Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE Department Seminar: Indoor Mapping and Localization in a Non-Gaussian World

May 30, 2012

Speaker: Tin Kam Ho, Piotr Mirowski and Ravi Palaniappan (in collaboration with Harald Steck, Philip Whiting and Michael MacDonald) Statistics and Learning Research - Enabling Computing TechnologiesBell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Time: 2:00 PM -- 3:00 PM, May 30th (Wednesday), 2012 Location: Babbio Center, Room 203 ABSTRACT As mobility moves onto the center stage of telecommunications, there is an increasing need for the network system’s ability to follow users and objects in all types of environments. Radio-Frequency (RF) fingerprinting is an interesting solution for indoor localization and tracking. Accurate localization enables the system to provide location-based services, optimize network deployment and improve the system’s energy [Read more...]

ECE Department Seminar: Technology and Standard in Virtual-view 3D Systems

May 15, 2012

Speaker: Hsueh-Ming HANG Distinguished Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, Associate Dean, College of Electrical and Computer Engineering National Chiao-Tung University Time: 3:00 PM -- 4:00 PM, May 15th (Tuesday), 2012 Location: Babbio Center, Room 321 ABSTRACT 3D video products are aggressively growing recently. One step further, the virtual-viewpoint (or free-viewpoint) video becomes the research focus. It is also an on-going standardization item of the international MPEG Committee. In addition to the movie special effect people have seen, one application of a virtual-view system is the multi-view auto-stereoscopic (glasses free 3D) display. Practically, a densely arranged camera array is used to acquire input images [Read more...]

ECE Department Seminar: Capacity of Distributed Antenna Network by using Single Carrier Frequency Domain Adaptive Antenna Array

April 26, 2012

Speaker: Dr. Wei Peng Tohoku University Time: 1:30 PM -- 2:30 PM, April 26th (Thursday), 2012 Location: Babbio Center, Room 110 ABSTRACT Single-carrier frequency domain adaptive antenna array (SC-FDAAA) has been proposed and proved to be effective in suppressing multiple access interference (MAI) in a severely frequency selective fading channel. We studied the performance of SC-FDAAA in a distributed antenna network (DAN). In order to make it clear whether the performance of SC-FDAAA can benefit from the distributed nature of DAN or not, a comparison is made between DAN and the traditional cellular network, i.e., central antenna network (CAN). This talk will cover [Read more...]

ECE Department Seminar: The Power of Location

April 25, 2012

Speaker: Prof. Janne Lindqvist WINLAB, Rutgers University, NJ Time: 3:00 PM -- 4:00 PM, April 25th (Wednesday), 2012 Location: Babbio Center, Room 203 ABSTRACT Many location-sharing systems have been developed over the past 20 years, but only recently have these systems started to be adopted by consumers. One of the major successes so far in terms of user adoption is Foursquare, which reports having over 15 million users as of January 2012. We will discuss our user studies and surprising uses of Foursquare. Furthermore, in this talk, we will discuss our work on privacy protection for users of location-based services, and how location [Read more...]

ECE Department Seminar: Greening the Network with Energy-Efficient TCP

April 18, 2012

Speaker: Anwar Walid Bell Labs Time: 3:00 PM -- 4:00 PM, April 18th (Wednesday), 2012 Location: Babbio Center, Room 203 ABSTRACT The goal of building energy-efficient information and communication networks is now widely embraced. Various mechanisms are being developed to save energy at network nodes based on local traffic conditions and objectives; however, their cumulative impact on the end-to-end application performance is not well understood. TCP is the dominant transport protocol on the internet, and its end-to-end operation ties in the performance of all energy saving mechanisms in the network. We develop a network utility theory to study and design distributed algorithms for [Read more...]

ECE Department Seminar: Energy Adaptive Computing

April 12, 2012

Speaker:Dr. Krishna KantGeorge Mason UniversityNational Science Foundation Time: 3:00 PM -- 4:00 PM, April 12th (Thursday), 2012 Location: Kiddie, Room 228 ABSTRACT Energy efficiency is well recognized as a critical requirement of computing system design for a variety of reasons including cost, power density, and environmental impact. In this talk, I will motivate an approach that goes beyond energy efficiency and more directly addresses the sustainability issues. The key notion in this approach is smart adaptation of systems to the available energy. I will first motivate the need for energy adaptive computing and then discuss its application in a variety of environments. I will [Read more...]

Evolution of Mobility in Future Wireless Networks

March 14, 2012

Speaker: Prof. Ajay Rajkumar Director, Americas Wireless Chief Technology Office at Alcatel-Lucent Time:3:00PM – 4:00PM, March 14th (Thursday), 2012 Location : Babbio Center, Room 319 [Read more...]

A Framework for Cross-Layer Technologies Implementation based on the Cognitive Radio Paradigm with Cooperative Learning

February 23, 2012

Speaker: Prof. Andres Kwasinski Rochester Institute of Technology, NY Time:2:00PM – 3:00PM, Feb 23rd (Thursday), 2012 Location: Lieb Building 120 [Read more...]

A Market-driven Approach to Content Delivery in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks

February 15, 2012

Speaker: Prof. Swastik K. Brahma Syracuse University, NY Time:3:00PM – 4:00PM, Feb 15th (Wednesday), 2012 Location: Babbio Center 304 [Read more...]

Genetic Biomarker Identification and Disease Network Construction

December 15, 2011

Speaker: Dr. Ruoting Yang Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California, Santa Barbara Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM, December 15th (Thursday), 2011 Location: Babbio Center 320 [Read more...]

A Monolithic Ge-on-Si CMOS Imager for Short Wave Infrared

December 7, 2011

Speaker: Prof. Bryan Ackland Adjunct Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology Time: 3:00PM – 4:30PM, December 7th (Wednesday), 2011 Location: Babbio Center 310 [Read more...]

Spatiotemporal Event Detection in Mobility Network

November 30, 2011

Speaker: Dr. Rong Duan AT&T Labs Research Time: 4-5 PM, November 30th (Wendesday), 2011 Location: Babbio Center 310 [Read more...]

Estimation, Sensing and Control of Tire/Road Interactions

November 16, 2011

Speaker: Professor Jingang Yi Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854 Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM, November 16th (Wednesday), 2011 Location: Babbio Center 310 [Read more...]

Hybrid High Availability in Distributed Stream Processing Systems

November 15, 2011

Speaker: Dr. Fan Ye IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Time: 2:00PM – 3:00PM, November 15th (Tuesday), 2011 Location: Kidde 390 [Read more...]

Cognitive Radio: Testbed, Spectrum Sensing and Flexible Usage

November 2, 2011

Speaker: Prof. Rasmus Hjorth Nielsen Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF) Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Time: 3PM - 4PM, November 2nd (Wednesday), 2011 Location: Burchard 430 [Read more...]

Quantum Energy

October 31, 2011

Speaker:Prof. Zhenyu ZhangInternational Center for Quantum Design of Functional MaterialsUniversity of Science and Technology of China&School of Applied Science and Engineering, Harvard UniversityTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM Monday, Oct. 31, 2011Location: Babbio 310 [Read more...]

Application Acceleration on Diverse Architectures by Reformulation of Algorithms

October 26, 2011

Speaker: Prof. Narayan Ganesan Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Time: 3PM - 4PM, October 26th (Wednesday), 2011 Location: Burchard 430 [Read more...]

Detecting Driver Phone Use Leveraging Car Speaker

October 19, 2011

Speaker: Dr. Jie Yang Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Time: 3PM - 4PM, Wednesday October 19th, 2011 Location: Babbio Center 310 Distinguishing driver and passenger phone use can enable novel in-car user interfaces, but it's greatest promise lies in helping reduce driver distraction. Cell phone distractions have been a factor in high-profile accidents and are associated with a large number of automobile accidents. Unfortunately, an increasing amount of research suggests that the safety benefits of hands free phone operation are marginal at best. The cognitive load of conducting a cell phone conversation seems to increase accident risk, rather than the [Read more...]

Real-Time Closed-Loop Non-Linear Device Linearization via Predictive Pre-Distortion

May 11, 2011

Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringECE Seminar Spring 2011Real-Time Closed-Loop Non-Linear Device Linearization via Predictive Pre-DistortionSpeaker: Dr. Walid K. M. AhmedTime: 3:30PM-4:30PM Wednesday, May 11, 2011Location: Babbio 321 [Read more...]

Innovation Leaders Congregate at Stevens for R&E Day April 29th

April 29, 2011

Stevens Institute of Technology is attracting innovators and entrepreneurs nationwide to Research and Entrepreneurship Day 2011, the annual showcase of Stevens diverse intellectual property and technology transfer programs. World-renowned keynote speakers Dr. Vijay Govindarajan and Mark W. Johnson will join Stevens students and faculty to demonstrate the power of bridging the gap between research and business in academia. Investors, entrepreneurs, private and corporate partners, alumni, and peer researchers will derive value in experiencing Stevens portfolio of innovative research and entrepreneurship activities. "Forward-thinking faculty at Stevens are bridging the gap between the laboratory and industry and transforming the standards of research and [Read more...]