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Fei Xing

Fei Xing, a PhD student under advisor Wenye Wang, and Shravan Chintapatla, a MST student under advisors Leda Lunardi and John Muth have both been selected by the NC State University Graduate School as recipients of the 2009 Nancy G. Pollock Award.  Xing has been awarded the Dissertation Award while Chintapatla has been awarded the Thesis Award.

Sponsored by the NC State University Graduate School, the Nancy G. Pollock Thesis and Dissertation Award program is designed to reward outstanding scholarly research and to demonstrate the positive impact of graduate-level research on both the economy of North Carolina and the quality of life for all its citizens. The Dissertation Award carries a $1000 stipend while the Thesis Award carries a $500 stipend.

 
Shravan Chintapatla

Xing's dissertation, entitled Modeling, Design, and Analysis on the Resilience of Large-scale Wireless Multi-hop Networks, concerned the vulnerability of wireless multi-hop networks and how best to analyze the resilience of them.  He proposed a novel semi-Markov node behavior model to analyze the topological survivability of wireless networks in the presence of both node misbehaviors and node failures.

Chintapatla's thesis, entitled Electrostatic MEMs Fabry-Perot Modulators in the Visible Spectrum and Electrothermal Wrinkling of Bilayer Thin Films, concerned the fabrication and micromachining of Fabry Perot cavities to create light modulators, as well as the formation of periodic series wrinkles and how they could be controlled.