 Washingtonian magazine and the Greater Washington Board of Trade named Jeong H. Kim, Clark School benefactor, alumnus and professor of practice in electrical and computer engineering (ECE), to the Washington Business Hall of Fame for 2006. Kim, Ph.D. '91, reliability engineering, was honored for his business savvy in establishing telecomm company Yurie Systems and for his leadership at Lucent's Bell Labs.
 The Clark School inducted alumnus Rajiv Laroia, M.S. '89 and Ph.D. '92, electrical engineering (EE), into the Innovation Hall of Fame. Laroia is a leading developer of wireless and wireline technologies who recently sold his company, Flarion Technologies, to communications giant QUALCOMM. He was honored for his inventions, which will allow companies to bring enhanced Internet functions to mobile phones and which helped to double the speed of data over landline modems.
 Protagoras "Tag" Cutchis, B.S. '79 EE and physics and M.S. '90 EE, a senior engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., was selected by Scientific American magazine as a Research Leader in the 2006 "Scientific American 50" list. Cutchis was cited for developing a device that may enable amputees to communicate desired movements simply by thinking about them.
 Phil Wiser, B.S. '90 EE, has left his position as chief technology officer at Sony Corporation America to become chairman and president of Building B, an early-stage, privately held company that seeks to simplify and unify the consumer home entertainment experience.
 Elias Shams, B.S. '90 EE, was named the new CEO of Searchles, an intelligent social search platform that integrates popular Internet tools like bookmarking, tagging and content-sharing with in-depth search features.
 David Tahmassebi, B.S. '86 EE, has been named the new president and CEO of LedEngin, a company that produces ultra high-power light emitting diodes.
 Robert L. Richmond, B.S. '73 EE, has been hired as chief operating officer for SteelCloud, Inc. Richmond previously held senior level positions with General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Innovative Concepts, Inc., and eLUMINANT Technologies, an affiliate of NEC Corporation.
 Dwight Williams, Ph.D. '05 nuclear engineering, has been appointed to the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Martin Luther King Visiting Professor. Williams will also continue his full-time position at the Pentagon, where he is a Principal Nuclear Physicist for the Department of Defense's Science and Technology Brain Trust.
 Radha Poovendran, Ph.D. '99 EE, has been promoted to associate professor with tenure by the University of Washington's Electrical Engineering Department. He won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2005. Poovendran's Ph.D. advisor was Professor John Baras (ECE/ISR).
 The University of Maryland's College of Information Studies recently appointed Douglas Oard, Ph.D. '96 EE, as associate dean for research.
 Jiaqiao Hu, Ph.D.'06 EE and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), joined the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, as assistant professor. Hu was co-advised by Professor Steven Marcus (ECE/ISR) and Professor Michael Fu (ECE/Business/ISR).
 Saswati Sarkar, Ph.D. '00 EE, has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the University of Pennsylvania's Electrical and Systems Engineering Department. Sarkar's Ph.D. advisor was former ECE faculty member Leandros Tassiulas.
 The American Helicopter Society (AHS) International awarded the François-Xavier Bagnoud Award to Anubhav Datta, MS '02, PhD '04, assistant research scientist and lecturer in the Clark School's Department of Aerospace Engineering. Established in 1992, the award recognizes outstanding contributions to vertical flight technology by an AHS International member under the age of thirty.
 Ching-Te Chiu, a 1992 EE Ph.D. graduate advised by Professor K.J. Ray Liu (ECE/ISR), has won both the first place award and the innovation award in the Macronix Golden Silicon Awards competition for her group's work on "Loaded Balanced Birkhoff Von Neumann Symmetric TDM Switch IC." Chiu's team worked to implement a switch architecture capable of providing both high scalability and high throughput rate.
 John A. Gubner, Ph.D. '88 EE, and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the author of a new academic textbook, Probability and Random Processes for Electrical and Computer Engineers. Gubner was advised by Professor Prakash Narayan (ECE/ISR).
 Eric Oganesoff, B.S. '72 EE, has joined FOCUS Enterprises, Inc. as a partner. Oganesoff has served as the CEO or president of nine companies. He has more than twenty years of senior executive level experience in businesses ranging from wireless solutions, software and RFID services to manufacturing, industrial products, energy and environmental products.
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