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New APS Fellow Magnetic Logic Capturing Greenhouse Gases
New APS Fellow Magnetic Logic Capturing Greenhouse Gases
New APS Fellow Magnetic Logic Capturing Greenhouse Gases

Laneman Honored in White House Ceremony

Among the 58 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) honored during a Nov. 1 ceremony at the White House was J. Nicholas Laneman, assistant professor of electrical engineering.

The PECASE program represents the highest award that a beginning engineer or scientist can receive from the U.S. government. Nine government agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), nominate the candidates, and selection is extremely competitive.

Already acknowledged as a pioneer in cooperative diversity, Laneman was one of the 20 honorees nominated by the NSF from among the grantees of its Faculty Early Career Development Program. His CAREER (and subsequently PECASE) project, “Toward a Renaissance in Finite Blocklength Information Theory,” focuses on fundamental performance trade-offs of communication systems and networks for applications, such as wireless, in which transmission intervals are limited relative to the randomness of the communications medium. His goal is to provide a mathematical and computational framework for characterizing the trade-offs and designing more efficient systems.