WVU Libraries
Resources for CSEE
Graduate Students
Speaker:
Marian Armour-Gemmen
Date:
Monday, August. 28th, 2017
Time:
5:00 PM - 6:00
PM
Place:
G102 Engineering Sciences Building (ESB)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: She will introduce the services and resources available through the WVU Libraries. These library resources may be critical to your graduate research.
Speaker Bio: Marian Armour-Gemmen is the Engineering Research librarian at WVU. She also has been the Patent & Trademark librarian since 2003. In this capacity she assists inventors throughout the state of West Virginia. Previously she worked as the head of the Physical Sciences Library and as an associate in the Government Documents department. She holds an MLIS from the University of South Caroline, an MA from the University of Michigan and a BA from Calvin College.
Computational science and
engineering resources for
West Virginia University researchers
Speaker:
Nathan Gregg and Dr. Don McLaughlin
Date:
Monday, September 25th, 2017
Time:
5:00 PM - 6:00
PM
Place:
G102 Engineering Sciences Building (ESB)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: This
presentation will cover two closely related topics. The first
of these
will describe the computational resources managed by WVU’s
Information Technology Services
to support
computational science and engineering research at the University.
Specific
topics that will be discussed will include the University’s high
performance computing
systems and how they are
accessed and used by WVU researchers. The session will also
describe the
research computing program’s high performance parallel
storage system as well as the dedicated campus science DMZ network
known as
REX. There will also be a review of new storage service
options that will
be available to the WVU Research Community. The second part of this
session
will focus on computational science and engineering resources and
services
available through XSEDE. XSEDE is a program sponsored by the
National Science
Foundation to provide world class computational resources to
researchers in
academia. This portion of the seminar will describe the
resources
available through XSEDE and how WVU researchers can take advantage of
them.
Nathan
Gregg – Nathan Gregg is the Manager of
ITS' Research
Computing Department. He has been working for WVU since 2013
and he is
responsible for the daily operations of WVU's Research Computing
Systems.
Research Computing maintains WVU's two centrally shared
high-performance computing
systems Mountaineer and Spruce Knob. Along with Don, Nathan
is also an
XSEDE Campus Champion.
Don
McLaughlin – Don McLaughlin is a part-time
instructor in the Lane
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He
spent
several years working in the WVU Research Office where he managed high
performance computing resources offered by the University. He
also has
served as an XSEDE Campus Champion since 2013. Don retired
from WVU in
2015 but continues to teach an occasional course in the Lane
Department.
He also continues in his role as an XSEDE Campus Champion.
On
System-Level Analysis & Design of Cellular
Networks:
The
Magic of Stochastic Geometry
Speaker:
Dr. Marco Di Renzo
Date:
Friday, October 20, 2017
Time:
11:00 AM -12:00 Noon
Place:
AER135 Advanced Engineering Research Building (AERB)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: This talk
is aimed to provide a comprehensive crash
course on the critical and essential importance of spatial models for
an
accurate system-level analysis and optimization of emerging 5G
ultra-dense and
heterogeneous cellular networks. Due to the increased heterogeneity and
deployment density, new flexible and scalable approaches for modeling,
simulating, analyzing and optimizing cellular networks are needed.
Recently, a
new approach has been proposed: it is based on the theory of point
processes
and it leverages tools from stochastic geometry for tractable
system-level modeling,
performance evaluation and optimization. The potential of stochastic
geometry
for modeling and analyzing cellular networks will be investigated for
application to several emerging case studies, including massive MIMO,
mmWave
communication, and wireless power transfer. In addition, the accuracy
of this
emerging abstraction for modeling cellular networks will be
experimentally
validated by using base station locations and building footprints from
two
publicly available databases in the United Kingdom (OFCOM and Ordnance
Survey).
This topic is highly relevant to graduate students and researchers from
academia and industry, who are highly interested in understanding the
potential
of a variety of candidate communication technologies for 5G networks.
Speaker Bio:
Marco Di Renzo
received the
"Laurea" and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Information Engineering
from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively.
In
October 2013, he received the Doctor of Science
degree from the University Paris-Sud, France. Since 2010, he has been a
"Charge
de Recherche Titulaire" CNRS (CNRS Associate Professor) in the
Laboratory
of Signals and Systems of Paris-Saclay University - CNRS,
CentraleSupelec, Univ
Paris Sud, France. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of
Technology
Sydney, Australia, a Visiting Professor at the University of L’Aquila,
Italy,
and a co-founder of the university spin-off
company WEST Aquila s.r.l., Italy. He serves as the Associate
Editor-in-Chief
of IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, and as an Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS
ON
COMMUNICATIONS and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS. He is
a
Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and
IEEE
Communications Society. He is a recipient of several awards, and a
frequent
tutorial and invited speaker at IEEE conferences.
Engineering
Role before and after the Space Shuttle
Challenger
Disaster
Speaker: Suresh
B. Kulkarni, Ph.D
Date:
Monday, November 6, 2017
Time:
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Place:
G102 Engineering Sciences Building (ESB)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract:
Dr.
Kulkarni will share events of
the night before and the day of the
1986 Challenger launch most likely not known publicly as well as the
environment that existed in the organization pre-Challenger and how it
changed
after the incident. He will discuss the steps which were taken to
assure flight
safety and some of the ethical challenges faced by him and his team.
Speaker
Bio:
Born in
Hyderabad, India, he came
the USA in 1967 to get a Ph.D in
Engineering Mechanics from the University of Denver. After getting his
degree
in 1970, he returned to India, but could not find suitable employment.
He
returned to the USA and joined Thiokol Corporation (now Orbital-ATK) in
Promontory, Utah in 1972 as an entry level junior engineer. He retired
from
there in 2003 as the Vice President of Systems Engineering over all of
ATK’s
strategic and tactical programs.
Appointed
as the Vice President of Engineering in 1989
over 550 engineers to oversee the design, fabrication, testing and
launch of
the solid rocket motors, which propelled the shuttle into space, he had
the
ultimate authority to give the final “GO” for the ignition of the solid
rocket
boosters at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. His efforts helped
launch 55
space shuttle flights without a failure over a period of nine years,
from 1989
to 1997.
Among
the many astronauts he has worked with during
his professional career were John W. Young who walked on the moon and
Robert
Crippen, the Mission Commander and Pilot respectively of STS-1 (Orbiter
Columbia), the first orbital flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program, as
well as
Dr. Story Musgrave who repaired the Hubble Telescope twice.
Some
notable Shuttle missions that Suresh was involved
in include: Magellan Spacecraft to Venus (May 1989); Galileo Spacecraft
to
Jupiter (October 1989); Hubble Space Telescope (April 1990); and the
Shuttle-Mir (the Russian Space Station) docking (July 1995). In 1999,
he served
on President Bill Clinton’s Presidential Commission known as the Space
Launch
Broad Area Review (BAR) to investigate commercial flight failures and
recommend
corrective actions.
Suresh and his wife, Diane, reside in Perry City, Utah and have two married daughters and two grandchildren. He spends his time doing volunteer work in the local community as well as gardening. He has received accolades as the “Citizen of the Year” in 2009 from the mayor of Perry City, and “Trustee of the Year” in 2010 from the Utah Hospital and Health Systems Association.
Crowd Research: Labels,
Workflows, and
Crowd-Powered Systems
Speaker:
Ting-Hao
(Kenneth)
Huang
Date:
November
13, 2017
Time:
5:00
PM – 6:00 PM
Place:
G102,
ESB
West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract:
Amazon
Mechanical Turk, one of the largest
crowdsourcing marketplace, was launched to the public in 2005. Since
then, researchers have developed a tremendous amount of work around
this platform. In this talk, we will walk through three types of
crowdsourcing projects via the lens of building future computer
systems, including
(i) labeling datasets and providing human feedback for computer
systems, (ii)
developing workflows for workers to accomplish complex tasks, and (iii)
creating real-time interactive systems using human-in-the-loop
architectures.
Speaker Bio:
Ting-Hao
(Kenneth) Huang is a Yahoo Fellow PhD candidate at
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU.)
His
research focuses on real-time crowdsourcing and conversational agents,
under
the broader umbrella of fast-paced human-in-the-loop architectures. As
a part
of his PhD work with Prof. Jeffrey P. Bigham, Kenneth deployed Chorus (http://talkingtothecrowd.org/
Life as a Project Manager
in the Tech
Industry: What does a Project Manager look for in an engineer when
hiring?
Speaker:
Dale
G. Dzielski
Date:
November 27, 2017
Time:
5:00
PM – 6:00 PM
Place:
G102,
ESB
West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract
The
talk will
present a look inside of the operations of a tech firm from the project
manager's perspective. He will address stages of a project from
concept
to completion. He will focus on what makes one candidate more
appealing
than another when hiring to fill a position in a project. He
will
also discuss what happens to the team when a project comes to
completion.
Speaker Bio
Dale
G. Dzielski is a results oriented Project Management
Professional (PMP) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA) with 25+
years of
extensive experience supporting complex, deadline-driven operations
with IT
professionals across various industries including Private, Federal and
State
Government sectors. His reputation to effectively communicate and build
relationships with clients and customers at all levels of the
organization has
earned him a 99.7% satisfaction rating from customers. His
industry
experience as a project manager and program manager focused
on developing and maintaining quality IT processes that reduce
redundancy,
improve accuracy and efficiency, and achieve organizational objectives.
He
is repeatedly recognized for successfully coaching, mentoring, and
training of peers and subordinates. He earned a BS in Business
Administration with a double minor in Economics and Electronic Data
Processing
from Fairmont State and an MBA from Regent University in Virginia
Beach, VA. With
over 20 years teaching in higher education, Mr. Dzielski is
currently the
Graduate Program Coordinator for the WVU Online Software Engineering
Programs,
leading the program of over 60 graduate students across 17
States into
nationally ranked status as 10th in 2017 Online
Graduate Computer & Information Technology Programs by US
News
& World Report. He received the 2017 Lane Computer
Science
& Electrical Engineering Outstanding Advisor award. He
was the
program manager in 2014 for the Center for Identification Technology
Research
(CITeR) program and is now the Technology-to-Market Lead on
the WVU
DoE ARPA-E GENSETS Program Research Project; developing the next
disruptive technology in the energy sector for
military, residential,
and commercial applications.