Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP)

Center for Research and Graduate Studies

Activities Report

January 1 - December 31, 2007

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 2007

Combined Active Commitments of Research Support for CDSP Members
Other Support Government Agencies Northeastern University
$761,783 $6,177,952 $6,250
Total Support: $6,945,985

II. AWARDED THESIS DEGREES

PhD Thesis

  1. Eric Hernandez, "State Estimation of MCK systems with uncertain mass and Stiffness" (Advisor D. Bernal)
  2. Yujan Zheng, "Optical tomography" (Advisor A. Devaney)
  3. Ting Su, "Clustering High-Dimensional Data" (AdvisorJ. Dy)
  4. Michele Battelli, "Localization and Location Management in Wireless Sensor Networks" (Advisor S. Basagni)
  5. Haiqian Yu, "Optimizing Data Intensive Window-based Image Processing on Reconfigurable Hardware Boards" (Advisor M. Leeser)
  6. Wang Chen, "Acceleration of the 3D FDTD Algorithm in Fixed-point Arithmetic using Reconfigurable Hardware" (Advisor M. Leeser)
  7. M. R. Marandian, "Iterative Rece. for Wireless Comm. Systems" (Advisor M. Salehi)
  8. Tao Ding, "Robust Identification of 2D Systems" (Advisor M. Sznaier)
  9. Wenjing Ma, "Wiener Systems Identification" (Advisor M. Sznaier)

MS Thesis

  1. Rajaa Alqudah, "On the Effects of Multiple Beacons on Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks" (Advisor: S. Basagni)
  2. Andrew Keely, "Infrastructure and Comparisons for Some Solutions to the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography" (Advisor D. Brooks)
  3. George Masganas, "Image processing for semiautomatic segmentation and area determination in multistain histology slices from porcine coronary arteries" (Advisor D. Brooks)
  4. Albert Conti, "A Hardware/Software System for Adaptive Beamforming" (Advisor M. Leeser)
  5. Elnaz Vahedforough, "Global Adaptive Compensation of Sinusoidal Disturbances in Active Magnetic Bearing Systems" (Advisor B. Shafai)



III. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Books and Book Chapters

  1. S. Basagni, A. Carosi and C. Petrioli. “Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Algorithms and Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks, edited by A. Boukerche, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 2008. To appear. (Accepted.)
  2. J. G. Dy, “Unsupervised Feature Selection,” invited book chapter in Computational Methods of Feature Selection, edited by Huan Liu and Hiroshi Motoda, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2007.
  3. Proakis, J. G.. and Salehi, M. , Digital Communications, 5th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2008
  4. Inanc, T., Sznaier, M. and Camps, O., “Robust Identification and Model (In)Validation of Active Vision Systems,” In Identification & Control: the gap between theory and practice, ed. by R. Sanchez, Springer Verlag, Germany, pp. 167-203, 2007.
  5. Morariu, V., Camps. O, Sznaier, M., and Lim, H., “Robust Cooperative Visual Tracking: A Combined Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction/Robust Identification Approach,” In Advances in Cooperative Control and Optimization, ed. by M. Hirsch, R. Murphey, P. Pardalos and D. Grundel, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2007.
  6. L. Henning, M. Pastoor, B.R. Noack, R. King & G. Tadmor, Feedback control applied to the bluff body wake. In Active Flow Control, R. King (Editor). Springer-Verlag, Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design 95, 369–390
  7. M. Morzynski, W. Stankiewicz, B.R. Noack, R. King, F. Thiele & G. Tadmor, Continuous mode interpolation for control-oriented models of fluid flow. In Active Flow Control, R. King (Editor). Springer-Verlag, Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design 95, 260–278.

Journal Publications

    1. R. Ghosh and S. Basagni, “Mitigating the Impact of Node Mobility on Ad Hoc Clustering,” Wiley’s InterScience’s Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing, vol. 8, n. 3, March 2008. In press. (Accepted.)
    2. S. Basagni, A. Carosi, E. Melachrinoudis, C. Petrioli and Z. M. Wang. “Controlled Sink Mobility for Prolonging Wireless Sensor Networks Lifetime,” ACM/Elsevier Wireless Networks. In press. (Accepted.)
    3. S. Basagni, C. Petrioli and R. Petroccia. “Efficiently Reconfigurable Backbones for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Computer Communications Journal, Special Issue on Algorithmic and Theoretical Aspects of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, S. Misra, ed. In press. (Accepted.)
    4. Bernal D., "Localization of Damage from the Null space of Changes in the Transfer Matrix”, Journal of the American Institute of Aerospace and Aeronautics (AIAA),Vol.45(2), 2007, pp.374-381.
    5. Bernal D., "Optimal Discrete to Continuous Transfer for Band Limited Inputs”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.133,(12), 2007, pp.1370-1377.
    6. Gao, Y., Spencer, B.F., Jr., and Bernal, D., “Experimental Verification of the Damage Locating Vector Method.” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.132.
    7. Tang, G. Alshawabkeh, A. and Bernal D., “A Semi-Analytical Time Integration For Numerical Simulation Of Transient Groundwater Flow In Confined Aquifer", Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, Vol.12(1), 2007, pp.73-82.
    8. D. Hyde, M. Kilmer, E. Miller, and D.H. Brooks. Analysis and exploitation of matrix structure arising in linearized optical tomographic imaging. SIAM J Matrix Analysis, 29:4, pp. 1065-1082, Nov. 2007
    9. G. Boverman, Q. Fang, S.A. Carp, E.L. Miller, D.H. Brooks, J. Selb, R.H. Moore, D.B. Kopans and D.A. Boas. Spatio-temporal imaging of the hemoglobin in the compressed breast with diffuse optical tomography. Phys. Med. Biol. 52:12 pp. 3619--3641, June 2007
    10. D. Hyde, E. Miller, D.H. Brooks, and V. Ntziachristos. A Statistical Approach to Inverting the Born Ratio'. IEEE Trans Med Imag, pp. 893—905, July 2007
    11. S. Babaeizadeh and D.H. Brooks. Electrical Impedance Tomography for piecewise constant domains using Boundary Element shape-based inverse solutions'. IEEE Trans Med Imag, 26:5, pp. 637—647, May 2007
    12. J.A. Newmark, W.C. Warger, II, C. Chang, G.E. Herrera, D.H. Brooks, C.A. DiMarzio, and C.M. Warner. Determinination of the Number of Cells in Preimplantation Embryos by Using Non-invasive Optical Quadrature Microscopy in Conjunction with Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis, pp. 1—10, Feb 2007
    13. D. Mitsouras, R.V. Mulkern, O. Afacan, D.H. Brooks, F.J. Rybicki. Basis Function Cross-Correlations for Robust k-Space Sample Density Compensation Applied to the Design of RF Excitations. Mag Reson Med, 57:2, pp.338--352, Feb. 2007
    14. A. Ghodrati, D.H. Brooks, and R.S. MacLeod. Methods of solving reduced lead systems for inverse electrocardiography. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 54:2, pp. 339--343, Feb 2007
    15. S. Babaeizadeh, D.H. Brooks, and D. Isaacson. 3-D Electrical Impedance Tomography for piecewise constant domains with known internal boundaries. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, pp.2--10, Jan 2007
    16. Sznaier, M. and Camps, O., “Systems Theoretic Methods in Computer Vision and Image Processing,” J. SICE, Special Issue on Control Theoretic Principles in Emerging Technologies, pp. 206–214, 2007.
    17. A.J. Devaney, E. Marengo and Mei Li, “Inverse source problem in non-homogeneous background media,” SIAM J. Applied Mathematics, Vol 67, pp. 1353-1378, 2007.
    18. D. Luke and A.J. Devaney “Identifying scattering obstacles by the construction of non-scattering waves,” SIAM J. Applied Mathematics, Vol 68, pp. 271-291, 2007.
    19. S. Damelin and A.J. Devaney, “Local Paley Wiener theorems for functions analytic on the unit sphere,” Inverse Problems, Vol. 23, pp. 463-474, 2007.
    20. V. Vural, G. Fung, J. G. Dy, and B. Rao, “Fast Semi-supervised Classifiers Using A-priori Metric Information,” Optimization Methods and Software, Special Issue on Mathematical Programming in Machine Learning and Data Mining, to appear.
    21. Y. Cui, J. G. Dy, G. C. Sharp, B. Alexander, and S. B. Jiang, “Multiple Template Based Fluoroscopic Tracking of Lung Tumor Mass without Implanted Fiducial Markers,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 52, No. 20, pp. 6229-6242, 2007.
    22. F. Azmandian, D. Kaeli, J. G. Dy, E. Hutchinson, M. Ancukiewicz, A. Niemierko, and S. B. Jiang, “Towards the Development of an Error Checker for Radiotherapy Treatment Plans: A Preliminary Study,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 52, No. 21, pp. 6511-6524, 2007.
    23. T. Su and J. G. Dy, “In Search of Deterministic Methods for Initializing K-Means and Gaussian Mixture Clustering,” Intelligent Data Analysis, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 319-338, 2007.
    24. Y. Cui, J. G. Dy, G. C. Sharp, B. Alexander and S. B. Jiang, “Robust Fluoroscopic Respiratory Gating for Lung Cancer Radiotherapy without Implanted Fiducial Markers,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 741-755, 2007.
    25. N. Moore, A. Conti, M. Leeser and L. Smith King, “Vforce: An Extensible Framework for Reconfigurable Supercomputing,” IEEE Computer, pp. 39-49. March 2007.
    26. Heather Quinn, Miriam Leeser and Laurie Smith King, “Dynamo: a runtime partitioning system for FPGA-based HW/SW image processing systems,” Journal of Real-time Image Processing. Vol. 2 No. 4. pp. 179-190. December, 2007.
    27. Marengo, E.A., Hernandez, R.D. and Lev-Ari, H., “Intensity-only signal-subspace-based imaging,” Journal of the Optical Society of America – A, Vol. 24, No. 11, pp. 3619-3635, Nov. 2007 (17 pages).
    28. E.A. Marengo, R.D. Hernandez and H. Lev-Ari, "Intensity-only signal-subspace-based imaging", Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 24, p. 3619-3635, 2007.
    29. E.A. Marengo, F.K. Gruber and F. Simonetti, "Time-reversal MUSIC imaging of extended targets", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 16, p. 1967-1984, 2007.
    30. A.J. Devaney, E.A. Marengo and M. Li, "Inverse source problem in non-homogeneous background media", SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 67, p. 1353-1378, 2007.
    31. J. C.-E. Sten and E.A. Marengo, "Transformation formulas for spherical and spheroidal multipole fields", International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEU), Vol. 61, p. 262-269, 2007.
    32. Sznaier, M. and Camps, O.,“Systems Theoretic Methods in Computer Vision and Image Processing,” J. SICE, Special Issue on Control Theoretic Principles in Emerging Technologies, pp. 206–214, 2007
    33. Ma, W., Sznaier, M., and Lagoa, C., “A Risk Adjusted Approach to Simultaneous Fault Detection and Isolation,” Automatica, Vol 49, 3, pp. 499–504, 2007.
    34. Sznaier, M., Lagoa, C. and Ozay, N., “Risk Adjusted Output Feedback Receding Horizon Control of Linear Parameter Varying Systems,” Int. J. Robust and Nonlinear Contr., Special Issue on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Vol 17, 17, pp 1614-1633, 2007.
    35. M. Morzynski, B.R. Noack and G. Tadmor, Global stability analysis and reduced order modeling for bluff-body flow control, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 45 (2007), 621-642
    36. L. Mirkin and G. Tadmor, On Geometric and Analytic Constraints in the H? Fixed-Lag Smoothing, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 52 (2007), 1514-1519
    37. B.R. Noack, M. Schlegel, B. Ahlborn, G. Mutschke, M. Morzynski, P. Comte & G. Tadmor, A finite-time thermodynamics of unsteady flows. J. Non-Equilib. Thermodyn., in press

Conference Publications

    1. S. Basagni, M. A. Nanni and C. Petrioli. “Flow-fair Intra-piconet (FlIP) Scheduling for Communications in Personal Area Networks,” Proceedings of IEEE RWS 2008, Orlando, FL, January 22-25 2008, pp. 839-842. (Accepted.)
    2. Bernal, D., “Damage Localization in Systems with Unknown Inputs”, Key Engineering Materials, Damage Assessment of Structures VII, pp.107-114 – (this is a paper submitted to a conference that was peer reviewed and selected for publication in KEM).
    3. Bernal D., “The Stochastic Dynamic Damage Locating Vector Approach”, Proc. XXV International Modal Analysis Conference, Orlando Fl., Feb. 2007, CD-ROM.
    4. Bernal D., and Tigli O.,. “A State Space Examination Of Fictive Constraints”, Proc. XXV International Modal Analysis Conference, Orlando Fl.,Feb 2007, CD-ROM.
    5. Bernal D., and Tigli O., “The Era/S Algorithm”, Proc. XXV International Modal Analysis Conference, Orlando Fl., 2007, CD-ROM.
    6. Hernandez E., and Bernal D., “An Observer For Nonlinear Systems With Uncertain Properties”, Proc. XXV International Modal Analysis Conference, Orlando Fl., 2007, CD-ROM
    7. D. Hyde, A. Soubret, J. Dunham, T. Lasser, E. Miller, D. Brooks and V. Ntziachristos Analysis of Reconstructions in Full View Fluorescence Molecular Tomography. SPIE Meeting on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2007
    8. O. Afacan, D. Mitsouras, D. Brooks, R. Mulkern, and F. Rybicki. Comparing MR imaging properties of spiral trajectories using the singular spectrum of the analytical Fourier basis cross-correlation matrix. Proc. ISBI 2007, Arlington, VA, April 2007
    9. W.S. Hoge, M.E. Kilmer, C. Zacarias-Almarcha, and D. H. Brooks. Fast regularized reconstruction of non-uniformly subsampled partial-Fourier parallel MRI data. Proc. ISBI 2007, Arlington, VA, April 2007
    10. M. Jolley, J. Stinstra, D. Weinstein, S. Pieper, R.S.J. Estepar, G. Kindlmann, R. MacLeod, D.H. Brooks, and J.K. Triedman. Open-Source Toolkit for Interactive Finite Element Modeling of Optimal ICD Electrode Placement. Proc. Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, Salt Lake City, UT, June 2007
    11. J. Stinstra, M. Jolley, M. Callahan, D. Weinstein, M. Cole, D.H. Brooks, J. Triedman, and R.S. MacLeod Evaluation of different meshing algorithms in the computation of defibrillation thresholds in children, Proc. IEEE Eng Med Bio. Conf., Lyon, France, Aug. 2007
    12. D.H. Brooks, A. Keely, A. Ghodrati, G. Tadmor, and R.S. MacLeod. Some spatio-temporal approaches to inverse electrocardiography. Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, invited paper, Pacific Grove, Calif. Nov. 2007
    13. Sznaier, M. and Camps, O., “Control Theoretic Methods in Computer Vision,” 2007 European Control Conference (ECC), Invited Session on the role of control in other disciplines, 2007.
    14. Ding, T., Sznaier, M. and Camps, O., “A Rank Minimization Approach to Video Inpainting,” 2007 IEEE Int. Conf. Com. Vision (ICCV), October 2007 (oral presentation, 4% acceptance rate). (1190 submissions, 47 orals and 233 posters accepted)
    15. Ding, T., Sznaier, M. and Camps, O., “A Rank Minimization Approach to Fast Dynamic Event Detection and Track Matching in Video Sequences,” 2007 IEEE Conf. Dec. Control, pp. 4895-4900, Dec. 2007.
    16. A.J. Devaney and J. Cheng, “A filtered back propagation algorithm for optical diffraction tomography,” Invited paper for the 2nd workshop on digital holography held in UK in April 07
    17. Y. Cui, X. Fern, and J. G. Dy, “Non-redundant Multi-view Clustering Via Orthogonalization,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Omaha, NE, October 2007.
    18. J. Fan, X. Zhou, J. G. Dy, Y. Zhang and S. Wong, “Spine Detection Using Curvilinear Structure Detector and Spine Tracking in In Vivo Image,” Third IEEE-NIH Life Science Systems and Application (LISA) Workshop, November 2007.
    19. X. Wang and M. Leeser, “K-means Clustering for Multispectral Images Using Floating-Point Divide,” IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), pp. 151-162. April 2007. 27% acceptance rate.
    20. N. Moore, A. Conti M. Leeser and L. Smith King, “Writing Portable Applications that Dynamically Bind at Run Time to Reconfigurable Hardware,” IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), pp. 229-238. April 2007. 27% acceptance rate.
    21. S. Braganza and M. Leeser, “Phase Unwrapping on Reconfigurable Hardware,” Eleventh Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC 2007). September, 2007.
    22. X. Wang and M. Leeser, “FPGA Based Systolic Array Implementation of QR Transformation Using Givens Rotations,” Eleventh Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC 2007). September, 2007.
    23. N. Moore, M. Leeser and L. Smith King, “Vforce: Aiding the Productivity and Portability in Reconfigurable Supercomputer Applications via Runtime Hardware Binding,” Eleventh Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC 2007). September, 2007. Winner, Best Paper Award.
    24. S. Braganza and M. Leeser, “The 1D Discrete Cosine Transform For Large Point Sizes Implemented On Reconfigurable Hardware',” IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 2007), July 2007. 53.
    25. Lev-Ari, H. and Stankovic, A.M., “Fundamental Performance Limits in Lossy Polyphase Systems: Apparent Power and Optimal Compensation,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 61-64, New Orleans, May 2007 (4 pages).
    26. E.A. Marengo, "Inverse scattering by compressive sensing and signal subspace methods", Invited talk at the Special Session on "Wave-based Signal Processing" of the IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP) 2007, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dec. 12-14, 2007 (special session organized by Profs. Sven Nordebo and Mats Gustafsson).
    27. E.A. Marengo, "Further theoretical considerations for time-reversal MUSIC imaging of extended scatterers", Invited talk at the Special Session on "Time Reversal" of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop 2007, pp. 304-306, Madison, Wisconsin, August 26-29, 2007 (ISBN:978-1-4244-1198-6) (special session organized by Profs. Jose Moura and Persefoni Kyritsi).
    28. E.A. Marengo, "Intensity-only MUSIC imaging", International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, URSI Commission B, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 26-28, 2007.
    29. E.A. Marengo, "Non-iterative imaging including multiple scattering", International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, URSI Commission B, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 26-28, 2007.
    30. E.A. Marengo and F.K. Gruber, "Electromagnetic information theory", International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, URSI Commission B, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 26-28, 2007.
    31. E.A. Marengo and M.R. Khodja, "Source synthesis in substrate media: Fundamental bounds", International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, URSI Commission B, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 26-28, 2007.
    32. J.C.-E. Sten and E.A. Marengo, "Electromagnetic inverse source problem in the spheroidal geometry", International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, URSI Commission B, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 26-28, 2007.
    33. E.A. Marengo, "Non-iterative inverse scattering including multiple scattering", URSI/CNC/USNC North American Radio Science Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 22-26, 2007.
    34. E.A. Marengo and R.D. Hernandez, "Intensity-only localization and inverse scattering", URSI/CNC/USNC North American Radio Science Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 22-26, 2007.
    35. E.A. Marengo and M.R. Khodja, "Source inversion in metamaterial substrate media: Fundamental limits, and applications", URSI/CNC/USNC North American Radio Science Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 22-26, 2007.
    36. Yang, N. and Salehi, M. ``A New Full Rate Full Diversity Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code for Three Transmit Antennas'', Proceedings of the 41st Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 07), Baltimore, MD, 14-16 March 2007, pp. 851 – 856.
    37. He, J. and Salehi, M. ``Chip-Level Coordinated Interference-Aware Beamforming for MIMO-CDMA in Frequency-Selective Broadcast Channels,'' Proceedings of the 41st Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 07), Baltimore, MD, 14-16 March 2007, pp. 874 - 877.
    38. Pena, C. and Salehi, M. "Optimal Interleaver Design for Short Block-length Turbo Codes'', Proceedings of the International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics 2007 (ISSSE 07), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 30-Aug. 2 2007 pp. 295 – 298.
    39. Yang, N, and Salehi, M., `"An Orthogonal Full Rate Full Diversity Space Time Block Code for Four Transmit Antenna Systems’’, Proceedings of the 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC-2007 Fall, Sept. 30-Oct. 3 2007 pp. 763 – 767.
    40. He, J. and Salehi, M. " Low-Complexity Coordinated Interference-Aware Beamforming for MIMO Broadcast Channels’’, Proceedings of the 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC-2007 Fall, Sept. 30-Oct. 3 2007 pp. 685 - 689.
    41. Vahedforough, E., Shafai B., and Beale, S., “Estimation and Rejection of Unknown Sinusoidal Disturbances Using a Generalized Adaptive Forced Balancing Method,” Proceedings of 2007 American Control Conference (ACC), New York, 2007, pp. 3529-3534.
    42. Shafai, B., Sadaka, H., Sipahi, R., Chen, J. “An Alternative Characterization of Robust Stability Radius for Linear Time Delay Systems,” Proceeding of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, 2007, pp. 2112-2116.
    43. Sadaka, H., Shafai, B., Sipahi, R., Chen, J., “Robust Stability and Stability Radius for Linear Multiple Time Delay Systems,” IFAC Time Delay Systems Workshop, Nantes, France, September 2007, CD-ROM.
    44. Labrosse, J., and Shafai B. “Controlling Emergent Behavior in Large Scale Mobile Robotics Swarms,” Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Worldcomp 2007, Las Vegas, Volume II, pp. 786-800.
    45. Sznaier, M. and Camps, O., “Control Theoretic Methods in Computer Vision,” 2007 European Control Conference (ECC), Invited Session on the Role of Control in Other Disciplines, 2007.
    46. Sznaier, M., Lagoa, C. and Ozay, N.,“Risk Adjusted Receding Horizon Control of Linear Parameter Varying Systems,” 2007 European Control Conference (ECC), 2007.
    47. Ding, T., Sznaier, M. and Camps, O., “A Rank Minimization Approach to Video Inpainting,”2007 IEEE Int. Conf. Com. Vision (ICCV), pp. 1-8, October 2007
    48. Ding, T., Sznaier, M. and Camps, O., “A Rank Minimization Approach to Fast Dynamic Event Detection and Track Matching in Video Sequences,”2007 IEEE Conf. Dec. Control, pp. 4122-4127, Dec. 2007.
    49. Ozay, N. and M. Sznaier, “A Pesimistic Approach to Frequecy Domain Model (In)Validation,” 2007 IEEE Conf. Dec. Control, pp. 4895-4900, Dec. 2007.
    50. M. Sznaier, Lagoa, C., and Ma, W., “Risk Adjusted Identification of a Class of Nonlinear Systems,” 2007 IEEE Conf. Dec. Control, pp. 5117-5122, Dec. 2007.
    51. G. Tadmor, M. D. Centuori, B. R. Noack and M. Morzynski, A Low Order Galerkin Design Model for Feedback Flow Stabilization Over a 2-D Airfoil, 45th AIAA Aerospace sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 8-11, 2007
    52. G. Tadmor, J. Gonzalez, B. R. Noack,, M. Morzynski and W. Stankiewicz, Shift Modes and Transient Dynamics in Low Order, Design Oriented Galerkin Models, 45th AIAA Aerospace sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 8-11, 2007
    53. S. Ahuja, C. Rowley, I. Kevrekidis, and M. Wei, T. Colonius, and G. Tadmor, Low-Dimensional Models for Control of Leading-Edge Vortices: Equilibria and Linearized models, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, Nevada, Jan. 8-11, AIAA Paper 2007-709
    54. Dana H. Brooks, Andrew Keely, Alireza Ghodrati, Gilead Tadmor, and Rob S. MacLeod, Spatio-temporal approaches to inverse electrocardiography, 2007Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
    55. B.R. Noack, M. Schlegel, B. Ahlborn, G. Mutschke, M. Morzynski, P. Comte and G. Tadmor, A finite-time thermodynamics of unsteady flows from the onset of vortex shedding to developed homogeneous turbulence,. In B. Guy & D. Tondeur, Editors, Proceedings of the Joint European Thermodynamics Conference IX, pp. 129--132.
    56. G. Tadmor, B.R. Noack & M. Morzynski, Enablers for low dimensional Galerkin models for control and observation in fluid dynamics. (Invited, abstract) Minisymposium on Model Reudction for Flows in Porus Media, SIAM Conf. on Mathematical & Comp. Issues in Geoscience, Santa-Fe NM, March 19-22, 2007
    57. G. Tadmor, B.R. Noack, D. Centuori, O. Lehmann & M. Morzynski, Coherent structures, temporal harmonics and multi-resolution in reduced order empirical fluid flow models. (Invited, abstract), SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah, May 28 – June 1, Snowbird UT, 2007.
    58. Stankiewicz, W., Morzy´nski, M., Noack, B. R. & G. Tadmor, Model for vortex shedding for NACA-0012 airfoil having high AoA, 2nd Workshop on Bluff-Body Wakes, Instabilities and Control, Kudela, H. (organizer), Politechnika Wroclawska, Wroclaw, 27-28. November 2007. (abstract)
    59. Mirkin and G. Tadmor, On Performance Limitation Factors in the H8 Preview Problems, 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 12-14, 2007
    60. G. Tadmor, B. R. Noack, O. Lehmann and M. Morzy nski, Empirical and Analytic Generalized Mean Field Models, Amer. Phys. Soc. Div. Fluid Dynamics 60th Ann. Meeting (Bulletin Am. Phys. Soc., Vol. 52, No. 17, EE.04), Nov. 18-20, 2007
    61. B. R. Noack, M. Schlegel, B. Ahlborn, G. Mutschke, M. Morzy ´nski and G. Tadmor, A finite time thermodynamics of unsteady shear flows, Amer. Phys. Soc. Div. Fluid Dynamics 60th Ann. Meeting (Bulletin Am. Phys. Soc., Vol. 52, No. 17, JN.07), Nov. 18-20, 2007
    62. M. Luchtenburg, B. Guenther, B. R. Noack, R. King. and G. Tadmor, A generalized mean field model for the natural and high frequency actuated flow around a high lift configuration, Amer. Phys. Soc. Div. Fluid Dynamics 60th Ann. Meeting (Bulletin Am. Phys. Soc.,Vol. 52, No. 17, FO.07), Nov. 18-20, 2007
    63. K. Aleksic, R. King, B. R., Noack, O. Lehmann, M., Morzynski, & G. Tadmor, Nonlinear flow control using a low-dimensional Galerkin model. Proceedings of the IX Triennial International SAUM Conference on Systems, Automatic Control and Measurements, pages 1–4, Nis, Serbia.

IV. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

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.
- 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 of Elsevier’s Ad Hoc Networks (with Antonio Capone, published in Nov. 2007)
• Special issue of Algorithmica (with Cynthia A. Phillips, published in December 2007)
• Reviewer for all the major IEEE Transactions and ACM journals in the field of wireless and mobile networking
• Member of the Organizing Committee of ACM/SIGMOBILE HealthNet 2007, and of the 18th Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications 2007.
• Member of the Technical Program Committee of IFIP Networking 2007, IEEE ICDCS 2007, IEEE SECON 2007, IEEE MASS 2007, IEEE WoWMoM 2007, IEEE AOC 2007, ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2007, ACM/SIGMOBILE 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 Special Interest Group ACM SIGMOBILE
• Member of the ASEE.

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:
Member, Steering Committee, Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, from the Nano to the Macro. This steering committee involves a collaboration between two IEEE societies (Signal Processing and Engineering in Medicine and Biology) and its members are appointed by the President’s of the two societies. I am one of the three Signal Processing Society representatives.
Member, Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing (BISP) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Technical Program Chair for the 2009 Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (to be held in Boston in June 2009)
Technical Area Chair for the 2007 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systemsk, and Computers, for biomedical signal processing and imaging
Reviewed technical papers for IEEE Trans on Biomedical Engineering (2 papers), Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (~10 papers), Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imgaging (~12 papers)

Prof. Octavia Camps
Associate Editor, Machine Vision Applications
Associate Editor, Image and Vision Computing Journal
Workshop General Chair, IEEE CVPR 2007
Tutorials General Chair, IEEE CVPR 2008
Co-Organizer of Invited Session on The Role of Control in other Disciplines, ECC 2007.
Program Committee Member, IEEE ICCV 2007
Program Committee Member, ECCV 2008
Reviewer and Panelist for National Science Foundation (NSF)
Reviewer and Panelist for Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI)
Reviewer (CVPR, ICCV, IEEE Trans. PAMI)

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:
Action Editor (same as associate editor), Machine Learning (2007)
Senior Program Committee Member:
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2007)
Program Committee Member:
• ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2007)
• National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005 and 2007)
• Session Chair for International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2007)
• Session Chair for IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2007)
Reviewer:
• Machine Learning
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• 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:
Workshop Organizer:
First Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units at Northeastern Univ.
New England Symposium on Formal Hardware Verification at Northeastern University
Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Systems.
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
Program Committee Member:
Design and Test, Europe
Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms
Field Programmable Logic
High Performance Embedded Computing
IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors.
International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
Southern Conference on Programmable Logic
Senior Member ACM, IEEE, SWE
Member, President’s Council of Cornell Women
Reviewer (Journals and highly refereed Conferences)
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology.
European Signal Processing Conference
Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
High Performance Computer Architecture
IET Computers & Digital Techniques
IEEE Trans on VLSI
IEEE Trans on Computers
IEEE Transactions on Education
IEEE Trans on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Integration, the VLSI journal
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Parallel Computing
Reconfigurable Supercomputing Summer Institute (RSSI).
Transactions on VLSI Signal Processing.

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari:
Fellow of IEEE, member of SIAM.
Journal reviewer.

Prof. Edwin Marengo:
• 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
• Optics Letters
• Optics Communications
• Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• Journal of Mathematical Physics
• Radio Science
• Waves in Random Media
• The IEE Proceedings: Radar, Sonar and Navigation
• International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology
• International Journal of Computational Methods
• Near Surface Geophysics (by the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE))
• Wave Motion

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

Prof. Masoud Salehi:
Member of the International Program Committee for CIIT 2007 (Communication, Internet and Information Technology)
Chaired a session at the IEEE-VTC 2007 conference.
Reviewed papers for IEEE Transactions on Communication
s

Prof. Bahram Shafai:
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems Journal, 2007-2009.
Associate Editor of IEEE (Conference Editorial Board), ACC and CDC 2007.
International Program Committee Member of IASTED, International Conference on Modeling, Identification, and Control, 2007-2008.
Member of Program Committees & Chairman of Sessions in IEEE Organized Conferences, ACC, CCA, SMC, CDC 2007.
Registration Chair of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007-2008
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
Associate Editor, Automatica (journal of the Int. Federation of Automatic Control)
Chair, Best CDC Student Paper Award Committee, IEEE Control Systems Society
Member, IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors
Member, IEEE Control Systems Society Executive Committee (effective 12/07)
Executive Director, IEEE Control Systems Society (effective 12/07)
Member, Organizing Committee, 2007 IEEE CDC (workshop chair)
Program Vice-Chair, 2008 IEEE CDC
Organizer and Chair, Invited Session: The Role of Control in Other Disciplines, ECCV 2007
Session Chair, 2007 IEEE CDC
Proposal Reviewer and Panelist, Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI), November 2007
Proposal Reviewer, AFOSR, August 2007
Paper reviewer (Automatica, IEEE Trans. Aut. Contr., Int. J. Control, IEEE CDC, IEEE ACC)

Prof. Gilead Tadmor:
Member SIAM, APS: Senior Member IEEE, AIAA
Director CDSP Research Center
Program Committee, 2007 IEEE Conference on Decision & Control