People, papers and presentations

Rice University students Nitin Agrawal, Mary Charlotte Carroll, Ellenna Eccles, Ariel Guerrero-Stewart, Sevita Rama and Clara Roberts received research awards for their work in the Global Urban Lab program, part of Rice’s School of Social Sciences and the Kinder Institute for Urban Research. The awards, which included a cash stipend of $1,500, recognize the best research papers, based on a review by a committee of the program faculty and administration. All students in the program research a topic of importance to major urban centers, such as immigration, transportation, sports, health, education or arts and culture. The cities of focus for the 2013-2014 year were Houston, London and Istanbul. More information on the projects is available online at http://globalurbanlab.rice.edu.

Brown College senior Qianye “Julia” Lu will attend the Korea-America Student Conference in South Korea July 1-30. The conference will include visits to four parts of South Korea – Gangwon-do, Seoul, Jeju Island and Busan – to research the business, education, politics, human rights and culture intersection between the U.S. and South Korea.

Lin Zhong, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded the 2014 SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award June 19 at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing’s MobiSys 2014 Conference in Breton Woods, N.H. The award recognized Zhong’s “significant contributions, early in his career, to understanding mobile design tradeoffs, driven by novel platforms and large longitudinal studies of mobile users.” Zhong and Rice graduate students Ardalan Amiri Sani, Kevin Boos and Min Hong Yun, also won the conference’s Best Paper honor for their study, “Rio: A System Solution for Sharing I/O between Mobile Systems.”