Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP)

Center for Research and Graduate Studies

Activities Report

January 1 - December 31, 2006

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

I. GRANTS AWARDED IN 2006

Combined Active Commitments of Research Support for CDSP Members
Industrial Support Government Agencies Northeastern University
$433,985 $5,330,423 $30,000
Total Support: $5,794,427

II. AWARDED THESIS DEGREES

PhD Thesis
  1. Saeed Babaeizadeh, "3-D Electrical Impedance Tomography for Domains with Piecewise Constant Conductivity" (Advisor D. Brooks)
  2. Oguz Bayat, "Adaptive and Iterative Transceiver Designs for Wireless Communication Applications" (Advisor: B. Shafai)
  3. Hamid Satar, "Patial Tracking of Music Signals using Robust Kalman Filtering" (Advisor: B. Shafai)
  4. Luke Demoracski, " A Framework for Fault-Tolerant Networking" (Advisor: S. Basagni)
  5. Rituparna Ghosh, "Protocols for Hierarchical Organization in Ad Hoc Networks: Definition, Performance Evaluation and Application to Wireless Sensor Networks" (Advisor: S. Basagni)
  6. Alireza Ghodrati, "Lead selection and wavefront-based models for the inverse problem of electrocardiography" (Co Advisors D. Brooks and G. Tadmor)
  7. Mohammdreza M. Hagh, "Iterative Receivers for Wireless Comm. Sys." (Advisor: M. Salehi)
  8. M. Ho, “Super-Resolution Techniques in Multistatic Sensor Array Signal Processing” (Advisor:H. Lev-Ari)
  9. Michael Tarnowski, "Instability in 3-D Structures Subjected to Earthquakes" (Advisor: D. Bernal)
  10. Yiheng Zhang, " Spatio-Temporal Preprocessing and Regularization for Dynamic Linear Inverse Problems with Application to Diffuse Optical Imaging and Tomography" (Advisor D. Brooks)

MS Thesis

  1. Carlos Zacarias, "A Study of Parallel MRI Reconstruction Approaches for Sub-sampled partial-Fourier Acquisitions" (Advisor: D. Brooks)
  2. Hongyan Liu, "A Comparative Study of Feature Subspace Selection Algorithms for Unsupervised Learning" (Advisor J. Dy)
  3. Chien-Chang Lee –“Multigrid Searching Procedure for Target Location Estimation in Multi-Static Array Processing,'' M.S. Project (Advisor: H. Lev-Ari)
  4. Albert Conti, "A Hardware/Software System for Adaptive Beamforming" (Advisor: M. Leeser)
  5. Hardik Virani “Self-Organizing Feature Maps combined with Ecological Ordination techniques for Effective Watershed Management” (Advisor: E. Manolakos)
  6. Marios Mikhalakis, "Hardware Enhancement for Mobile Devices with Smart Space Interactions" (Advisor: B. Shafai)
  7. Robert Posey, "Excited Group Particle Filters for Fault Detection and Identification" (Advisor: B. Shafai)


    III. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Books and Book Chapters
  1. S. Basagni, A. Carosi and C. Petrioli "Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks, "chapter in A. Bourkerche, ed., algorithms and Protocols for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. To apprear. (Accepted)
  2. John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi, Fundamentals of Communication Engineering, Prentice Hall, Chinese translation published in 2006 (English Edition: 2004).
  3. Lagoa, C. M., Li, X., Mazzaro, M. C., and Sznaier, M., "Sampling Random Tranfer Functions" in Probabilistic and Randomized Methods for Design under Uncertainty, ed by G. Calafiore and F. Dabbene, Springer Verlag, Germany,2006, pp. 331-364.
  4. Sznaier, M., Lagoa, C. M., Li, X. and Stoorvogel, A. A, "Risk adjusted receding horizon control of constrained linear parameter varying systems" in Advanced Strategies in Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints, ed by G. Garcia and S. Tarbouriech, Springer Verlag, Germany,2006, pp. 293-312.

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, Hernandez, E. (2006). "A data driven methodology for assessing the post-earthquake health of building systems", Structural Design of Tall buildings, Vol. 15 pp. 21-34.
    4. Benal D., "Flexibility-based damage localization form stochastic realization results", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 132, pp.651-658.
    5. S. Babaeizadeh, D.H. Brooks, D. Isaacson, and J. Newell. Electrode boundary conditions and experimental validation for BEM-based EIT forward and inverse solutions. IEEE Trans Med Imag, 25:9, pp. 1180–1188, Sep. 2006
    6. A. Ghodrati, D.H. Brooks, G. Tadmor, and R.S. MacLeod. Wavefront-based models for inverse electrocardiography. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 53:9, pp. 1821–1831, Sep. 2006
    7. Y. Serinagaoglu, D.H. Brooks, and R.S. MacLeod. Improved performance of Bayesian solutions for inverse electrocardiography using multiple information sources. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 53:10, pp. 2024- 2034, Oct. 2006
    8. Gandhi, T., Yang, M. T., Kasturi, R., Camps, O.I., Coraor, L. D. and McCandless J., “Performance characterization of the dynamic programming obstacle detection algorithm,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 15, No. 5, May 2006, pp.1202-1214.
    9. J. Cheng and A.J. Devaney, “Inverse scattering and diffraction tomography in cylindrical background media,” J. Opt. Soc. Amer. Vol 23, pp.1038-1047, 2006.
    10. Su, T. and Dy, J. G., “In Search of Deterministic Methods for Initializing K-Means and Gaussian Mixture Clustering,” Intelligent Data Analysis, accepted.
    11. Cui, Y., Dy, J. G., Sharp, G. C., Alexander, B. and Jiang, S. B., “Robust Fluoroscopic Respiratory Gating for Lung Cancer Radiotherapy without Implanted Fiducial Markers,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 52, 2007, pp. 741-755.
    12. Marozeau, J., Epstein, M., Florentine, M., and Daley, B. (2006) A test of the Binaural Equal-Loudness-Ratio Hypothesis for tones,J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120(6), 3870-3877.
    13. Epstein, M. and Florentine, M. (2006) Reaction time to 1- and 4-kHz tones as a function of sensation level in normal listeners,Ear Hear. 27(4):424-429,
    14. Epstein, M. and Gifford, E. (2006). "A potential carry-over effect in the measurement of induced loudness reduction," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 305-309.
    15. Epstein, M. and Florentine, M. (2006) Loudness of brief tones measured by magnitude estimation and loudness matching,J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 1943.
    16. Lev-Ari, H. and Stankovic, A.M., "A Decomposition of Apparent Power in Polyphase Unbalanced Networks in Non-Sinusoidal Operation,'' IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Vol. 21, pp. 438-440, Feb. 2006 (3 pages).
    17. Leeser, M., Hauck, S. and Tessier, R., “Field-Programmable Gate Arrays in Embedded Systems,” EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, Volume 2006.
    18. Yu, H., Leeser, M., Tadmor, G., and Siegel, S., “Real-Time Particle Image Velocimetry for Feedback Loops Using FPGA Implementation,” Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2006, pp. 52-62.
    19. Soderquist, P., Leeser, M., and Rojas, J. C., “Enabling MPEG-2 Video Playback in Embedded Systems Through Improved Data Cache Efficiency,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 81-89, Feb. 2006.
    20. 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).
    21. V. Novotny, E.S. Manolakos, "Ecological Clustering of intergrity and nonlinear impct of environmental variables" keynote address, Int'l. Conference on Reservoir Limnology and Water Quality, Proceedings of the 5th (RESLIM-2006), 2006, pp. 136-139.
    22. P. Shah, D. Kalofonos, E.S. Manolakos, "DESES: Middleware for Dynamic End-to end Session-Enhancing Services for Java-enabled Mobile Phones" Applications and Services in Wireless Networks, Proceedings of, 6th Int'l Workshop, Berlin. May 29-31, 2006 pp. 85-91.
    23. Marengo, E.A., “Observations on “Nonradiating surface sources”: comment”, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 23, pp. 142-145, Jan. 2006.
    24. Sten, J.C.-E. and Marengo, E.A., “Inverse source problem in an oblate spheroidal geometry”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 54, pp. 3418-3428, Nov. 2006.
    25. Marengo, E.A. and Khodja, M.R., “Generalized power-spectrum Larmor formula for extended charged particle embedded in a harmonic oscillator”, Physical Review E, Vol. 74, 036611, 11 pages, DOI: 10.1103, Sept. 2006.
    26. Marengo, E.A. and Gruber, F.K., “Time-reversal-based noniterative exact inverse scattering of multiply scattering point targets”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 119, p. 3247, June 2006.
    27. Marengo, E.A. and Gruber, F.K., “Subspace-based localization and inverse scattering of multiply scattering point targets”, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Vol. 2007, Article ID 17342, 16 pages, DOI: 10.1155, Sept. 2006.
    28. Marengo, E.A. and Gruber, F.K., “Non-iterative analytical formula for inverse scattering of multiply scattering point targets”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 120, pp. 3782-3788, Dec. 2006.
    29. M.R. Marandian Hagh, M. Salehi, A. Sharma, and Z. Zvonar, "Implementation Issues in Turbo Decoding for 3GPP FDD Receiver'', Wireless Personal Communications Journal, Volume 39, Number 2, October, 2006, pp. 165--182.
    30. Bayat O., Shafai B., and Ucan O., “Alternative Turbo Equalization Approach for Mobile Chaneels,” International Journal of Communications and Signal Processing, vol. 5, No. 1, March 30, 2006
    31. Yu, M. Leeser, G. Tadmor and S. Siegel, “Real-time Particle Image Velocimetry for feedback Loops Using FPGA Implementation”, AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication 3 (2006), 52-62.
    32. A. Ghodrati, D. H. Brooks, G. Tadmor and R. S. MacLeod, Wavefront-based models for inverse electrocardiography, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 53 (2006), 821 – 1831.

Conference Publications

    1. Bernal D., "Damage localization from the null space of the transfer matrix", Proc.s XXIV Internatinal Modal ANalysis Congference, Sanint Louis Mo, on CDS.
    2. Hernandez E. and Bernal D., "An observer based approach for model updating", Proc. XXIV International Modal Analysis Conference, Saaint Louis, Mo, on CD.
    3. Bernal D. and Tigli O., "On the analytical expansion of transfer matrices", Proc. XXIV International Modal Analysis Conference, Saint Louis, Mo, on CD.
    4. Zonta D. and Bernal D., "Strain-based approaches for damage localization in civil structures", Proc. XXIV International Modal Analysis Conference, Saint Louis, Mo, on CD.
    5. Bernal D. Nasseri A., and Bulut., "Near Faulty Effects on Stability" Proceedings of the Xth SMIP Workshop.
    6. S. Laxminarayan, S. Diamond, G. Tadmor, E.L. Miller, D.A. Boas, and D.H. Brooks. Controlling Dimensionality in a Systems Approach to Dynamic Multimodal Functional Brain Imaging', Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Sig. and Sys., Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 2006, CDROM
    7. C. Zacarias Almarcha, W.S. Hoge, and D.H. Brooks. A study of parallel MRI reconstruction approaches for sub-sampled partial-Fourier parallel coil acquisition schemes. Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Sig. and Sys., Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 2006, CDROM.
    8. H. Sierra, C.A. DiMarzio, and D.H. Brooks, “A Product-of-Convolutions Model for Three-Dimensional Microscopy, Comparison to Born and Rytov Models”, SPIE Frontiers in Optics 2006/Laser Science XXII, Rochester, NY, Oct. 2006 (abstract only)
    9. E. Laciar, R. Janè, D.H. Brooks. Evaluation of Myocardial Damage in Chagasic Patients from the Signal-Averaged and Beat-to Beat Analysis of the High Resolution Electrocardiogram. Proc. Computers in Cardiology. 2006, Valencia, Spain, Sep. 2006, CDROM
    10. D. Ntuba, S. A. Carp, G. L. Boverman, E.L. Miller, D.A. Boas, and D. H. Brooks, “Reconstructing oxygen consumption and blood flow in diffuse optical tomographic breast imaging under mammographic compression”, Proc. SPIE NIH Workshop on Optical Imaging 2006, Bethesda, MD, Sep. 2006 (abstract only)
    11. S. A. Carp, J. J. Selb, D. Ntuba, G. L. Boverman, Q. Fang, E. A. Rafferty, R. H. Moore,D. B. Kopans, D. H. Brooks, and D. A. Boas, “Implications of performing optical imaging under mammographic compression—changes in breast physiology and novel optical cancer markers”, Proc. SPIE NIH Workshop on Optical Imaging 2006, Bethesda, MD, Sep. 2006 (abstract only)
    12. A. Ghodrati, A. Keely, G. Tadmor, R.S. MacLeod, and D.H. Brooks. A Wavefront-Based Constraint for Potential Surface Solutions in Inverse Electrocardiography'. Proc. Ann. Conf. IEEE EMBC. New York, NY, Aug. 2006, CDROM
    13. M. Jolley, J. Triedman, C-F. Westin, D. Weinstein, R.S. MacLeod, and D.H. Brooks. Image Based Modeling of Defibrillation in Children. Proc. Ann. Conf. IEEE EMBC. New York, NY, Aug. 2006, CDROM
    14. S. Babaeizadeh and D.H. Brooks, Spherical Harmonics for Shape-based Inverse Problems, as Applied to Electrical Impedance Tomography," IS&T/SPIE 2006, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2006, CDROM
    15. S. Babaeizadeh and D.H. Brooks, Imaging Error from Mislocation of Surface Sensors: Sensitivity, Detection, and Estimate Correction, with Application to EIT. ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, May 2006, acceptance rate about 50%, CDROM
    16. S. Babaeizadeh and D.H. Brooks. Effects of Electrode Location Error on Boundary Element Impedance Tomography Solutions: CR Bounds and Simulation Results. ISBI 2006, Arlington, VA, April 2006, acceptance rate about 60%, CDROM
    17. W.S. Hoge, M.E. Kilmer, S.J. Haker, D.H. Brooks, W.E. Kyriakos. Fast Regularized Reconstruction of Non-Uniformly Subsampled Parallel MRI Data. ISBI 2006, Arlington, VA, April 2006, acceptance rate about 60%, CDROM
    18. Y. Zhang, D.H. Brooks, and D.A. Boas. A Spatio-temporal Reconstruction Algorithm for Diffuse Optical Tomography Based on a Hemodynamic Response Function Model. ISBI 2006, Arlington, VA, April 2006, acceptance rate about 60%, CDROM
    19. D. Hyde, E.L. Miller, D.H. Brooks, and V. Ntziachristos. A Statistical Method for Inverting the Born Ratio. ISBI 2006, Arlington, VA, April 2006, acceptance rate about 60% , CDROM
    20. A. Ghodrati, D.H. Brooks, G. Tadmor, and R.S. MacLeod, A Threshold-Based Method for Inverse Solutions to Reconstruct Complex Obstacles, with Application to the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography. SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Minneapolis MN, May 2006, acceptance rate unknown, abstract only
    21. F. N. Golabchi, D. H. Brooks, W. S. Hoge, H. Mamata, S. E. Maier. Comparison of MR Diffusion Anisotropy with Axon Density. Proc. of ISMRM 14th Scientific Meeting, to appear. Seattle. Wash, May 2006, acceptance rate unknown, abstract only
    22. D. Hyde, V. Ntziachristos, E. Miller, and D.H. Brooks. Statistical models and methods for fluorescence molecular tomography. Proc SIAM Ann Mtg. Boston, MA, July 2006 (abstract only)
    23. W.S. Hoge, M.E. Kilmer, S.J. Haker, D.H. Brooks, W.E. Kyriakos. An Iterative Method for Fast Regularized Parallel MRI Reconstruction. Proc. of ISMRM 14th Scientific Meeting, to appear, Seattle, Wash. May 2006, acceptance rate unknown, abstract only
    24. S. Basagni,"M. A. Nanni and C. Petrioli. "Bluetooth Scatternet Formation and Scheduling: An Integrated Solution," Proceedings ofIEEE MIL COM 2006, Washington, DC, October 23-252006. 2. (Accepted)
    25. S. Basagni, A. Carosi, E. Melachrinoudis, C. Petrioli and Z. M. Wang. "A New MILP Formulations and Distributed Protocols for Wireless Sensor Network Lifetime Maximization," Proceedings of IEEE ICC 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-152006, vol. 8, pp. 3517-3524. (Accepted)
    26. M. B. Kowalski, K. D. Bertolino and S. Basagni. "Hack Boston: Monitoring Wireless Security Awareness in an Urban Setting," Proceedigns of IEEE CCECE, Ottawa, Canada, May 7-10 2006, pp. 1556-1559. (Accepted.)
    27. S. Basagni, M. Battelli, M. Iachizzi, C. Petrioli, and M. Salehi. "Limiting the Propagation of Localization Errors in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks," Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing, PerSeNS 2006, Pisa, Italy, March 13 2006. (Accepted.)
    28. R. Ghosh and S. Basagni. "Napping Backbones: Energy Efficient Topology Control for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWS 2006, San Diego, CA, January 17-192006, pp. 611-614. (Accepted.)
    29. Lim, H., Camps, O., Sznaier, M. and Morariu, V., ``Dynamic Appearance Modeling for Human Tracking,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR 2006), June 2006, v 1, pp 751-757. (Acceptance rate 28%)
    30. Camps, O. and Morariu, V.,`` Modeling Correspondences for Multi-camera Tracking Using Nonlinear Manifold Learning and Target Dynamics,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR 2006), June 2006, v 1, pp 537-544. (Acceptance rate 28%)
    31. Lublinerman, R., Sznaier, M. and Camps., O., ``Dynamic Based Robust Motion Segmentation,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR 2006), June 2006, v 1, pp 1176-1182. (Acceptance rate 28%)
    32. Ding, T., Sznaier, M. and Camps, O., ``Finite Horizon Model Reduction of Periodic 2-D Systems with Applications to Texture Synthesis and Classification,” Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2006), July 2006, CD-ROM.
    33. Lublinerman, R., Ozay, N., Zarpalas, D. and Camps, O., “Activity Recognition from Silhouettes using Linear Systems and Model (In)validation Techniques,” Proceedings of the 18th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), August 2006, v. 1, pp. 347-350.
    34. Ma, W., Lim, H., Sznaier, M. and Camps, O., ``Risk Adjusted Identification of Wiener Systems,” Proceedings of the 45 IEEE Conf. Decision and Control (45th CDC), Dec. 2006, pp. 2512-2515.
    35. Ding, T., Sznaier, M. and Camps, O., ``Robust Identification of Periodic 2-D Systems with Applications to Texture Synthesis and Classification,” Proceedings of the 45 IEEE Conf. Decision and Control (45th CDC), Dec. 2006, pp. 3678-3683.
    36. Vural, V., Fung, G., Krishnapuram, B., Dy, J. and Rao, B., “Batch Classification with Applications in Computer Aided Diagnosis,” Proceedings of the Seventeenth European Conference on Machine Learning, vol. 4212, 2006, p. 449-460.
    37. Cui, Y., Dy, J. G., Sharp, G., Alexander, B. and Jiang, S., “Correlation Score Based Respiratory Gating for Lung Cancer Radiotherapy without Implanted Fiducial Markers,” 48th American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting, p. 2244, vol. 33, 2006.
    38. Cui, Y., Dy, J. G., Sharp, G., Alexander, B. and Jiang, S., Fluoroscopic Tracking of Lung Tumor Mass without Implanted Fiducial Markers,” 48th American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting, p. 2162, vol. 33, 2006.
    39. Epstein, M. and Florentine, M. (2006) Induced loudness reduction,J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 3246. Invited talk.
    40. Marozeau, J., Epstein, M., Florentine, M., and Ioffe, S. (2006). "Loudness reduction caused by a tone at a different frequency, " Am. Speech-Lang. Hear. Assoc., Miami, Fl.
    41. Florentine, M. and Epstein, M. (2006) Why classroom demonstrations of binaural loudness summation fail,Proc. IHCON Int. Hearing Aid Res. Conf.
    42. Florentine, M. and Epstein, M. (2006) To honor Stevens and repeal his law (for the auditory system),in Fechner Day edited by D. E. Kornbrot, R. M. Msetfi and A. W. MacRae (International Society for Psychophysics, St. Albans, England). Invited talk.
    43. Epstein, M., Marozeau, J., and Florentine, M. (2006). "Basilar-membrane activity and loudness," in Fechner Day edited by D. E. Kornbrot, R. M. Msetfi and A. W. MacRae (International Society for Psychophysics, St. Albans, England).
    44. Epstein, M. and Florentine, M. (2006) Reexamining loudness at and near threshold,J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 3292. Invited talk.
    45. Marozeau, J., Epstein, M., Florentine, M. (2006) Induced loudness reduction as a function of frequency separation,J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 3266.
    46. Marozeau, J., Florentine, M., Epstein, M., and Daley, B. (2006): Testing the Binaural Equal-Loudness-Ratio Hypothesis using Cross-modality Matching,Am. Aud. Soc.
    47. Marozeau, J., Florentine, M., and Epstein, M. (2006) New method for deriving loudness functions from binaural level difference for equal loudness,Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol.
    48. Epstein, M. and Florentine, M. (2006) The effect of frequency on reaction time for listeners with normal hearing,Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol.
    49. Lev-Ari, H. and Stankovic, A.M., “Fundamental Principles in Orthogonal Decomposition of Current and Apparent Power,” Seventh International Workshop on Power Definitions and Measurements under Non-Sinusoidal Conditions, pp. 15-20, Cagliari, Italy, July 2006 (6 pages).
    50. Lev-Ari, H. and Stankovic, A.M., “Optimizing Power Flows in Lossy Polyphase Systems: Effects of Source Impedance,” Seventh International Workshop on Power Definitions and Measurements under Non-Sinusoidal Conditions, pp. 78-83, Cagliari, Italy, July 2006 (6 pages).
    51. Ho, M. and Lev-Ari, H., “Comparing Multistatic with Monostatic Super-Resolution Array Processing Techniques: Detection of Random Targets,” IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 214-218, Waltham, MA, July 2006 (5 pages)
    52. Ho, M. and Lev-Ari, H., “Application of the Frequency Response Matrix Method for an Extended Target,” IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 616-620, Waltham, MA, July 2006 (5 pages)
    53. E.A. Marengo and F.K. Gruber, "Signal subspace-based non-iterative exact inverse scattering of point targets", Proc. of the International URSI/IEEE APS Annual Meeting, pp. 1383-1386, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 9-14, 2006.
    54. E.A. Marengo and F.K. Gruber, "Time-reversal MUSIC imaging of extended scatterers, and a non-iterative exact inverse scattering formula", Proc. of the International URSI/IEEE APS Annual Meeting, p. 100, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 9-14, 2006.
    55. E.A. Marengo, "Time-reversal strategies for extended target focusing and imaging, and clutter nulling", at a Special Session on ``Random media and rough surface scattering'' organized by Dr. Saba Mudaliar, PIERS in Cambridge, p. 99 of the Conference Proceedings, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 26-29, 2006.
    56. E.A. Marengo and F.K. Gruber, "Time-reversal and signal subspace methods for imaging and inverse scattering of multiply scattering targets", Proceedings of PIERS in Cambridge, p. 51, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 26-29, 2006.
    57. Joshua Noseworthy and Miriam Leeser, “Efficient use of Communications Between an FPGA's Embedded Processor and its Reconfigurable Logic,” Fourteenth ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA2006). Poster abstract. February 2006.
    58. Chen, W., Miriam Leeser, and Rappaport, C., “Acceleration of the 3D FDTD Algorithm in Fixed-point Arithmetic using Reconfigurable Hardware,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2006). March 2006.
    59. Xiaojun Wang, Sherman Braganza and Miriam Leeser, “Advanced Components in the Variable Precision Floating-Point Library,” IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines( FCCM2006), April 2006. 22% acceptance rate.
    60. Haiqian Yu and Miriam Leeser, “Automatic Sliding Window Operation Optimization for FPGA-Based Computing Boards,” IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM2006), April 2006. 22% acceptance rate.
    61. Joshua Noseworthy and Miriam Leeser, “Efficient use of Communications Between an FPGA's Embedded Processor and its Reconfigurable Logic,” Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA2006), June 2006.
    62. Ben Cordes, Miriam Leeser, Eric Miller and Richard Linderman, “Improving the Performance of Parallel Backprojection on a Reconfigurable Supercomputer,”. In Tenth Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2006). September 2006.
    63. Al Conti, Miriam Leeser, Nicholas Moore and Laurie Smith-King, “Heterogeneous Processing Element Support for VSIPL++,” Tenth Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2006). September 2006.
    64. Ben Cordes, Albert Conti, Miriam Leeser, and Eric Miller, “Performance Tuning on Reconfigurable Supercomputers: A Case Study,” Poster abstract, Supercomputing (SC'06). November 2006. 30% acceptance rate.
    65. Y. Xiang and M. Salehi, "Capacity Bounds and Rate-Distortion Robustness Analysis in Dither Vector QIM Watermarking with JPEG2000 Attack'', Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 22—24 2006
    66. J. He and M. Salehi, "Autonomic Beamforming in Multi-user MIMO-GBC", Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 22—24 2006.
    67. S. Basagni, S. Battelli, M., Iachizzi, M., Petrioli, C., and M. Salehi, "Limiting the Propagation of Localization Errors in Multi-hop Wireless Networks'', Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing, PerSeNS 2006, Pisa, Italy, March 13--17, 2006.
    68. N. Yang and M. Salehi, "A New Full Rate Space Time Block Code for Three Transmit Antenna Systems'', Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology 2006, Montreal P.Q. Canada, 25—28 September 2006.
    69. Mikhalakis M., Kalofonos D., and Shafai B. “An Experimental Harware Extension Platform for Mobile Devices in Smart Spaces,” Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Pervasive Systems and Computing, Session on Mobile Access, Mobile Devices and Mobile Management, Worldcomp 2006, pp. 1-7, Las Vegas, 2006.
    70. Satar-Boroujeni H. and Shafai B., and Wolfe, P. J. "Data Association Techniques for a Robust Partial Tracker of Music Signals,” Proceedings of the 2006 International Computer Music Conference, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 6, 2006.
    71. Lim, H., Morariu, V. I., Camps, O. and Sznaier, M.,``Dynamic Appearance Modelin for Human Tracking,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR 2006), June 2006, v 1, pp 751-757. (Acceptance rate 28%)
    72. Lublinerman, R., Sznaier, M. and Camps., O.,``Dynamic Based Robust Motion Segmentation,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR 2006), June 2006, v 1, pp 1176-1182. (Acceptance rate 28%)
    73. O’Connor, M., Tangirala, S., Kumar R., Bhattacharyya, S., Sznaier., M. and Holloway, L.E,``A Bottom Up Approach to Verification of Hybrid Model Based Hierarchical Controllers with Application to Underwater Vehicles, Proceedings of the 2006 American Control Conference, (ACC 2006), June 2006.
    74. Ding, T., Sznaier, M. and Camps., O.,``Finite Horizon Model Reduction of Periodic 2-D Systems with Applications to Texture Synthesis and Classification,” Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2006), July 2006, CD-ROM.
    75. Sznaier, M. Sanchez Pena, R. and Puig, V.,``Set Membership Identification of Parametric Systems,” Proceedings of the 45 IEEE Conf. Decision and Control (45th CDC), Dec. 2006, pp. 151-156.
    76. Ma, W., Lim, H., Sznaier, M. and Camps., O.,``Risk Adjusted Identification of Wiener Systems,” Proceedings of the 45 IEEE Conf. Decision and Control (45th CDC), Dec. 2006, pp. 2512-2515.
    77. Ding, T., Sznaier, M. and Camps., O.,``Robust Identification of Periodic 2-D Systems with Applications to Texture Synthesis and Classification,” Proceedings of the 45 IEEE Conf. Decision and Control (45th CDC), Dec. 2006, pp. 3678-3683.
    78. Hailu, H., and Sznaier, M.,``A Frequency Domain Robust Model Validation Approach to Fault Detection and Isolation with Applications to Robust Identification of Periodic 2-D Systems with Applications to Identification of Contaminants in Lubrication and Transformer Oils,” Proceedings of the 45 IEEE Conf. Decision and Control (45th CDC), Dec. 2006, pp. 1177-1182.
    79. M. Pastoor, B. R. Noack, R. King and G. Tadmor, “Spatiotemporal Waveform Observers and Feedback in Shear Layer Control”, Paper AIAA-2006-1402, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 9 - 12 Jan 2006, Reno, Nevada
    80. M. Luchtenburg, G. Tadmor, O. Lehmann, B. R. Noack, R. King and M. Morzynski, “Tuned POD Galerkin models for transient feedback regulation of the cylinder wake”, Paper AIAA-2006-1407, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 9 - 12 Jan 2006, Reno, Nevada
    81. G. Tadmor, B.R. Noack, R. King, O. Lehmann, M. Morzynski and W. Stankiewicz, Interpolated Galerkin Models and their Use in Flow Control. Invited abstract, 77th annual meeting of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, GAMM), Berlin University of Technology, March 27-31 2006
    82. M. Morzynski, W. Stankiewicz, B. R. Noack, R. King, F. Thiele and G. Tadmor, Continuous mode interpolation for a priori flow models & Control. Invited abstract, 77th annual meeting of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, GAMM), Berlin University of Technology, March 27-31 2006
    83. A. Ghodrati, D. H. Brooks, G. Tadmor and R. S. MacLeod, A novel method for inverse problems involving complex obstacles applied to inverse problem of electrocardiography, (abstract), 2006 SIAM Conf. On Imaging Science, May 15-17, Minneapolis, MN.
    84. G. Tadmor, B. R. Noack and M. Morzynski, Control Oriented Models & Feedback Design in Fluid Flow Systems: A Review, 14th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Ancona, Italy, June 28-30, 2006 (Invited plenary), pp. 1 -12
    85. F. Li, G. Tadmor, A. Banaszuk, B. R. Noack and P. G. Mehta, A Reduced Order Galerkin Model for the Reacting Bluff Body Flame Holder, 3rd AIAA Flow Control Conference, 5-8 June 2006 San Francisco, CA, (AIAA Paper 2006-3487, Invited)
    86. C . W. Rowley, G. Tadmor & D. Williams, Sensing and estimation for feedback control of unstable flows, 3rd AIAA Flow Control Conference, 5-8 June 2006 San Francisco, CA (Invited)
    87. M. Morzynski, W. Stankiewicz, B. R. Noack, F. Thiele and G. Tadmor, Generalized Meanfield Model with Continuous Mode Interpolation for Flow Control, 3rd AIAA Flow Control Conference, 5-8 June 2006 San Francisco, CA (AIAA Paper 2006-3488 , Invited)
    88. L. Mirkin and G. Tadmor, On the Static H² Control in the Lifted Domain, 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), July 24-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan, Paper # 223
    89. T. Colonius, C. W. Rowley, G. Tadmor, D. R Williams, and K. Taira, “Closed-loop control of leading-edge and tip vortices for small UAV”, International Conference on Active Flow Control, Berlin, Germany, 2006
    90. M. Morzynski, W. Stankiewicz, B. R. Noack, R. King, F. Thiele and G. Tadmor, “Continuous mode interpolation for control-oriented models of fluid flow”, International Conference on Active Flow Control, Berlin, Germany, 2006 (Proceedings will be published in 2007)
    91. L. Henning, M. Pastoor, R. King, B. R. Noack, and G. Tadmor, “Feedback control applied to bluff body wake”, International Conference on Active Flow Control, Berlin, Germany, 2006, (Proceedings will be published in 2007)
    92. A. Ghodrati, A. Keely, G. Tadmor, R. MacLeod, D. Brooks, “A Wavefront-Based Constraint for Potential Surface Solutions in Inverse Electrocardiography”, 28th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference (EMBC06), Aug 30-Sept. 3, 2006, New York City, New York, pp. 2550 - 2553
    93. S. Laxminarayan, S. G. Diamond, E. Miller, G. Tadmor, D. Boas and D. H. Brooks, Controlling Dimensionality in a Systems Approach to Dynamic Multimodal Functional Brain Imaging, Paper MP1a-4, 40th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 10/29-11/1/2006, Asilomar, CA
    94. B. R. Noack, M. Morzynski, W. Stankiewicz and G. Tadmor, Generalized mean-field model of oscillatory flow using continuous mode interpolation, Paper OL.00006, 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 19–21, 2006; Tampa Bay, Florida.
    95. G. Tadmor, B. R. Noack, M. Morzynski and D. Centuori, Distributed dynamic phasors in empirical Galerkin models for separated flows over an airfoil, Paper OL.00004, 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 19–21, 2006; Tampa Bay, Florida
    96. L. Mirkin and G. Tadmor, FIR Solutions of the H2 Preview Tracking and Smoothing Problems, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2006, pp. 1417 - 1422

IV. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Stefano Basagni:
 -COE Student Award Committee 2005/2006, member for ECE, nominated, students for the Hodgkinson Award, the Alumni Promise Award, and the Who's Who in in charge of updating the ECE section of the COE database for scholarship opportunities.
- 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.
- Member of the editorial board of the Hindawi 's International Journal of Vehicular Technology.
- Guest editor of special issues of the following journals: Special issue od Elseviers 's Ad Hoc Networks (with Antonio Capone, ongoing) Special issue of Algorithmica (with Cynthia A. Phillips, ongoing)
- Reviewer for all the major IEEE Transactions and ACM journals ion the field of wireless and mobile networking Member of the Organizing Committee of ACM SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2006, IEEE SECON 2006, 18th Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications 2007.
- Member of the Technical Program Committee of FAWN 2006, IEEE Infocom 2006, WICON 2006, IEEE Globecom 2006, IEEE WoWMoM 2006, WWASN2006, IEEE PerCom2006 "Work in Progress", IEEE P2MNet 2006, IEEE SECON 2006, IEEE MASS 2006, ACM MobiWac 2006, Create-Net WICON 2006, ACM SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2006, ACM SIGMOBILE MobiCom 2006, IFIP Networking 2007, IEEE ICDCS 2007, IEEE SECON 2007, IEEE MASS 2007, IEEE WoWMoM 2007, IEEE AOC 2007, ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2007, ACMJSIGMOBILE MobiCom 2007, Autonomics 2007, IEEE Globecom 2007 Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium), IEEE Infocom 2007.
- Senior member of the IEEE and of its Computer and Communications societies.
-Senior member of the ACM and of its Sprcial Interst Group ACM SIGMOBILE
- Member of the ASEE
- Listed in the Academic Keys Who"s Who in Engineering EDucation (WWEE).
- Listed in the Marquis America's Who"s Who

Prof. Dionisio Bernal:
Organized sessions on Identification for IMAX XXIII
Organized tow invited sessions for the World Forum on Smart Materials and SMart Structures Technology (SMSST07) to be held May 22-27, 2007 in Choggqing and Nanjing, China
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:
ECE Departmental Council (elected), Chair, through Aug. 06
ECE Tenure and Promotion Committee (elected)
ECE 2005-2006 Hiring Committee
ECE 2006-2007 Hiring Committee (chair)
Associate Director of CDSP Center
IEEE co-advisor with S. Basagni
- Special Session Chair and member of Organizing Committee, IEEE Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Arlington, VA, in April 2006
- Chair of session on electrical impedance imaging at ISBI 2006
- Chair of session on medical imaging at IEEE ICASSP conference, Tolouse France, May 2006
- Organizer of invited session on functional imaging for Asilomar Conference on Signals and Systems, Asilomar CA, Oct, 2006
-. Elected member of inaugural Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing of the IEEE Signal Processing Society; membership involves setting direction of activities in this technical area for the society as well as reviewing for the 3 key conferences. I reviewed for 2 of these conferences in 2006, ICASSP (10 papers) and ISBI (11 papers), in addition to being special session chair of ISBI as noted in the previous item.
- Appointed to be Technical Area Chair for Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing, Asilomar Conference on Signals and Systems, Asilomar CA, Oct, 2007
- Appointed as IEEE Signal Processing Society member to (7 person) Steering Committee for the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 3 year term, Jan. 2007
- Reviewed papers for IEEE Trans. On Biomed Eng, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Optics Express, and Inverse Problems

Prof. Octavia Camps
Member, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Associate Editor, Machine Vision Applications
Associate Editor, Image and Vision Computing
Workshops General Chair, IEEE CVPR 2007
Tutorials and Short Courses General Chair, IEEE CVPR 2008
Member of Program Committee, CVPR 2006 and ECCV 2006

Prof. Anthony Devaney:
Revierwer for approximately 8 scientific journal
Review regularly for NSF and DOD grant proposals
Fellow of the Optical Society of America

Prof. Jennifer Dy:
Member of the CDSP Workshop committee
Editorial Board Member, Machine Learning (2004-present)
Program Committee Member:
• ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2006)
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2006)
• Session Chair for International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2006)
Reviewer:
- Machine Learning
- Journal of Machine Learning Research
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Information Fusion

Prof. Mike Epstein

Department Service:
-Dept. of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Chair of the Internal Chair Search Committee
-Advisor for the Northeastern Chapter of the National Association of Future -Doctors of Audiology
-Dept. of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Chair Search Committee
-Webmaster Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Web Site (<http://www.slpa.neu.edu/>http://www.slpa.neu.edu)
-Audiology Admissions Committee
Other:
-Nominated for Northeastern Excellence in Teaching Award
-MUTOR Project (<http://mutor.org/>http://mutor.org/) Content Expert (Auditory Physiology, Auditory Perception) - International collaborative effort to generate a web-based education system for music students to learn about hearing and acoustics
Journal Service:
Reviewer for Ear and Hearing
Reviewer for Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Reviewer for Perception and Psychophysics
Reviewer for The American Journal of Audiology

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser:
Member, College of Engineering Dean Search Committee.
Member, ECE Department Hiring Committee.
Member, ECE Department Undergraduate Study Committee.
Member Northeastern University Benefits Study Committee.
Faculty Mentor, Jennifer Dy and Xinping Zhu.
Associate Editor EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems.
Senior MemberIEEE, Senior Member Society of Women Engineers.
Member Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Member President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW).
Editor, Special Issue on FPGAs, for EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems.
Member, Program Committee, Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA),
Member, Program Committee, High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC),
Member, Program Committee, Field Programmable Logic (FPL),
Member, Program Committee, Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM),
Member, Program Committee, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)
Member, Program Committee, Design and Test Europe.
Reviewer, Design Automation Conference
Reviewer, IEEE Computer Magazine
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Computers
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on VLSI
Reviewer, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Reviewer, EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
Reviewer, Design And Test Europe
IEE Proceedings on Computers & Digital Techniques.
Reviewer, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing
Reviewer, Integration, the VLSI Journal
Reviewer, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF)
External Assessor, Olin College Senior Design Projects, 2006.

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari:
Member of the COE Graduate Affairs Committee.
Chair and Member of the ECE Graduate Affairs Committee.
Member of ECE Tenure and Promotion Committee.
Participated in several graduate open houses.
Graduate Student Advisor
Membership and active participation in professional societies
Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems I.
Fellow of IEEE, member of SIAM.
Journal reviewer.

Prof. Elias Manolakos
Associate Editor of several prestigious Journals:
-IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1996-99, 2004-07) handling papers in genomic signal processing, bioinformatics, pattern recognition
-IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2000-2004)
-IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering (1998-)
-Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (1997-)
 -Elected Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee on:
-Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (DISPS)
-Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Advisory Board on:

Technical Program Committee Member of the 2006 Conferences:
- IEEE Int'l. Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-06)
- IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP-06)
- IEEE Symposium on on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS-06)
 - 10th High Performance Embedded Systems Workshop (HPEC-06)

Regular Reviewer of papers submitted to refereed IEEE Transactions on:
Signal Processing, Neural Netwroks, Circuits and Systmes, etc.
Reviewed 4 papers in 2006
Regular Reviewer of papers submitted to refereed IEEE Conferences:
- IEEE Int'l. Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing
- IEEE Symposium on on Signal Processing Systems
- 10th High Performance Embedded Systems Workshop
- IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing
Senior Member of IEEE (1996-)
Member of IEEE Societies on Computer, Signal Processing, Circuits and Systems

Prof. Edwin Marengo:
Member of the Graduate Affairs Committee, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Participated in the regular meetings of the committee and helped in the evaluation of graduate student applications
• IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
• Physical Review Letters
• Physical Review A
• Physical Review B
• Physical Review E
• Journal of the Optical Society of America (A)
• Applied Optics
• Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• Journal of Mathematical Physics
• Radio Science
• The IEE Proceedings: Radar, Sonar and Navigation
• International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology
• International Journal of Computational Methods
Member of the International Program Committee of:
• 2007 IASTED International Conference on Antennas, Radar and Wave Propagation, Montreal, Canada, May 2007.
Paper reviewer for:
• IEEE Radar 2007, Waltham, Massachusetts, April 2007.
Session chair or co-chair in:
• 2006 International URSI/IEEE Antennas and Propagation Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 2006.

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

Prof. Masoud Salehi:
-Member of Graduate Affairs Committee.
-Member of Faculty Search Committee.
-Member of the Editorial Board, “International Journal of Electronics and Communications”
-Member of the International Program Committee, IASTED 2006 International -Conference on Communications, Internet and Information Technology, Nov 29-Dec. 1, 2006, St. Thomas, USVI.
- Reviewer for journal and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
- Served as proposal evaluator in a number of proposals for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.
- Member of the International Program Committee, IASTED 2007 International Conference on Communications, Internet and Information Technology, Banff, Canada from July 3-5, 2007.

Prof. Bahram Shafai:
Member of Departmental Council Committee (Department)
Member of Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committee on CDSP (Department)
Member of Faculty Council Committee (College)
Member of Technical Entrepreneurship Committee (COE, CBA, CCS)
Member of Senate Agenda Committee (University)
Member of Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on University Planning (University)
Member of Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Enrollment Policy (University)
Member of Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Retirement Benefit (University)
Associate Editor IEEE (CEB), ACC and CDC 2006.
Member of International Program Committee of IASTED, International Conference on Modeling, Identification, and Control, 2006.
Member of Program Committees & Chairman of Sessions in IEEE Organized Conferences, ACC, CCA, SMC, CDC 2006.
Registration Chair of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, 2006
Active Senior Member of Control System and Signal Processing Societies
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. Mario Sznaier
Member, IEEE Control Systems Society, Board of Governors
Associate Editor, Automatica
Chair, IEEE CDC Best Student Paper Award Committee
Workshop Chair, 46th IEEE Conf. Dec. Control.
Member, Program Committee, 45th IEEE Conf. Dec. Control.
Session chair:
Model Reduction (2006 MTNS)
Fault Detection (45th IEEE CDC)
Nonlinear Systems Identification (45th IEEE CDC)

Prof. Gilead Tadmor:
 Member SIAM, APS: Senior Member IEEE, AIAA
 Director CDSP Research Center
Program Committee, International Conf. on Active Flow control, Berlin, September 27-29, 2006.
Associate Editor, IEEE-Control Systems Society, Conf. Editorial Board
Program Committee, International Active Flow Control Conference, Berlin, Sept. 2006
Reviewer of several journal & conference papers