CHECS News
Commencement Awards. CHECS graduate students received three of the five graduate student recognition awards at the spring Computer Science commencement reception. Ashwin Aji (advised by Wu Feng) and Jaishankar Sundararaman (advised by Godmar Back) were recognized as outstanding graduating MS students. Rhonda Phillips (advised by Layne Watson) received an award for outstanding graduating PhD student. Congratulations to all the recent graduates!
Graduate student awards. Congratulations to PhD students Rhonda Phillips and Rajesh Sudarsan, recognized this week for their research accomplishments. Rhonda was one of the winners of the poster competition at the annual Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) Research Symposium. And Rajesh was awarded first place in the 2009 Paul E. Torgersen (College of Engineering) Graduate Student Research Excellence Award competition. Phillips is advised by Prof. Layne Watson and Sudarsan is advised by Prof. Cal Ribbens.
NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Godmar Back has earned a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for his proposal entitled “Advanced Execution Environments for Next Generation Cloud Applications.” The CAREER award is the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty. This award brings to six the number of current or former CAREER award winners among CHECS faculty. See the CS department website for more information.
Green IT. Kirk Cameron is the editor of a new column appearing in IEEE Computer, the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society. The column will focus on research and trends in green information technology, encompassing everything from the supply side of IT design, to deployment and use, through retirement and recycling.
Best Undergraduate Student Poster Award at SC08. Congratulations to Gabriel Martinez on winning an ACM Best Undergraduate Student Poster Award at the SC08 conference. Gabriel presented his poster, "Characterizing and Optimizing Virtualization Overhead for Portable High-Performance Networking," at the 20th Supercomputing conference, held this week in Austin, TX, and attended by over 11,000 people. Gabriel's work was supervised by Prof. Wu Feng.
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May 15, 2009
Commencement Awards. CHECS graduate students received three of the five graduate student recognition awards at the spring Computer Science commencement reception. Ashwin Aji (advised by Wu Feng) and Jaishankar Sundararaman (advised by Godmar Back) were recognized as outstanding graduating MS students. Rhonda Phillips (advised by Layne Watson) received an award for outstanding graduating PhD student. Congratulations to all the recent graduates!
April 4, 2009
Graduate student awards. Congratulations to PhD students Rhonda Phillips and Rajesh Sudarsan, recognized this week for their research accomplishments. Rhonda was one of the winners of the poster competition at the annual Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) Research Symposium. And Rajesh was awarded first place in the 2009 Paul E. Torgersen (College of Engineering) Graduate Student Research Excellence Award competition. Phillips is advised by Prof. Layne Watson and Sudarsan is advised by Prof. Cal Ribbens.
March 20, 2009
NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Godmar Back has earned a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for his proposal entitled “Advanced Execution Environments for Next Generation Cloud Applications.” The CAREER award is the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty. This award brings to six the number of current or former CAREER award winners among CHECS faculty. See the CS department website for more information.
February 3, 2009
Green IT. Kirk Cameron is the editor of a new column appearing in IEEE Computer, the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society. The column will focus on research and trends in green information technology, encompassing everything from the supply side of IT design, to deployment and use, through retirement and recycling.
November 21, 2008
Best Undergraduate Student Poster Award at SC08. Congratulations to Gabriel Martinez on winning an ACM Best Undergraduate Student Poster Award at the SC08 conference. Gabriel presented his poster, "Characterizing and Optimizing Virtualization Overhead for Portable High-Performance Networking," at the 20th Supercomputing conference, held this week in Austin, TX, and attended by over 11,000 people. Gabriel's work was supervised by Prof. Wu Feng.
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