Matt Booty (BS '88) is corporate vice president of Minecraft and Microsoft Studios/Xbox. Moses Chan (BS '91, MS '93, PhD '99) is a technical fellow of Lockheed Martin Space Systems.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance-ALP is designed to develop the leadership and managerial skills of faculty who have demonstrated exceptional ability and administrative promise. It is specifically oriented to the challenges of academic administration of major research universities and to the preparation of faculty members to meet those challenges.

ECE's Associate Professor Dionysios Aliprantis served as a member of the committee that wrote the report, which focuses on the ability of the power grid to ride through and recover from large-scale long-duration power outages.

Aaron Ault, Senior Research Engineer (ECE), and Sam Noel, graduate student in agricultural and biological engineering, were part of the Open Ag Technology and Systems (OATS) group. The challenge was to use data from five different companies in swine production to improve some aspect of how pork is raised or distributed.

The one-year project on tactile communication of speech will support Professor Tan's research on haptic interfaces and includes subcontracts to MIT and Sensimetrics.

His article is titled "Image Reconstruction and Threshold Design for Quanta Image Sensors". The ACM Computing Reviews is a monthly journal disseminating selected sets of papers in the computing literature. The 2016 Notable Books and Articles list consists of books and papers nominated from Computing Reviews reviewers, Computing Reviews category editors, editors in chief of journals, and others in the community. There were 231 items selected for the honor in 2016.

His technical paper is titled "Spin Transfer Torque Coupled Oscillators for Self-Oscillating RF Mixers". He is advised by Professor Cheng-Kok Koh.

He won for his work on "The Potential of Bifacial Photovoltaics: A Global Perspective" and "Real-time Monitoring of Photovoltaic Reliability Only Using Maximum Power Point – the Suns-Vmp Method". The PVSC received around 1000 abstract submissions this year. Xingshu Sun is a Ph.D. candidate advised by Professors Muhammad A. Alam and Mark Lundstrom.

The International Microwave Symposium is the flagship conference of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and is attended by more than 9,000 people every year. Mr. Wu is a PhD student in Professor Dimitrios Peroulis' research team.

The Purdue IEEE ROV (Remotely Operated underwater Vehicle) team competed last weekend at the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center International ROV Competition in Long Beach, California. The competition challenged students to create a vehicle that could complete underwater missions and successfully defend their design decisions.