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PeopleResearch Interests and Biographies of WiSeNet Associated Faculty
Professor Suman Banerjee is an Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin and heads the Wisconsin Wireless and NetworkinG Systems (WiNGS) laboratory. His research is focused in the area of wireless and mobile networking, ranging wide-area cellular networks, wireless LANs, PANs, sensor networks, and RFID systems. He has published many technical papers across all of these areas. He also regularly serves on program committees of conferences such as ACM Mobicom, ACM Mobihoc, and IEEE Infocom. He has also been the program chair for the International Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing, Workshops chair for ACM Mobicom 2005 and for Wireless Internet conference, 2006.
Professor Nigel Boston was founding director of the Illinois Center for Cryptography and Information Protection in the Coordinated Science Lab at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and organized the first three Midwest Arithmetical Geometry in Cryptography meetings. He left University of Illinois in 2002 to become a Full Professor at the University of Wisconsin, with a split appointment in mathematics and ECE and affiliate appointment in CS. Working on applications of algebra and number theory to engineering in areas such as cryptography, coding theory, watermarking, and biometrics.
Professor Yu Hen Hu's has broad research interests ranging from design and implementation of signal processing algorithms, computer aided design and physical design of VLSI, pattern classification and machine learning algorithms, and image and signal processing in general. He has published more than 200 technical papers, edited several books in these areas. He has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transaction of Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE signal processing letters, European Journal of Applied signal Processing, and Journal of VLSI Signal Processing. He has served as the secretary and an executive committee member of the IEEE signal processing society, a board of governors of IEEE neural network council representing the signal processing society, the chair of signal processing society neural network for signal processing technical committee, and is the current chair of IEEE signal processing society multimedia signal processing technical committee. He is also a steering committee member of the international conference of Multimedia and Expo on behalf of IEEE Signal processing society. Dr. Hu is a Fellow of IEEE.
Professor Somesh Jha’s research focuses on analysis of security protocols, survivability analysis, intrusion detection, formal methods for security, and analyzing malicious code. Recently he has become interested in privacy-preserving protocols. He received National Science Foundation’s CAREER award in 2005. Three of his papers have won best paper awards.
Professor Seapahn Megerian has been an Assistant Professor in the ECE department at University of Wisconsin Madison since August of 2003. His primary research areas are networked embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, smart spaces, and environment control. In addition, his research topics include high performance communication architectures, automated design space exploration, watermarking, computational security, and intellectual property protection. Prior to his Ph.D. work in Computer Science at University of California Los Angeles, he received his BS in Computer Science and Engineering (1998) and M.S. in Computer Science (1999) at UCLA. In addition to augmenting the multitude of faculty active in sensor networking and embedded systems architecture research, Seapahn has started a new advanced graduate level special topics course at UW titled “Networked Embedded Systems”. The topics covered in this course are particularly suited to networked embedded sensing and actuation domains. Professor Megerian has a number of publications in the field of sensor networks, embedded systems, and design automation, at highly selective conferences and journals such as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM/Kluwer Journal of Wireless Networks, ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, IEEE Infocom, Mobicom, MobiHOC, IPSN, DAC, and ICCAD. In addition to serving as reviewer at a number of conferences and journals, he has served on the technical program committee on the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) since 2004.
Professor Robert Nowak’s research interests include statistical signal and image processing, wavelets and multiscale analysis, machine learning, and applications in wireless communications and networks. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. He also served as the Technical Program Co-Chair for the The Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. The major focus of his current research efforts involves the development of theory and protocols for wireless sensor networks. Dr. Nowak received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1997, the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award in 1999, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award in 2000, and IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award in 2000.
Professor Parameswaran Ramanathan’s research primarily focuses on providing quality of service (QoS) assurances to applications in next generation cellular, wireless, and wireline networks. One of the research thrusts involves developing cross-layer protocols for unicast and multicast communication in smart antenna based wireless ad hoc networks. The other research thrust focuses on developing communication support for collaborative and distributed signal processing in micro-sensor networks. In the past, his group has developed a scalable architecture for QoS differentiation in the Internet. He has also published extensively in the area of fault-tolerant computing on problems such as clock synchronization, checkpointing and rollback recovery, memory testing, and resource placement. Professor Parameswaran Ramanathan is presently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He served as an Associate Editor Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, 2001-2004 and for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing from 1996--1999. He has also served on program committees of conferences such as Mobicom, Mobihoc, International Conferences on Distributed Systems and Networks, Distributed Computing Systems, Fault-tolerant Computing Symposium, Real-time Systems Symposium, Conference on Local Computer Networks, and International Conference on Engineering Complex Computer Systems. He was the program chairman of the Workshop on Architectures for Real-time Applications, 1994 and the program vice-chair for the International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems, 1996. He is a member of Association of Computing Machinery and a senior member of IEEE.
Professor Saluja has been active in teaching and research in the general area of electrical and computer engineering since 1968. His research efforts are primarily in the areas of testing and testable design of VLSI digital circuits, built-in self-test and fault-tolerant computing. He has published over 200 research papers in these areas in the leading journals and conference proceedings. He has acted as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program. He is presently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), one of the prestigious journals in the area of digital systems testing. He is also a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in switching theory, logic design, control systems, power systems, computer organization and assembly language programming, microprocessor systems, etc. He has developed and taught courses and labs in logic design, microprocessors, VLSI design, and testing and testable design of digital systems. Prof. Saluja was the faculty advisor to the student branch of the IEEE from 1988-1993. His active participation and leadership in branch activities helped make this student chapter the largest engineering student organization on the University of Wisconsin campus. He has been on numerous program committees of national and international conferences. He was the Chair of the Madison Section of the IEEE (1996-1998) and General Chair of the 29th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-29) held in Madison in June 1999. Professor Saluja served as the area co-ordinator for computer engineering program in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering between 1993-1997. He has won numerous awards for his research papers and was the keynote speaker at the 12th Asian Test Symposium held in China in November 2003.
Professor Akbar Sayeed’s research interests are in wireless communications, statistical signal processing, information theory, time-frequency analysis, and applications in networks. He received a Schlumberger Fellowship from 1992-1995 and the Robert T. Chien Memorial Award in 1996 for his doctoral research at the University of Illinois. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 1999, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2001, and a University of Wisconsin Grainger Junior Faculty Fellowship in 2003. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 1999-2002 and as a co-guest editor in 2004 for a special issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications on Self-Organizing Distributed Collaborative Sensor Networks.
Professor Mike Schulte leads the Madison Embedded Systems and Architectures Group. His research interests include embedded processors, computer architecture, domain-specific systems, computer arithmetic, low-power design, and wireless security. Mike is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers and the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing. |
