Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP)

Center for Research and Graduate Studies

Activities Report

January 1 - December 31, 2004

CDSP Professors: Dionisio Bernal, Dana Brooks, Miriam Leeser, Hanoch Lev-Ari, Elias Manolakos, Edwin Marengo, John Proakis, Masoud Salehi, Bahram Shafai, Gilead Tadmor

I. GRANTS AWARDED IN 2004

Combined Active Commitments of Research Support for CDSP Members
Industrial Support Government Agencies
$375,738 $1,969,751
Total Support: $2,345,489

II. AWARDED THESIS DEGREES

PhD Thesis

  1. Yiheng Zhang, "Spatio-temporal Processing and Regularization for Dynamic Imaging Problems with Application to Diffuse Optical Tomography" (Advisor: D. Brooks)
  2. Heather Quinn, "Runtime Tools for Hardware/Software Systems with Reconfigurable Hardware" (Advisor: M. Leeser)
  3. Mehmet Aydinlik, “Unequal Error Protecting Turbo TCM” (Advisor: M. Salehi)
  4. Nejat Mehmed Tek, "An Inverse Problem Solution for 3-D Electrical Conductivity Imaging Using Genetic Algorithm" (Advisor: B. Shafai)
  5. Webert Montlouis, "Localization and Tracking of Moving Sources using Rectangular Array and Local Approximation" (Advisor: B. Shafai)

MS Thesis

  1. Damon Hyde, "Forward Matrix Generation and Utilization for Time Domain Diffuse Optical Tomography" (Advisor: D. Brooks)
  2. Noushin Golabchi, "Automatic Characterization of Spinal Cord Histology Images for Comparisons to MR Diffusion Tensor Measurements" (Advisor: D. Brooks)
  3. ChihChing Chang, "A Contour Signature Method for Counting Cells in Embryos using Quadrature Tomographic Microscopy Images" (Advisor: D. Brooks)
  4. Ron Gagnon, "Characterization, Design, and Testing of Timing Electronics for Applications in Diffuse Optical Tomography" (Advisor: D. Brooks)
  5. Dileep Raghav, “Tradeoff Between Time and Frequency Resolution for Modulated Harmonic Signals” (Advisor: H. Lev-Ari)
  6. Shawn Miller, MS "Enabling a Real-time Solution to Retinal Vascular Tracing Using FPGAs" (Advisor: M. Leeser)
  7. Evangelia Komisopoulou, "Clustering Methods For Accurate Background/Foreground Estimation in cDNA Microarray Images" (Advisor: E. Manolakos)
  8. Ming Ming, "An Architecture-Level Method for Predicting the Power Consumption of VLSI Processor Arrays for DSP Applications" (Advisor: E. Manolakos)
  9. Prasad Mandalapu, "Verilog Models for Synthesizable VLSI Array Architectures Derived from Algorithmic Specifications" (Advisor: E. Manolakos)
  10. Parijat.Shah, "End-to-end Session Support Framework for Java Enabled Mobile Phones" (Advisor: E. Manolakos)
  11. Orion W. Parrott, “High-dimensional MUSIC December 2004 Increases Number of Localizable Targets” (Advisor: E. Marengo)

    III. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Books and Book Chapters

  1. M. Leeser, “Digital Logic,” in Computer Science Handbook, Second Edition. Allen B. Tucker, Editor in Chief, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2004, pp. 16-1 - 16-38.
  2. J. G. Proakis, M. Salehi, "Fundamentals of Communication Systems", Prentice-Hall, 2005.
  3. B.R. Noack, I. Pelivan, G. Tadmor, M. Morzynski & P. Comte, Robust low-dimensional Galerkin Models of Natural and Actuated Flows, in Fourth Aeroacoustics Workshop, W. Schröder & P. Kölzsch, Editors, 2004.

Journal Publications

    1. D. Bernal and Gunes B. “Flexibility Based Approach for Damage Characterization: Benchmark Application”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.130, No.1, January 2004, pp.61-70.
    2. D. Bernal and Beck J. “Preface to the Special Issue on Phase I of the IASC-ASCE Structural Health Monitoring Benchmark”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.130, No.1, January 2004, pp.1-2.
    3. D. Bernal, “Modal Scaling from Known Mass Perturbations”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.130, No.9, September 2004, pp.1083-1086.
    4. Tamara N. Fitzgerald, D. H. Brooks, and John K. Triedman. Comparative Psychometric Analysis of Vector and Isochrone Cardiac Activation Maps, IEEE Trans. On Biomed Eng, 51:5, May 2004, pp. 857-855.
    5. Stankovic, A.M., H. Lev-Ari, and Perisic, M.M., "Analysis and Implementation of Model-Based Linear Estimation of Dynamic Phasors,'' IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 19, pp. 1903-1910, Nov. 2004.
    6. Andrade L., E.S. Manolakos, “Robust Normalization of DNA Chromatograms by Regression for improved Base-calling,” Journal of the Franklin Institute, (special issue on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics), vol. 341, issue 1, 2004, pp. 3-22.
    7. E. Marengo and Anthony J. Devaney, “Nonradiating Sources with Connections to the Adjoint Problem”, Physical Review E, Vol. 70, 2004, p. 037601.
    8. Fred K. Gruber, E. Marengo and Anthony J. Devaney, “Time-reversal Imaging with Multiple Signal Classification Considering Multiple Scattering between the targets”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 115, 2004, pp. 3042-3047.
    9. E. Marengo, Anthony J. Devaney and Fred K. Gruber, “Inverse Source Problem with Reactive Power Constraint”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 52, 2004, pp. 1586-1595.
    10. Oloomi, H., and B. Shafai., “Two-Time-Scale Distributions and Singular Perturbations,” International Journal of Control, Vol. 77, No. 11, pp. 1040-1049, 2004.
    11. Oloomi, H., and B. Shafai, “Reduced Order Controller Design with Low Sensitivity to Small Feedback Delays,” International Journal of System Science, Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 547-555, 2004.
    12. R. Noack, I. Mezi, G. Tadmor and A. Banaszuk, Optimal Mixing in Recirculation Zones, Physics of Fluids 16 (2004), 867 - 888.
    13. G. Tadmor, Control of a Dual Drive to Attenuate Switching Frequency Ripple In A Large Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor, IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology 12 (2004), 21 - 35.
    14. G. Tadmor, Observers and Feedback Control for a Rotating Vortex Pair, IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology 12 (2004), 36 - 51.

Conference Publications

    1. D. Bernal, and Hernandez E. “A Data-Driven Approach for Identifying Damage Induced by Earthquakes” World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, July 2004 (on CD).
    2. D. Bernal, O’Relly H. and Reyes-Madera L., “Some Novel Provisions of a New Seismic Code for the Dominican Republic,” World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, July 2004 (on CD).
    3. Gao Y. Spencer B., and D. Bernal, "Experimental Verification of the Damage Load Vector Method", International Symposium on Smart Structure Technology, Hawaii, January 2004 (on CD).
    4. Gunes, B. and D. Bernal,"A Data-Driven Approach for Earthquake Damage Detection," Sixth International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering, vol.1, pp. 364-373. Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2004, pp.364-373.
    5. Y. Zhang and D.H. Brooks, "High-Order Scalar State Space Models in Dynamic Linear Inverse Problems",Asilomar Conf. on Sig. and Sys., Nov. 2004.
    6. S. Babaeizadeh, D.H. Brooks, D. Isaacson, "Electrical Impedance Tomography Using a 3-D Boundary Element Inverse Solution", Asilomar Conf. on Sig. and Sys., Nov. 2004.
    7. A. Ghodrati, F. Calderero, D.H. Brooks, G. Tadmor, and R.S. MacLeod, "A Level Set Algorithm for the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography", Asilomar Conf. on Sig. and Sys. Nov. 2004.
    8. W.P. Giziewicz, R.E. Gagnon, Jr., S. Prasad, D.H. Brooks, C. G. Fonstad, Jr. Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit Probe for Biomedical Imaging, NIH Workshop Optical Imaging 2004, Sept. 2004, Bethesda MD.
    9. D.H. Brooks, A. Ghodrati, Y. Zhang, G. Tadmor, and R.S. MacLeod, "Inverse Electrocardiography in the Framework of Dynamic Imaging Problems", IEEE Int. Conf. on Eng. in Med. and Biol, San Francisico, Sept. 2004.
    10. S. Babaeizadeh, D.H. Brooks, D. Isaacson, "A 3-D Boundary Element Solution to the Forward Problem of Electrical Impedance Tomography", IEEE Int. Conf. on Eng. in Med. and Biol, San Francisico, Sept. 2004.
    11. F.N. Golabchi, W.S. Hoge, H. Mamata, S. Maier and D.H. Brooks. Automatic Characterizagion of Spinal Cord Histology Slices for Comparison to MR diffusion tensor measurements. IEEE Int. Conf. Eng. Med. Bio San Francisco, Sept. 2004.
    12. W.P. Giziewicz, R. Gagnon, S. Prasad, D.H. Brooks. C.G. Fonstad, Jr., "Initial Development of an Integraged Opto-electronic Probe for Biomedical Imaging", IEEE Int. Conf. on Eng. in Med. and Biol, San Francisico, Sept. 2004.
    13. Y. Zhang, A. Ghodrati, and D.H. Brooks. A Unified Look at Some Solutions for Linear Time-Varying Ill-Posed Imaging Problems, SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2004.
    14. H. Virani, F.-N. Golabchi, W.S. Hoge, H. Mamata, S.E. Maier, D.H. Brooks, Automatic Characterization of Axion Orientation in Spinal Cord Histology Slices. SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2004.
    15. W.S. Hoge, B. Madore W. Kyriakos, and D.H. Brooks. A Regularization Framework for Parallel-Coil MRI Reconstruction Algorithms. SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2004.
    16. Alireza Ghodrati DH. Brooks, and Rob MacLeod. On Selecting and Using Reduced Sets of Leads For Electrocardiographic Imaging Using Reconstruction-Quality Criteria, SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2004.
    17. W.S. Hoge, D.H. Brooks, B. Madore, and W. Kyriakos. On the Regularization of SENSE and Space-RIP in Parallel MR Imaging. Int. Symp. On Biomed Imag., Arlington VA April 2004.
    18. D.H. Brooks, Y. Zhang, M.A. Franceschini, D. Boas. Reduction of Physiological Interference in Optical Functional Neuroimaging Using Eigenvector-Based Spatial Filtering, Int. Symp. On Biomed Imag., Arlington VA April 2004.
    19. Y. Zhang, A. Ghodrati, and D.H. Brooks. Analysis of Spatial-temporal Regularization Methods for Linear Inverse Problems from a Common Statistical Framework. Int. Symp. On Biomed Imag., Arlington VA April 2004.
    20. R.S. MacLeod, D.M. Weinstein, J. D. de St. Germain, D.H. Brooks, C.R. Johnson, and S.G. Parker. SCIRun/BioPSE: Integrated Problem Solving Environment for Bioelectric Field Problems and Visualization. Int. Symp. On Biomed Imag., Arlington VA April 2004.
    21. Y. Zhang, D.H. Brooks, M. Franceschini, D. Boas. Improved Localization of Evoked , Hemodynamic Response in Diffuse Optical Functional Imaging Using a Spatial Subspace Approach. Optical Society of America conference, Miami FL, April 2004.
    22. Wang Chen, Panos Kosmas, M. Leeser, and Carey Rappaport , “An FPGA Implementation of the Two-Dimensional Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Algorithm.” Twelfth {ACM} International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA2004). pp. 213-222. February 2004.
    23. M. Leeser, Shawn Miller and Haiqian Yu, “Smart Camera Based on Reconfigurable Hardware Enables Diverse Real-time Applications.” IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM2004). pp. 147-155. April 2004.
    24. L. A. Smith King, M. Leeser, Heather Quinn, “Dynamo, a Run-Time Partitioning System.” Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA2004). pp. 145—151. June 2004.
    25. M. Leeser, and Wang, X., “Variable Precision Floating Point Division and Square Root,” Eighth Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2004), September 2004, pp. 47—48.
    26. Quinn, H., M. Leeser, and Smith King, L.A., “Dynamo: A Runtime Codesign Environment,” Eighth Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2004), September 2004, pp. 65-66.
    27. H. Lev-Ari, and Stankovic, A.M., "Hilbert Space Techniques for Reactive Power Compensation with Limited Current Bandwidth,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. V, pp. 904-907, Vancouver, Canada, May 2004.
    28. H. Lev-Ari, Stankovic, A.M. Xu K. and Perisic, M.M., "Hilbert Space Techniques for Evaluating Trade-offs in Reactive Power Compensation,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. V, pp. 976-979, Vancouver, Canada, Apr. 2004.
    29. H. Lev-Ari, and Stankovic, A.M., "Hilbert Space Techniques for Reactive Power Compensation in Polyphase Systems with Unequal Line Resistances,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power, Lake Placid, NY, Sept. 2004.
    30. Wang Chen, Panos Kosmas, M. Leeser and Carey Rappaport , “An FPGA Implementation of the Two-Dimensional Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Algorithm.” Twelfth {ACM} International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA2004). pp. 213-222. February 2004.
    31. E.S. Manolakos, Galatopoullos, D.G., Funk, A.P., “Distributed Matlab-based Signal and Image Processing Using JavaPorts,” Acoustics Speech and Image Processing , Proceedings of the 2004 EEE International Conference (ICASSP-04), volume 5, 2004, pp. 217-220.
    32. E.S. Manolakos, Galatopoullos, D.G., Funk, A.P., “Integrating Java and Matlab Components into the Same Parallel and Distributed Application Using JavaPorts,“ Parallel and Distributed Processing, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium (IPDPS-04), 2004, paper no. 14b, pp. 14b.1-14b.10.
    33. E.A. Marengo, Fred K. Gruber and A.J. Devaney, "Generalized Time-reversal Imaging Considering Multiple Scattering Effects", International URSI/IEEE Antennas and Propagation Annual Symposium, Monterey, California, June 20-25, 2004, Volume 2, pp. 2087 – 2090.
    34. E.A. Marengo, A.J. Devaney and Fred K. Gruber, "Lagrangian Rormulation for Inverse Source Problems: Minimum Energy and Reactive Power Constraints", International URSI/IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Annual Symposium, Monterey, California, June 20-25, 2004, Volume 2, pp. 2051 – 2054.
    35. M. Aydinlik and M. Salehi, “Unequal Error Protecting Turbo-Coded Modulation with Nonuniformly Spaced Mapping", Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, Princeton University, March 2004, pp. 63-68.
    36. M. Aydinlik and M. Salehi, " Information Theoretical Approach to Unequal Error Protecting Turbo Coded Modulation", Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, Princeton University, March 2004, pp. 1437-1442.
    37. Oloomi, H., Saif, M. and B. Shafai, “On the Well Posedness and Robustness of Singularly Perturbed Fault Detection Filters,” Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC), Boston, MA, pp. 5676-5677, 2004.
    38. Chen, W., Saif, M., and B. Shafai, “Fault Diagnosis in a Class of Differential-Algebraic Systems,” Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC), Boston, MA, pp. 4398-4402, 2004.
    39. Bayat, O., B. Shafai, and Ucan, O., “An Efficient Channel Equalization on the Transmission of Turbo Coded Signals” Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on Communications in Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 73-78, 2004.
    40. Satar-Boroujeni, H. and B. Shafai. "Detection of Peaks in Spectral Representation of Music Signals," Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on Communications in Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 154-159, 2004.
    41. Bayat, O., B. Shafai, and Ucan, O., “Estimation of Helicopter Parameters” Proceedings of HITEK Conference, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.
    42. M. Pastoor, R. King, B. R. Noack & G. Tadmor, Low Dimensional Galerkin and Vortex Models for Model-based Control of Shear Flows (abstract) 38th Control Techniques Meeting, 25-27 February 2004, Bopard, Germany.
    43. B. R. Noack, G. Tadmor and M. Morzynski, Actuation Models and Dissipative Control in Empirical Galerkin Models of Fluid Flows, 2004 American Control Conference, pp. 5722-5727.
    44. G. Tadmor and B. R. Noack, Dynamic Estimation for Reduced Galerkin Models of Turbulent Fluid Flow, 2004 American Control Conference, pp. 746-751.
    45. L. Mirkin and G. Tadmor, Fixed-Lag Smoothing as a Constrained Version of the Fixed-Interval Case, 2004 American Control Conference, pp. 4165-4170.
    46. B. R. Noack, G. Tadmor and M. Morzynski, Low-Dimensional Models For Feedback Flow Control. Part I: Empirical Galerkin models, Invited talk at the 2nd Flow Control Conference, June 28--July 1, 2004, Portland, OR, U.S.A (Invited), paper 2004-2408.
    47. G. Tadmor, B. R. Noack M. Morzynski and S. Siegel: Low-Dimensional Models For Feedback Flow Control. Part II: Observer and Controller Designs, Invited talk at the 2nd Flow Control Conference, June 28--July 1, 2004, Portland, OR, U.S.A (Invited) , paper 2004-2409.
    48. M. Pastoor, R. King, B. R. Noack, G. Tadmor and M. Morzynski, Model Based Control of Shear Flows Using Low Order Galerkin and Vortex Models, extended abstract, 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), Warsaw, 15-21 August 2004.
    49. B. R. Noack, P. Papas, P. A. Monkewitz, M. Morzynski and G. Tadmor, Empirical Galerkin Models for Incompressible Flow: Pressure-term and ‘Subgrid’ Turbulence Representations, Extended abstract, 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), Warsaw, 15-21 August 2004.
    50. A. Dillmann, B.R. Noack, I. Pelivan, P. Comte, C. Brun, B. Kamga & G. Tadmor “Low-dimensional Modeling of Turbulent Jet Noise”, Meeting of the French-German research group on ‘Noise generation in turbulent flows‘, Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 5. & 6. April 2004.
    51. Ghodrati, F. Calderero, D. H. Brooks, G. Tadmor, R. MacLeod, A Level Set Algorithm for the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography, Paper #1576, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 7-10, 2004.
    52. D. Brooks, A. Ghodrati, Y. Zhang, G. Tadmor and R. MacLeod, “Inverse Electrocardiography in the Framework of Dynamic Imaging Problems”, 26th Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sept. 1-5, S-F, CA.
    53. I. Pelivan, B.R. Noack, A. Dillmann, P. Comte, L. Cordier and G. Tadmor, Low-dimensional Modelling of Free Turbulent Shear Flow Targeting Model-based Control, European Forum on Flow Control, LEA-CEAT, Univ. Poitiers, France, 11.--14. October 2004
    54. I. Pelivan, B.R. Noack, P. Comte, A. Dillmann & G. Tadmor, “Low-dimensional Modelling of Shear Layers, SFB-Kolloquium 2004 des SFB 401 (RWTH Achen), des SFB 557 (TU Berlin) und des SFB 609 (TU Dresden). Veranstalter: SFB 609 der Technischen Universitat Dresden, 13.-15. September 2004.

IV. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

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

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

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

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Member IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology

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

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

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Senior Member of IEEE

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

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari Fellow of 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. Gilead Tadmor Senior Member IEEE

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Member SIAM

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Member AIAA

Conference Organizations

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

Prof. Elias Manolakos
Technical Program Committee Member of the 2004 Conferences

Prof. Elias Manolakos - IEEE Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation (SiPS-04)

Prof. Elias Manolakos- IEEE Application Specific Architectures and Processors (ASAP-04)

Prof. Elias Manolakos- IEEE Int'l. Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-04)

Prof. Elias Manolakos- IEEE Int'l. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS-04)

Prof. Elias Manolakos- IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP-04)

Prof. Elias Manolakos- Eighth High Performance Embedded Systems Workshop (HPEC-04)

Prof. Bahram Shafa- Member of International Program Committee of IASTED, International Conference on Modeling, Identification, and Control, Insburk, Austria 2005

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 Organizing Committee, International Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Control

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Session Co-chair Reduced order modelling, American Control Conf, 2004.

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Session chair Time-delay systems II, American Control Conf, 2004.

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Session chair Control of fluid and acoustic systems, American Control Conf, 2004.

Editorial Work

Prof. Dana Brooks Reviewer: IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering and Journal of Biomedical Optics

Prof. Dana Brooks Reviewer: Proposals for the Swedish Research Council

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 Computers

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

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

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: Design and Test, Europe

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: European Signal Processing Conference

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Prof. Elias Manolakos Associate Editor: IEEE Signal Processing Signal

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 Systems

Prof. Elias Manolakos Reviewer: IEEE Transactions

Prof. Elias Manolakos Reviewer: Refereed IEEE Conferences

Prof. Edwin Marengo Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (IEEE-based journal)

Prof. Edwin Marengo Reviewer: IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (IEEE-based journal)

Prof. Edwin Marengo Reviewer: Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society-based journal)

Prof. Edwin Marengo Reviewer: Physical Review E (American Physical Society-based journal)

Prof. Edwin Marengo Reviewer: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Acoustical Society of America-based journal)

Prof. Edwin Marengo Reviewer: Journal of the Optical Society of America (Optical Society of America-based journal)

Prof. Edwin Marengo Reviewer: Radio Science (American Geophysical Union-based journal)

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. Bahram Shafai Associate Editor: IEEE (CEB), ACC and CDC 2004

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for International Journal of Control

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for International Journal of Systems Science

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for ASME Journal of Control

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for IFAC Journal of Automatica

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for Computer and Electrical Engineering

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

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for NSF

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Associate Editor IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Associate Editor Program Committee, Joint 2005 IEEE CDC / European Control Conf.

Patents/Awards

Blackmon, F., Hagh Mohanadreza M, Proakis, J., and Salehi, M., Iterative decision feedback adaptive equalizer, US patent No. 6,819,630 of Nov. 14, 2004.