News - Faculty Awards

* OSU's Computer Science and Engineering department was the recipient of 2 NSF ITR awards in the 2004 competition; this competitive program only funded 6% of all applications.

NSF Awards ITR Award*

A team of electrical engineers, computer scientists, and linguists working on a project titled, "Automatic Speech Attribute Transcription (ASAT)" were awarded $1. 73M. This is a multi-site, multi-disciplinary grant involves Ohio State, Georgia Tech, and Rutgers University, with GaTech taking the lead. Chin-Hui Lee (Georgia Tech, Electrical and Computer Engineering) is the coordinator for the project; Mark Clements (GaTech ECE) and Biing-Hwang Juang (GaTech ECE) complete the GaTech team. Eric Fosler-Lussier (OSU, CSE) heads the OSU contingent, which includes Keith Johnson (OSU Linguistics). Lawrence Rabiner (Rutgers, Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP)) leads the Rutgers component, which also includes Sorin Dusan (Rutgers/CAIP).

Research Team wins NSF Award*

A multi-disciplinary team of OSU researchers was recently awarded $1.3M from the National Science Foundation to investigate the design and development of an intelligent video surveillance system. The team consists of Richard Parent, James Davis, and Raghu Macharaju from the Dept. of Computer Science, David Woods from the Institute for Ergonomics, and Alan Murray from the Dept. of Geography.

Intel Awards Dr. D. K. Panda

Dr. D. K. Panda received an award from Intel® Advanced Computing Center for his work in "Advanced Message Passing Algorithms for RDMA-enabled Interconnects." Dr. Panda received this award in recognition of his "dedication to developing innovative ideas for emerging technologies."

Intel Center director Wilfred Pinfold saya, "The Intel Advanced Computing Center is focused on accelerating innovation in mainstream, or volume, computer technologies by working with leading commercial and academic partners to develop technologies once limited to proprietary high-performance computing systems."