• Wireless Foundations BEARS 2008 Open House and Student Poster Session was well attended. Click here to read the poster abstracts.


• Congratulations to Hari Palaiyanur for acing his qual!


• Dr. Cheng Chang has joined HP Labs as a Postdoctoral Researcher.


• Congratulations to Pulkit Grover for passing the qual!


• Dr. Lara Dolecek has joined the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT as a Postdoctoral Researcher, where she works with Professor Devavrat Shah. While she was at Berkeley, Lara was awarded the 2007 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for her outstanding research. Established in memory of David J. Sakrison, who was a Faculty member and Chairman of EECS on the Berkeley campus at the time of his death, the award is made annually to a graduate student who has completed what is deemed by a faculty committee to be a truly outstanding piece of research.



• Dr. Vinod Prabakaran has joined the Coordinated Sciences Lab as a Post-doctoral researcher at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Vinod was honored this year with the 2007 Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award, an award that recognizes generosity and altruism. In addition to conducting his research, Vinod unselfishly took the time to help colleagues beyond the normal cooperation existing between fellow students.



• Congratulations to Amin Gohari for passing the qual!



• Dr. Daniel Schonberg has graduated with his Ph. D and now works as a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. He is a member of the Core Media Processing Technology Team.



• Jonathan Tsao is working as a Scientific Adviser at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP. He works in the Patent Litigation and Patent Prosecution groups in Menlo Park, California.



• This summer our students gained valuable research experience as interns at various companies. Cheng Chang interned at HP Labs, Krish Eswaran conducted research at the Broad Institute, Pulkit Grover interned at Wionics Research Lab, Hari Palaiyanur worked at Nokia and Alex Dimakis and June Wang both spent the summer at Microsoft Research.



• Cheng Chang, Lara Dolecek, Vinod Prabhakaran and Daniel Schonberg were awarded their Ph.D during commencement ceremonies. Congratulations graduates!



• Prof. Randy Berry from Northwestern University spent two months at the Wireless Foundations Center to collaborate with the faculty and students.



• Prof. Suhas Diggavi from EPFL visited the center to collaborate with the faculty and students.



• Congratulations to Bobak Nazer for passing the qual!



• BEARS 2007 Open House and Poster Session -- On February 15 the Wireless Foundations center held a well attended open house and poster session. Click here to view poster titles and abstracts.



• Check out the Wireless Foundations Wiki, a great resource for documents, resources and links that may be useful.



• Congratulations to Mark Johnson, Krish Eswaran, Anand Sarwate, June Wang, Salman Avestimehr, Alex Dimakis, Lenny Grokop, Animesh Kumar, and Rahul Tandra for passing their quals!



• Dr, Mukund Thattai, faculty member at The National Center for Biological Sciences gave two talks, "Gene networks in theory and practice" and "Encoding evolvability," during his visit this summer.



• Rajiv Laroia, senior vice president of engineering for Qualcomm Flarion Technologies, visited in June and gave a talk on "Lessons Unlearned in Wireless."



• Salman Avestimehr, Alexandros Dimakis, Krishnan Eswaran, Dan Hazen, Paolo Minero, Bobak Nazer, Hari Palaiyanur, Anand Sarwate, Jonathan Tsao, Sameer Vermani and June Wang earned their Master's degrees. Congratulations!



• BAD 2006, the Bay Area Day on Signals, Information, and Control was held on June 2nd, 2006 in 290 Hearst Mining. The symposium was hosted by Michael Gastpar and David Tse from Berkeley and Balaji Prabhakar and Tsachy Weissman from Stanford.



• Photos from the MSRI workshop on The Mathematics of Relaying and Cooperation in Communication Networks are now online.



• A new guide on LaTeX usage complete with customized templates has been added as part of the resources section. Much thanks to Anand Sarwate for putting this together.



• There will be an MSRI workshop on The Mathematics of Relaying and Cooperation in Communication Networks cohosted by Michael Gastpar on April 10-12, 2006.



• The members of the Wireless Foundations would like to extend our deepest condolences to Professor Eugene Wong and his family for the untimely passing of Joan Wong. Our thoughts and wishes are with him and his family in this sad time.



• There will be a poster session on ongoing research projects at 3-5pm on February 23rd, 2006 as part of the BEARS workshop.