On 2 Jun, 2011
WiMNet Ph.D. student Robert Margolies received the Egleston Doctoral Fellowship from the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Egleston Doctoral Fellows Program provides $10,000 to be used during the doctoral studies at Columbia Engineering for research related equipment or expenses….
On 2 Apr, 2011
WiM.Net Ph.D. student Robert Margolies received a SMART Fellowship. The Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program has been established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering…
On 2 Mar, 2011
WiMNet Ph.D. student Berk Birand will serve as the Technical Program Committee (TPC) co-chair of the 2011 ACM s3 workshop which is collocated with ACM MobiCom’11. Berk is a past recipient of the Best Theory Session Talk award at the 2010…
On 21 Feb, 2011
WiMNet Ph.D. student Berk Birand has been awarded the IBM PhD Fellowship for the 2011-2012 academic year. The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program. According to IBM, the program “honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving…
On 20 Sep, 2010
Berk Birand received the Best Theory Session Talk award at the ACM S3’2010 workshop co-located with ACM MobiCom and ACM MobiHoc 2010. He presented his paper entitled “Analyzing the Performance of Greedy Maximal Scheduling via Local Pooling and Graph Theory”…
On 1 May, 2010
WiMNet Ph.D. student Berk Birand received the Millman Award for Outstanding TA from the Department of Electrical Engineering. This award, in honor of Jacob Millman, is given to two of the most outstanding teaching assistants for the academic year. Berk has been…