RETIRING FACULTY
G
uang Gao, named Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2005, joined UD in 1996 and is credited with founding and directing UD’s Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Laboratory (CAPSL). Over the last two decades, Gao’s group led or participated in a large number of research projects in supercomputing systems sponsored by NSF, DARPA, DOE, DOD, other U.S. and Canadian government agencies and leading computer industry organizations. Gao has published close to 300 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, and his contributions have been recognized throughout the world, being cited in over 6,000 publications. He is a fellow of both IEEE and ACM.
Two ECE giants, Guang Gao and James Kolodzey, celebrated their retirement on June 25, 2016. “Together, Professors Gao and Kolodzey spent almost half a century doing exemplary work here at the University of Delaware.” – Kenneth Barner, Department Chair
2016
In 2012 Gao was selected to join TERAFLUX, a consortium of worldwide experts from the United States and Europe working to address high performance computing challenges based on dataflow technology; and in 2015, the Japanese government invited him to spend several months in Japan sharing his dataflow expertise. James Kolodzey, named the Charles Black Evans Professor in 2004, joined UD in 1991. A leader in solid-state electronics and semiconductor materials, he was one of the first to add carbon to silicon germanium alloys to make them usable for practical applications in the communication field. Kolodzey also researched terahertz and terahertz nanotechnology and devices. Recently he used germanium and tin (GeSn) to create an LED that operates in the infrared spectrum, realizing a breakthrough that can address important applications such as medical scanning and diagnostics, remote sensing of biochemicals, communications and signaling, and security technology. Kolodzey received many awards and honors during his career, including the 2012 IBM Faculty Award that recognized his work on fabricating semiconductor materials and devices used for high-speed integrated circuits in next-generation computers and communication systems. He also holds several patents and has authored or co-authored over 250 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings.
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