ECE Department News 2014
ECE Department Welcomes Three New Faculty Members
Three new faculty members have joined the ECE department. Dr. Matthew Eisaman joins
us under a joint appointment with Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he is a physicist
in the Sustainable Energy Technologies Department. Dr. Shan Lin joins us from Temple
University, where he was an assistant professor since 2010, working on networked systems.
Dr. Fan Ye studies mobile sensing systems and applications. Prior to joining us, he
was a faculty member at Peking University and a researcher at IBM T. J. Watson.
Prof. Alex Doboli Studies Creativity in Design
The ECE department’s Alex Doboli is part of a multi-university team that has been
working on the research project “INSPIRE: The Hunting of the Spark: A Systematic Study
of Natural Creativity in Human Networks”. The project studies how novel ideas propagate
in large groups of people – specifically how research ideas percolate through the
technical community. More generally the team is studying creativity.
Prof. Peter Milder Wins ACM TODAES Best Paper Award
The Association for Computing Machinery has announced that a paper co-authored by
ECE assistant professor Peter Milder has won the 2014 Best Paper Award for the journal
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES).
Stony Brook Students Win Solar Boat Championship
Students from the Stony Brook ECE department, advised by Prof. David Westerfeld, were
winners of the IEEE Power Electronics Society Solar Splash Collegiate World Championship.
IEEE-HKN Students Take Fifth Place in Roth Pond Regatta
A cardboard boat carrying four students built by a team from the student chapters of IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu (the electrical engineering professional and honor societies, respectively) placed 5th out of about 100 boats in the 2014 Roth Pond Regatta on the Stony Brook Campus in early May. Following Roth Pond Regatta tradition, the boat was constructed of cardboard and duct tape.