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Engineers Nominated By IEEE / IEEE
- USA
Danielle Chamberlin, a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering, works as a scientist for Agilent Laboratories. Chamberlin’s graduate research was focused in the development of far-infrared lasers. Far-infrared is another color of light between microwaves and infrared. Recent breakthroughs in lasers at these wavelengths enable us to begin to see what the world looks like with this color light. The most interesting applications currently are in homeland security and tumor detection. Chamberlin’s other research interest is surface-enhanced Raman. This involves engineering nanostructured surfaces to create a very sensitive method to detect trace amounts of chemicals and microorganisms. Potential applications include food and water quality monitoring, drug discovery, and once again homeland security. Since joining Agilent Laboratories she has contributed to the development of long-wave length lasers made to enable faster communication on the internet; heterojuction bipolar transistors, known as the world’s fastest transistors at high power, which have applications in high-end microwave instruments and in cell phones; and carbon nanotubes, a new material that may result in even faster transistors in the future. Chamberlin has participated in organizing the Northern California Electronic Materials Symposium for three years, most recently chairing the conference in 2004. Dr. Chamberlin received the AIME Ross M. Tucker Award in 2000 and participated in the 2004 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Danielle_chamberlin@agilent.com
Second Lieutenant DeWitt Latimer IV is Chief of Software Engineering for the U.S. Air Force Space-Based Radar Satellite program. DeWitt created the Space-Based Radar software engineering team, led the authoring of the Software Acquisition Master Plan, established programmatic software risk plans, and is the contracting officer's technical representative for all software issues to both prime system contractors. DeWitt's work integrating the software acquisition IEEE standards, the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI), and other government guidance has led the way in software planning crafted for space satellite systems. In addition to his primary duties, DeWitt is pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Southern California, is the Officer-in-Charge of the Air Base Honor Guard, and is a senior scout leader in the community. Before joining the USAF in 2002, DeWitt worked as a graduate co-op researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, publishing 14 technical papers and articles on robotic and information technologies for the construction industry, emphasizing the integration of robotic and construction planning systems. He is a member of IEEE and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Dewitt.latimer@losangeles.af.mil
M. Kivanc Mihcak, Ph.D., a native of Turkey, is a researcher in the Cryptography and Anti-Piracy Group at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. Mihcak's Ph.D. work has concentrated on information hiding, with an emphasis on information theoretic and game theoretic analysis of data embedding. This research has helped in establishing fundamental limits of information hiding and watermarking for digital signals, such as images. In Microsoft Research, Mihcak has been working on related problems of audio and video watermarking and robust signal hashing, with an emphasis on security and cryptographic principles. His work aims to establish fundamental links between signal processing from electrical engineering and complexity theory from computer science. This research can be viewed as a first step that attempts to incorporate hard problems in the area of watermarking and robust signal hashing akin to conventional cryptography; such a work is essential in the era of digital intellectual property protection, and secure communications over the internet. His research interests include information hiding and multimedia security, as well as statistical signal, image, and video processing; data compression; information theory; detection-estimation theory; optimization; and wavelets. He has several publications. Mihcak, who earned his bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, is an active IEEE member. He has given numerous talks at various universities on information hiding, watermarking and multimedia security, and has filed several patents in the area on behalf of Microsoft. |
Danielle Chamberlin, Ph.D.
Second Lieutenant DeWitt Latimer IV
M. Kivanc Mihcak, Ph.D.
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