Two Notre Dame faculty named IEEE Fellows

Martin Haenggi, left, and J. Nicholas Laneman

Martin Haenggi, professor of electrical engineering, and J. Nicholas Laneman, associate professor of electrical engineering, have been named fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

The IEEE is the world’s major expert association for advancing technological innovation for humanity. Through its 400,000 members in 160 nations, the association is a top authority on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace methods, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electrical power and customer electronics. IEEE fellow is the highest grade of membership and distinction, reserved for pick members who have established an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

A University of Notre Dame faculty member given that 2000, Haenggi was honored for contributions to the spatial modeling and examination of wireless networks. Specifically, he has devised sophisticated versions for cellular, cognitive, ad hoc and sensor networks and created mathematical strategies that permit network performance analyses that explicitly account for the spatial distribution of wireless nodes or customers.

Haenggi also serves as a concurrent professor of applied and computational mathematics and statistics. He received the Nationwide Science Basis Occupation Award in 2005 and the 2010 IEEE Communication Society Best Tutorial Paper Award. He is the author of the textbook “Stochastic Geometry for Wireless Networks” (Cambridge, 2012), two other books and much more than 180 publications in journals and conferences. He at the moment serves as the chair of the Executive Editorial Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Haenggi received his Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1999.

Laneman was recognized for contributions to multiphop relaying and cooperative communication for wireless networks, pioneering new approaches for trading off signal strength and spatial diversity rewards with bandwidth expenses when several wireless transmitters relay signals for each and every other to combat multipath propagation effects. Laneman also developed a wireless network testbed, based on software-defined radio (SDR), to foster the implementation and verification of communications algorithms and to enhance SDR technology.

The founding director of the Wireless Institute at Notre Dame, Laneman also is a fellow of the Reilly Center for Science, Engineering and Values at Notre Dame. He has acquired the 2006 Presidential Early-Profession Award for Scientists and Engineers, a 2006 NSF Profession Award and a 2003 Oak Ridge Connected Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. The author or co-writer of a lot more than 115 publications, he was recognized by Thomson Reuters as a 2010 ISI Extremely Cited Researcher. He is also the co-inventor on five U.S. patents and has numerous patents pending. Laneman acquired his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technologies in 2002.

Haenggi and Laneman join numerous other Notre Dame faculty who have been named IEEE fellows, like Panos Antsaklis, Peter Bauer, Gary H. Bernstein, Kevin Bowyer, Daniel J. Costello Jr., Patrick Flynn, Thomas Fuja, Yih-Fang Huang, Peter M. Kogge, Ruey-Wen Liu, James L. Merz, Anthony Michel, Wolfgang Porod and Alan Seabaugh.

Two Notre Dame faculty named IEEE Fellows

Pier Carlo Bontempi named 2014 Driehaus Prize laureate

Italian architect Pier Carlo Bontempi has been named the recipient of the 2014 Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. He will obtain the prize at a ceremony to be held March 29 (Saturday) in Chicago at the John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium.

A native of Fornovo di Taro, Parma, Italy, Bontempi studied architecture at the University of Florence and has taught at Florence University, the École Spéciale d’Architecture of Paris, Syracuse University of New York in Florence, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart and the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture in London. His studio works on new standard architecture and architectural projects including restoration, rebuilding and town planning. His award-winning worldwide operate contains a block recovery plan in Parma’s historic center, as well as the Place de Toscane and the “Quartier du Lac” resort in Val d’Europe close to Paris.

“Bontempi’s function illustrates why the thought of the classic city and its architecture are referred to as ‘the authentic green,’” said Michael Lykoudis, Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the Notre Dame College of Architecture. “His buildings, seamlessly woven into their urban environments, demonstrate the rules of the new classicism and urbanism. Their resilient construction, adaptive interior area and sensitive urban siting make them exemplars of architecture as an art of conservation and investment as opposed to consumption and waste.”

“Bontempi acquired his vast architectural understanding and versatility by learning the wealthy fabric of Italy, the cities and landscapes he grew up in,” explained Léon Krier, the inaugural Driehaus laureate. “The serenity, robustness, elegance and economic system of his substantial built operate supply exemplary versions for far better cities and buildings in the cities and towns of the future.”

Established in 2003 by the Notre Dame School of Architecture, the $ 200,000 Richard H. Driehaus Prize is awarded to a living architect whose operate embodies the highest ideals of conventional and classical architecture in contemporary society, and generates a positive cultural, environmental and artistic affect. In keeping with the College of Architecture’s classical and urbanist curriculum, the prize offers a forum for celebrating and advancing the concepts of the conventional city with an emphasis on sustainability.

“I am most pleased with the selection of Pier Carlo Bontempi as the 2014 Richard H. Driehaus Prize laureate,” stated Richard H. Driehaus, founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Chicago-based mostly Driehaus Capital Management LLC. “His work has persistently responded to the unique characteristics of historic environments as effectively as to the demands of modern society. Each project has accomplished a nuanced stability among conventional rules and worldly cosmopolitanism, a good quality lacking in today’s urban settings. His work is a reminder to all of us that excellent architecture possesses not only self confidence and wonder, but that it is born of a humanistic impulse.”

Each and every 12 months, in conjunction with the Driehaus Prize, the jury also selects the recipient of the $ 50,000 Henry Hope Reed Award, which honors outstanding achievement in the promotion and preservation of people ideals.

Ruan Yisan, professor of architecture at Tongji University, will receive the 2014 Reed Award. A native of Suzhou, China, Yisan supervised the Yangtze River Water Towns undertaking and the Pingjiang Historic District venture of Suzhou, both of which received Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards from UNESCO. He has been a consultant for conservation tasks in quite a few historic cities in China which includes Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Pingyao and Lijiang. He also has been honored by France’s culture ministry as a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters for his contributions to the conservation of Globe Heritage web sites.

“Professor Ruan has, via instance, shown us the significance of saving not just personal buildings, but whole environments, along with their culture, so that they turn out to be part of present day daily life, rather than isolated artifacts,” explained Lykoudis.

“Through huge-scale neighborhood interventions, Professor Ruan’s function has grow to be a model for preservation that addresses context in the broadest sense of the phrase,” said Driehaus.

Recipients of this year’s Driehaus Prize and Reed Award have been selected by a jury composed of Adele Chatfield-Taylor, president of the American Academy in Rome Robert Davis, developer and founder of Seaside, Fla. Paul Goldberger, contributing editor at Vanity Honest Léon Krier, architect and urban planner Demetri Porphyrios, principal of Porphyrios Associates and Witold Rybczynski, Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.

Speak to: Lucien Steil, College of Architecture, 574-631-1434, Lucien.Steil.3@nd.edu

Pier Carlo Bontempi named 2014 Driehaus Prize laureate

Three Rhodes Scholars named from Yale

Soon after an application method that started with informational sessions in February and ended with a grueling two-day series of interviews, 3 Yale college students have been named as members of the Rhodes Scholars Class of 2014 this weekend. The winners — Isabel Beshar ’14, Vinay Nayak ’14 and Suzanna Fritzberg ’14 — all said they experienced disbelief and delight when they very first heard they had received the Rhodes Scholarship, which gives full funding for students to review at the University of Oxford for two or 3 years.

“It’s been a huge shock. I keep asking my family if I’ve been dreaming this,” Beshar stated. “The past handful of days have been kinda crazy.”  

 Katherine Dailinger, director for national fellowships at the Yale Center for Global and Professional Encounter, explained that whilst dozens of college students apply for one particular of Yale’s nominations to the Rhodes Believe in each yr, student curiosity in the award might have been even increased than normal this 12 months because Yale won 9 Rhodes Scholarships last year, breaking the University’s record. Dailinger additional that Beshar, Nayak and Fritzberg are all “wonderful scholars [who showed] need to fight the world’s fights as properly as a demonstrated potential to do that.”

Nayak mentioned that he could not believe his ears when the Rhodes Believe in affiliates came down to the waiting room and named his identify as one of the two recipients chosen from his residence state of Illinois.

 “I was speechless. I was, and even now am, in a state of shock. I never ever believed in a million many years I’d be offered such a wonderful possibility,” he explained, adding that he is grateful for his close friends, loved ones members and professors who have served as his academic mentors.

In accordance to its website, the Rhodes Scholarship is awarded annually to 32 Americans, along with students from 13 other nations, who exhibit “outstanding intellect, character, capacity for leadership and dedication to service.” Even though every pupil won the exact same award, their interests are diverse, ranging from political science to worldwide health.

Beshar, who is 1 of two recipients from New York, is a double key in molecular, cellular &amp developmental biology and historical past of science and medicine with a concentrate in continual ailments such as diabetes. Even though she became interested in international well being before she came to Yale, Beshar pointed to the University’s global well being fellowship and to her perform at a Type 1 Diabetes laboratory as two important motives for her accomplishment at Yale. 

 Beshar stated she 1st regarded as the Rhodes Scholarship as a sophomore following a single of her professors suggested that she apply. After studying more about the scholarship and about how it would fit with her aspiration to attend health care school, Beshar mentioned she came to see graduate school at Oxford as a special possibility to review medical anthropology. Learning this area would assist her construct health interventions for diabetes in building nations due to the fact it would teach her how cultural and religious aspects may contribute to the disease’s prevalence in specific communities, Beshar explained.

 Nayak, who majors in political science, intends to study public policy and the social science of the World wide web at Oxford. He mentioned his academic interests stem from a need to empower and encourage ordinary people to grow to be better political citizens. Nayak also has extensive operate knowledge in this field, as he managed nationwide digital plans and social media outreach initiatives for President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign and interned for the White Home Office of Digital Technique this previous summertime.

 “At Oxford, I hope to learn new techniques to engage people in civic discourse, in elections and in government,” Nayak explained, adding that he is excited to be studying in the United Kingdom when a standard election will take location in 2015. Whilst Nayak does not know his potential programs beyond his sojourn at Oxford, he mentioned he desires to continue to be involved with political organizing in some capacity.

Fritzberg, who at present majors in women’s, gender and sexuality studies and is interested in poverty policy study, cited the main differences in between how Britain and America technique policy alleviation as 1 cause for her need to review at Oxford soon after graduation. Whereas American policymakers makes use of piecemeal programs to battle poverty, the British government seeks to use a more holistic method and also has a robust welfare state, she mentioned. She also extra that she was drawn to Oxford due to the fact of the strength of its faculty, many of whom have written extensively about the connection amongst gender and the welfare state.

 Even though she was acquainted with the Rhodes Scholarship for a variety of years, Fritzberg stated she did not decide to apply for it right up until the summer time before her senior 12 months, when her intellectual interests narrowed right after she worked as an Arthur Liman fellow as a poverty policy analyst at the Roosevelt Institute. Fritzberg mentioned that while the Rhodes by no means seemed an unattainable ambition, she was grateful every time she passed another hurdle to the scholarship.

 All three students interviewed explained they are excited to expertise Oxford’s exclusive culture and also meet their fellow Rhodes Scholars.

 “I would say I’m most excited by the opportunity to immerse myself in the Rhodes Scholars neighborhood at Oxford. They come from all cultures, walks of daily life, and all various academic backgrounds and I’m actually searching forward to meeting those inspiring people and the opportunity to learn from them,” Nayak said.

 Outside the classroom, the college students said they search forward to participating in a selection of actions such as a cappella, intramural sports and some of Oxford’s richer traditions like cricket and punting.

All stated they are also fired up to select a single of Oxford’s residential colleges in which to commit the up coming couple of years of their academic lives. Oxford’s residential program is “like Yale’s on hyper-drive,” Fritzberg explained.

 6 students from the Rhodes Scholars Class of 2014 came from Harvard — the only college that surpassed Yale’s representation. Whilst Stanford also claimed three recipients, Princeton, the University of Virginia and West Level won two scholarships apiece. Twelve other colleges have been represented in this year’s class.

Three Rhodes Scholars named from Yale

Notre Dame mechanical engineer Gretar Tryggvason named AAAS Fellow

Gretar Tryggvason

Gretar Tryggvason, Viola D. Hank Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and division chair at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in honor of his efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.

AAAS, founded in 1848 as a nonprofit association, is the world’s largest scientific society and publisher of the prestigious journal Science.

Tryggvason was cited for “the advancement of numerical approaches to track the motion of fluid interfaces and innovative approaches to undergraduate engineering schooling.”

Tryggvason is best recognized for creating a front-tracking approach for direct numerical simulations of multiphase flows and the use of this approach to examine a number of techniques, which includes bubbly flows, droplet movement and boiling. His investigation interests encompass multiphase and totally free surface flows phase modifications, which includes boiling and solidification vortex flows and combustion and numerical approaches. He is the author of a lot more than one hundred journal papers and numerous other publications, is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Physics and has supervised more than twenty doctoral dissertations. He holds two patents.

Tryggvason is a fellow of the American Bodily Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and his other study recognitions incorporate the Computational Mechanics Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2005 and the ASME’s Fluids Engineering Award in 2012. He has been concerned in several curriculum reforms at each the undergraduate and graduate level, which includes assisting to set up the initial U.S. undergraduate system in robotics engineering. He also served as the general chair of the 2008 Global Mechanical Engineering Education Conference.

Prior to joining the University, Tryggvason served as head of the Division of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and as an assistant, associate and full professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics at the University of Michigan. He has also held quick-term visiting positions at the California Institute of Technological innovation, NASA’s Lewis Research Center, the University of Marseilles and the University of Paris VI.

Tryggvason earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Iceland in 1980. He earned his master’s and doctorate in mechanical engineering at Brown University in 1982 and 1985, respectively.

The tradition of AAAS fellows began in 1874, and this 12 months the association is honoring 388 individuals as fellows. At the moment, members can be regarded for the rank of fellow if nominated by the steering group of the association’s 24 sections, by 3 fellows, or by the association’s chief executive officer. Each and every steering group then reviews the nominations of individuals inside of its respective segment and forwards a last record to the AAAS Council.

The AAAS Council votes on the last aggregate record. The council is the policymaking physique of the association, chaired by the president, and consisting of the members of the board of directors, the retiring section chairs, delegates from each electorate and every regional division, and two delegates from the Nationwide Academies of Science.

Tryggvason will be presented with an official certificate and gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pins on Feb. 15 (Saturday) for the duration of the 2013 AAAS annual meeting in Chicago.

Notre Dame mechanical engineer Gretar Tryggvason named AAAS Fellow