 Kirk Cameron, associate professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, was one of the eighty-two of the nation’s brightest young engineers invited to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 2008 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. The symposium will be hosted by Sandia National Laboratories at the University of New Mexico, beginning September 18 and ending September 20.
“America's competitiveness will largely depend upon the next generation of innovators," said NAE President Charles M. Vest in a press release. "The U.S. Frontiers of Engineering program brings some of the country's rising-star engineers, from a diverse range of disciplines, together for an exchange of ideas that will surely help contribute to keeping us at the forefront of technological advancement and may even spark a breakthrough that changes the way we live." The participants at the symposium are engineers generally between 30-45 years old, including the organizing committee and speakers, coming from industry, universities, as well as government labs, and represent a range of engineering fields. A complete list of invitees is available at the following link (http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=06172008).
“I am honored to be included among such a distinguished group of researchers,” said Cameron who received his PhD from Louisiana State University in 2000. “My invitation to this year’s NAE symposium is testament to the cutting edge research my team and I have conducted over the past eight years.” Cameron is credited with pioneering the area of high-performance, power-aware computing beginning in 2002 for which he was honored with an NSF Career Award and a DOE Early Career Principal Investigator Award, both in 2004.
Prof. Cameron leads research to improve the efficiency of high-performance applications and systems. His work has appeared in leading international conferences and journals, including IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Computer. Cameron is an active participant and consultant in the US EPA’s efforts to create an Energy Star rating system for compute servers and the SPEC consortium’s development of an industry standard server power benchmark. He also co-founded the Green500 List ranking of energy efficient Top500 supercomputers. Other research awards include the USC College of Engineering and Information Technology Young Investigator Research Award (2005), best paper nomination (SC 2006), VT College of Engineering Faculty Fellow (2007), and an IBM Faculty Award (2007)
Sponsors for the 2008 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering are the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Department of Defense (DDR&e-Research), the National Science Foundation, Corning Inc., Cummins Inc., the Grainger Foundation, Intel Corp., Microsoft Research, and numerous individual donors. The National Academy of Engineering is an independent, nonprofit institution that serves as an adviser to government and the public on issues in engineering and technology. Its members consist of the nation's premier engineers, who are elected by their peers for their distinguished achievements. Established in 1964, NAE operates under the congressional charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences in 1863. A meeting program and more information about Frontiers of Engineering is available at <http://www.nae.edu/frontiers>. |
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