WVU Libraries Resources for CSEE Graduate Students
Speaker: Martin Dunlap
Date:
January. 14th, 2019
Time:
5:00 PM - 6:00
PM
Place:
G102 Engineering Sciences Building (ESB)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: He will introduce the services and resources available through the WVU Libraries. These library resources may be critical to your graduate research.
Speaker Bio: He joined WVU in 1998 and has spent 10+ years working in the swamps of Florida as an environmental consultant. Since then he has worked in libraries first in Cleveland, Ohio and then here at WVU in various capacities. He recently got promoted to be the Engineering Librarian at WVU.
Deep Urban Unaided Precise GNSS Vehicle Positioning
Speaker: Todd Humphreys
Date:
January. 15th, 2019
Time:
11:00 AM - 12:00 Noon
Place:
120 Advanced Engineering Research Building (AERB)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: Collaborative
sensing and traffic coordination require vehicles to know and share their own
position. How accurately? The proposed DSRC basic safety message, a first step
in V2V coordination, does not yet define a position accuracy requirement,
effectively accepting whatever accuracy a standard GNSS receiver provides. But
automated intersection management, tight formation platooning, and unified
processing of sensor data—all involving vehicles of different makes that may
not share a common map—will be greatly facilitated by globally-referenced positioning
with sub-30 cm accuracy. Carrier-phase-based GNSS positioning (CDGNSS) can meet
the most demanding accuracy requirements envisioned for automated and connected
vehicles, but has historically been either too expensive or too fragile for widespread
adoption. The University of Texas Radio navigation Laboratory is engaged in
developing a high-integrity CDGNSS-vision-radar-inertial system for precise
all-weather vehicular positioning in rural and urban environments. As a step
toward this goal, it is of interest to evaluate the performance of stand-alone
CDGNSS techniques—those unaided by IMUs, odometry, or vision—in urban environments.
Such a study will reveal why and when aiding is necessary, and how a CDGNSS
positioning system might behave if aiding were somehow impaired or unavailable,
whether due to sensor faults or poor visibility conditions. This talk presents
the most thorough study to date of vehicular carrier-phase differential GNSS positioning
performance in a deep urban setting.
Speaker Bio:
Todd
E. Humphreys is an associate professor in the department of Aerospace
Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, Director
of the UT Radionavigation Laboratory and associate director of the UT SAVES
center, which works at the intersection of sensing, communication, and data analytics
for automated vehicles. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from Utah State University and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering
from Cornell University. He specializes in the application of optimal detection
and estimation techniques to problems in satellite navigation, automated
systems, and signal processing. His recent focus has been on secure perception
for automated systems, including navigation, timing, and collision avoidance, and
on centimeter-accurate location for the mass market. Dr. Humphreys received the
University of Texas Regeants’ Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012, the National
Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015, and the Institute of Navigation Thurlow
Award in 2015.
Date: Monday, February 11, 2019
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Place: G102 Engineering Sciences
Building (ESB)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: As our nation
transitions from a centrally controlled electric grid—with one-way delivery of
power from central-station power plants—into one that features both distributed
generation and distributed control systems based on advanced communications, we
need new approaches to enhance reliability and efficiency. This talk introduces
the latest developments in these areas, specifically in control and
optimization of distributed systems, Advanced distribution systems,
microgrid/resiliency control for grids with high penetration on renewables.
This talk also show cases different techniques to evaluate these latest
technologies.
Biography: Dr. Murali Baggu is Laboratory Program
Manager for Grid Integration at NREL. He currently leads the NREL’s Grid
Modernization and Grid Integration Initiatives. He also leads the Puerto Rico
Resilience and US-China Smart Grid efforts at NREL. He has extensive experience
in advanced grid control and evaluation for future power systems with high
penetrations of DER. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Lead Power Systems
Engineer at GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, where he developed advanced
Volt/VAR control and DER management algorithms. At GE, he also led the
technology development and deployment of large-scale energy storage integration
with photovoltaic systems for Department of Defense Marine Corps installations.
He has four patents and more than 25 publications in these areas. He
holds a Ph.D. in Power engineering from Missouri S&T.
Mitre Clarksburg Work Program using Data Mining, Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Speaker: Nicholas Rymer and Emily Pertl
Date: Monday, April 4, 2019
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Place: AER120 Advanced Engineering Research
Building (AERB)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: The
MITRE Corporation's mission-driven team is dedicated to solving
problems for a safer world. We are a not-for-profit company that
operates multiple federally funded research and development centers
(FFRDCs). We work across the government, through our FFRDCs and
public-private partnerships, to tackle problems that challenge our
nation's safety, stability and well-being. Our unique vantage point
allows us to provide innovative, practical solutions in the defense and
intelligence, aviation, civil systems, homeland security, judiciary,
healthcare, and cybersecurity spheres.
HPC Perspectives and Trends, WVU and Beyond
Speaker: Guillermo A Franco and Nathan Gregg
Date: Monday, April 8, 2019
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Place: G102 Engineering Sciences
Building (ESB)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Abstract: Our
world today is heavily driven by data, large collections of data are
analyzed every day in order to take decisions in basically all aspects
of human life: Medicine, engineering, finance. Computers in
data-centers all around of the world process that data in an effort to
find insight among vast collections of data. From another side, many of
the most challenging problems in science and engineering rely on
complex simulations, as computer simulations can offer answers in a
more core controlled, cost-effective and reproducible way that you can
do conducting experiments in the lab.
Simulations and Data processing often scale well beyond you can do with
a desktop machine. In order to get insights on challenging problems,
scientists and engineers use the capabilities of High-Performance
Computers also known as Supercomputers. The seminar will offer a
perspective on the field of High-Performance Computing, its current
state, and future trends.
HPC is a multidisciplinary field that brings elements of mathematics,
software, and hardware to efficiently take advantage of our current
level of technological development to offer answers to the most
challenging questions of our time.
WVU offers a variety of resources in this area under what is called
Research Computing (WVU-RC), 2 HPC clusters (Spruce Knob and the newest
Thorny Flat), in addition to that WVU-RC also offer access to research
data storage systems as well as the dedicated campus science DMZ
network known as REX. In the last part of the seminar, we will focus on
computational resources beyond WVU and how WVU researchers can get
access to some of the most powerful supercomputers in the US. XSEDE is
a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation to provide
world-class computational resources to researchers in academia.
Biography:
Guillermo A Franco – Guillermo (pronounce Geesharmo) is the scientific
responsible for HPC at WVU. His mission is to help the researcher to
optimally utilize HPC resources at WVU and beyond. He holds a Ph.D. in
engineering science from Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium).
Guillermo’s area of research is in developing algorithms and codes for
computational materials science using applied quantum mechanics.
Guillermo is a point of contact (Campus Champion) for XSEDE services and resources,
Nathan Gregg – Nathan Gregg is the Assistant Director 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 Thorny Flat and Spruce Knob.
Nathan is also an XSEDE Campus Champion.