2015 Heart & Hands of the Keweenaw Award HANCOCK—It’s fitting that a man with a passion for promoting alternative energy should be a powerhouse in his own right. Abhilash Kantamneni, or “Abhi” as he is known locally, is this year’s winner of the Heart & Hands of the Keweenaw Award, earned for his outstanding ability . . .
The Graduate School has announced that PhD Candidate in Computer Science Jun Tao has received a Doctoral Finishing Fellowship. Read more at Tech Today. It is satisfying when these works start getting recognized and we received collaboration request from other university and research labs.
Laura Brown (CS/AIM) is the principal investigator on the research and development project, “Collaborative Research: CRISP Type 2: Revolution through Evolution: A Controls Approach to Improve How Society Interacts with Electricity” that has received a $699,796 grant from the National Science Foundation. Also working on the project are co-pi’s Chee WooiTen (ECE) and Wayne Weaver . . .
Min Song received a $221,797 NSF grant. The title of the project is The Ontology of Inter-Vehicle Networking with Spatio-Temporal Correlation and Spectrum Cognition. In this project, Min will investigate the fundamental understanding and challenges of inter-vehicle networking, including theoretical foundation and constraints in practice that enable such networks to achieve their performance limits. This . . .
Jean Mayo (CS), is the principal investigator on a project that received a $130,001 research and development grant from the National Science Foundation. Ching-Kuang Shene (CS) is a co-principal investigator on the project, “EDU:Collaborative:VACCS-Visualization and Analysis for C Code Security.”
Myounghoon “Philart” Jeon (CLS/CS) received a research grant from Equos Research Co., Ltd (a Japanese automotive research company) in the amount of $35,443. The project is entitled “Intuitive Presentation of In-Vehicle Information via Auditory Displays – Phase 1”. This five month project with Equos brings him to a total of four active research grants.