CSE graduates Susan Hohenberger, BS '00, and Hongwei Zhang, Ph.D. '06 have received Career Awards from the National Science Foundation. NSF CAREER grant is highly competitive and prestigious to award assistant professors in U.S. universities based on their high-quality research and novel education initiatives.
Susan Hohenberger is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. Her Career award for "Practical Cryptography for the Cloud" will support the development of cryptographic schemes for the cloud environment, including methods to protect the privacy and integrity of data for the growing number of consumers who utilize cloud services. Dr. Hohenberger received her Ph.D. and Masters degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As a undergraduate in CSE, Susan worked with Dr. Bruce Weide.
Wayne State University serves as Hongwei Zhang's academic home where he is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Wayne State University. His award for "Taming Uncertainties in Reliable, Real-Time Messaging for Wireless Networked Sensing and Control" will support his two research projects: (1) to address the challenges of large interference range as well as anisotropic, and asymmetric wireless communication, and (2) to develop a lightweight approach to computing probabilistic path delays followed by a multi-timescale adaptation framework for real-time messaging. As a Ph.D. student, Dr. Zhang was mentored by Professor Anish Arora. Hongwei received his Masters and undergraduate B.S. degrees from Chongqing University, China.