{"109691":{"#nid":"109691","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Damien Rontani Tapped for Sup\u00e9lec Foundation Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDamien Rontani received the Sup\u00e9lec Foundation Prize for his Ph.D. research entitled \u0022Communication with Chaotic Optoelectronic Systems - Cryptography and Multiplexing.\u0022 Now an alumnus of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), he was the first student to complete the dual Ph.D. program between Georgia Tech and Sup\u00e9lec and graduated in December 2011 in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Rontani\u0027s advisors were David Citrin (ECE at Georgia Tech and Georgia Tech-Lorraine) and Marc Sciamanna (Sup\u00e9lec). His research consisted of studying complex behaviors emerging in optoelectronic components. Chaotic behaviors exhibit noise-like features, thus making them highly desirable for private communications at the physical layer of networks, and also for the generation of random numbers used in various fields, such as computer simulations or the generation of binary keys for cryptographic applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduation, Dr. Rontani began work as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics at Duke University. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. alumnus Damien Rontani received the Sup\u00e9lec Foundation Prize.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. alumnus Damien Rontani received the Sup\u00e9lec Foundation Prize"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2012-02-15 16:25:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:44","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.georgiatech-metz.fr\/","title":"Georgia Tech Lorraine"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"13161","name":"Georgia Tech-Lorraine"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}