071009: ECE Welcomes Assistant Professor Engin Ipek

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to welcome Engin Ipek in a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Ipek comes to us from the Computer Architecture Group of Microsoft Research, where his focus has been on multicore architectures, hardware-sofware interactions, and the application of machine learning to computer systems.

With numerous publications to his credit, Ipek received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2008. His doctoral dissertation was nominated by Cornell for the 2008 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. He earned his BS in 2003 and his MS in 2007, both from Cornell in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Ipek has been a researcher at Microsoft since 2007. He worked as a graduate intern for Intel Corporation for a few months in 2005, and before that, served as a graduate intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for approximately half a year.

Assistant Professor Ipek has extensive experience supervising both graduate and undergraduate students, and he was a teaching assistant at Cornell for two semesters. The University of Rochester is pleased to have him onboard.

031209: ECE Welcomes Professor William R. Donaldson to Faculty

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to welcome Faculty member William R. Donaldson, who is currently a Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE). Professor Donaldson attended Carnegie-Mellon University and received a BS in Physics and Mathematics with University Honors in 1976. In 1984 he received his PhD from Cornell University in Electrical Engineering Department in 1984 on the use of organic crystals for an optical parametric oscillator. After graduating in 1984, he joined the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester as a Research Associate. In 1986 he was promoted to Staff Scientist. He was appointed to the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in January 2009. His research interests have included the physics of photoconductive switches, streak-camera development, the optical response of high temperature superconductors, optical semiconductor diagnostics, electro-optic characterization of electronic circuits and the florescence of biological molecules. Dr. Donaldson is a member of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He holds four patents and has published several scientific papers.
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080108: Michael Huang Receives Tenure

Michael Huang received tenure on July 1, 2008. He received the BS degree in computer science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1994, the MS and the PhD degree in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and 2002, respectively. From 1994 to 1997, he was a lead architect in building a 32-processor hierarchical shared-memory multiprocessor. He joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in 2002. His research interests include various aspects of high-performance computer architecture such as processor microarchitecture, communication and memory substrate, reliability, and energy-efficient and complexity-effective design. His research focuses on addressing emerging issues and exploring new technologies in the underlying device, circuit, and manufacturing technology. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

070107: Gaurav Sharma Receives Tenure

Associate Professor Gaurav Sharma received tenure on July 1, 2007. He joined the Department of ECE in Fall 2003, coming to the University of Rochester from Xerox Corporation, where he was a Principal Scientist and Project Leader. His research interests include multimedia security and watermarking, image processing, and signal processing for bioinformatics and communications. Dr. Sharma received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University-Raleigh.

During 2007, Sharma served as Chair of the IEEE Rochester Section, and recently, he accepted the role of Associate Director for the Center for Electronic Imaging Systems at the University of Rochester.