 Robert
Briskman (M.S. '61,
electrical engineering [EE]), co-founder of Sirius XM Radio, was inducted into the Clark School's
Innovation Hall of Fame for developing key technologies that make efficient satellite radio
possible.
 Anh Duong
(B.S. '82, chemical engineering), director of the Borders and Maritime Security Division in the
Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, was the Clark School's
winter 2010 commencement speaker.
 Amr A. Adly
(Ph.D. '92, EE)
has been appointed as Faculty of Engineering Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies at Cairo University,
Egypt. He also was elected fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
 Radha Poovendran
(Ph.D. ‘99, EE)
has been promoted to full professor by the University of Washington's Department of Electrical
Engineering.
 Xiaojiang (James) Du
(M.S. '02 and Ph.D. '03, EE) was recently promoted to associate professor with tenure at Temple
University.
 Xiaobo Tan (M.S. '99 and
Ph.D. '02, EE) was recently promoted to associate professor with tenure at Michigan State University.
 Zhaoyang Wang
(Ph.D. ’03,
mechanical engineering) has recently achieved tenure as an associate professor at the Catholic
University of America.
 Howard C. "Skip" Harclerode
II (B.S. '70 and M.S. '71, chemical engineering [ChBE]) became a fellow of the National Society
of Professional Engineers.
 Frank Hertsch
(B.S. '69
and M.S. '70, civil engineering) has been appointed to the Maryland Sustainable Growth Commission
by Gov. Martin O'Malley.
 Yan Lindsay Sun
(M.S. '03
and Ph.D. '04, EE) received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Social
Computing. The title of the paper, co-authored by Yuhong Liu, was "Anomaly detection in
feedback-based reputation systems through temporal and correlation analysis."
 Quynh Nguyen
(Ph.D. '03, ChBE),
formerly advised by Professor Sheryl Ehrman, was awarded a fellowship to attend the World Nuclear
University's 2010 Summer Institute.
 Shenqiang Ren
(Ph.D. '09,
materials science and engineering), formerly advised by Professor Manfred Wuttig, received a 2009
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad.
 Alumna Lu Jiang
(Ph.D. '09,
biological resources engineering), formerly advised by Fischell Department of Bioengineering professor
Yang Tao, has received a Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Ph.D. Students Abroad.
 Dennis P.
Nolan (B.S. '77, fire
protection engineering) published Loss Prevention and Safety Control: Terms and Definitions (Taylor and
Francis/CRC Press). The second edition of his Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering
Principles for Oil, Gas, Chemical and Related Facilities (Elsevier) came out in December.
 Zoltan Safar (M.S. '01 and Ph.D. '03, EE) is the new director of the Master in
Telecommunications program at the Clark School.
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