WVU Libraries Resources for CSEE Graduate Students
Speaker:
Marian Armour-Gemmen
Date:
Monday, August. 27th, 2018
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.
Technologies
and applications to enable elder patients maintain independence and age in
place.
Speaker: Ravi
Raman
Date: Wednesday,
August 29, 2018
Time: 11:00
AM – 12:00 PM
Place: AER135
Advanced Engineering Research Building (AERB)
West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: People
are living longer due to advances in many fronts but the cost of healthcare
especially for older patients has increased dramatically. The elderly require
more tests, medicines, and medical procedures and longer periods to recover in
hospitals and nursing homes. Healthcare costs could be reduced if the
elderly were to stay as long as possible in their own homes. However, as
people age, there are increased likelihood of: unmonitored falls and
accidents; difficulty in moving about or lifting, reaching household
items; difficulty in feeding themselves due to hand tremors; becoming
disoriented or lost. This talk will describe a number of approaches that show
promise in helping elderly stay independent. Potential projects will be briefly
discussed that may subsequently be pursued by Seniors and graduate students.
Bio: Ravi Raman is a researcher investigating technologies and applications to improve patient care. At WVU, Ravi received graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Business Administration. He was a graduate research assistant in WVU’s AI Laboratory and was a research staff member for many years at the DARPA –funded Concurrent Engineering Research Center. At CERC, Ravi helped in the development of telemedicine applications funded by NIH. Ravi taught Circuits Labs, CS classes in Artificial Intelligence and later helped a number of graduate students with their research projects. Since leaving Morgantown, Ravi has continued to work in federal and corporate research organizations. His research interests are in technologies to improve healthcare delivery.
The
value of thinking about context and human factors that shape the data we
science
Speaker: Dan
Cosley
Date: Friday,
August 31, 2018
Time: 11:00
AM – 12:00 PM
Place: AER120 Advanced Engineering Research Building
Abstract: This talk is going to argue that we spend too much
time applying data analytic methods and not enough time thinking about them. In
particular, I think we too often take data as a given without considering the
circumstances that generated it, a claim I will try to back up using three
cases: an analysis of posting behavior in Reddit that shows dramatic changes
over time (including a fun instance of Simpson's Paradox) as the community
evolved; a study of personal characteristics that predict effective
contribution behavior in civic participation forums (hint: it's not
personality); and a model of the influence (or the lack thereof) of seeing
other people's activity feeds in last.fm and several other social information
sharing systems on people's behavior. My goal is to use these cases to
encourage us to think more about how the system designs and the social and
behavioral contexts people act in shape the data we see, and things that
implies for how we go about doing data science.
Pervasive wearable physiological/behavioral
monitoring and biofeedback
Speaker: Omid Dehzangi
Date: Monday, September 10, 2018
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Place: G102 Engineering Sciences
Building (ESB)
West
Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: Healthcare
costs in the United States are projected to increase 5.3
percent in 2018 (closer to 20%) of GDP, which is a cause of major concerns.
The largest contributor to this cost is the hospital cost accounting for ~30%
to the healthcare expenditure. On the other hand, IOT and wearable health
technologies are drawing significant attention transforming the way people
interact with each other and their environment. The pervasive nature of such
systems provides ubiquitous access to the continuous personalized information
extracted from these systems. Despite the ground-breaking potentials, there are
a number of interesting challenges in order to design and develop wearable
medical embedded systems. Due to limited available resources in wearable
processing architectures, power-efficiency is demanded to allow unobtrusive and
long-term operation of the hardware. Also, the data-intensive nature of continuous
health monitoring requires efficient signal processing and data analytic
algorithms for near real-time, scalable, reliable, accurate, and secure
extraction of relevant information from an overwhelmingly large amount of data.
Dr. Omid Dehzangi’s objective is to contribute in reducing the costs and
improve the effectiveness of healthcare in order to shift the conventional
paradigms from hospital-centric healthcare with episodic and reactive focus on
diseases to patient-centric and home-based healthcare via proactive early
monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment.
Dr. Dehzangi is interested in
developing technologies that systematically transform the design and
architecture of embedded computing systems as novel delivery mechanisms to
reduce costs for healthcare and wellness via incorporating signal processing
and artificial intelligence algorithms. He aims to investigate empirical and
theoretic grounds of determining human mind-body state collectively (e.g.
multi-modality and multi-sensor fusion, joint human/environment modeling) and
longitudinally (e.g. temporal decomposition, learning, and pattern recognition)
in a seamless and ubiquitous fashion. He is currently investigating
multi-modal human state analysis and fusion algorithm design. His vision is to
connect an individual with his/her environments and to connect the present of
an individual with his/her past and future in order to bridge the gap toward
fully automated Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems (HiLCPS). The
resulting knowledge extracted from these systems will enable emerging
applications in healthcare, wellness, emergency response, fitness monitoring,
elderly care support, long-term preventive chronic care, assistive care, smart
environments and transportation, sports, virtual and augmented reality,
assistive robotic devices, and entertainment that create many new research
opportunities and transform various disciplines.
Speaker Bio: Omid Dehzangi received his Ph.D. degree from
the School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University. He received
B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Shiraz University. In 2013 and 2014, he completed postdoctoral fellowships at
the Center for Brain Health and the Department of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Texas at Dallas, respectively. He has been an Assistant Professor
at the department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan
from 2014 to 2018. He is currently an Assistant Professor & Data analytic
lead at the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University. His research
has been funded by the NSF, NIH, SRC, MICHR, Texas Instruments, Toyota, and
Ford.
Speaker: Jesse Sommerville
Date: Wednesday,
September 19, 2018
Time: 6:00
PM – 7:00 PM
Place: 107 Mineral Resources Building (ESB)
Practical Cryptography: Block Cipher
Cut-and-Paste Oracle Attacks
Demystify Block Chain
Speaker: David
Krovich
Date: Monday,
September 24, 2018
Time: 5:00
PM – 6:00 PM
Place: G102
Engineering Sciences Building (ESB)
West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: With the rise of bitcoin to as high
as $20,000 per coin in 2017 people are starting to take notice of
cryptocurrencies. The driving technology behind bitcoin is what is
referred to as the blockchain. This talk will attempt to demystify the
blockchain and attempt to explain some of the inner workings. During the
talk a blockchain implemented in python will be shown from genesis.
Biography: David Krovich is a Research Associate Faculty in the Lane Department of Computer Science at West Virginia University. David has earned his a BS in Computer Science and MS in Software Engineering from West Virginia University. His current research areas are cybersecurity and open source software.
Working at the Intersection of Law & Technology
Speaker: Ola Adekunle, J.D.
Date: Friday, October 19, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Place: AERB135 Advanced Engineering Research Building
West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: This
presentation provides a brief overview of the different forms of
Intellectual Property (IP) protection with a focus on patents. The
presentation explains patent law basics and why patents are a critical
business tool. Finally the presentation explores career opportunities
and paths for engineers and engineering students interested in patent
law
Biography: Ola Adekunle is a Patent Counsel on Google's Global Patents Team based in Mountain View, CA. In his role, Ola works on shaping Google's patent portfolio based on analysis of Google and third party patents, business strategies, and products. At Google, Ola also co-leads and helped institutionalize the Google Street Law program and is a member of the steering committee for a number of Google legal diversity, inclusion and equity initiatives such as the Google Legal Summer Institute. Prior to joining Google in 2017, Ola was Senior Patent Counsel & IP Strategist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Hewlett Packard Company (HP) from 2012 to 2017, where he supported several business units including Servers and Labs business units. Before HP/HPE, Ola was an Associate at a couple of law firms in VA and TX. Ola earned his J.D., M.B.A., and B.S. in Computer Engineering from West Virginia University. In his spare time, Ola loves spending time with his lovely wife and two sets of twins (twin boys and twin girls).
Resilient Distribution Systems
Speaker: Chen-Ching Liu
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Place: MRB113 Mineral Resources Building
West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: Recent development of the smart grid significantly enhanced the level of automation in the distribution grids. With high level deployment of remote-controlled switches, distribution feeders can be restored efficiently after power outages. In this presentation, computational algorithms for utilization of smart meters, remote control capabilities, and feeder restoration will be discussed together with their practical implementations. The role of microgrids in distribution system restoration will be evaluated. Traditional techniques, however, are not designed for extreme events in the distribution systems. The same is true for widely adopted reliability indices. New thinking of system design, operation, and metrics will be important for resiliency of future distribution grids.
Biography:Chen-Ching Liu is American Electric Power Professor and Director, Power and Energy Center at ECE, Virginia Tech. He was Boeing Distinguished Professor at Washington State University, Pullman, WA. During 1983-2005, he was a Professor of EE at University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Liu was Palmer Chair Professor at Iowa State University from 2006 to 2008. From 2008-2011, he served as Acting/Deputy Principal of the College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences at University College Dublin, Ireland. Professor Liu received an IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000 and the Power and Energy Society Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award in 2004. In 2013, Dr. Liu received a Doctor Honoris Causa from Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. Chen-Ching chaired the IEEE Power and Energy Society Fellow Committee, Technical Committee on Power System Analysis, Computing and Economics, and Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award Committee. He served on the U.S. National Academies Board on Global Science and Technology. Professor Liu is a Fellow of the IEEE and Member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.Date: Monday,
November 5, 2018
Time: 5:00
PM – 6:00 PM
Place: G102
Engineering Sciences Building (ESB)
West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV
In this talk, I
describe the development of a cryogenic PAF. This project was called the Focal L-band
Array for the Green Bank Telescope (FLAG) {a collaboration between NRAO, Green
Bank Observatory, Brigham Young University and West Virginia University. A 1.4
GHz 19-element, dual- polarization, cryogenic PAF was developed for the Green
Bank Telescope (GBT). I will describe the PAF instrumentation and the signal
processing involved in forming beams with the system. Commissioning
observations of calibrator radio sources show that this receiver has the lowest
reported beam-formed system temperature (Tsys) normalized by aperture efficiency
of any phased array receiver to date. The survey speed of the PAF with seven
formed beams at the Nyquist separation is larger by a factor 7 compared to the
single beam system on the GBT. I will then describe a model for the PAF system
developed at NRAO and compare its predictions with measurement results. Finally,
I will present some observational results toward the pulsar B0329+54 and an
extendedHII
region, the Rosette Nebula. The PAF system along with a real-time beam-former
is currently being used for HI 21 cm observations of galaxies, study of Pulsar
emission and to search for Fast Radio Bursts.