Seminar

Each member of our lab takes turns delivering a one hour presentation every Tuesday at 12:30 pm in ECSN 3.8 Suite Conference Room. The presentations cover topics which may be of interest to researchers in our field, usually derived from a conference or journal paper. Refreshments provided.

Heeeun Choi is in charge of organizing the seminars.

Spring 2013

April 2	Srinivasa Rahul Batchu	Clustering Aggregation
March 26	Srinivasa Rahul Batchu	Clustering Aggregation
March 19	Srinivasa Rahul Batchu	Monitoring of Posture Allocation and Activities by a Shoe-Based Wearable Sensor
March 12	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	Enhancing Lifetime and Security of PCM-Based Main Memory with Start-Gap Wear Leveling
March 5	Jian Wu	Efficiently learning a detection cascade with sparse eigenvectors
Feb 26	Ali Ahmadi	A Low-Energy Computation Platform for Data-Driven Biomedical Monitoring Algorithms
Feb 19	Omid Dezangi	temporal feature for EEG signal classification and channel selection
Feb 12	Viswam Nathan	A user-friendly SSVEP-based brain-computer interface using a time-domain classifier
February 5	Reza Lotfian	An Ultra-Low Power Hardware Accelerator Architecture for Wearable Computers Using Dynamic Time Warping

Fall 2012

Dec 11	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	Data Allocation Optimization for Hybrid Scratch Pad Memory with SRAM and Nonvolatile Memory
Dec 4	Jason Lee	Applying evolution strategies to preprocessing EEG signals for brain computer interface
Nov 27	Thomas Broadfoot	Basic Concepts on Energy Harvesting Circuits
Nov 20	Jake Clements	Bluetooth-based sensor networks for remotely monitoring the physiological signals of a patient
Nov 13	Rui Pang	FPGA-based 35 Gbps network processor
Nov 6	Abel Netsereab	A Wireless Sensory Feedback System for Real-Time Gait Modification
Oct 30	Zheng Zhao	iTUG, a Sensitive and Reliable Measure of Mobility
Oct 23		No seminar due to TxACE Symposium/SRC Review
Oct 16	Akshay Sridharan	A Fully-Automated Desynchronization Flow for Synchronous Circuits
Oct 9	Isabella Westlauer	Bluetooth telemedicine processor for multichannel biomedical signal transmission via mobile cellular networks
Oct 2	Yuan Zou	Reducing Calibration Time For Brain-Computer Interfaces: A Clustering Approach
Sep 25	Jian Wu	Motion Measurement Using Inertial Sensors, Ultrasonic Sensors, and Magnetometers With Extended Kalman Filter for Data Fusion
Sep 18	Reza Lotfian	Versatile Recognition Using Haar-Like Feature and Cascaded Classifier
Sep 11	Heeeun Choi	Introduction to Memory, especially focused on SRAM (Text book: Integrated circuit design)
Sept 04	Rui Pang	Hardware-Based TCP processor for Gigabit Ethernet
August 28	Ali Ahmadi	A 10-pJ/instruction, 4-MIPS Micropower DSP for Sensor Applications

Summer 2012

Aug 21	Omid Dehzangi	Playing a First-person Shooter Video Game Induces Neuroplastic Change
Aug 14	Viswam Nathan	A novel P300-based brain–computer interface stimulus presentation paradigm: Moving beyond rows and columns
Aug 7	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	Exploiting the Interplay between Memory and Flash Storage in Embedded Sensor Devices
July 31	Jason Lee	A Recursive Quantum Neural Network Model Enhances The EEG Signal for an Brain-Computer Interface
July 24	Jake Clements	Birthday protocols for low energy deployment and flexible neighbor discovery in ad hoc wireless networks
July 17	Nimish Kale	Thesis presentation
July 10	Yuan Zou	Improving BCI Performance by Task-related Trial Pruning - Part 2
July 3	Yuan Zou	Improving BCI Performance by Task-related Trial Pruning
June 26	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	A 10 pJ/cycle ultra-low-voltage 32-bit microprocessor system-on-chip
June 19	Jian Wu	Gait Analysis Using a Shoe-Integrated Wireless Sensor System
June 12	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	SRAM Leakage Suppression by Minimizing Standby Supply Voltage
June05	HeeEun Choi	Low Power Essentials

Spring 2012

May 29	Reza Lotfian	Into the Wild: Studying Real User Activity Patterns to Guide Power Optimizations for Mobile Architectures
May 22	Rui Pang	An introduction to the EKV model
May 15	Ali Ahmadi	Design Techniques for Functional-Unit Power Gating in the Ultra-Low-Voltage Region
May 8	Omid Dehzangi	On Coherence
May 1	Ali Ahmadi	An Energy Efficient Parallel Architecture Using Near Threshold Operation
Apr 24	HeeEun Choi	Determining the Effectiveness of a Vibrotactile Balance Prosthesis
Apr 17	Yuan Zou	An Adaptive P300-Based Online Brain-Computer Interface
Apr 10	Rui Pang	Bitwise Optimized CAM for Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Apr 3	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	An Accelerator-Based Wireless Sensor Network Processor in 130 nm CMOS
Mar 27	Reza Lotfian	Activity Recognition and Abnormality Detection with the Switching Hidden Semi-Markov Model
Mar 20	Nimish Kale	Exact Indexing of Dynamic Time Warping
Mar 13	Ali Ahmadi	Querying and Mining of Time Series Data: Experimental Comparison of Representations and Distance Measures
Mar 6	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	Energy Minimum Operation in a Reconfigurable Gate-Level Pipelined and Power-Gated Self Synchronous FPGA
Feb 28	Peter Semig	Novel Dry Polymer Foam Electrodes for Long-Term EEG Measurement
Feb 21	Nimish Kale	Semi-Supervised Time Series Classification
Feb 14	Reza Lotfian	Adaptive Control for Haptics with Time-Delay
Feb 7	Rui Pang	TCAM Architecture for IP Lookup Using Prefix Properties
Jan 31	Jake Clements	A Low Cost Quadratic Level ECG Compression Algorithm and Its Hardware Optimization for Body Sensor Network System
Jan 24	HeeEun Choi	Feature Selection Based on Mutual Information: Criteria of Max-Dependency, Max-Relevance, and Min-Redundancy
Jan 17	Yuan Zou	Haptic System to Alert Users Before Impending Human Errors
January 10	Ali Ahmadi	Development of Wireless Brain Computer Interface With Embedded Multitask Scheduling and its Application on Real-Time Driver’s Drowsiness Detection and Warning

Fall 2011

Dec 19	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	Design of a Wireless Sensor Network Platform for Detecting Rare, Random, and Ephemeral Events
Dec 12	Reza Lotfian	Atomic Wedgie: Efficient Query Filtering for Streaming Time Series
Nov 28	Nimish Kale	Fast parallel GPU-sorting using a hybrid algorithm
Nov 21	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	A Low-Voltage Processor for Sensing Applications With Picowatt Standby Mode
Nov 14	Yuan Zou	SMOTE: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique
Oct 31	Ali Ahmadi	Confidence of SVM Predictions using a Strangeness Measure
Oct 17	Reza Lotfian	Adaptive Power Management for Environmentally Powered Systems
Oct 3	Nimish Kale	Real-time Activity Recognition in Wireless Body Sensor Networks: From Simple Gestures to Complex Activities
Sept 21	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	Sensor Positioning for Activity Recognition Using Wearable Accelerometers

Summer 2011

August 9	Reza Lotfian	Real-Time Activity Classification Using Ambient and Wearable Sensors
August 2	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	Design considerations for ultra-low energy wireless microsensor nodes
July 26	Nimish Kale	Research and improvement on ID3 algorithm in intrusion detection system
July 19	Chaitra Kallianpur	Minimizing Energy Consumption in Body Sensor Networks via Convex Optimization
July 12	Lucas Hansen	Wrapper–Filter Feature Selection Algorithm Using a Memetic Framework
July 5	Jerry Mannil	Wearable Sensor-Based Hand Gesture and Daily Activity Recognition for Robot-Assisted Living
June 28	Ali Ahmadi	Real-Time Embedded EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interface
June 21	Yuan Zou	On the Need for On-line Learning in Brain-computer Interfaces
June 14	Reza Lotfian	Power efficient cross-correlation beat detection in electrocardiogram analysis using bitstreams
June 07	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	A comparison of feature extraction methods for the classification of dynamic activities from accelerometer data
June 01	Swaroop Rayudu	Haptic Navigation in the World Wide Web

Spring 2011

May 17	Yuan Zou	A brain-actuated wheelchair: Asynchronous and non-invasive Brain-computer interfaces for continuous control of robots
May 10	Ali Ahmadi	Hardware Designs for Binary Integer Decimal-Based Rounding
Apr 26	Omid Dehzangi	Error Corrective Fusion of Classifier Scores for Spoken Language Recognition
Apr 19	Vitali Loseu	BodyT2: Throughput and Time Delay Performance Assurance for Heterogeneous BSNs
Apr 12	Jerry Mannil	Rejection of non-meaningful activities for HMM-based activity recognition system
Apr 5	Reza Lotfian	Study of the motion artifacts of skin-mounted inertial sensors under different attachment conditions
Mar 29	Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki	Don’t Slow Me Down: Bringing energy efficiency to continuous gesture recognition
Mar 22	Swaroop Rayudu	Bridging the Gap between Virtual and Real World
Mar 02	Vitali Loseu	Study design in clinical research: sample size estimation and power analysis
Feb 22	Pasquale Panuccio	Real-time Activity Recognition in Wireless Body Sensor Networks: From Simple Gestures to Complex Activities
Feb 15	Yuan Zou	Estimation of individual evoked potential components using iterative independent component analysis
Feb 8	Jerry Mannil	An HMM-based threshold model approach for gesture recognition
Jan 25	Reza Lotfian	A 5.2 mW Self-Configured Wearable Body Sensor Network Controller and a 12 uW Wirelessly Powered Sensor for a Continuous Health Monitoring System
January 18	Ali Ahmadi	Designing optimal spatial filters for single-trial EEG classification in a movement task

Fall 2010

Dec 06	Jerry Mannil	On-Line Signature Verification With Two-Stage Statistical Models
Nov 29	Prem Santosh	Transfer of Skills between Human Operators through Haptic Training with Robot Coordination
Nov 22	Reza Lotfian	Unobtrusive and Ubiquitous In-Home Monitoring
Nov 08	Nikhil Raveendranathan	Possessed Hand: a hand gesture manipulation system using electrical stimuli
Nov 01	Vitali Loseu	Fall risk in an active elderly population – can it be assessed?
Oct 25	Ali Ahmadi	Template Matching using Fast Normalized Cross Correlation
Oct 18	Pasquale Panuccio	Stochastic Context Free Grammar: Parsing & Use
Oct 11	Yuan Zou	Linear Discriminant Analysis on Brain Computer Interface
Sep 27	Jerry Mannil	Efficient Multiplication and Division Using MSP430
Sep 20	Reza Lotfian	The RFID Technology for Neurosciences : Feasibility of Limbs' Monitoring in Sleep Diseases
Aug 30	Jacques Malan	Fast Template Matching With Polynomials

Summer 2010

Aug 12	Anu Vaidyanathan	Mercury: A Wearable Sensor Network Platform for High-Fidelity Motion Analysis
July 29	Prem Santosh	Power Efficient Organization of Wireless Sensor Networks
July 15	Vitali Loseu	A Comparative Study of Wireless Protocols: Bluetooth, UWB, ZigBee, and Wi-Fi.
June 24	Jacques Malan	Template matching: matched spatial filters and beyond

Spring 2010

April 15	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	SwimMaster: a wearable assistant for swimmer
April 8	Vitali Loseu	Learning to detect malicious executables in the wild
March 26	Sarah Ostadabbas	Single weep Analysis of Visual Evoked Potentials Through a Model of Parameter Estimation
March 11	Nikhil Raveendranathan	The Role of Haptics in Immersive Telecommunication Environments
February 25	Prem Santosh	A Real Time Articulated Human Motion Tracking using Tri-Axis Inertial/Magnetic Sensors Package
January 28	Jerry Mannil	Fixed-point GMM-based speaker verification over mobile embedded system
January 21	Jacques Malan	Inclination Measurement of Human Movement Using a 3-D Accelerometer With Autocalibration
January 12	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	To Hop or Not to Hop: Network Architecture for Body Sensor Networks

Fall 2009

December 10	Vitali Loseu	Towards Efficient Hierarchical Designs by Ratio Cut Partitioning
November 12	Sarah Ostadabbas	Modeling common dynamics in multichannel signals
November 05	Prem Santosh	Recognizing strokes in tennis videos using HMM
October 29	Jerry Mannil	Accurate, Fast Fall Detection Using Gyroscopes and Accelerometer-Derived Posture Information
October 22	Jacques Malan	Body posture identification using hidden Markov model with a wearable sensor network
October 15	Sarah Ostadabbas	EEG signal modeling using adaptive Markov process amplitude
October 01	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	The Impact of Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
September 03	Sarah Ostadabbas	Data Compression by Temporal and Spatial Correlations in a Body-Area Sensor Network

Summer 2009

August 21	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Toward Unsupervised Activity Discovery Using Multi Dimensional Motif Detection in Time Series
August 07	Chellappan Valliyappan	BIONic WalkAide for Correcting Foot Drop
July 24	Nikhil Raveendranathan	Power analysis of embedded software: a first step towards software power minimization
July 17	Vitali Loseu	Implementing faceted classification for software reuse
July 10	Sarah Ostadabbas	Fuzzy support vector machine for classification of EEG signals using wavelet-based features
June 26	Nikhil Raveendranathan	Energy-aware wireless microsensor networks
June 19	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Per-Flow Queueing by Dynamic Queue Sharing
June 12	Nikhil Raveendranathan	Intelligent Agent Model for Remote Support of Rural Healthcare for the Elderly
June 5	Eric Guenterberg	DCOSS'09 Paper Presentation
May 29	Vitali Loseu	BSN'09 Paper Presentation

Spring 2009

May 22	Vitali Loseu	Parkinson's Disease— First of Two Parts
May 15	Sarah Ostadabbas	Neural Network Gait Classification for On-Body Inertial Sensors
May 8	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Cache-aware optimization of BAN applications
May 1	Eric Guenterberg	Real World Activity Recognition with Multiple Goals
April 17	Vitali Loseu	Simultaneous Tracking and Activity Recognition (STAR) Using Many Anonymous, Binary Sensors
April 10	Sarah Ostadabbas	Non-GPS Navigation with the Personal Dead-Reckoning System
March 27	Eric Guenterberg	BodyNets'09 Paper Presentation
March 13	Hamed Janzadeh	Drowsy Transmission: Physical Layer Energy Optimization for Transmitting Random Packet Traffic
March 6	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Proposal Presentation
February 20	Vitali Loseu	An Industrial Strength Audio Search Algorithm
February 9	Sarah Ostadabbas	KNN Model-Based Approach in Classification
January 30	Eric Guenterberg	Fine-Grained Segmentation - Part II (Group meeting with prof. Probha's Lab)
January 23	Vitali Loseu	Rapid scene analysis on compressed video
January 15	Eric Guenterberg	Fine-Grained Segmentation - Part I (Group meeting with prof. Probha's Lab)
January 9	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Distributed Activity Recognition with Fuzzy-Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks

Fall 2008

December 12	Eric Guenterberg	A Hybrid Discriminative/Generative Approach for Modeling Human Activities
December 5	Nikhil Raveendranathan	Virtual Sensors
November 14	Eric Guenterberg	Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave
November 7	Vitali Loseu	TOSThreads: Extending the TinyOS Concurrency Model
October 30	Vitali Loseu	Complexity of network synchronization
October 15	Sarah Ostadabbas	Implementing synchronous models on loosely time triggered architecture (Last part)
October 8	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	On Accurate and Efficient Statistical Counting in Sensor-Based Surveillance Systems
October 1	Sarah Ostadabbas	Implementing synchronous models on loosely time triggered architecture (Continued)
September 24	Sarah Ostadabbas	Implementing synchronous models on loosely time triggered architecture (First part)
September 17	Jake Wurzer	Using pervasive computing to deliver elder care
September 10	Canceled
September 3	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Design Methodology for Context-Aware Wearable Sensor Systems
August 27	Eric Guenterberg	Muiltiobjective Optimization Using Nondominated Sorting in Genetic Algorithms

Summer 2008

August 20	Nisha Jain	Energy-efficient target coverage in wireless sensor networks
August 13	Chellappan Valliyappan	Detecting anomalous human interactions using laser range-finders
August 6	Hanan Abdulahi	Human Balance Estimation using a Wireless 3D Acceleration Sensor Netowrk
July 30	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	A solution approach to the fixed charge network flow problem using a dynamic slope scaling procedure
July 23	Eric Guenterberg	A Third-Generation Telecare System using Fuzzy Ambient Intelligence
July 16	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Assessing the Wearability of Wearable Computers
July 9	Hanan Abdulahi	An integrated EMG/biomechanical model of upper body balance and posture during human gait
July 2	Nisha Jain	Buffer Assignment For Data Driven Architectures
June 25	Eric Guenterburg	BriMon: A Sensor Network System for Railway Bridge Monitoring
June 18	Chellappan Valliyappan	Exact indexing of dynamic time warping
June 11	Nisha Jain	Loosely time-triggered architectures based on communication-by-sampling
June 04	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Aging, muscle activity, and balance control: physiologic changes associated with balance impairment
May 28	Chellappan Valliyappan	Use of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis to evaluate sequence matching

Spring 2008

May 21	Hanan Abdulahi	Using AUC and Accuracy in Evaluating Learning Algorithms
May 14	Eric Guenterberg	Floating Search Methods for Feature Selection with Nonmonotonic Criterion Functions
May 9	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Integrating Discriminant and Descriptive Information for Dimension Reduction and Classification
Apr 30	Canceled
Apr 23	Canceled
Apr 16	Jaime Barnes	Unsupervised Learning of Finite Mixture Models
Apr 9	Canceled
Apr 2	Eric Guenterberg	L-Systems: From the Theory to Visual Models of Plants
Mar 26	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	A Sensory Grammar for Inferring Behaviors in Sensor Networks
Mar 19	Jaime Barnes	Feature Selection for Classifying High-Dimensional Numerical Data
Mar 5	Eric Guenterberg	An Introduction to Hidden Markov Models
Feb 27	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Primal-Dual Approximation Algorithms for Integral Flow and Multicut in Trees
Feb 20	Jaime Barnes	Fast Pose Estimation with Parameter Sensitive Hashing
Feb 13	Vikram Ramachandra	A Communication Synthesis Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Networked Control Systems
Feb 6	Canceled
Jan 30	Eric Guenterberg	Automatic Re-coding of Reference Code into Structured and Analyzable SoC Models
Jan 23	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	DEFT: Distributed Exponentially-weighted Flow Splitting
Jan 16	Jaime Barnes	Achieving maximum flow in interference-aware wireless sensor networks with smart antennas
Jan 9	Vikram Ramachandra	A Review of Current Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks

Fall 2007

Dec 19	Katherine Gilani	On the Roots of Digital Signal Processing - Part II
Dec 12	Eric Guenterberg	Distributed Segmentation and Classification of Human Actions Using a Wearable Motion Sensor Network
Dec 05	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Energy-Aware Node Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks
Nov 14	Jaime Barnes	Principal Component Analysis for Dimension Reduction in Massive Distributed Data Sets
Nov 7	Eric Guenterberg	A Min-max Cut Algorithm for Graph Partitioning and Data Clustering
Oct 31	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Refining Initial Points for K-Means Clustering
Oct 24	Jaime Barnes	Feature Normalization and Likelihood-based Similarity Measures for Image Retrieval
Oct 17	Eric Guenterberg	Classification of the Myoelectric Signal Using Time-Frequency Based Representations
Oct 10	Canceled
Oct 3	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Cluster Evaluation Techniques
Sept 26	Jaime Barnes	Automated Derivation of Primitive for Movement Classification
Sept 19	Eric Guenterberg	Neuroscience book, chapter 5, part 2
Sept 12	Eric Guenterberg	Segmentation and Recognition of Motion Streams by Similarity Search
Sept 5	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Maximal Lifetime Scheduling in Sensor Surveillance Networks
Aug 29	Eric Guenterberg	Verifying Distributed Erasure-Coded Data
Aug 22	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Minimizing the Total Cost of Network Measurements in a Distributed Manner: A Primal-Dual Approach

Summer 2007

Aug 8	Eric Guenterberg	Bayesian Selection of Non-Faulty Sensors
Aug 1	Hassan Ghasemzadeh	Distributed Classification of Gaussian Space-Time Sources in Wireless Sensor Networks

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