The Grainger College of Engineering

Kiyavash selected as faculty fellow for the Air Force SFFP

3/25/2010

Negar Kiyavash, an assistant professor in industrial and enterprise systems engineering, has been awarded a faculty fellowship for the 2010 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. The program, administered by American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), offers hands-on exposure to Air Force research challenges at its research facilities.

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Negar Kiyavash, an assistant professor in industrial and enterprise systems engineering, has been awarded a faculty fellowship for the 2010 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. The program, administered by American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), offers hands-on exposure to Air Force research challenges at its research facilities.

 

Negar Kiyavash
Negar Kiyavash

Kiyavash will spend two months at AFIT Wright Patterson working with mathematics professor Mark Oxley on the project, “Causal Complex Networks and Information Fusion.”

Prior to joining the the IESE department in January 2009, Kiyavash served on the research faculty in the Department of Computer Science and as a research scientist at Information Trust Institute at Illinois. Her research interests are in information theory and statistical signal processing with applications to computer, communication and multimedia security .

She received a B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, MS and PhD degrees, also in electrical and computer engineering, both from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Contact: Negar Kiyavash, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, 217/244-2525.

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This story was published March 25, 2010.