NSF Awards Funds for Wireless Emergency Response System
Poellabauer Receives CAREER Award
Chen Honored for High-impact Papers
Bowyer Receives Award of Excellence
NSF Awards Funds for Wireless Emergency Response System

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems program has awarded Associate Professor Gregory R. Madey, computer science and engineering, and Professor Albert-László Barabási, the Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics, a $500,000 three-year grant for the development of an integrated wireless phone based emergency response system. The goal of the system, which would be capable of monitoring the activity of millions of wireless phone users in real time, is to collect and analyze data so that it can generate traffic forecasts, issue emergency advisories, and alert public safety and emergency response personnel. David Hachen, associate professor of sociology, is assisting Madey and Barabási.

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Poellabauer Receives CAREER Award

Associate Professor Christian Poellabauer has been named a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his proposal “Judicious Resource Management in Wireless Systems.” He is the 11th faculty member in the department to receive the award, which is the highest given by the government to faculty at the beginning of their careers.

Among other related issues, his research project seeks to develop efficient integrations of multiple wireless resources and to prevent the side effects of interdependency.

Also receiving the CAREER Award while they were members of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering were Jay B. Brockman, Surendar Chandra, Danny Z. Chen, Nikos Chrischoides, Vincent Freeh, Sharon X. Hu, Jesus A. Izaguirre, Andrew Lumsdaine, Hsing-Mean Sha, and Aaron Striegel.

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Chen Honored for High-impact Papers

Two papers authored by Danny Z. Chen, professor of computer science and engineering, have been recognized for their impact. “Skew Voronoi Diagrams,” published in the June 1999 issue of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications (IJCGA), and “Topological Peeling and Applications,” published in the April 2003 issue of the same journal, were cited as the first and sixth most accessed articles in the IJCGA.

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Bowyer Receives Award of Excellence

The Philadelphia chapter of the Society for Technical Communication has presented, Kevin W. Bowyer, the Schubmehl-Prein Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, with the 2005 Award of Excellence. The award, given annually, recognizes excellence in technical communication. Bowyer was honored for an article published in the spring 2004 issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine titled “Face Recognition Technology: Security versus Privacy,” which discusses the social controversy surrounding the field of biometrics in the wake of September 11. Bowyer’s research interests are in the areas of computer vision and pattern recognition, with a special emphasis on biometrics and data mining.

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