National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop on Distributed Sensing Systems, hosted by Boston University May 25-26, 2006

 

National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop: Future Directions in Systems Research for Networked Sensing

Thur, May 26 and Fri, May 26, 2006
The workshop was sponsored by Dr. Kishan Baheti’s program under the NSF Division of Electrical & Communications Systems (ECS).

NSF Workshop proceedings will be published in September 2006
.
Click here for the 2 day agenda.

Click here for abstracts and speaker bios.


NSF Workshop Speakers
Title
Venkatesh Saligrama Venkatesh Saligrama
Workshop Chair
Distributed Detection of Localized Phenomena
Associate Professor
ECE
Boston University
John Baillieul John Baillieul Structured and Stochastic Rules for Group Motions of Mobile Agents
Professor & Chair
AME & MFG
Boston University
Richard Baraniuk Richard Baraniuk Compressive Sensing: A New Framework for Distributed Data Acquisition and Compression
Professor
ECE
Rice University
Francesco Bullo Francesco Bullo Coordination Algorithms for Motion-Enabled Sensor Networks
Associate Professor
ME
UC Santa Barbara
David Castanon David CastaƱon Consider the Problem of Tracking Moving Objects with a Network of Sensors
Professor
ECE
Boston University
Abbas El Gamal Abbas El Gamal Collaborative Networks of Imaging Sensors
Professor
EE
Stanford University
Michael C. Gastpar Michael C. Gastpar Sensor Cooperation via Noiseless and Noisy Feedback
Assistant Professor
EECS
UC Berkeley
Alfred Hero Alfred Hero Dimensionality Reduction in Sensor Networks
Professor
EECS
University of Michigan
Sanjeev Kulkarni Sanjeev Kulkarni Distributed Learning in Sensor Networks
Professor
EE
Princeton University
Panganamala R. Kumar Panganamala R. Kumar From Sensor Networks to Networked Control
Professor
ECE
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Naomi Ehrich Leonard Naomi Ehrich Leonard Mobile Sensor Networks: Cooperative Sensing and Control
Professor
MAE
Princeton University
David L. Neuhoff David L. Neuhoff On the Number of Bits to Encode the Outputs of Densely Deployed Sensors
Professor
EECS
University of Michigan
H. Vincent Poor H. Vincent Poor
Professor
EE
Princeton University
Balaji Prabhakar Balaji Prabhakar Compressing State: New Approaches and Results
Associate Professor
EE/CS
Stanford University
Kannan Ramachandran Kannan Ramachandran Making “Dense” Sensor Networks Smarter Using Randomized In-Network Processing
EECS
UC Berkeley
R. Srikant R. Srikant Symmetric Function Computation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Professor
ECE/CSL
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
John N. Tsitsiklis John N. Tsitsiklis Decentralized Detection: Tractability Through Asymptotics
Professor
EECS
MIT
Venugopal V. Veeravalli Venugopal V. Veeravalli Design of Sensor Networks for Statistical Inference Applications
Professor
ECE
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Alan S. Willsky Alan S. Willsky Data Fusion in Sensor Networks: A Graphical Models Perspective
Professor
EECS
MIT

Professor Venkatesh Saligrama of the ECE Department is the Workshop Chair. The program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Boston University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE).

CISE, an interdisciplinary center at Boston University, is a collaboration among faculty from the College of Engineering, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Management.