UCI Innovative Young Engineer Chosen for Prestigious Symposium
7.29.04 -- UC Irvine assistant professor of informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, Cristina Lopes, is one of three UC scientists chosen to participate in the prestigious National Academy of Engineering's 10th annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The event brings together young engineers who are performing cutting-edge engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines.
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Lopes, who is an active member in the Calit² Irvine division research affiliate Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing (CPPC), has been working in ubiquitous computing, with a focus in communication mechanisms that are pervasive, secure and intuitive for humans to perceive and interact with.
"The research I do is always related, one way or another, to languages and communication systems. The ultimate goal of my research is to deepen the knowledge about communication, in particular in systems that involve humans and machines," Lopes states on her professional website. (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lopes/) "With this utopic goal in mind, I have done work in fields so different such as programming languages, security and applications of audio signal processing."
The symposium will be held Sept. 9-11 at the National Academies' Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center at UC Irvine and will explore topics in multiscale modeling, designer materials, engineering for extreme environments, and engineering and entertainment.
Further information about the symposium including a complete list of the 86 participants - from industry, academia, and government - who were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and chosen from a field of over 170 applicants, can be found at http://www.nae.edu/nae/naehome.nsf/weblinks/CGOZ-633JQB?OpenDocument