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

I. GRANTS AWARDED IN 2008

II. AWARDED THESIS DEGREES

1. Janice Cheng “Optical Diffraction Tomography” (Advisor Devaney, A.)
2. Mark Pastoor “Vortex Models and Feedback Control of Fluid Flow Systems” (Advisor Tadmor, G.)
3. Mohamed Khodja “Imaging and Radiation Enhancements from Metamaterials” (Advisor Marengo, E.)
4. Ning Yang “A Family of Space-Time Block Codes for Wireless Communications ” (Advisor Salehi, M.)
5. Xiaojun Wang “Variable Precision Floating-Point Divide and Square Root for Efficient FPGA Implementation of Image and Signal Processing Algorithms” (Advisor Leeser, M.)

MS Thesis

1. Alberto Lecina, "Phase-only Filtering for Comparison of Functional Neuroimaging Time Sequences" (Advisor Brooks, D.)
2. Matin Kamali, “Detection and identification of zebrafish brainstem neurons in confocal image stacks” (Advisor Brooks, D.)
3. Archit Shah, “A Nonlinear Steepest Descent Algorithm for Optimizing Power Flows” (Advisor Lev-Ari, H.)
4. Adnan Rampurawala “Comparisons of sorting algo” (Advisor Basagni, S.)
5. Benjamin Cordes “Parallel Backprojection: A Case Study in high Performance Reconfigurable Computing” (Advisor Leeser, M.)
6. Bhavik Waghela “Algorithm Implementation” (Advisor Basagni, S.)
7. Burkay Dorter “Principal Curve Approach to Post-nonlinear Blind Source Separation with Sparse Sources” (Advisor Erdogmus, D.)
8. Craigs Daniels “Public Service Networks” (Advisor Basagni, S.)
9. Daniel Bissex “Efficient Algorithms for Extraction of Dominant Spatio-Temporal Coherent Structures in Distributed Dynamics” (Advisor Tadmor, G.)
10. Eleonora Vidolova “Hemodynamically Constrained Dynamic Di®use Optical Tomography Under Mammographic Compression: Simulation Study” (Advisor Brooks, D.)
11. Gerard Pons Moll “4D Cardiac MRI Segmentation and Surgace Reconstruction” (Advisor Brooks, D.)
12. Guillem Crosas Cano “Modeling of Cardiac Motion from MRI Sequences” (Advisor Brooks, D.)
13. J. Upadhyayula “Waveform Matching by a Wavelet” (Advisor Lev-Ari, H.)
14. Laura Leal Taixe “Automatic segmentation of multi-stain histology images of arteries” (Advisor Brooks, D.)
15. Mustafa Ayazouglu “Motion Segmentation from Perspective Images via Rank Minimization” (Advisor Sznaier, M.)
16. Nicholas Moore “Vforce: VSIPL++ for Reconfigurable Computing Environments” (Advisor Leeser, M.)
17. S. Tiwari “Networked Estimation with Multirate Distributed Sensing” (Advisor Lev-Ari, H.)
18. Sherman Braganza “Phase Unwrapping on Reconfigurable Hardware and Graphics Processors” (Advisor Leeser, M.)
19. Zahra Mohajerani “Vision Based UAV Navigation” (Advisor Sznaier, M.)

III. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Basagni, S., Carosi, A. and Petrioli, C., “Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks.” In A. Boukerche, editor, Algorithms and Protocols for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, chapter 10, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008, pp. 267–305.

Sznaier, M., and Camps, O., “Motion Prediction for Continued Autonomy”, Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, R. A. Meyers, Editor-in-Chief, Springer, Berlin, 2008. (ISBN: 978-0-387-75888-6)

D. Erdogmus, U. Ozertem, T. Lan, “Information Theoretic Feature Selection and Projection,” in Speech, Audio, Image and Biomedical Signal Processing Using Neural Networks (eds. B. Prasad and M. Prasanna), Springer, 2008.

D. Erdogmus, J.C. Principe, “Information Theoretic Learning,”, in Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (eds: Dopico, Dorado, Pazo), IGI Global Books, 2008.

J.C. Principe (General Chair), T. Adali (Technical Chair), J. Larsen (Publications Chair), D. Erdogmus (Program Chair), IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing 2008 Proceedings.

Leeser, M. “Field Programmable Gate Arrays. ” In Dr. M. Michael Vai and David R. Martinez, editors, High Performance Embedded Computing Handbook: A Systems Perspective. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press. June 2008.

Chen, W. and Leeser, M. “FDTD: Finite Difference Time Domain – A Case Study Using FPGAs,” In Scott Hauck and Andre DeHon, editors, Reconfigurable Computing: The Theory and Practice of FPGA-based Computation. Morgan Kauffman. pp. 697–724, 2008.

Sznaier, M., and Camps, O.,“Motion Prediction for Continued Autonomy”, in Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, R. A. Meyers, Editor-in-Chief, Springer, Berlin, 2008. (ISBN: 978-0-387-75888-6)

1. J.K. Triedman, M. Jolley, J. Stinstra, D.H. Brooks, R.S. MacLeod. "Predictive Modeling of Defibrillation using Finite Element Models"., Int. Soc. Comp. Electrocardiography (ISCE), Riverside, CA, May 2008
2. E.Z. Vidolova, S. Carp, E. Miller, D .Boas, D.H. Brooks." Hemodynamically Constrained Dynamic Diffuse Optical Tomography under Mammographic Compression". OSA Biomedical Optics Topical Meeting, Mar. 2008
3. Sierra, H., C. A. Dimarzio, and D. H. Brooks, "Modeling phase information for three-dimensional objects at different focal planes,'' Proc. SPIE 6861, Article 68610A, Jan. 2008.
4. Sierra--Gil, H., C. A. DiMarzio, and D. H. Brooks, `"Modeling DIC Microscope Images of Thick Objects Using a Product-of-Convolutions Approach,'' BIOMED Poster Session II (BMD67), 2008 Spring Optics and Photonics Congress, March 2008.
5. S. Kurugol, J. Dy, M. Rajadhyaksha, and D.H. Brooks, "Detection of the dermis/epidermis boundary in reflectance confocal images using multi-scale classifier with adaptive texture features'', Proc. Int. Symp. on Biomed Imaging (ISBI08), Paris, France, May 2008
6. Damon Hyde, Eric Miller, D.H. Brooks, and Vasilis Ntziachristos, “New Techniques for Data Fusion in Multimodal FMT-CT Imaging'', Proc. Int. Symp. on Biomed Imaging (ISBI08), Paris, France, May 2008
7. W. Scott Hoge, Fernando Gallego, Zhikui Xiao, D.H. Brooks, "Fast Regularized Reconstruction of Non-Uniformly Subsampled Partial-Fourier Parallel MRI Data'', Proc. Int. Symp. on Biomed Imaging (ISBI08), Paris, France, May 2008
8. D. Mitsouras, O. Afacan, D.H. Brooks, and F.J. Rybicki, "Tradeoff Analysis of Variable Density Spiral k-Space Trajectories Used in MRI'', ISMRM 16th Ann. Scientific Meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 2008
9. D.E. Hyde, R. Schulz, E. Miller, D.H. Brooks, and V. Ntziachristos, Incorporation of Structural Apriori Information in Fluorescence Molecular Tomography'', OSA Biomedical Optics Topical Meeting, Mar. 2008
10. Sznaier, M., Camps, O., and Lagoa, C.,“Robust Identification of Piecewise Linear Systems,” 2008 IFAC Wksp. On Uncertain Dynamical Systems, Awaji Yumebutai Int. Conf. Center, Japan, Jul. 2008, (CDROM).
11. Ding, T., Sznaier, M., and Camps, O., “Fast Track Matching and Event Detection,” In Proc. IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, AK, Jun 24-28, 2008, pp 1-8. (32% acceptance rate)
12. Ozay, N., Sznaier, M., and Camps, O., “Sequential Sparsification for Change Detection”. In Proc. IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, AK, Jun 24-28, 2008, pp. 1-6. (32% acceptance rate)
13. Ozay, N., Sznaier, M., Lagoa, C., and Camps, O., “A Sparsification Approach to Set Membership Identification of a Class of Affine Hybrid Systems,” 2008 IEEE Conf. Dec. Control (CDC), Cancun, MX, Dec 9-11, 2008, pp. 123-130. (48% acceptance rate) (Best Student Paper of the Conference Award)
14. Sznaier, M., and Camps, O., “The Role of Dynamics in Computer Vision and Image Processing,” 2008 IEEE Conf. Dec. Control (CDC), Cancun, MX, Dec 9-11, 2008, pp. 3923-3934. (48% acceptance rate)
15. Ding, T., Sznaier, M., and Camps, O., “Receding Horizon Rank Minimization Based Estimation with Applications to Visual Tracking,” 2008 IEEE Conf. Dec. Control (CDC), Cancun, MX, Dec 9-11, 2008, pp. 3446-3451. (48% acceptance rate)
16. Guan, Y. and Dy, J. G., “Sparse Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis,” Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, to appear. (40% acceptance rate)
17. Cui, Y., Dy, J. G., Sharp, G. C., Alexander, B. M., and Jiang, S. B., “Learning methods for lung tumor markerless gating in image-guided radiotherapy,” Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 902-910, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2008.
18. Cui, Y. and Dy, J. G., “Orthogonal Principal Feature Selection via Component Analysis,” Sparse Optimization and Variable Selection Workshop at the International Conference on Machine Learning, Helsinki, Finland, July 9, 2008.
19. Kurugol, S., Dy, J. G., Rajadhyaksha, M., and Brooks, D. H., “Detection of the dermis/epidermis boundary in reflectance confocal images using multi-scale classifier with adaptive texture features,” IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Micro (ISBI), pp. 492-495, Paris, France, May 2008.
20. Y. Huang, D. Erdogmus, S. Mathan, M. Pavel, “Detecting EEG Evoked Responses for Target Image Search with Mixed Effect Models,” Proc. EMBC’08, 2008.
21. E. Bas, D. Erdogmus, U. Ozertem, M. Pavel, “Towards Fish-Eye Camera Based In-Home Activity Assessment,” Proc. EMBC’08, 2008.
22. U. Ozertem, D. Erdogmus, M.A. Carreira-Perpinan, “Density Geodesics for Similarity Clustering,” Proc. ICASSP’08, pp. 1977-1980, 2008.
23. Y. Huang, D. Erdogmus, Z. Lu, T.K. Leen, “Detecting Mild Cognitive Loss with Continuous Monitoring of Medication Adherence,” Proc. ICASSP’08, pp. 609-612, 2008.
24. Y. Huang, D. Erdogmus, S. Mathan, M. Pavel, “Large-scale Image Database Triage via EEG Evoked Responses,” Proc. ICASSP’08, pp. 429-432, 2008.
25. U. Ozertem, D. Erdogmus, “Local Conditions for Critical and Principal Manifolds,” Proc. ICASSP’08, pp. 1893-1896, 2008.
26. O. Kyrgyzov, D. Erdogmus, “Geometric Structure of Sum-of-Rank-1 Decompositions for n-Dimensional order-p Symmetric Tensors,” Proc. ISCAS’08, pp. 1340-1343, 2008.
27. K.E. Hild, D. Erdogmus, S. Mathan, M. Pavel, “Trellis-based Circle Detection,” Proc. MLSP’08, pp. 211-215, 2008.
28. U. Ozertem, D. Erdogmus, O. Arikan, “Piecewise Smooth Signal Denoising via Principal Curve Projections,” Proc. MLSP’08, pp. 426-431, 2008.
29. Y. Huang, D. Erdogmus, M. Pavel, S. Mathan, “Mixed Effects Models for EEG Evoked Response Detection,” Proc. MLSP’08, pp. 91-96, 2008.
30. U. Ozertem, D. Erdogmus, “Principal Graphs and Piecewise Linear Subspace Constrained Mean-Shift,” Proc. MLSP’08, pp. 438-443, 2008.
31. T. Lan, D. Erdogmus, S.J. Hayflick, U.J. Szumowski, “Phase Unwrapping and Background Correction in MRI,” Proc. MLSP’08, pp. 239-243, 2008.
32. Z. Lu, T.K. Leen, Y. Huang, D. Erdogmus, “A Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Framework for Pairwise Time Series Distances,” Proc. ICML’08, 2008.
33. Braganza, S. and Leeser, M., “Two-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping on FPGAs and GPUs,” In Workshop on High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing Technology and Applications (HPRCTA’08). November 2008. 50% acceptance rate.
34. Braganza, S. and Leeser, M., “2D Phase Unwrapping on FPGAs and GPUs,” In Twelfth Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2008). September 2008.
35. Cuccaro, D, Moore, N, Leeser, M., and Smith King, L. “Extending VForce to Include Support for NVIDIA GPUs using CUDA,” In Twelfth Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2008). September 2008.
36. Bennis, A, Leeser, M., Tadmor, G, Tedrake, R, “Implementation of a Highly Parameterized Digital PIV System On Reconfigurable Hardware,” Twelfth Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC2008). September 2008.
37. Braganza, S. and Leeser, M., “An Efficient Implementation Of A Phase Unwrapping Kernel On Reconfigurable Hardware”, In IEEE International Conference on Application specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 2008), July 2008.
38. Fuess, M.E., Leeser, M. and Leonard, T., “An FPGA Implementation of Explicit-State Model Checking,” In IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM2008), April 2008. 29 % acceptance rate.
39. Marengo, E.A., Hernandez, R.D., Citron, Y.R., Gruber, F.K., Zambrano, M., and Lev-Ari, H., “Compressive Sensing for Inverse Scattering,” Proceedings of the XXIX URSI General Assembly, Chicago, IL, Aug. 2008 (4 pages).
40. Lev-Ari, H. and Stankovic, A.M., “Phasor Banks: Customizable Filter Banks for Robust Dynamic Time-Frequency Analysis,” Proceedings of the 40-th North American Power Symposium, Calgary, Canada, Sept. 2008 (8 pages).
41. Lev-Ari, H., Stankovic, A.M., and Ghanavati, A., “Dynamic Decomposition of Apparent Power in Polyphase Unbalanced Networks with Application to Transients in an Industrial Load,” Proceedings of the 40-th North American Power Symposium, Calgary, Canada, Sept. 2008 (8 pages).
42. E.A. Marengo, R.D. Hernandez, Y.R. Citron, F.K. Gruber, M. Zambrano, and H. Lev-Ari, "Compressive sensing for inverse scattering", XXIX URSI General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, Aug. 7-16, 2008.
43. F.K. Gruber and E.A. Marengo, "Inverse scattering of extended targets by signal subspace approaches and the level set method", 2008 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, July 7-11, 2008.
44. E.A. Marengo, "Compressive sensing and signal subspace methods for inverse scattering including multiple scattering", Invited talk at the Special Session on "Near sub-surface electromagnetic imaging: methods and applications", 2008 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, July 7-11, 2008 (special session organized by Drs. Lorenzo Crocco and Amelie Litman).
45. E.A. Marengo, "Subspace and Bayesian compressive sensing methods in imaging", Invited talk at the Special Session on "Progress on Theory and Numerical Algorithms for Solving the Inverse Scattering Problems", of the Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) 2008, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 2-6, 2008 (special session organized by Drs. Aria Abubakar and Dominique Lesselier).
46. E.A. Marengo and F.K. Gruber, "Inverse scattering by signal subspace and level set methods", Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) 2008, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 2-6, 2008.
47. F.K. Gruber and E.A. Marengo, "Electromagnetic information theory for wireless and antenna systems", Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) 2008, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 2-6, 2008.
48. Jin He and M. Salehi, “A Lattice Precoding for Flat-Fading MIMO Channels Based on Eigenvalue Decomposition”, Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), New Orleans, LA, Nov. 30--Dec. 4, 2008, pp. 1-5.
49. Jin He and M. Salehi, “A new finger placement algorithm for the Generalized RAKE receiver”, Proceedings of the 42nd Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2008), 19-21 March 2008, pp. 335-340.
50. Yueqian Li and M. Salehi, “A New BC-BICM Scheme for Block-Fading Channels”, Proceedings of the 42nd Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS2008), 19-21 March 2008, pp. 574-576.
51. Jin He and M. Salehi, “A lattice precoding scheme for flat-fading MIMO channels”, Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2008), 16-19 November , San Diego, CA, pp. 1-6.
52. Sadaka, H., Shafai, B., and Sipahi, R., “PI Observer Design for Linear Time-Delay Systems,” Proceedings of 2008 World Automation Congress (WAC), Waikoloa, Hawaii, pp. ……, 2008.
53. Shafai, B., and Ghadami, R., “Model reduction for Metzlerian Systems,” Proceedings of 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 1833-1838, 2008.
54. Vahedforough, E. and Shafai B., “Design of Proportional Integral Adaptive Observers,”Proceeding of 2008 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 3683-3688, 2008.
55. Shafai, B., and Ghadami, R., “Stability Property and Model Reduction of Certain Class of Singularly Perturbed Systems,” Accepted in 2008, to appear in the Proceedings of 28th IASTED International Conference on Modeling, Identification, and Control (MIC), February 2009.
56. M. Stojanovic, “Adaptive Channel Estimation for Underwater Acoustic MIMO OFDM Systems,” invited paper, in Proc. IEEE DSP/SPE Workshop 2009, Marco Island, FL, January 2009.
57. D. Lucani, M. Medard and M. Stojanovic, “A Lower Bound to Transmission Power for Multicast in Underwater Networks using Network Coding,” in Proc. International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA),” Auckland, New Zealand, December 2008.
58. D. Lucani, M. Medard and M. Stojanovic, “Capacity Scaling Laws for Underwater Networks,” in Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2008.
59. J.M. Montana and M. Stojanovic, “Distributed Power Control for Underwater Acoustic Networks,” in Proc. IEEE Oceans'08 Conference, Quebec City, Canada, September 2008.
60. P.C. Ceballos and M. Stojanovic, “Adaptive MIMO Detection of OFDM Signals in an Underwater Acoustic Channel,” in Proc. IEEE Oceans'08 Conference, Quebec City, Canada, September 2008.
61. M. Aydinlik, A. Ozdemir and M. Stojanovic, “A Physical Layer Implementation on Reconfigurable Underwater Acoustic Modem,” in Proc. IEEE Oceans'08 Conference, Quebec City, Canada, September 2008.
62. C. Petrioli, R. Petroccia and M. Stojanovic, “A Comparative Performance Evaluation of MAC Protocols for Underwater Sensor Networks,” in Proc. IEEE Oceans'08 Conference, Quebec City, Canada, September 2008.
63. B. Li, J. Huang, S. Zhou, K. Ball, M. Stojanovic, L. Freitag and P. Willet, “Further Results on High-Rate MIMO-OFDM Underwater Acoustic Communications,” in Proc. IEEE Oceans'08 Conference, Quebec City, Canada, September 2008.
64. M. Chitre, M. Stojanovic, S. Shahabudeen and L. Freitag, “Recent Advances in Underwater Acoustic Communications \& Networking,” in Proc. IEEE Oceans'08 Conference, Quebec City, Canada, September 2008.
65. J.M. Montana, M. Stojanovic and M. Zorzi, “Focused Beam Routing protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks,” in Proc. Third ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNeT'08) / MobiCom 2006, San Francisco, CA, September 2008.
66. W. Zhang, M. Stojanovic and U. Mitra, “Analysis of A Simple Multihop Underwater Acoustic Network,” in Proc. Third ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNeT'08) / MobiCom 2008, San Francisco, CA, September 2008.
67. D. Lucani, M. Medard and M. Stojanovic, “On the Relationship Between Transmission Power and Capacity of an Underwater Acoustic Communication Channel,” in Proc. {\em IEEE Oceans'08 Conference}, Kobe, Japan, April 2008.
68. M. Stojanovic, “OFDM for Underwater Acoustic Communications: Adaptive Synchronization and Sparse Channel Estimation,” invited paper, in Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'08), April 2008.
69. M. Stojanovic, “Underwater Acoustic Communications: Design Considerations on the Physical Layer,” {\em invited paper}, in Proc. IEEE / IFIP Fifth Annual Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2008), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, January 2008.
70. Sznaier, M., Camps, O., and Lagoa, C., “Robust Identification of Piecewise Linear Systems,” 2008 IFAC Workshop on Uncertain Dynamical Systems, Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center, Japan, July 2-4, 2008. (CDROM).
71. Ding, T., Sznaier, M., and Camps, O., “Fast Track Matching and Event Detection,” In Proc. 2008 IEEE Conf. Comp. Vision and Pattern Recog. (CVPR), Anchorage, AK, June 24-28, 2008, pp 1-8. (32% acceptance rate)
72. Ozay, N., Sznaier, M., and Camps, O., “Sequential Sparsification for Change Detection”. In Proc. 2008 IEEE Conf. Comp. Vision and Pattern Recog. (CVPR), Anchorage, AK, June 24-28, 2008, pp. 1-6. (32% acceptance rate)
73. Ozay, N., Sznaier, M., Lagoa, C., and Camps, O., “A Sparsification Approach to Set Membership Identification of a Class of Affine Hybrid Systems,” 2008 IEEE Conf. Dec. Control, Cancun, MX, Dec 9-11, 2008, pp. 123-130. (48% acceptance rate) (Best Student Paper of the Conference Award)
74. Sznaier, M., “Computational Complexity Analysis of Set Membership Identification of a Class of Nonlinear Systems,” 2008 IEEE Conf. Dec. Control, Cancun, MX, Dec 9-11 ,2008, pp. 1383--1385 (48% acceptance rate)
75. Sznaier, M., and Camps, O.,“The Role of Dynamics in Computer Vision and Image Processing,” 2008 IEEE Conf. Dec. Control, Cancun, MX, Dec 9-11, 2008, pp. 3923-3934. (48% acceptance rate)
76. Ding, T., Sznaier, M., and Camps, O., “Receding Horizon Rank Minimization Based Estimation with Applications to Visual Tracking,” 2008 IEEE Conf. Dec. Control, Cancun, MX, Dec 9-11, 2008, pp. 3446-3451. (48% acceptance rate)
77. D. R. Williams, J. Collins, C. Jankhot, T. Colonius and G. Tadmor, Control of Flow Structure on a Semi-Circular Planform Wing, 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 7-10, 2008
78. W-T. Joe, K. Taira, T. Colonius, D. G. MacMynowski and G. Tadmor, Closed-Loop Control of Vortex Shedding on a Two-Dimensional Flat-Plate Airfoil at a Low Reynolds Number, 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 7-10, 2008
79. B. R. Noack, L. Cordier, M. Morzynski and G. Tadmor, Reduced order models for feedback flow control: A review of key enablers and show stoppers, 79th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM), Bremen (Germany), March 31 – April 4, 2008 (abstract)
80. G. Tadmor, D. Bissex, B. R. Noack, M. Morzynski, T. Colonius and K. Taira, A Fast Approximate POD Algorithm for Long Time Data Trajectories, 38th AIAA Fluid Dynamics / 4th Flow Control Conference and Exhibit, June 23-26, 2008
81. G. Tadmor, D. Bissex, B. R. Noack, M. Morzynski, T. Colonius and K. Taira, Temporal-Harmonic Specific POD Mode Extraction, 38th AIAA Fluid Dynamics / 4th Flow Control Conference and Exhibit, June 23-26, 2008
82. D. R. Williams, J. Collins, G. Tadmor and T. Colonius, Control of a Semi-Circular Planform Wing in a “Gusting” Unsteady Freestream Flow I: Experimental Issues, 38th AIAA Fluid Dynamics / 4th Flow Control Conference and Exhibit, June 23-26, 2008
83. D. R. Williams, J. Collins, G. Tadmor and T. Colonius, Control of a Semi-Circular Planform Wing in a “Gusting” Unsteady Freestream Flow II: Modeling and Feedback Design, 38th AIAA Fluid Dynamics / 4th Flow Control Conference and Exhibit, June 23-26, 2008
84. A, Mishra, G. Tadmor, and Z. Rusak, The Dynamics of the Axisymmetric Vortex Breakdown in a Pipe, 38th AIAA Fluid Dynamics / 4th Flow Control Conference and Exhibit, June 23-26, 2008
85. B.R. Noack, M. Schlegel, M. Pastoor, M. Luchtenburg, R. King, G. Mutschke, M. Morzynski, P. Comte, G. Tadmor and B. Ahlborn, Shear flow compositions on the Galerkin piano: A unified theory for instabilities, strange attractors, statistical mechanics, and attractor control, Workshop on Industrial Applications of Low-Order Models Based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), Bordeaux, March 31st–April 2nd 2008 (http://www.ufr-mi.u-bordeaux.fr/WKSPOD/index.html)
86. B. R. Noack, M. Schlegel, B. Ahlborn, G. Tadmor, G. Mutschke, M. Morzynski, and P. Comte, Finite-time thermodynamics of shear flows: a unifying formalism for instabilities, nonlinear dynamics and statistical mechanics, Mathematical Theory of Networks of Systems, July 28 – August 1, 2008 (http://www.cpe.vt.edu/mtns08/)
87. M. Schlegel, B. R. Noack, P. Jordan and G. Tadmor, Least-order modal flow decompositions for aerodynamic and aeroacoustic goal functionals, 2nd Int. Conf. on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, Berlin, Germany, September 16-19, 2008, (http://www.fd.tu-berlin.de/index.php?id=494)
88. D. R. Williams, J. Collins, G. Tadmor, T. Colonius and C. W. Rowley, Closed Loop Control of Post Stall Lift on a Low Aspect Ratio Wing, 2nd Int. Conf. on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, Berlin, Germany, September 16-19, 2008, (http://www.fd.tu-berlin.de/index.php?id=494)
89. K. Aleksic, R. King, B. R. Noack, O. Lehmann, M. Morzynski & G. Tadmor, \emph{Nonlinear model predictive control based on a low dimensional model of fluid flow}, 2nd Int. Conf. on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, Berlin, Germany, September 16-19, 2008, (http://www.fd.tu-berlin.de/index.php?id=494)
90. Bennis, M. Leeser, G. Tadmor and R. Tedrake, Implementation of a Highly Parameterized Digital PIV System On Reconfigurable Hardware, 12th Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing, MIT Lincoln Lab, 23-25 September, 2008.
91. M. Schlegel, B. R. Noack, B. Ahlborn, G. Mutschke,M. Morzynski, P. Comte & G. Tadmor, Finite-time thermodynamics of shear flows - modelling attractors of simple to complex dynamics, Dynamics Days Europe, Dleft (Holand), August 25 - 29, 2008
92. D. R. Williams, J. Collins, G. Tadmor and T. Colonius, Lift force time delays on 2D and 3D wings in unsteady flows, 61th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the APS, San Antonio, Texas, USA, November 23 - 25, 2008
93. M. Pastoor, L. Henning, B. R. Noack, R. King and G. Tadmor, Vortex-model based flow control of turbulent wakes in experiment, 61th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the APS, San Antonio, Texas, USA, November 23 - 25, 2008
94. G. Tadmor, B. R. Noack, M. Schlegel and M. Morzynski, A generalized Landau model for oscillatory to complex shear flows - enablers for reduced, low and least-order Galerkin models, 61th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the APS, San Antonio, Texas, USA, November 23 - 25, 2008
95. Bennis, M. Leeser, G. Tadmor and R. Tedrake, Implementation of a Highly Parameterized Digital PIV
    System On Reconfigurable Hardware, 12th Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC), September 23 – 25, 2008 (http://www.ll.mit.edu/HPEC/)
    
    

IV. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

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.
- Member of the editorial board of the Hindawi 's International Journal of Vehicular Technology.
Guest editor of special issues of the following journals:
• Reviewer for all the major IEEE Transactions and ACM journals in the field of wireless and mobile networking
• 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
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:
• Technical Program Chair for the 2009 Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (to be held in Boston in June 2009)
• Member, Steering Committee, Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
• Member, Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing (BISP) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
• Reviewed papers for a number of journals in 2008, as well as for the Swedish Government.

Prof. Octavia Camps:
• Associate Editor, Machine Vision Applications
• Associate Editor, Image and Vision Computing Journal
• Tutorials General Chair, IEEE CVPR 2008
• Co-Organizer of Tutorial Session on The Role of Dynamics in Computer Vision and Image Processing, CDC 2008
• Program Committee Member, IEEE ICCV 2009
• 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. Jennifer Dy:
• Action Editor, Machine Learning
• Program Area Chair, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2009
• Program Committee Member,
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
International Conference on Machine Learning
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• Reviewer,
Neural Information Processing Systems (2008)
Machine Learning
Journal of Machine Learning Research
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• Panel Reviewer,
National Science Foundation
• Session Chair,
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Denniz Erdogmus:
• Associate Editor, Neural Information Processing Letters, Oct 2007 – present
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Jun 2007 – present
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Nov 2006 – present
• Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Apr 2006 – present
• Associate Editor, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Mar 2006 – present
• Associate Editor, Neurocomputing, Jun 2004 – present
• Program Chair, MLSP, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Oct 2008
• IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee, Jul 2003 – present
• INNS Special Interest Groups Committee, Jun 2005 – present
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee, Jul 2007 – present
• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Nov 2004 – present
• IEEE Signal Processing Society, Apr 2003 – present
• IEEE, Jan 1996 – present (Senior Member, Oct 2007)
• Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society), Apr 2001 – present
• Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honor Society), Dec 2001 – present
• Program Committee Member (involves reviewing papers and finding reviewers):
Cognitive Information Processing (IEEE)
European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks
European Signal Processing Conference; also North America Liaison (EURASIP)
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (IEEE)
World Conference on Computational Intelligence (IEEE and INNS)
• Reviewer for many journal and conference articles

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser:
• 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
International Conference on Reconfigurable Hardware
• Reviewer (Journals and highly refereed Conferences)
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems
ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology
European Signal Processing Conference
IEEE Trans on VLSI
IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design
IEEE Trans on Computers
IEEE Trans on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Integration, the VLSI journal
Transactions on VLSI Signal Processing
Parallel Computing Journal
• Senior Member ACM, IEEE, SWE

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari:
• Membership and active participation in professional societies
• Fellow of IEEE, member of SIAM.
• Journal reviewer.

Prof. Edwin Marengo:
• Paper reviewer for 30 journals:
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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 Applied Physics
Applied Physics Letters
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
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences
Inverse Problems
Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (JEMWA)
Progress in Electromagnetics Research (PIER) journals
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
• Member of the International Program Committee of:
2008 IASTED International Conference on Antennas, Radar and Wave Propagation, Baltimore, Maryland, April 16-18, 2008.
2008 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 2-6, 2008.
IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2009, Princeton, New Jersey, March 30-April 1, 2009.
2009 IASTED International Conference on Antennas, Radar and Wave Propagation, Banff, Canada, July 6-8 2009.
• Paper reviewer for the following conferences:
2008 IASTED International Conference on Antennas, Radar and Wave Propagation, Baltimore, Maryland, April 16-18, 2008.
IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2009, Princeton, New Jersey, March 30-April 1, 2009.
• Session chair or co-chair in:
2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, July, 2008.
XXIX General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Chicago, Illinois, August, 2008.
• Student Paper Award Committee Member in:
XXIX General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Chicago, Illinois, August 2008.
2009 National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, January 2009.
• Panel Reviewer for the National Science Foundation, March 2008.

Prof. Mark Niedre:
• Manuscript reviewer for:
Applied Optics (1 man.)
Journal of Biomedical Optics (5 mans.)
Medical Physics (1 man.)
Optics Letters (2 man.)
• Grant proposal reviewer for:
National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC; Canada)
Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) “Collaborative Health Research Projects”

Prof. Masoud Salehi:
• Paper reviewer for IEEE transactions on Communications, Information Theory, Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, and conferences in communications area.

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 2008.
• Registration Chair of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007-2009
• 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. Milica Stojanovic:
• Committees:
IEEE Ocean Engineering Society Administrative Committee Member (since 2006)
IEEE Ocean Engineering Society Technical Committee Chair (Underwater Communications) (since 2007)
Steering Committee Member, Workshops on Underwater Networks (WUWNET) (since 2006)
• Conferences:
General Chair, ACM MobiCom 2008: Third International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet) 2008.
Session chair/organizer: IEEE Oceans'08 Asia Pacific, IEEE Oceans’08 North America.
• Paper review:
IEEE JOE, IEEE JSAC, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) ; EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (Jan. 2009-present)
Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (May 2008-present)
Editorial Board Member, Phycom: Physical Communication (2007-present)
Guest Editor:
-ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), Special Issue on Underwater Wireless Networks (2008).
-IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Issue on Underwater Wireless Communications and Networks, (2008)
-IEEE Communications Magazine, Feature Topic on Underwater Wireless Communications (2009)
-Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Special Issue on Underwater Networks, to appear

Prof. Mario Sznaier:
• Associate Editor, Automatica (journal of the Int. Federation of Automatic Control)
• Member, IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors
• Member IEEE Control Systems Society Executive Committee
• Executive Director, IEEE Control Systems Society
• Member, Int. Fed. Aut. Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Robust Control.
• Program Vice-Chair, 2008 IEEE Conf. Decision and Control (CDC) (1937 submissions, 930 papers accepted)
• Program Chair, 2009 IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design.
• Session Chair, Sessions TuA04, TuC04, WeC09, 2008 IEEE CDC
• Proposal Reviewer and Panelist, Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI), March &November 2008
• Paper reviewer (Automatica, IEEE Trans. Aut. Contr., IEEE CDC, IEEE ACC)

Prof. Gilead Tadmor:
• Member: SIAM, APS; Senior Member: IEEE, AIAA
• Associate Editor, IEEE-Control Systems Society, Conference Editorial Board
• Program Committee, 2009 IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design
• Director Communications and Digital Signal Process (CDSP) Research Center for Research and Graduate Studies