CIS Junior Cameron Kerestus has been awarded an Outstanding Performance Award for work he did as a SULI (Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship) intern at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) this past Spring semester. Under the supervision of Temple Adjunct Professor Jeff Martoff, Kerestus pioneered a deadtimeless data acquisition software package running on a state-of-the-art software-defined radio board. The board is to be used at PNNL to read out superconducting radiation detectors, using its FPGA, embedded Linux system, and internal waveform generators and digitizers operating at GHz sampling rates. The award citation reads: "Cameron ... adapted and modified thousands of lines of complex, undocumented code ... to allow real time data acquisition and triggered event recording at the full speed permitted by the board." The project leader said, "Cameron far exceeded what we usually expect from our SULI interns. Congratulations, Cameron!"
