School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Fellows

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• John Wager (2011)
• Annette von Jouanne (2009)
• Un-Ku Moon (2009)
• Andreas Weisshaar (2006)
• Terri Fiez (2005)
• Karti Mayaram (2005)
• Cherri Pancake (2003)
• Bella Bose (1995)
• Gabor Temes [Life Fellow] (1972)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• Bella Bose (2004)
• Tom Dietterich (2002)
• Cherri Pancake (2001)

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

• Tom Dietterich (1994)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

• Tom Dietterich (2007)

NSF Presidential Young Investigator/CAREER Awards

• Ted Brekken (2009)
• Tim Budd (1981)
• Margaret Burnett (1994)
• Patrick Chiang (DOE, 2010)
• Pallavi Dhagat (2007)
• Tom Dietterich (1987)
• Alan Fern (2006)
• Xiaoli Fern (2011)
• Terri Fiez (1992)
• Alex Groce (2011)
• Bechir Hamdaoui (2009)
• Pavan Hanumolu (2010)
• Karti Mayaram (1997)
• Ron Metoyer (2002)
• Un-Ku Moon (2002)
• Thinh Nguyen (2009)
• Annette von Jouanne (1998)
• Eugene Zhang (2006)

National/International & External Awards

• Bella Bose: Southern Methodist University Computer Science and Engineering 40th Anniversary Award for Academic Accomplishment (2008)
• Ted Brekken: IEEE Power & Energy Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award (2011)
• Margaret Burnett: IBM International Faculty Award (2007 & 2008)
• Paul Cull: E. R. Caianiello Award for Biocybernetics, 17th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (2004 & 2010); Forty Year Award, Mathematical Association of America (2003)
• Terri Fiez: IEEE Major Educational Innovative Award (2007)
• Ron Metoyer: Modern Day Technology Leadership Award, BEYA Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Global Competitiveness Conference (2009)
• Cherri Pancake: Woman of Achievement, Oregon Commission for Women (2006); HPCwire’s “People to Watch” list (2005)
• Gabor Temes:  IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg Award (2009); IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award (2006); IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000); IEEE CAS Education Award; IEEE CAS Golden Jubilee Medal (1999); IEEE Graduate Teaching Award (1998); IEEE Centennial Medal (1994); IEEE CAS Society Technical Achievement Award (1989); IEEE I&M Society Andrew Chi Prize (1985); IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecturer (1991-1992, 2001-2002); Darlington Award of IEEE CAS Society (1969, 1981); honorary doctorate, Technical Univ of Budapest
• Annette von Jouanne: OMSI Genius Award (2009), International Energy Ocean Conference Energy Pioneer Award (2008), National Eta Kappa Nu C. Homes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award (2005)
• Andreas Weisshaar: NSF Program Director (2008-2011)

University Awards

• Alan Fern: Promising Scholar Award (2011)
• Margaret Burnett: Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award (2010)
• Annette von Jouanne: Impact Award for Outstanding Scholarship (2010)
• Don Heer: Outstanding Faculty Research Assistant (2008)
• Un-Ku Moon: Excellence in Graduate Mentoring (2007)
• John Wager: Sigma Xi Researcher of the Year (2007)
• Terri Fiez, Roger Traylor, Don Heer and Gale Sumida: Student Learning and Success Teamwork Award (2006)
• Roger Traylor: Elizabeth P. Richie Distinguished Professor Award for Teaching (2005)
• Margaret Burnett: Elizabeth P. Richie Distinguished Professor Award for Teaching (2000)

Best Paper Awards

• Margaret Burnett and Allen Ambler, “A Declarative Approach to Event-Handling in Visual Programming Languages,” 1992 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages. 2011 IEEE Symp. on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing: Most Influential Paper from 20 Years Ago.
• Jill Cao, Scott D. Fleming, and Margaret Burnett, “An Exploration of Design Opportunities for ‘Gardening’ End-User Programmers’ Ideas,” IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2011.
• Alan Fern, IJCAI-JAIR Award for Best Paper in Previous Five Years, Runner-up (2011).
• MohammadJavad NoroozOliaee and Bechir Hamdaoui, “Distributed resource and service management for large-scale dynamic spectrum access systems through coordinated learning.” In Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, July 2011.
• C. Weber, J. He, C. Zhong, and H. Liu, “Multiband Architecture for high-speed SerDes,” DesignCon 2011, Santa Clara, CA, Jan. 2011.
• Paul Cull, “Biocomputation,” 20th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, 2010. Caianiello Award for Biocybernetics.
• R. Whang, H. Liu, and E.K. Hong, “Multiuser cooperative relay communication employing hierarchical modulation,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, May 2010.
• Yuehua Xu, Alan Fern, and Sungwoon Yoon, “Iterative Learning of Weighted Rule Sets for Greedy Search,” Int’l Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2010. Best Paper Runner-Up Award.
• Jill Cao, Yann Riche, Susan Wiedenbeck, Margaret Burnett, and Valentina Grigoreanu, “End-User Mashup Programming: Through the Design Lens,” ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2010. Best Paper Honorable Mention.
• J. He, H. Liu, and Z. Wang, “A fast ACSU architecture for Viterbi decoder using T-algorithm,” 43rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 2009. Best Student Paper Award Finalist.
• W. G. Finn, K. M. Carter, R. Raich, L. M. Stoolman, and A. O. Hero, “Analysis of clinical flow cytometric immunophenotyping data by clustering on statistical manifolds: Treating flow cytometry data as high dimensional objects,” Cytometry: Part B - Clinical Cytometry, Jan. 2009. Best Original Paper published in Clinical Cytometry for 2008-2009.
• Ronald Bjarnason, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli, “Lower Bounding Klondike Solitaire with Monte-Carlo Planning,” Best Student Paper of ICAPS (International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling) 2009
• Martin Erwig and Eric Walkingshaw, “A DSL for Explaining Probabilistic Reasoning,” IFIP Working Conference on Domain-Specific Languages, 2009
• D. Tran, T. Nguyen, “Publish/Subscribe Service in CAN-based P2P Networks: Dimension Mismatch and the Random Projection Approach.” In Proceedings of IEEE Int’l Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2008)
• Paul Cull and Tai Hsu, “Biomimic Spider Double Stereo Vision by the Walking Tree Method,” Twentieth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research 2008
• Chris Chambers and Martin Erwig, “Dimension Inference in Spreadsheets,” IEEE Int. Symp. on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2008
• Joseph Lawrance, Rachel Bellamy, Margaret Burnett, Kyle Rector, “Using Information Scent to Model the Dynamic Foraging Behavior of Programmers in Maintenance Tasks,” ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2008. Best Paper Honorable Mention.
• J. Ayers, K. Mayaram, and T. Fiez, “A low power BFSK super-regenerative transceiver,” ISCAS 2007, pp. 3099-3102, May 2007. Best Student Paper of ISCAS (IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems)
• Paul Cull and Tai Hsu, “The Walking Tree Method for 3D Vision,” Cybernetics and Systems 2006 (R. Trappl, ed.), Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
• Fountain, T., Dietterich, T. G., and Sudyka, B. (2000). “Mining IC Test Data to Optimize VLSI Testing,” In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (pp. 18-25). ACM Press. Winner of Best Application Paper Award (Research Track)
• A. von Jouanne, A. Wallace, I. Husain, A. Yokochi, “Gone with the Wind: Innovative Hydrogen/Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Based on Renewable Energy Sources,” IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, Prize Paper Award (2005)
• Robin Abraham and Martin Erwig, “Header and Unit Interference for Spreadsheets through Spatial Analysis,” IEEE Int. Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing, 2004
• John Wager, “Amorphous Multi-component Heavy Metal Cation Oxides for Thin-Film Transistor Applications,” Materials Research Society Symposium, Top 5 paper.
• Robin Abraham: Best Paper Award at IEEE Int. Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (2004)
• Peter Kurahashi, Pavan Hanumolu: Best Student Paper Award in 2006 at the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, P. Kurahashi, P. Hanumolu, G. Temes, U-K. Moon, “A 0.6V Highly Linear Switched-R-MOSFET-C Filter”
• Martin Erwig, “A Foundation for Representing and Querying Moving Objects.” Most Cited ACM Trans. on Database Systems paper in Ten Years (1993-2004)
• Paul Cull, “Computer Models and Genetic Systems,” Cybernetics and Systems 2004 (R. Trappl, ed.), Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
• Tom Dietterich, JAIR Award for Best Paper in Previous Five Years (2003)
• Thinh Nguyen, “Distributed Video Streaming with Forward Error Correction,” Packet Video Workshop (2002)
• P. Cull and S. Larson, “Routing on Twisted Cube Networks,” SCI 2001, 5th World MultiConference Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics
• A. von Jouanne, P. Enjeti, W. Gray, “Application Issues for PWM Adjustable Speed AC Motor Drives, IEEE Industry Applications Magazine,” Prize Paper Award (1996)
• Toshi Minoura, Asahi Newspaper Prize, Invention and Development of a Rule Based Process Control Method for Plant Control (1988)