Awards

Following is a list of recent awards to PRC students:

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  Tapobrata Bandyopadhyay Wins Prestigious IEEE CPMT Best Student Paper!
  A graduate student in ECE advised by Prof. Tummala and Prof. Swaminathan, winner of the 2008 IEEE-CPMT $10,000 Ph.D. Student Fellowship Award for best student paper presented during the Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) held May 27-30, 2008 in Orlando, Florida.
  
  Mr. Bandyopadhyay's paper, "Microwave Design, Fabrication & Characterization of a Novel Nano-Cu based Ultra-fine Pitch Chip to Package Interconnect" presented, for the first time, the RF/Microwave design, modeling, parametric optimization and characterization of interconnect transitions for a Nano-Cu based chip-to-package interconnect system for microelectronics packaging applications. His work demonstrated lower electrical parasitics and transition losses (for Chip-on-Chip and Chip-on-Package configurations) using Nano-Cu interconnects, as compared to conventional Solder bumps and Gold stud bumps.
  
  The winning paper was selected from among 7 competing finalists by a 5-member fellowship committee who collectively voted his paper as the best! Congratulations. The co-authors of this paper are co-advisors Prof. Tummala, Swaminathan and Dr. Mahadevan K. Iyer, formerly of GT and now Infineon Technologies and Dr. P.M. Raj, Gaurav Mehrotra.
  
  Mr. Bandyopadhyay will receive a one-year Fellowship of $10,000 towards his Ph.D. studies in 2008 and 2009 and is eligible for up to $300 towards his travel expenses that are not paid from another source.

  Congratulations again on this accomplishment!