CSEE alumna Mosavi-Hoyer receives Women in Aerospace award

Congratulations to CSEE alumna Dr. Nelli Mosavi-Hoyer, Ph.D. '17, Electrical Engineering, for receiving the Aerospace Awareness Award from Women in Aerospace (WIA), a leading professional organization dedicated to expanding women's opportunities for leadership, education and visibility in the aerospace community. Dr. Mosavi-Hoyer is currently a Project Manager at The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

The award recognized Dr. Mosavi-Hoyer for "excellence and innovation in outreach and raising public understanding of aerospace programs and her commitment to advancement of women in aerospace."  Her award will be formally recognized at the WIA's 38th annual awards ceremony on December 13, 2023 at the Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City, Arlington VA. 

At JHUAPL, she has been a project manager for NASA’s EZIE and Van Allen Probes missions and helped establish the APL Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium to bring together experts from academia, industry, and government to shape technologies and systems needed to explore the surface of the Moon in new ways. 

Dr. Mosavi-Hoyer was part of UMBC's Computational Photonics Laboratory headed by Professor Curtis Menyuk, who supervised her 2017 dissertation on Optical and RF Beam Propagation in Turbulent Media. In 2019, she taught special topics class on Satellite Communications at UMBC


You can read more about her work on this JHUAPL news release.

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Smith speaking at an IEEE event with corporate sponsor IBM and Student Events Board. Photo courtesy of Smith.


UMBC Magazine has an interview with computer engineering student Xavier Smith, who will graduate this Spring and begin graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at MIT in the Fall to pursue his dream of earning a Ph.D. and starting a biotech company. 

At UMBC, Xavier was part of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program (M'31), the U-RISE Scholars Program, and many organizations on campus.  You can read the interview here.
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Congratulations to UMBC alumnus Kemal Akkaya, Ph.D. '05, Computer Science, for his selection as an IEEE fellow in 2023.  He was cited for contributions to routing and topology management in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. 

Dr. Akkaya completed his dissertation at UMBC on Energy and QoS Aware Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks in Computer Science in 2005 under the guidance of mentor Professor Mohamed Younis. 

Dr. Akkaya is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University (FIU), where he leads the Advanced Wireless and Security Laboratory and serves as the Research Director for FIU's Emerging Preeminent Program in Cybersecurity. His current research interests include security and privacy, the internet of things, and cyber-physical systems. 

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one- percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.
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