Intel honoured ERC’s Dr. Andrew Keane, Lisa Ruttledge and Aonghus Shortt, through two new innovative programs – the Early Career Faculty Honor Program (ECFHP) and the Doctoral Student Honor Programme (DSHP) at Intel’s European Research and Innovation Conference (ERIC) in Barcelona. Both of these programs award cash gifts intended to help support research and education as well as to enable the awardees to travel to Intel to collaborate with Intel researchers.

Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program – Dr. Andrew Keane
The Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program targets faculty who are relatively new to academia with less than 4-years of experience. 16 of the top universities in the EU submitted 33 nominations based on innovative research in areas such as sustainability, smart cities, embedded applications and visual computing. 9 individuals were honoured including the ERC’s Dr. Andrew Keane.

Intel Doctoral Student Honor Programme – Lisa Ruttledge and Aonghus Shortt
The Intel Doctoral Student Honor Programme awards fellowships to exceptional PhD candidates pursuing leading-edge innovation in fields related to Intel’s business and research interests. The goal of the program is to advance innovation in key areas of technology, as well as develop a pipeline of world-class technical talent for Intel’s future workforce and the global knowledge-based economy. The selection of this year’s recipients was a highly competitive process with many outstanding quality applicants across several universities and exciting areas of research. For the 2012-2013 academic cycle, 25 finalists were selected from a pool of 66 applicants across 16 universities. Congratulations to this year’s awardees who included the ERC’s Lisa Ruttledge and Aonghus Shortt.

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