The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University is pleased to announce the following faculty promotions, effective August 16, 2009.

Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya has been renewed as an Assistant Professor.  He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2003.  His research interests include Electric Vehicle Systems, Power Electronics, and Power Systems.

Dr. Huaiyu Dai is promoted and tenured as an Associate Professor.  He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2002.  His research interests include Adaptive Signal Processing, Digital Communications, Digital Signal Processing, and Multidimensional Signal Processing.  He was awarded the IEEE VTC Service Award in 2005.

Dr. Do Young Eun is promoted and tenured as an Associate Professor.  He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2003.  His research interests include network modeling and analysis, ad-hoc/sensor networks, congestion control, resource allocation. He is a member of Technical Program Committee of various conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, ICC, Globecom, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE IPCCC, and ICCCN. He received the Best Paper Awards in the IEEE ICCCN 2005 and IEEE IPCCC 2006, and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2006. He supervised and co-authored a paper that received the Best Student Paper Award in ACM MobiCom 2007.

Dr. Peiji Zhao has been promoted to an Associate Research Professor.  He received his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2000.