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01-24-22

Alex Mori Carroll and John Lathrop have been selected as 2022 Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) Affiliates. Nominated by the Caltech faculty, KISS Affiliates are an ongoing cohort of Campus graduate students and postdocs who are seen as the next generation of space exploration leaders. KISS provides them unique experiences with industry CEOs, astronauts, space mission leaders, NASA leadership and world-renowned space exploration researchers.

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01-06-22

Yuh-Shyang (Mickey) Wang and Nikolai Matni, two Control and Dynamical Systems (CDS) Ph.D. alums, and John Doyle, Jean-Lou Chameau Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering, won the IEEE CSS Transactions on Automatic Control George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award. The Axelby Award recognizes outstanding papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in the past two years based on originality, potential impact on the theoretical foundations of control, importance and practical significance in applications, and clarity. [Read the paper]

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01-06-22

Necmiye Ozay, former Control and Dynamical Systems (CDS) postdoc, received the IEEE CSS Young Researcher Prize. The award goes to a control research under the age of 40 based on research contributions in the field of control as evidenced by publications, patents, products, or other tangible items. Ozay is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. [Past winners]

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01-06-22

Eugene Lavretsky, Lecturer in Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Senior Technical Fellow at Boeing, and long time lecturer in Control and Dynamical Systems (CDS), received the IEEE Control Systems Society Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control for the development, maturation and transition of robust and adaptive flight control technologies to aerial vehicles and systems. [Past winners]

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12-07-21

Computing and Mathematical Sciences student Zihui (Ray) Wu has won the Best Paper Award at the ML4Health Conference. The paper is titled "End-to-End Sequential Sampling and Reconstruction for MR Imaging", and studies how to use learning to jointly co-optimize both sensing and reconstruction for costly imaging tasks such as MRI.

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12-02-21

The Caltech Center for Sensing to Intelligence (S2I) has announced that, in collaboration with Rockley Photonics, a photonics-based health monitoring and communications solutions company, it will allocate $1.5 million in research grants over the next three years to jumpstart efforts to combine sensors with artificial intelligence. "We would like to have sensors in every device these days, generating a huge amount of data," says Azita Emami, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering and the director of S2I. "But it's difficult to extract the most important information from the mountains of data they create." [Caltech story]

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11-29-21

A team of Caltech undergraduates participating in NASA's 2021 Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge has earned the award for Best Developed Product. The Habitat Orientable & Modular Electrodynamic Shield (HOMES) team earned the Best Developed Product award, because—as noted by NASA—"it's not a concept; it's reality."  [Caltech story]

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11-09-21

Graduate Student Bijan Mazaheri, was the top American men’s finisher of the LA Marathon on Sunday, November 7, 2021. Mazaheri is in his third year working with the cross country and track & fields programs at Caltech. He came to Caltech after a highly-decorated cross country/track & field career at Williams College that saw him earn eight NCAA All-American honors. [Pasadena Now story]

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10-26-21

This past year, a new two-story building took shape in the northeast corner of the Caltech campus. Though modest in design, what takes place inside the structure could transform the future of computing. The building is the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, the result of a partnership between Caltech and Amazon Web Services, the cloud-computing branch of Amazon. The goal of the collaboration is to create quantum computers and related technologies that have the potential to revolutionize data security, machine learning, medicine development, sustainability practices, and more. "AWS will benefit from the ideas percolating here on campus," says Oskar Painter, John G. Braun Professor of Applied Physics and Physics and head of quantum hardware at AWS. Painter says quantum computing is still a very young technology, so it is crucial for development efforts to be directly connected to the latest research in academia. [Caltech story]

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10-26-21

Katie Bouman, Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Astronomy; Rosenberg Scholar; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute has been selected as the 2021 Progress Medal recipient by the Royal Photographic Society. Bouman is being recognized for her work developing solutions to image such phenomenon as the first image of a black hole. Her research focuses on computational imaging and designing systems that integrate algorithms and sensor design, making it possible to observe phenomena previously difficult to capture or impossible to measure with traditional methods. [View announcement] [Past recipients]

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