 Robert "Bob" Stoll
(B.S. '69,
chemical engineering) has been nominated as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's new commissioner
for patents. Stoll's five-year appointment will begin when the retirement of the current
commissioner, John Doll, becomes official.
 Buno Pati
(B.S. '86, M.S. '88 and
Ph.D. '92, electrical engineering) was inducted into the Clark School's Innovation Hall of Fame
for his innovations in phase-shift lithography, which have driven the development of smaller
and smaller electronic devices with ever expanding applications. Pati's work has improved the
capabilities of everything from computers to cell phones to GPS devices to MP3 players.
 J. Charles Tobin (Ph.D. '09,
electrical engineering), a former advisee of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chairman Patrick
O'Shea, has received the prestigious Peoples
Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which focuses on
research at the frontiers of high-energy physics. The three-year, tenure-track fellowship will focus on
next-generation colliders and high-intensity proton source research.
 Mounya Elhilali
(M.S. ’03 and Ph.D. ’04,
electrical engineering) has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development
(CAREER) Award for "Cognitive Auditory Systems for Processing of Complex Acoustic Scenes." The five-year,
$550,000 award will fund research to develop an architecture for sound processing
based on cognitive and adaptive processes.
 Sean Andersson
(Ph.D. ’03, electrical
engineering), now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University, has received a
NSF CAREER Award for "Nonlinear Control for Single Molecule Tracking." The five-year, $430,000 award will
establish a rigorous theoretical and experimental foundation for tracking single nanometer-scale particles
and for tracking multiple particles simultaneously.
 Fumin Zhang
(Ph.D ’04, electrical
engineering) has won a NSF CAREER Award for his research, "Feasibility of Control Tasks—Towards
Control-Computing-Power Co-Design." The five-year, $400,000 grant will establish a theoretical foundation
for battery-supported cyber-physical systems.
 Can Korman
(B.S. ’85, M.S. ’87,
and Ph.D. ’90, electrical engineering) has been appointed as associate dean for research and graduate
studies at George Washington University's School of Engineering and Applied Science. Korman, who
joined the faculty at GWU in 1991, has previously served as chairman of GWU's Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department.
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 Hamid Jafarkhani
(Ph.D. '97, EE)
was recently honored with the title “Chancellor’s Professor” by the University of California,
Irvine. The title is reserved for faculty members who have demonstrated unusual academic merit
and whose continued promise for scholarly achievement is unusually high.
 Narasingarao "Sree"
Sreenath (Ph.D. 1987, EE/Institute for Systems Research [ISR]) has been promoted to full professor of electrical engineering and computer
science at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He is a former student of Professor P.S.
Krishnaprasad (ECE/ISR).
 Priya Ranjan
(M.S. ’99, Ph.D. ’03,
electrical engineering) joined the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as an assistant professor in the
Department of Electrical Engineering. Ranjan was a senior research scientist at Intelligent Automation,
Inc., in Rockville, Md., and is a former ISR research associate.
 Beatrice Roget
(M.S. ’01, Ph.D. ’04,
aerospace engineering) has joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wyoming as
an assistant professor.
 Xiaobo Tan
(M.S. ’99 and Ph.D. ’02, electrical engineering) is leading a new $500,000 NSF Research Experiences
for Teachers in Engineering program at Michigan State University. The program focuses on
biology-inspired technology and systems.
 Nikhil Koratkar
(M.S. '98 and Ph.D. '00, aerospace engineering) was awarded the 2009 Young Investigator Award from
the Electrochemical Society Division of Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures.
 Ana-Luisa
Ramirez (B.S. '05, EE) was recently awarded the Luminary Award at the Hispanic
Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference.
 Sebastian Engelmann (Ph.D. '08, materials science and engineering),
formerly advised by Professor Gottlieb Oehrlein, has published his first book,
Plasma-Surface Interactions of Advanced Photoresist Systems.
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