Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Two Professors Win National Science Foundation Career Awards

By: Dana Schmidt

Aleksandar Dogandzic and Jiming Song, both assistant professors of electrical engineering, have won the National Science Foundation's (NSF) most prestigious Early Career Award. The award is given in support of the early career-development activities of teachers and scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of their organization's mission.

Dogandzic's research focuses on novel solutions for prominent signal processing problems in sensor network design. In particular, he's developing methods for efficiently extracting information through distributed processing, conserving energy through node selection, and exploiting spatial correlations among sensor measurements.

The objective of Song's research is to explore and develop state-of-the-art, physics-based, accurate and efficient algorithms for electromagnetic modeling of nanoscale interconnects, embedded RF components, and high-speed circuits. Song says the new and accurate algorithms will lead to significant breakthroughs in the design of large-scale, complex 3-D high-speed circuits.