On 18 May, 2013
Maria Gorlatova received her Ph.D. after successfully defending her thesis titled “Energy Harvesting Networked Nodes: Measurements, Algorithms, and Prototyping”. While studying towards the Ph.D., Maria received the Columbia Presidential Fellowship, the Canadian Graduate Scholar (CGS) NSERC Fellowship, the Google Anita Borg Fellowship, the…
On 29 May, 2012
The MS Award of Excellence is awarded annually by the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University to fewer than 3% of the candidates for the M.S. degree to recognize outstanding achievement. This year, out of the 6 awards given…
On 8 May, 2012
WiMNet Ph.D. student Maria Gorlatova has been awarded the 2012 US Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. This competitive scholarship, only 25 of which are awarded nationwide, recognizes academic achievements and demonstrated leadership. Maria Gorlatova’s research focuses on designing, developing, analyzing, and evaluating communication,…
On 7 Nov, 2011
An EnHANTs demo titled Organic Solar Cell-equipped Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tag (EnHANT) Prototypes received the Best Student Demo Award at the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM SenSys 2011), a premier sensor networking conference. The demo authors are Gerald Stanje, Paul Miller,…
On 11 Jul, 2011
Gerald Stanje, a visiting M.S. student from the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, has been awarded the Exzellenzstipendium 2011 Fellowship. This highly competitive national-level Austrian fellowship is only awarded to a few students country-wide. Gerald is currently working on his Masters thesis…
On 7 Jul, 2011
WiMNet Ph.D. student Maria Gorlatova received the Best Presentation Award at the 2011 ACM MobiSys Ph.D. Forum. In this Ph.D. Forum, Maria presented her research on characterizing energy availability for energy harvesting devices and on energy-harvesting-adaptive algorithms.