Xiaoyu Dang, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has won first place in the graduate category of the student paper contest at the International Telemetering Conference. His paper, entitled "An Optimum Detector for Space - Time Trellis coded Differential MSK" will be presented on Wednesday morning, 24 October 2007, at the ITC in Las Vegas, NV. Xiaoyu will receive a $1,000 along with travel expenses to attend the conference. Xiaoyu's advisor is Professor Michael Rice.