Yu wins ISPSD 2017 Charitat Award (Young Researcher Award)
ECE PhD candidate Jingshu Yu, supervised by Professor Wai Tung Ng, received the Charitat Award (Young Researcher Award) at the 30th IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD 2018) in Chicago, May 13-17, 2018.
The Charitat Award (formerly the Best Student Paper Award) is granted to the best paper at ISPSD in which the first author and presenter is a young researcher, 30 years old or younger. Yu’s winning paper was titled “A Smart Gate Driver IC for GaN Power Transistors”.
In the 30 year history of ISPSD, ECE’s Electronics Group has won the Charitat Award three other times; Diana Gradinaru (ECE MASc 9T9) in 1999, Michael Sun (ECE MASc 0T2, PhD 0T6) in 2005 and Professor Olivier Trescases in 2006. “The hard work of our students has helped to establish our reputation as a leading research group in the area of power semiconductor devices and smart power ICs,” says Ng.
C. A. T. Salama inducted in to the ISPSD Hall of Fame
Professor C. A. T. Salama was inducted in to the ISPSD Hall of Fame (IHF) at the 30th IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD). The ISPSD Hall of Fame honours individuals who have made high impact contributions in advancing power semiconductor technology and/or in sustaining the success of ISPSD. Professor Salama was recognized for his contributions to power IC technology, and his leadership role in organizing ISPSD conferences.
Kschischang and Yousefi win 2018 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award
Professor Frank Kschischang and Professor Mansoor Yousefi (ECE PhD 1T3) of Telecom ParisTech received the 2018 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in Vail, Colorado, June 17 – 22, 2018.
The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually to an outstanding publication in the field. It recognizes papers that stimulate interest in and encourage contributions to fields of interest of the Society.
Kschischang and Yousefi’s three-part paper, “Information Transmission using the Nonlinear Fourier Transform, Parts I—III,” takes a first step towards the design of fiber-optic communication schemes in which information is encoded in the nonlinear spectrum associated with the transmitted signal. There are efforts at several research groups around the world to test the usefulness of the method in practice, and to develop it further. “Nonlinearity is a key impairment to fiber-optic data transmission at the large optical intensities used for long-distance telecommunications,” says Kschischang. “It is a great honour to be recognized by the Society for generating interest in a new approach to an important research question.” The paper appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory in July 2014.
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