Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP)

Center for Research and Graduate Studies

Activities Report

January 1 - December 31, 2005

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

I. GRANTS AWARDED IN 2005

Combined Active Commitments of Research Support for CDSP Members
Industrial Support Government Agencies
$412,814 $4,026,501
Total Support: $4,439,315

II. AWARDED THESIS DEGREES

PhD Thesis

  1. Michael Tarnowski, "Instability in 3-D Structures Subjected to Earthquakes
    (Advisor: D. Bernal)
  2. Alireza Ghodrati, "Lead selection and wavefront-based models for the inverse problem of electrocardiography"
    (Co Advisors D. Brooks and G. Tadmor)
  3. Yiheng Zhang, " Spatio-Temporal Preprocessing and Regularization for Dynamic Linear Inverse Problems with Application to Diffuse Optical Imaging and Tomography"
    (Advisor D. Brooks)
  4. Saeed Babaeizadeh, " 3-D Electrical Impedance Tomography for Domains with Piecewise Constant Conductivity"
    (Advisor D. Brooks)

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. Hongyan Liu, "A Comparative Study of Feature Subspace Selection Algorithms for Unsupervised Learning" (Advisor J. Dy)
  6. Chien-Chang Lee –“Multigrid Searching Procedure for Target Location Estimation in Multi-Static Array Processing,'' M.S. Project (Advisor: H. Lev-Ari)
  7. Joshua Noseworthy, "Enabling Communications Between an FPGA's Embedded Processor and its Reconfigurable Resoruces" (Advisor: M. Leeser)
  8. Hardik Virani “Self-Organizing Feature Maps combined with Ecological Ordination techniques for Effective Watershed Management” (Advisor: E. Manolakos)
  9. Jim Perkinson, "TA M.S. A Decentralized Searching Control Algorithm for a scalable Robotic Swarm based on Mesh-free Particle Hydrodynamics" (Advisor: B. Shafai)

    III. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Books and Book Chapters

  1. Ephraim, Y., H. Lev-Ari, and Roberts, W.J.J., “A Brief Survey of Speech Enhancement,” in The Electronic Handbook, Second edition, CRC Press, pp.2088-2097, Apr. 2005 (invited contribution, 10 pages).
  2. E. Manolakos, “Parallel Algorithms and Architectures for Higher Order Statistics” in Handbook of Parallel Computing and Statistics, ed. by E. Kontoghiorghes, Taylor Francis Publ., 2005, pp. 375-398.
  3. J. G. Proakis, M. Salehi, "Fundamentals of Communication Systems", Prentice-Hall, 2005.
  4. R. King, M. Seibold, O. Lehmann, B. R . Noack and G. Tadmor, Non linear flow control based on a low dimensional model of fluid flow, in “Control and Observer Design for Nonlinear Finite and Infinite Dimensional Systems”, T. Meurer, K. Graichen and E.D. Gilles, Editors, Lecture notes in Control & Information Science Volume 322, pp. 369-386, Springer, 2005
  5. 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, Paper FM241-11454, Proc. 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2005

Journal Publications

    1. S. Basagni, M. Mastrogiovanni, A. Panconesi, and C. Petrioli. “Localized Protocols for Ad Hoc Clustering and Backbone Formation: A Performance Comparison,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Special Issue on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks (S. Olariu, D. Simplot-Ryl, and I. Stojmenovic, editors), to appear. (Accepted.)
    2. S. Basagni, A. Carosi, E. Melachrinoudis, C. Petrioli and Z. M. Wang. “Protocols and Models for Sink Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks,” ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, MC2R, to appear. (Accepted.)
    3. D. Bernal "Closely spaced roots and defectiveness in second order systems”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.131, No.3, pp.276-281.
    4. W.S. Hoge, D.H. Brooks, B. Madore, and W.E. Kyriakos, A Tour of Accelerated Parallel MR Imaging from a Linear Systems Perspective. Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A, 1:27A, pp. 17-37, Sept. 2005
    5. Y. Zhang, D.H Brooks, D.A. Boas. A hemodynamic response function model in spatio-temporal diffuse optical tomography, Phys Med Bio, 50, 2005, pp. 4625-4644, Oct. 2005
    6. G. Boverman, E.L. Miller, A. Li, Q. Zhang, T. Chaves, D.H. Brooks, and D.A. Boas. Quantitative spectroscopic diffuse optical tomography of the breast guided by imperfect a priori structural information, Phys. Med. Bio, 50, pp. 3941-3956, Sept, 2005
    7. Y. Serinagaoglu, D.H. Brooks, and R.S. MacLeod, Bayesian Solutions and Performance Analysis in Bioelectric Inverse Problems, IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 52:6, pp. 1009-1020, June 2005.
    8. A. Li, G. Boverman, Y. Zhang, D.H. Brooks, E.L. Miller, M. E. Kilmer, Q. Zhang, E. M.C. Hillman, and D.A. Boas. An optimal linear inverse solution given multiple priors in diffuse optical tomography. Applied Optics, 44:10, pp. 1948-1956, April 2005
    9. Y. Zhang, A. Ghodrati, and D.H. Brooks. An analytical comparison of three spatio-temporal regularization methods for dynamic linear inverse problems in a common statistical framework. Inverse Problems 21, pp. 357-382, Jan 2005
    10. T.N. Fitzgerald,, D.H. Brooks, and J.K. Triedman, Identification of Cardiac Rhythm Features By Mathematical Analysis of Vector Fields, IEEE Trans. On Biomed Eng, 52:1, Jan. 2005, pp. 19-29
    11. Y. Zhang, D.H. Brooks, M.A. Franceschini, and D.A. Boas. Eigenvector-based spatial filtering for reduction of physiological interference in diffuse optical imaging. J. Biomed. Optics, Jan/Feb 2005
    12. B. Yilmaz, R.S. MacLeod, B.B. Punske,B. Taccardi,and D.H. Brooks. Venous catheter based mapping of ectopic epicardial activation: training data set selection for statistical estimation. IEEE Trans.on Biomed Eng., 52:11, Nov. 2005, pp.1823-183
    13. S. Babaeizadeh, D.H. Brooks, D. Isaacson, and J.C. Newell. Experimental Validation of Forward and Inverse Solutions for Electrical Impedance Tomography Using the Boundary Element Method. Int. J. Bioelectromagnetism. 7:1, 2005, pp. 348-351
    14. A. Ghodrati, D,H. Brooks, G. Tadmor, B. Punske, and R. MacLeod. Wavefront-based inverse electrocardiography using an evolving curve state vector and phenomenological propagation and potential models. Int. J. Bioelectromagnetism. 7:2, pp. 210-213
    15. A.J. Devaney, “Time reversal imaging of obscured targets from multi-static data,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 53, No. 5, May 2005, pp. 1600-1610.
    16. A.J. Devaney, E. Marengo, and F. Gruber, “Time reversal based imaging and inverse scattering of multiply scattering point targets,” J. Acoustical Soc. Amer., Vol. 118, No. 5, Nov. 2005, pp. 3129-3138.
    17. A.J. Devaney and Pengyi Guo, “Super-resolution imaging from limited aperture optical diffracted field data,” Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol.22, Issue 6, June 2005, pp. 1086-1092.
    18. Pengyi Guo and A.J. Devaney, “Comparison of reconstruction algorithms for optical diffraction tomography,” Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 22, Issue 11, November 2005, pp. 2338-2347.
    19. Yongjun Fei and A.J. Devaney, “Inverse scattering for real valued scattering potentials,” Inverse Problems, Vol. 21, 2005, pp. L7-L12.
    20. J. Dy, “Feature Selection for Unlabeled Data,” Evolving Feature Selection, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Trends & Controversies, Vol. 20, No. 6, November/December, 2005, pp. 66-68.
    21. M. Leeser, Coric, S., Miller, E., Yu, H., and Trepanier, M., “Parallel-Beam Backprojection: An FPGA Implementation Optimized for Medical Imaging,” Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, Vol. 39 No. 3, 2005, pp. 295-311.
    22. H. Lev-Ari, “Efficient Solution of Linear Matrix Equations with Application to Multistatic Antenna Array Processing,” Communications in Information and Systems, Special issue dedicated to T. Kailath's 70th birthday, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 123-130, 2005 (8 pages).
    23. A.J. Devaney, E.A. Marengo, and F.K. Gruber, "Time-reversal-based imaging and inverse scattering of multiply scattering point targets," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 118, p. 3129-3138, 2005.
    24. G. Tadmor, Dissipative Systems Analysis and Control, Theory and Applications, Book Review, Automatica 41 (2005), 177 – 179
    25. G. Tadmor and L. Mirkin, H-infinity Control and Estimation with Preview - Part I: Matrix ARE Solutions in Continuous Time, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control 50 (2005), 19 – 28.
    26. G. Tadmor and L. Mirkin, H-infinity Control and Estimation with Preview - Part II: Fixed-Size ARE Solutions in Discrete Time, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control 50 (2005), 29 - 40.
    27. A. Ghodrati, D.H. Brooks, G. Tadmor, B. Punske and R. MacLeod, Wavefront-based Inverse Electrocardiography using an Evolving Curve State Vector and Phenomenological Propagation and Potential Models, Int. J. of Bioelectromagnetism 7 (2005), 210 – 213.

Conference Publications

    1. R. Ghosh and S. Basagni. “Limiting the Impact of Mobility on Ad Hoc Clustering,” Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks, PE-WASUN 2005, Montreal, Qc., Canada, October 13 2005, pp. 197-204.
    2. S. Basagni, A. Carosi, E. Melachrinoudis, C. Petrioli and Z. M. Wang. “Controlling Sink Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks: A New Model and Protocols,” Poster at ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiCom 2005, Cologne, Germany, August 28-September 2 2005.
    3. Z. M. Wang, E. Melachrinoudis and S. Basagni. “Voronoi Diagram-Based Linear Programming Modeling of Wireless Sensor Networks with a Mobile Sink,” Proceedings of the IIE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, May 14-18 2005.
    4. Z. M. Wang, S. Basagni, E. Melachrinoudis and C. Petrioli. “Exploiting Sink Mobility for Maximizing Sensor Networks Lifetime, Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawaii, January 3-6 2005.
    5. D. Bernal “A Null Space Approach for Damage Localization in Systems Identified from Operational or Ambient Vibration Data”, Proc., 5th International Workshop in Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford CRC press. pp.133-141.
    6. D. Bernal and Hernandez E. “A Residual Approach for Identifying Damage Induced by Earthquakes”, Proc., 5th International Workshop in Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford CRC press. pp.200-206.
    7. D. Bernal and Hernandez E. “Identification of Damage Induced by Earthquakes”, Proc. XXIII International Modal Analysis Conference, Orlando, FL, on CD.
    8. D. Bernal “A Data Driven Methodology for Earthquake Damage Assessment”, Proc., SMIP05, Los Angeles pp.20-30.
    9. W.S. Hoge, L. Zhao, D.H. Brooks, and W.E. Kyriakos. Sampling Strategies to Enable Computationally Efficient SPACE-RIP for 3D Parallel MR Imaging, Proc. ICASSP’05, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005, acceptance rate about 50%
    10. S. Babaeizadeh, D.H. Brooks, and D. Isaacson. A deformable-radius B-Spline method for shape-based inverse problems, as applied to Electrical Impedance Tomography, Proc. ICASSP’05, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005,, acceptance rate about 50%
    11. S. Babaeizadeh, D.H. Brooks, D. Isaacson, and J.C. Newell. Experimental Validation of Forward and Inverse Solutions for Electrical Impedance Tomography Using the Boundary Element Method. NFSI/BEM, Minneapolis, MN, May 2005, acceptance rate unknown
    12. A. Ghodrati, D.H. Brooks, G. Tadmor, B. Punske, and R. MacLeod. Wavefront-based inverse electrocardiography using an evolving curve state vector and phenomenological propagation and potential models. NFSI/BEM, Minneapolis, MN, May 2005, acceptance rate unknown
    13. F. Calderero, A. Ghodrati, D.H. Brooks, G. Tadmor R. MacLeod. A Method to Reconstruct Activation Wavefronts Without Isotropy Assumptions Using a Level Sets Approach. FIMH05, Barcelona, Spain, June 2005, acceptance rate unknown.
    14. K. Sanghai, T. Su, J. Dy, and D. Kaeli, “A Multinomial Clustering Model for Fast Simulation of Computer Architecture Designs,” Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 21-24, Chicago, IL, 2005, pp. 808-813 (34% Acceptance Rate).
    15. B. Cordes, J. Dy, M. Leeser, and J. Goebel, “Enabling a Real-Time Solution for Neuron Detection with Reconfigurable Hardware,” IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping, 2005, pp. 128-134.
    16. Yu, H. and M. Leeser “Optimizing Data Intensive Window-Based Image Processing on Reconfigurable Hardware Boards,” IEEE 2005 Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SIPS'05), November 2005. 16 % acceptance rate.
    17. Cordes, B., M. Leeser , and Tarkoff, J., “An FPGA API for VSIPL++,” Ninth Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2005), September 2005.
    18. Conti, A., Corces, B., M. Leeser , Miller, E., and Linderman, R., “Adapting Parallel Backprojection to an FPGA Enhanced Distributed Computing Environment,” Ninth Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2005), September 2005.
    19. Noseworthy, J., and M. Leeser , “Interface Techniques for Microprocessors Embedded Within FPGAs,” Ninth Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2005), September 2005.
    20. Cordes, B., Dy, J., M. Leeser and Goebel, J., “Enabling a Real-Time Solution for Neuron Detection with Reconfigurable Hardware,” 16th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping, June 2005.
    21. Yu, H., M. Leeser , Tadmor, G., and Siegel, S., “Real-Time Particle Image Velocimetry for Feedback Loops Using FPGA
      Implementation,” 43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 2005.
    22. H. Lev-Ari, Stankovic, A.M. and Ceballos, S.J., “An Orthogonal Decomposition of Apparent Power with Application to an Industrial Load,” Proceedings of the Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Liege, Belgium, Aug. 2005 (7 pages).
    23. H. Lev-Ari and Stankovic, A.M., “Optimization of Power Flows in Polyphase Systems with Significant Source Impedance,” 37-th North American Power Symposium, Ames, IA, Oct. 2005 (6 pages).
    24. 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.
    25. Andrade-Cetto, L.; Manolakos, E.S., “A Graphical Model Formulation of the DNA Base-Calling Problem”, Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Workshop (MLSP-05), pp. 369 – 374
    26. L. Andrade-Cetto L., Manolakos, E.S., "Feature extraction for DNA base-calling using NNLS", Statistical Signal Processing, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop, (special session on Bioinformatics)
    27. E.A. Marengo, "Single-snapshot signal subspace methods for active target location: Part I: Multiple scattering case", Proceedings of the Second IASTED International Conference on Antennas, Radar and Wave Propagation, pp. 161-166, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 19-21, 2005.
    28. E.A. Marengo and F.K. Gruber, "Single-snapshot signal subspace methods for active target location: Part II: Born-approximable case", Proceedings of the Second IASTED International Conference on Antennas, Radar and Wave Propagation, pp. 173-179, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 19-21, 2005.
    29. E.A. Marengo, "Time-reversal imaging of extended targets using ultrawideband electromagnetic fields", International URSI/IEEE APS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., July 2005.
    30. E.A. Marengo and F.K. Gruber, "Single snapshot signal subspace method for target location ", International URSI/IEEE APS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Vol. 2A, pp. 660-663, 3-8 July 2005.
    31. E.A. Marengo, "Coherent multiple signal classification for target location using antenna arrays", National Radio Science Meeting Digest, Boulder, Colorado, p. 169, 5-8 January, 2005.
    32. A. Y. Xiang and M. Salehi, “A Study of the Contribution of Major Components in Digital Watermarking,” Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, March 2005, pp.
    33. B. M. Aydinlik and M. Salehi, “Performance Bounds for Unequal Error Protecting Turbo Code,” Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, March 2005, pp.
    34. Satar-Boroujeni, H. and B. Shafai, "State-Space Modeling and Analysis for Partial Tracking of Music Signals," Proceedings of the 24th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control, Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 513- 518, 2005.
    35. Satar-Boroujeni H. and B. Shafai, "Evolution Models and Partial Tracking of Music Signals," Proceedings of the 16th IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Cancun, Mexico, pp. 352-357, 2005.
    36. Satar-Boroujeni H. and .B. Shafai, "Peak Tracking and Partial Formation of Music Signals," Proceedings of the 13th European Signal Processing Conference, Antalya, Turkey, CD ROM, 2005.
    37. Satar-Boroujeni H. and B. Shafai, "Partial Tracking Strategies for Music Signals," Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Communications in Computing, Las Vegas, pp. 160-166, 2005.
    38. Satar-Boroujeni H. and B. Shafai, "Kalman Filtering Application in Automatic Music Transcription," Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Toronto, Canada, pp. 1612-1617, 2005.
    39. Satar-Boroujeni H. and B. Shafai, "Peak Extraction and Partial Tracking of Music Signals using Kalman Filtering," Proceedings of the 2005 International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.
    40. Satar-Boroujeni H. and B. Shafai, "A Robust Partial Tracker for Analysis of Music Signals," Proceedings of the AES119, 119th Audio Engineering Society Convention, New York, NY, 2005.
    41. Satar-Boroujeni H. and B. Shafai, "Tracking of Partials in Music Signals using Kalman Filtering: Modeling and Analysis," Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, The Big Island, Hawaii, pp. 3552-3557, 2005.
    42. Satar-Boroujeni H. and B. Shafai, "A Robust Algorithm for Partial Tracking of Music Signals," Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-05), Madrid, Spain, pp. 202-207, 2005.
    43. Satar-Boroujeni, H. and B. Shafai, "Robust Kalman Filtering with Application to Tracking of Partials in Music Signals," Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Seville, Spain, pp. 7954-7959, 2005.
    44. Bayat, O., B. Shafai, and Ucan, O., “Reduced State Equalization of multilevel turbo coded
      signals MLTC”, Proceedings of IEEE-ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 705-708, 2005.
    45. Tek M. N. and B. Shafai, “Enhancing the Depth Resolution of Contactless Electrical
      Conductivity Imaging”, Proceedings of IEEE-ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 457-460, 2005.
    46. Bayat, O., B. Shafai, Odabasioglu N., and Ucan O., “Equalization of Multilevel turbo
      coded signals”, Proceeding of CISS Conf., John Hopkins Univ., Maryland, USA, March 2005.
    47. Bayat O., Ucan O., and B. Shafai, “Equalization of Frequency Selective and Delay Spread
      Channels”, Proc. IEEE conf. on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST), Istanbul,
      Turkey, June 2005.
    48. Bayat O., Ucan O., and B. Shafai, “Equalization of Space Channels with Multilevel Turbo Coded Signals”, Proc. IEEE conf. on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2005.
    49. Bayat O., Shafai B., and Ucan O., “Iterative Equalization of Frequency Selective Channels”,
      Proceeding of IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, USA, April 2005.
    50. Chen, W., Saif, M, and B. Shafai, “Observer Design for a Class of Differential-Algebraic
      Systems,” Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and
      Cybernetics, The Big Island, Hawaii, pp. 3252-3257, 2005.
    51. Yue, J. and B. Shafai, “Model Reduction of Interval Metzlerian Systems”, Proceedings of the 24th IASTED International Conference on Modeling, Identification, and Control,
      Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 440-444, 2005.
    52. Bayat O., B. Shafai, Montlouis, W., and Ucan O., “Channel Estimation and Tracking
      of Wireless Communication Channels”, Proc. IEEE Military Communication Conf., 2005.
    53. Montlouis W., B. Shafai, and Bayat O., “DOA and Angular Velocity Estimation using Planar Array with Subspace Based Initialization”, Proc. IEEE Military Communication Conf., 2005.
    54. 1. H. Yu, M. Leeser, G. Tadmor and S. Siegel, Real-time Particle Image Velocimetry for Feedback Loops Using FPGA Implementation, 43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, 10 - 13 Jan 2005, paper AIAA 2005-0445
    55. G. Tadmor and B. R. Noack, Control Oriented Empirical Galerkin Models and Model Based Design for the Cylinder Wake (Invited, abstract), Minisymposium: Dynamics and Control of Fluid Flows, SIAM Conf. On Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah, May 2005 (abstract)
    56. A. Ghodrati, D. H. Brooks, G. Tadmor, B. Punske, R. MacLeod, Wavefront-based inverse electrocardiography using an evolving curve state vector and prior phenomenological propagation and potential models, 5th Int. BEM-NFSI Conf., Minnesota, May 2005.
    57. G. Tadmor and B.R. Noack, Design-accessible Galerkin modeling tools for feedback flow control. (Invited, abstract), 1st International Workshop on Closed-Loop Flow Control, AIAA Working Group on Architectures and Algorithms in Flow Control / AFOSR, Jackson Hole Wyoming. July 18-19, 2005
    58. F. Calderero, A. Ghodrati, D. H. Brooks, G. Tadmor, and R. MacLeod, A Method to Reconstruct Activation Wavefronts Without Isotropy Assumptions Using a Level Sets Approach, 3rd International Conference On Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH), Barcelona 2005,
    59. O. Lehmann, M. Luchtenburg, B.R. Noack, R. King, M. Morzynski & G. Tadmor, Wake stabilization using POD Galerkin models with interpolated modes, 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference ECC 2005`, Seville, Spain, 12.-15. December 2005, pp. 500-505.
    60. M. Pastoor, R. King, B.R. Noack & G. Tadmor, Observers & feedback control for shear layer vortices, 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference ECC 2005`, Seville, Spain, 12.-15. December 2005, pp. 506 – 511.
      8. B.R. Noack, P. Comte, M. Morzynski & G. Tadmor, Control-oriented POD Galerkin models of incompressible shear flows, 76 Annual meeting of the Soc. Appl. Math & Mech. (GAMM) E.V., Luxemburg, March 28 – April 1, 2005
    61. B. R. Noack, P. Comte, L. Cordier and G. Tadmor, POD Galerkin models of turbulent shear flows (Abstract KT.00003), 58th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, November 20-22, 2005, Chicago, IL
    62. G. Tadmor and B. R. Noack, Low Order Empirical Galerkin Models for Feedback Flow Control (Abstract EJ.00006), 58th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, November 20-22, 2005, Chicago, IL (Invited)
    63. R. King, B. R. Noack, O. Lehmann and M. Morzynski,Nonlinear flow control based on a low dimensional approximation of the Navier-Stokes equation (Abstract EJ.00003), 58th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, November 20-22, 2005, Chicago, IL (Invited)
    64. R. King, M. Seibold, L. Henning, O. Lehmann, B. R. Noack, M.k Morzynski, and G.Tadmor, Nonlinear and adaptive control of bluff body Flows, 3rd Symposium on Global Flow Instability and Control, Crete, September 27-30, Crete (AFOSR sponsored)
    65. M. Morzynski, W. Stankiewicz, B.R. Noack, O. Lehmann, R. King, F. Thiele & G. Tadmor, Flow control design using global stability analysis and reduced order modeling, 3rd Symposium on Global Flow Instability and Control, Crete, September 27-30, Crete (AFOSR sponsored)

IV. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Prof. Stefano Basagni:
Member of the IEEE and of its Computer and Communications societies
Member of the ACM and of its Special Interest Group ACM SIGMOBILE
Member of the ASEE
Listed in the Academic Keys Who’s Who in Engineering Education (WWEE)

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

Prof. Jennifer Dy:
Program Committee Member:
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2005)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005)
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005)
SIAM Data Mining (SDM) Workshop on Feature Selection (2005)
SIAM Data Mining (SDM) Workshop on Clustering High-Dimensional Data (2005)
Session Chair for ACM SIGKDD Int’l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2005)

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser:
Associate Editor European Signal and Image Processing Society (EURASIP) Journal of Embedded Systems.
Editor, Special Issue on FPGAs, for EURASIP Journal of Embedded Systems.
Member, Program Committee, ERSA, High Performance Embedded Computing
External Assessor, Olin College Expo, May 2005.
Panelist, National Science Foundation CISE/CNS Embedded and Hybrid Systems Program. Sept, 2005.

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari:
Fellow of IEEE
Member of SIAM
Senior Member of IEEE

Prof. Elias Manolakos:
Elected Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society's International Committee on DISPS
Member of the Advisory Board, IEEE Signal Processing Society's Int'l. Committee NNSP•
Senior Member of IEEE (1996-)
Member of IEEE Societies on Computer, Signal Processing,
Circuits & Systems, Communications

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

Prof. Bahram Shafai:
Active Senior Member of Control System and Signal Processing Societies
Associate Editor IEEE (CEB), ACC and CDC 2005.

Prof. Gilead Tadmor:
Member SIAM, AIAA, APS; Senior Member IEEE

Conference Organizations

Prof Stefano Basagni:
Member of the Organizing Committee of international conferences, which include MobiQuitous 2005, IEEE SECON 2005, ACM SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2006, IEEE SECON 2006.
Member of the Technical Program Committee Of international conferences which include IEEE Infocom 2005, ACM SIGCOMM ASIA 2005, WWAN 2005, SAPIR 2005, ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiCom 2005, IEEE SECON 2005, IEEE MASS 2005, IEEE MobiWac 2005, ACM/SIGMOBILE Dial M-POMC 2005, FAWN 2006, IEEE Infocom 2006, WICON 2006, IEEE Globecom 2006, IEEE WoWMoM 2006, WWASN 2006, IEEE PerCom 2006 "Work in Progress," ACM SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2006, ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiCom 2006.

Prof. Dana Brooks:
Special Session Chair and member of Organizing Committee, IEEE Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), to be held in Wash. DC area in April 2006
Elected as an inaugural member of Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

Prof. Elias Manolakos:
• Elected Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee on:
-Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (DISPS)
Membership to this committee is by nomination and elections. If elected, one can serve for up to two consecutive 3-year terms.
Elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee on:
Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)
Membership to this committee is by nomination and elections. If elected, one can serve for up to two consecutive 3-year terms. I was re-elected in 2003 and will serve my second 3-year (1/1/2004-31/12/2007)
Technical Program Committee Member of the 2005 Conferences:
- IEEE Int'l. Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-05)
- IEEE Int'l. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS-05)
- IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP-05)
- Eighth High Performance Embedded Systems Workshop (HPEC-05)

Prof. Edwin Marengo:
CONFERENCE SESSION CHAIR:
Was session chair of the ``Radar II’’ session of the IASTED International Conference on Antennas, Radar and Wave Propagation, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 19-21, 2005.
Was session co-chair, along with Prof. Dan Stancil, of URSI special session on “Time-reversal”, IEEE Antennas and Propagation and URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Washington, D.C., July 3-8, 2005.
Was session co-chair, along with Prof. K. Sarabandi, of the session on ``Recent Advances in Propagation Channel Modeling’’ of the National Radio Science Meeting, Jan. 5-8, Boulder, Colorado.

Prof. Masoud Salehi:
Member of the International Program Committee, 4th IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet and Information Technology, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, Cambridge, MA.
Member of the TPC, Wireless Euro-Mediterranean International Conference to be held in 2006.
Reviewer for journal and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory.
Served as proposal evaluator in a number of proposals for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.

Prof. Bahram Shafai:
Member of International Program Committee of IASTED, International Conference on Modeling, Identification, and Control, Insburk, Austria 2005
Member of Program Committees & Chairman of Sessions in IEEE Organized Conferences

Prof. Gilead Tadmor:
Session Organizer ‘Design-oriented modeling and model-based control of fluids “,Joint IEEE Conf. Decision & Control and European Control Conf.
Program Committee, International Conf. on Active Flow control, Berlin, September 27-29, 2006.

Editorial Work

Prof. Stefano Basagni:
Member of the editorial board of the Wiley InterScience's Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.
Member of the editorial board of the Elsevier's journal Ad Hoc Networks.
Member of the editorial board of the OCP's Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks.
Guest editor of special issues of the following journals:
Special issue of Algorithmica (with Cynthia A. Phillips, ongoing)
Special Section of ACM/SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing & Communications Review (MC2R) from the extended abstracts of the ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiCom 2004 student posters session.
Reviewer for all the major IEEE Transactions and ACM journals ion the field of wireless and mobile networking

Prof. Dionisio Bernal:
Reviewed at least one paper for each of the following Journals:
Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE
Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE
International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
International Journal of Structural Engineering and Mechanics
Journal of Vibration and Control 6)
Journal of Mechanics, ASME, 7)
Earthquake Spectra
Journal of Sound and Vibration
AIAA Journal
Computer Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Prof. Dana Brooks:
Reviewed for IEEE Trans. on Biomed Eng. (3 papers), Annals of Biomed Eng., Inverse Problems, International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEÜ)

Prof. Anthony Devaney:
Revierwer for approximately 8 scientific journal
Review regularly for NSF and DOD grant proposals

Prof. Jennifer Dy:
Editorial Board Member, Machine Learning (2004-present)
Reviewer: Machine Learning, Journal of Machine Learning Research, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

NSF Reviewer for CISE, Intelligent Information Systems. I served two times this year

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser:
Associate Editor European Signal and Image Processing Society (EURASIP) Journal of Embedded Systems.
Editor, Special Issue on FPGAs, for EURASIP Journal of Embedded Systems.

Reviewer, Design Automation Conference
Reviewer, IEEE Trans on VLSI
Reviewer, IEEE Trans on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B
Reviewer, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Reviewer, Design And Test Europe
Reviewer, IEE Proc. Circuits, Devices & Systems
Reviewer, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing

Prof. Elias Manolakos
Associate Editor of several prestigious Journals:
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1996-99, 2004-07) handling papers in genomic signal processing, pattern recognition
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2000-2004)
IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering (1998-)
Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (1997-)
Regular Reviewer of papers submitted to IEEE Transactions on: Signal Processing, Neural Networks, Circuits and Systems, etc. Reviewed 5 papers in 2004.

Regular Reviewer of papers submitted to refereed IEEE Conferences:
(the number of papers reviewed in 2005 is provided in parenthesis)
IEEE Int'l. Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (12)
9th High Performance Embedded Systems Workshop (12)
IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing (15)
IEEE Int’l Conference on Circuits and Systems (2)

Prof. Edwin Marengo:
Reviewer:
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review E
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Radio Science
IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology

Prof. Masoud Salehi:
Member of the editorial board, “International Journal of Electronics and Communications”

Prof. Bahram Shafai:
Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control
Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
Reviewer for International Journal of Control
Reviewer for International Journal of Systems Science
Reviewer for International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
Reviewer for ASME Journal of Control
Reviewer for IFAC Journal of Automatica
Reviewer for Computer and Electrical Engineering
Reviewer for several Conferences including CDC, ACC, WAC, and IASTED
Reviewer for NSF

Prof. Gilead Tadmor:
Associate Editor, IEEE Conf. Editorial Board
Associate Editor, Joint IEEE Conf. Decision & Control and European Control Conf.
Reviewer of several journal & conference papers

Patents/Awards