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James Moore II, the chair of the Daniel J. Epstein Department, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), and also was elected to a two-year term on the IIE Board of Trustees as a senior vice president. Najmedin Meshkati, who holds appointments in both the Epstein Department and the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been selected by the National Academies as a 2009 Jefferson Science Fellow in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Science and Technology Advisors. He will serve as a specialist on issues related to human-systems integration and the safety, reliability and efficiency of complex, large-scale technological systems. Roger Ghanem, who holds appointments in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and the Sonny Astani Department, will receive the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics’ 2009 Computational Structural Mechanics Award. A team led by Milind Tambe (Computer Science) and Fernando Ordoñez (Industrial and Systems Engineering) earned a best paper award at the 2009 International
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, for its work with the Federal Air Marshals on airport security. Jerry Mendel and Bart Kosko of the Hsieh Department have been named fellows of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA).
Jerry Mendel
Bart Kosko
Krishna Nayak
Krishna Nayak of the Hsieh Department received a 2009 General Electric Healthcare Thought Leader Award for his research in magnetic resonance cardiac imaging. The Global Wireless Education Consortium has named Hsieh Department faculty member Andreas F. Molisch “Wireless Educator of the Year” for outstanding contributions in teaching, research and collaboration with academic peers and the industry.
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Paul Debevec, a research associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, best known for his pioneering work in high-dynamicrange imaging and image-based modeling and rendering, is the winner of an Elan “Visionary” Award. Now three years old, the Elan award program honors exceptional achievements in computer graphics.
Andreas F. Molisch
Paul Debevec
Petros Ioannou
Debevec works at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. Petros Ioannou of the Hsieh Department has received the IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Society’s Best Practice Award for his smart-vehicle research. Viktor Prasanna of the Hsieh Department has been named an Outstanding Engineering Alumnus by Penn State.
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Viktor Prasanna