Prof Jiang Xu and his team from the Department of ECE have been awarded the Best Paper – Honorable Mention Award by IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2009 for their paper titled "A Low-power Low-cost Optical Router for Optical Networks-on-Chip in Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip”. The acceptance rate of ISVLSI '09 is 25%. Their paper presented the current best optical on-chip router for next-generation multiprocessor system-on-chips.