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Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) professor Lang Tong was awarded a $50,000 research grant from Lockheed Martin on Dec. 4. From left: ECE Director Clifford Pollock, Tong, Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solutions Program Manager Frank Cuccias and Lockheed Martin Strategic Planning Vice President Jim Wrightson.

Electrical and computer engineering (ECE) professor Lang Tong has received a $50,000 university research grant from Lockheed Martin. Representatives from the company were on campus Dec. 4 to officially award him the grant.

Tong will use the money to support his ongoing research project, developing theory and applications of networked autonomous systems.

Tong, who joined the Cornell faculty in 1998, was also named the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor in Engineering in early November, replacing Toby Berger, who had held the chair since its endowment in 1997. Berger retired from Cornell after the fall 2005 semester.

Tong's research areas include statistical and signal processing, communication systems and wireless networks. His group is investigating various practical problems that arise from broadband wireless systems, mobile ad hoc networks and large-scale sensor networks.

Irwin Jacobs '54, BEE '56, is a founder of Qualcomm. He and his wife, Joan '54, have been major contributors to Cornell, most recently through a $30 million gift for university scholarships and fellowship funds for ECE.