Student awards and honors

Intel finalist

David Bradley '03, an electrical engineering major, has been named a finalist in Intel Corp.'s Research Award Contest for Undergraduate Students. David receives a grant to support his research in the coming academic year.

Intel chose David for his research proposal titled "Creating Avatars From Faces in Video in Real Time." He plans to develop techniques for detecting the profile view of faces in pictures. Detecting faces in video images is important for automated surveillance systems as well as Internet search engines that find images rather than words. David's work could extend recent advances in recognizing the frontal view of faces.

David and the other 16 finalists will present their results to a panel of Intel researchers in April. The top presenters selected from that meeting will receive additional cash prizes.

Guggenheim Fellows

Weifeng Cheng and Christopher Wyckham, second-year graduate students in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, have each received a Guggenheim Second Year Fellowship. Weifeng's adviser is Professor Szymon Suckewer. Professor Alexander Smits advises Christopher.

Phillips Fellow

Danxu Du, a second-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has received the Phillips Second Year Fellowship. His adviser is David Srolovitz.

IBM Fellow

Subhash Khot, a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science, received an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship for 2002-03. Subhash is a member of the theory group and is advised by Associate Professor Sanjeev Arora.

Grimm Prize

Kuo-Long Pan, a third-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received the Ray Grimm Prize in Computational Physics.

ROTC awards

Jeff Pasqual '03 has received two awards from Air Force ROTC: the Society of Military Engineers Award, which is given to only 20 cadets nationally each year, and the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association scholarship. Jeff is majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering.

Intel Fellow

Manish Vachharajani, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has been awarded an Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship award will cover one year's tuition, fees, and a 12-month stipend.

Intel Corp. also will be offering each fellow an Intel microprocessor-based computer system. Manish is working with Princeton Professors Sharad Malik from the Department of Electrical Engineering and David August from the Department of Computer Science.

Post Fellow

Xiaolin Zheng, a third-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has received the Harari Post General Fellowship. Her adviser is C.K. Ed Law.

EE tops tournament

The annual E-Council Basketball Tournament was held in April, and a total of 12 teams participated. Electrical engineering's team came in first, defeating the two-year reign of operations research and financial engineering. The computer science team finished third. The teams and their member are:

First place: EE
Brent Bollman '03
Brendan Dillon '03
Brad Hill '03
Eric Shaner GS
Dan Wasserman GS

Second place: ORFE
Dries Darius GS
Nate Faust '02
Kevin Foster '02
Akshay Mahajan '03
Pat Smith '02

Third place: CS
Andrey Ermolinskiy '02
Charles Lin '03
Damian Petrone '02
Aaron Sarfatti '02
Kevin Wayne, faculty