News in Brief
IDS students capture awards at CenSSIS Conference
Two Information and Data Sciences (IDS) graduate students have been awarded Best Poster Awards at the recent Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems Research and Industrial Collaboration Conference. PhD candidate, Sonal Ambwani, won the award in Biomedical and Biological Track for paper entitled "5D Cardiac PET/CT Imaging: Joint Reconstruction and Cardiac and Respiratory Motion Estimation", while Zachary Sun captured the prize in the Homeland Security and Defense Track for paper entitled "Non-Rotational tomography for Luggage Scanning using Krylov Methods". Both students are advised by Prof. W. Clem Karl.
23 IDS MS students graduate
On May 16, 2010 a total of 23 IDS students were awarded their Master of Science diplomas at the 57-th College of Engineering Commencement.
- Boisvert, Anne Y. (advisor: Prof. H. Nawab)
- Brinkman, Gregory R.
- Eger, Limor (advisor: Prof. W.C. Karl)
- Huss, Andrew D. (advisor: Prof. D. Castañón)
- Li, Binbin (advisor: Prof. Y. Paschalidis)
- Liu, Yuting (advisor: Prof. T.D.C. Little)
- Lu, Xuanming (advisor: Prof. T.D.C. Little)
- Martini, James (advisor: Prof. P. Ishwar)
- Mohan, Hari S. Mohan (advisors: Prof. T.D.C. Little, and Prof. M. Betke (CS))
- O'Malley, Alison M. (advisor: Prof. D. Castañón)
- Ozkan, Huseyin (advisors: Prof. J. Konrad and Prof. V. Saligrama)
- Palsson, Gunnar T. (advisor: Prof. V. Saligrama)
- Pan, Yili (advisor: Prof. T.D.C. Little)
- Pegors, Katherine L. (advisor: Prof. W. C. Karl)
- Price, Gregary B. (advisor: Prof. D. Castañón)
- Rana, Kunjan D. (advisor: Prof. V. Saligrama)
- Shah, Kandarp J. (advisor: Prof. T.D.C. Little)
- Shivashankar, Nagaraja (advisor: Prof. V. Saligrama)
- Tuysuzoglu, Ahmet (advisor: Prof. W.C. Karl)
- Wang, Yun (advisor: Prof. T.D.C. Little)
- Williams, Richard E. (advisor: Prof. D. Castañón)
- Wu, Huan-Yu (advisors: Prof. J. Konrad and Prof. P. Ishwar)
- Zorn, Elena Choi Loya (advisors: Prof. J. Konrad and Prof. P. Ishwar)
Congratulations to all our graduates!
7 IDS PhD students graduate
A traditional College of Engineering PhD hooding ceremony took place on May 15, 2010. In total, 44 students received their PhD degrees, 7 of them are from the IDS group:
- Ashish Agarwal, "Analytical Modeling of Delay-Tolerant Data Dissemination in Vehicular Networks," Advisor Prof. T.D.C. Little
- Ashraf Fares Al Daoud, "On Revenue Maximization from Secondary Spectrum Use in Wireless Cellular Networks," Advisor: Prof. M. Alanyali
- Erhan Baki Ermis, "Activity Based Geometry Independent Features for Information Processing in Heterogeneous Camera Networks," Advisor: Prof. V. Saligrama
- Darin Chester Hitchings, "Stochastic Control Approaches for Sensor Management in Search and Exploitation," Advisor: Prof. D. Castañón
- Karen Louise Jenkins, "Fast Adaptive Sensor Management for Feature-Based Classification," Advisor: Prof. D. Castañón
- Huseyin Mutlu, "Spot Pricing of Secondary Access to Wireless Spectrum," Advisor: Prof. D. Starobinski
- Weiyao Xiao, "Reliable Data Dissemination in Dense Wireless Networks," Advisor: Prof. D. Starobinski
Congratulations to all our graduates!