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DSP Alum Marco Duarte Accepts Assistant Professor Position at UMass-Amherst

Esteemed and award-winning Rice DSP alum Marco Duarte has accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A prestigious NSF IPAM Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton and Duke Universities enabled him to work with Prof. Robert Calderbank.

Duarte received his B.Sc. with distinction and his M.Sc. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison; he received his Ph.D. from Rice with Prof. Richard Baraniuk as advisor. He has published and presented widely, and is the co-inventor on several patents. Duarte’s areas of interest include signal, image, and data processing using sparse, compressible, and manifold signal models.

DSP Alum Rui M. Castro Accepts Assistant Professorship of Statistics at University of Technology, Eindhoven

DSP alum Rui M. Castro, formerly of Columbia University, began an assistant professorship of statistics at University of Technology, Eindhoven, August 2010.

Rui's research interests are on the borderline of signal processing, learning theory and statistics. One major research focus is on active learning techniques, also known as sequential experimental design.

Farinaz Koushanfar receives 2010 PECASE

President Obama today named Rice ECE professor Farinaz Koushanfar as one of 85 researchers to receive the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

"Science and technology have long been at the core of America’s economic strength and global leadership," President Obama said. "I am confident that these individuals, who have shown such tremendous promise so early in their careers, will go on to make breakthroughs and discoveries that will continue to move our nation forward in the years ahead.”

Justin Romberg named 2010 REA Outstanding Young Alumnus

The Rice Engineering Alumni (REA) board of directors recently announced its 2010 awards for Outstanding Engineering Alumnus and Outstanding Young Engineering Alumnus (OYEA). Named OYEA was Justin Romberg, assistant professor in the school of electrical and computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1997, master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1999 and a PhD in 2004, all from Rice University.

From Fall 2003 until Fall 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. He spent the Summer of 2000 as a researcher at Xerox PARC, the Fall of 2003 as a visitor at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions in Paris, and the Fall of 2004 as a Fellow at UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. In the Fall of 2006, he joined the ECE faculty as a member of the Center for Signal and Image Processing.



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