Electrical engineering graduate students Sharon Betz and Amit Kumar have been granted Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship Awards, providing them with one year of tuition and fees as well as a living stipend.
Recipients are assigned an Intel mentor for support and advice and are invited to participate in the 2006 Ph.D. Fellowship Forum. Prize winners are also given a new Dell laptop and offered an internship at Intel Corporation following the fellowship.
This year, 40 applicants were selected, representing 18 different institutions. The grants totaled more than $1.8 million.
"I am very pleased to have won the award," Betz, a third-year graduate student, said. "I am grateful to Intel for being so generous, and I look forward to my interactions with them."
Betz said the award will replace the internal research assistantship funding she currently receives from the department. She said she will use the funds to continue work on her dissertation research about energy-efficient data communication in wireless multihop networks with multiuser detection. Her advisor is Professor Vincent Poor.
A current Wu Fellowship holder, Betz was also the recipient of the 2005 Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Educational Foundation Fellowship grant.
Kumar, also a third-year graduate student, plans to use his award to further his research on computer architecture, focusing on interconnection networks. His advisors are Professors Niraj Jha and Li-Shiuan Peh.
He has previously collaborated with Intel for research through his advisors.
Despite being ineligible for some national awards due to his Indian citizenship, he received a first-year fellowship from the electrical engineering department.
Ph.D. students cannot apply directly for this award. Instead, the application process begins with nomination by a faculty advisor and involves a written application, three letters of recommendation and transcripts.
The award may be renewable for a second year pending review by the Intel Foundation.
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