AUK Awards Third Visiting Faculty Fellowship at Dartmouth

AUK President Dr. Winfred Thompson announced the recipient of the third Dartmouth-AUK Fellowship Award on January 25, 2011. Dr. Mohamad Awad, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Division of Sciences and Engineering, will take up his post at Dartmouth College during Summer 2011. 

Dr. Awad will work with the Dartmouth Engineering faculty on his research project, "Practical Resource Allocation for Cooperative Wireless Networks". In cooperative networks, wireless devices (e.g., cellphones, wireless computers, relays, or sensors) cooperate to relay services such as video, voice and data to other wireless devices in poor wireless coverage areas. Cooperative networks provide a low cost and fast deployment solution for extending wireless coverage to deserts and offshore oil/gas platforms. In addition, it is all-wireless which makes it ideal for network disaster recovery. The ultimate question behind Dr. Awad's research is: Given any implementation scenario of cooperative wireless networks with largely unknown dynamics, what is the optimal resource allocation? In particular, he is interested in providing practical algorithms with strong theoretical guarantees for this research problem. This award gives Dr. Awad access to a state of the art research facility, collaboration opportunity with one of the world's leading research groups in the field, and Dartmouth's library that is one of leading research libraries in the US. AUK provides the recipient with generous funds required for the completion of this research project at Dartmouth. 

President Thompson thanked all the applicants and wished them success in their research pursuits. The fellowship competition is open to AUK faculty members conducting research that can be facilitated by access to Dartmouth's libraries and museum collections, or to senior administrators pursuing professional development projects that can be guided by Dartmouth mentors. 

The selection criteria included the proposal's promise of research outcomes or professional development, alignment with the Strategic Planning Goals of AUK, a project timeline, and appropriate use of Dartmouth resources. 
 

Dr. Mohamad Awad