{"28004":{"#nid":"28004","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Professor honored With PECASE Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJustin Romberg, assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the nation\u0027s highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent scientific research careers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERomberg is among 100 recipients of this award, who were named by President Barack Obama on July 9. The honorees will receive their awards this fall at a White House ceremony.\n\nEstablished in 1996, PECASE honors the most promising researchers in the nation within their fields. Nine federal departments and agencies join together annually to nominate the most meritorious young scientists and engineers-researchers whose early accomplishments show the greatest promise for strengthening America\u0027s leadership in science and technology while contributing to the awarding agencies\u0027 missions.\n\n\u0022I am truly honored to receive this award,\u0022 Romberg said. \u0022I feel blessed for the education and mentoring I received at Rice University and Caltech and for the support which Georgia Tech has given me as a faculty member.\u0022\n\nAwarded an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award last summer, Justin was nominated for the PECASE award by the U.S. Department of Defense. He was one of 27 investigators selected for the ONR Young  Investigator Awards last year from a group of more than 200 applicants. Funding for Justin\u0027s ONR award lasts for three years and will fund his project, \u0022Compressive Sampling for Next-Generation Data Acquisition.\u0022 \n\nJustin\u0027s research focuses on the mathematics of data acquisition. In particular, he is interested in ways in which randomness can actually help in data acquisition, potentially reducing both the cost and the computational complexity of high-resolution sensing systems. This work will influence the design of next-generation analog-to-digital converters, radar imaging platforms and MRI systems.\n\nJustin becomes the sixth PECASE winner from ECE, joining PECASE alumni Elliot Moore, Ali Adibi, David Anderson, David Citrin and Steve McLaughlin.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Justin Romberg, assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the nation\u0027s highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent scientific research careers.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Justin Romberg becomes sixth winner from ECE."}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2009-07-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:29","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3418","name":"PECASE; Award; Justin Romberg; Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"Don Fernandez\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}