Electrical and Computer Engineering

12.10.09 IP Training Seminar - Protecting Software

December 10, 2009

The creation, protection and commercialization of Intellectual Property is central to the implementation of Academic Entrepreneurship. It is therefore, essential that you attend the Intellectual Property (IP) Awareness Seminar, sponsored by the Office of Academic Entrepreneurship, (OAE). The seminar will be held on December 10th, 12:00pm until 2:00 pm.This Seminar will focus on protecting intellectual property in Software. David Peacock - will begiving an overview of the patent process and patent pipeline at Stevens, and our Patent Attorneys, from Greenberg Traurig will be addressing Legal Requirements. This event is open to Stevens faculty, staff and students. [Read more...]

Vehicular Communications: Standards, Protocols, Applications and Technical, Business Challenges

November 18, 2009

Speaker: Dr. Rajeev Shorey President NIIT University, India Time: 3pm-4pm Wednesday November 18, 2009 Location: Babbio BC541B [Read more...]

Cooperative Control of Networked Dynamical Systems with Applications to Control of Nano Particles and Autonomous Vehicles

June 17, 2009

Speaker: Dr. Zhihua Qu, Professor School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32816 Time: 2pm-3pm Wednesday June 17, 2009 Location: Babbio 203 Bio Sketch: Zhihua Qu received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990. Afterwards, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF). From 1995 to 1997, he served as the assistant chair of the department. From 1999 to 2004, [Read more...]

Streaming Techniques for Statistical Modeling

May 13, 2009

Speaker:Dr. Yihua WuGoogle, Inc. Time: Wednesday 05/13/2009 3-4PMLocation: Babbio 110Biography:Dr. Yihua Wu received her PhD in Computer Science from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2007 and has been working in Google Inc. New York since then. Her research interests are streaming techniques for statistical modeling of massive data with applications to databases and networking areas. During her PhD, she extensively studied i) parametric modeling of skewed data sets; ii) graph modeling of individual's communication patterns; iii) sequential change detection on data streams. Dr. Yihua Wu spent years of her PhD collaborating with researchers from AT&T Shannon Labs, [Read more...]

Recognizing Deceptive Language in Interview

May 6, 2009

Speaker: Dr. Joan BachenkoLinguistech ConsortiumDeception Detection TechnologiesTime: Wednesday 05/06/2009 3-4PMLocation: Babbio 110Abstract:This talk describes a NLP approach to the identification of deceptive language in transcribed interviews. Although deception detection has long been an interest among research psychologists and law enforcement professionals, language-based analyses of deception is a new area of investigation for computational linguistics. The talk will have three parts: a brief review of previous work on language and deception detection that has motivated our research, a description of the model we have developed for identifying deceptive language by native speakers and a review of an experiment that [Read more...]

Opportunistic Context-Aware Computing

April 29, 2009

Speaker: Dr. Alexander Varshavsky AT&T Labs Research Biography: Alexander Varshavsky is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs, NJ. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and has an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, Israel and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Technion, Israel. He is a winner of fellowships from Bell University Labs, NSERC, OGS and OGGST, and worked for IBM Haifa Research Lab, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab and at Intel Research Seattle Lab prior [Read more...]

Seminar: The Semantic Web -- Ontology-Supported Web Technology

March 25, 2009

Speaker: Dr. Yoo Jung An Time: Wednesday 3/25/2009 12:30 – 1:30PM Location: Babbio 221 Abstract:The Semantic Web is considered to be the third generation of the World-Wide Web. Its goal is to automate some of the activities that humans perform on the Web. For this purpose, the WWW is augmented with agent programs and ontologies. Ontologies are represented with standard languages such as RDF/OWL. In this talk we will review the basics of ontologies and the Semantic Web. A fruitful area of research is the interplay of [Read more...]

ECE Dept. Seminar by Prof. Joseph Mitola

February 11, 2009

The Evolution of Software Defined and Cognitive Radio Speaker:Prof. Joseph Mitola Time: Wednesday 2/11/2009 11:30AMLocation: Babbio 204 Abstract:Software defined radio is a foundation for cognitive radio which today has to do primarily with dynamic spectrum. However, as wireless devices continue to become more ubiquitous and as each device includes up to a dozen RF band-mode combinations, heterogeneous system on chip (SoC) architectures are emerging. This talk will characterize the evolution of cognitive radio from a SoC perspective, with observations on the way in which cognitive linguistics (a branch of the humanities) both informs the evolution of SoC and may become a basis for [Read more...]

Declarative Infrastructure Configuration Synthesis and Debugging

November 12, 2008

Declarative Infrastructure Configuration Synthesis and DebuggingSpeaker:Dr. Sanjai NarainTelcordia Technologies, Inc.Time: 11/12/2008 3PM-4PMLocation: Babbio 319 [Read more...]

Is Your Car Talking with My Smart Phone or Distributed Sensing and Computing in Mobile Networks

November 5, 2008

Speaker:Cristian BorceaNew Jersey Institute of TechnologyTime: 11/5/2008 3PM-4PMLocation: Stevens Engineering Building 222 [Read more...]

Keystroke Authentication and Human-Behavior Driven Bot Detection

October 15, 2008

Speaker: Danfeng Yao Rutgers University Time: 10/15/2008 3PM-4PM Location: Babbio Room 503 Abstract:Most of existing botnet detection solutions focuses on using the characteristic behaviors of botnets to identify malicious activities. We argue that there are intrinsic and fundamental differences between how human or a bot uses and reacts to a computer, which can be leveraged to distinguish human from bots and to detect infected hosts. We take the first step in formalizing and utilizing the human-centric anomaly detection approach to tackle botnet problems, namely, how to ensure a person's computer is [Read more...]

Applications of Advanced Imaging Technologies in the Customization and Optimization of Medical Devices

October 8, 2008

Abstract This is the era of the virtual factory. The virtual factory or digital manufacturing is a design and manufacturing paradigm that offers feature customization, domain optimization and manufacturing flexibility by harnessing advances in imaging technology, electro-optical engineering, material science and engineering and information technology infrastructure. The paradigm may be applied towards mass production of custom as well as standard stock consumer products. The objectives of the digital manufacturing systems are to achieve manufacturing cost reduction, targeted product designs and efficient product life cycle management. Other collateral advantages include ability to decentralize production to take advantage of low cost centers [Read more...]

Autonomous Finger Gaits by Multifingered Robotic Hand using Abstractions

September 10, 2008

Speaker: Jijie Xu Rochester Institute of Technology Time: 09/10/2008 3PM-4PM Location: Babbio Room 503 [Read more...]

A Disk Array Architecture Providing Timely Recovery to Any Point-in-time

April 18, 2008

AbstractRAID architectures have been used for more than two decades to recover data upon disk failures. Disk failure is just one of the many causes of damaged data. Data can be damaged by virus attacks, user errors, defective software/firmware, hardware faults, and site failures. The risk of these types of data damage is far greater than disk failure with today's mature disk technology and networked information services. It has therefore become increasingly important for today €™s disk array to be able to recover data to any point in time when such a failure occurs. This talk presents a new disk [Read more...]

Relay vs. User Cooperation in Multaccess Networks

April 9, 2008

AbstractCooperation in communication networks results when terminals use their energy and bandwidth resources to mutually enhance their transmissions. Cooperation can be induced in many ways and each approach entails a different tradeoff of power, bandwidth, complexity, and costs to achieve spatial diversity gains characteristic of antenna arrays. In this talk, we present a specific cooperative network - a multiaccess relay channel (MARC) - where cooperation is induced via a dedicated relay node in a network where multiple independent users communicate with one destination.We first extend the classical relaying strategies of decode-and-forward (DF), compress-and-forward (CF), and amplify-and-forward (AF) to the MARC. [Read more...]

Discriminant Learning Analysis

March 28, 2008

Jing PengComputer Science DepartmentMontclair State UniversityAbstract Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is widely used to reduce dimensionality in classification. However, it suffers from the small sample size problem, where the number of examples is less than the number of dimensions or attributes. In this talk, we propose to address the small sample size problem in the framework of statistical learning theory. We compute linear discriminants by regression, where the singularity problem is resolved. The resulting discriminants are complete in that they include both "regular" and "irregular" information. We call our approach "Discriminant Learning Analysis." In addition, our approach allows us to [Read more...]

Multimedia Forensics via Intrinsic Fingerprints

March 26, 2008

Ashwin SwaminathanInstitute of Advanced Computer StudiesUniversity of Maryland, College ParkAbstract Rapid technology advancement and widespread use of digital imaging devices have brought about a number of forensic and provenance questions, including how an image was generated; from where an image was from; what has been done on the image since its creation, by whom, when and how. In our work, we introduce Component Forensics as a new methodology for forensic analysis of digital images and imaging devices. The proposed framework aims at identifying the algorithms and parameters employed inside various processing modules of a digital device, using only the sample data [Read more...]

Dependable Sensor Networks

March 12, 2008

Dr. Guiling WangDepartment of Computer ScienceNew Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstract Dependability is a fundamental requirement in designing sensor networks. Specifically, a sensor network should successfully detect the phenomena of interest (e.g., intruding enemy), and reliably transmit the detection results to users. To achieve the above goals, the network must have sufficient coverage, which enables prompt and accurate detection of the phenomena; the network must also be secure to defend against attacks from an adversary such that the detected events can be transmitted back to the base station without being modified. In this talk, I will first present two distributed algorithms for [Read more...]

An Entropy Based Method to Detect Spoofed Denial of Service Attacks

March 5, 2008

Dr. Willa EhrlichDr. Danielle LiuDr. Kenichi FutamuraAT&T LabsAbstract A Spoofed Denial of Service (DoS) System is described that analyzes a level of entropy in distributions of source and destination IP address aggregate flow share, for IP traffic traversing one or more links. A source IP address aggregate entropy time series and a destination IP address aggregate entropy time series are derived and then adaptive thresholding is applied to each time series to identify upper and lower entropy thresholds for current measurements. Given current traffic traversing the set of monitored links, current source and destination entropy values are computed on a near [Read more...]

Next Generation Mobile Services: Infrastructure and Applications

February 27, 2008

Dr. Shoshana LoebExecutive Director: Telcordia Technologies(with Ben Falchuk, PhD and Thimios Panagos, PhD for Demo and discussion)Abstract The vision of user centric intelligent telecommunications services that adapt to user activities, needs and schedules is now becoming a reality as mobile services are entering the market place at an accelerated pace. From location sensitive information services to social networking to remote healthcare and mobile car diagnostic, the richness of new offering signifies a new era in technology as it serves the needs of individuals and society. Although the decades' old vision is now materializing, we are still facing a number of fundamental [Read more...]