News in Brief
14 IDS students awarded PhD degree
In the 2011 College of Engineering PhD hooding ceremony on May 21 a total of 69 students received their PhD degrees, 14 of them from the IDS group (an asterisk after the last name denotes a degree received from the Systems Division):
- Yin Chen*, "From Networks to Proteins: Modeling and Optimization with Markovian Models", Advisor Prof. Y. Paschalidis
- Paul Debitetto, Paul, "Robust Hierarchical Image-Augmented Navigation in Urban Terrain with 3D Landmarks", Advisor Prof. D. Castañón
- Reza Moazzez Estanjini*, "Vehicle Scheduling and Routing for Data Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks", Prof. Y. Paschalidis
- Song Guo, "QOS Aware Routing with Admission Control for Video Sensor Networks", Prof. A. Trachtenberg
- Niloofar Fazlollahi, "Resource Management Algorithms for Advance Network Reservation and Sensor Network Monitoring Applications", Prof. D. Starobinski
- Rohit Kumar, "Efficient Tracking of Public Transit System in Urban Environment", Prof. D. Castañón
- Binbin Li*, "Optimizing Energy Consumption: From Wireless Sensor Networks to Large 'Smart' Buildings", Prof. Y. Paschalidis
- Nan Ma, "Interactive Source Coding for Function Computation in Networks", Prof. P. Ishwar
- Thomas John Vitolo*, "Practical Algorithms to Discover Degree Constrained Spanning Tree in Sparsely Connected Graphs", Prof. D. Castañón
- Ye Wang, "Information Theoretically Secure Computation and Inference in Networks", Prof. P. Ishwar
- Ruomin Wu*, "Maximum Lifetime Routing and Resource Allocation in Wireless Sensor Networks", Prof. Y. Paschalidis
- Chen Yao*, "Perturbation Analysis, Optimization and Resource Contention Games in Stochastic Hybrid Systems", Prof. Ch. Cassandras
- Manqi Zhao, "Role of Sparsity in High Dimensional Signal Detection and Estimation", Prof. V. Saligrama
- Minyi Zhong*, "Distributed Control and Optimization in Energy Limited Cooperative Systems", Prof. Ch. Cassandras
Congratulations to all our graduates!
Karl to help steer IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Prof. W. Clem Karl has been appointed to the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging as the representative of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The Steering Committee is an elite group of experts from the following IEEE Societies: Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Nuclear and Plasma Sciences, Signal Processing as well as Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, who help guide the Transactions in terms of content, review process and the overall vision.
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!