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Dr. Peng Li won a Best Paper Award at the 2008 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC). Li along with his students Wei Dong, and Xiaoji Ye, received the award for their paper titled "WavePipe: Parallel Transient Simulation of Analog and Digital Circuits on Multi-core Shared-memory Machines." DAC is the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for EDA and silicon solutions. DAC features a wide array of technical presentations plus more than 250 of the leading electronics design suppliers.

Dr. Xi Zhang will serve as the Symposium Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2008 - Information and Network Security Symposium, which has been the flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society for 44 years. The IEEE ICC is a premier IEEE conference focusing on the cutting-edge research in the various areas of Communications, Networks, and Information Theory, Systems, and Engineering Applications.

Dr. Srinivas Shakkottai has joined our group starting January 2008. Dr. Shakkottai received his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March 2007, and was a postdoctoral associate at Stanford University till December 2007. More about Dr. Shakkottai's research can be found here.

Dr. Zhang and his student, Qinghe Du, won the IEEE GLOBECOM 2007