ECE student wins best paper, presenter awards at IEEE conference
ECE graduate student Hung-Yi Lo has won the Best Paper Award and the Best Presenter Award at the IEEE 9th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC). Lo is a PhD student working with Prof. James S. Lehnert. The awards were for a paper entitled “Secrecy Capacity for an Underwater Acoustic Channel with a Dominant Noise Source."
“I feel very excited and very proud of myself, the co-authors, and Purdue,” says Lo. “I feel highly motivated to do more quality research in the future.”
The paper was co-authored by Prof. Lehnert and Phuong Tran, who earned his PhD in ECE from Purdue in 2013 and is now an assistant professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam.
IEEE CCWC provided an opportunity for researchers, educators, and students to discuss and exchange ideas on issues, trends, and developments in Computing and Communications. It was held January 7-9, 2019, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.