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Two More CISE Faculty Win Prestigious NSF Career Awards
April 19, 2006
The National Science Foundation sponsored Faculty Early Career Development Program is one of the most prestigious awards for new faculty. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century, according to the NSF Web site. The award provides more than $400,000 over a five year period.
The Department's most recent recipients of the NSF CAREER award are Shigang Chen and Benjamin Lok. These two additional winners bring the Department total to eight. Past CISE winners of this award are professors Dobra, Helmy, Jermaine, Liu, Peir, and Schneider.
Innovative Research for Next-Generation Wireless Networks
Professor Shigang Chen
Wireless technologies have come a long way, from the radio technologies that allow data bits to be exchanged between two physically-disconnected devices, to the multiple access technologies that allow a group of devices to share a common wireless communication channel, and to the routing technologies that allow out-of-range devices to communicate via multihop wireless paths. During the recent years we have witnessed the huge commercial success of WLAN, which bloomed into a multi-billion dollar market. Multihop wireless networks, including wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, and mobile ad-hoc networks, are expected to lead in the next wave of deployment.
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Professor Explores Race and Ethnicity Issues with Immersive Virtual Humans
Professor Benjamin Lok
In a virtual world, would you cross a street to avoid a group of young black men? Understanding if virtual humans can elicit such real-world biases in people is the foundation of a research project titled, "Studying Diversity Issues with Immersive Virtual Humans." This project applies virtual humans to simulating interpersonal scenarios. Through interacting with a diverse group of virtual humans, students can be educated on ethnic and racial issues.
Dr. Benjamin Lok, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, recently received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate fundamental questions about virtual humans.
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