CDSP Professors: Dana H. Brooks, Søren Buus, Miriam E. Leeser, Hanoch Lev-Ari, Elias S. Manolakos, John G. Proakis, Masoud Salehi, Bahram Shafai, Gilead Tadmor

I. GRANTS AWARDED IN 2003

II. AWARDED THESIS DEGREES

1. Juan Carolos Rojas, PhD "Multimedia Macros for Portable Optimized Programs" (Advisor: M. Leeser)
   
2. Bekir Ahmet Dogrusoz, PhD "Soft Source Codiing with Unequal Error Protecting Turbo Codes" (Advisor: M. Salehi)
   

MS Thesis

1. Wang Chen, "An FPGA Implementation of the 2D FDTD Algorithm" (Advisor: M. Leeser)
   
2. Andy Funk, "A Tool for the Visual Composition of Distributed Java/Matlab Applications" (Advisor: E. Manolakos)
   
3. Tevfik Gozum, "Turbo Code Interleavers For 3GPP" (Advisor: M. Salehi)
   
4. Ching-Ting Pi, "Fault Detection and Isolation in Dynamic Systems Using Observers" (Advisor: B. Shafai)
   
5. Harita Ravipati, "New Adaptive Algorithms for Noise Cancellation" (Advisor: B. Shafai)
   
6. Kevin Xu, "Lattice Filters for Efficient Reactive Power Compensation" (Advisor: H. Lev-Ari)
   
7. Yi Yang, "Identification of Linear Time-Variant Systems without Prior Information" (Advisor: H. Lev-Ari)
   
8. Haiqian Yu, "FPGA Implementation" (Advisor: M. Leeser)
   

1. Demetris Galatopoullos, "JavaPorts: A Framework to Facilitate the Rapid Prototyping of Cluster Aomputing Application" (Advisor: E. Manolakos)
   
   III. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

J. Proakis, M. Salehi, and Gehard Bauch, Contemporary Communication Systems Using Matlab and Simulink Brooks-Cole Publishing Co., 2003. “Frequency and Phase Modulation” in Wiley Encyclopedia of Teleommunications, John G. Proakis Editor, Volume 2, Pages 807-825, John-Wiley and Sons, January 2003, USA.

1. E. Laciar, R. Jané, and D.H. Brooks, “Improved alignment method for noisy high resolution ECG and Holter records using multi-scale cross-correlation”, IEEE Trans.on Biomed Eng., Mar. 2003, pp. 344-353
2. P.E. Hammer, D.H. Brooks, G. Nollert,, and John K. Triedman, “Estimation of entrainment response using electrograms from remote sites: validation in animal and computer models of reentrant tachycardia”, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 14:1, Jan 2003, pp. 52-61
3. Tamara N. Fitzgerald, Edward K. Rhee, D.H. Brooks, and John K. Triedman, “Estimation of Cardiac Conduction Velocities Using Small Data Sets”, Annals of Biomed. Eng, Mar 2003, pp. 250-261
4. Frakt, A.B., H. Lev-Ari and Willsky, A.S., "A Generalized Levinson Algorithm for Covariance Extension with Application to Multiscale Autoregressive Modeling,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 49, pp. 411-424, Feb. 2003 (14 pages)
5. H. Lev-Ari and Stankovic, A.M., "Hilbert Space Techniques for Modeling and Compensation of Reactive Power in Energy Processing Systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems, Vol. 50, pp. 540-556, Apr. 2003 (17 pages)
6. H. Lev-Ari and Ephraim, Y., "Extension of the Signal Subspace Enhancement Approach to Colored Noise,'' IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 10, pp. 104-106, Apr. 2003 (3 pages).
7. Andrade, L., E.S. Manolakos, “Signal background estimation and baseline correction Algorithms for accurate DNA sequencing”, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems, (special issue on signal processing and neural networks for Bioinformatics), vol. 35, 2003, issue 3, pp 229-24
8. Lijun Li and M. Salehi,“Hierarchical image coding matched to unequal error protection rate compatible punctured convolutional codes”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Systems, and Signal Processing, pp. 238-243, October 8-13 2003, Changsha, Hunan, China.
9. B. Shafai, Wilson, B.H. and Chen, J. “Robust Stability of a Special Class of Polynomial Matrices with Control Applications,” Computer and Electrical
   Engineering: An International Journal, vol. 29, pp. 781-800, 2003.
10. L. Mirkin and G. Tadmor, Yet Another Discretization, IEEE Trans. Aut. Control. 48 (2003), 891 – 894.
11. Y. Wang, G. Haller, A. Banaszuk and G. Tadmor, Closed Loop Lagrangian Separation Control in a Bluff Body Shear Flow Models, Physics of Fluids 15 (2003), 2251 - 2266.
12. B.R. Noack, K. Afanasiev, M. Morzynski, G. Tadmor & F. Thiele, A hierarchy of low-dimensional models for the transient and post-transient cylinder wake, J. Fluid Mechanics 497 (2003), 335-363
    

1. Prior Model Selection for Bayesian Inverse Electrocardiography, Yesim Serinagaoglu, D.H. Brooks, and Robert S MacLeod. Presented at the NFSI Conference L’Aquila, Italy, Sept. 2003
2. A Diffuse Optical Tomography using a Linear Matrix Inequality algorithm in an Admissible Solution Approach. A. Niroumand, D.H. Brooks, and B. Shafai., IEEE Int. Conf. On Image Proc., Sept. 2003, Barcelona
3. A Bayesian Approach to Inclusion and Performance Analysis of Using Extra Information in Bioelectric Inverse Problems, Y. Serinagaoglu, D.H. Brooks, and R.S. MacLeod, IEEE Int. Conf. On Image Proc., Sept. 2003, Barcelona
4. H. Lev-Ari and Stankovic, A.M., "Analysis and Optimization in Design of Randomized PWM Switching Patterns in DC/DC Converters,'' IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC), Acapulco, Mexico, June 2003, pp. 1583-1588 (6 pages)
5. H. Lev-Ari and Stankovic, A.M., "Defining Reactive Power in Circuit Transients via Local Orthonormal Representations,'' Proceedings of the Caribbean Colloquium on Power Quality (CCPQ), Mayaguez, Puerto Rico June 2003, (6 pages)
6. Stankovic, A.M., H. Lev-Ari and Perisic, M.M., "Kalman Filter-Based Estimation of Short-Time Fourier Coefficients in Energy Applications,'' Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, Dec. 2003, pp. 6327-6332 (6 pages).
7. Quinn, H., Smith King, L.A., M.E. Leeser and Meleis, W., “Runtime Assignment of Reconfigurable Hardware Components for Image Processing Pipelines,” IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM2003), April, 2003, pp. 173-182
8. Zhao, Z. and M.E. Leeser “Precision Modeling of Floating-Point Applications for Variable Bitwidth Computing,” International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA2003), June, 2003. pp. 208--214.
   45% acceptance rate.
9. Yu, H. and M.E. Leeser, “Portable FPGA Designs with Interface Adaptive Module,” Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD2003), September 2003.
10. Chen, W., Kosmas, P.,M.E. Leeser, and Rappaport, C., “An FPGA Implementation of Two-Dimensional Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Algorithm,” Seventh Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2003), September 2003, pp. 105--106.
11. . Miller, S. and M.E. Leeser, “Acceleration of the Retinal Vascular Tracing Algorithm Using FPGAs,” Seventh Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2003), September 2003, pp. 133--134.
12. . Zhao, Z. and M.E. Leeser, “Precision Modeling and Bit-Width Optimization of Floating-Point Applications,” Seventh Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2003), September 2003, pp. 141--142.
13. Rojas, J. C., and M.E. Leeser, “Multimedia Macros for Portable Optimized Programs,” Seventh Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2003), September 2003, pp. 213--214.
14. Rojas, J. C., and M.E. Leeser, “Programming Portable Optimized Multimedia Applications,” ACM Multimedia, November 2003. pp. 291—294.
15. Andrade, L., and E.S. Manolakos, “Autolmatic Estimation of Mobility Shift Coefficients in DNA Chromatgrams”, Neural Networks for Signal Processing, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop NNSP03, 2003, Toulouse France, pp. 91-100. (NNSP is an annual selective Workshop, acceptance rate is usually ~40%).
16. B. Shafai, and Oloomi, H., “Output Derivative Estimation and Disturbance Attenuation using PI Observer with Application to a Class of Nonlinear Systems,” Proceedings of 35th IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST), Morgantown, West Virginia, pp. 196-200, 2003.
17. Oloomi, H., and B. Shafai, “ Realization Theory for Two-Time-Scale Distributions,” Proceedings of 2003 American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, Colorado, pp. 4476-4482, June 2003.
18. Oloomi, H., and B. Shafai, “Weight Selection in Robust Control to Improve the Sinusoidal Steady State Response,” Proceedings of 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Maui, Hawaii, pp. 300-305, December 2003.
19. Niroumand A., Brooks, D.H., and B. Shafai, “Diffuse Optical Tomography using a Linear Matrix Inequality algorithm in an Admissible Solution Approach, Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Proc., Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2003.
20. Tek M. N. and B. Shafai, “Inverse Problem Solutions for Contactless Electrical Conductivity Imaging”, Proceedings of 25th IEEE Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Cancun, Mexico, September 2003.
21. Montlouis, W. and B. Shafai, “Localization and Tracking of Moving Sources using Rectangular Array and Local Approximation,” Proceedings of 2003 International Multi-Conference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2003.
22. J. Gerhard, M. Pastoor, R. King, B. R. Noack, A. Dillmann, M. Morzy'nski and G. Tadmor, Model­based control of vortex shedding based on empirical low­dimensional Galerkin models, 33rd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, June2003, Orlado, FL (paper AIAA 2003-4262)
23. M. Pastoor, R. King, B. Noack, A. Dillmann and G. Tadmor, Model-based coherent-structure control of turbulent shear flows using low dimensional vortex models, 33rd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, June2003, Orlado, FL (paper AIAA 2003-4261)
24. J. Gerhard, M. Pastoor, R. King, B. R. Noack, A. Dillmann, M. Morzy'nski and G. Tadmor, Control of vortex shedding with low-dim. Galerkin models and energy-based control models, extended abstract, 5th EuroMech, August 2003, Toulouse, France (abstract).
25. G. Tadmor, B. Noack and M. Pastoor, R. King, and A.Dillmann, Vortex Based Estimation and Control, (abstract) , SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, May 27-31, 2003, Snowbird, UT (abstract)
26. B.R. Noack, A. Dillmann, G. Tadmor, M. Pastoor, J. Gerhard, R. King & M. Morzynski, Control of vortex shedding using low-dimensional empirical Galerkin models, Control of Partial Differential Equations Workshop (German abstract), Technical University, Berlin, Institute of Mathematics, December 11 – 13, 2003 (abstract)
27. M. Pastoor, B.R. Noack, G. Tadmor, R. King and A. Dillmann, Lagrangian vortex models for the control of wall-bounded shear-flows, (abstract) Amer. Phys. Soc. 56th Div. Fluid Dynamics Meeting.
28. M. Pastoor, B.R. Noack, G. Tadmor, R. King and A. Dillmann, Eulerian vortex models for the control of wall-bounded shear-flows, (abstract) Amer. Phys. Soc. 56th Div. Fluid Dynamics Meeting.
29. B.R. Noack, J. Gerhard, M. Pastoor, G. Tadmor, R. King and A. Dillmann, Galerkin-model based control of vortex shedding, (abstract) Amer. Phys. Soc. 56th Div. Fluid Dynamics Meeting.
30. B.R. Noack, K. Afansiev, M. Morzynski, G. Tadmor, F. Thiele, Galerkin models of transient shear-flows, (abstract) Amer. Phys. Soc. 56th Div. Fluid Dynamics Meeting.
31. G, Tadmor and L. Mirkin, H? Preview Control and Fixed-Lag Smoothing I: Matrix ARE Solutions in Continuous-Time Systems, IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC), December 9-12, 2003, Maui, Hawaii (CD Proceedings) pp. 1515-1520
32. G, Tadmor and L. Mirkin, H? Preview Control and Fixed-Lag Smoothing II: Fixed Sized ARE Solutions in Discrete-Time Systems, IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC), December 9-12, 2003, Maui, Hawaii (CD Proceedings) pp. 1521-1526
33. L. Mirkin and G, Tadmor, H? Preview Control and Fixed-Lag Smoothing III: H? Discretization, IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC), December 9-12, 2003, Maui, Hawaii (CD Proceedings), pp. 1527-1531
34. G. Tadmor, B. R. Noack, A. Dillmann, J. Gerhard, M. Pastoor, R. King, M. Morzy'nski, Control, Observation and Energy Regulation of Wake Flow Instabilities, IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC), December 9-12, 2003, Maui, Hawaii (CD Proceedings), pp. 2334-2339
    

Prof. Dana Brooks Member IEEE, including Signal Procesing and Enginering in Medicine and Biology societies

Prof. Dana Brooks Asociate Director of Communications and Digital Signal Processing Center

Prof. Dana Brooks Member of University Appeals Committee for undergraduate and graduate student appeals of College Academic Standing or other decisions

Prof. Dana Brook Member of elected Tenure and Promotion Committee from Jan until Aug. Attended all meetings, participated in all decisions

Prof. Dana Brook Member of elected Departmental Council and Chair since October

Prof. Dana Brooks Member of Undergraduate Studies Committee

Prof. Dana Brooks Member of Dean’s ad-hoc committee

Prof. Soren Buus Member of Executive Committee, Greater Boston Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Senior Member, Society of Women Engineers

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Member of President's Council of Cornell Women

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Member of the Association of Computing Machinery

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Member of ACM International Conference on Field Programmable Gate Arrays

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Member of Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Member of High-Performance Embedded Computing

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ar Senior Member IEEE

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari Member of SIAM

Prof. Elias Manolakos Senior Member of IEEE

Prof. Elias Manolakos Elected Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society's International Committee on DISPS

Prof. Elias Manolakos Member of the Advisory Board, IEEE Signal Processing Society's Int'l. Committee NNSP

Prof. John G. Proakis Fellow of IEEE

Prof. John G. Proakis Member of IEEE Societies on Information Theory, Communications, and Signal Processing

Prof Masould Salehi Member of the Department Graduate Student Admission Committee

Prof. Bahram Shafai Associate Editor: IEEE Control System Society Conference Editorial Board

Prof. Bahram Shafai Capstone Design Coordinator

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Director of Communications and Digital Signal Processing Center

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Senior Member IEEE

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Member SIAM

Conference Organizations

Prof. Dana Brooks Member of Organizing Committee and Tutorials Chair for upcoming International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, to be held in Arlington VA in April 2004

Prof. Elias Manolakos Session Organizer and Chair person IEEE Neural Networks for Signal Processing XII "Signal Processing and Neural Networks for Bioinformatics"

Prof. Elias Manolakos Technical Program Committee Member of the 2002 Conferences: IEEE Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation (SiPS-02)

Prof. Elias Manolakos Technical Program Committee Member of the 2002 Conferences: IEEE Application Specific Architectures and Processors (ASAP-02)

Prof. Elias Manolakos Technical Program Committee Member of the 2002 Conferences: IEEE Int'l. Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-02)

Prof. Elias Manolakos Technical Program Committee Member of the 2002 Conferences: IEEE Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP-02)

Prof. Elias Manolakos Technical Program Committee Member of the 2002 Conferences: Sixth High Performance Embedded Systems Workshop (HPEC-02)

Prof. Masoud Salehi Member of the Telecommunication System Management Program planning and curriculum development Committee

Prof. Masoud Salehi Member of the Telecommunication System Management IAB meeting and evaluation

Prof Masould Salehi Member of the National Science Foundation CAREER review panel

Prof Masould Salehi Member of the National Technological University EE Executive Committee

Prof. Bahram Shafai Program Committee Chair of ISIAC in WAC Congress

Prof. Bahram Shafai Member of Program Committees & Chairman of Sessions in IEEE Organized Conferences

Prof. Bahram Shafai Active Senior Member of Control System and Signal Processing Societies

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Program Committee Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Workshop on Time Delay Systems, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France,

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Organizing Committee, International Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Control

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Session Organizer and chair “Control and Control-Oriented Modeling in Distributed Combustion and Flow (WeM10)”, IEEE Conf. Decision & Control

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Session chair “Preview and Filtering in Time-delay Systems (FrE13)”, IEEE Conf. Decision & Control

Editorial Work

Prof. Dana Brooks Reviewer: IEEE Trans. on signal Proc, IEEE Trans. on Biomed Eng. Circulation, Med Bio Eng Comp

Prof. Soren Buus Member of the Editorial Board, Hearing Research

Prof. Soren Buus Reviewer: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Prof. Soren Buus Reviewer: International Audiology

Prof. Soren Buus Reviewer: Acta Acustica

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems I

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: Design Automation Conference

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Computers

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer:Journal of Systems Architecture

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: VLSI Design

Prof. Elias Manolakos Associate Editor: IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Prof. Elias Manolakos Associate Editor: Computing in Science and Engineering

Prof. Elias Manolakos Associate Editor: Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systemss

Prof. Elias Manolakos Reviewer: Refereed IEEE Conferences

Prof. Elias Manolakos Reviewer: IEEE Transactions

Prof. Elias Manolakos Technical Program Committee Member

Prof. Masoud Salehi Reviewer for many Journals and Conferences, including many IEEE publications and conferences

Prof. Masoud Salehi Member of the National Technological University EE Executive Committee (Communication and Signal Processing area)

Prof. Masoud Salehi Reviewed a research proposal for the Israel Research Foundation

Prof. Masoud Salehi Served as the external reviewer for a retention case at University of Utah

Prof. Bahram Shafai Associate Editor: CEB, ACC and CDC 2003 & 2004

Prof. Bahram Shafai Associate Editor: IEEE Control System Society Conference Editorial Board

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer: IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer: IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer: International Journal of Control

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for Computer and Electrical Engineering

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for several other Journals and Conferences including CDC, ACC, and WAC

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for NSF

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Associate Editor IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board: 2003 IEEE Conf. Decision & Control (handled 14 papers), 2004 American Control Conference (handled 10 papers)

Patents/Awards