Assistant Professor Kim Fook Lee (Physics), “Continuous Weak Measurement of Single Electron Spins in Diamond,” NSF.
Assistant Professor Jinfeng Jiang (Biomed/BRC), Professor and Chair Sean Kirkpatrick (Biomed/BRC), Assistant Professor Bruce Lee (Biomed/BRC), Assistant Professor Rupak Rajachar (Biomed/BRC) and Adjunct Assistant Professor Gowtham Shankara (Physics/BRC), “Virtual Breast Project: Improving Noninvasive Characterization of Tumors,” NSF.
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Yap, Lee Honored for Nanotube Discoveries
For groundbreaking work in nanotechnology, Yoke Khin Yap and Chee Huei Lee have received Michigan Tech’s Bhakta Rath Research Award.
The award, endowed by 1958 alumnus Bhakta Rath and his wife, Shushama Rath, recognizes a Michigan Tech doctoral student and advisor for “exceptional research of particular value that anticipates the future needs of the nation while supporting advances in emerging technology.”
Read more at Michigan Tech Magazine, by Marcia Goodrich.
CS Faculty/Students Win Best Paper Award
Computer Science Assistant Professor Chaoli Wang, former CS undergraduate student John Reese, former CS MS student Huan Zhang, CS PhD student Jun Tao, and Physics Professor Robert Nemiroff will receive a Best Paper Award for their paper, “iMap: A stable layout for navigating large image collections with embedded search”, at the IS&T/SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis, Feb. 4-6, 2013, in Burlingame, Calif. Jun Tao will present the award paper at the conference.
For their next steps, the authors will further develop techniques for animated transition and graph-based image layout, deploy the visualization results on the display wall at the Immersive Visualization Studio (IVS) at the Center for Computer Systems Research (CCSR) for outreach, and eventually release a web-based online program to benefit a wider user base.
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Associate Professor Ranjit Pati (Physics), “Collaborative Research: CNT Based Spin Toward Post-CMOS Molecular Scale Spin Logic,” NSF.
Assistant Professor Petra Huentemeyer (Physics/EPSSI), “Studying Cosmic-Ray Acceleration and Propagation, Gas Content and Interstellar Radiation Fields in our Galaxy with the HAWC Observatory,” NSF.
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Professor Miguel Levy (Physics) and Assistant Professor Ramy El-Ganainy (Physics), “Optical Isolation Based on Nonreciprocal Bloch Oscillations and Resonant Delocalization,” NSF
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Assistant Director John Diebel (IIE) and Professor Yoke Khin Yap (Physics), “High Yield Synthesis of High Quality Boron Nitride Nanotubes,” University of Michigan–Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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Professor Yoke Khin Yap (Physics/MuSTI), Instructor Dustin Winslow (Physics/MuSTI), and Assistant Director John Diebel (IIE/MuSTI), “High Quality Baron Nitride Nanotubes,” NSF.
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Will Cantrell, coordinator for the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program, will conduct a workshop on writing effective SURF proposals at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 28, in Fisher 127.
Faculty and staff are encouraged to notify students interested in applying for SURF funding to attend.
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Professor Raymond Shaw (Physics/EPPSI), “Holographic Measurements of Cloud Microphysical Properties: Transitioning HOLODEC to Community Airborne Research Platforms,” NASA
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According to the Intellectual Property Citation Index (IPCI), a product of the National Applied Research Laboratories in Taiwan, Michigan Tech particularly excels in research related to instruments and instrumentation, materials science, electrical engineering and physics.
As an example, physics Professor Yoke Khin Yap’s investigation of boron nitride nanotubes “has yielded important results and has been a recipient of funding from the prestigious National Science Foundation Innovation Corps program,” said Baker. Yap’s research points towards a number of commercial applications in a range of industries from aerospace to alternative energy to medicine.
Read more at Tech Today, by Kevin Hodur.