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Dr. Matthew Grayson with PhD candidate Chuanle Zhou, who is in her final year of studies. Photo courtesy of Dr. Agnella Izzo Matic.
Dr. Matthew Grayson with PhD candidate Chuanle Zhou, who is in her final year of studies. Photo courtesy of Dr. Agnella Izzo Matic.
Association for Women in Science names Matthew Grayson Scientist of the Month for November
In an article posted on the AWIS site, author Agnella Izzo Matic writes "It is not often that you encounter individuals who combine such unique interests: theater and electrical engineering.     Read the full story.   
Faculty Activity
Fabián Bustamante
Fabian Bustamante

 

Fabi�n E. Bustamante and Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue) will be co-chairing SIGCOMM 2014 in Chicago. SIGCOMM is the flagship annual conference of the ACM SIGCOMM, the communication and networking SIG. Read more

 


Prof. Bustamante
has been awarded the title of Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin.  Read more

Center for Quantum Devices
Center for Quantum Devices

CQD research news: Lasers improved for standoff sensing  

Manijeh Razeghi, Professor and Director of CQD, reports that publicity news regarding recent research results from the Center for Quantum Devices group have been published in the November 2012 issue of Photonics Spectra magazine, on page 32.   Read the article here

EECS Jobs Board

NEW JOBS POSTED THIS WEEK for students and alumni:

  • Enova: Advanced Analytics Statistical Programmer Analyst and Intern positions
  • Magento, PHP, Zend Developer, Part-time in Evanston
  • Georgia Tech, School of ECE has open assistant professor positions
  • University of Texas San Antonio, ECE Dept seeks to fill two open assistant  professor positions 
  • The George Washington University CS Dept seeks to fill faculty post 
  • University of Colorado at Boulder: Faculty opening in bioengineering 
  • Stanford University EE Dept has junior faculty opening
  • Purdue U, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering has faculty openings
EECS FACULTY SEARCHES

Learn more ... http://eecs.northwestern.edu/academic-openings.html
November 29, 2012
Vol 1, No. 11
Upcoming Events

FRI NOV 30 @ 9:30 a.m.*
GEECS bagels & coffee in Ford 2.227 Now with more bagels.  
*NOTE EARLY START TIME THIS WEEK ONLY! You have time to partake of bagels before Dr. Mait's talk at 10 a.m.  
FRI NOV 30 @ 10 a.m.
Joseph N. MaitUS Army Research Lab, "Millimeter Wave Computational Imaging" +

 

MON DEC 3 @ 11 a.m. 
Itai Gurvich (Kellogg) "On the Dynamic Control of Matching Queues" 


MON DEC 3 @ 2 p.m. 
Dongyan Xu, "Towards Virtualization-Based Kernel Malware Defense" +
 
WED DEC 5 @ 9:30 a.m.
Dr. Baris I. Erkmen, NASA JPL, "An overview of optical communication for deep space" 
MS & PhD Exams 
 

THU NOV 29 @ 2pm
PhD Prospectus: Bharath Pattabiraman, "Towards a Scalable and Efficient Parallel Tool for Simulating Collisional N-body Systems" +

 

THU NOV 29 @ 3:30pm
PhD Qualifier: Darrell Hoy, "Prior-Independent Auctions for Risk-Averse Agents" +
 
FRI NOV 30  
MS Course Option: Tarun Vijayvargiya +
 
TUE DEC 4 @ 2 p.m.
PhD Defense: Thomas Whitehead, "Enhanced Imaging with use of a Phase-Sensitive Fiber-Optic Parametric Amplifier" +

WED DEC 5 @ 10:30 a.m.
MS Project: Jonathan Springer, "Expediting Large Scale Mobile Visual Search" +
 
WED DEC 5 @ 11 a.m.
MS Project: Abhinav Kannan, "Analysis of user-perceived responsiveness fo smart phone devices" +

THU DEC 6 @ 10 a.m.
MS Thesis: Shengxin Zha, "Hierarchical Bilevel Image Coding" +
 
THU Dec 6 
MS Course Option: Zhengwen Chen +
MS Course Option: Siyao Tai +
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