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HP Announces Recipients of Second Annual Innovation Research Awards

Monday 15. June 2009 - HP today announced it has selected professors from around the world to receive awards as part of its second annual HP Labs Innovation Research Program.

Sixty projects from 46 universities in 12 countries will receive awards from HP Labs, the company’s central research arm. The program is designed to create opportunities for colleges, universities and research institutes to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP.

Building on the success of last year’s program, HP increased the number of projects it will fund by more than 30 percent – up from 45 projects at 35 institutions worldwide in 2008. Furthermore, given the significant contributions achieved in last year’s program – including 61 published papers and 13 invention disclosures – HP extended a second year of funding to 31 professors in 2009.

The Innovation Research Program is part of HP’s open innovation strategy, which pursues research collaborations with top researchers and entrepreneurs in academia, the government and businesses worldwide to discover and nurture new opportunities and advance thinking that will improve business and life. Each of the projects is aligned with HP Labs’ focus on eight high-impact research themes that address the most complex challenges facing HP’s customers and the industry.

“Good ideas can strike anywhere and at any time. HP has recognized this and developed a unique program that is truly open, competitive and global,” said Kang Shin, professor and award winner, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. “This groundbreaking initiative enhances the teaching and learning experience at universities, and establishes HP as a valuable technology partner for higher education.”

Awardees will work with HP Labs researchers on fundamental research in areas such as intelligent infrastructure, immersive interaction and cloud computing, which includes social computing. A full list of awards and descriptions of select projects is available at http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/2009_results.html.

“The Innovation Research Program is a core pillar of HP’s advanced research strategy. It allows the company to tap the brightest minds all over the world to tackle the most challenging issues facing the technical community,” said Prith Banerjee, senior vice president, Research, HP, and director, HP Labs. “Fostering this type of collaboration between industry and academia breeds a long-term partnership that is more important now than ever before.”

HP Labs Innovation Research Awards provide project funding of up to $100,000 for one year to each academic institution and are renewable for a total of three years based on research progress and HP business requirements. The next request for proposals is planned for spring 2010.

2009 HP Labs Innovation Research Program Award winners by region:

Americas

Arizona State University, Dr. K. Selcuk Candan – USA
Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Greg Ganger and Dr. Noah Smith – USA (two awards)
Emory University, Dr. Eugene Agichtein (joint project with Georgia Institute of Technology) – USA
Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Biing Hwang Juang, Dr. Karsten Schwan and Dr. Hongyuan Zha (joint project with Emory University) – USA (three awards)
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Dr. Leonid Tsybeskov – USA
North Dakota State University, Dr. Jun Kong (joint project with University of Texas at Dallas) – USA
Purdue University, Dr. Elias I. Franses – USA
Stanford University , Dr. Brian A. Wandell – USA
State University of New York at Buffalo, Dr. Venu Govindaraju – USA (two awards)
University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy, Dr. Van P. Carey and Dr. Eric Kansa – USA (three awards)
University of California, Davis, Dr. Kwan-Liu Ma and Dr. John Owens – USA (two awards)
University of California, San Diego, Dr. Amin Vahdat and Dr. Geoff Voelker – USA (two awards)
University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. John Bowers – USA
University of California, Santa Cruz, Dr. James Davis – USA
University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Bing Liu – USA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Narendra Ahuja, Dr. Jiawei Han, Dr. Thomas Huang and Dr. William Sanders (joint project with University of Newcastle) – USA (four awards)
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Dr. Mark Kushner, Dr. Stephane Lafortune, Dr. Trevor Mudge and Dr. Kang Shin – USA (four awards)
University of Michigan – Dearborn, Dr. Zhiwei Xu – USA
University of Southern California, Dr. Alan E. Willner – USA
University of Texas at Dallas, Dr. Kang Zhang (joint project with North Dakota State University) – USA
University of Toronto, Dr. Ming Hu – Canada
University of Washington, Dr. Magdalena Balazinska – USA
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Mikko H. Lipasti – USA
Virginia Tech, Dr. Naren Ramakrishnan – USA
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Dr. Elke Rundensteiner – USA
Wright State University, Dr. Amit Sheth – USA
Asia Pacific

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Dr. Soumen Chakrabarti – India
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Dr. Inkyu Park – Korea
Peking University, Dr. Xiaoming Li – China
Tsinghua University, Dr. Jianyong Wang – China
University of Canterbury, Dr. Mark Billinghurst – New Zealand
Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Bilkent University, Dr. Alper Sen – Turkey
Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, Dr. Johann-Christoph Freytag (joint project with Technische Universitaet Berlin) – Germany
Imperial College London, Dr. Jason Riley – England
Konstanz University, Dr. Daniel A. Keim – Germany
Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Maxim Grinev – Russia
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Dr. Ron Y. Pinter – Israel
Technische Universitaet Berlin, Dr. Volker Markl and Dr. Odej Kao (joint project iwth Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin) – Germany
Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Dr. Alfons Kemper – Germany
Universidade do Minho, Dr. Antonio Luis Pinto Ferreira de Sousa – Portugal
University of Bristol, Dr. Robert M. Richardson – England
University of Koblenz-Landau, Maciej Janik – Germany
University of Leeds, Dr. Ming Ronnier Luo – England
University of Newcastle, Dr. Aad van Moorsel (joint project with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) – England
University of Saint-Petersburg, Dr. Boris Novikov – Russia
University of Surrey, Dr. John Philip Collomosse – England