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ECE Alum Justin Romberg (BS '97, MS '99, PhD '04) wins Office of Naval Research Young Investigators Award, 3.18.08

Justin Romberg, Ph.D. 2003, has received the highly competitive Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigators Award (YIP) for fiscal year 2008. The YIP aims to attract outstanding new faculty member to naval research. It encourages their teaching and research careers by providing up to $100,000 a year for a period of three years, with additional funding for equipment or collaborative research with a Navy lab. Romberg won the award for his proposal, “Compressive Sampling for Next-Generation Signal Acquisition” in the ONR category, Command Control Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance.

At Rice, he earned his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, co-authored many publications with Professor Richard Baraniuk, and was a Texas Instruments Distinguished Graduate Fellow. He joined Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006 as an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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ONR Young Investigator's Award

 
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