Xue-wen (William) Chen, Chair, Computer Science, will deliver a keynote speech at the 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, December 2012. The conference will be held in Boca Raton, Fla.

Juri Gelovani, Chair, Biomedical Engineering, MD, PhD, professor and chair of Biomedical Engineering, delivered an invited lecture on "PET imaging of EGFR mutational heterogeneity in cancer" at the Princess Chulabhorn Cancer Center, National Cyclotron and PET Centre, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 14, 2012.

Tapan Datta, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, P.E., was the principal investigator on a project funded by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to evaluate the benefits of centerline rumble strips on rural highways. Datta led an evaluation of Michigan's centerline rumble strips to determine their impact on driver behavior and traffic crashes, as well as to guide future implementation of centerline rumble strips across the state and nationally. Read more.

Joseph Hummer, Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was presented last week with the North Carolina Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers 2012 Contribution to Transportation Award. This prestigious award, given in 2010 to North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, honors an individual who has contributed significantly to transportation or political activities. Hummer is a transportation, highway design and safety expert. He is an international leader in the development and testing of unconventional intersection and interchange designs. Hummer served as a professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University for 20 years before coming to Wayne State this fall. He has published more than 80 journal articles from more than 50 funded research projects. His research has resulted in the appearance of new material in the Highway Capacity Manual (a core reference in the field) and federal government approvals of fluorescent warning signs at pedestrian walkways.

Nabil Sarhan, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected as the chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Multimedia Communication Technical Committee Interest Group on Media Streaming. The interest group has 27 international leading experts in media streaming. Further info can be found here.

Weisong Shi, Associate Professor, Computer Science, was elected as the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on the Internet (TCI), a forum for furthering research aiming at the advancement of the Internet -- its underlying technologies and the applications it supports. The forum's interests span many areas in computer science and engineering -- areas that are shaping the grand symbiosis of the Internet and the Web.

Weisong Shi, Associate Professor, Computer Science, and his collaborators in China, received the best paper award at the 2012 IEEE Symposium on Workload Characterization, Nov. 4-6, 2012, in San Diego, Calif. The title of the paper is "Workload Characterization on a Production Hadoop Cluster: A Case Study on Taobao." This work is in part supported by the NSF.

Weisong Shi, Associate Professor, Computer Science, delivered an invited plenary lecture on the topic "High Efficiency Computing in the Big Data Era" at the 2012 Annual Conference on High Performance Computing, Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China. Oct 27-31, 2012.

Weisong Shi, Associate Professor, Computer Science, and Lingjun Fan, a visiting student from the Chinese Academy of Science, received the best paper award in 2012 National Annual Conference on High Performance Computing (HPCChina), Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province China, Oct 27-31, 2012. The NSF-supported paper, titled "Low Power Cache Architecture with Hybrid Approach of Filtering Unnecessary Way Access," was done during the year Fan was at Wayne State.

Juri Gelovani, Chair, Biomedical Engineering, MD, PhD, professor and chair of Biomedical Engineering, will be delivering an invited plenary lecture on the topic "Molecular imaging of intra- and inter-tumoral heterogeneity for selection of individualized therapies" at the 10th anniversary conference of Korean Society for Molecular Imaging, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 10-12, 2012.

Andrian Marcus, Associate Professor, Computer Science, associate professor of computer science, was elected as the chair of the steering committee for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM). ICSM is one of the largest sub-field conferences in software engineering and has been running for 29 years.  Marcus served on the steering committee of the conference between 2005-2008 and since 2010. He also served as general chair of ICSM in 2011 and as program co-chair in 2010.

Kai Yang, Professor and Chair of Research and Ph.D. Program, Industrial and Systems Engineering & Director, Healthcare Systems Engineering Group , and his NSF-funded work on finding efficiency models for patient-centered medical homes, was featured by top medical IT organization, Government Health IT.

Cynthia Bir, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, was a featured speaker at Chicago Ideas Week 2012, a weeklong event that brings together artists, engineers, inventors and more to share their ideas and promote innovation. Bir, who currently serves as lead scientist for both Sport Science (ESPN) and Fight Science (National Geographic), was among six speakers in the "Sports: The Making of a Champion" talk on October 10.

Xiaoyan Han, Adjunct Professor, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is part of a team that is receiving the Airlines for America (A4A) Better Way Award for their work on Implementing Sonic IR on Critical Engine Components. Their WSU-patented technology uses sonic infrared imaging to detect flaws and cracks in critical airplane engine components.

The Better Way Award recognizes a government-industry team that has developed and applied a technology, technique, process, or policy that advances inspection or test of civil/commercial aircraft structure, aircraft components, or aircraft systems. The team also consists of WSU faculty members Skip Favro and Robert Thomas, and representatives from Siemens Energy, the Air Force, Delta Airlines, Rolls-Royce, Florida Turbine Technology, and Sandia National Lab.

Juri Gelovani, Chair, Biomedical Engineering, will be participating in the Clinical Molecular Imaging and Probe Development (CMIP) study section, National Institutes of Health (NIH), as a member of review panel. The meeting will take place in Rockville, MD, on Oct. 5, 2012.

Juri Gelovani, Chair, Biomedical Engineering, will be presenting an invited lecture at the Herrenhausen Symposium on Metastasis in Kloster Seeon, Seeon, Germany, on October 5, 2012. This prestigious "by invitation only" meeting is organized by Nature Medicine journal and the Volkswagen Foundation. Nature Medicine, in consultation with the research community, has identified a series of roadblocks to translational research on metastasis. A select group of leaders in the field of cancer metastasis will attend the Herrenhausen Symposium and participate in an interdisciplinary discussion that will point in the direction of solutions to the greatest challenges that the field of metastasis faces. Dr. Gelovani will join such authorities in the field of cancer metastasis as R. Charles Coombes (Imperial College London, UK), Rbert Kerbel (University of Toronto, Canada), Gregg Semenza (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA), and others.

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Nature Medicine is one of the top scientific journals publishing the most exciting advances in the field of biomedical research. The scope of articles published by Nature Medicine covers fields such as cancer biology, cardiovascular research, gene therapy, immunology, vaccine development, neuroscience, regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Original research articles published in Nature Medicine range from basic findings that have clear implications for disease pathogenesis and therapy at the earliest phases of human investigation. http://www.nature.com/nm/index.html

The Volkswagen Foundation (VoklswagenStiftung) is dedicated to advancement of science and technology in research and higher education. It funds research projects in path-breaking areas and provides assistance to academic institutions for the improvement of the structural conditions for their work. In particular, the Foundation perceives its mission in supporting aspiring young academics and in promoting interdisciplinary and international collaboration. www.volkswagenstiftung.de

Xue-wen (William) Chen, Chair, Computer Science, chair of computer science, is serving as the conference chair for the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), a well-known top tier and premier conference in the areas of information retrieval, knowledge management and database. CIKM 2012 will be held from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2, 2012 in Maui, Hawaii.

Xue-wen (William) Chen, Chair, Computer Science, chair of computer science, is serving as the steering committee co-chair for the IEEE Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Imaging, and Systems Biology (HISB). This year, HISB will be held in University of California, San Diego in September.

Juri Gelovani, Chair, Biomedical Engineering, chair of biomedical engineering, will attend the 2012 World Molecular Imaging Congress Sept. 4-9 in Dublin, Ireland, as the organizer-in-chief and president of the world Molecular Imaging Society.

Marcis Jansons, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, was honored with the Ralph R. Teetor Education Award during the SAE 2012 World Congress held in Detroit. The award, established in 1963, recognizes and honors exemplary young educators who are successfully preparing engineers to meet the challenges that face society. The award is named after former SAE president, Ralph R. Teetor, who firmly believed that engineering educators are the most effective link between engineering students and their future careers.

Nabil Chalhoub, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, has been named an ASME Fellow.

Farshad Fotouhi, College of Engineering Dean and Professor, Computer Science, Dean of the College of Engineering, was named a 2012-13 Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD) director at the 2012 Engineering Society of Detroit Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony.

Carol Miller, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was named an Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD) Fellow at the 2012 Engineering Society of Detroit Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony. ESD Fellows are chosen for their outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in the areas of technical achievement, professional achievement, ESD service and leadership, and professional society service and leadership. Miller is a past Chair of the State of Michigan Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers, a member of the International Joint Commission Science Advisory Board, a co-Chair of the Urban Watershed Environmental Research Group, an appointed member of the review team for the National Science Foundation's CMS (Civil and Mechanical Systems) Division, and an active researcher. She is a strong advocate of Detroit's importance as a center of urban engineering and has worked with ESD on several fronts in advancing that vision.

Nanua Singh, Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, has announced his retirement from the ISE Department after nearly 20 years of dedicated service as a full professor.

Carol Miller, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will be inducted as a Fellow member of the Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD) at the ESD's annual awards ceremony on June 27 at the Fillmore.

Zhifeng Kou, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and radiology, was awarded a seed grant from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) for his proposed work on mild traumatic brain injury. He received the award at ISMRM's 20^th Annual Meeting & Exhibition held in Melbourne, Australia, May 5-11. ISMRM is a 6,000 member, pre-eminent organization in the field of MRI. Its members include MRI physicists, engineers, biochemists, computer scientists, clinicians and basic scientists in biomedicine.

According to Kou, the award is a great honor and recognition of Wayne State's traumatic brain injury research program supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research. "I would like to thank the strong support from the whole MRI center led by Dr. E. Mark Haacke," Kou said. "Many students, postdocs, research scientists and staff working behind the scene in MRI center to help our TBI program. We are also fortunate to have very strong collaborators from the emergency medicine led by Drs. Robert Welch and Brian O'Neil. In the early days, Drs. Scott Millis from Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Randall Benson from Neurology helped us set up the stage. Dr. John Woodard's team from Psychology helped patients' testing. Our radiologists Drs. Karl Kish and Conor Zuk helped review clinical images. I also sincerely appreciate the strong support from our two departments, Biomedical Engineering, led by Dr. Albert King, and Radiology, led by Dr. Wilbur Smith. Finally, I would also like to thank our Dean, Dr. Fashad Fotouhi, of the College of Engineering for his enthusiastic support. Again, this grant helps our ongoing research program, and this honor goes to our team."

Cynthia Bir, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, will present at the 2012 World Science Festival, an annual celebration and exploration of science that takes place each spring in New York City. Bir will be one of four young scientists participating in the youth-oriented "Cool Jobs" program on June 2. Bir was chosen for her exciting work and expertise in sports science and biomedical engineering. She will also be participating in a segment featuring an athlete who holds a world record for basketball free throws.

Hongwei Zhang, Associate Professor, Computer Science, of Computer Science, has received tenure and promotion to associate professor.

Peter Savolainen, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has received tenure.

Ratna Babu Chinnam, Professor, Graduate Chair, Founding Director for the Global Executive PhD Track, has received a promotion to full professor.

Michele Grimm, Undergraduate Program Chair and Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, undergraduate program chair and associate professor of biomedical engineering, received the College of Engineering's Excellence in Teaching Award. Grimm was recognized for her leadership of the new and highly successful Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering Program. Established in 2012, this unique program uses learning communities and active learning design challenges to improve student learning. With her efforts, the program demonstrated a 95% retention rate for the first year class returning to the second year of the program.

Joseph Louvar, Research Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Alternative Energy Technology, research professor of chemical engineering, received the College of Engineering's Excellence in Teaching Award. Louvar was recognized for his outstanding contributions to teaching in the chemical engineering program and his peerless mastery of subject matter such as chemical process design, statistical design of experiments, and risk management. Louvar is co-author of the most widely used textbook in chemical process safety and is an important mentor to students.

Abhilash Pandya, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the College of Engineering's Excellence in Teaching Award. Pandya was recognized for his seamless integration of teaching and research. He has developed a successful course in his research area of medical robots and has developed a new course called "Clinical Immersion for Engineers" to enable students to make contributions to health care research and development.

Jeffrey Potoff, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, was named director of early engineering programs for the College of Engineering. In addition to his responsibilities as a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Dr. Potoff now will support the College's efforts in developing the talent pool of incoming professional-level engineering students. He will be responsible for assessment and improvement of both the College's Engineering Bridge Program for pre-engineering students, as well as the Basic Engineering course sequence. Dr. Potoff will work closely with Dr. R. Darin Ellis, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Student Services, and the College's team of academic advisors.

Shawn McElmurry, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, was honored at Wayne State University's Academic Recognition Luncheon, held on April 19 at St. Andrew's Hall. The luncheon recognized the 108 Warrior student-athletes who recorded at least a 3.5 grade-point average for the fall 2011 term. Civil and environmental engineering students Amelia Davis and Phil Swanson chose Prof. McElmurry as their favorite professor.

Abhilash Pandya, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was honored at Wayne State University's Academic Recognition Luncheon, held on April 19 at St. Andrew's Hall. The luncheon recognized the 108 Warrior student-athletes who recorded at least a 3.5 grade-point average for the fall 2011 term. Mechanical engineering student Alycen Wiacek chose Prof. Pandya as her favorite professor.

Evrim Dalkiran, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, has been named a recipient of the IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award (2nd place). She will be receiving the award during the IIE Annual Conference in Orlando, Fla., this May. The award recognizes outstanding graduate research in the field of industrial engineering. Both members and non-members of IIE are eligible to receive the award. Nominated authors must have performed the dissertation research in fulfillment of requirements of a doctoral degree in industrial engineering, or in an interdisciplinary doctoral program with a major in industrial engineering.

Guangzhao Mao, Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, will host a Go-Girls group in May as part of her commitment to provide a nanomaterials module to a NIH grant. The group will visit the nanomaterials lab for an hour and will complete a survey using the College's computer lab.

Mahendra Kavdia, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, will give a seminar titled ""Systems modeling of oxidative and nitrosative stress" on March 8, 2012, in conjunction with WSU's Program for Traumatic Brain Injury Research and the Division of Research.

Sean Wu, University Distinguished Professor, Mechanical Engineering, has been selected as the Inaugural Zhe Ke Zhen Distinguished Alumni Lecturer sponsored by Zhejiang University Education Foundation and will deliver three lectures at his alma mater, Zhejiang University, China on March 14, 2012. His "Rekindling Your Imagination" is to be given to all undergraduate students across the campus. In particular, he will give demos of his several recently developed technologies for locating arbitrary sound sources in 3D space in real time, and for extracting target information from contaminated data. The goal of this talk is to inspire students to get involved in innovative research early on in their programs.

Wen Chen, Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology, Electric-drive Vehicle Engineering, ET, has been awarded a Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Research Seed Grant in the amount of $5,000 based on a proposal that highlights a model-based fault-detection strategy to detect mismatched thrust of aircraft. The mismatched thrust cannot be swiftly detected by sensor measurements due to the engaged Fully-Automatic Digital Engine Controller (FADEC) in term of autopilot. The FADEC will automatically adjust itself to balance the thrust until it reaches the operating limit. This upset condition must be avoided. A Total-Measurable-Fault-Information Residual method synthesized with an Iterative Learning Observer is proposed to tackle this issue.

Ratna Babu Chinnam, Professor, Graduate Chair, Founding Director for the Global Executive PhD Track, ISE associate professor, graduate chair and co-director of the Global Executive Ph.D. Track Program, was named the recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in Natural Sciences/Engineering at WSU. This award is made in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the mentoring of Wayne State graduate students. Dr. Chinnam's achievements will be recognized at the Academic Recognition Ceremony on April 26, at 4 p.m. in the McGregor Conference Center.

Howard Matthew, Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). AIMBE is the leading advocacy group for medical and biological engineering and is comprised of some of the most important leaders in science and engineering, the top 2 percent of medical and biological engineers.