http://engineering.ucsc.edu Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz en-us Copyright 2008, UC Regents 2000-08-23T07:00+00:00 webmaster@soe.ucsc.edu webmaster@soe.ucsc.edu Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 hourly http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/_images/slug-new.gif http://engineering.ucsc.edu/ webmaster@soe.ucsc.edu http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/faculty/2007/09/26/index.html Computer Science Assistant Professor Neoklis "Alkis" Polyzotis reported that a paper he coauthored with his students received the runner-up for best-paper award at the VLDB 2007 conference. Their paper, "Depth Estimation for Ranking Query Optimization," written by Karl Schnaitter, Joshua Spiegel, and Neoklis Polyzotis, was runner-up for best paper. 2007-09-26T11:56:00 Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/faculty/2007/09/05/index.html Associate Professor Jim Whitehead, reported that a joint paper, "Predicting Faults from Cached History" was selected as one of four Distinguished Paper Award winners at the recent International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007). Authors are Sung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Jim Whitehead, and Andreas Zeller. Heidi McGough 2007-09-05T16:05:00 Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/faculty/2007/05/18/index.html The paper "<a href="/research/reports/ucsc-crl-06-16.pdf">On-Demand Routing in Disrupted Environments</a>," by Jay Boice, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, and Katia Obraczka, received the Best Paper Award at the IFIP Networking 2007 Conference (http://www.ifip-networking.org/) held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 2007. 2007-05-18T14:57:00 Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/faculty/2007/05/16/index.html Sun Senior Vice President Sunil Joshi of Design Tools (right) presents the Sun Center of Excellence plaque to Assistant Professor Jose Renau of UC Santa Cruz's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering . 2007-05-16T14:19:00 Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/faculty/2007/05/14/index.html Phokion Kolaitis, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz, has been elected a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in recognition of his "outstanding academic merits." Tim Stephens 2007-05-14T17:04:00 Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/faculty/2007/05/08/index.html The University of California, Santa Cruz, has appointed Phillip Berman, professor and chair of biomolecular engineering, to the Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Biomolecular Engineering. Berman is the first faculty member to hold the endowed chair, established in 2003 with a gift of $500,000 from philanthropist Jack Baskin, a UCSC Foundation trustee and longtime supporter of the Baskin School of Engineering. Tim Stephens 2007-05-08T11:57:00 Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/faculty/2007/05/07/index.html The American Statistical Association (ASA) has selected David Draper, professor and chair of applied mathematics and statistics, as a 2007 Fellow of the ASA. Nominated by their peers, ASA Fellows are recognized by the association as "members of established reputation who have made outstanding contributions in some aspect of statistical work." Tim Stephens 2007-05-07T16:53:00 Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/faculty/2007/04/25/index.html Dominik Rabus, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has published a book entitled Integrated Ring Resonators (Springer, 2007). Rabus holds a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His book, a new volume in the Springer Series in Optical Sciences, deals with a special form of optical device, called a ring resonator, which has emerged in the last few years in integrated optics. Tim Stephens 2007-04-25T17:36:00 Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/2007/04/18/index.html Claire Gu, professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been elected a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Gu is among 56 new Fellows honored by the society this year as members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. Tim Stephens 2007-04-18T11:54:00 Research News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/faculty/2007/02/13/index.html The University of California, Santa Cruz, is offering a new general education course on universal access and assistive technology, enabling students from all majors to learn more about disability and the issues that surround it. Tim Stephens 2007-02-13T11:02:00 Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/faculty/2007/01/18/index.html The Asian Pacific Fund today announced the recipients of its first annual Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Awards, recognizing Sung-Mo "Steve" Kang, dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Belle W. Y. Wei, dean of the College of Engineering at San Jose State University, for their professional accomplishments and leadership qualities. The honorees will each receive an unrestricted grant of $10,000. Tim Stephens 2007-01-18T12:14:00 Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2006/11/13/index.html Jonathan Trent, an adjunct professor of biomolecular engineering, was chosen by Nanotech Briefs magazine to receive a Nano 50 award. The Nano 50 awards recognize the "top 50 technologies, products, and innovators that have significantly impacted, or are expected to impact, the state of the art in nanotechnology." Tim Stephens 2006-11-13T16:14:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/faculty/2006/10/02/index.html Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced the creation of an independent OpenSPARC Community Advisory Board. The board is chartered with setting the direction for OpenSPARC, a community that fosters the creation of tools and derivative chip designs based on Sun's breakthrough UltraSPARC(R) T1 processor. The community now includes a new GNU/Linux distribution, Gentoo Linux, which is supporting UltraSPARC T1 in the latest release of its popular open source operating system (OS), and the first published derivative of the chip design from Simply RISC. 2006-10-02T15:16:00 Faculty Recognition - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/2006/09/27/nih_award_supports_research/index.html William Dunbar, an assistant professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has received a career development award from the National Institutes of Health. The Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award is designed to encourage researchers with backgrounds in quantitative science and engineering to focus on questions relating to health and disease. Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; stephens@ucsc.edu 2006-09-27T17:00:00 Research News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2006/08/03/aids_vaccine_expert_phillip/index.html The University of California, Santa Cruz, has recruited Phillip Berman, a pioneer in the development of recombinant vaccines for AIDS and other infectious diseases, to serve as professor and chair of the Department of Biomolecular Engineering. Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; stephens@ucsc.edu 2006-08-03T17:00:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz