechanisms and reliability of multicore processors through while Davis will serve as Co-PI. The Maryland thermal management research. researchers, along with fellow researchers at Prof. Richard La has received a National Cornell University and University of Illinois, Science Foundation Theoretical Foundations ENERGY will conduct a theoretical investigation of next grant for “Network pricing with uncertainty: Ghodssi Receives Grants for generation, complex, heterogeneous, wireless risk aversion and incomplete information.” Novel Nanofabrication for networks aimed at quantifying, controlling The three-year, $300K grant will identify Energy Applications and managing information transfer for theater, suitable frameworks for designing efficient and tactical and strategic support. fair network pricing mechanisms. Prof. Reza Ghodssi received a new three- year grant from the National Science Ephremides Receives NSF Grant SECURITY Foundation worth $401,712 for research on for Cooperative Networking novel, biological nanofabrication processes Horiuchi, Humbert Developing Bio-Inspired Navigation for for the development of small-scale energy Prof. Anthony Ephremides is the principal storage devices utilizing the Tobacco mosaic investigator (PI) on a new National Science Micro Air Vehicles virus (TMV). Ghodssi is the principal Foundation (NSF) research grant on Prof. Timothy Horiuchi and Prof. J. Sean investigator (PI) for the research project, titled “Cooperative Networking Across the Layers.” Humbert are collaborating with Aurora “Nanofabrication Using Viral Biotemplates for The three-year grant is part of a larger (Continued on p. 9)

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2009 (Continued from p. 8) Liu Selected for IEEE Panel on Flight Sciences and the U.S. Air Force to develop a sonar and vision-based micro air World Changing Technologies vehicle (MAV) navigation guidance system. The project is titled “Panoramic Avoidance The Institute of development of some of and Navigation using OPTics Integrated Electrical and the emerging innovations with Sonar” (PANOPTIS). PANOPTIS Electronics Engineers and technological is being developed for a new generation of (IEEE), the world’s advancements for the largest technical betterment of humanity.” autonomous MAVs designed to operate professional society, Using signal in cluttered urban environments. The featured ECE Professor processing, Dr. Liu has lightweight guidance system will enable K.J. Ray Liu and developed a theoretical “swallow-like” flight by using a combination his research at an model called “ensemble of optical and sonar navigation sensors event marking the dependence” for how inspired by insects and bats. Horiuchi’s work organization’s 125th studying the behavior anniversary on March of DNA can help will provide bat-based echolocating sensors 10. Liu was selected as predict early cancer while Humbert’s research results in optic one of seven panelists development. Dr. Liu flow sensors that mimic the vision of insects. offering “world and his research team changing” technologies have developed a model K. J. RAY LIU Liu and Wu Awarded AFOSR that will change the way that, by testing the Grant for Media Forensics humans interact with interaction between machines, the world, and each other. an individual’s genomic and proteomic Prof. K. J. Ray Liu is the principal The panel of technology experts, signaling through a simple blood test, investigator (PI), and Prof. Min Wu is the moderated by The New York Times senior can determine if the patient is in the co-PI for a grant from the Air Force Office editor and technology reporter Steve transition stage to developing cancer, 9 Lohr, discussed emerging technologies and identify the type. This information of Scientific Research (AFOSR). This 3-year in fields ranging from biometrics, will offer the earliest possible prediction effort will investigate theories and algorithms computing, wireless power, and cancer of whether an individual is in danger to perform non-intrusive forensic analysis on research, that they believe have the for developing cancer and allow for multimedia devices and digital content. potential to change the world. preventative treatment. “For 125 years, IEEE and its “Our method has yielded very ECE Faculty Win MURI Awards members have influenced the creation of promising performance so far,” Liu nearly all the technologies we now cannot said. “Investigations of mathematical Several ECE faculty members were awarded imagine life without,” said 2008 IEEE patterns related to the proposed Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives President Lewis M. Terman at the event. method have allowed us to pinpoint (MURIs) by the U.S. Department of Defense: “Today we take a glimpse into the future the transition in between cancer and with some of those who are driving the normal gene patterns.” C John Baras, Nuno Martins and Eyad Abed are involved in a MURI awarded to Georgia Tech and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research on “Distributed Learning and Information ECE Faculty Win DoD Awards SIMULATION AND CONTROL Dynamics in Networked Autonomous Systems.” Shihab Shamma is working with Johns Three ECE faculty members have been awarded Fu, Marcus Awarded NSF GRANT Hopkins and the Office of Naval Research on Department of Defense (DoD) University “Figure-Ground Processing, Saliency and Guided Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Prof. Michael Fu is principal investigator and Attention for Analysis of Large Natural Scenes.” Awards. Rama Chellappa received an award for Prof. Steven Marcus is co-PI for a new National Rama Chellappa is working with fellow “Multi-sensor Remote Biometrics System.” Edo Science Foundation grant, “Combining faculty researchers Larry Davis and John Waks received an award for “Superconducting Gradient and Adaptive Search in Simulation Benedeto on a MURI awarded to Rice University Magnet for Quantum Information Processing with Optimization.” The three-year, $350K grant and the Army Research Office, “Opportunistic Spin States.” Thomas Murphy received an award aims to make significant theoretical and practical Sensing for Object & Activity Recognition.” for “Complexity-Based Optical Sensor Networks.” advances in simulation optimization. C

A. James Clark School of Engineering  Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology facultyNEWS SignificantH onors and Awards for ECE Faculty

O’Shea Named Distinguished four-year research program for selected computer and information technology. Scholar-Teacher undergraduate honors students of all Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov majors. Under guidance of faculty personally presented the award at an Professor and ECE Chairman Patrick mentors and Gemstone staff, teams of official ceremony held at the Presidential O’Shea was selected as a 2009-2010 students design, direct and conduct building in Sofia. The Atanasoff Award is Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by named after John Atanasoff, a renowned significant research, exploring the the University of Maryland. The American scientist and electrical engineer interdependence of science and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher program of Bulgarian descent, and inventor of technology with society. recognizes faculty members who have the world’s first automatic electronic demonstrated outstanding scholarly digital computer. Each year, one young achievement along with equally Liu Receives Outstanding Bulgarian is recognized with the award for outstanding accomplishments as teachers. Research Award, Elected his or her significant contribution to the Prof. O’Shea will give a Distinguished President-Elect of IEEE SPS, development of computer and information Scholar-Teacher Lecture in October. Fellow of AAAS technology. Prof. Petrov has been an ECE faculty member since 2004. His research Chellappa Named Fellow of Prof. K. J. Ray Liu, ECE Associate Chair interests focus on application-specific OSA, Elected President of for Graduate Studies and Research, received processors and embedded systems. IEEE Biometrics CounciL the Clark School’s Faculty Outstanding Research Award. The award was given to Dr. EDO Waks EARNs NSF Minta Martin Liu in recognition of his pioneering work in CAREER Award Professor of the research areas of information forensics Engineering Rama and security, wireless communications, and Prof. Edo Waks 10 Chellappa was bioinformatics. Prof. Liu is the only Clark was the recipient of a 2009 National recently named a School faculty member who has received Science Foundation Fellow of the Optical both the Faculty Outstanding Research (NSF) Faculty Early Society of America Award and the Poole and Kent Outstanding Career Development (OSA). In their last RAMA CHELLAPPA Teaching Award for Senior Faculty. (CAREER) Award meeting on October Prof. Liu was elected President-Elect for “Coherent EDO WAKS 20, the OSA Board of Directors elected of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Interactions Between Prof. Chellappa to the rank of Fellow of Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society Photons and the Society. Chellappa was recognized for (SPS). The IEEE SPS has more than 15,000 Quantum Dots Using Photonic Crystals.” pioneering contributions in image and video- members worldwide. He will assume the The five-year grant is worth $400,000. The based pattern recognition and computer position of President for 2012-2013. Prof. research will help develop new fundamental vision. Prof. Chellappa was also elected Liu was also elected Fellow of the American concepts in the control of semiconductor President of the newly formed Institute of Association for the Advancement of Science nanostructures at the quantum level, as well Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (AAAS). Liu is one of a select group of as coherent light-matter interactions.

Biometrics Council, a new entity that will new fellows recognized as leaders whose U.S. DePARTMENT of Commerce coordinate all biometrics related activities contributions toward the advancement Taps PAMELA Abshire for sponsored by the IEEE. of science and technology are deemed Advisory Committee Prof. Chellappa was also selected scientifically or socially distinguished. to receive the Outstanding Gemstone The U.S. Department of Commerce has Peter Petrov Wins Mentor Award. Prof. Chellappa was appointed Prof. Pamela Abshire to its new Atanasoff Award nominated for the award by the Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Gemstone students he advised. The Prof. Peter Petrov was presented with Committee. The committee will advise the Gemstone Program at the University of the 2008 John Atanasoff Award for department on the application of export Maryland is a unique multidisciplinary achievement in the development of controls to cutting-edge research and (Continued on p. 11)

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2009 techniques and algorithms for low power (Continued from p. 10) scholarly work in speech recognition and innovation, and on identifying emerging and high performance integrated systems. speech science. technologies and research and development His primary focus is on fabrication activities that may be of interest from a dual- variability and manufacturability MIN Wu Elected VP for use perspective. concerns in VLSI. Finance of THE IEEE Signal Prof. Srivastava has been invited to Ghodssi Promoted to Full Processing Society Professor become associate editor for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Prof. Min Wu Herbert Rabin (IEEE) Transactions on Very-Large-Scale has been elected Distinguished Integration (VLSI), the top journal Vice President for Associate Professor in the VLSI field. Srivastava was also Finance of the Reza Ghodssi was named associate editor of Integration, Institute of Electrical promoted to the the VLSI Journal. and Electronics rank of full professor, Engineers (IEEE) effective July 1, Signal Processing Marcus ELECTED SIAM Fellow MIN WU 2009. Ghodssi is REZA GHODSSI Society (SPS), for the Herbert Rabin Prof. Steven I. Marcus was elected a Fellow a three-year term of 2010-2012. As Vice Distinguished Professor and Director of of the Society President-Finance, Prof. Wu will be a voting the MEMS Sensors and Actuators Lab. for Industrial member of the SPS’s Board of Governors, His research interests include the design and Applied Executive Committee, Conference Board and and development of microfabrication Mathematics Publications Board, and will lead financial technologies and their applications to micro/ (SIAM). Consisting planning and management efforts related to nano devices and systems for chemical of over 12,000 major SPS activities and policies. and biological sensing, small-scale energy 11 members, SIAM conversion and harvesting. fosters the Shihab Shamma Named to NIH Prof. Ghodssi is the organizing development of STEVE MARCUS Study Section committee chair for the 9th International applied mathematical Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology The National Institutes of Health have and computational methodologies needed for Power Generation and Energy appointed Professor Shihab Shamma to serve in academic, manufacturing, research and Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS as a member of the Auditory System Study development, government, and military 2009). The conference will be held Dec. Section of the Center for Scientific Review. His organizations worldwide. Marcus was in the 1–4, 2009 at the American Film Institute four-year term runs through June 2012. Prof. inaugural class of SIAM Fellows. Marcus Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Shamma was selected for his achievements in was also honored in April at a symposium Silver Spring, Md. the discipline of auditory systems. at the University of Maryland titled “Advances in Discrete Event, Nonlinear and Srivastava RECEIVES TENURE, Bhattacharyya Selected Stochastic Systems Modeling and Control.” Named Associate Editor of for Fulbright Grant IEEE Transactions on VLSI Espy-Wilson Included in “Soul Professor Shuvra Bhattacharyya has of Technology” Exhibit Prof. Ankur been selected for a Fulbright Senior Srivastava was Prof. Carol Espy-Wilson was included in Specialists Grant at the Salzburg promoted to the University of Applied Sciences in rank of Associate an exhibit in Palo Alto, California, titled Austria. The grant will provide support Professor with “Soul of Technology,” which showcased tenure. Srivastava’s the 50 most important African Americans for Prof. Bhattacharyya to offer advice research areas in technology. Espy-Wilson is named on a new Masters Program that the include VLSI among 16 “Educators” on the list, and university is developing in Embedded A. SRIVASTAVA design automation was recognized for her research and Signal Processing. C

A. James Clark School of Engineering  Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology facultyNEWS continued Eyad Abed to Join United Arab Emirates University Olivia Goetz Retires

Institute for Systems Research (ISR) Director and ECE After 43 Years of Professor Eyad Abed will become the dean of the ServicE AT MARYLAND College of Information Technology (CIT) at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in the fall. Abed intends to ECE staff maintain formal ties to the University of Maryland by member taking extended leave. He also plans to work toward establishing a research partnership between the two Olivia universities in information technology and related areas. Goetz was A faculty member of ECE and ISR since 1983, and honored at director of ISR for the past seven years, Dr. Abed has expertise in system and control theory; electric power EYAD ABED a retirement system dynamics and control; aerospace control systems; celebration and the analysis and design of complex networks. on June “Dr. Abed has had an extraordinarily successful career at Maryland,” said 22. Friends, ECE Chairman Patrick O’Shea. “We wish him every success as Dean of the College of Information Technology at UAEU, and look forward to extensive family, and collaborations with CIT and other colleges at UAEU.” co-workers OLIVIA GOETZ gathered to NEW BOOKS BY FACULTY: pay tribute to Olivia’s warmth, professionalism, and outstanding Liu Co-Authors New Book on “Cooperative service to the ECE Department. Communications and Networking” Olivia was also recognized for 43 ECE Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Research K. J. years of service to the University Ray Liu is the co-author of a new book titled “Cooperative Communications of Maryland at the Clark School’s and Networking.” The book, published by Cambridge University Press, 2009 Staff Appreciation Event offers a holistic approach to cooperative communications and networking, 12 giving equal consideration to the concepts of space, time, frequency on May 13. ECE Chairman Patrick diversity and MIMO. O’Shea was on hand to recognize Mayergoyz Co-Authors New Book her at both events. C

Prof. Isaak Mayergoyz co-authored a new book titled “Nonlinear Magnetization Dynamics in Nanosystems.” The book, published by Elsevier Science, deals with ECE Faculty in the news the analytical study of nonlinear magnetization dynamics in nanomagnetic devices and structures. The topics discussed in the book are of interest to the Ghodssi Featured in Mechanical broad audience of electrical engineers, material scientists, physicists, applied Engineering Magazine Cover Story mathematicians, and numerical analysts involved in the development of novel magnetic storage technology and novel nanomagnetic devices. Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor Reza Ghodssi was featured in a cover story in the New Edition of Davis’ Experimental Research April 2009 issue of Mechanical Guide Book Released Engineering magazine. The piece focused on Ghodssi’s research on A new edition of a book co-authored by Professor Christopher Davis has microscale ball bearings for use in been published by Cambridge University Press. The book, titled “Building micromachines and Micro-Electro- Scientific Apparatus,” was originally published in 1983, and was co-authored Mechanical Systems (MEMS) devices. by Davis, John H. Moore, and Michael A. Caplan. Now in its fourth edition, the book serves as a valuable guide to teach scientists and engineers how to Bhattacharyya Interviewed in perform experiments. Vision Systems Design Magazine

Levine’s Handbook of Networked and An interview with Professor Embedded Control Systems Most Popular Shuvra Bhattacharyya was Download published in the April 2009 issue of the magazine Vision Systems The Handbook of Networked and Embedded Control Systems, co-edited by Design. He was interviewed for Prof. William Levine and Dimitris Hristu-Varsekalis, had the largest number the magazine’s Leading Edge of downloaded chapters of any book in the Springer Engineering E-book Views feature on the subject of collection in 2008. So far, it is ranked second highest in 2009. C signal architecture. C

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2009 IN MEMORIAM Professor and Innovator Hung C. Lin Dies at 89

The ECE Department lost one of its most Shanghai, China, the M.S. degree in 1948 distinguished professors and dearest friends from the University of Michigan, and the last March. Professor Emeritus Hung C. Doctor of Electrical Engineering in 1956 from (“Jimmy”) Lin passed away on March 5. the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He He was 89. was an avid tennis player, and made his way A dedicated and popular instructor who through college on a tennis scholarship. only missed one class in his years of teaching in A campus memorial service was held College Park, Dr. Lin joined the University of in memory of Prof. Lin on March 25 in Maryland as Professor of Electrical Engineering the University Chapel. Dr. Lin is survived in 1969. He retired in 1990, and has since by his wife, Anchen, two sons, Robert and served as Professor Emeritus. Well known to Daniel, and three grandchildren, Ming, his colleagues for his abundant energy, his PROF. HUNG C. “JIMMY” LIN Huei, and Adrian. career has spanned more than half a century Last year, Dr. Lin endowed the Jimmy and has been punctuated with many patent known in particular for the invention of the Lin Fund for Innovation and Invention within rights, honors, and awards. quasi-complementary amplifier used in most the Department of Electrical and Computer “Professor Lin was not only a brilliant commercial audio amplifiers and for the Engineering. The goal of the gift was to and distinguished professor and accomplished lateral transistor used in most linear integrated promote innovation among ECE students, staff inventor, but he was also a warm and caring circuits. He is the author or co-author of and faculty by stimulating, encouraging and person, and a dear member of our ECE 170 technical papers, author of the book rewarding the invention and patenting process. family,” said ECE Department Chair Patrick “Integrated Electronics,” and co-author of Donations can be made in memory O’Shea. “He cared passionately about making three other books: “Selected Semiconductor of Prof. Lin to the Jimmy Lin Fund for sure that engineering research resulted in Circuits Handbook,” “Semiconductor Innovation and Invention. Checks should better lives for everyone. He touched so many Electronics Education Committee Notes 1,” be made out to “UMCPF” (University people, and his vibrancy and friendship will and “Electronics Designers Handbook.” In of Maryland College Park Foundation) be sorely missed.” 1978, IEEE presented him with the J.J. Ebers with “Jimmy Lin Fund for Innovation and 13 Dr. Lin was inducted into the Clark Award. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute Invention” written in the memo area of the School of Engineering Innovation Hall of of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for check, and sent to: Fame in May 1990 in recognition of his contributions to semiconductor electronics and Jimmy Lin Fund for Innovation & Invention significant inventions and contributions circuits and pioneering of integrated circuits. Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. in semiconductor devices and integrated He received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering 2457 A.V. Williams Bldg. circuits. The holder of 57 U.S. patents, he is in 1941 from Chiaotung University in College Park, MD 20742 C ECE Staff Member India Tiller Dies Unexpectedly at 49

The ECE community lost a staff member Maryland The Department organized a memorial and a dear friend last February. India Tiller University service in India’s honor on March 3rd at the passed away unexpectedly on February 24. College University of Maryland’s Main Memorial She was 49. Since 2004, India had served as Master of Chapel. Rebecca Copeland of the Institute for program management specialist in the ECE Science in Systems Research led the service, while Patrick Undergraduate Studies office. Management O’Shea, Christopher Davis, Judi Bell, Steve “India was the smiling face of the program. Norton, and Robert Newcomb offered undergraduate office, the first person that every Before remarks and reflections. student met,” said ECE Chairman Patrick joining The ECE Department is collecting funds O’Shea. “She was always good humored and the ECE for a memorial for India. Those interested in helpful to all.” Department, contributing should send a check made out to India attended high school in Detroit at INDIA TILLER India worked “UMCPF” (University of Maryland College Park Osborn High School. She went on to attend as a staff Foundation) with “In Memory of India Tiller” college at Capital University in Columbus, member in the University of Maryland’s written in the memo area of the check, and sent to: Ohio, receiving a B.A. in Speech Science and Department of Business Services from 2000 - Teresa Moore Communication. She also received an A.A. 2004. India was an enthusiastic animal lover Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. from the Psychology Center in Catonsville, and had two dogs: Pepper, a Shih Tzu, and 2457 A.V. Williams Bldg. Md., and later enrolled in the University of Sammy, a Basenji. College Park, MD 20742 C alumniNEWS

ECE Alumni Honored at “Top Alumnus Sidiropoulos Clark School Startup LED Navy Scientist and Engineer Elected IEEE Fellow BY ECE ALUMNA Wins $500K of the Year” Awards Global Security Challenge ECE Alumnus Nikos Sidiropoulos was TRX Systems, a company founded by ECE ECE alumni George Stimak (MS ’76, elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Professor and Associate Chair for External and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for MBA ’83), Jonathan Neumann (Ph.D. Affairs Gil Blankenship and led by ECE ‘05), Richard Fischer (B.S. ‘84, M.S. ‘86), “contributions to signal processing for alumna and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Kevin A. Boulais (Ph.D., ’96) received communications.” Sidiropoulos is a professor Carole Teolis, won first place in the third honors at the “Top Navy Scientist and in the Telecommunications Division of the annual Global Security Challenge (GSC) Engineer of the Year” awards. They were Technical University of Crete. He earned international competition. Teolis and TRX Chief Operating Officer among 34 scientists and engineers recognized his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1992 Karina Drees TM as a student of Professor John Baras. After presented TRX’s Sentinel at the third annual Dr. Delores M. Etter Top first responder tracking and monitoring graduation, Sidiropoulos was an Institute for Scientists and Engineers of the Year awards technology at the final competition held ceremony at the Pentagon on May 19. Systems Research (ISR) postdoctoral researcher in London last November. TRX Systems and later an ISR assistant research scientist and Stimak, a program officer at the Office beat out five other semi-finalists to win the an adjunct professor for the ECE Department. “Most Promising Security Start-up 2008” of Naval Research (ONR), was honored award, for which TRX received a $500,000 for breakthrough research that yielded the Kim Receives Lifetime federal contract from the Technical Support world’s first-ever ship degaussing system to Achievement Award, Named Working Group, the U.S. national forum use high temperature superconducting (HTS) One of “Most Creative Minds” that coordinates interagency and international materials. Degaussing is the process of making research for combating terrorism. The Chinese Institute of Engineers has selected Based in Greenbelt, Md., TRX Systems a steel ship’s hull nonmagnetic by producing alumnus and ECE Professor of Practice Jeong recently graduated from the Technology an opposing magnetic field, protecting it from Kim (Ph.D. ‘91, reliability engineering), Advancement Program, the incubator facility magnetically activated mines. president of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, as the for startups that is part of the Clark School’s 14 Neumann was advised by ECE recipient of its 2009 Distinguished Lifetime Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute Chairman Patrick O’Shea. Fischer currently Achievement Award. The award recognizes (Mtech). Before winning the GSC competition, the company was named the Maryland serves as a research scientist and engineer Asian-American engineering professionals with Incubator Company of the Year for Homeland in the Laser Physics Section at the Naval a record of significant personal achievements, Security. TRX employs 17 people—seven full- Research Laboratory. contributions to academia, public service and time, seven part-time, and three consultants. All industry. Previous honorees have included but three are University of Maryland alumni. Alumnus Goodman Selected Nobel Prize winners, leading professors and TRX’s system can effectively track To Serve on Maryland corporate leaders. Kim was also named one of individuals inside multi-story buildings with Clean Energy Board the “12 Most Creative Minds of 2008” by Fast no special instrumentation or preparation of Company Magazine. the incident site required. The system provides Dan Goodman (B.S.E.E., ’87), a Clark accurate, reliable locations in 3-dimensions, ECE Alumna Receives Black indoors and outside regardless of the local School of Engineering alumnus and Engineer of the Year Honors environment, weather conditions, availability Smith School of Business senior fellow for of GPS, etc. The system’s precision location renewable energy, ECE alumna Muluwork Geremew (M.S. ‘06) and health information for deployed personnel was confirmed was named a 2009 Most Promising Engineer allows a dramatic improvement in rescue time recently by the by Career Communications Group. She was for distressed or downed firefighters. Maryland Senate as honored on the national stage at the 23rd “Interaction with firefighters from the start has been critical to the development of one of nine Board Annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference in Baltimore, MD, February 19- a system that firefighters will use and that members of the 22, 2009 at the Baltimore Convention Center. meets their requirements,” said TRX CEO Maryland Clean Teolis. “The involvement of the Maryland Muluwork currently works at Corning, Inc. in Energy Center. Fire and Rescue Institute has been vital in the DAN GOODMAN the Modeling and Simulation Directorate as a Goodman was development of the TRX system.” Process Simulation Scientist. She was advised Teolis, a 1994 Ph.D. graduate in electrical appointed to the Board by Gov. Martin by Prof. Joseph JaJa during her time as an engineering, was advised by Professor John O’Malley. He serves as the Board’s Treasurer M.S. student in the Electrical and Computer Baras. Teolis also holds a B.S. and M.S. in and Chair of the Finance Committee. Engineering Department. C electrical engineering from Maryland. C

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2009 NEW FACULTY POSITIONS AND PROMOTIONS, ACADEMIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND AWARDS FOR ECE ALUMNI

Alumna Elhilali Wins NSF his time at the University of Maryland, an assistant professor in the Department of CAREER Award Michael was advised by Professor Manoj Electrical Engineering in Fall 2009. Ranjan Franklin. As a student, he served on received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in Alumna Mounya Elhilali received a the board of the ECE Graduate Student 2003. He was advised by Institute for Systems National Science Foundation (NSF) Association (ECEGSA). Research Director Eyad Abed and Associate CAREER Award for Cognitive Auditory Professor Richard La. Ranjan served as a senior Systems for Processing of Complex Acoustic Alumnus Andres Kwasinski research scientist at Intelligent Automation, Scenes. The five-year, $550K award will Joins RIT Faculty Inc., in Rockville, Md., and also is a former support her research in developing an Andres ISR research associate. architecture for sound processing based on ECE alumnus Kwasinski (Ph.D., cognitive and adaptive processes. Elhilali Alumnus Soysal Joins Faculty earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering ‘04) joined the faculty of Turkey’s Bahçeşehir in 2004. She was advised by Prof. Shihab of the Department University Shamma. Currently she is an assistant of Computer ECE alumnus Alkan Soysal (Ph.D., ‘08) professor of electrical and computer Engineering at the joined the faculty of Bahçeşehir University, engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Rochester Institute Istanbul, Turkey. He is currently serving as where she also is active in the Center for of Technology. Dr. assistant professor in the Department of Language and Speech Processing. Kwasinski’s research ANDRES KWASINSKI and teaching focus Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Soysal received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Alumnus Sean Andersson is in the areas of digital signal processing and 15 receives NSF CAREER Award networking/communications. Kwasinski was electrical and computer engineering from the advised by Prof. K.J. Ray Liu during his time University of Maryland in 2006 and 2008, Alumnus Sean Andersson, assistant professor respectively. He was advised by Sennur studying in the ECE Department and Institute of mechanical engineering at Boston Ulukus. Soysal’s research interests are in for Systems Research (ISR), and served as a University, has received a National Science wireless communication theory, information postdoc within ISR after graduating. Foundation CAREER Award for “Nonlinear theory and signal processing for wireless Control for Single Molecule Tracking.” Seddik Joins EE Faculty at communications with particular focus on The five-year, $430K award will establish Alexandria University MIMO networks. a rigorous theoretical and experimental foundation for tracking single nanometer-scale Karim Seddik, a 2008 ECE Ph.D. graduate, Alumna Zheng Earns Tenure at particles and for tracking multiple particles accepted a position as assistant professor of UC-Santa Barbara simultaneously. Andersson earned his Ph.D. electrical engineering at Alexandria University, ECE alumna Heather (Haitao) Zheng (M.S., in Electrical Engineering in 2003. He was Egypt. Karim was advised by Associate Chair ‘98, Ph.D., ‘99) was advised by Prof. P.S. Krishnaprasad. for Graduate Studies and Research and Professor K. J. Ray Liu. Karim’s research interests include promoted to the Alumnus Black Joins American sensor networks, cooperative communications, position of associate University Faculty source-channel diversity over relay channels, professor with tenure and blind channel estimation in OFDM and in the Department of ECE alumnus Michael Black (Ph.D., ‘07) MIMO-OFDM systems. Computer Science at the joined the faculty of the Department of University of California, Computer Science at American University Alumnus Priya Ranjan to Join Santa Barbara. She was in Washington, DC. He currently serves IIT Kanpur Faculty as assistant professor. Black’s research and advised by Associate HEATHER ZHENG teaching focus is in the areas of computer ECE alumnus Priya Ranjan will join the Chair for Graduate architecture and parallel computing. During Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as Studies and Research and Professor K. J. Ray Liu.

A. James Clark School of Engineering  Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology alumniNEWS continued Alumnus Narasingarao ECE ALUMNI ADVANCE IN INDUSTRY Sreenath Promoted to Full Professor at Case Western Manikonda Named President of Intelligent Automation, Inc. Reserve Alumnus Vikram Manikonda (ECE, Ph.D., ‘97) was appointed president of Intelligent Automation, Inc., based in Rockville, Md. He is a former advisee of Prof. P.S. Krishnaprasad. Narasingarao “Sree” Sreenath (ECE, Ph.D., His research over the last decade has spanned nonlinear and geometric control, motion description languages, robotics, and the application of multi-agent systems agents to ‘87) has been promoted to full professor in the simulation, distributed control, and air traffic control and management. During his time at Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Maryland, Manikonda helped develop DLe, a motion control language for robotics, and was manager of the Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory (ISL). Department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He is a former student of Professor ECE Alumnus Hershey Promoted to Fellow at Raytheon P.S. Krishnaprasad. Sreenath is the director of Paul C. Hershey (ECE, M.S., ’84; Ph.D., ‘94) was promoted to the position of Engineering the Complex Systems Biology Center and also Fellow at Raytheon. Hershey was one of only nine individuals to receive this honor, given to the Director of Case Systems Biology Initiative Raytheon professionals who have distinguished themselves through technical achievements and expertise in the application of advanced technologies. (Case SBI). In addition, he co-directs the UNESCO Global Issues Education Network IN MEMORIAM

Initiative (GENIe). He is a recipient of NIH- Linda Lea Overman Bright (B.S., E.E, ’77), 58, passed away after a long illness on Nov. 25, 2008 National Cancer Institute (NCI) Research in Glen Burnie, Md. Bright worked for the National Security Agency before leaving to devote time to her family. A long-time birthing instructor in the Bradley Method, she was very active in her Career Award in 2004. church and in community service, opening her home to teens in trouble and homeless animals.

George W. Cooper (M.S., E.E., ’86), 55, died Aug. 20, 2008 after running in a race. Cooper had Alumnus Bill Byrne promoted served as a National Security Agency engineer since 1990. Prior to NSA, he worked for Voice of to Reader at Cambridge America and Ralph M. Parsons engineering and construction. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Michigan. He received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1986. He did volunteer work for Habitat for Alumnus Bill Byrne (ECE, Ph.D., 1993) Humanity and was a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. was recently Louis Costrell (M.S., E.E, ’49), 93, died of prostate cancer on June 8, 2009 in Rockville, Md. In promoted to a 1946, Costrell joined what is now the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he 16 worked in the radiation-detection field. He retired in 1982 as chief of the radiation measurement Readership in technology section but stayed on until his death as an engineer. In 1964, Mr. Costrell wrote Information a reference manual that became the authoritative textbook on the standardized electrical specifications for radiation-measuring components. It is still used in laboratories worldwide today. Engineering in the Department Clarence “Buzz” Pearl Jones, Jr. (B.S., E.E, ’64), passed away on March 26, 2009. A D.C. native, Jones joined the Navy and served as an electronics technician. He was a reservist for 23 years, of Engineering at retiring as a Commander. After active duty, he completed his B.S. degree at Maryland. After the University of graduation, he worked at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory (N.O.L.) in White Oak, Md. In 1970, he transferred to Keyport where he became the senior technical liaison between Keyport and N.O.L. Cambridge in the BILL BYRNE Nicholas C. Paleologos (B.S., E.E., ’60), 70, died March 31, 2009, at his home in Savannah, Ga., United Kingdom. following an extended fight with cancer. He graduated from Maryland with a B.S. in electrical He was previously a Lecturer in Speech engineering and as captain of the varsity swimming team. He joined the Navy where he served for 20 years, mostly at sea and in the Pacific. His last tour was as commanding officer of a Processing. He is also a Fellow of Clare destroyer stationed out of Pearl Harbor. Following the Navy, he had a second career in the nuclear electric generation industry at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. College, Cambridge. C Dr. Alan J. Simmons (Ph.D., E.E., ’57), 84, died Feb. 9, 2009 of complications of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Center Sandwich, N.H. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry at ECE Alumnus PAUL Tran Harvard University. After Pearl Harbor was attacked, Simmons joined the U.S. Navy and Receives Minority developed a fascination with communications technology, leading to his work on the first U.S. satellites. Simmons earned his M.S. degree from MIT in 1948 and a Ph.D. in electrical Business Leader Award engineering from Maryland in 1957. He was a group leader at MIT’s Lincoln Lab for 17 years.

Alumnus Paul Tran (B.S. ’95, EE), Robert L. Terrell Jr. (B.S., E.E., ’53), 78, died of pneumonia Nov. 27, 2008. Terrell, a native President and CEO of Elucid Solutions, Washingtonian, graduated from Maryland with a B.S. in 1953. He served in the Navy from 1955 was honored by the Washington to 1958 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Antietam. He returned to the D.C. area and started his Business Journal with the prestigious company, G.T. Associates, an electronics sales firm which he owned and operated in Silver Spring Minority Business Leader Award in for more than 20 years. . Terrell moved to Hendersonville, N.C., where he owned a parcel-packing April. Born in Vietnam, Tran came to store for 15 years. He moved to Michigan in 2006. the U.S. and earned a degree in Electrical Engineering from Maryland Sukij Yongpiyakul (B.S., E.E., ’88) passed away in October 2008. In addition to his B.S. in in 1995. He later started his own electrical engineering from Maryland, he also had a B.S. in mathematics from Columbia Union company, Elucid Solutions, which he College. He was awarded the 1992 Outstanding Invention of the Year for “The Connect Family of Innovative Voice Response Applications” from the University of Maryland Graduate Research modeled after a culture devoted to Office of Technology Liaison. As a University of Maryland employee, he provided engineering client service, rewarding employee and technical expertise in the support of complex voice and data communication systems. His loyalty, and incorporating charitable contributions included planning, design, engineering and project management support for the giving and community service. C installation of the campus-wide telecommunications system. C

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2009 studentNEWS Charles Tobin Receives Peoples Students Celebrate Third Annual ECE Fellowship with DOE’s Fermilab International Day ECE 2009 Ph.D. graduate J. Charles O’Shea, Charles earned his Ph.D. in May Undergraduates, graduate students, friends, Tobin received the prestigious Peoples 2009, studying space-charge dominated Fellowship from the U.S. Department of electron beams. Charles expressed gratitude faculty, and staff from the Electrical Energy’s (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator to Prof. O’Shea, as well as Prof. Rami and Computer Engineering (ECE) Laboratory (Fermilab), Kishek, Prof. Martin Reiser Department joined together to share their a national lab located in and Dr. Don Feldman for different cultures at the third annual ECE Chicago that focuses on their guidance and support. International Day on Tuesday, April 14, research at the frontiers of high He also cited his participation 2009, in the A.V. Williams Building. energy physics. The three- in the Clark School’s Future Over 250 students, faculty, and staff year, tenure-track fellowship Faculty Fellows program, attended the event, representing over 36 will focus on next-generation as well as his training at the different countries. The popular event, which colliders and high intensity International Accelerator showcases the department’s broad diversity proton source research. School for Linear Colliders each year, was sponsored by ECE Graduate The Peoples Fellowship in Erice, Italy, as significant J. CHARLES TOBIN Student Association, Women in ECE, and was created at Fermilab with the factors in helping him qualify the ECE Undergraduate Student Council. goal of attracting outstanding accelerator and prepare for the Peoples Fellowship scientists early in their careers who have the opportunity at Fermilab. Costumes and music organized by potential to be leaders of the field. Peoples Charles’ primary areas of research graduate student Marcos Vasconcelos Fellows are provided with significant include next-generation particle accelerators entertained the crowds and a medley of research support and have extraordinary and photoinjectors. As a graduate student foods from the different countries satisfied latitude in choosing their research activities. under O’Shea, he worked on the University the appetites of those who filled the room. 17 The position is equivalent to an assistant of Maryland Electron Ring project. Students, faculty, and staff dressed up in professor at a university. This fall, he will start work on the A0 traditional costumes and brought in a variety An advisee of ECE Chairman Patrick photoinjector and Project X at Fermilab. C of homemade dishes for fellow students and colleagues to sample their nation’s culture. Soujanya Kedilaya Selected as Mahsa Dornajafi, graduate student and president of Women in ECE, looks forward 2009 Texas Instruments Scholar to ECE International Day each year. ECE M.S. student Soujanya Kedilaya Signal Processing Computer-Aided Design “It is a chance for faculty and students was selected as a 2009 Texas Instruments (DSPCAD) Research Group led by Prof. to meet each other outside the classrooms in (TI) Scholar. Kedilaya is an advisee of Prof. Bhattacharyya. Soujanya’s research interests a different atmosphere while learning about Shuvra Bhattacharyya. include embedded each others’ cultures,” said Mahsa. The TI Scholars program was software and Filiz Yesilkoy, graduate student and vice made possible by a gift from Texas very-large-scale president of Women in ECE, recalled her Instruments through the ECE Corporate integration (VLSI) enlightening encounter with a cheese tray Affiliates program. Each year, Texas architectures for brought in by Research Scientist, Quirino Instruments supports two talented signal processing Balzano, who represented Italy. graduate students in electrical and applications. “[Quirino] brought in a delicious cheese computer engineering with a tuition Recently, she tray and told us how it was made, how old it grant, stipend, and benefits through the was a recipient was, and how to age cheese,” said Filiz. TI Scholars program. TI Scholars work SOUJANYA KEDILAYA of the Marshall on selected research topics related to Plan Scholarship The different cultures represented at ECE communications and signal processing. that promotes academic exchange between International Day included Brazil, Chile, China, Since joining the University of American and Austrian universities, offering Denmark, England, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Maryland as a Masters student in Fall 2008, her the opportunity to visit the Salzburg Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Soujanya has been a member of the Digital University of Applied Sciences in Austria. C Philippines, Poland, Taiwan, and Turkey. C

A. James Clark School of Engineering  Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology studentNEWS continued Fresh off Last Year’s Win, Robotics@Maryland Places 8th at Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition

This year, the Robotics@Maryland team hoped to Dave Akin and Prof. Nuno Martins. Robotics@ and also receives corporate support from repeat their victory at the Association for Unmanned Maryland is sponsored by the Electrical and BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Grumman, MEMSense, and Apple. and Office of Naval Research 12th The Robotics@Maryland Annual International Autonomous team has benefited from a Underwater Vehicle Competition in San particularly useful and unique facility at the Clark School’s Diego, Calif., held in August. Last year, Neutral Buoyancy Research the Maryland team edged out 25 other Facility in the Space Systems teams from across the U.S., India, Canada Laboratory on the University and Japan to win the competition in only of Maryland campus—the only their second year participating. This year, such university-based facility THE ROBOTICS@MARYLAND TEAM WON THE 2008 AUVSI COMPETITION they finished 8th out of 30 teams, still an in the country. The 50-foot impressive showing. diameter, 25-foot deep water Computer Engineering Dept., the Aerospace The Robotics@Maryland team is comprised tank is used to simulate the microgravity of students across a variety of different majors, Engineering Dept., the Institute for Systems environment of space, and proved a valuable including many in electrical and computer Research, the Clark School of Engineering, and environment for practicing the robot’s engineering. The team has been advised by Prof. the UM Office of the Vice President for Research, maneuvering capabilities. C

18 Maryland To Host Second Annual Terps Racing Excels in Robotic Speedway Competition RECENT International BAJA, SAE Competitions The conjunction Robotics@ with members The University of Maryland Terps Racing Maryland of Robotics@ teams continue to impress at international ground Maryland, racing competitions. team placed and Maryland’s Baja team, which consists second in the Maryland’s of many Clark School students, placed first annual Department third overall against an international field Autonomous of Electrical of 100 teams at the Baja SAE Alabama Robot and 2009 competition at Auburn University, Speedway Computer April 16-19. Competition Engineering Last year, the Terps Racing team won

hosted by the THE AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SPEEDWAY COMPETITION, OCT. 24 (ECE). The the Formula SAE West, held at California University competition Speedway, placing first overall out of 83 of Maryland in October, 2008. The was sponsored by Robotic Research. teams from all over the world. Five ECE Robotics@Maryland team took home The 2009 Autonomous Robot undergraduate students participated on the a $250 prize. The event was conceived Speedway Competition will be held Formula SAE racing team, plus ECE grad and organized by the Washington, DC Saturday, October 24 in the open student Mike Stanley, together with 20 Chapter of the Institute of Electrical parking lot located next to the Computer other engineering undergrads. This year, and Electronic Engineers Robotics and Science Instructional Facility on the the Formula SAE team placed fourth in the Automation Society (IEEE-RAS) in College Park campus. C same competition. C

CONNECTIONS  FALL 2009 Satinder Pal Singh Named New President of ECEGSA

ECE Ph.D. student Satinder Pal Singh was named the new Avinash Varna Receives School of Engineering in 2007-2009, President of the award-winning Litton Fellowship and the ECE Distinguished Dissertation Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Fellowship in 2009. Avinash Varna, Association (ECEGSA), succeeding Eduardo Arvelo. Singh is an ECE Ph.D. ECE Undergrads Honored advised by Prof. Mark Shayman. student advised by with Awards His current research focus is Prof. Min Wu, was IPGeolocation, which involves estimating the geographical Eight ECE undergraduate students were selected as winner location of an IP address in a of the Clark School presented with awards at the Clark School Metropolitan Area. C Litton Industries Honors and Awards Ceremony on April 29, 2009. The ECE Department’s Outstanding Fellowship. The AVINASH VARNA Academic Performance Award, awarded award, worth to juniors for academic excellence, was $11,075, was established by Litton presented to Elizabeth Kenyon, an Electrical Industries to support outstanding full-time Engineering major. Jason Callender graduate students in pursuit of a doctorate received the ECE Department’s Service degree in either Electrical or Mechanical Award. Recognized for their outstanding Engineering who are committed to a academic performance as seniors, Ali teaching career in engineering education. Faghih, Ameer Abutaleb, Anqi Fu, David microantilever sensors for liquid samples Avinash’s research interests are in the Crawford, and Renfei Luo all received being conducted in the MEMS Sensors and broad area of signal and image processing, the ECE Department’s Chair’s Award. The Actuators Laboratory and the Center for information forensics and security. recipients of the International Engineering Biosystems Research at the University of Consortium’s William L. Everitt Student Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Stephan Enlu Zhou To Join Faculty Award were Phil Luo and Anqi Fu. was the recipient of this year’s George at Univ. of Illinois 19 Harhalakis Outstanding Systems Engineering ECE Grad Student Siwak Enlu Zhou Graduate Student Award. He also won a ECE graduate student Awarded ARCS Fellowship will join the university-wide graduate student research Department of Nathan Siwak, a graduate student advised contest and was featured in the February Industrial & by Prof. Reza Ghodssi, won a 2009 2009 issue of Research@Maryland. Enterprise Systems Achievement Rewards for College Scientists ECE-Mentored High School Engineering (IESE) (ARCS) Fellowship worth $15K. Nathan Student Creates Innovative at the University of conducts research in the MEMS (micro- Prosthetic DevicE Illinois at Urbana- electro-mechanical systems) Sensors and Champaign, Actuators Laboratory. His research activities A local area high school student spent time as an Assistant ENLU ZHOU are currently focused on creating cantilever on campus to develop a new device to help Professor this microsystems that can detect various gases, soldier amputees returning from Iraq and coming fall. Enlu Zhou received a B.S. vapors, aerosols, or other analytes of interest. Afghanistan. North Point High School degree with highest honors in electrical student Katherine Bomkamp, 17, created engineering from Zhejiang University, Stephan Koev Wins MEMS a therapeutic prosthetic device to relieve China, in 2004, and will receive a Ph.D. Alliance Award, Systems pain and discomfort for amputees with the degree in electrical engineering from the Engineering Award assistance of Prof. Gilmer Blankenship, University of Maryland, College Park, in ECE Engineer Jay Renner, and students August 2009. She has been advised by Stephan Koev, a Ph.D. student of Professor in the BAE Systems Controls Instructional Prof. Steve Marcus and Prof. Michael Reza Ghodssi, won the Best Student Laboratory. Bomkamp demonstrated her Fu. She was a recipient of the NSF award Poster Award at the 2008 MEMS Alliance handiwork at Maryland Day, and also at the for Cyberinfrastructure Experiences for Symposium, held at the Johns Hopkins 50th Annual Charles County Science Fair, Graduate Students in 2007, the Future Applied Physics Lab on Nov. 24. The earning a grand prize, and advanced to the Faculty Fellowship from A. James Clark poster described Koev’s research on optical Intel Science Fair in Nevada. C

A. James Clark School of Engineering  Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology Jim and Linda Bodycomb Establish New Scholarship for ECE Students

ECE alumnus and Advisory Board member Linda Bodycomb received her Jim Bodycomb (B.S., ‘67), along with education at Morehead State University and his wife Linda, have established a new Rutgers University before pursuing a variety scholarship for undergraduate students of professions, including social worker, enrolled in the Department of Electrical paralegal, systems analyst, and costume and Computer Engineering (ECE) within designer for professional theater. the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark Both Jim and Linda Bodycomb share School of Engineering. a genuine appreciation for the value of a “We are very grateful for this generous LINDA AND JIM BODYCOMB strong education, and hope that the new gift from Jim and Linda Bodycomb,” scholarship they have endowed will help said ECE Department Chairman Patrick went on to pursue graduate studies at the students take advantage of the quality O’Shea. “Not only will this new scholarship University of Illinois (M.S.) and Columbia undergraduate education program in help deserving students receive the support University (E.E.), before dedicating his career Electrical and Computer Engineering at they need to excel in engineering here at to the telecommunications field. He worked the University of Maryland. Maryland, but it also represents a wonderful at Bell Labs and AT&T before retiring from For more information about the Great model for how our alumni can make a Lucent Technologies as Switching Product Expectations Campaign and how you can real difference in students’ lives by creating Management Vice President in 2000. After make a difference in students’ lives at the opportunities for them to succeed.” retiring, Jim became a member of the ECE University of Maryland, contact Ted Knight A 1967 B.S. graduate in electrical Advisory Board, serving as Board President at [email protected] or (301) 405-3596, or engineering at Maryland, Jim Bodycomb from 2006-2008. visit http://www.greatexpectations.umd.edu/.

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