Colloquium & Career Seminars - UCF School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Frank Tanner
Chief Scientist GEOINT Program, Raytheon

Computer Vision Problems in Overhead Imagery

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 • 3:30 p.m. •
Harris Center 101

John Volakis
The Ohio State University

Antennas & RF Sensors: Changing the Way We Live (From mobile communications to electronic textiles and RFID

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. •
Harris Center 101

Previous Seminars

Dr. Huei Wang
Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Graduate Institute of Communication EngineeringNational Taiwan University

Current Status and Future Trends for Si and Compound MMICs in Millimeter-wave Regime and Related Issues for System on Chip (SOC) and/or System in Package (SIP) Applications

Monday, November 9, 2009 • 4:00 p.m. •
Harris Center 101

Henrique Rebelo
Informatics Center
Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

AOP Framed!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 • 4:00 p.m. •
Harris Center 101

Dr. Witold Byrski
Professor
AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

The Optimal Integral Observes for the Exact State Reconstruction

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 • 12:00 p.m. •
Harris Center 102

Jan Vitek
Computer Science Department, Purdue University

Programming Models for Concurrency and Real-Time

Friday, August 14, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Ms. Ajitha Rajan
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), Grenoble, France

Changes in Software Validation and Verification

Thursday, June 4, 2009 • 10:00 a.m. • Harris Center 101

Dr. Bernhard Rinner
Dean and Professor, Pervasive Computing Group, Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Challenges and Opportunities of Distributed Smart Cameras

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Chanchal Roy
School of Computing,
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Identification and Analysis of Near-Miss Software Clones

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 • 10:00 a.m. • Harris Center 101

Martial Herbert
Professor, Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University

Some steps in modeling and understanding a user's environment from vision data

Monday, April 20, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Steven Voldman
ESD Association Board of Director, ESD Standards Chairman for Transmission Line Pulse testing, and member of the Education Committee

ESD: Failure Mechanisms - Nano Defects in the Nano Electronic Era

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 • 11:00 a.m. • Harris Center 101

Dr. Michael S. Shur
Center for Integrated Electronics ECSE and Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Physics of III-N-based Field Effect Transistors

Monday, April 13, 2009 • 11:00 a.m. • Harris Center 101

Ravi M. Todi
Advisory Engineer/Scientist, Semiconductor Research and Development Center, IBM Microelectronics Division

High Performance SOI Embedded DRAM: Looking Beyond Conventional Scaling

Thursday, April 9, 2009 • 10:30 a.m. • Harris Center 101

William Gerard Hurley
Professor of Electrical Engineering & Director of the Power Electronics Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway

Development of a Battery Charger for Emergency Power Supplies for Pitch Control Systems for Off Shore Wind Turbines

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 • 1:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Hal Berghel
Director and Professor, School of Informatics & Associate Dean of the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering

Identity Theft and Financial Fraud for the New Millennium

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 • 12:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Gary Stormo
Joseph Erlanger Professor of Genetics & Biomedical Engineering, Washington University

Computational and Experimental Studies of Regulatory Networks

Friday, April 3, 2009 • 11:00 a.m. • Harris Center 101

Donald Geman
The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Center for Imaging Science and the Institute for Computational
Medicine

Stationary Features and Cat Detection

Monday, March 30, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Shimon Weiss
Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

Single Molecule Probing of Dynamic Conformation, Molecular Interactions and Dynamic Localizations In-Vitro, In Live Cells and in Small Organisms

Thursday, March 26, 2009 • 4:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Arnold W.M. Smeulders
Professor of Multimedia Information Analysis and Head of the Intelligent Systems Lab
University of Amsterdam

Object Class Recognition

Thursday, March 26, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Jim Rehg
Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech

Towards a Theory of Cascaded Detectors

Friday, March 20, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Mung Chiang
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Affiliated Faculty of Computer Science,
Princeton University

Two Open Problems in Networking: Random Access Performance and P2P Streaming Capacity

Thursday, March 19, 2009 • 1:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Ronald J. Olson Jr.
Team Leader, Micro and Nano Fabrication,
GE’s Global Research Center

Micro and Nano R&D Performance and Productivity - A lean Six-sigma Approach

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

H.J. Siegel
Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Computer Science, Colorado State University

Stochastically Robust Computing Systems

Monday, March 16, 2009 • 4:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Ronald J. Gutmann
Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems
Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Smart Power Delivery using Three-Dimensional (3D) IC Technology with Arrays of Monolithic DC-DC Point-of-Load (PoL) Converters

Friday, March 6, 2009 • 1:30 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Adelmo Ortiz-Conde
Professor, Department of Electronics, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela

A review of recent Integration-based Methods for Parameter Extraction and Distortion Evaluation

Thursday, March 5, 2009 • 12:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Andries van Dam,
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science,
Brown University

When is the Pen Mightier than the Keyboard?

Thursday, March 5, 2009 • 10:30 a.m. • Harris Center 101

Clemens Ruppel
EPCOS AG, Munich, Germany

RF Front-Ends for Multi-Mode, Multi-Band Cellular Phones

Friday, February 27, 2009 • 4:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Buddy D. Ratner
Professor and Michael & Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization,
Joint with Chemical Engineering
Director, University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB)

Materials Science, Biology and Medicine Intersect in the Real World of Tissue Engineering: The Case of Mending a Heart

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 • 4:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Dr. Lawrence O. Hall
Professor, Computer Science
University of South Florida

Scalable Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms

Friday, February 20, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Dr. Hanan Samet
Professor, Computer Science and Center for Automation Research and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland

Sorting in Space

Thursday, February 19, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Chih-Tang Sah
Professor and an Eminent Scholar, University of Florida and
Bin B. Jie
Graduate Research Professor,
Peking University, China

MOS Field-Effect Transistor is Bipolar — Device Theory and Circuits

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 • 11:00 a.m. • Harris Center 101

Daniel S. Yeung
President, Machine Learning and Cybernetics Research Institute
Hong Kong

Recent Development in Generalization Error for Supervised Learning Problem with Applications in Model Selection and Feature Selection

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 • 3:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Dr. Dinesh Manocha
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bringing Realism to Virtual Environments: Sound and Crowds

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Alan Righter
External Foundry ESD Advisor,
Analog Devices, Inc.

Charged Device Model (CDM) ESD 96 from a Component/Packaging/Manufacturing Perspective

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 • 11:00 a.m. • Harris Center 101

Dr. Pingkun Yan
Phillips Research North America

Segmentation of Prostate for Image Guided Targeted Biopsy

Monday, February 9, 2009 • 11:00 a.m. • Harris Center 356

Andrew Olney
Director, Reliability, Product Analysis, Calibration & ESD at Analog Devices, Inc.

Quality & Reliability Issues With Counterfeit ICs

Friday, February 6, 2009 • 4:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Andrew Olney
Director, Reliability, Product Analysis, Calibration & ESD at Analog Devices, Inc.

Real-World Charged Board Event (CBE) ESD Failures

Friday, February 6, 2009 • 2:30 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Erik Antonsson
Director of Research
Aerospace Sector, Northrop Grumman Corp. and
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology

Computational Evolutionary Embryogenesis for Engineering Design

Friday, February 6, 2009 • 11:00 a.m. • Harris Center 101

Vladislav Vashchenko
National Semiconductor Corp.
ESD Group

System Level and Hot Plug-In ESD Specs and Solutions

Friday, January 23, 2009 • 12:30 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Michael L. Shuler
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University

Body-On-A-Chip: A Tool for Predictive Pharmacology/Toxicology

Thursday, January 22, 2009 • 4:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Arturo Sánchez-Ruíz
Associate Professor,
School of Computing, University of North Florida

A Domain-Specific Approach to the Development of Ontology-Based Document Assessment Assistants

Thursday, January 15, 2009 • 4:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101

Greg Welch
Associate Professor,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill