Winners: Prof Takes Korea's Highest Honor
Kim made a Ho-Am laureate
- Professor and Bioengineeing Chair Yongmin Kim
Yongmin Kim, chair of the UW Department of Bioengineering, has won the 2003 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering, an annual award that recognizes individuals of Korean descent from around the world. In naming Kim a laureate, the Ho-Am Foundation cited his achievements in high-performance computing and medical imaging.
The award, which consists of a gold medal, a plaque and a cash prize of 100 million Korean won (about $83,000), is considered the highest Korean honor that can be bestowed upon a person.
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Paper on passive radar clinches top honors for undergrad
Electrical Engineering student Melissa Meyer won first prize at the recent U.S./Canada meeting of the International Union of Radio Science for a paper titled “Passive VHF Radar Interferometer Implementation and Observations.” Meyer was among four finalists invited to present their papers orally at the conference in Columbus, Ohio.
Student research idea scores Intel grant
Sam Larson has been selected to receive a grant from the Intel Student Research Contest for Undergraduate Students for his proposal “Investigation of Cooling Micro Electronics with Corona Propulsion.” Larson, an electrical engineering student, will travel to Intel’s Santa Clara, Calif., site early next year to present his work during Student Research Day.
Prof named top young innovator
Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation, has named electrical engineering Associate Professor Lih Lin one of the world’s 100 Top Young Innovators. Lin’s work involves building tiny micromirror switches for faster, all-optical telecommunications networks. The switches, which she designed for AT&T in 1997 and 1998, are barely visible at about three times the width of a human hair. Nominees for the award must be under age 35 and are selected by a panel of judges who deem the young innovators’ work in technology as having a profound global impact.
New twist on cell theory takes ‘best in show’
A book by a UW bioengineering professor has been given the “Distinguished Award” and named “Best in Show” by the Society of Technical Communication. In the book, “Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life,” Gerald Pollack uses gel theory to explain and simplify the foundations of cellular processes.
Read a UW news release about the book.
Ratner elected to leadership roles in two tissue-engineering groups
Buddy Ratner, professor in bioengineering and chemical engineering and director of the University of Washington Bioengineered Materials research center, has been elected president of the Tissue Engineering Society of North America and vice president of the Tissue Engineering Society International.
CSE scientist nabs influential paper prize
Jean-Loup Baer of the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering has won the International Symposium on Computer Architecture 2003 Influential Paper Award. The award, endorsed by the Association of Computing Machinery and the IEEE, recognizes papers presented at the ISCA 15 years ago that have proved to be most influential in the intervening decade and a half. Baer won the award for a paper he presented with Wen-Hann Wang titled “On the Inclusion Properties for Multi-level Cache Hierarchies.”
Prof heads to Germany on Fulbright
Electrical Engineering Professor Les Atlas will be spending time in Germany this academic year as a Fulbright Research Scholar. Atlas’ research focuses on speech recognition and acoustic analysis, specifically directed toward the time-varying aspects of physical signals.
Newest AIChE fellow brings UW total to four
Chemical engineering Professor John Berg has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, one of the premier organizations for the discipline. Berg’s induction brings the number of AIChE fellows at the UW to four; other fellows include Les Babb, Bruce Finlayson and Charles Sleicher.