Award Winners

Connections awards the best presenters in each technical session with a certificate signed by the department chair and a monetary prize of $50. In 2010, OCE generously awarded the winners with free admission to OCE Discovery conference, a $75 value. The list of award winners in previous Connections and their presentation files (PDF or PowerPoint) is as follows:

(in alphabetical order)

2010 Award Winners

Xander Chin: Hardware Satisfiability Solver

Martin Labrecque: A Fully Integrated Transactional Memory Soft Multiprocessor

Wael Moutassem: Optimizing the Locations of Cables for Current Rating

Chunpo Pan: Differential Polarization Time Coding for PolDM Systems without PMD Compensator

Sean Wagner: All-Optical Wavelength Conversion on a Microchip

Yan Wang: Near-Field Technique for High Resolution Optical Microscopy

2009 Award Winners

Sinisa Colic and Josh Dian: Biologically Inspired Stimulation for Epilepsy Control

Navid Toosizadeh: PVT-aware Self-tuning Circuits

Etienne Veilleux: Interconnection of Wind Turbines Using DC Link

Henry Wong and Danyao Wang: Packet Network Simulator-on-Chip

Peter Yiannacouras: Customizable Soft Vector Processors