Fall 2009 pilot program
> MIT EECS Prof. Arvind
is hosting Yuan Tang from Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
> Prof. Charles Sodini is hosting Prof. Bert Shi from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prof. Shi will be a recitation instructor for 6.02 for Fall 09 and will hosted in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MTL. Read more below.
Yuan Tang got his Bachelor's degree from Peking University in 1999, and his PhD degree in parallel computing at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China in 2004.
For his dissertation Tang developed a light-weight user level communication protocol for MPI applications under the supervision of Prof. Jiachang Sun. Since 2006 he is an assistant professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, where his research and teaching are focused in the area of advanced computer architecture.
Bertram E. Shi (S'93-M'95-SM'00- F'01), received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1987 and 1988. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1994.
Shi then joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong. He is currently a Professor there. His research interests are in bio-inspired and neuromorphic engineering, cellular neural networks, machine vision, image processing, and hardware implementations of neural networks.
Prof. Shi was a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2001-2002 and 2007-2008. His has been an Associate and Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I. He is a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's technical committees on Cellular Neural Networks and Array Computing (where he served as chair and secretary), Sensory Systems and Neural Systems and Applications. He first started working with the IEEE as the Student Activities Chair of the IEEE Hong Kong Section.
photo above: First Asian MIT iCampus Conference held at Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 2006. The photo
includes MIT faculty and staff: Philip Bailey, Senior Project Manager of the MIT Computing Initiatives; EECS Prof. Jesús del Alamo; Sean Gilbert, Managing Director, MIT China Program; MIT Libraries assistant, Rebecca Bisbee; Visiting Scientist at the MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, Philip Long; Paul Oka, Research Affiliate at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, EECS Prof. Hal Abelson; Research engineer at the MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, Jim Hardison; Assoc. Director of the MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives Jud Harward; Steven Lerman, MIT Vice Chancellor and Dean for Graduate Education.
Empower the Teachers
Guided by the synergy between education and research, EECS faculty will share their curriculum and teaching methods with selected partners from around the world. A truly global education program, Empower the Teachers will enable foreign faculty to work side by side with EECS faculty and EECS TAs teaching core level EECS undergraduate classes. Participants will also conduct research during their stay at the Institute — aided by EECS UROP students and/or EECS graduate students.
Participants will return to their host institutions with greater confidence in their teaching and familiarity with the MIT EECS undergraduate teaching methods and philosophy — and an enhanced ability to link the laboratory with the classroom. Following their experience at the Institute, participants will host MIT students, professors, and researchers at their home university. Resulting partnerships will build long-term engagements in global teaching and research.
Announcements:
> EECS Juniors and Graduate Students very cool internships at ASTRI in Hong Kong. The selected interns will get RT ticket to Hong Kong and a place to stay at nearby Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) plus some monthly stipend TBD. See the details. For Hong Kong opportunities, please contact Professor Charles Sodini (sodini@mit.edu) and Sean Gilbert at MISTI (seang@mit.edu).
> EECS Juniors: Check out two International Research Opportunities (IROPs) for 2010 (spring and summer) at Hong Kong University. Project 1: Optically powered fiber networks, Project 2: Ultra-fast swept-source for biomedical applications Send your resume for HKU Prof. Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong, c/o MIT EECS Prof. Charlie Sodini at sodini@mit.edu. Printable project poster.
> EECS Juniors and Seniors: Check out two International research opportunities (IROP)s for 2009 and 2010 at MIT and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Project 1: Learning hand-eye coordination, Project 2: Real-time visual processing on NVIDIA Graphics Cards. Send your resume to Prof. Bert Shi at bert_shi@mit.edu. Printable project poster.
EECS Professor Daniela Rus, front center, with members of a team including Prof. Shigeo Hirose from the Tokyo Institute of Technology working on a joint experiment involving the robot 'AnchorBot' which is connected to the MIT underwater sensor network node providing localization information for the robot. Summer, 2008 at the Gump Moorea Research Station, 9.5 miles nw of Tahiti in the South Pacific.
See more about Prof. Rus' work in the Distributed Robotics Lab, DSL, a part of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, CAIL at MIT.
