Undergraduate Wins Award for Academic Excellence

Mr. Divyanshu Vats, who has been conducting undergraduate ECE research under the supervision of Prof. Brian L. Evans for two years, has been awarded one of nine 2006 University Co-op/George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence. This $2000, university-wide award recognizes outstanding undergraduate research and academic performance. His undergraduate research resulted in a full-length paper at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo entitled "Image Authentication Under Geometric Attacks Via Structure Matching". Divvanshu will attend Carnegie Mellon University for graduate studies in Fall of 2006.