ECE Faculty Receive Awards

October 24, 2007

Dr. Martin Feldman elected to Steering Committee

Dr. Martin Feldman, the Oustalet Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected to a five-year term on the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN), the world's leading symposium on lithography and nanofabrication. The EIPBN Conference brings together engineers and scientists from industries and universities from all over the world to discuss recent progress and future trends in lithographic science and technology and its application to micro and nanofabrication techniques. Professor Feldman will serve as Program Chair in 2010.

Dr. Feldman joined LSU as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1989 following 27 years academic and industrial experience. He spent six years at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania followed by 21 years with AT&T Bell Labs. He is a reviewer for several journals, holds over 30 patents and has published over 45 papers in refereed journals

Dr. Mort Naraghi-Pour wins best paper at international Conference

Dr. Mort Naraghi-Pour, Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, presented two papers at the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS 2007), in Barcelona, Spain, July 28-31, 2007. One of these papers, entitled “Resource Allocation for OFDM Systems in the Presence of Time-Varying Channels,” authored by Dr. Naraghi-Pour and his Ph.D. student Xiang Gao was selected as the best paper of the conference. In the conference closing ceremonies they were presented with an award certificate.

Information gathered from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering “Tiger Bytes” newsletter, Fall 2007, Issue 4

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