On November 7, 2016, Assistant Professor Mohammad Al Faruque was honored by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey with a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award. The award recognizes the most significant patents emerging from that state’s research community. Before joining UC Irvine in 2012, Assistant Professor Al Faruque was a scientist at the Siemens Corporate Research and Technology center in Princeton, N.J., where the research originated; he continued his work on the algorithm at UCI through a Siemens/Department of Energy subcontract.
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The following day, Prof. Al Faruque accepted the Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award from the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) in a ceremony in Austin, Texas. The award honors one individual per year in the early stages of his/her career who has made innovative and substantial technical contributions to the area of electronic design automation. Prof. Al Faruque, who was honored for his contributions to energy-efficient design of reliable embedded and cyberphysical systems, is the only University of California researcher to have received the award since its inception in 2009.
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Earlier, in July, electrical engineering and computer science assistant professor Mohammad Al Faruque and his graduate student Korosh Vatanparvar received the best paper award last spring at an international conference. The paper, “OTEM: Optimized Thermal and Energy Management for Hybrid Electrical Storage in Electric Vehicles,” was recognized at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test conference, held in Dresden, Germany, in March, 2016.
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