09/2006	The whereabouts of our new gradautes: In spite of the difficult job market, most of our graduates have landed prestigious jobs. Romit Roy Choudhury and Yaling Yang have joined, respectively, Duke University and Virginia Tech. as assistant professors. Chunyu Hu, Pradeep Kyasanur, and Won J. Jeon have joined, respectively, Broadcom, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA and Motorola Design Center, Champaign, IL. Bin Yu has headed for the Wall Street, and is positioned to become an IT specialist.
08/2006	UIUC has assumed leadership in chairing the most prestigious IEEE/ACM networking conferences: P.R. Kumar is the General Chair of ACM Mobihoc 2005, R. Srikant the Technical Co-chair of the IEEE flagship conference INFOCOM 2007, Jennifer C. Hou the Technical Co-Chair of ACM Mobicom 2007 and IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Tarek Abdelzaher the General Chair of IEEE IPSN 2007.
06/2006	UIUC has been ranked #3 among 20 top institutions in the area of wireless/mobile networks by Thomson Esseitnail Science Indicators. In particular, Prof. P. R. Kumar has been among the top 20 authors whose papers are most cited. The June issue of Thomson Sepcial Topics in Wireless/Mobile Networks also has an exclusive interview with Prof. P. R. Kumar.
06/2006	Congratulations to Vartika Bhandari, Loc Xuan Bui, Qing Cao, Chun-cheng Chen, Jason Fuemmeler, Wenbo He, Che Lin, Liqian Luo, Rodolfo Pellizzoni, Vivek Raghunathan, Jennifer Rice, Cigdem Sengul, Vikrant Sharma, Ahmed Sobeih, Yun-Yi Su, Lei Ying, and Zhuohui Zhang for being awarded the Vodafone Graduate Fellowship for AY 06-07!
06/2006	The seventh international Conference on Stochastic Networks will be held June 19-24, 2006 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There will be roughly twenty invited talks over a six-day period (Monday through Saturday), with plenty of time in the interstices for informal discussions. Click here for more information.
05/2006	Yaling Yang (advisor: Robin Kravets) was placed 2nd at this year's ACM Student Research Competition (http://www.acm.org/src/). She was awarded her prizes at the ACM awards banquet in San Francisco.
03/2006	Applications are now being accepted for the Vodafone-U.S. Foundation Graduate Fellowships for 2006-2007. The College of Engineering will immediately begin the process of accepting applications for the Vodafone-U.S. Foundation Graduate Fellowships. Several graduate fellows will be selected from applicants in engineering departments whose thesis research is in wireless communications engineering and technology. Each award includes stipend, full tuition/fees, and expenses for one (1) year, with the start date of August 23, 2006.
02/2006	Award: Our alumna Professor Xiao Su recdently received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) on her work on integrated coding and transmission for secure media streaming. The CAREER Award carries a stipend of $80,000 that is awarded annually for 5 years, totaling $400K.
02/2006	Award: Our alumna Professor Rong Zheng recently received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER). Her award winning proposal, entitled "Data Dissemination in Multihop Wireless Networks: Theory and System Design," addresses the theory and system design of data dissemination protocols with emphasis on their applications in operational systems such as wireless sensor networks and wireless mesh networks. The CAREER Award carries a stipend of $80,000 that is awarded annually for 5 years, totaling $400K.
01/2006	Software Release: PERM. PERM is the Practical End-host collaborative Residential Multihoming framework. 802.11 networks have spread rapidly in the residential area, and it is common for neighbors to receive signals from each other's home wireless networks. PERM allows residents to leverage such an opportunity to improve their last-mile Internet connectivity, at no additional cost, by pooling their Internet accesses together. Download software.
01/2006	Group Website: Systems, Wireless, and Networking Group has a website for their group. Located at the Siebel Center, SWiNG conducts research in the design, implementation, and evaluation of wireless systems, networking, and applications. SWiNG's research areas include wireless Internet access, self-learning wireless protocols, self-organized wireless systems, scalable wireless mesh, reliable wireless networks, and future embedded networks.
12/2005	A total of 14 papers from the UIUC networking group have been accepted for presentation in the most prestigious IEEE networking conference, IEEE INFOCOM 2006!