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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.

Control and Optimization of Distribution Systems
Speaker:
                Murali Baggu

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.