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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.

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:                     January 29th, 2018
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.

Cloud Radio Access Networks for 5G Communications

Speaker:               Matthew Valenti
Date:                      Monday, April 16, 2018
Time:                     5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Place:                    G39 Engineering Sciences Building (ESB)

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

Abstract: To deal with the impending mobile data onslaught, future (5G) wireless networks will rely on the dense deployment of small cells, the opening of previously unavailable bands at millimeter wave, and the development of improved intercell interference coordination. The use of traditional, self-contained base stations for such environments is an expensive proposition. A viable alternative is to replace expensive stations with simple remote radio heads and perform all of the baseband processing in a centralized computing cloud. The benefit is a more efficient and elastic use of computing assets, the exploitation of global channel state information, and opportunities for improved intercell coordination. This presentation reviews the concept of a centralized radio access network (C-RAN), with an emphasis on the interplay between computational efficiency and data throughput. The concept of "computational outage" is introduced and applied to the analysis of C-RAN networks. The framework is applied to single-cell and multi-cell scenarios using parameters drawn from the LTE standard. It is found that in computationally limited networks, the effective throughput can be improved by using a computationally aware policy for selecting the modulation and coding scheme, which sacrifices spectral efficiency in order to reduce the computational outage probability. When signals of multiple base stations are processed centrally, a computational diversity benefit emerges, and the benefit grows with increasing user density.

Speaker Bio: Matthew Valenti is a Professor in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University and site director for the Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR), an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC). His research is in the area of wireless communications, including cellular networks, military communication systems, sensor networks, and coded modulation for satellite communications. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and his research is funded by NSF, DoD, and industry. He is active in the organization of major IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) conferences, including serving as the Technical Program Chair for MILCOM 2017 and as chair of the technical steering committee for IEEE GLOBECOM and ICC. He has served as Editor for several IEEE publications and as the Chair of ComSoc's Communication Theory Technical Committee. At WVU, he serves as the Chair of the Faculty Senate and as a faculty representative to the WVU Board of Governors. He teaches several upper-division and graduate courses on wireless networks, communication theory, and coding theory, is recipient of several teaching, research, and advising awards by his College, and is a recipient of the 2013 WVU Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award, the highest teaching award at WVU. He is registered as a Professional Engineer in the state of West Virginia and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

A Wellness-Centric Healthcare System With Interoperable Public Health: The Multidimensional Global Threats, Interdependences of the Critical Infrastructures, and Geomedicine

Speaker:               Luis Kun
Date:                      Monday, April 23, 2018
Time:                     12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Place:                   MRB-E 109 Mineral Resources Building

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

Abstract: A combination of factors affects Society today, in ways unimaginable, to many, a few years ago, in the ways we: work, study, teach, read and write, have fun, find out the news, buy, sell and generally in the way we communicate and even the total way we live. Globalization, and the constant use of technologies in academia, industry and government has created a new generation of socio-economic dilemmas that are associated not only to biomedical and clinical engineering and electro-medicine but to many other disciplines. Professionally, new requirements have and will open new opportunities to those that have knowledge in a spectrum of areas that include biosensors, geographical information systems, nanotechnology, intelligent agents, and many other areas. Medicine and Public Health experts will have to incorporate in their teams, individuals that would be able to develop and maintain new technologies, within their respective fields. In many cases, solutions used in other fields, were used to resolve problems in this one. This in turn provides solutions much are more cost-effective solutions. NOTE: This talk covers a wide range of topics that could be of interest to heterogeneous audiences that include not only computer experts, but biomedical, systems and communication engineers, technologists, physicians, nurses, epidemiologists and surveillance personnel associated with public health and epidemics, agencies and departments in charge of protecting our food, our drinking water, our environment, our borders, etc.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Kun graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy in Uruguay and holds a BSEE; MSEE and Ph.D. degree in BME all from UCLA. A (Lifetime) Fellow of the IEEE, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of National Security Affairs (CHDS) and was Professor of Homeland Security at the National Defense University (2003-2015). He is Editor in Chief of Springer's Journal of Health and Technology. He spent 14 years at IBM; was Director of Medical Systems Technology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. As Senior IT Advisor to AHCPR he formulated the IT vision and was the lead staff for High Performance Computers and Communications program and Telehealth. In July 1997, as invited speaker to the White House, he was largely responsible for the first Telemedicine Homecare Legislation signed by President Clinton, August 1997. Represented the DHHS Secretary at a Forum of Health Care Ministers on Telecommunications and the Health Care Industry in Mexico. While a Distinguished Fellow at the CDC, as Acting Chief IT Officer for the National Immunization Program he formulated their IT vision on 10/2000. Kun received many awards including: AIMBE's first-ever Fellow Advocate Award in 2009; IEEE-USA Citation of Honor Award, "For exemplary contributions in the inception and implementation of a health care IT vision in the US." 2011 Golden Core Award by the IEEE CS. Named: "Profesor Honoris Causa" Favaloro University, (Argentina); "Distinguished Visitor" by City of Puebla, Mexico (9/4/2013). He is/was in the IEEE Distinguished Visitor Program for the CS, Distinguished Lecturer for the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the DL SSIT Chair. (2014) Honorary Professor of the Electrical Engineering Dept. at the School of Engineering of the University (UDELAR) in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received the Medal of Merit on October 20, 2016 in Mexico by the National Unit of Engineering Associations and named Visiting Professor by the National Technological University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2017.