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Nominations for 2012 New Faces of Engineering Recognition; College Edition Program Started

Nominations are now open for IEEE members under 30 to be recognized as the IEEE/IEEE-USA's 2012 "New Face of Engineering." In addition, a "College Edition" program for IEEE student members has started. The Engineers Week (EWeek) "New Faces of Engineering" program recognizes engineers new to the profession with outstanding educational and career accomplishments. The program is open to IEEE members worldwide. IEEE nominations should be directed to Sharon Richardson at s.richardson@ieee.org.

Hung-Quoc Duc Lai (University of Maryland, College Park), “Wireless network cocast: Cooperative communications with space-time network coding” (2011)

Hung-Quoc Duc Lai (University of Maryland, College Park), “Wireless network cocast: Cooperative communications with space-time network coding”, Advisor: Prof. K. J. Ray Liu (2011) Abstract: Traditional cooperative communications can greatly improve communication performance. However, transmissions from multiple relay nodes are challenging in practice.

Avinash Laxmisha Varna (University of Maryland, College Park), “Multimedia protection using content and embedded fingerprints” (2011)

Avinash Laxmisha Varna (University of Maryland, College Park), “Multimedia protection using content and embedded fingerprints”, Advisor: Prof. Min Wu (2011) Improved digital connectivity has made the Internet an important medium for multimedia distribution and consumption in recent years. At the same time, this increased proliferation of multimedia has raised significant challenges in secure multimedia distribution and intellectual property protection.