Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
2005 - 2006
Annual Report
July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
www.bu.edu/ece
Table of Contents
one: Highlights 1-1
1.1 Faculty .............................................................................................................................................................1-1
1.2 Undergraduate Program ...................................................................................................................................1-2
1.3 Graduate Program ............................................................................................................................................1-3
1.4 Research ...........................................................................................................................................................1-3
1.5 Special Events ..................................................................................................................................................1-4
two: Faculty & Staff 2-1
2.1 Faculty .............................................................................................................................................................2-2
2.2 Adjunct Faculty ...............................................................................................................................................2-9
2.3 Research Staff ...................................................................................................................................................2-9
2.4 Administrative and Technical Staff ...................................................................................................................2-9
2.5 Department Administration & Committees ..................................................................................................2-10
2.6 Department Organizational Chart .................................................................................................................2-11
2.7 ECE Representation in the College of Engineering and the University ...........................................................2-12
three: Undergraduate Programs 3-1
3.1 Academic Programs ..........................................................................................................................................3-1
3.2 Instructional Laboratories ................................................................................................................................3-2
3.3 Undergraduate Courses ....................................................................................................................................3-5
3.4 ECE Senior Project Day ...................................................................................................................................3-6
3.5 Student Activities .............................................................................................................................................3-8
3.6 Continual Program Improvement ....................................................................................................................3-8
four: Graduate Programs 4-1
4.1 Course and Program Development ..................................................................................................................4-1
4.2 Graduate Student Recruitment ........................................................................................................................4-1
4.3 PhD Graduate Student Progress .......................................................................................................................4-2
4.4 Colloquia and Seminars ...................................................................................................................................4-2
4.5 New Matriculants ............................................................................................................................................4-3
4.6 MS Students ....................................................................................................................................................4-4
4.7 PhD Students ..................................................................................................................................................4-6
4.8 Degrees Awarded .............................................................................................................................................4-9
4.9 Graduate Teaching Fellows .............................................................................................................................4-10
4.10 Research Assistants .......................................................................................................................................4-11
4.11 Graduate Courses.........................................................................................................................................4-13
4.12 Colloquia & Seminars..................................................................................................................................4-14
ve: Research 5-1
5.1 Areas of Research .............................................................................................................................................5-1
5.2 Research Labs ..................................................................................................................................................5-2
5.3 Centers and Interdisciplinary Activities ............................................................................................................5-5
5.4 Publications .....................................................................................................................................................5-7
5.5 Grants, Contracts, and Gifts ..........................................................................................................................5-18
six: Outlook 6-1
6.1 Mission and Vision ..........................................................................................................................................6-1
6.2 History and Trends ..........................................................................................................................................6-3
6.3 Areas of Research & Instruction .......................................................................................................................6-7
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Highlights
This report provides a detailed description of the
instructional and research activities of the faculty, staff, and
students of the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering (ECE) at Boston University during the 2005-
2006 academic year. Instructional activities are reported for Fall
2005, Spring 2006, and Summer 2006 semesters. Publications
and scholarly activities, as well as budget information, are
reported for the 2006 fiscal year (July 1, 2005 to June 30,
2006). Key data for this year are also compared to previous
years to show progress and identify trends. More information
on ECE’s recent activities is reported at the department web
site, http://www.bu.edu/ece.
1.1 Faculty
e ECE Department continued its vigorous effort to recruit
new faculty members with outstanding research credentials in
selected thrust areas. Two new junior faculty were appointed at
the Assistant Professor (tenure-track) rank this year. Masoud
Sharif, who finished an award-winning PhD thesis at Caltech,
joins a strong ECE research group in wireless networks (see
sidebar) and is expected to play an important role in the Center
for Information Systems Engineering (CISE). Luca Dal Negro
comes to us from M.I.T., where he was engaged in outstanding
research in photonic-crystal nanophotonics (see sidebar).
Hatice Altug is another outstanding junior scientist in
nanophtonics who will join the ECE tenure-track faculty
in January 2007. She has done ground-breaking research in
photonic-crystal nanocavity laser arrays at Stanford University
and her research has been recently highlighted in Nature and
other photonics publications. ese are important additions
to our photonics research team, which is becoming one of the
strongest in the world.
Further, this year Anna Swan joined the tenure-track faculty at
the rank of Associate Professor. As a previous member of the ECE
research faculty, Swan has pursued excellent research in microscopy,
biosensing, and carbon-nanotube photonics (see sidebar).
Three ECE faculty members were granted tenure and
promoted to the rank of Associate Professor: Enrico Bellotti,
David Starobinski, and Ari Trachtenberg. All three have
received NSF CAREER awards. Bellotti is recognized for his
excellent contributions to modeling and numerical simulation
of semiconductor electronic and photonic devices. Starobinski
has made significant contributions to performance analysis
of packet networks, with applications to wireless networks.
Trachtenberg has made important contributions to networks
and coding theory and has pioneered new directions in data
synchronization. He has also received the 2002-2003 ECE
Excellence in Teaching Award.
Sabbatical leaves this year included W. Clem Karl and eodore
Morse in Fall 2005 and Spring 2006, omas Skinner in Fall
2005, and Mike Ruane and Jeffrey Carruthers in Spring 2006.
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Highlights
Masoud Sharif joined the ECE
Department as Assistant Professor
(tenure-track) on January 1, 2006.
He received his Ph.D. in Electri-
cal Engineering from California
Institute of Technology in 2005,
where he won the 2006 Wilts Prize
for the best PhD thesis in Electrical
Engineering. His research interests
include wireless multiuser networks and communications
and information theory.
Luca Dal Negro joined the ECE
Department as Assistant Profes-
sor (tenure-track) on January
1, 2006. He received his Ph.D.
in Semiconductor Physics from
the University of Trento, Italy in
2003. Prior to joining the ECE
Department, he was a post-
doctoral fellow at M.I.T. His
research interests include optical
amplification phenomena and laser physics; optical
spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures; pho-
tonic crystals, Anderson light localization and aperiodic
dielectrics; and nanophotonics and plasmonics.
Anna Swan was promoted from
Research Assistant Professor
to Associate Professor (tenure-
track), effective September 1,
2005. She received her Ph.D. in
Physics from Boston University
in 1993. Before joining the
ECE Department as a Research
Assistant Professor in 1999, she
worked in the solid state divi-
sion of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her research
interests include optical properties of carbon-nanotubes;
strain studies using Raman Spectroscopy; development
of high-resolution fluorescence microscopy; bio-sensing;
and educational outreach.
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Highlights
Faculty Awards and Honors
David Castañón received the IEEE Control Systems Society
Distinguished Member Award.
Prakash Ishwar received an NSF Career award in support
of his research entitled “Information-Scaling Laws, ‘Bit-
conservation’ Principles, and Robust Coding Architectures in
Sensor Networks.”
Janusz Konrad received the EURASIP Image Communication
Journal Best Paper Award for 2004-2005 for his paper with
his recent ECE PhD graduate Nikola Bozinovic entitled
“Motion analysis in 3D DCT domain and its application to
video coding,” Signal Processing: Image Communications, Vol.
20, pp. 510-528, July 2005. e paper was also among the
top 25 most downloaded papers from Signal Processing: Image
Communication.
Hamid Nawab was elected a Fellow of the American Institute
of Medical and Biological Engineering.
Wei Qin received the 2006 ECE Award for Excellence in
Teaching.
Roberto Paiella won a 2006 SPRInG grant from the Office of
the Provost for research in “Development of Practical Sources
of Terahertz Radiation by Use of Nitride Semiconductor
Quantum Structures.”
Joshua Semeter received an NSF CAREER Award in support
of his research entitled “Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
through Multi-Sensor Data Fusion.”
Masoud Sharif was awarded the Caltech 2006 Wilts Prize for
the best doctoral thesis at Caltech. e prize is awarded every
year to one EE graduate student for outstanding independent
research in electrical engineering leading to a PhD.
1.2 Undergraduate Program
is year we continued improving our EE and CSE programs
with two new courses introduced to replace previous
requirements in both programs. Probability for Electrical &
Computer Engineers (ENG SC381) was formally approved by
the College of Engineering faculty in Fall 2005 and was taught
for the first time in Spring 2006 by Professor David Castañón.
Introduction to Engineering Computation (ENG EK127)
was proposed and approved by the faculty to replace the older
course ENG EK126. e major change involved teaching the
entire course using MATLAB rather than C++. is was done
in response to feedback from our students and faculty that
the older course failed to sufficiently prepare our students for
the extensive use of MATLAB later in the curriculum. e
teaching of C++ will be postponed until the data structures
course for the CSE program. In another instance of continual
program improvement, in AY 2005-2006 several ECE courses
implemented the cellular phone as a running theme to help the
students see connections between those courses. e objective
was to obtain better learning outcomes along the “integrated
view” dimension.
Enrollment in the BS programs has been steady in recent years.
A total of 273 students enrolled in the Electrical Engineering
(EE) and Computer Systems Engineering (CSE) programs,
with CSE enrollment now dropping to about 36% of the total
undergraduate enrollment. e number of EE and CSE BS
degrees awarded this year were 65 and 29, respectively. (See
details in Section 3.1 and enrollment history in Section 6.2.)
Efforts to enhance the undergraduate laboratories are
successfully ongoing, with new equipment, maintenance, and
upgrades this year at a total cost of $211k. In both classrooms
and laboratories, emphasis is placed on design, laboratory
practice, and applications. Successful ideas that were initiated
in previous years, such as the Teaching Workshop, the ECE
Senior Project Day, ECE Advising Day, and the ECE Teaching
Excellence Award, continued this year. (See Section 3 for more
information.)
Undergraduate Student Awards
The senior design team of Joseph D’Errico, Andrew
Hagedorn, Yaniv Ophir, and Vyas Venkataraman received
honorable mention as one of 10 groups that competed in the
CSIDC 2006 world finals in Washington, DC on July 2. Other
competing teams hailed from China, India, Poland, Romania,
Jordan, and the U.S. Sponsored by the IEEE and Microsoft, the
competition aims to advance excellence in computer science
and computer engineering education by encouraging student
teams to design and implement computer-based solutions to
real-world problems.
College of Engineering
Faculty Service Award
Professor Selim Ünlü, Associate
Chair for ECE Graduate Studies,
was the winner of the 2006 Faculty
Service Award. The College of
Engineering Executive Board
chooses a faculty member who has
made outstanding contributions to
the College through involvement in programs, committees,
and organizations within the College and University.
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Highlights
e group also won the GE Imagination Award 2006 for
their design of trash cans that can communicate with each
other (and to a central point) when they need to be emptied
(displaying both full and overflowing status). e GE Award is
given to the team whose project best exemplifies imagination
and creativity.
Students Simon Au, Tina Chu, Eddie Lau, and Richard Yu
were selected by Senior Project faculty as recipients of the 2005
P.T. Hsu Award for the best overall ECE senior design project.
1.3 Graduate Program
In 2005-2006, new student recruiting efforts were rewarded
with success. Five PhD students were awarded Dean’s Research
Fellows (DRF) and began matriculation in ECE in Fall 2005.
Four of these students will be continuing their degree programs
and are making excellent progress in their programs. Eighteen
graduate students began matriculation in Fall 2005 with
Graduate Teaching Fellowships (GTF). Fourteen of these
eighteen GTFs have been offered Research Assistantships for
the Fall 2006 semester. For the Fall 2006 semester, we have
recruited four new DRFs, 11 new GTFs, and one Photonics
Fellow.
e BU Photonics Center has started a new program funding
photonics graduate students in the sciences and engineering.
e program grew out of the belief that greater interdisciplinary
research and education in photonics will require strong
support of doctoral students. e awards are divided into
two types: full-year Junior Assistantships and two-semester
Senior Assistantships. One of the three Photonics Center
Junior Research Assistantships was awarded to David Harrah
starting as an ECE student in September 2006. Continuing
ECE PhD students Ayca Yalcin, Anthony Vamivakas and
Shihchin (Matt) Chiu receiving the ECE
Graduate Teaching Fellow of the Year
Award from Selim Ünlü, Associate Chair
for Graduate Studies.
Joshua Abell were recipients of Senior Student Awards. e
selection for these Awards is merit based, and students were
evaluated based on criteria that included academic record, scores
on standardized tests, recommendation letters, publications,
conference presentations, participation in the Photonics
Center community, and recommendation of the graduate
committee of the affiliated BU department. is cohort of
students, including six others from BME, Physics, MFG, and
Chemistry, will contribute to building an interdisciplinary
Photonics Community.
Graduate Student Awards
ECE graduate students made an excellent showing in the 2006
Science and Engineering Day. e “College Of Engineering
Award Dean’s Award” was received by George Atia for his
poster “On Outage and trade-off in half duplex relay channels”
(Advisor: Venkatesh Saligrama). The “CISE Award” was
received by Shuchin Aeron for his poster, “Energy Efficient
policies for distributed target tracking in multi-hop sensor
networks” (Advisor: Venkatesh Saligrama). e “Photonics
Berman Future of Light Award” was received by Tao Xu for
her poster “Fundamental Physical, Chemical, and Material
Phenomena.” (Advisor: eodore Moustakas) In its second
year, the “Electrical and Computer Engineering Award” was
shared by two students: Brynmor Davis for his poster “Using
Multi-Element Detectors to Utilize Out-of-Focus Light and
Synthesize Optimal Apertures in Confocal Microscopy”
(Advisor: W. Clem Karl) and I. Emre Ozkumur for his poster
“Label-free biological microarray imaging.” (Advisor: Selim
Ünlü)
Graduate student Shihchin (Matt) Chiu received the
2005/2006 ECE Graduate Teaching Fellow of the Year
Award.
1.4 Research
New research funding this year totaled about $7M in awards
for research, of which $5.2M were awarded to ECE Principal
Investigators (PI) and $1.8M were awarded to ECE faculty
members working as Co-PI on projects outside of the
Department. Of the PI awards, 23 were for new research
projects, while 21 awards were for continuing projects. (See
Section 5.5 for details on research funding.)
During this year, research funding has supported 108 research
assistant students who have had the opportunity to expand their
knowledge from the classroom into cutting edge research.
is year, eodore Moustakas received more than $784k for
his research projects involving work with the Department of
Energy for the development of solid state lighting; a three-year
grant from NASA to develop a deep UV laser for identification of
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Highlights
biological substances during exploration of Mars ($125k); and a
continuation of his project Blue/UV LEDs for white lighting.
Selim Ünlü’s new and continuing projects received more
than $500k, with his work on high-throughput, label-free,
promoter sequence discovery awarded $231k. omas Little,
Murat Alanyali and Venkatesh Saligrama received $500k to
continue their research project in internetworking of sensor
systems. Alexander Sergienko, Bahaa Saleh and Malvin Teich
continued their project “Ultrafast Quantum Optics,” which
received funds of $300k this year.
Several large research grants were received this year in support of
inter-departmental collaborative research. e NSF Center for
Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) continued
its sixth year with Research rust 1 led by Bahaa Saleh and
funded at $126k, Research rust 2 led by David Castañón and
funded at $295k; and the education program led by Michael
Ruane and funded at $60k.
Allyn Hubbard continued his research for Robot Enhanced
Detection Outpost with Laser (REDOWL), a tactical sensory
system based on human hearing that can detect and locate
snipers on the first shot fired at personnel or vehicles, bringing
more than $670k to the Department.
ree ECE professors received $306k in CAREER awards this
year: Prakash Ishwar ($152k) for his project “Information-
Scaling Laws, “Bit-Conversation” Principles and Robust
Coding Architectures in Sensor Networks”; Joshua Semeter
($83k) for his project “Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
rough Multi-Sensor Data Fusion”; and Ari Trachtenberg
($71k) for his project “Practical Data Synchronization
– Minimizing Communication”.
is year, the ECE faculty, academic staff, and graduate students
published 53 research papers in archival journals, authored, co-
authored or edited 11 books or book chapters, and made 115
conference contributions (papers, abstracts, and presentations).
ey have also filed 16 patents or patent disclosures. (See
Section 5.4 for a complete listing of faculty publications.) e
Department continued its weekly Research Spotlight Seminar
series this year and nine ECE faculty presented highlights of
their research.
1.5 Special Events
ECE Day 2005
Initiated in 1997, ECE Day is a forum for student teams to
present their senior design projects. Held at the end of the Spring
semester, ECE Day 2006 included 23 presentations attended
by students, faculty, alumni, and industry representatives. (For
more information on ECE Day 2006 see Section 3.4.)
ECE Retreat
e ECE Department held its annual Faculty Retreat on
May 12, 2006 at the Boston University Corporate Education
Center in Tyngsboro, MA. is year’s principal themes were
undergraduate curriculum, enhancing the stature and visibility
of the department, and the merit review process. New initiatives
for the undergraduate curriculum included the creation of
more flexible tracks to allow students to study a broader range
of subjects, refreshing the core classes, and more emphasis on
application than on theory.
NSF Workshop: Future Directions in Systems
Research for Networked Sensing
Venkatesh Saligrama organized the workshop with a grant from
the NSF Division of Electrical and Communications Systems.
Held on May 25–26, 2006 in the Photonics Building, the
workshop brought together renowned scholars in the field of
distributed sensing and control and drew over 140 academic
and industry leaders from across North America. e workshop
included a panel of industry and government experts.
Attendees hailed from research institutions including University
of California at Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, McGill University, Université Catholique de
Louvain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard
University, Princeton University, and Yale University.
Government leaders from the Office of Naval Research, the
Army Research Office, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and
Los Alamos National Laboratory highlighted the impact of
sensor networking on issues of national importance.
Advanced Computational Electromagnetics Work-
shop (ACE ’06)
Robert Kotiuga organized the workshop with a grant from the
NSF. Held on May 4-6, 2006 at Boston University, the workshop
addressed the themes of emerging applications requiring 3D
finite element analysis and non-scalar interpolation; essential
and evolving techniques from algebraic topology and geometric
analysis; and geometric inverse problems.
Attendees included engineers, numerical analysts, software
developers, and mathematicians who, when viewed in the
context of the workshop themes, have made remarkable and
lasting contributions in their respective fields.
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Faculty & Staff
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Faculty & Staff
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Faculty & Staff
David Campbell, Professor & Provost
• Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1970
• General nonlinear phenomena and
complex systems; novel electronic
materials, including conducting
polymers and organic and high tc
superconductors; electron transport
in semiconductor superlattices
• Fellow - American Physical Society,
American Association for the
Advancement of Science
• Editor-in-Chief, Chaos; Editor,
Physics Reports
Jeffrey Carruthers, Associate Professor
• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley,
1997
• Wireless infrared communications;
broadband communications; mobile and
wireless networks
• 1999 NSF CAREER Award
• Senior Member, IEEE
• 2001 ECE Award for Excellence in
Teaching
David Castañón, Professor
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1976
• Stochastic control; estimation
optimization; image understanding and
parallel computation
• Associate Director, Center for Subsurface
Sensing and Imaging Systems;
Co-Director, BU Center for Information
and Systems Engineering (CenSSIS)
• IEEE Control Systems Society
Distinguished Member Award.
• Associate Editor, Computational
Optimization and Applications; Past
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control
Luca Dal Negro, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D., University of Trento, 2003
• Optical amplification phenomena and
laser physics; optical spectroscopy of
semiconductor nanostructures; photonic
crystals, anderson light localization and
aperiodic dielectrics; nanophotonics and
plasmonics.
Azza Fahim, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D., Cairo University, 1984
• Electric machines; computations in
electromagnetics
2.1 Faculty
Murat Alanyali, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D., University of Illinois,
Urbana- Champaign 1996
• Communication networks; performance
analysis and optimization; stochastic
systems
• 2003 NSF CAREER Award
• 2004 Legacy Gift Award, College of
Engineering
• Associate Editor, IEEE Control Systems
Society Conference Editorial Board
Enrico Bellotti, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology,
1999
• Computational electronics;
semiconductor materials and device
simulations; power electronics; parallel
computing
• 2005 NSF CAREER Award
• 2003 ONR Young Investigator Award
Irving Bigio, Professor
• Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974
• Medical application of optics, lasers, and
spectroscopy; biophotonics; nonlinear
optics; applied spectroscopy; laser
physics
• Fellow - Optical Society of America,
American Society for Lasers In Medicine
and Surgery, American Institute for
Medical & Biological Engineering
• Los Alamos Inventor Awards, 1994,
1996, 1999
Richard Brower, Professor
• Ph.D., University of California, 1969
• Molecular dynamics simulation for
biomolecules; lattics methods for QCD
and statistical mechanics; quantum field
theory of strings and particles
• A.P. Sloan Research Fellow, SLAC and
M.I.T., 1974-1976
• Past Managing Editor, International
Journal of Computational Physics C
Maja Bystrom, Associate Professor
• Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
1997
• Source and channel coding; multi-media
communications; image processing
• 1999 NSF CAREER Award
• 2005 ECE Award for Excellence in
Teaching
• 2001 Fulbright Award
• Associate Editor, Signal Processing
Letters
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Faculty & Staff
Roscoe Giles, Professor
• Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975
• Advanced computer architectures;
distributed and parallel computing;
computational science
• Cited as one of the “50 Most Important
Blacks in Research Science in 2004” by e
Career Communications Group (CCG)
• A. Nico Haberman Award, CRA
• 1996 College of Engineering Award for
Excellence in Teaching
Martin Herbordt, Associate Professor
• Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1994
• Computer architecture; electronic design
automation; communication switch
design; computer vision architecture;
bioinformatics
• 1997 NSF CAREER Award
• 2004 Legacy Award, College of Engineering
Mark Horenstein, Professor &
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1978
• Applied electromagnetics; electrostatics;
microelectromechanical systems
• President, Electrostatics Society of America
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Electrostatics
Allyn Hubbard, Professor
• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison,
1977
• VLSI design using analog and digital
techniques in CMOS; neural net chips,
smart sensor chips, and chips with
biological applications; models of the
peripheral auditory system
• 2002 College of Engineering Award for
Excellence in Teaching
Prakash Ishwar, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign, 2002
• Distributed and collaborative signal
processing; multi-terminal information
theory; statistical modeling and inference;
image and video coding and processing;
multiresolution signal processing and
optimization with applications to sensor
networks; multimedia-over-wireless security.
• 2006 NSF CAREER Award
W. Clem Karl, Professor
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1991
• Multidimensional and multiscale signal
and image processing and estimation,
particularly applied to geometrically and
medically oriented problems
• 2000 ECE Award for Excellence in Teaching
• Past Associate Editor, Tomography & MRI,
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing;
Past Assistant Editor, Systems Control
Newsletter
Mark Karpovsky, Professor
• Ph.D., Leningrad Electrotechnical
Institute, 1967
• Design of secure cryptographic
devices and smart cards; routing in
interconnection networks; design and
protection of cryptographic devices;
fault-tolerant computing; error correcting
codes; testing and diagnosis of computer
hardware
• Fellow and Senior Member, IEEE
• Past Associate Editor, Tomography
and MRI, IEEE Transactions on Image
Proceessing
Thomas Kincaid, Professor
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1965
• Signal and image processing;
neurodynamics; non-destructive testing
• Chair, Electrical & Computer Systems
Engineering, 1983-1994
• Associate Dean for Undergraduate
Programs, 1995-1998
• Leap Advisor, 1998-2005
Ronald Knepper, Professor
• Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1969
• VLSI integrated circuit technology; SiGe
BICMOS device and circuit modeling;
silicon CMOS & bipolar devices;
numerical device simulation; RF/analog
IC design
• Fellow, IEEE
• 1989 IBM Outstanding Innovation
Award; 1988 IBM Division Award; 1983
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement
Award
• Past Editor, Solid State Electronics
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Faculty & Staff
Janusz Konrad, Associate Professor
• Ph.D., McGill University, 1989
• Multimedia communications; image and
video processing; stereoscopic and 3-D
imaging; digital signal processing
• Senior Member, IEEE
• 2001 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Award
• Associate Technical Editor, IEEE
Communications Magazine; Past
Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing
Letters; Past Associate Editor, IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing
Robert Kotiuga, Associate Professor
• Ph.D., McGill University, 1985
• Electromagnetics; numerical methods
for three-dimensional vector field
problems; Whitney forms and the Finite
Element Method; micromagnetics;
nanoscale magnetics; geometric
inverse problems; Topological aspects
of magnetic scalar potentials; helicity
functionals; analysis of high performance
interconnects
• Member, Electromagnetics Academy
Min-Chang Lee, Professor
• Ph.D., University of California, San
Diego, 1977
• Radio communications; experimental
plasma physics; ionospheric plasma physics
• Past Associate Editor, AGUs Radio Science
Lev Levitin, Distinguished Professor
• Ph.D., USSR Academy of Sciences,
Gorky University, 1969
• Information theory; physics of
communication and computing; complex
and organized systems; bioinformatics;
quantum theory of measurement; reliable
communication and computing
• Fellow, IEEE
• Member, International Academy of
Informatization
Thomas Little, Professor
• Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1991
• Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs);
multimedia computing; computer
networking; software engineering;
embedded sensor networks
• 1995 NSF CAREER Award
• Editorial Board Member, ACM/
Springer Multimedia Systems, Journal
of Multimedia Tools and Applications
Theodore Morse, Professor
• Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1961
• Photonic material processing; optical fiber
fabrication, lasers, and sensors; igh power
double clad fiber lasers
• Fulbright Fellow, Germany
Theodore Moustakas, Professor
• Ph.D., Columbia University, 1974
• Growth by MBE, MOCVD, HVPE and
Gas-Cluster Ion Beam Deposition (GCIB);
growth, fabrication and characterization of
optical devices (UV-LEDs, UV-LDs,
optical modulators, detectors), electronic
devices (high power diodes, transistors and
thyristors) and electromechanical devices
(SiC/III-Nitride MEMS sensors); III-
Nitride semiconductors (materials growth
and device fabrication)
• Fellow, American Physical Society,
Electrochemical Society
• 1998 ECE Award for Excellence in
Teaching
S. Hamid Nawab, Professor & Associate
Chair for Undergraduate Studies
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1982
• Information and data extraction;
algorithms/architectures with application
to the analysis of brain to muscle
communications via EMG signals from
surface and needle electrodes
• 2005 College of Engineering Service
Award
• 1998 College of Engineering Award for
Excellence in Teaching
• 1993 Metcalf Award for Excellence in
Teaching
• Fellow - American Institute for Medical &
Biological Engineering
William Oliver, Associate Professor
• Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1973
• Radar studies of the upper atmosphere
and ionosphere; modeling and simulation;
global change in the upper atmosphere
• Associate Director, BU Center for Space
Physics
Roberto Paiella, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D., California Institute of Technology,
1998
• Optical technologies for information
processing; photonic devices based on
semiconductor quantum structures,
including group-III nitride quantum wells;
nanoscale photonic devices and circuits;
ultrafast optics
• Vice Chair, IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics
Society (LEOS), New England Chapter
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Faculty & Staff
Wei Qin, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D., Princeton University, 2004
• Tools, methods and architectures
for embedded systems; synthesis
and verification of programmable
processors; design languages for
electronic systems
• 2006 ECE Award for Excellence in
Teaching
Tatyana Roziner, Associate Professor
• Ph.D., Moscow Scientific Research
Institute, 1975
• Digital design; testing and diagnostics
of computer hardware; fault-tolerant
computing
Michael Ruane, Professor
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1980
• Resonant cavity imaging system; micro-
magnetics modeling; optical systems;
AFRL Loss Cone Imager DSX Satellite
• Senior Member, IEEE
• 2004 ASEE New England Section
Outstanding Teacher Award
• 1999 ECE Award for Excellence in
Teaching
• 1991 College of Engineering Faculty
Service Award
Bahaa E.A. Saleh, Professor & Chair
• Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1971
• Quantum optics; nonlinear optics;
image processing
• Fellow, IEEE, Optical Society of
America, John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation
• 2004 BACUS Award
• 1999 OSA Beller Award
• Deputy Director, Center for Subsurface
Imaging and Imaging Systems
(CenSSIS)
• Past Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the
Optical Society of America A: Optics,
Image Science and Vision
Venkatesh Saligrama, Associate
Professor
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1997
• Information and control theory;
statistical signal processing; applications
to sensor networks
• 2005 NSF CAREER Award
• 2003 ONR Presidential Early Career
Award
• 2002 ONR Young Investigator Award
Joshua Semeter, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D., Boston University, 1997
• Ionospheric and space plasma physics;
spectroscopy of atmospheric airglow and
the aurora borealis; image processing;
radar systems and radar signal processing
• 2004 SRI Presidential Achievement Award
• 2000 Prize Lecture, NSF Cedar Workshop
• Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical
Research
• 2006 NSF CAREER Award
Alexander Sergienko, Professor
• Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1987
• Correlation spectroscopy, field optical
microscopy and spectroscopy of
semiconductor materials and devices;
quantum communications; remote laser
sensing; laser physics; nonlinear optics;
quantum optics, including quantum
radiometry and metrology
• 1999 NSF CAREER Award
• Fellow, Optical Society of America
• 2001 ECE Award for Excellence in
Teaching
Masoud Sharif, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D., California Institute of Technology,
2005
• Wireless multiuser networks, and
communications and information theory
• 2006 Wilts Prize for the best PhD thesis
in Electrical Engineering at Caltech
Thomas Skinner, Associate Professor
• Ph.D., Boston University, 1982
• Microprocessors; computer networks;
operating systems; distributed systems
• 2003 Microsoft Most Valuable
Professional Award
• 1997 College of Engineering Award for
Excellence in Teaching
David Starobinski, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D., Technion, Israel Institute of
Technology, 1999
• Wireless and sensor networks; QOS and
traffic engineering; networks performance
evaluation
• 2004 Department of Energy Early Career
Award
• 2002 NSF CAREER Award
Annual Report, Page 2-6
Faculty & Staff
Floyd Humphrey, Research Professor
• Ph.D., California Institute of
Technology, 1956
• Computer simulations of magnetic
materials and storage devices; magnetic
sensors
• Life Fellow, IEEE
• IEEE - 100th Anniversary Gold Medal
for Service
• 1998 Magnetics Society Achievement
Award
• Millenium Medal
Fei Luo, Research Associate Professor
• Ph.D., Chongqing University, 1991
• Distributed fiber optic sensors and
systems; optical fiber grating sensors;
interferometric sensors
Research Faculty
Anna Swan, Associate Professor
• Ph.D., Boston University, 1993
• Development of nanoscale optical
self-interference microscopy; optical
properties of carbon nanotubes
Alexander Taubin, Associate Professor
• Ph.D., Electrotechnical University of St.
Petersburg, 1981
• Asynchronous circuit, logic design;
computer architecture; CAD; attack
resistant hardware
• Senior Member, IEEE
Malvin Teich, Professor
• Ph.D., Cornell University, 1966
• Quantum optics and imaging;
photonics; fractal stochastic processes;
information transmission in biological
sensory systems
• Fellow, IEEE, American Physical Society,
Acoustical Society of America, American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation, Optical Society of America
• 1997 IEEE Morris E. Leeds Award,
1992 Palacky University Memorial
Gold Medal, 1969 IEEE Browder J.
ompson Memorial Prize
• Editorial Advisor, Photonics and Physical
Electronics, Physics Today
Tommaso Toffoli, Associate Professor
• Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1977
• Fundamental connections between
physics and computation; fine-grained
modeling of physics-like systems
technology (cellular automata machines)
and methodology (programmable
matter); personal knowledge structuring
• Senior Member, IEEE
• Member, Editorial Board Complex
Systems; e Interjournal (on-line)
Ari Trachtenberg, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign, 2000
• Error correcting codes; data
synchronization (especially for PDAs
and mobile networks); sensor-based
location detection; algorithms
• 2002 NSF CAREER Award
• 2003 ECE Award for Excellence in
Teaching
• Senior Member, IEEE
Selim Ünlü, Professor & Associate
Chair for Graduate Studies
• Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign, 1992
• Near-field optical microscopy and
spectroscopy of semiconductor
materials and devices; design,
processing, characterization and
simulation of semiconductor
optoelectronic devices; nanoscale
imaging of biological samples,
biosensors
• 2005 IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics
Society (LEOS) Distinguished Lecturer
• 1996 NSF CAREER Award
• 1996 ONR Young Investigator Award
• 2002 ECE Award for Excellence in
Teaching
• Senior Member, IEEE
• Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of
Quantum Electronics
• 2006 College of Engineering Service
Award
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Faculty & Staff
John Baillieul, Professor, Chairman,
Dept. of Aerospace and
Mechanical Engineering
• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1975
• Robotics; control of mechanical
systems; mathematical system theory
• IEEE Fellow
• Elected 40th President of IEEE
• Distinguished Member, IEEE Control
Systems Society
• Director, Boston University Center for
Control and Dynamics of Smart
Structures
• Past Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions
on Automatic Control
Christos Cassandras, Professor
• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1982
• Analysis and control of discrete event
dynamic systems; stochastic control
and optimization; dynamic control of
computer and communication networks
• IEEE Fellow, 1991 Lilly Fellow
• IEEE Control Systems Society Board of
Governors
• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on
Autonomic Control
Supriya Chakrabarti, Professor
• Ph.D., University of California,
Berkeley, 1982
• Space experimentation; ultraviolet
spectroscopy
• Director, Center for Space Physics
Solomon Eisenberg,
Professor, Dean Ad Interm, &
Associate Dean for Undergraduate
Programs
• Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1983
• Electrically mediated phenomena in
tissues and biopolymers
• 1987 NSF Presidential Young
Investigator
• 1990 Metcalf Award for Excellence in
Teaching
Theodore Fritz, Professor
• Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1967
• Space plasma and magnetospheric
physics; magneto sphere-ionosphere
coupling; substorms; charged particles
and compositions; rocket and satellite
experiments
Bennett Goldberg, Professor
(primary appointment with the Dept. of Physics)
• Ph.D., Brown University, 1987
• Room- and low-temperature, near-field
microscopy of semiconductors and
biological systems; magneto-optics and
magneto-transport of two- and one-
dimensional electron fields
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
• NSF Presidential Young Investigator
Michael Mendillo, Professor
(primary appointment with the Dept. of Astronomy
and the Center for Space Physics)
• Ph.D., Boston University, 1971
• Low-light level optical instrumentation;
signal processing in space physics;
planetary atmospheres; GPS satellite
communications; space plasmas in the
solar system
• Fellow, American Geophysical Union
Peter O’Connor, Research Assistant
Professor
• Ph.D., Cornell University, 1995
• Mass spectrometry instrumentation and
applications
• Assistant Director, Mass Spectrometry
Resource, Boston University School of
Medicine
Eric Schwartz, Professor
• Ph.D., Columbia University, 1973
• Computational neural science; machine
vision; neural anatomy; neural modeling
William Skocpol, Professor
(primary appointment with the Dept. of Physics)
• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974
• Nanofabrication; device processing;
transport experiments in materials
Afliated Faculty
Annual Report, Page 2-8
Faculty & Staff
Moe Wasserman, Professor Emeritus
• Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1955
• Semiconductor processing, electronic
circuits
Murat Alanyali omas Little
Enrico Bellotti Venkatesh Saligrama
Maja Bystrom Joshua Semeter
Jeffrey Carruthers Alexander Sergienko
Solomon Eisenberg David Starobinski
Bennett Goldberg Ari Trachtenberg
Martin Herbordt Selim Ünlü
Prakash Ishwar
NSF PYI/CAREER Awards
Richard Vidale, Professor Emeritus
• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-
Madison, 1964
• Modeling and simulation, software
engineering
David Perreault, Professor Emeritus
• Ph.D., Purdue University, 1968
• Nonlinear networks; computer-aided
design; microprocessors; distributed
digital networks
Emeritus Faculty
John Brackett, Professor Emeritus
• Ph.D., Purdue University, 1963
• Software engineering; software
requirements definition; object-
oriented testing; rapid prototyping of
embedded systems
ONR Young Investigators
Enrico Bellotti Selim Ünlü
Venkatesh Saligrama
Venkatesh Saligrama
PECASE Award
Leopold B. Felsen, ECE Affiliated
Professor, passed away on Sept. 24,
2005 at the age of 81.
Dr. Felsen joined the College
of Engineering faculty in 1994,
where he made significant contri-
butions to the field of electromag-
netics. His discoveries underlie
the technology in every cell phone
and Radiation and Scattering of
Waves, the 1972 book he co-au-
thored, is a standard text in the field. His pioneering work
found application in other fields, such as optics and geophys-
ics, which previously were thought to be unrelated.
Dr. Felsen earned his BS, MS and PhD in electrical engineer-
ing at the Polytechnic University of New York. e author
of more than 300 research papers, Dr. Felsen was a member
of the National Academy of Engineering and a life fellow of
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which
awarded him its Heinrich Hertz Medal for his theories ad-
vancing the study of electromagnetic waves. In 2003, he won
the IEEE Electromagnetics Award. Dr. Felsen is survived by
his son and daughter.
John Bailleul Ronald Knepper
Christos Cassandras Lev Levitin
Floyd Humphrey Bahaa Saleh
Mark Karpovsky Malvin Teich
Fellows of Technical Societies
IEEE
American Physical Society (APS)
David Campbell Malvin Teich
eodore Moustakas
Optical Society of America (OSA)
eodore Moustakas
Electrochemical Society (ECS)
Irving Bigio Alexander Sergienko
Bahaa Saleh Malvin Teich
American Institute for Medical &
Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
Irving Bigio Hamid Nawab
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Michael Mendillo
American Society for Lasers in Medicine & Surgery
Irving Bigio
Fellows of Technical Societies
Acoustical Society of America
Malvin Teich
Annual Report, Page 2-9
Faculty & Staff
Basilio Sanchez, Gilberto* Visiting Scholar eodore Morse
Bertazzi, Francesco* Research Assistant Enrico Bellotti
Bhattacharyya, Anirban Research Associate eodore Moustakas
Blixt, Maarten* Senior Research Associate Joshua Semeter
Bonato, Cristian Research Assistant Alexander Sergienko
Cabalu, Jasper Research Assistant eodore Moustakas
Cohen, Reuven Research Associate David Starobinski
Friel, Ian* Research Associate eodore Moustakas
Ippolito, Stephen* Research Associate Selim Ünlü
Jaspan, Martin Senior Research Associate Alexander Sergienko
Kotov, Valeri Research Assistant Professor David Campbell
Li, Xiaojun* Research Assistant eodore Morse
Nasr, Magued Research Associate Malvin Teich/Bahaa Saleh
Nikiforov, Alexey Research Associate eodore Moustakas
Qin, Xiangping Research Associate David Starobinski
Redjdal, Makhlouf Research Associate Floyd Humphrey
Shubochkin, Roman Research Associate eodore Morse
Tsai, Shan Wen* Research Assistant David Campbell
Van Court, omas D Research Associate Martin Herbordt
Wong, Wai Yan Research Assistant Malvin Teich
* Completed appointment during 2005/2006
2.2 Adjunct Faculty
John Brackett, SC518 (Spring 2006)
• PhD, Purdue University, 1963
Babak Kia Montazan, SC464 (Spring 2006) & SC757
(Summer 2005 & 2006)
• MS, Boston University, 1996
The ECE Department looks outside the department and
university for individuals to teach a few specific courses,
as the need arises. ese individuals bring a vast amount
of engineering expertise, in both academic and industrial
capacities, to the classroom. e following is a list of people
who have helped the Department meet its teaching needs over
the past year.
2.3 Research Staff
2.4 Administrative and Technical Staff
Administrative Staff
Marchioni, Carly Academic Programs Administrator
Perez, Alfredo Grants Administrator
Ryan, Gordon Senior Staff Coordinator
Nabiel, Hemayat Assistant Director
Santore, Catherine Communications Manager
Rennie, Wayne Department Director
McLaughlin, Mark Financial Administrator
Technical Staff
Albro, Jeffrey*/open Systems Analyst/Administrator I
Caine, Aaron Manager, Technology and Systems
Berkovitch, Dan Systems Analyst/Administrator I
France, Ryan MBE Laboratory Manager
Kleptsyn, Vladimir Electronics/Circuits Laboratory Manager
Open Laboratory Researcher
* Resigned during 2005/2006
Name Title Advisor
Gerd Keiser, SC563 (Spring 2006)
• Ph.D., Northeastern University, 1973
Alan Pisano, SC463/464 (Fall 2005) & SC402
(Spring 2006)
• PhD, Northeastern University, 1974
Vladimir Kleptsyn, SC578 (Fall 2005)
• PhD, Moscow Lomonosov’s Institute of Fine Chemical
Technology, 1983
Annual Report, Page 2-10
Faculty & Staff
2.5 Department Administration & Committees
Saleh, Bahaa Department Chair
Nawab, Hamid Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Ünlü, Selim Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Rennie, Wayne Department Director
Faculty committees direct the academic operations and planning for the ECE Department. e Undergraduate and Graduate
Committees are responsible for curricular and student affairs. e Planning Committee is comprised of the coordinators of
the three areas of research and instruction (electro-physics, information systems and sciences, and computer engineering), the
Chairman, Director, and the two Associate Chairs, and is responsible for strategic initiatives.
Planning
Committee
Graduate
Committee
Undergraduate
Committee
Search
Committee
APT
Committee
Saleh (Chair)
Ünlü (Assoc. Chair,
Grad)
Nawab (Assoc. Chair,
Undergrad)
Little (CSE)
Castañón (ISS)
Ruane (Electro-Phys.)
Sergienko (Electro-Phys.)
Rennie (Director)
Ünlü (Chair)
Oliver (Assoc. Chair)
Alanyali
Bellotti
Bigio
Ishwar
Qin
Sharif
Taubin
Trachtenberg
Nawab (Chair)
Bystrom
Carruthers
Fahim
Paiella
Roziner
Ruane
Semeter
Starobinski
Saleh (Chair)
Herbordt
Karpovsky
Rennie (ex-officio)
Saligrama
Swan
Teich
Saleh (Chair)
Brower
Castañón
Hubbard
Levitin
Moustakas
Rennie (ex-officio)
Teich
Publicity,
Special Events
and Seminars
Industrial and
Alumni Relations
Information
Technology
Committee
EK100 Advisors
Saleh (Chair)
Konrad
Kotiuga (RSS)*
Paiella
Qin
Rennie
Ryan
Saligrama
Santore
Toffoli
Saleh (Chair)
Horenstein
Hubbard
Knepper
Oliver
Pisano
Rennie
Skinner
Little(Chair)
Bellotti
Caine
Giles
Herbordt
Hubbard
Konrad
Rennie
Toffoli
Brower
Bystrom
Lee
Little
Oliver
Paiella
Ruane
Starobinski
Trachtenberg
Senior Design
Advisors
Bystrom
Carruthers
Giles
Horenstein
Konrad
Kotiuga
Morse
Pisano
Qin
Toffoli
Ünlü
* Research Spotlight Seminar
Annual Report, Page 2-11
Faculty & Staff
Search
Committee
- Recruitment of New
Faculty
APT
Committee
- Appointment
- Promotion
- Tenure
Publicity and Special
Events
Industrial and Alumni
Relations
Information
Technology
Planning Committee
Area Coordinator Area Coordinator Area Coordinator Associate Chair Associate Chair
Electro-Physics
- Solid-State Materials
and Devices
- Photonics
- Electromagnetics
- Space Physics
Information Systems
& Sciences
- Signal and Image
Processing
- Information &
Decision Systems
- Multimedia
Processing
- Communications
Networks
- Computer Networks
- Reliable Computing
- High-Performance
Computing
- Software Engineering
Computer
Engineering
- Admissions
- Petitions
- Awards
- Exams
- Curriculum
- GTF’s
Graduate
Committee
Undergraduate
Committee
- Curriculum
- Labs
- ABET
- Awards
- GTF’s
Chair
Director
Faculty
Tenured Faculty
Staff
- Industrial Advisory
Council
- Co-Op Program
- IT Support for
instructional and
research labs and
faculty and staff
- Annual Report
- Brochures
- Web Page
2.6 Department Organizational Chart
Annual Report, Page 2-12
Faculty & Staff
2.7 ECE Representation in the College of Engineering and the University
Faculty
Advisory Group
IEEE
Minority Engineers’ Society (MES)
Student Association of Graduate Engineers (SAGE)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
Tau Beta Pi
Alpha Pi Omega
Engineering House
Semeter
Giles
Oliver
Castañón
Starobinski
Ruane
Nawab
Other Representation Faculty
University Board of Trustees
Center for Computational Science
Inauguration Honorary Advisory Committee
Giles (member)
Giles (Deputy Director)
Giles (Co-Chair)
Karl, Little, Ünlü
Bigio, Horenstein, Ünlü
Ünlü
Carruthers, Nawab
Bystrom, Kotiuga, Levitin
Levitin
Knepper
Kincaid, Oliver
College of Engineering Committee
APT Committee
Graduate Committee
Scholarship Exam Committee
Undergraduate Committee
Math Exam Committee
Student Conduct Committee
Professional Practice Advisory Group
COE Leap Advisor
Faculty
Giles (Chair), Ünlü, Ruane
Ruane (Chair)
Moustakas, Ünlü
Ünlü
Ünlü
Ruane
Ünlü
Giles
Ünlü
Bigio, Ünlü
Ünlü
University Committee
Faculty Council
Faculty Council Compensation Committee
Patent Policy Committee
Student Conduct Committee
Research Activities & Libraries Committee
Laser Safety Committee
Board of Student Council
Leadership Council Board of Trustees
Presidents Council on BU and the Global Future
Provost Faculty Advising Committee on Photonics
Research Compliance Board
Faculty
Annual Report, Page 3-1
Undergraduate Programs
three:
Undergraduate Programs
Enrollment and Degrees Awarded
Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering 65
Computer Systems Engineering 29
Total 94
Honors Students
Summa Cum Laude 11
Magna Cum Laude 14
Cum Laude 13
Total 38
Electrical Computer Systems Total
Freshmen* 26 20 46
Sophomores* 27 29 56
Juniors 50 16 66
Seniors 72 33 105
Total 175 98 273
* Note: ENG students are not required to declare their major until their Junior year.
Fall 2005 Enrollment
3.1 Academic Programs
e ECE Department continues to pride itself on developing a
strong laboratory curriculum to accompany our classroom teaching
for undergraduates. We continue to have excellent teaching labs
with up-to-date equipment. Undergraduates are encouraged to
become involved with research and development efforts in faculty
labs through UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity
Program), work study, or student employment. Engineering is an
applied science, and we believe it is important to start applying
what is learned in the classroom as soon as possible.
We continued improving our undergraduate programs this year.
is process includes student surveys, student feedback forums,
faculty review of courses and outcomes, and implementation of
curriculum changes aimed at improving program outcomes.
e capstone design project provides our graduating seniors
with real engineering experience and the student projects have
continued to be outstanding, with several projects receiving
awards. (See page 6 for more details).
Professors Prakash Ishwar and Venkatesh Saligrama discuss
distributed source coding for sensor networks with graduate student
Ehsan Afkhami.
Annual Report, Page 3-2
Undergraduate Programs
Continuing a tradition initiated in 1998, each semester an ECE
Advising Day was held prior to the beginning of the web-based
registration period. is year we held a student feedback forum (co-
sponsored by the BU chapter of the IEEE) each semester to give ECE
students (mostly juniors and seniors) the opportunity to voice their
concerns and suggestions for improvements in our undergraduate
programs. e main highlights of their feedback were:
• More experience with MATLAB desired in the freshman year.
• A course in technical writing/communication recommended.
• Dissatisfaction expressed with Introductory Physics and
Chemistry courses.
Facility Equipment Approximate Cost
Microprocessor Lab and Lab kits, workstation upgrades, software licenses, $21,653
Software Engineering Lab maintenance, etc.
VLSI Lab and Signals/ Software licenses, maintenance, etc. $86,457
Networks Lab
Electronics Lab Oscilloscopes, lab kits, electronics kits, maintenance, etc. $63,348
Senior Design Lab Workstations, software licenses, etc. $2,252
Other General infrastructure upgrades, supplies, licenses, etc. $37,299
Total $211,009
Expenditures for Instructional Laboratories 2005-2006
3.2 Instructional Laboratories
ECE Teaching
Award 2005/2006
Professor Wei Qin, right,
was the winner of the 2006
ECE Award for Excellence
in Teaching. He received
the award for outstanding
teaching evaluations from
his students for the first
course he taught at Boston
University and even better
teaching evaluations the
second time he taught the
same course; as noted by
his students, his lectures
were always well prepared and organized; and his extensive
availability outside the classroom and the genuine care he shows
for the learning process.
• More faculty involvement desired in Senior Project
courses.
Teaching Workshops
e ECE tradition of holding teaching workshops every
semester continued this year. Now a requirement (as course
SC850) for all new graduate teaching fellows in the College
of Engineering, six 1-hour workshops were held each semes-
ter. ese workshops included panel and solo discussions
as well as role-playing scenarios on teaching methodology,
presentation techniques, pedagogy, and ethics.
ECE Advising Day
e ECE Department instituted this award during the
1997-98 academic year to recognize innovation and
excellence in teaching in the department. e award,
based on nominations from College students, faculty,
and staff, carries with it a $1,000 prize to be used towards
instructional activities. A committee of ECE professors and
students evaluated the nominees, using teaching statements,
classroom material and student comments, and sitting in on
classes. e 2006 ECE Teaching Award Committee, chaired
by Professor Nawab, recommended this award.
Annual Report, Page 3-3
Undergraduate Programs
Instructional Laboratories
Control Systems Laboratory
is laboratory houses four ECP model 220 Industrial Plant
Emulators for studying the control of practical systems. ese
systems consist of an electromechanical apparatus including an
adjustable mechanical mechanism (plant) with actuators and
sensors. Various types of controllers (e.g. PID, State- Feedback,
LQR) can be designed and implemented in either continuous
or discrete time formulations using a DSP-based real-time
controller with a Windows XP graphical interface. Non-ideal
conditions that are often present in real-world applications
can be studied. Integrated with the systems are MATLAB and
SIMULINK design tools, which can be used to design control
systems that can then be implemented in the hardware. Ana-
lytical models of both the “plant” and the “controller” can be
validated with actual hardware responses. Pisano
Electronic Design Automation/VLSI Laboratory
The VLSI Instructional Laboratory of the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is involved in almost
all aspects of digital design. We have a wide range of CAD tools
available for student use, including Cadence, Synopsys, and the
NCSU Design Toolkit. Herbordt, Hubbard, Kincaid, Knepper,
Roziner, Taubin
Electronics Laboratory
e Electronics Laboratory has 30 stations, each equipped
with a PC, GPIB-controlled Agilent test instruments and Na-
tional Instruments ELVIS development stations linked by Lab-
VIEW. Sixteen stations have new LeCroy digital scopes. New
Agilent MSO mixed signal oscilloscopes are being added in
summer 2006. is facility supports introductory ECE cours-
es in circuits and electronics with modern industry-standard
equipment and software. e lab also supports more advanced
experiments in signals and systems, communications, electro-
magnetics, and photonics. Senior design and project students
use the lab on an open basis, and freshman EK131/132 mod-
ules are held here. A small parts window sells common discrete
components. OrCAD software including PSpice supports cir-
cuit simulations, schematic capture and PCB layout. Nawab,
Carruthers, Fahim, Horenstein, Knepper, Kotiuga, Lee, Oliver,
Roziner, Ruane, Sergienko
High Performance Computing Laboratory
The High Performance Computing Laboratory at Boston
University was created with support from the National Science
Foundation (NSF) in order to support the development
of undergraduate courses in parallel and high performance
computing. e courses offered at Boston University serve as
a national model for computational science education. e
lab features a network of multimedia graphics workstations
linked at high speed to the supercomputers at the Center for
Computational Science and the Scientific Computing and
Visualization Lab. Giles, Brower
High Tech Tools and Toys Laboratory
HTTTL is the instructional laboratory associated with Boston
University’s NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for
Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS). The
laboratory houses a variety of PC-based imaging camera systems,
machine vision systems and acoustic imaging systems. Software
for imaging includes MATLAB, Image Processing Toolbox, Image
Builder, ENVI and LabVIEW. e HTTTL supports freshman
EK131/132 modules in imaging and subsurface imaging, senior
design capstone projects in imaging, and experiments in senior
level electives related to imaging. e lab also hosts summer
research through UROP, REU, RET and High School Honors
programs. Some undergrads are supported during the academic
year to work on improving stations in the HTTTL. Ruane
IMSIP Instructional Laboratory
This laboratory serves graduate instructional needs of the
department in the areas of multidimensional signal processing
(including image and video processing), statistical signal
processing, pattern recognition, as well as earth and space
sciences. The laboratory provides advanced computational
resources and associated software packages. Fast, dual processor
workstations connected through a gigabit network form a
computational backbone while high-capacity monochrome
and color printers serve the hardcopy needs. State-of-the-art
processing and optimization software is available. is laboratory
was developed with funds from the National Science Foundation,
and is currently being upgraded with departmental funds. Karl,
Konrad, Nawab, Oliver
Annual Report, Page 3-4
Undergraduate Programs
Microprocessor and PC Laboratory
is lab features instruction in the programming and interfacing
of microcomputers and digital controllers. Higherlevel courses
emphasize the design of systems using microprocessors. Various
simulators, and analysis packages are available. Toffoli, Giles,
Skinner, Taubin
Network Computing Laboratory
e Network Computing Laboratory studies interconnection
network topologies; routing, network flow control, and deadlocks
in multicomputer networks; multicast and broadcast, fault-
tolerance in interconnection networks; modules for realization
(nodes and routers); performance metrics and scalability; message
passing interference, protocols and programming, scalable
coherent interfact (SCI), and distributed shared memory; network
of workstations (NOW), case studies of high performance scalable
networks, and cluster computing. Karpovsky
Photonics Laboratory
e Photonics Instructional Laboratory supports introductory and
intermediate level courses in the MS in Photonics program. Four
stations each have a vibration isolated optical table, HeNe and
semiconductor lasers, fiber components and systems, electronic
test equipment, and GPIB-connected PCs for LabVIEW data
logging and instrument control. Shared equipment exists for
experiments and demonstrations in interferometry, spectrometry,
diffraction, holography, acoustic and electro-optic modulation,
and optical spectrum analysis. A secure annex room houses two
additional isolated tables, electronics and optical equipment to
support thesis and senior design projects that require long-term
setup of apparatus. Ruane, Bigio, Morse, Paiella, Saleh, Teich,
Ünlü
RF Measurements Lab
e RF Measurements Lab provides an opportunity to train
students in advanced radio frequency experimental techniques.
e lab contains up-to-date high frequency equipment for testing
RF printed circuit boards, MMICs, and other high frequency
components in the frequency range 100 MHz to 26 GHz. e
lab is used for both undergraduate and graduate instruction for
courses SC580 and SC582, as well as for research in coupled
electrical substrate noise effects in RF/mixed-signal IC technology.
Included in the RF Measurements Lab are recent Agilent high
frequency tools: a 26-GHz vector network analyzer, 26-GHz
spectrum analyzer, high frequency oscilloscope, and RF signal
generator. Students use the equipment to learn the basics of S-
parameter measurements, as well as characterization of RF mixers,
VCOs, amplifiers, and other components. Knepper
Senior Project Laboratory
is lab supports our senior design teams, serving real-world
customers such as NASA, Analog Devices, Boston public
schools, social service agencies, artists, and small businesses, as
well as faculty and staff across the University. Each team has
twenty-four hour access to a permanent bench setup with
a networked Pentium PC, benchtop GPIB-based HP test
equipment, and software for schematic design, simulation,
and PCB layout. Electronics and shop support is provided.
Shared tools include high speed scopes, logic analyzers, spec-
trum analyzers, E-prom, PLA and FPGA burners, and vari-
ous compilers and crosscompilers for DSP and micro-con-
troller development. Software from MSDNAA is available
for all teams. Ruane, Knepper, Pisano
Signals and Networks (SIGNET) Laboratory
is laboratory provides instructional facilities for courses in
the areas of signal processing and communication networks.
is laboratory houses numerous workstations for digital
signal processing, image processing, and various real-time
applications covering the complete audio frequency spectrum.
Equipment includes Linux-based workstations, microphones,
DSP boards, speakers, amplifiers, digital cameras, and software
packages such as MATLAB and Hyperception. e courses
served by this laboratory include SC401 (Signals and Systems),
SC415 (Communication Systems), SC416 (Intro to Digital
Signal Processing), SC 512 (Digital Signal Processing), and
some ECE modules in EK130 (Introduction to Engineering).
On the communications side, experiments involving data
communication links, local-area networks, and wide-area
networks are supported. Powerful computer-based simulation
and analysis tools are available to compare and evaluate network
designs. Facilities are also provided for experimentation with
local-area network switching and routing hardware. Bystrom,
Carruthers, Kincaid, Konrad, Nawab
Software Engineering Laboratory
An instructional and research lab, the Software Engineering
Laboratory (SEL) supports courses and research on the
economical design of reliable software for large-scale and
embedded computerbased systems. e lab is comprised of
more than twenty-five Silicon Graphics and Gateway 2000
networked workstations, plus four Motorola embedded
computer development systems. e laboratory provides a
network of workstations running Windows XP and provides
students with state-of-the art development and modeling tools
for the design, implementation and testing of distributed
software systems. Skinner, Brackett, Herbordt, Taubin, Toffoli,
Trachtenberg
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3.3 Undergraduate Courses
EK131/EK132 Intro to Engineering Lee Lee
Trachtenberg Konrad
Kincaid Toffoli
Ruane
EK307 Electric Circuit eory Fahim Fahim Redjdal
Fahim Roziner
Semeter
Fahim
EK440 Intro to Electronic Systems Horenstein
EK317 Circuit eory I Oliver
EK318 Circuit eory II Kotiuga
SC311 Intro to Logic Design Roziner Roziner Freedman, David
Roziner Roziner
SC312 Computer Organization Taubin Herbordt
Qin
SC330 Applied Algorithms Brower Trachtenberg
SC381 Probability eory in ECE Castanon
SC401 Signals and Systems Kincaid Bystrom Nawab
SC402 Control Systems Pisano
SC410 Intro to Electronics Horenstein Lee Kleptsyn
Lee
Lee
Knepper
Kotiuga
SC412 Analog Electronics Sergienko
SC415 Communication Systems Carruthers
SC416 Intro to Digital Signal Processing Nawab Nawab
SC440 Intro to Operating Systems Skinner Skinner
SC441 Intro to Computer Networks Starobinski Alanyali
SC447 Software Design Skinner
SC450 Microprocessors Giles Giles
Toffoli
SC455 Electromagnetic Systems I Semeter Lee
SC456 Electromagnetic Systems II Kotiuga
SC463 Senior Design Project I Ruane Little
Pisano
SC464 Senior Design Project II Ruane Knepper
Montazam
SC471 Physics of Semiconductor Devices Moustakas Swan
SC500 Special Topics in ECE Little Ishwar
Saleh
SC501 Dynamic Systems eory Dupont
SC505 Stochastic Processes Saligrama Saligrama
SC513 Computer Architecture Herbordt
SC514 Simulation Vakili
SC515 Digital Communication Ishwar
SC516 Digital Signal Processing Bystrom
SC518 Software Project Management Brackett
SC520 Image Processing and Communication Konrad
SC524 Optimization eory and Methods Paschalidis
SC533 Intro to Discrete Mathematics Levitin
SC534 Discrete Stochastic Models Levitin
SC535 Intro to Embedded Systems Qin
SC541 Computer Communication Networks Alanyali Starobinski
SC551 Advanced Digital Design Taubin
SC560 Intro to Photonics Teich Teich
SC561 Error-Control Codes Karpovsky
SC563 Fiber-Optic Communication Systems Keiser
SC566 e Atmosphere and Space Environment Oliver
SC570 Lasers Unlu
SC571 VLSI Principles and Applications Hubbard Hubbard
SC575 Semiconductor Devices Bellotti
SC577 Solid State Devices Paiella
SC578 Fabrication Technology for Integrated Systems Klepstyn
SC579 Microelectronic Device Manufacturing Cole
SC580 Modern Active Circuit Design Knepper
SC582 RF/Analog IC Design Fundamentals Knepper
SC599 Advanced Laboratory Topics in ECE Paiella
Course Number Title Fall 05 Spring 06 Summer 06
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examine a plane at the top of the trashcan, and an infrared
distance sensor looks down into the trashcan from the lid.
e trash cans are networked together with Crossbow
MICA2 motes, which enables multiple sensors distributed
over a large area to wirelessly transmit data to a central
server. e data is forwarded from trash can to trash can
until it reaches the main server and the motes figure out how
to form the most efficient network by themselves.
“Each trash can acts as a node in the network. e trash cans
themselves form the network, so you don’t need any external
hardware,” said Ophir. e motes can perform multihop-
ping, which allows a mote out of range of the server to pass
its information from mote to mote until it is within range.
e network can also heal itself by bypassing motes that are
damaged to find alternative routes.
e server displays trash can status via a Google Maps-based
web interface. Each status has an icon; green for empty, yel-
low for almost full, red for full, and an exclamation point for
maintenance. To view the status of cans throughout the park,
the user refreshes the map, which triggers the motes to send
the latest information to the server.
“We reported a 99.3% ability to report the data back with
one failed attempt,” said D’Errico.
3.4 ECE Day Senior Projects
All ECE seniors complete a team-based, two semester capstone
senior design project. Teams must design and prototype a product,
electronic device, or software system for real-life customers, who
are drawn from industry, small businesses, community groups,
and faculty and staff. Students learn design methods, project
management, team dynamics, communication skills, and legal
and ethical standards for design. A substantial first-deliverable
milestone and oral presentation complete the first semester.
e second semester is spent in the Senior Project Laboratory.
Students must make presentations to their customer, write inter-
and intra-office memos, design their project to meet customer
specifications, manage the project budget, and deliver their
working prototype, including a detailed instruction manual.
Project records are maintained in personal design logbooks. Teams
have 24/7 access to their dedicated, fully-equipped laboratory
bench, and can use professional CAD and prototyping tools for
circuits, embedded systems, and software development. e year
culminates in student project presentations on ECE Day to faculty,
industry representatives, and fellow students. On May 1, 2006, 21
teams and two BS Honors esis students presented their projects
in two parallel sessions. Best presentation awards for each session
were presented at luncheon for faculty, customers and seniors.
2006 P.T. Hsu Award
For their successful, working FPGA-based engine control
module that went beyond the original customer specifications
and their admirable team dynamics, Simon Au, Tina Chu,
Eddie Lau, and Richard Yu of Team Designex received the
2006 P.T. Hsu Award.
Since 1982, ECE has honored Professor P.T. Hsu by
acknowledging the best overall ECE capstone design
project with the P.T. Hsu Award. A faculty committee
considers degree of success, difficulty, scope, creativity,
cost, project communications, and team effectiveness.
2006 GE Imagination Award
e SmarTrash team of Joseph D’Errico, Andrew Hagedorn, Yaniv
Ophir, and Vyas Venkataraman won the 2006 GE Imagination
Award for designing trash cans that can communicate with
each other and to a central point when they need to be emptied
(displaying both full and overflowing status). In its inaugural
year, the GE Award is given to the team whose project best
exemplifies imagination and creativity. e SmarTrash project’s
creativity also garnered the team an invitation to attend a park
services trade show in New York City and won them honorable
mention at the CSIDC 2006 world finals.
SmarTrash for Cleaner Parks
Trash is big money and trash collection from public parks is a se-
rious budget drain. e SmarTrash team addressed this issue by
designing a trash can that can sense when it’s full and commu-
nicate this information to a central network, enabling targeted
trips to only those trash cans which are full.
e cans sense when they are full by using two types of infra-
red sensors. Infrared light emitting diodes and phototransistors
Team 10 SmarTrash members: Yaniv Ophir, Joseph D’Errico, Andrew
Hagedorn, and Vyas Venkataraman. Winners of 2006 GE Imagina-
tion Award and honorable mention at the CSIDC 2006 world finals.
Notable Senior Projects 2005-2006
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FPGA-Based Engine Control Module
Project customer Andrew Watchorn of National Instruments
wanted to show the company’s LabVIEW FPGA development
platform at trade shows by designing an Engine Control Mod-
ules (ECM) to control the steering, throttle, cruise control, gear
shifting, speedometer, head lights, break lights, and turn signals
of a fuel-powered, radio-controlled (RC) car.
A PlayStation controller wheel replaced the standard RC
controller for a more realistic driving experience. e students
created the software so that the FPGA translates the PlayStation
controller signal into a signal that the RC car accepts. e team
also created the user interface for the computer to monitor the
car functions controlled by the ECM.
“Our system is adjustable and we can fine-tune it regarding
how much it turns and other things,” said Eddie Lau. e
software they designed could be adapted for use on any RC car,
a good thing since the car used in their project crashed head-on
into a brick wall shortly before ECE Day.
Team 15 Designex members: Tina Chu, Simon Au, Eddie Lau,
and Richard Yu. Winners of 2006 P.T. Hsu Award.
eMouse for Felines
e mouse is encased in black fiberglass, with proximity
sensors in the front and back, which keep the eMouse from
bumping into walls or furniture and from running over hap-
less cats. e sensors create a 12-inch acoustic bubble around
the mouse, which gives the toy reaction time to change
direction. If the mouse does not sense any obstacles, it will
move around the room semi-randomly.
e mouse has a dual-motor control system for precise turn-
ing and a radio frequency device for remote detection. e
remote control makes the mouse more user friendly with an
on/off switch and a locator noise.
is senior project, ordered by customer Professor Maja Bys-
trom, required that the mechanical mouse weigh less than a
pound, and run on hardwood and tile floors for at least two
hours on rechargeable lithium ion batteries.
Team 13 Mousetronics members: Jonathan Tang, Michael
Waecker, Jason Adams, and Aaron Wyand. Winners of the ECE
Day Best Presentation Award.
Wireless Diving Board Displacement Sensor
DiveIT developed a system that provides divers with per-
formance feedback by plotting the displacement of a diving
board. eir customer, Professor Bennett Goldberg, required
the system to be wireless, easy to install without affecting board
dynamics, and able to display information on a laptop. e
team waterproofed a Wireless Inertial Sensor (WIS), which
can be attached to a diving board with a velcro strap. e user
interface provides a displacement versus time graph, which can
be saved to compare it with future dives.
Professor Babak Kia presents ECE Day Best Presentation
awards to Team 4 DiveIT members Fernando Trindade, Eric
Blanchard, Jeffrey Borrelli, and Chris Maloof.
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3.6 Continual Program Improvement
Improvement cycles for our undergraduate programs contin-
ued during AY 2005/06. e highlights this year were:
• Responding to prior feedback from ECE undergraduates
that the probability and statistics material is not well inte-
grated into our curriculum, a new course, Probability for Elec-
trical & Computer Engineers (SC381), was introduced as a
requirement in both of our programs and taught for the first
time in Spring 2006 by Professor David Castañón. is course
is designed to introduce students to basic probability concepts
while pointing out their relevance to EE and CSE applications
(e.g. packet-switched networks, optical systems, and signal de-
tection in noise). e course has circuit theory and logic de-
sign as pre-requisites in order to ensure that students can un-
derstand how probability is relevant in ECE applications.
• In response to student and faculty feedback about insuf-
ficient MATLAB preparation in the freshman year, a new In-
troduction to Engineering Computation (ENG EK 127) was
introduced. is course relies solely on MATLAB to teach
programming concepts and their application to engineering
problems. For CSE majors, the teaching of C++ is postponed
till the data structures course.
• Student surveys were conducted to collect and analyze data
on student perceptions of how well our programs are achiev-
ing their outcomes.
• Student feedback forums were held in the Fall and Spring
semesters for ECE students to express their concerns and
suggestion for improvements in the EE and CSE programs.
• Several ECE courses used the cellular phone as a common
theme, with an objective to enhance the ability of our stu-
dents to attain an integrated view of the curriculum.
3.5 Student Activities
e ECE Department supports two active undergraduate
students groups, an IEEE Student Section and the Eta Kappa
Nu honor society. ese groups held a number of successful
events this past year, ranging from lectures and panel
presentations to social events for members to educational service
activities. Events for 2005-2006 are detailed below.
IEEE Meetings with Guest Speakers
Computer Algorithms and Airline Pricing Talk
Todd Williams, a senior computer scientist at ITA Software,
spoke on the structure of the airline industry, how tickets
are priced and sold, and some of the reasoning behind the
complexity in airline price structures. e talk introduced some
recent projects at ITA, both deployed and in development,
to show how the company continues to tackle challenging
problems and revolutionize the travel industry.
Heather Schmidt, BAE Systems, on Career Development
Heather Schmidt, a College of Engineering graduate, spoke on
career development and utilizing career resources. In addition,
she talked about what it is like to work for a defense contractor
and about BAE Systems and their Engineering Leadership
Program.
Elliot Ranger, Draper Lab, on low-powered electronics
in robotic projects.
Educational and Other Activities
• Q&A - Inside Info about Classes
• Halo Tournament
Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society
e Kappa Sigma Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), the
National Society of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
was established at Boston University in 2003. As a newly
established chapter, HKN is expanding its mission to help
students achieve their academic goals with its ECE tutoring
program in which the members of HKN volunteer their time to
help undergraduates in their coursework. Group activities also
included an introduction dinner for new members; a talk about
the financial comparisons of entering the work force versus
entering graduate school; and a BAE recruiting event where
members could discuss opportunities with the company.
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four:
Graduate Programs
4.1 Course and Program Development
The ECE Department continues to refine the graduate
curriculum, with several new courses developed and offered
during 2005-2006. In addition, several courses that were
developed as special topics in 2004-2005 were approved to
become part of the regular curriculum and were assigned
course numbers.
In Fall 2005, four new courses were offered: SC500/MN500
Networking the Physical World by Professor Little; SC599
Photonics Lab I by Professor Paiella; BE700/SC700 Advanced
Optical Microscopy and Biological Imaging by Professor
Mertz; and SC700 Personal Knowledge Engineering Project
by Professor Toffoli.
ree more new courses were offered in Spring 2006: SC500
Statistical eory of Communication by Professor Ishwar;
SC500 Introduction to Subsurface Imaging by Professor Saleh;
and SC700 Nanophotonics by Professor Dal Negro.
During the year, several courses that were originally developed
as special topics (SC500, SC599 and SC700) were given course
numbers and entered into the course inventory:
• SC512 Enterprise Client-Server Software Systems
Design (Phase in date: Fall 06)
• SC535 Intro to Embedded Systems
(Phase in date: Spring 06)
• SC544 Networking the Physical World
(Phase in date: Fall 06)
• SC569 Intro to Subsurface Imaging
(Phase in date: Fall 06)
• SC591 Photonics Lab I (Phase in date: Fall 06)
• SC707 Radar Remote Sensing
(Phase in date: Spring 07)
In Spring 2006, SC577 Solid State Devices was revised to
better integrate it into the curriculum, resulting in a new
course, SC574 Physics of Semiconductor Materials with a
phase in date of Fall 2006. e change in number, as well as
updated course content and title, was made to better reflect
the course sequence, as SC575 Semiconductor Devices is the
next logical course students should take.
In addition to adding courses to the curriculum, an overhaul
of the current course inventory was made. After looking at
the entire course inventory for ECE, including cross-listed
courses, the obsolete courses were made inactive in the course
inventory. Obsolete courses were also removed from the MS
program planning sheet.
4.2 Graduate Student Recruitment
Five PhD students were awarded Dean’s Research Fellows
(DRF) and began matriculation in Fall 2005. Four of these
students will be continuing their degree programs and
are making excellent progress. Eighteen graduate students
began matriculation in Fall 2005 with Graduate Teaching
Fellowships (GTF) and 14 of these students were offered
Research Assistantships for the Fall 2006 semester. We
have also recruited four new DRFs, 11 new GTFs, and one
Photonics Fellow for the Fall 2006 semester.
We received 613 applications for the Fall 2006 semester, up
from 557 in Fall 2005. ere was a total of 324 admits, with
265 MS admits (116 of these applied for the post-BS PhD
program), 39 post-BS PhD admits, and 20 post-MS PhD
admits. is is in comparison to Fall 2005, which had a total
of 310 admits, with 246 MS admits (105 of these applied for
the post-BS PhD), 38 post-BS PhD admits, and 26 post-MS
PhD admits.
As can be seen from these numbers, the admissions process
continues to be much more selective in respect to PhD
students than it has been in the past. Our requirement that
PhD applicants have a clear path to continued financial aid
has resulted in a large decrease in the number of PhD admits.
In Fall 2004, there were a total of 274 PhD admits, compared
with a total of 64 in Fall 2005 and 59 in Fall 2006. In Fall
2005, 26 students began their PhD program in ECE, which
is in accordance with the estimate that was made after the
revisions to the admission process in 2004-2005 (about 20-30
PhD students begin matriculating each year).
For the second year in a row, ECE held two open house events
instead of one. is allowed for more non-local applicants to
be invited. e events were held on back-to-back weekends
with a similar agenda to those of the last two years. Between
Professor Murat Alanyali and graduate student
Ashraf Al Daoud discussing control mechanisms
for data networks.
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both weekends, a total of 28 applicants were in attendance, 16
of whom were non-local attendees. An extra effort was made
to invite those applicants being seriously considered for some
kind of funding. In the end, 23 of the 28 attendees received
an offer of aid.
4.3 PhD Graduate Student Progress
e number of PhD graduates per year is an important mea-
sure of the strength of the graduate programs. Last year we
saw the results of the procedural improvements implemented
by the Graduate Committee to keep the progress of the PhD
students on track. Our requirement that students must pass
the PhD prospectus within two years of PhD candidacy was
intended to guide the students to identify dissertation topics,
focus on their research, and reach their degrees in a timely
manner. e chart below shows the number of PhD students
achieving candidacy, completing prospectus defense, and
graduating over the last four academic years. While the num-
ber of new PhD candidates is steady at around 20 per year,
those completing their prospectus have increased rapidly,
reaching the steady value of about 20 per year. is year,
after a predicted time-lag, the number of PhD graduates
reached 15 students. We expect that the departmental goal of
20 PhD graduates per year is easily attainable within the next
several years.
4.4 Colloquia and Seminars
e ECE Colloquium Series and the Research Spotlight Series
(RSS) continued for another successful year. Prominent speakers
from both inside and outside the University gave research talks
on current issues. Graduate students continued to attend and
contribute to both the Colloquium Series and RSS.
A list of speakers for the academic year for these two seminar
series, as well as other relevant seminars, is given on pages 4-14
through 4-16.
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15
20
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Candidacy Prospectus Graduation
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MS US 18 4 19 3 0 0 0 1
Intl. 14 5 18 1 2 0 0 0
Ph.D. US 7 0 7 0 6 3 0 0
Intl. 14 5 19 0 10 6 0 5
Total 53 14 63 4 18 9 0 6
MS US 513 59 743 78 770 92 4.6 55
Intl. 494 55 760 86 705 92 4.2 42
PhD US 548 69 779 87 710 82 5.0 68
Intl. 471 48 769 89 732 86 4.1 39
Mean 507 74 763 85 729 88 4.5 51
4.5 New Matriculants
New Students Entering 2005-2006
Fall 2005 Mean GRE Scores
Verbal % Quantitative % Analytical % Analytical %
Writing
MS US 498 57 725 75 590 75 4.0 44
Intl. 510 56 771 85 ---- --- 4.0 43
PhD US 438 41 745 80 ---- --- 4.0 39
Intl. 325 13 760 81 ---- --- 4.0 42
Mean 443 42 750 80 590 75 4.0 42
Spring 2006 Mean GRE Scores
Male Female FT PT GTF RA Fellow DRF
Verbal % Quantitative % Analytical % Analytical %
Writing
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4.6 MS Students
Student Name Advisor Research Area or Thesis Title
Al Masri, Marwan* Taubin, Alexander Computer Systems Engineering
Aldridge, John* Ruane, Michael Photonics
Alelis, Jonathan Starobinski, David Computer Systems Engineering
Atkinson, John* Kincaid, omas Photonics
Ayache, Maurice Teich, Malvin Electrical Engineering
Ayoade, Kolawole* Alanyali, Murat Computer Systems Engineering
Banguero, Edgar Starobinski, David Computer Systems Engineering
Browning, Cassandra Trachtenberg, Ari Computer Systems Engineering
Byrnes, John Semeter, Joshua Electrical Engineering
Cao, Huanwen* Konrad, Janusz Electrical Engineering
Capozzi, Stephen Semeter, Joshua Electrical Engineering
Carssow, Douglas* Hubbard, Allyn Electrical Engineering
Chaipipakorn, Panupong Giles, Roscoe Electrical Engineering
Chan, Chun-Wei* Konrad, Janusz Electrical Engineering
Colson, Jeremy Ünlü, M Selim Electrical Engineering
Conte, Matthew Bellotti, Enrico Electrical Engineering
Cunha, Michael* Bellotti, Enrico Electrical Engineering
Datta, Michael Horenstein, Mark Electrical Engineering
DiSabello, Douglas* Herbordt, Martin Fault Tolerant FPGA C0-Processing Toolkit
DiSimone, Christopher* Saligrama, Venkatesh Electrical Engineering
Dobson, Jennifer* Bigio, Irving e Limitations of Mie eory for Light Scattering Measurements
on Cells
Doros, Michael* Little, omas Computer Systems Engineering
D’Orsogna, Danilo* Bellotti, Enrico Electrical Engineering
Dorta-Quinones, Carlos Hubbard, Allyn Electrical Engineering
Dutta, Madhuparna * Paiella, Roberto Electrical Engineering
Eizenberg, Zvi Konrad, Janusz Electrical Engineering
El Jamous, Ziad Konrad, Janusz Electrical Engineering
El Katerji, Ahmad* Giles, Roscoe C Computer Systems Engineering
Fan, Chunxia Alanyali, Murat Electrical Engineering
France, Ryan* Moustakas, eodore Metal Contacts to GaN and its Alloys With AlN
Garnier, Robert* Taubin, Alexander Position and Orientation Tracking with the Extended Kalman
Filter using 3D LADAR Imagery
Gioux, Sylvain* Bigio, Irving Photonics
Gore, Siddarth Castañón, David A Computer Systems Engineering
Graham, Matthew Hubbard, Allyn Computer Systems Engineering
Guo, Song Alanyali, Murat Computer Systems Engineering
Han, Shih-Yen* Oliver Jr, William Electrical Engineering
Hashim, Zaileena* Kincaid, omas Electrical Engineering
Hemdan, Wael* Knepper, Ronald Active Substrate Noise Suppression Circuit in Advanced 0.18um
SiGe BiCMOS Technology for High Performance RF/Mixed-
Signal SOC Applications
Hsieh, Lung-Chang Konrad, Janusz Electrical Engineering
Hsu, Hong-Jen* Trachtenberg, Ari Electrical Engineering
Huang, Chiao-Chi* Herbordt, Martin Computer Systems Engineering
Ignjatovic, Milena* Carruthers, Jeffrey Electrical Engineering
Issa, Jerome* Teich, Malvin Electrical Engineering
Itkowitz, Brandon Castañón, David Electrical Engineering
Jain, Ashish* Karl, William C Crosstalk-aware Design of Anti-alias Filters for 3D
Automultiscopic Displays
Joo, Eduardo Taubin, Alexander Computer Systems Engineering
Ke, Yuqing Trachtenberg, Ari Computer Systems Engineering
Kurata, Cathy* Starobinski, David Computer Systems Engineering
LaBossiere, Michael* Qin, Wei Computer Systems Engineering
Li, Meng Bellotti, Enrico Electrical Engineering
Li, Ning* Morse, eodore Intra-Cavity Fiber Laser for Measurement and Sensing
Applications
Li, Rui Swan, Anna Electrical Engineering
Lin, Tzu-Yung Knepper, Ronald Electrical Engineering
Highlights
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Graduate Programs
Liu, Jie* Hubbard, Allyn Computer Systems Engineering
Liu, Ming-Chieh Trachtenberg, Ari Computer Systems Engineering
Liu, Si Ming* Alanyali, Murat Electrical Engineering
Mahmood, Noveira Bystrom, Maja Electrical Engineering
McClure, Marc* Skinner, omas Computer Systems Engineering
Menekse, Cem Starobinski, David Computer Systems Engineering
Menn, Steven* Ünlü, M Selim Silicon Photodiodes for Wireless Opto-electrical Stimulation of
Neural Tissue
Meydbray, Yevgeny* Bellotti, Enrico Novel Approach to Subsurface Imaging and Microlens Translation
Misic, Mead* Ünlü, M Selim Electrical Engineering
Mitchell, Brian* Carruthers, Jeffrey Electrical Engineering
Mitsch, Patrick* Carruthers, Jeffrey Computer Systems Engineering
Model, Joshua Castañón, David Electrical Engineering
Nasveschuk, Peter* Bellotti, Enrico Electrical Engineering
Nintanavongsa, Prusayon* Levitin, Lev Electrical Engineering
Owen, Russell* Bellotti, Enrico Joint Opening Effect Avalanche Photodiode: Dark Current and
1.55 μm Optical Beam Simulations in ISE TCAD
Patel, Mitul* Karpovsky, Mark Computer Systems Engineering
Petrova, Mariya* Nawab, Syed Hamid Electrical Engineering
Powers, Matthew* Carruthers, Jeffrey Computer Systems Engineering
Quesnel, Justin* Ünlü, M Selim Electrical Engineering
Raghunath, Savitha Little, omas Computer Systems Engineering
Rahman, Rashedur* Castañón David Electrical Engineering
Ramakrishnan, Karthik Trachtenberg, Ari Computer Systems Engineering
Reese, Gilbert Carruthers, Jeffrey Computer Systems Engineering
Rinard, Katherine Taubin, Alexander Computer Systems Engineering
Rodehorst, Michael Castañón, David Electrical Engineering
Rodi, Stephen Brackett, John Computer Systems Engineering (BS/MS)
Romaniuk, Alex Konrad, Janusz Electrical Engineering
Rosales Garcia, Andrea Morse, eodore Photonics
Rosson, Richard Oliver Jr, William Electrical Engineering
Said, Mohamad* Nawab, Syed Hamid Computer Systems Engineering
Sexton, Patrick Herbordt, Martin Computer Systems Engineering
Shagam, Michael Paiella, Roberto Electrical Engineering
Shah, Kartik Taubin, Alexander Electrical Engineering
Sheth, Sameep Starobinski, David Computer Systems Engineering
Singh, Angad Trachtenberg, Ari Computer Systems Engineering
Siraj-Eddin, Yaser Ishwar, Prakash Electrical Engineering
Spasov, Dejan* Trachtenberg, Ari Computer Systems Engineering
Srinuanchai, Worrawat* Bystrom, Maja Computer Systems Engineering
Steele, Joshua* Teich, Malvin Electrical Engineering
Subramanian, Krishnakumar* Castañón, David Techniques for Detection of Text in Photo Images and Video
Frames
Succari, Tala Alanyali, Murat Computer Systems Engineering
ammanomai, Apisate Qin, Wei Computer Systems Engineering
ulin, Lukas* Levitin, Lev Photonics
Tin Maung, Latt* Hubbard, Allyn Computer Systems Engineering
Voss, David Fahim, Azza Electrical Engineering
Wang, Chun-Kai* Levitin, Lev Computer Systems Engineering
Wang, Yang* Bellotti, Enrico Electrical Engineering
Wang, Zhen Roziner, Tatyana Computer Systems Engineering
Ward, Nicole* Kincaid, omas Electrical Engineering
Westfried, Jerome* Carruthers, Jeffrey Computer Systems Engineering
Wong, Wai Yan* Ünlü, M Selim Photonics
Yap, Holson Adi* Taubin, Alexander Computer Systems Engineering
Zhalehdoust-Sani, Yashar Ruane, Michael Electrical Engineering
Zhang, Chen Starobinski, David Computer Systems Engineering
*Degree receieved in 2005/2006
Student Name Advisor Research Area or Thesis Title
Annual Report, Page 4-6
Graduate Programs
Abell, Joshua Moustakas, eodore Electrical Engineering
Aeron, Shuchin Saligrama, Venkatesh Electrical Engineering
Agarwal, Ashish Little, omas Computer Engineering
Agarwal, Sachin* Trachtenberg, Ari Efficient Reconciliation of Unstructured and Structured Data
Over Networks
Al Daoud, Ashraf Alanyali, Murat Computer Engineering
Almeida, Nuno Bellotti, Enrico Electrical Engineering
Atia, George Saligrama, Venkatesh Electrical Engineering
Bach, Edward Toffoli, Tommaso Computer Engineering
Bergstein, David Ünlü, M Selim Electrical Engineering
Beriont, Walter Levitin, Lev Computer Engineering
Borogovac, Tarik Carruthers, Jeffrey Systems Engineering
Bozinovic, Nenad Ünlü, M Selim Electrical Engineering
Bozinovic, Nikola* Konrad, Janusz Advanced Motion Modeling for 3D Video Coding
Butler, omas Saligrama, Venkatesh Electrical Engineering
Byrnes, John Semeter, Joshua Electrical Engineering
Cabalu, Jasper* Moustakas, eodore Development of Fan-Based Ultraviolet and Visible Light-
Emitting Diodes using Hydride Vapor-Phase Epitaxy and
Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Campbell, Bryan Ruane, Michael Computer Engineering
Carssow, Douglas Hubbard, Allyn Electrical Engineering
Chandrasekaran, Ramya Moustakas, eodore Electrical Engineering
Chang, Shey-Sheen Nawab, Syed Hamid Electrical Engineering
Chen, Tai-Chou Moustakas, eodore Electrical Engineering
Chiu, Shihchin Herbordt, Martin Computer Engineering
Chivas, Robert Morse. eodore Electrical Engineering
Coleiny, Golshan Morse, eodore Electrical Engineering
Coles, Michael Qin, Wei Computer Engineering
Cui, Yanhong Horenstein, Mark Electrical Engineering
Cunha, Michael Bellotti, Enrico Electrical Engineering
Cvetkovski, Andrej Bystrom, Maja Electrical Engineering
Dai, Haitao Knepper, Ronald Electrical Engineering
Dashouk, Maxim Saligrama, Venkatesh Electrical Engineering
Davis, Brynmor* Karl, William C Analysis of Multi-Channel Microscopy: Spectral
Self-Interference, Multi-Detector Confocal and 4PI Systems
Debitetto, Paul Karl, William C Systems Engineering
Diaz Quezada, Marcos Semeter, Joshua Electrical Engineering
Doros, Michael Little, omas Computer Engineering
D’Orsogna, Danilo Oliver, William Electrical Engineering
Driscoll, Kristina Paiella, Roberto Electrical Engineering
Dupuis, Julia Ünlü, M Selim Electrical Engineering
Egorov, Roman Levitin, Lev Computer Engineering
El Katerji, Ahmad Toffoli, Tommaso Computer Engineering
Ermis, Erhan Saligrama, Venkatesh Electrical Engineering
Fazlollahi, Niloofar Starobinski, David Electrical Engineering
Fercho, Todd# Konrad, Janusz Electrical Engineering
Freedman, David Hubbard, Allyn Electrical Engineering
Gao, Zhengsu Qin, Wei Systems Engineering
Georgescu, Ramona Bigio, Irving Electrical Engineering
Goode, Darryl Teich, Malvin C Electrical Engineering
Gopinath, Ashwin Oliver Jr, William Electrical Engineering
Griffis, Karin Bystrom, Maja Systems Engineering
Gu, Yongfeng Herbordt, Martin Computer Engineering
Gunna, Sulakshana Bellotti, Enrico Computer Engineering
He, Zhihua Bystrom, Maja Electrical Engineering
Huang, Chien Chih Knepper, Ronald Electrical Engineering
Hunt, Stephen Oliver Jr, William Electrical Engineering
Ince, Serdar Konrad, Janusz Electrical Engineering
4.7 PhD Students
Student Name Advisor Research Area or Thesis Title
Highlights
Annual Report, Page 4-7
Graduate Programs
Jastrzebski, Piotr* Lee, Min-Chang Trans-Hemispheric Propogation of VLF Signals in the Presence
of Ionospheric Heating
Jenkins, Karen Castañón, David Electrical Engineering
Jeong, Jonghoon Levitin, Lev Electrical Engineering
Jones, Lawrence* Levitin, Lev Multi-Timescale Traffic Model for Broadband Internet Access
Engineering
Kang, Wei Ishwar, Prakash Computer Engineering
Karl, Christian# Hubbard, Allyn Analog Circuits for Auditory Sound Source Localization Using
Current Mode Techniques
Kaur, Parminder O’connor, Peter Computer Engineering
Ke, Wang* Little, omas Adaptive Attribute Based Routing for Clustered Wireless Sensor
Networks
Keene, Sam Carruthers, Jeffrey Electrical Engineering
Kim, Duk Joong Hubbard, Allyn Electrical Engineering
Kim, Soojin Bellotti, Enrico Electrical Engineering
Koklu, Fatih Ünlü, M Selim Electrical Engineering
Kulikowski, Konrad Karpovsky, Mark Computer Engineering
Kumar, Rohit Konrad, Janusz Electrical Engineering
Kunapareddy, Nagapratima Bigio, Irving J Electrical Engineering
Laifenfeld, Moshe Trachtenberg, Ari Electrical Engineering
Li, Wei Moustakas, eodore Electrical Engineering
Li, Yan Paiella, Roberto Electrical Engineering
Litvin, Andrey* Karl, William C Statistical Shape and Appearance Models for Segmentation and
Classification
Liu, Chenhui* Levitin, Lev Design and Analysis of Novel Fixed Structure Stochastic Learning
Automata in Non-Stationary Environments
Lu, Shan Hubbard, Allyn Computer Engineering
Ma, Nan Semeter, Joshua Electrical Engineering
Martin, Benjamin Castañón, David Electrical Engineering
Mathur, Raman Karpovsky, Mark Electrical Engineering
Miao, Lei* Cassandras, Christos Energy-Latency Trade-Offs in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mustafa, Mehmet* Karpovsky, Mark Turn Prohibition Based Algorithms for Unicast Wormhole
Routing in Multiprocessors and Computer Networks
Mutlu, Huseyin Starobinski, David Electrical Engineering
Nourzad, Marianne Hubbard, Allyn Computer Engineering
Ntaikos, Dimitrios Carruthers, Jeffrey Electrical Engineering
Orten, Burkay Saligrama, Venkatesh Electrical Engineering
Ozkumur, Ismail Ünlü, M Selim Electrical Engineering
Parker, Charles Sergienko, Alexander Electrical Engineering
Pavlovich, Julia Karl, William C Electrical Engineering
Petrova, Mariya Nawab, Syed Hamid Electrical Engineering
Polimeni, Jonathan Schwartz, Eric Electrical Engineering
Ristivojevic, Mirko* Konrad, Janusz Space-Time Image Sequence Analysis: Object Tunnels and
Occlusion Volumes
Rodriguez, Eladio Castañón, David Electrical Engineering
Rykalova, Yelena Levitin, Lev Computer Engineering
Saleh, Mohammed Saleh, Bahaa Electrical Engineering
Savas, Onur Alanyali, Murat Electrical Engineering
Shagam, Michael Paiella, Roberto Electrical Engineering
Sharma, Abhishek Alanyali, Murat Computer Engineering
Smirnov, Alexander Taubin, Alexander Computer Engineering
Spasov, Dejan Trachtenberg, Ari Electrical Engineering
Stern, Alvin Moustakas, eodore Electrical Engineering
Stewart, Jason Bifano, omas Electrical Engineering
Stojanovic, Ivana Ishwar, Prakash Electrical Engineering
Sukhwani, Bharat Herbordt, Martin Electrical Engineering
Vamivakas, Anthony Ünlü, M Selim Electrical Engineering
Van Court, omas* Herbordt, Martin LAMP: Tools for Creating Application-Specific FPGA
Co-processors
Wang, Meijun Trachtenberg, Ari Electrical Engineering
Student Name Advisor Research Area or Thesis Title
Annual Report, Page 4-8
Graduate Programs
Wang, Yang Bellotti, Enrico Electrical Engineering
Wang, Ye Ishwar, Prakash Electrical Engineering
Williams, Adrian Moustakas, eodore Electrical Engineering
Wotiz, Robert* Nawab, Syed Hamid Joint Signal and Symbol Processing for a Bio-Sensing Application
Wu, Tao Starobinski, David Electrical Engineering
Xiao, Weiyao Starobinski, David Electrical Engineering
Xu, Tao Moustakas, eodore Electrical Engineering
Yalcin, Ayca Ünlü, M Selim Electrical Engineering
Yarnall, Timothy Teich, Malvin Electrical Engineering
Zettergren, Matthew# Oliver Jr, William Electrical Engineering
Zhai, Qingtai Fritz, eodore Electrical Engineering
Zhao, Manqi Ishwar, Prakash Electrical Engineering
#Received MS as part of PhD
*Received PhD in 2005/2006
Student Name Advisor Research Area or Thesis Title
Highlights
Annual Report, Page 4-9
Graduate Programs
Electrical Engineering 35
Computer Systems Engineering 23
Photonics 6
TOTAL 64
PhD Dissertations
4.8 Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering 10
Computer Systems Engineering 5
Systems 0
TOTAL 15
Student Name Dissertation Advisor Dissertation Title
PhD Degrees Awarded
MS Degrees Awarded
Agarwal, Sachin Trachtenberg, Ari Efficient Reconciliation of Unstructured and Structured
Data Over Networks
Bozinovic, Nikola Konrad, Janusz Advanced Motion Modeling for 3D Video Coding
Cabalu, Jasper Moustakas, eodore Development of Fan-Based Ultraviolet and Visible Light-
Emitting Diodes using Hydride Vapor-Phase Epitaxy and
Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Davis, Brynmor Karl, William C Analysis of Multi-Channel Microscopy: Spectral Self-Inter
ference, Multi-Detector Confocal and 4PI Systems
Jastrzebski, Piotr Lee, Min-Chang Trans-Hemispheric Propagation of VLF Signals in the
Presence of Ionospheric Heating
Jones, Lawrence Levitin, Lev Multi-Timescale Traffic Model for Broadband Internet
Access Engineering
Karl, Christian Hubbard, Allyn Analog Circuits for Auditory Sound Source Localization
Using Current Mode Techniques
Ke, Wang Little, omas Adaptive Attribute Based Routing for Clustered Wireless
Sensor Networks
Litvin, Andrey Karl, William C Statistical Shape and Appearance Models For Segmentation
and Classification
Liu, Chenhui Levitin, Lev Design and Analysis of Novel Fixed Structure Stochastic
Learning Automata in Non-Stationary Environments
Miao, Lei Cassandras, Christos Energy-Latency Trade-Offs in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mustafa, Mehmet Karpovsky, Mark Turn Prohibition Based Algorithms for Unicast Wormhole
Routing in Multiprocessors and Comuter Networks
Ristivojevic, Mirko Konrad, Janusz Space-Time Image Sequence Analysis: Object Tunnels and
Occlusion Volumes
Van Court, omas Herbordt, Martin LAMP: Tools for Creating Application-Specific FPGA
Coprocessors
Wotiz, Robert Nawab, Syed Hamid Joint Signal and Symbol Processing for a Bio-Sensing
Application
Annual Report, Page 4-10
Graduate Programs
Bozinovic, Nenad SC471
Butler, omas SC463/464
Chiu, Shihchin SC571
Cunha, Michael SC560
Dashouk, Maxim SC416
Freedman, David SC410
Gao, Zhengsu SC330
Gopinath, Ashwin SC410
Kang, Wei SC410
Kumar, Rohit SC401
Ma, Nan SC455
Mutlu, Huseyin SC311
Orten, Burkay SC401
Parker, Charles SC463/464
Petrova, Mariya EK307
Raghunath, Savitha SC410
Rosasles Garcia, Andrea SC410
Stojanovic, Ivana EK307
Wang, Meijun SC441
Wang, Ye SC463/464
Zhao, Manqi SC311
Fall 2005
Butler, omas SC401
Chivas, Robert SC410
Jain, Anish SC311
Petrova, Mariya EK307
Chiu, Shihchin SC571
Bozinovic, Nenad SC471
Butler, omas SC463/464
Cvetkovski, Andrej SC440/447
Cunha, Michael Photonics Lab
Dashouk, Maxim SC416
Freedman, David EK440
Gao, Zhengsu SC402
Gopinath, Ashwin SC450
Gore, Siddarth SC535
Kang, Wei SC410
Kumar, Rohit EK307
Ma, Nan EK307
Mutlu, Huseyin SC311
Orten, Burkay SC463/464
Parker, Charles SC463/464
Petrova, Mariya EK307
Rahman, Rashedur SC412
Raghunath, Savitha SC312
Rosales Garcia, Andrea EK307
Stojanovic, Ivana EK307
Wang, Meijun SC441
Zhao, Manqi EK307
Summer 2005
Spring 2006
4.9 Graduate Teaching Fellows
Student Name Course
Student Name Course
Highlights
Annual Report, Page 4-11
Graduate Programs
4.10 Research Assistants
Student Name Advisor
Student Name Advisor
Abell, Joshua Moustakas, Ted
Aeron, Shuchin Saligrama, Venkatesh
Agarwal, Ashish Little, omas
Agarwal, Sachin Trachtenberg, Ari
Ahn, Sunmin [BME] Swan, Anna/Ünlü,
Selim
Al Daoud, Ashraf Alanyali, Murat
Almeida, Nuno Bellotti, Enrico
Atia, George Saligrama, Venkatesh
Atkinson, John Chakrabarti, Supriya
Ayache, Maurice Swan, Anna
Balogun, Oluwaseyi [AME] Ünlü, Selim/Murray,
Todd
Banguero, Edgar Oliver, William
Basu, Subhendra Qin, Wei
Bergstein, David Ünlü, Selim
Bozinovic, Nenad Mertz, Jerome
Bozinovic, Nikola Konrad, Janusz
Browning, Cassandra Hubbard, Allyn
Butler, omas Castañón, David
Byrnes, John Semeter, Joshua
Cabalu, Jasper Moustakas, Ted
Campbell, Bryan Ruane, Michael
Carssow, Douglas Fritz, eodore
Chandrasekaran, Ramya Moustakas, Ted
Chang, Shey-Sheen (Sam) Gottlieb, Gerald/Roy,
Serge
Chen, Tai-Chao Moustakas, Ted
Chivas, Robert Morse, Ted/Dal Negro,
Luca
Coleiny, Golshan Sergienko, Alexander
Coles, Michael Qin, Wei/Goldberg,
Bennett (GK-12)
Colson, Jeremy Ünlü, Selim
Cui, Yanhong Horenstein, Mark
Cunha, Michael Bellotti, Enrico
Cvetkovski, Andrej Saligrama, Venkatesh
Dai, Haitao Knepper, Ronald
Datta, Michael Horenstein, Mark
Davis, Brynmor Swan, Anna
Diaz, Marcos Semeter, Joshua
DiSabello, Douglas Herbordt, Martin
Dobson, Jennifer Bigio, Irving
Doros, Michael Goldberg, Bennett
(GK-12)
D’Orsogna, Danilo Oliver, William/Cook,
Timothy
Draudt,Andrew [AME] Cleveland, Robin
Driscoll, Kristina Paiella, Roberto
El Katerji, Ahmad Mountain, David/
Toffoli, Tommaso
Eraslan, Mesut Ünlü, Selim
Ermis, Erhan Saligrama, Venkatesh
Fazlollahi, Niloofar Starobinski, David
Farny, Caleb [AME] Roy, Ron
Fettig, Rabi [AME] Cleveland, Robin
France, Ryan Moustakas, Ted
Freedman, David Hubbard, Allyn
Gao, Zhengsu Little, omas
Georgescu, Ramona Bigio, Irving
Gioux, Sylvain Ünlü, Selim
Goode, Darryl Saleh, Bahaa/Teich,
Malvin
Gopinath, Ashwin Dal Negro, Luca
Griffis, Karin Bystrom, Maja
Gu, Yongfeng Herbordt, Martin
Gunna, Sulakshana Bellotti, Enrico
Guo, Song Little, omas
Guo, Dong [MFG] Paschalidis, Ioannis
Hagedorn, Andrew Trachtenberg, Ari
He, Zhihua Bystrom, Maja
Huang, Chien-Chih Ekinci, Kamil
Ince, Serdar Oddsson, Lars/Konrad,
Janusz
Jenkins, Karen Castañón, David
Karabacak, Devrez [AME] Ekinci, Kamil/Ünlü,
Selim
Kaur, Parminder Costello, Catherine/
O’Connor, Peter
Ke, Yuqing Trachtenberg, Ari
Ke, Wang Little, omas
Kim, Soojin Bellotti, Enrico
Kim,Duk Joong Bifano, omas/
Hubbard, Allyn
Koklu, Fatih Ünlü, Selim
Kulikowski, Konrad Karpovsky, Mark
Kumar, Rohit Castañón, David
Kunapareddy, Nagapratima Bigio, Irving
Lai, Puxiang [AME] Roy, Ron
Laifenfeld, Moshe Trachtenberg, Ari
Li, Meng Bellotti, Enrico
Li, Wei Moustakas, Ted
Li, Wei [MFG] Cassandras, Christos
Li, Yan Paiella, Roberto
Liang, Zhuangli [BME] Karl, W. Clem
Litvin, Andrey Karl, W. Clem
Lu, Shan Mountain, David/
Hubbard, Allyn
Ma, Nan Ishwar, Prakash
Ma, Xiang [AME] Castañón, David
Mao, Jianfeng [MFG] Cassandras, Christos
Martin, Benjamin Castañón, David
Mathur, Raman O’Connor, Peter/
Costello, Catherine
Menn, Steven Ünlü, Selim
Annual Report, Page 4-12
Graduate Programs
Research Assistants
Student Name Advisor
Meydbray, Yevgeny Ünlü, Selim
Miao, Lei Cassandras, Christos
Model, Joshua Herbordt, Martin
Mohan, Nishant [BME] Teich, Malvin
Nourzad, Marianne Hubbard, Allyn
Ntaikos, Dimitrios Fritz, eodore
Orten, Burkay Karl, W. Clem
Ozkumur, I. Emre Ünlü, Selim/Goldberg,
Bennett
Parker, Charles Fritz, eodore
Pavlovich, Julia Karl, W. Clem/Bystrom,
Maja
Polimeni, Jonathan Schwartz, Eric
Quesnel, Justin Ünlü, Selim
Richards, Michael [BME] Barbone, Paul
Rinard, Katherine Spence, Harlan/Oliver,
William
Ristivojevic, Mirko Konrad, Janusz
Rivas Aroni,
Carlos Enrique [AME] Barbone, Paul
Rodehorst, Michael Castañón, David
Rodriguez, Eladio Castañón, David
Rosales Garcia, Andrea Morse, Ted
Saleh, Mohammed Saleh, Bahaa
Savas, Onur Alanyali, Murat
Sexton, Patrick Herbordt, Martin
Shagam, Michael Ekinci,Kamil/Goldberg,
Bennett (GK-12)
Smirnov, Alexandre Karpovsky, Mark
Stern, Alvin Moustakas, Ted
Stewart, Jason Bifano, omas
Su, Ming Karpovsky, Mark
Subramanian, Krishnakumar Castañón, David
Sui, Lei [AME] Roy, Ron
Sukhwani, Bharat Herbordt, Martin
rall, Erica [BME] Swan, Anna/Morgan,
Elise
Vamivakas, Anthony Ünlü, Selim
Van Court, omas Herbordt, Martin
Venkataraman, Vyas Taubin, Alexander
Voss, David Fritz, eodore
Walsh, Andrew [Physics] Ünlü, Selim/Goldberg,
Bennett
Wang, Ye Ishwar, Prakash
Williams, Adrian Moustakas, Ted
Wu , Arthur [BME] Ünlü, Selim
Xiao, Weiyao Starobinski, David
Xu, Tao Moustakas, Ted
Yalcin, Ayca Ünlü, Selim/Goldberg,
Bennett
Yarnall, Timothy Teich, Malvin
Yin, Yan [Physics] Goldberg, Bennett
Zettergren, Matthew Oliver, William/
Semeter, Joshua
Zhai, Qingtai Fritz, eodore
Zhao, Manqi Saligrama, Venkatesh
Zhong, Minyi [MFG] Cassandras, Christos
Zhou, Bo [Physics] Swan, Anna
Zhuang, Shixin [MFG] Cassandras, Christos
Student Name Advisor
Highlights
Annual Report, Page 4-13
Graduate Programs
4.11 Graduate Courses
Course Number and Title Fall 05 Spring 06 Summer 06
SC500 Special Topics in ECE Little Ishwar
Saleh
SC501 Dynamic Systems eory Dupont
SC505 Stochastic Processes Saligrama Saligrama
SC513 Computer Architecture Herbordt
SC514 Simulation Vakili
SC515 Digital Communication Ishwar
SC516 Digital Signal Processing Bystrom
SC518 Software Project Management Brackett
SC520 Image Processing and Communication Konrad
SC524 Optimization eory and Methods Paschalidis
SC533 Intro to Discrete Mathematics Levitin
SC534 Discrete Stochastic Models Levitin
SC535 Intro to Embedded Systems Qin
SC541 Computer Communication Networks Alanyali Starobinski
SC551 Advanced Digital Design Taubin
SC560 Intro to Photonics Teich Teich
SC561 Error-Control Codes Karpovsky
SC563 Fiber-Optic Communication Systems Keiser
SC566 e Atmosphere and Space Environment Oliver
SC570 Lasers Ünlü
SC571 VLSI Principles and Applications Hubbard Hubbard
SC575 Semiconductor Devices Bellotti
SC577 Solid State Devices Paiella
SC578 Fabrication Technology for Integrated Systems Klepstyn
SC579 Microelectronic Device Manufacturing Cole
SC580 Modern Active Circuit Design Knepper
SC582 RF/Analog IC Design Fundamentals Knepper
SC599 Advanced Laboratory Topics in ECE Paiella
SC700 Advanced Special Topics in ECE Mertz Dal Negro
Toffoli
SC702 Recursive Estimation and Optimal Filtering Castanon
SC710 Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control Hu
SC713 Parallel Computer Architecture Herbordt
SC715 Wireless Communication Sharif
SC720 Digital Video Processing Konrad
SC725 Queueing Systems Hu
SC730 Informational-eoretical Design of Algorithms Levitin
SC733 Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems Cassandras
SC744 Mobile Ad hoc Networking and Computing Little
SC749 Inteconnection Networks for Multicomputers Karpovsky
SC751 Design of Asynchronous Circuit and Systems Taubin
SC752 eory of Computer Hardware Testing Karpovsky
SC757 Advanced Microprocessor Design Montazam
SC761 Advanced Information eory and Coding Levitin
SC762 Quantum Optics Saleh
SC765 Biomedical Optics and Biophotonics Bigio
SC771 Physics of Compound Semiconductor Devices Bellotti
SC850 Graduate Teaching Seminar Nawab Nawab
SC892 Seminar: Electro-Physics Moustakas Moustakas
Ünlü Ünlü
Annual Report, Page 4-14
Graduate Programs
4.12 Colloquia & Seminars
Date Speaker Title
September 19
a
David Starobinski On the Global Effects of Local Transmission Strategies in
Electrical and Computer Engineering Wi-Fi Mesh Networks
Boston University
September 23
b
Gregg Jaeger Quantum Information: An Overview
Division of Natural Sciences
Boston University
September 28
b
Ari Trachtenberg e Importance of Communicating Efficiently: A Networking
Electrical and Computer Engineering Perspective
Boston University
September 30
b
Malvin Teich Fractal-Based Point Processes
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
October 5
a
Enrico Bellotti Design and Simulation of Optoelectronics Devices from
Electrical and Computer Engineering the UV to the Far IR
Boston University
October 7
b
Roscoe Giles EPIC: Engaging People in Cyberinfrastructure
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
October 12
a
Mahmut Kandemir, Software-Directed Energy Optimization for Embedded
Computer Science and Engineering NoC Architectures
Pennsylvania State University
October 14
b
William Oliver Least-Distances Curve Fitting and Outlier Detection
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
October 17
a
Tom Toffoli e Quest for Efficient Computation
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
October 19
a
Rishiyur Nikhil Putting Advanced Programming Techniques to Practical
Bluespec, Inc. Use: Taming CTO Chip Design Complexity
October 21
b
Prakash Ishwar Enabling Low-Power Video-Over-Wireless: Do We Need a
Electrical and Computer Engineering Paradigm Shift Based on Distributed Coding?
Boston University
October 28
b
Min-Chang Lee Whistler Wave Propagation and Interactions with Space Plasmas
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Laboratory Simulation Experiments
Boston University
November 4
b
Robert Devaney Chaos in the Classroom: Exciting Students About Contemporary
Mathematics Mathematics
Boston University
November 7
a
Michael Gennert
Warning: Breathing May be Hazardous to Your Health
Computer Science Department Care - Tracking patient respiratory motion
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
November 14
a
Ralf Koetter Network Coding for the Non-multicast Case
Electrical Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Highlights
Annual Report, Page 4-15
Graduate Programs
November 15
c
Stark Draper Opportunistic Decoding: Maximizing rate and reliability in
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science channels with feedback
University of California, Berkeley
November 16
a
Yaakov Bar-Shalom e CRLB in the Presence of False Measurements with
Electrical and Computer Engineering Application to Track Detection and Estimation for Low
University of Connecticut Observable Targets
November 18
b
eodore D. Moustakas Physics of Textured III-Nitride Quantum Wells for
Electrical and Computer Engineering Applications to LEDs
Boston University
November 30
a
Pierre Moulin Steganography: Art or Science?
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
December 2
b
Robert Kotiuga Advanced Computational Electromagnetism (ACE ’06)
Electrical and Computer Engineering – Coming to a Lecture Hall Near You!
Boston University
December 5
a
Sir Michael Berry Optical Vorticulture
Physics department
University of Bristol
December 9
b
omas Little Attribute-Based Routing in Sensor Networks
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
December 13
a
Massimo Fischetti Scaling MOSFETs to the limit: A physicist’s perspective
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
January 20
b
Frederick Beihold Fun with UWB Phased Array Antennas
CST of America, Inc.
January 30
a
Devavrat Shah Capacity-Delay Scaling in Arbitrary Wireless Networks.
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
February 3
b
eodore Fritz e LCI project at BU
Astronomy
Boston University
February 23
c
Dror Baron Distributed Compressed Sensing
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Rice University
February 24
b
Meers Oppenheim Simulations of Space Plasma Physics Using Almost a Billion
Astronomy Particles
Boston University
February 27
a
Paul Scott Carney 3-D Optical Imaging Beyond OCT
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 03
b
Sheryl Grace What is WISE?
Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
Boston University
Date Speaker Title
Annual Report, Page 4-16
Graduate Programs
March 13
a
Fiorenzo Omenetto Guiding light through glass and holes (Nonlinear optics in
Biomedical Engineering, Physics conventional and photonic crystal fibers)
Tufts University
March 15
a
George Cybenko Discrete Process Detection – eory and Applications
Engineering
Dartmouth College
March 16
c
Olivier Leveque Determinants of Random Cauchy Matrices and Capacity of
Laboratory of Information eory Wireless Networks
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
March 20
a
Ann Gordon-Ross Dynamic Optimization of Highly-Configurable Caches for
Computer Science and Engineering Reduced Energy Consumption
University of California, Riverside
March 22
a
Sherief Reda From Nanometer VLSI Circuits to Gene Chips: New Approaches
Computer Science and Engineering to Placement and Benchmarking
University of California, San Diego
March 22
a
Anant Sahai Delay, Feedback, and the Price of Ignorance
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California Berkeley
March 27
a
Martin Margala Breaking the Barrier of Terahertz and Teraflops in Digital Circuits
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Systems
University of Rochester
March 30
a
David Kaeli Architectural Approaches to Improving Software Security
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University
March 31
c
Angel Lozano e MIMO Layered Architecture: From Fundamentals to
Lucent Technologies Standards.
April 3
a
Hatice Altug Photonic Crystal Devices for Nano- and Bio-photonics
Stanford University
Electrical Engineerings
April 6
a
Azadeh Davoodi Optimization Schemes for Variability-Driven VLSI Design
Electrical and Computer Engineering Automation
University of Maryland
April 13
d
Mehmet Sarikaya GEPI – Genetically Engineered Polypeptides for Inorganics:
Materials Science and Engineering Peptide-Based Molecular Tool Set
University of Washington
April 13
d
Hür Köçer Magnetic Liquids for Lab-on-a-Chip and Rapid Diagnostics
Electrical Engineering Applications
Yale University
April 24
a
Jonathan Katz New Techniques for Authenticating Humans (and Other Resource-
Computer Science Constrained Devices)
University of Maryland
a
ECE Colloquium Series
b
Research Spotlight Seminar
c
ISS/CISE Seminar
d
CNN Seminar
Date Speaker Title
Annual Report, Page 5-1
Research
1. Highlights
ve:
Research
5.1 Areas of Research
Electro-Physics
Information Systems &
Sciences
Computer Engineering
Solid-State Materials &
Devices
Coordinator: Michael Ruane
• Bellotti
• Campbell
• Horenstein
• Humphrey
• Knepper
• Moustakas
• Skocpol
Signal & Image
Processing
Coordinator: W. Clem Karl
• Bystrom
• Carruthers
• Castañón
• Ishwar
• Karl
• Konrad
• Nawab
• Schwartz
Software Applications
Coordinator: omas Little
• Brackett
• Brower
• Castañón
• Giles
• Knepper
• Little
• Nawab
• Qin
• Schwartz
• Skinner
• Toffoli
• Trachtenberg
Photonics
Electromagnetics
• Bellotti
• Bigio
• Dal Negro
• Goldberg
• Levitin
• Luo
• Morse
• Moustakas
• Paiella
• Ruane
• Saleh
• Sergienko
• Swan
• Teich
• Ünlü
• Eisenberg
• Giles
• Humphrey
• Kotiuga
• Lee
• Semeter
Information & Decision
Systems
• Baillieul
• Castañón
• Karl
Hardware
• Qin
• Taubin
• Toffoli
• Herbordt
• Hubbard
• Karpovsky
• Knepper
Communications & Computer Networks
Multimedia Processing
• Bystrom
• Ishwar
• Alanyali
• Carruthers
• Castañón
• Cassandros
• Ishwar
• Karpovsky
• Levitin
• Saligrama
• Sharif
• Starobinski
• Trachtenberg
• Saligrama
• Sharif
• Konrad
• Little
• Chakrabarti
• Fritz
• Lee
• Mendillo
• Oliver
• Ruane
• Semeter
Space Physics
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5.2 Research Labs
Applied Electromagnetics
Laboratory
is laboratory is devoted to problems
in experimental electromagnetics with a
primary focus on industrial electrostatics,
sensors, and micro-electromechanical
systems (MEMS). Current projects
include a study of spark energies from
insulating surfaces, studies of the
electrostatic properties of insulating
materials, development of a circular
electrode array plasma-torch system,
and charge-control systems for MEMS
actuators. Horenstein
Biomedical Optics and
Biophotonics Laboratory
e core theme of biomedical optics/
photonics is minimally invasive optical
diagnostics and therapeutics. This
laboratory focuses on the development
of optics-based technologies for clinical
applications and biomedical research.
Current research topic areas include:
• Advanced spectroscopic technologies
for tissue diagnosis
• Noninvasive measurement of drug
concentrations in tissue
• Interstitial laser thermotherapy and
photodynamic therapy
• Computational methods for
modeling optical transport in tissue
• Optical interferometry for imaging
nerve activation. Bigio
Broadband Wireless
Communications Laboratory
is laboratory supports research projects
on the design, theory, and prototyping
of broadband wireless communication
systems. e major focus is on the use
of light as the transmission medium
for high-datarate indoor wireless local-
area networks. e laboratory includes
facilities for the fabrication and testing
of experimental prototypes as well as
computing resources for system design
and analysis. Carruthers
Computational Electronics
Laboratory
The Computational Electronics
Laboratory (CEL) is equipped with
state-of-the-art computing tools. e lab
has two computer clusters, one XP1000
Alpha Cluster (8 CPUs) running True
UNIX 64, and an AMD Athalon MP
Cluster (13 CPUs) running Linux.
e lab also operates a variety of high
performance PCs and printers. The
Computational Electronics Group
develops software to study semiconductor
materials and to perform electronics
and optoelectronics device simulation.
Commercial simulation packages, such
as ISE Genesis and Silvaco Virtual Wafer
Fab are currently employed. Bellotti
Computer Architecture and
Automated Design Laboratory
Work focuses on experimental computer
architecture, particularly on the
application of emerging technology to
computationally intensive application.
Projects include developing design tools
for application specific coprocessors,
designing MPP router switches, vision
computers, and the application of
configurable computing to bioinformatics.
Herbordt
Computation Signal Processing
Laboratory
This laboratory conducts research in
computational signal processing (CSP)
and its integration into application
systems. Issues of interest include CSP
algorithms, knowledge-based systems,
software architectures for CSP systems,
software environments for the development
of CSP systems, integration of numeric
and symbolic processing, statistical signal
processing, and multidimensional signal
processing. is research is carried out
in the context of auditory and biosignal
applications. Nawab
Functorial Electromagnetics
Laboratory
e Functorial Electromagnetic Analysis
Lab considers the difficulties encountered
in the finite element analysis of three-
dimensional electromagnetic fields that
cannot be anticipated through experience
with two-dimensional simulations. e lab
has focused its efforts in the development
of Whitney form techniques, homology
calculations, algorithms for total magnetic
scalar potentials in multiply connected
regions, helicity functional techniques,
and data structures based on semi-
simplicial objects. Torsion invariants
of complexes and rational homotopy
theory are currently being exploited in
the context of direct and inverse three-
dimensional problems such as impedance
tomography and magnetic field synthesis.
Kotiuga
Imaging Science Laboratory (ISL)
Affiliated with the Boston University
Center for Space Physics, the ISL applies
state-of-the-art optical imaging technology
to the study of the Earth, Moon, planets
Professor Joshua Semeter helps research
assistant Marcos Diaz set up an antenna
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and comets. Activities include equipment
design and fabrication, field campaigns to
observing sites world-wide, and digital
signal processing. Mendillo, Semeter
Laboratory of Networking and
Information Systems
is lab is involved in providing novel
perspectives on modern networking
issues, including scalability, heterogeneity,
and performance. e lab is equipped
with sophisticated hardware and software
and promotes research into the fields
of network synchronization, mobile
computing, Internet traffic engineering,
distributed Web caching, and coding
theoretic approaches to real-time
information reconciliation. Starobinski,
Trachtenberg
Lightwave Technology
Laboratory
This lab is one of the few university
laboratories capable of designing,
fabricating, and characterizing silica
optical fibers. e research activities of
this laboratory focus on new processing
techniques for optical fibers , high power
optical fiber lasers, and a variety of optical
fiber sensors. We are developing a new
technique for combining multimode
pump radiation into double clad fibers.
e components of this facility consist
of a fabrication laboratory with three
glass lathes including a new stateof- the-
art Nextrom MCVD system, an optical
laboratory with numerous pump lasers
for fiber lasers, five isolation tables, and
an 8m optical fiber draw tower, newly
outfitted with Nextrom widing and
control equipment. In addition, there
is a CVD laboratory for studies of thin
films. Morse
Magnetic and Optical Devices
Laboratory (MODL)
Properties and applications of optical,
magnetic and magneto-optical materials
have been studied in the MODL using
optical, electrical, and computational
methods. A novel optical device, the
Resonant Cavity Imaging Biosensor, for
tag-free bio-sensing using resonant optical
cavities and IR imaging has recently
opened a new area of investigation for
the MODL. e lab is building a mask-
free optical synthesizer for bio-arrays.
Collaborations with the Center for
Space Physics are investigating miniature
magnetometers based on Giant Magneto
Impedance, and developing the motor
controls for the Loss Cone Imager, which
will fly on the USAF DSX satellite in
2009. Ruane, Humphrey, Semeter
Multi-Dimensional Signal
Processing (MDSP) Laboratory
The MDSP Lab conducts research
in the areas of multidimensional and
multiresolution signal and image
processing and estimation, and geometric-
based estimation. e applications that
motivate this research include, but
are not limited to, problems arising
in automatic target detection and
recognition, geophysical inverse problems
(such as finding oil and analyzing the
atmosphere), and medical estimation
problems (such as tomography and MRI).
e general goal is to develop efficient
methods for the extraction of information
from diverse data sources in the presence
of uncertainty. e lab’s approach is based
on the development of statistical models
for both observations, prior knowledge,
and the subsequent use of these models
for optimal or near-optimal processing.
Karl
Multimedia Communications
Laboratory
The focus of this laboratory is the
enabling technology for distributed
and multimedia applications. Research
includes investigation of distributed
modes interaction among wireless
computers; aggregation and clustering
techniques for scaling large-scale Mobile
Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and Sensor
Networks; communication systems
for continuous media; and conceptual
and physical database organizations.
The laboratory is equipped a high-
performance simulation environment and
a wireless testbed for proof-of-concept
prototype development. Little
Optical Characterization and
Nanophotonics
Nanophotonics addresses a broad
spectrum of optics on the nanometer scale
covering technology and basic science.
Compared to the behavior of isolated
molecules or bulk materials; the behavior
of nanostructures exhibit important
physical properties not necessarily
predictable from observations of either
individual constituents or large ensembles.
We develop and apply advanced optical
characterization techniques to the study
of solid-state and biological phenomena
at the nanoscale. Current projects
include development of high-resolution
subsurface imaging techniques based
on numerical aperture increasing lens
(NAIL) for the study of semiconductor
devices and circuits and spectroscopy of
quantum dots; micro resonant Raman
and emission spectroscopy of individual
carbon nanotubes; biosensors based on
microring resonators; and development
of new nanoscale microscopy techniques
utilizing interference of excitation as well
as emission from fluorescent molecules. In
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addition to microscopy, optical resonance
is nearly ubiqutious in our research
projects including development of
resonant cavity enhanced photodetectors
and imaging biosensors for DNA and
protein arrays. Goldberg, Ünlü
Quantum Imaging Laboratory
Research in the Quantum Imaging
Laboratory focuses on photonic
imaging systems that make use of the
special properties of nonclassical light.
Experiments are conducted on nonlinear
optical parametric down-conversion;
quantum coherence; quantum imaging;
quantum interferometry and microscopy;
and quantum communications and
cryptography. Saleh, Sergienko, Teich
Radio Communications and
Plasma Research Laboratories
Field experiments are conducted in
this lab using ground-based facilities
and spacecraft-borne instruments to
investigate radio-wave propagation
and interactions with ionospheric
plasmas, with applications to establishing
artificial radio communication paths.
Laboratory experiments with a large,
toroidal plasma device are also conducted
to study the microwave interactions
with magnetoplasmas, simulating and
crosschecking the results obtained in the
field experiments. Lee, Semeter
Reliable Computing Laboratory
Members of the Reliable Computing
Laboratory conduct research on a broad
variety of topics, including the design of
computer chips; efficient hardware testing
at the chip, board, and system levels;
functional software testing; efficient
signal processing algorithms; coding and
decoding; fault-tolerant message routing
for multiprocessor systems; and the
design of reliable computer networks.
Karpovsky, Levitin, Roziner
Software Engineering Laboratory
(SEL)
An instructional and research lab, the
Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL)
supports courses and research on the
economical design of reliable software for
large-scale and embedded computer based
systems. e lab is comprised of more
than twenty-five Silicon Graphics and
Gateway 2000 networked workstations,
plus four Motorola embedded computer
development systems. The laboratory
provides a network of workstations
running Windows XP and provides
students with state-of-the art development
and modeling tools for the design,
implementation and testing of distributed
software systems. Brackett
Visual Information Processing
(VIP) Laboratory
Th e VI P La bo ra t or y p rov i de s
computational and visualization
infrastructure for research in the area
of visual information processing.
The particular topics of interest are:
manipulation, compression, transmission
and retrieval of visual information,
whether in the form of still images,
video sequences, or multimedia data. In
addition to standard monoscopic (2-D)
images, also stereoscopic and multiscopic
(3-D) images are studied. e primary
application of this research is in the next
generation multimedia communications:
life-like (3-D), efficient (low bit rate),
reliable (error-resilient), and flexible
(object-based). e VIP Laboratory is
equipped with a network of state-of-theart
workstations to serve computational
needs, while its visualization infrastructure
includes 2-D and 3-D digital cameras and
capture systems, as well as 3-D displays
(shuttered and 9-view automultiscopic
“Synthagram”). Konrad
VLSI and Neural Networks
Systems (VNNS) Laboratory
e VNNS group designs, builds, and
tests innovative architectures that span
a wide variety of VLSI applications in
electrical and biological fields. Chips
designed using digital, analog, and
subthreshold methodologies are realized
using CMOS BiCMOS and Bipolar
technologies. Applications include
neural-net image processing, integrated
photonic devices and parallel photonic
testing, automatic partial-valued dynamic
logic synthesis, single-chip large-molecule
and DNA analyzers, and neural tissue
interface chips. e group is equipped
with a full suite of design tools and testing
instrumentation for analog and digital
systems. Hubbard
Wide Band Gap Semiconductors
Laboratory
In this laboratory, we investigate the
growth, fabrication and characterization
of devices based on the family of III-
Nitride semiconductors. e materials
are grown by MBE, MOCVD, HVPE
and Gas cluster Ion-beam deposition
(GCIB). The current focus is in the
development of Optical Devices (Blue,
Green, and UV-LEDs, UV-LDs, Optical
Modulators, Detectors), Electronic
Devices (High Power Diodes, Transistors
and yristors) and Electromechanical
Devices (SiC/III-Nitride MEMS sensors).
Materials physics issues are also addressed
and the group collaborates closely with
Professor Enrico Bellotti in the area of
theoretical modeling, Professor Karl
Ludwig (Physics) in the area of materials
structure, Professor Kevin Smith (Physics)
in the area of electronic structure, and
Professor Roberto Paiella in the area of
devices based on intersubband transitions.
Moustakas
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graduate education is a major component of Center activities.
Graduate students from programs in Astronomy, Applied
Physics, and Engineering conduct their thesis research at the
Center. e Center provides a formal link between research
groups in the Colleges of Engineering and Arts and Sciences,
allowing them to co-locate research students and post-doctoral
associates to allow greater interaction to everyone’s benefit.
e Center also provides administrative support for research
projects, particularly in the areas of grant management and
proposal development.
Photonics Center
http://www.bu.edu/photonics
To help industry bridge the gap between basic research and
practical application, Boston University launched the Photonics
Center in 1994 with $29 million in seed funding from the
federal government. e Center is now forging true business
partnerships in which companies draw on the University’s
exceptional expertise and resources in engineering, science,
medicine, and management to build actual product prototypes
and spawn a growing stream of new companies.
e Photonics Center at Boston University is a bold new model
for university-industry collaboration. It has been established
to work directly with investors and industrial partners to turn
emerging concepts in photonics technology into commercial
products. e Center is staffed and equipped to help industry
partners reduce the technical and financial risk involved in
developing new ideas, refining them in the laboratory, building
working prototypes, and starting up companies. To date the
Center has forged joint ventures with a dozen companies
to develop new products in data storage, environmental
monitoring, opto-electronics, and biotechnology.
In 1997, the University completed the nine-story, 235,000
square-foot Photonics Building to house this ambitious
initiative. e $85 million facility includes a full complement
of state-of-the-art laboratories as well as meeting rooms, lecture
halls, and an entire floor devoted to incubator space for start-
up companies that complements its existing incubator at 1106
Commonwealth Avenue. Faculty affiliated with the Center
have in-depth expertise in all aspects of photonics technology,
including the core areas of opto-electronics, photonic materials,
data storage, imaging systems, medical applications, and
sensors.
Resources available to industry partners, government,
faculty, and students through the Photonics Center support
development and testing of ideas and products. ese resources
include several research and development laboratories: Scanning
Infrared Near-Field Microscopy Laboratory, Optoelectronic
Device Characterization Laboratory, Femtosecond Laser
Facility, Photochemical Processes Laboratory, Photonic Systems
Engineering Laboratory, Liquid Crystal Display Laboratory,
Center for Computational Science
http://satchmo.bu.edu
e Boston University Center for Computational Science
(CCS) was founded in 1990 to coordinate and promote
computationally based research, to foster computational science
education and to provide for the expansion of computational
resources and support.
CCS provides a forum for the multidisciplinary exchange of
ideas among researchers, educators and students. Regularly
scheduled seminars as well as workshops and symposia are
offered to highlight advances in computational science. CCS
has acted to develop and facilitate the formulation of projects
in computationally based research and education, working with
scientists from 20 different departments and centers.
CCS works in close collaboration with the Office of
Information Technology, in particular with its Scientific
Computing and Visualization Group (SCV) group, in the
development of resources to support computational science.
e high performance computing and visualization systems
at Boston University currently include the IBM Blue Gene,
IBM pSeries 690, an IBM pSeries 655, an Intel Pentium III
Linux Cluster, our Deep Vision Display Wall, the Access Grid
Conference Facility, the Laboratory for Virtual Environments
and the Computer Graphics Laboratory.
CCS offers a Certificate in Computational Science to graduate
students in engineering and science pursuing a Ph.D. through
a multidisciplinary training program ACES (Advanced
Computation in Engineering and Science).
Center for Space
Physics
http://www.bu.edu/csp/
e Center for Space Physics provides a focus for research and
graduate training in space physics. It is a multidisciplinary
center within the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that
includes faculty from the College of Engineering and the
College of Arts and Sciences. e Center carries out a wide
variety of research in some of the following fields of space
physics including: space plasma physics; magnetospheric physics;
ionospheric physics; atmospheric physics; and planetary and
cometary atmospheric studies.
e mission of the Center is to promote and foster space physics
research and to provide a central base for that research and for
the teaching of space physics, especially at the graduate level.
e Center seeks to fulfill this mission by creating an intellectual
atmosphere conducive to research and to the exchange and
exploration of new ideas. e Center organizes a seminar series
in space physics as well as internal research discussion groups,
and often hosts visits of scholars from the United States and
abroad. Although the Center itself offers no degree program,
5.3 Centers and Interdisciplinary Activities
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Quantum Imaging Laboratory, Precision Optics Laboratory,
Optoelectronic Materials Laboratory, Precision Measurement
Laboratory, Optoelectronic Processing Facility, Laser
Measurement and Fiber Optic Sensors Laboratory, Magnetic
and Optical Devices Laboratory, Near-Field Scanning Optical
Microscopy Laboratory, Picosecond Spectroscopy Laboratory,
and the Advanced Electronic Materials and Devices Processing
Research Laboratory.
Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging
Systems (CenSSIS)
http://www.censsis.neu.edu
e Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems
(CenSSIS) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering
Research Center (ERC), one of an elite group of only nineteen
ERCs in the nation. It seeks to revolutionize the ability to
detect and image objects that lie underground or underwater,
or are embedded within cells, inside the human body, or
within manmade structures. CenSSIS is a collaborative effort
of 4 academic institutions: Boston University, Northeastern
University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University
of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez;
and 4 strategic affiliates:
Massachusetts General
Hospital, Memorial Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center,
Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory,
and the Woods Hole
O c e a n o g r a p h i c
Institution. Together,
the CenSSIS partnership
works with industrial
partners who provide their insight into research challenges.
e Center’s primary focus is on detecting, locating, and
identifying objects obscured beneath the covering media,
such as underground plumes, tumors under the skin or
developmental defects in an embryo. Utilizing electromagnetic,
photonic, or acoustic probes, CenSSIS will engage biomedical
and environmental problems, developing techniques for
sensing subsurface conditions. Projects integrate new methods
of subsurface sensing and modeling, physics-based signal
processing and image-understanding algorithms, and image
and data information management methods. Research topics
being addressed include: humanitarian de-mining, multilayer
hyperspectral oceanography, 3-D subretinal visualization,
nonlinear ultrasound medical imaging, subcellular biological
imaging, electrical impedance tomography, acoustic diffraction
tomography, and multi-sensor civil infrastructure assessment.
Overall, the CenSSIS program is a vehicle enabling substantial
leverage of industrial investments because of the substantial level
of funding available for basic research. In addition to research,
the Center has established programs for education, industry
collaboration, and technology transfer. An important outcome
of this process is the education of students well-trained in these
crucial fields for the future of public health and the preservation
of the planet’s physical resources.
Center for Information and Systems
Engineering (CISE)
http://www.bu.edu/systems
e Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE)
provides an interdepartmental home for faculty and students
interested in research in information and control systems theory
and its relevance to various application domains encompassing
the analysis, design, and management of complex systems
that have come to prominence as a result of the information,
communication, and computation revolution.
Information and systems engineering research at Boston
University is strong and accomplished, but it is spread across
departments, colleges and schools within the University.
Approved by the Trustees in 2002, with management support
added in Fall 2002, CISE has raised the visibility of that
strength and fostered greater interactions among researchers.
e Center for Information and Systems Engineering fosters
interdisciplinary collaboration and research in emerging
applications and the use of methodologies such as Optimization
methods, Information theory, Control theory, Applied
probability and statistics, Simulation and modeling. Primary
application interests are in the areas of automation, robotics,
and control; communication, networking and information
systems; production, service and supply chain systems; and
signal processing and pattern recognition.
As of June 2005, CISE has grown from 13 to 26 affiliated
faculty from the Departments of Manufacturing Engineering,
Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical &
Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering;
the Department of Computer Science, and Mathematics
& Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences; and the
Department of Operations Management in the School of
Management. ere are approximately 60 graduate students
affiliated through these faculty. CISE maintains a searchable
data base of academic ‘systems’ publications authored by the
affiliated faculty and their students.
As of November 2004, CISE launched the Sensor Network
Consortium (SNC) to facilitate interactions among the
academic community and industry participants who support
the growth of the sensor network industry through focused
research and development activities. e SNC’s goals are
to develop, test and accelerate adoption of sensor network
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related technologies in strategic applications areas; develop
strategic partnerships to access federal and regional research
funding; and educate graduate students and facilitate their
involvement with industry. Industry participation includes
a diverse group of companies, start-ups, system integrators
and adopters of sensor network technology that currently
includes Arch Rock Corporation, BP International, Ember
Corporation, e Hartford, Honeywell, IBM, Millennial Net,
Mitre Corporation, SAP, Siemens Building Technologies, Sun
Microsystems, and Textron Systems.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department faculty
affiliated with CISE are Professors Alanyali, Baillieul, Carruthers,
Cassandras, Castañón, Ishwar, Karl, Little, Saligrama, Sharif,
Starobinski and Trachtenberg. e application interests of
their CISE related research include Automation, Robotics
and Control; Communications, Networking and Information
Systems; Production and Service Systems and Supply Chain
Management; and Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition.
Professor David Castañón is currently serving as Co-Director
along with Professor Yannis Paschalidis of the Department of
Manufacturing Engineering. Several ECE faculty also serve on
the CISE Management Committee.
Center for Remote Sensing
http://www.bu.edu/remotesensing
e Center was established in 1986 as a facility for scientific
research in the fields of archaeology, geography and geology. e
Center uses satellite images and other data from airborne and
ground sensors to study the Earth and its resources, particularly
groundwater. is includes the monitoring of environmental
changes due to both natural processes and human activities.
In 1997, the Center was selected by NASA as a “Center of
Excellence in Remote Sensing.”
Center for Nanoscience and
Nanobiotechnology
http://nanoscience.bu.edu/
Boston University formed the Center for Nanoscience
and Nanobiotechnology (CNN) to advance academic
and technological research and development by extending
discoveries in nanoscale materials and platforms toward
applications that examine and seek to understand and
manipulate biological systems. e Center serves as a hub for
nanoscience researchers from the Charles River and Medical
Campuses and builds interdisciplinary research and training.
5.4 Publications
Books:
R. Paiella, Editor, Intersubband Transitions in Quantum
Structures. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2006.
A. V. Sergienko, Editor, Quantum Communications and
Cryptography, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, New
York, 2005.
S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich, Fractal-Based Point Processes,
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2005.
Book Chapters:
O. A’amar and I. J. Bigio, “Spectroscopy for the Assessment
of Melanomas,” in Reviews in Fluorescence 2006, pp. 359-
386, Springer, New York, January 2006.
D. A. Castañón and L. Carin, “Stochastic Control theory
for Sensor Management,” in eory and Applications of Sensor
Management, A. Hero, D. Castañón, and D. Cochran, eds.,
Springer Verlag, 2006.
R. A. Weisenseel, R. C. Chan, and W. C. Karl, “Multi-
Sensor Data Inversion and Fusion Based on Shared Image
Structure,’’ in Multi-sensor Image Fusion and Its Applications,
R. Blum and Z. Liu, eds., CRC Press, July 2005.
W. F. Hug, R. D. Reid, R. Bhartia, and T. Moustakas,
“Ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy for biological
micro-sensing using ESUVOS,” in Solid State UV Technology,
M. Shur and J.Carrano, eds., 2006.
R. Paiella, R. Martini, A. Soibel, H. C. Liu, and F. Capasso,
“High-Speed Operation and Ultrafast Pulse Generation
with Quantum Cascade Lasers,” in Intersubband Transitions
in Quantum Structures, R. Paiella, ed., McGraw-Hill, May
2006.
e Center connects scientists and engineers from disparate
disciplines with each other in seminars, meetings, joint visitors
programs, interdisciplinary courses, industrial collaborations,
and seeded projects.
CNN has three core functions: First, to develop interdisciplinary
research and education in nanoscience and nanobiotechnology;
second, to develop and run an industrial liaison program
that partners researchers with external companies for mutual
benefit; and third, to connect researchers to resources for
technological commercialization. CNN and affiliated faculty
are also involved in outreach activities, organizing hands-on
activities, discussions, and panels on nanoscience for grade
school students and local organizations and museums.
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Z. D. Walton, A. V. Sergienko, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich,
“Noise-Immune Quantum Key Distribution,” in Quantum Com-
munications and Cryptography, A.V. Sergienko, ed., ch. 10, pp.
211-224, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2006.
T. Toffoli, “Foreword,” in Quantum Information: An overview,
G. Jaeger, ed., pp. 3–5, Springer, 2006.
T. Toffoli, “Cellular automata,” in Encyclopedia of Physics, R.
Lerner and G. Trigg, eds., 3rd edition, pp. 258–261 Wiley–VCH,
2005.
Journal Articles:
E. Bellotti and D. D’Orsogna, “Numerical analysis of HgCdTe
simultaneous two-color photovoltaic infrared detectors,” IEEE
Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 42, pp. 418-426, April
2006.
V. Camarchia, M. Goano, G. Ghione, and E. Bellotti, “Theoreti-
cal investigation of GaN permeable base transistors for micro-
wave power applications,” Semiconductor Science and Technol-
ogy, Vol. 21, pp. 13-18, January 2006.
A. Dhar, K. S. Johnson, M. R. Novelli, S. G. Bown, I. J. Bigio,
L. B. Lovat, and S. L. Bloom, “Elastic scattering spectroscopy
for the diagnosis of colonic lesions: initial results of a novel opti-
cal biopsy technique,” Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Vol. 63, pp.
258-262, February 2006.
J. L. Castagner and I. J. Bigio, “Polar nephelometer based on a
rotational confocal imaging setup,” Applied Optics, Vol. 45, pp.
2232-2239, April 2006.
L. B. Lovat, K Johnson, G.D. Mackenzie, B.R. Clark, M.R.
Novelli, S. Davies, M. O’Donovan, C. Selvasekar, S.M. Thorpe,
D. Pickard, R. Fitzgerald, T. Fearn, I.J. Bigio, and S.G. Bown,
“Elastic scattering spectroscopy accurately detects high grade
dysplasia and cancer in Barrett’s esophagus,” Gut, May 2006.
R. Brower and C. I. Tan, “Hard and Soft Collisions in Gauge/
String Dualtiy and the Pomeron intercept in Strong Coupling,”
International Journal of Modern Physics A20, pp. 4525-4531,
July 30, 2005.
C. S. Kannangara, I. E. G. Richardson, M. Bystrom, J. Solera,
Y. Zhao, A. MacLennan, and R. Cooney, “Low Complexity Skip
Prediction for H.264 through Lagrangian Cost Estimation,” IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol.
16, pp. 202-208, February 2006.
Y. Li, M. Bystrom, D. Yoo, S. M. Goldwasser, and P. Herczfeld,
“Coherent Optical Vector Modulation for Fiber Radio Using
Electro-Optic Microchip Lasers,” IEEE Transactions on Micro-
wave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 53, pp. 3121-3129, October
2005.
Z. He, M. Bystrom, and S. H. Nawab, “Bidirectional Conver-
sion Between DCT Coefcients of Blocks and Their Sub-
blocks,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 53, pp.
2835-2841, August 2005.
S. Ray, J. Carruthers, and D. Starobinski, “Evaluation of the
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D. Ruan, H. He, D. A. Castañón, and K. C. Mehta, “Normalized
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T. Sugimoto, K. Nonaka, and M. Horenstein, “Bidirectional
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W. C. Karl and H. Pien, “High-Resolution Biosensor Spectral
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M. Ferencik, J. B. Lisauskas, R. C. Cury, U. Hoffmann, S. Ab-
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N. Aggarwal and W. C. Karl, “Line Detection in Images
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M. Ristivojevic and J. Konrad, “Space-time image sequence
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J. Konrad and P. Agniel, “Subsampling models and anti-alias
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R. Stasinski and J. Konrad, “POCS reconstruction of irregularly-
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N. Bozinovic and J. Konrad, “Motion analysis in 3D DCT
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L. B. Levitin, T. Toffoli, and Z. Walton, “Maximum speed of
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L. B. Levitin and T. Toffoli, “Information between quantum sys-
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Vol. 44, pp. 1987-1992, November 2005.
L. Plucinski, T. Learmonth, K. E. Smith, A. Zakharov, I. Grze-
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L. Zhou, T. Xu, D. J. Smith, and T. D. Moustakas, “Microstruc-
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T. P. Chen, C. Thomidis, J. Abell, W. Li, and T. D. Moustakas,
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J. C. Cabalu, C. Thomidis, I. Friel, T. D. Moustakas, and S.
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extraction efciency from textured GaN/AlGaN quantum wells
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Y. Wang, A. S. Ozcan, K. F. Ludwig Jr., A. Bhattacharyya, T. D.
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surate ordering in Al0.72 Ga0.28N thin lms grown by plasma
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C. J. De Luca, J. J. Buccafusco, S. H. Roy, G. De Luca, and S.
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Vol. 33, pp. 369-376, March 2006.
R. Paiella, “Tunable Surface Plasmons in Coupled Metallo-Di-
electric Multiple Layers for Light Emission Efciency Enhance-
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2005.
D. Ramirez, M. M. Hayat, S. N. Torres, B. E. A. Saleh, and M.
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of Single-Photon Avalanche Photodiodes,” IEEE Photonics Tech-
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R. A. Farrer, C. N. LaFratta, L. Li, J. Praino, M. J. Naughton, B.
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alization of 3-D Polymer Microstructures,” Journal of the Ameri-
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P. Sun, M. M. Hayat, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich, “Statisti-
cal Correlation of Gain and Buildup Time in APDs and Its Ef-
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D. A. Ramirez, M. M. Hayat, G. Karve, J. C. Campbell, S. N.
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and Generalized Breakdown Probabilities for Nanosecond-Gated
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2006.
V. Saligrama, “A Convex Analytic Approach to System Identi-
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S. Carrasco, M. B. Nasr, A. V. Sergienko, B. E. A. Saleh, M. C.
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by Noncollinear Parametric Downconversion,” Optics Letters,
Vol. 31, pp. 253-255, January 2006.
E. M. Blixt, M. Kosch, and J. Semeter, “Relative drift between
black aurora and the ionospheric plasma,” Annales Geophysicae,
Vol. 23, pp. 1161-1621, 2005.
J. Semeter, C. J. Heinselman, G. G. Sivjee, H. U. Frey, and J.
W. Bonnell, “The ionospheric response to wave-accelerated
electrons along the nightside polar cap boundary,” Journal
of Geophysical Research, Vol. 110, A11310, doi:10.1029/
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E. M. Blixt, J. Semeter, and N. Ivchenko, “Optical ow analysis
of the aurora-borealis,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience Re-
mote Sensing Letters, Vol. 3, p. 159, January 2006.
F. A. Bovino, G. Castagnoli, A. Ekert, P. Horodecki, C. Moura
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Properties of Bipartite Quantum States,” Physical Review Let-
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M. Sharif, C. Florens, M. Fazel, and B. Hassibi, “Amplitude and
Sign Adjustment for Peak to Average Power Reduction,” IEEE
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August 2005.
F. De Pellegrini, D. Starobinski, M. Karpovsky, and L. Levitin,
“Scalable, Distributed Cycle-Breaking Algorithms for Gigabit
Ethernet Backbones,” OSA Journal of Optical Networking (Spe-
cial Feature on Optical Ethernet), Vol. 5, pp. 122-144, February
2006.
R. Krishnan and D. Starobinski,“Efcient Clustering Algo-
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rithms for Self-Organizing Wireless Sensor Networks,” Journal
of Ad-Hoc Networks (Elsevier), Vol. 4, pp. 36-59, January 2006.
S. B. Cronin, Y. Yin, A. G. Walsh, R. B. Capaz, A. Stolyarov, P.
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B. Goldberg, and M. Tinkham, “Temperature Dependence of the
Electronic Transition Energies in Carbon Nanotubes: The Role
of Electron-Phonon Coupling and Thermal Expansion,” Physical
Review Letters, Vol. 96, pp. 127403-127406, March 31, 2006.
S. B. Cronin, A. K. Swan, M. S. Ünlü, B. B. Goldberg, M. S.
Dresselhaus, and M. Tinkham, “Resonant Raman spectroscopy
of individual metallic and semiconducting single-wall carbon
nanotubes under uniaxial strain,” Physical Review B, Vol. 72, p.
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L. Moiseev, M. S. Ünlü, A. K. Swan, B. B. Goldberg, and C. R.
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cence Self-Interference,” Proceedings of the National Academy
of Science, Vol. 103, pp. 2623-2628, February 21, 2006.
Z. Liu, B. B. Goldberg, S. B. Ippolito, A. N. Vamivakas, M.
S. Ünlü, and R. P. Mirin, “High resolution, high collection
efciency in numerical aperture increasing lens microscopy of
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M. S. Ünlü, D. Huffaker, and T. Baba, “Introduction to the issue
on optoelectronic materials and processing and nanostructures,”
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol.
11, pp. 1245-1247, November-December 2005.
A. Yalcin, K. C. Popat, J. C. Aldridge, T. A. Desai, J. Hrynie-
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M. F. Anthes-Washburn, M. S. Ünlü, and B. B. Goldberg, “Opti-
cal Sensing of Biomolecules Using Microring Resonators,” IEEE
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O. Savas, M. Alanyali, and V. Saligrama, “Efcient in-network
processing through information coalescence,” International Con-
ference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, June 2006.
M. Alanyali, V. Saligrama, and O. Savas, “Randomized
sequential algorithms for data aggregation in sensor networks,”
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton,
March 2006.
M. Alanyali, V. Saligrama, and O. Savas, “A random walk
model for distributed computation in energy-limited networks,”
Inaugural Workshop for the Center for Information Theory and
its Applications, University of California San Diego, February
2006.
A. Al Daoud and M. Alanyali, “Joint Pricing and Packet Filter-
ing to Control Selsh Trafc in Feed-Forward Networks,”
Proceedings of INFOCOM, Barcelona, April 2006.
M. Alanyali and V. Saligrama, “Distributed Tracking in Multi-
hop Networks with Communication Delays and Packet Losses,”
IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Bordeaux, July
2005.
M. Alanyali, “On resolving greedy users via stateless AQM,”
20th IEEE Computer Communications Workshop, October 24-
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Y. Wang, E. Bellotti, M. Wraback, and S. Rudin, “Electron-hole
dynamics in GaN under short-pulse laser excitation,” AIP Con-
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S. Gunna, E. Bellotti, and R. Paiella, “Novel Single Photon
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C. Eliot-Laize, V. Chalau, A. J. MacRobert, L. B. Lovat, S.
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M. F. Demierre, J. Noto, S. Watchorn, and I. J. Bigio, “Feasibil-
ity of a Non-Invasive, Handheld Optical Device For in Vivo De-
tection of melanoma in Suspect Pigmented Lesions,” 6th World
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I. E. G. Richardson, M. Bystrom, and Y. Zhao, “Fast H.264 Skip
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ing Symposium, Beijing, China, April 2006.
K. Grifs and M. Bystrom, “Improved Video Coding Through
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Z. He and M. Bystrom, “Color Texture Retrieval Through
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2005.
Z. He, M. Bystrom, and S. H. Nawab, “Conversion Between
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D. A. Castañón, “A Lower Bound on Achievable Performance
of Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the Conference on Deci-
sion and Control, Seville, Spain, December 2005.
M. C. Herbordt, J. Model, Y. Gu, B. Sukhwani, and T. Van-
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ing on FPGAs,” Proceedings of Field Programmable Custom
Computing Machines, April 2006.
Y. Gu, T. Van Court, and M. C. Herbordt, “Integrating FPGA
Acceleration into the Protomol Molecular Dynamics Code,” Pro-
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April 2006.
T. Van Court and M. C. Herbordt, “Application Dependent
Memory Interleaving Enables High Performance in FPGA-Based
Grid Computations,” Proceedings of Field Programmable Cus-
tom Computing Machines, April 2006.
T. Van Court and M. C. Herbordt, “Requirements for any HPC/
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FPGA Application Development Tool Flow,” Proceedings of 4th
Annual Boston Area Computer Architecture Workshop, February
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T. Van Court and M. C. Herbordt, “LAMP: A Tool Suite for
Families of FPGA-Based Application Accelerators,” Proceedings
of Field Programmable Logic and Applications, August 2005.
Y. Gu, T. Van Court, and M. C. Herbordt, “Accelerating
Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Congurable Circuits,”
Proceedings of Field Programmable Logic and Applications,
August 2005.
T. Van Court and M. C. Herbordt, “Three Dimensional
Template Correlation: Object Recognition in 3D Voxel Data,”
Proceedings of Computer Architecture for Machine Perception,
July 2005.
F. Lu, D. Mountain, J. Spisak, and A. Hubbard, “A Multi-com-
partment cochlear model with piezo-electric outer hair cells,”
Proceedings of 2005 BMES Annual Fall Meeting, Baltimore,
September 2005.
D. C. Mountain, D. Anderson, G. Bresnahan, A. Brughera, S.
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Scale Simulation Of Neural Systems: A Web-Based Approach,”
Proceedings of 2005 BMES Annual Fall Meeting, Baltimore,
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A. E. Hubbard, S. Lu, J. Spisak, and D. C. Mountain, “The
evolution of multi-compartment cochlear models,” Mechanics of
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G. D. Bustard, D.C. Mountain, and A. E. Hubbard, “A 3D nite
element model of the gerbil cochlea,” Mechanics of Hearing
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F. Chen, H.I. Cohen, D.C. Mountain, A. Zosuls, and A. E. Hub-
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S. Lu, J. Spisak, D.C. Mountain, and A. E. Hubbard, “A new
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D.C. Mountain and A. E. Hubbard, “What stimulates the inner
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A. Majumdar, R. Puri, P. Ishwar, and K. Ramchandran, “Com-
plexity/Performance Trade–offs for Robust Distributed Video
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A. Litvin and W. C. Karl, “Coupled shape distribution-based
segmentation of multiple objects,” Proceeding of 19th Informa-
tion Processing in Medical Imaging, Glenwood Springs, CO,
July 10-15, 2005.
H. Feng, W. C. Karl, and D. A. Castañón, “LADAR Range Im-
age Segmentation using Curve Evolution and Maximum Likeli-
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J. Pavlovich, W. C. Karl, B. E. A. Saleh, A. V. Sergienko, and
M. C. Teich, “Parameter Estimation in Quantum Optical Coher-
ence Tomography,” Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of
America, Tucson, AZ, October 2005.
A. Litvin, W. C. Karl, and J. Shah, “Shape and appearance
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Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedi-
cal Imaging, Arlington, VA, April 6-9, 2006.
K. J. Kulikowski, M. G. Karpovsky, and A. Taubin, “Robust
Codes for Fault Attack Resistant Cryptographic Hardware,”
Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography,
September 2005.
R. S. Stankovic, J. T. Aastola, and M. G. Karpovsky, “Remarks
on History of Abstract Harmonic Analysis,” Proceedings of the
Fifth International Workshop on Spectral Methods and Signal
Processing, 2005.
M. Mustafa, M. G. Karpovsky, and L. B. Levitin, “Cycle
Breaking in Wormhole Routed Computer Communication Net-
works,” Proceedings of Opnetwork, 2005.
I. Levin, R. Stankovic, M. G. Karpovsky, and J. Astola, “Con-
struction of Planar BDDs by Using Linearization and Decompo-
sition,” Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Logic
and Synthesis, pp. 132-139, Lake Arrowhead, CA, 2005.
R. S. Stankovic, J. T. Aastola and M. G. Karpovsky, “Remarks
on History of Abstract Harmonic Analysis,” Proceedings of
Fifth International Workshop on Spectral Methods and Signal
Processing, 2005.
R. Mathur, P. B. O’Connor, and R. W. Knepper, “Electronics
for the Cryogenic Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer,” 54th
ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Seattle, WA, May 28-
June 1, 2006.
R. Mathur, R. W. Knepper, and P. B. O’Connor, “Development
of a Cryogenic Transimpedance Amplier for Fourier Trans-
form Mass Spectrometry using GaAs High Electron Mobility
transistors,”ASMS 2006, Seattle, WA, May 28-June 1, 2006.
R. Mathur, R. W. Knepper, and P. B. O’Connor, “A Cryogenic
Preamplier for Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance
Mass Spectrometer,” ESA Workshop on Low Temperature Elec-
tronics, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, June 21-23, 2006.
N. Bozinovic and J. Konrad, “Modeling motion for spatial scal-
ability,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics Speech Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May
2006.
N. Bozinovic, J. Konrad, W. Zhao, and C. Vazquez, “On the im-
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Acoustics Speech Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, Vol. II,
pp. 49-52, March 2005.
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International Conference on Acoustics Speech Signal Processing,
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J. Konrad and N. Bozinovic, “Importance of motion in motion-
compensated temporal discrete wavelet transforms,” Proceedings
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S. Ince and J. Konrad, “Recovery of a missing color component
in stereo images (or helping NASA nd little green martians),”
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P. R. Kotiuga, “A Rationale for Pursuing EIT and MREIT in
3-D Based on Weyl Asymptotics and Problem Conditioning,”
Advanced Computational Electromagnetism, Boston University,
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P. R. Kotiuga, “Weitzenbock Identities and Variational Formula-
tions in Nanophotonics and Micromagnetics,” Advanced Compu-
tational Electromagnetism, Boston University, May 4-6, 2006.
P. R. Kotiuga, “A Rationale for Pursuing EIT and MREIT in 3-
D Based on Weyl Asymptotics and Problem Conditioning,” 12th
Biennial Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation,
Miami, Florida, April 30-May 3, 2006.
P. R. Kotiuga, “Weitzenbock Identities and Variational Formu-
lations in Nanophotonics and Micromagnetics,” 12th Biennial
Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, Miami,
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L. B. Levitin, “Zipf Law revisited: A model of emergence and
manifestation,” International Conference on Complex Systems,
Boston, MA, June 25-30, 2006.
K. Wang, S. Abu Ayyash, T. D. C. Little, and P. Basu, “Attri-
bute-Based Clustering for Information Dissemination in Wireless
Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual IEEE Com-
munications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Commu-
nications and Networks, Santa Clara, CA, September 2005.
T. D. C. Little and A. Agarwal, “An Information Propagation
Scheme for VANETs,” Proceedings of the 8th International
IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vienna
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T. Xu, J. S. Cabalu, and T. D. Moustakas, “Blue-Green LEDs
based on InGaN Quantum Dots and Quantum Wells Grown by
MBE,” 23rd North American Conference on MBE, p. 87, Santa
Barbara, CA, October 2005.
R. Chandrasekaran, A. Bhattacharyya, J.S. Cabalu, C. Thomidis,
T. D. Moustakas, L. Zhou, and D. J. Smith, “Development of
UV-LEDs based on III-nitride MQWs grown along non-polar
[11-20] direction,” 23rd North American Conference on MBE, p.
108, Santa Barbara, CA, October 2005.
T. D. Moustakas, “Experimental evidence that the plasma-as-
sisted MBE of GAN is not a vapor phase deposition process but
a liquid phase epitaxy process,” 23rd North American Confer-
ence on MBE, p. 111, Santa Barbara, CA, October 2005.
J.S. Cabalu, C. Thomidis, A. Bhattacharyya, C. Collins, and T.
D. Moustakas, “High power UV-LEDs grown by plasma as-
sisted molecular beam epitaxy (PAMBE),” 23rd North American
Conference on MBE, p. 112, Santa Barbara, CA, October 2005.
R. Chandrasekaran, A. Bhattacharyya, J.S. Cabalu, C. Thomidis,
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UV LEDs based on III-nitride MQWs grown along non-polar
[11-20] direction,” 2005 Fall Materials Research Society Meet-
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J. Abell, P. Chen, T. D. Moustakas, L. Zhou, D. Smith. “Growth
on InGaN with High Indium Concentration by plasma-assisted
MBE.” 2005 Fall Materials Research Society Meeting, p. 791,
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T. Xu, J.S. Cabalu, A. Williams, R. France, A.G. Stern, T. D.
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Quantum Dot and Well Structures Grown by plasma assisted
molecular beam epitaxy,” 2005 Fall Materials Research Society
Meeting, p. 798, Boston, MA, November 2005.
J.S. Cabalu, T. Xu, A. Williams, A. Stern, R. France, and T. D.
Moustakas, “Light emitting diodes based on InGaN/GaN Quan-
tum Wells produced by combining hydride vapor phase epitaxy
and plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy,” 2005 Fall Materi-
als Research Society Meeting, p. 799, Boston, MA, November
2005.
A. Williams, T. D. Moustakas, “Etch-back technique for the
planarization of the various crystal orientations of GaN,” 2005
Fall Materials Research Society Meeting, p. 806, Boston, MA,
November 2005.
Y. Wang, A. Ozcan, G. Ozaydin, K. Ludwig, H. Zhou, R.
Headrick, A. Bhattacharyya, T. D. Moustakas, and D. P. Sid-
dons, “Real-time synchrotron x-ray studies of high and low
temperature nitridation of c-plane sapphire,” 2005 Fall Materials
Research Society Meeting, p. 828, Boston, MA, November 2005.
A. S. Ozcan, Y. Wang, G. Ozaydin, K. F. Ludwig, A. Bhattacha-
rrya, T. D. Moustakas, and D. P. Siddons. “Real-time x-ray
studies of Ga Adsorption and desorption on sapphire and GaN
surfaces,” 2005 Fall Materials Research Society Meeting, p. 830,
Boston, MA, November 2005.
W. Li, T. D. Moustakas, L. Zhou, and D.J. Smith. “p-type Dop-
ings of InGaN Films Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.” 2005
Fall Materials Research Society Meeting, p. 831, Boston, MA,
November 2005.
T. D. Moustakas, “A new model describing the plasma-assisted
MBE growth of GaN thin lms and its alloys with AlN and InN,”
International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin
Films, p. 47, San Diego, CA, May 2006.
R. Paiella, M. Cunha, A. Bhattacharya, R. France, and T. D.
Moustakas, “Plasmonic Dispersion Engineering for Light Emis-
sion Efciency Enhancement,” IEEE Conference on Lasers and
Electro-Optics, paper CWB2, Long Beach, May 2006.
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J. D’Errico and W. Qin, “Constructing Portable Compiled
Instruction-set Simulators – An ADL-driven Approach,” IEEE/
ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe, March 2006.
W. Qin and B. Hu, “A Technique to Exploit Memory Locality
for Fast Instruction Set Simulation,” 6th International Confer-
ence on ASIC, October 2005.
B. C. Lai, P. Schaumont, W. Qin, and I. Verbauwhede, “Energy
and Performance Analysis of Mapping Parallel Multithreaded
Tasks for An On-Chip Multi-Processor System,” IEEE Interna-
tional Conference on Computer Design, October 2005.
W. Qin and S. Malik, “A Study of Architecture Description
Languages from a Model-based Perspective,” 6th International
Workshop on Microprocessor Testing and Verication, November
2005.
D. A. Bergstein, R. J. Irani, M. F. Ruane, C. DeLisi, and M. S.
Ünlü, “Resonant Cavity Imaging Biosensor,” IEEE/LEOS 18th
Annual Meeting for the Lasers and Electo-Optics Society, Syd-
ney, Australia, October 23-27, 2005.
D. Bergstein, M. F. Ruane, and M. S. Ünlü, “Silicon Substrates
With Buried Distributed Bragg Reectors For Biosensing,”
International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium,
Bethesda, MD, December 7-9, 2005.
D. A. Ramirez, M. M. Hayat, G. Karve, J. C. Campbell, S. N.
Torres, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich, “Detection Efciencies
for InP, InAlAs, and InAlAs-InP Single-Photon Avalanche Pho-
todiodes,” Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and
Electro-Optics Society, Sydney, Australia, October 2005.
S. Aeron, V. Saligrama, and D. A. Castañón, “Distributed Tar-
get Tracking and Localization in Multi-hop Networks,” Proceed-
ings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems,
Princeton, NJ, April 2006.
V. Saligrama and D. A. Castañón, “Reliable Target Tracking
with Unreliable Communications,” ICASSP, Toulouse, France,
May 2006.
V. Saligrama and D. Starobinski, “On the Macroscopic Effects
of Local Interactions in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks,” 4th In-
ternational Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile,
Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, Boston, MA, April 2006.
M. J. Kosch, B. Gustavsson, E. M. Blixt, T. Pedersen, A. Senior,
A. J. Kavanagh, and J. Semeter, “EISCAT radar and optical
studies of black aurora: a signature of magnetospheric turbu-
lence?” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference
on Substorms, Banff, Canada, March 2006.
A. V. Sergienko, “Precise Quantum Measurement with Entan-
gled Photons,” International Workshop on Quantum Nanopho-
tonics, University of Palermo, Italy, May 23-24, 2006.
A. V. Sergienko, M. Jaspan, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich,
“Engineering Optical Entanglement for Quantum communica-
tion,” International Workshop on Linear Optical Quantum
Information Processing, University of Louisiana, Baton Rouge,
April 9-12, 2006.
A. V. Sergienko, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich, “Charac-
terization of Single-Photon Detectors with Correlated-Photon
Pairs: From Photomultiplier Tubes to Superconducting Photon
Counters and Precise Optical Measurement with Entangled
Photons (Quantum Metrology),” Single Photon Detection
Workshop 2005: Sources, Detectors, Applications, and Measure-
ment Methods, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK,
October 2005.
M. Sharif, V. Saligrama, and G. Atia, “Outage capacity of relay
channels in low SNR: an adaptive strategy,” Proceedings of the
IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, Puerto Rico, May
2006.
A. Hassibi and M. Sharif, “Efciency of polymerase chain
reaction processes: a stochastic model,” Proceedings of the IEEE
International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and
Statistics, May 2006.
A. Vakili, M. Sharif, and B. Hassibi, “The effect of channel esti-
mation error on the throughput of broadcast channels,” Proceed-
ings of the IEEE International Conference of Acoustics, Speech,
and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.
W. Xiao and D. Starobinski, “Poster Abstract: Exploiting Multi-
channel Diversity to Speed Up Over-the-air Programming of
Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the ACM SenSys, pp.
292-293, San Diego, November 2005.
I. Paschalidis, W. Lai, and D. Starobinski, “Optimizing Trans-
missions and Routing in Sensor Networks is Polynomially
Solvable,” SPIE Conference on Intelligent Systems in Design and
Manufacturing, Boston, MA, October 2005.
S. Carrasco, A. V. Sergienko, M. B. Nasr, B. E. A. Saleh, M.
C. Teich, J. P. Torres, and L. Torner, “Spectral Management of
Entangled Two-Photon States for Submicron Resolution Optical
Coherence Tomography,” SPIE 50th Annual Meeting: Optical
Science and Technology, San Diego, CA, August 2005.
S. Carrasco, J. P. Torres, L. Torner , A. V. Sergienko, B. E. A.
Saleh, and M. C. Teich, “Spectral Management of Entangled
Two-Photon States,” Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of
America, Tucson, AZ, October 2005.
M. Knight, R. Reisberg, K. Ziemer, P. Wong, and A. Swan, “A
Model STEM Team? Building Outreach Opportunities Across
Cultures,” WEPAN, June 2006.
Y. Yin, A. Walsh, S. Cronin, M. S. Ünlü, B. B. Goldberg, and A.
K. Swan, “Direct Determination of Absolute Electron-Phonon
Coupling Strengths in Carbon Nanotubes,” Nanotechnology
Conference and Trade Show, May 2006.
Y. Yin, A. Walsh, S. Cronin, M. S. Ünlü, B. B. Goldberg, and A.
K. Swan,“Why nanotubes become resistive at high elds: Mea-
surements of electron-phonon coupling strengths,” Nanotechnol-
ogy Conference and Trade Show, May 2006.
T. Toffoli, “Computation: The lego of physics,” Data Ecologies,
Time’s Up, pp. 1–24, Linz, 2005.
T. Toffoli and L. B. Levitin, “Specic ergodicity: An informa-
Annual Report, Page 5-14
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tive indicator for invertable computational media,” Computer
Frontiers, ACM, pp. 52-58, Ischia, Italy, May 3-5, 2005.
S. Agarwal, M. Laifenfeld, A. Trachtenberg, and M. Alanyali,
“Using bandwidth sharing to fairly overcome channel asym-
metry,” Inaugural Workshop for the Center for Information
Theory and its Applications, University of California San Diego,
February 2006.
A. G. Walsh, Y. Yin, A. N. Vamivakas, S. B. Cronin, M. Tin-
kham, M. S. Ünlü, B. B. Goldberg, and A. K. Swan, “Environ-
mental Manipulation of the Electronic Structure of Suspended
Carbon Nanotubes,” Bulletin of APS Meeting, March 2006.
B. B. Goldberg, Y. Yin, A. G. Walsh, S. B. Cronin, M. Tinkham,
A. N. Vamivakas, M. S. Ünlü, and A. K. Swan, “A comparison
of measured electron-phonon and electron-photon coupling
strengths in isolated and small ropes of single wall carbon nano-
tubes,” Bulletin of APS Meeting, March 2006.
Y. Yin, A. G. Walsh, B. B. Goldberg, S. B. Cronin, M. Tinkham,
A. N. Vamivakas, M. S. Ünlü, and A. K. Swan, “Direct mea-
surements of electron-phonon coupling of radial breathing modes
in carbon nanotubes and their chirality dependence,” Bulletin of
APS Meeting, March 2006.
S. B. Cronin, Yan Yin, A. Walsh, R. B. Capaz, A. Stolyarov, P.
Tangney, M. L. Cohen, S. G. Louie, A. K. Swan, M. S. Ünlü, B.
B. Goldberg and M. Tinkham, “Temperature Dependence of the
Electronic Transition Energies in Individual Carbon Nanotubes,”
MRS fall meeting, Boston, December 2005.
A. G. Walsh, Y. Yin, S. Cronin, A. N. Vamivakas, B. Allen,
M. Tinkham, M. S. Ünlü, B. B Goldberg, and A. K. Swan,
“Manipulation of the Electronic Structure of Suspended Carbon
Nanotubes,” MRS fall meeting, Boston, December 2005.
S. G. Chou, B. Son, A. Zare, Ge. G. Samsonidze, A. Jorio, M.
Pimenta, M. Zheng, G. B. Onoa, E. D. Semke, Y. Yan, A. Walsh,
A. K. Swan, B. Goldberg, M. S. Ünlü, G. Dresselhaus, and M.
S. Dresselhaus, “Resonance Raman Study Of The Effects Of
DNA-Wrapping Agents on Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes,”
MRS fall meeting, Boston, December 2005.
Y. Yin, S. B. Cronin, A. Walsh, A. Stolyarov, M. Tinkham, A.
Vamivakas, W. Bacsa, M. S. Ünlü, B. B. Goldberg and A. K.
Swan, “Determination of the Optical Transition Energies in
Carbon Nanotubes,” 1st workshop on Nanotube Optics and
Nano-spectroscopy, Colorado, July 2005.
Y. Yin, S. B. Cronin, A. Walsh, A. Stolyarov, M. Tinkham, A. Va-
mivakas, W. Bacsa, M. S. Ünlü, B. B Goldberg and A. K. Swan,
“Unperturbed Optical Transition Energies in Carbon Nanotubes,”
Sixth International Conference on the Science and Application of
Nanotubes, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2005.
A. Swan, Y. Yin , A. Walsh, R. R Bacsa, P. Puech, E. Flahaut, A.
Peignet, Ch. Laurent, B. Goldberg, and W. S. Bacsa. “Photolumi-
nescence and resonant inelastic light scattering from double wall
carbon nanotubes,” NT05, Gothenburg, July 2005.
B. B Goldberg, Y. Yin, A. Walsh, N. Vamivakas, A. Stolyarov, S.
B. Cronin, M. Tinkham, W. Bacsa and A. K. Swan, “Nano-op-
tics of Carbon Nanotubes: Measurement of Unperturbed Optical
Transition Energies,” The 18th IEEE lasers & electro-optics
society annual meeting, Sydney, Australia, 2005.
B. J. Davis, M. S. Ünlü, A. K. Swan, B. B. Goldberg, and W. C.
Karl, “Using Multi-Element Detectors to Create Optimal Aper-
tures in Confocal Microscopy,” Proceedings of IEEE Lasers and
Electro-Optics Society 2005 Annual Meeting, October 2005.
M. C. Teich, “Entangled-Photon Optical Coherence Tomog-
raphy,” Coherent Optical Technologies and Applications, OSA
Topical Meeting, Whistler, BC, Canada, June 2006.
S. Agarwal, M. Laifenfeld, A. Trachtenberg, and M. Alanyali,
“Fast data access over asymmetric channels using fair and secure
bandwidth sharing,” The 26th International Conference on Dis-
tributed Computing Systems, Lisbon, July 2006.
S. Agarwal and A. Trachtenberg, “Estimating the number of
differences between remote sets,” IEEE Information Theory
Workshop, Punta del Este, Uruguay, March 2006.
S. Agarwal, M. Laifenfeld, A. Trachtenberg, and M. Alanyali,
“Using bandwidth sharing to fairly overcome channel asym-
metry,” Inaugural Workshop for the Center for Information
Theory and its Applications, University of California San Diego,
February 2006.
K. Kulikowski, M. Su, A. Smirnov, A. Taubin, M. G. Kar-
povsky, and D. MacDonald, “Delay Insensitive Encoding and
Power Analysis: A Balancing Act,” Proceedings of the 11th
International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems,
New York, NY, March 2005
A. G. Walsh, Y. Yin, A. N. Vamivakas, S. B. Cronin, M. Tin-
kham, M. S. Ünlü, B. B. Goldberg, and A. K. Swan, “Environ-
mental Manipulation of the Electronic Structure of Suspended
Carbon Nanotubes,” Bulletin of APS Meeting, March 2006.
B. B. Goldberg, Y. Yin, A. G. Walsh, S. B. Cronin, M. Tinkham,
A. N. Vamivakas, M. S. Ünlü, and A. K. Swan, “A comparison
of measured electron-phonon and electron-photon coupling
strengths in isolated and small ropes of single wall carbon nano-
tubes,” Bulletin of APS Meeting, March 2006.
Y. Yin, A. G. Walsh, B. B. Goldberg, S. B. Cronin, M. Tinkham,
A. N. Vamivakas, M. S. Ünlü, and A. K. Swan, “Direct mea-
surements of electron-phonon coupling of radial breathing modes
in carbon nanotubes and their chirality dependence,” Bulletin of
APS Meeting, March 2006.
S. B. Ippolito, M. S. Ünlü, B. B. Goldberg, T. M. Levin, and D.
P. Vallett, “Laser signal injection microscopy of Si integrated cir-
cuits with a numerical aperture increasing lens,” Proceedings of
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2005 Annual Meeting,
October 22-27, 2005.
M. S. Ünlü, “Applications of microresonators: from photodetec-
tors to biological sensing and imaging (Keynote Presentation),”
European Optical Society Topical Meeting: Optical Microsys-
tems, September 15, 2005.
M. S. Ünlü, A. N. Vamivakas, S. B. Ippolito, and B. B. Gold-
berg, “Numerical aperture increasing lens microscopy for
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quantum dot and integrated circuit imaging,” European Optical
Society Topical Meeting: Optical Microsystems, September 2005.
B. J. Davis, M. S. Ünlü, A. K. Swan, B. B. Goldberg, and W.
C. Karl, “Using Multi-Element Detectors to Create Optimal
Apertures in Confocal Microscopy,’’ The 18th Annual Meeting
of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, pp. 547-548,
October 23-27, 2005.
Invited Lectures:
M. Alanyali, “A random walk model for distributed computa-
tion in energy-limited networks,” Inauguration Workshop for
the Center for Information Theory and its Applications, UCSD,
February 6-10, 2006.
E. Bellotti, “Design and Simulation of Optoelectronics Devices
From the UV to the Far IR,” MIT Lincoln Laboratory, February
28, 2006.
I. J. Bigio, “Monitoring of angiogenesis by the method of optical
pharmacokinetics,” CenSSIS Conference, Northeastern Univer-
sity, October 2005.
I. J. Bigio, “Optical spectroscopy for the detection and treatment
management of prostate cancer,” Symposium on Novel Tech-
nologies for Prostate Cancer, November 2005.
I. J. Bigio, “Potential applications of elastic-scattering spec-
troscopy to pancreatic cancer,” M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, December 2005.
I. J. Bigio, “Elastic scattering spectroscopy for the noninvasive
detection of cancer,” Department of Bioengineering, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 2006.
I. J. Bigio, “Optical spectroscopy for noninvasive detection of
cancer,” Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of
Arizona, February 2006.
I. J. Bigio, “Applications of optical spectroscopy in the detec-
tion and treatment of prostate cancer,” NIH/AdMeTech Prostate
Cancer Brain Trust workshop, Bethesda, MD, March 2006.
I. J. Bigio, “Optical Spectroscopy for Management of Cancer
Treatment,” OSA Conference on Biomedical Optics, Ft. Lauder-
dale, FL, March 2006.
I. J. Bigio, “Elastic scattering spectroscopy for noninvasive de-
tection of cancer,” Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry,
University of Pennsylvania, March 2006.
I. J. Bigio, “Optical monitoring of drug concentrations in the
brain,” Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University
Medical School, April 2006.
I. J. Bigio, “Optical Biopsy: Noninvasive Detection of Early
Cancer with Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy,” Physics Depart-
ment Colloquium, Boston University, April 2006.
I. J. Bigio, “Elastic scattering spectroscopy for noninvasive
detection of early cancer and pre-cancer,” Stanford University
Medical School, June 2006.
I. J. Bigio, “Optical spectroscopy to monitor PDT pharmacoki-
netics and therapy,” Progress and Clinical Translation of In-Vivo
Imaging Symposium, Philadelphia, June 2006.
L. Dal Negro, “Light from Silicon-based Nanostructures,”
American Physical Society meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13-
17, 2006.
L. Dal Negro, J. H. Yi, J. Michel, L. C. Kimerling, S. Hamel, A.
Williamson, and G. Galli, “Light Emission in Silicon-rich Nitride
Nanostructures,” Materials Research Society Spring Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, April 17-21, 2006.
L. Dal Negro, “Light in Aperiodic Deterministic Structures,”
Advanced Computational Electrodynamics Workshop, Boston,
MA, May 04-06, 2006.
L. Dal Negro, “Light emission from silicon nanostructrures,”
IEEE-LEOS Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 29-Novem-
ber 2, 2006.
S. Lu, D. C. Mountain, and A. E. Hubbard, “A multicom-
partmental cochlear model with piezoelectric outer hair cells,”
Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI, June 2006.
S. Deligeorges, D. Mountain, and A. Hubbard, “A biomimetic
robotic system for localizing gunre,” Acoustical Society of
America, June 2006.
S. Deligeorges, A. Zosuls, D. Anderson1, T. Gore, C. Karl, D.
Mountain, and A. Hubbard, “A Biomimetic Robotic System for
Localizing Sound,” International Conference on Congnitive and
Neural Systems, May 2006.
M. Nourzad, C. Karl, S. Deligeorges, and A. Hubbard,
“Hardware implementations of a biomimetic acoustic localizing
system,” International Conference on Congnitive and Neural
Systems, May 2006.
S. Lu, D Mountain, and A. Hubbard, “A Multi-compartment
Model of the Cochlea with Nonlinear Outer Hair Cell Force
Generators,” International Conference on Cognitive and Neural
Systems, May, 2006.
L. B. Levitin, “Maximum rate of quantum computational
dynamics,” CREATE-NET Research Center, Trento, Italy, July
2005.
L. B. Levitin, “Foundations of information theory,” Max Planck-
Institute, Berlin, Germany, August 2005.
T. D. C. Little, “Challenges in Sensor Network Tasking,” CISE
SNC Member Meeting, Boston University, May 24, 2006.
T. D. Moustakas, “GaN LEDs for Solid State Lighting,” Saint-
Gobain Lighting Community Meeting, Boston, July 7, 2005.
T. D. Moustakas, “MBE and HVPE Growth of III-Nitrides,”
16th American Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy, Big
Sky, MT, July 10-15, 2005.
T. D. Moustakas, J. S. Cabalu, R. Chandrasekaran, and S. Riyo-
poulus, “High efciency LEDs based on textured GaN templates
with wrinkled quantum wells,” Optics East, Boston, October 25,
2005.
Annual Report, Page 5-16
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T. D. Moustakas, “Physics of Textured III-Nitride Quantum
Wells for Applications to LEDs,” International Semiconductor
Device Research Symposium, Washington, DC, December 7-9,
2005.
T. D. Moustakas, “Low-cost Blue/UV LEDs with very high
Photon Conversion and Extraction Efciency for White Light-
ing,” DOE Solid-State Lighting Program Planning Workshop
Orlando, February 1-3, 2006.
T. D. Moustakas, “GaN-based Materials for Optoelectronics,”
Lehigh University, February 14, 2006.
T. D. Moustakas, “A New Model Describing the Plasma-As-
sisted MBE Growth of GaN Thin Films and its Alloys with AlN
and InN,” International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings
and Thin Films, San Diego, May 1-5, 2006.
B. E. A. Saleh, “Classical and Quantum Optical Coherence
Imaging and Quantum Two-Photon Imaging,” Meeting of the
European Optical Society, London, July 1, 2005.
B. E. A. Saleh, “Quantum Imaging,” Physics Department, Uni-
versity of Kent, UK, July 4, 2005.
B. E. A. Saleh, “Vector-Beam Microscopy,” National Institute
of Laser Enhanced Sciences (NILES), Cairo, Egypt, January 3,
2006.
B. E. A. Saleh, “Tutorial on Nonlinear Imaging,” CenSSIS
Symposium on Nonlinear and Quantum Imaging, Boston Uni-
versity, April 4, 2006.
B. E. A. Saleh, “Nonlinear and Quantum Imaging,” Instituto
Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, Mexico,
May 22, 2006.
V. Saligrama, “Search and Discovery in an Uncertain Net-
worked World,” Plenary Speaker: 2nd Northeast Control Confer-
ence, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2006.
V. Saligrama, “Distributed Detection and Estimation over
Sensor Networks,” Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2005.
V. Saligrama, “Reliable Target Tracking with Unreliable Com-
munications,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.
J. Semeter, “Optical remote sensing of the aurora-borealis,”
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Meeting, MIT
Lincoln Laboratory, October 2005.
J. Semeter, “Critical evaluation of time constants governing
electrodynamic coupling of the magnetosphere and ionosphere,”
Yosemite workshop on Global Aspects of Magnetosphere-Iono-
sphere Coupling, February 2006.
A. V. Sergienko, “Quantum-Optical Measurement With Special-
ly Engineered Entangled-Photon States,” Department of Physics
Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, February 24,
2006.
A. V. Sergienko, “Quantum Communication and Precise Optical
Measurement with Engineered Entangled-Photon States,” Spe-
cial Seminar Department of Physics and Astronomy, University
of Leeds, UK, February 8, 2006
D. Starobinski, “A Theory of Stability for Communication
Networks,” DOE PI Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory,
September 2005.
D. Starobinski, “Towards a Theory of Stability for Communica-
tion Networks,” Telecommunication and Networking Seminar
Series, University of Pennsylvania, November 2005.
D. Starobinski, “On the Macroscopic Effects of Local Interac-
tions in Wireless Mesh Networks,” Center for Nonlinear Studies,
Los Alamos, March 2006.
A. Swan, “Carbon nanotubes: Optical properties and applica-
tions,” IEEE-LEOS Central New England LEOS Chapter,
November 10, 2005.
A. Swan, “Lower limit of exciton binding energy in carbon
nanotubes,” Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectros-
copy Societies, October 2005.
A. Swan, “Optical properties of carbon nanotubes,” International
Workshop on Nanophotonics and Nanobiotechnology, Koç,
Turkey, July 2005.
A. Swan, “Unperturbed Optical Transition Energies in Carbon
Nanotubes,” Sixth International Conference on the Science and
Application of Nanotubes, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2005.
M. C. Teich, “Heart Rate Variability,” Workshop on New
Themes and Techniques in Complex Systems, University of Not-
tingham and Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council,
Grasmere, UK, September 2005.
M. C. Teich, “Applications of Entangled Photons in Photonics,”
National Engineers Week Lecture, Raytheon Radio Frequency
Components Division, Andover, MA, February 2006.
M. C. Teich, “Fractal-Based Point Processes and Sensory-Sys-
tem Neural Spike Trains,” Hearing Research Center, Boston
University, April 2006.
T. Toffoli, “The question they all ask: How do you make up a
rule to give a desired behaviour?” FENA Workshop on Computa-
tion in Nanoscale Dynamical Systems, Santa Fe, NM, January
19–20, 2006.
T. Toffoli, “Simple things work best: Computing with gases,
qubits, and emergent phenomena,” Lockheed Martin, Philadel-
phia, PA, June 5, 2006.
M. S. Ünlü, “Applications of Microresonators: From Photode-
tectors to Biological Sensing and Imaging,” JSPS – UNT Joint
Symposium on and Biotechnology Nanoscale Materials for
Optoelectronics Denton, Texas, February 2-3, 2006.
M. S. Ünlü, “Applications of microresonators: from photodetec-
tors to biological sensing and imaging (Keynote Presentation),”
Annual Report, Page 5-17
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European Optical Society Topical Meeting: Optical Microsys-
tems, Capri, Italy, September 15, 2005.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biologi-
cal Systems,” LEOS Distinguished Lecture at Hampton Roads
LEOS Chapter, September 2005.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biologi-
cal Systems,” LEOS Distinguished Lecture at Ottawa LEOS
Chapter, October 2005.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Bio-
logical Systems,” LEOS Distinguished Lecture at Joint LEOS/
MTTS/APS Montreal Chapter, October 2005.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biologi-
cal Systems,” LEOS Distinguished Lecture at Central New
England LEOS Chapter, October 2005.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biologi-
cal Systems,” LEOS Distinguished Lecture at Washington-
Northern Virginia LEOS Chapter, December 2005.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biologi-
cal Systems,” LEOS Distinguished Lecture at JSPS – UNT Joint
Symposium on Nanoscale Materials for Optoelectronics and
Biotechnology, February 2006.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Bio-
logical Systems,” LEOS Distinguished Lecture at Northern NJ
LEOS Chapter, February 2006.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biologi-
cal Systems,” Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
Lehigh University, March 2006.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biologi-
cal Systems,” LEOS Distinguished Lecture at Santa Clara Valley
LEOS Chapter with EDS Chapter, May 2006.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biologi-
cal Systems,” LEOS Distinguished Lecture at Italian LEOS
Chapter, Milan, Italy, May 2006.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biologi-
cal Systems,” LEOS Distinguished Lecture at Denver LEOS
Chapter with Rocky Mountain OSA (RMOSA), May 2006.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biologi-
cal Systems,” LEOS Distinguished Lecture at Turkish LEOS
Chapter, Ankara, Turkey, June 2006.
M. S. Ünlü, “Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Bio-
logical Systems,” LEOS Distinguished Lecture at Corning and
Rochester LEOS Chapter, June 2006.
M. S. Ünlü, “Numerical Aperture Increasing Lens Microscopy:
Applications in Si IC imaging and QD apectroscopy,” Interna-
tional Workshop on Nanophotonics and Nanobiotechnology,
Istanbul, Turkey, June 28-July 8, 2005.
M. S. Ünlü, “Resonant Cavity Biosensor,” International
Workshop on Nanophotonics and Nanobiotechnology, Istanbul,
Turkey, June 28-July 8, 2005.
Patents and Patent Disclosures:
I. J. Bigio, “Polar nephelometer based on a rotational confocal
imaging setup,” Patent disclosure.
I. J. Bigio, “Biopsy forceps incorporating an optical spectros-
copy ber probe,” Patent disclosure.
I. J. Bigio, “Biopsy snare incorporating an optical spectroscopy
ber probe,” Patent disclosure.
A. Hubbard, “Biomimetic Acoustic Detection and Localization
System,” Patent disclosure no. 11/415,347, May 2006.
A. Hubbard, “Tunable current mode integrator for low-frequen-
cy lters,” U.S. Patent, April 17, 2006.
K. J. Kulikowski, M.G. Karpovsky, and A. Taubin, “Robust
codes for error detection,” Patent disclosure, August 2005.
K. J. Kulikowski, M. G. Karpovsky, and A. Taubin, “Appara-
tus and methods for error detection based on systematic robust
codes,” Patent disclosure, August 2005.
R. W. Knepper, H. Dai, and W. Hemdan, “Substrate Noise
Suppression Circuit and Methodology for RF/Mixed Signal IC
Technology,” Patent disclosure, March 28, 2006.
T. D. Moustakas, “Method of Making a Semiconductor Device
with Exposure of Sapphire Substrate to Activated Nitrogen,”
U.S. Patent 6,953,703 B2, October 11, 2005.
T. D. Moustakas and J. Cabalu, “Optical Devices Featuring Tex-
tured Semiconductor Layers,” International Application (PCT)
no. WO 2005/104236 A2, November 3, 2005.
T. D. Moustakas and J. Cabalu, “Optical Devices Featuring Tex-
tured Semiconductor Layers,” US provisional patent application
no. 60/732,034, led October 31, 2005.
T. D. Moustakas and A. Williams, “Planarization of GaN by
Photoresist Technique using an Inductively Coupled Plasma,”
US provisional application no. 60/764,389, led February 2,
2006.
R. Paiella, “Tunable Surface Plasmons in Coupled Metallo-Di-
electric Multiple Layers for Light Emission Efciency Enhance-
ment,” Patent disclosure.
T. Singh and A. Taubin, “A GALS Solution Based on Highly
Scalable, Low Latency, Crossbar Using Token Ring Arbitration,”
Patent disclosure, April 2006.
D. J. MacDonald and A. Taubin, “DPA-Resistant Balanced-
Power Standard Logic Cell Library,” Patent disclosure, April
2006.
M. C. Teich, B. E. A. Saleh, A. V. Sergienko, J. T. Fourkas, R.
Wolleschensky, M. Kempe, and M. C. Booth, “High-Flux En-
tangled Photon Generation via Parametric Processes in a Laser
Cavity,” U.S. patent no. 6,982,822, January 3, 2006, 20 claims.
Annual Report, Page 5-18
Research
5.5 Grants, Contracts, and Gifts
e following table delineates the new grants awarded over the 2006 fiscal year. e funding level for new grants, where an ECE
faculty member is the Principal Investigator (PI) is approximately $5.2M. ECE faculty members were also Co-PIs on grants with
PIs from other departments, as noted in the table. eir share of the funding for new grants awarded is approximately $1.8M.
e total of new grants is therefore approximately $7M.
New Grants with ECE Principal Investigators
Recipient Title of Award Source Begin Date End Date Amount
Bellotti, Enrico
Bellotti, Enrico
Bigio, Irving
Castañón, David
Castañón, David
Castañón, David
Castañón, David;
Cassandras, Christos
Herbordt, Martin
Herbordt, Martin
Hubbard, Allyn
Ishwar, Prakash
Karl, W. Clem
Karpovsky, Mark;
Taubin, Alexander
Deep UV Semiconductor Laser for in situ
Organic and Biological Exploration (Sub-
contract via Photon Systems, Inc.)
Young Investigator Program: Single-Photon
3D Image Sensors
Graduate Student Support (N.
Kunapareddy)(Subcontract via Los Alamos
National Laboratoy)
Graduate Student Support (M. Rodehorst)
(Subcontract via MIT/Lincoln Laboratory)
Videotext Detection, Tracking, Extraction
and Enhancement - Graduate Student Sup-
port (K. Subramanian)
Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging
Systems (CenSSIS) – Research rust 2
(Subcontract via Northeastern University)
Cooperative Mission Control for Un-
manned Air Vehicles in Complex Sto-
chastic Environments (in conjunction
with Center for Information and Systems
Engineering)
Graduate Student Support (J. Model)
(Subcontract via MIT/Lincoln Laboratory)
Accelerated Fault-Tolerant Computing in
Space with Reconfigurable Circuits
Photonics Technology Development and
Insertion/Task 25: Acoustic Sniper Detec-
tion (in conjunction with the Photonics
Center)
CAREER: Information-Scaling Laws,
“Bit-Conversation” Principles, and Robust
Coding Architectures in Sensor Networks
Anatomic Morphological Analysis of MR
Brain Images (in conjunction with Center
for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology)
(Subcontract via Massachusetts General
Hospital)
Cryptographic Devices Resistant to Attacks
NASA
DoD/Navy
Department of Energy
DoD/Air Force
BBNT Solutions LLC
NSF
DoD/Air Force
DoD/ Air Force
DoD/Navy
DoD/Army
NSF
HHS/NIH/NINDS
OmniBase Logic Inc.
1/1/06 12/31/07
3/15/03 4/30/06
6/1/05 2/28/07
9/1/05 12/31/05
4/1/04 7/31/05
9/1/05 8/31/06
3/1/06 2/28/07
9/1/05 12/31/05
11/1/05 7/31/06
6/1/05 4/30/06
12/15/05 11/30/07
9/1/05 8/31/06
5/26/05 12/31/05
$25,000
$44,952
$31,629
$13,605
$5,137
$294,717
$157,435
$13,605
$60,869
$150,000
$151,959
$83,009
$40,000
Annual Report, Page 5-19
Research
Title of Award Source Begin Date End Date
Recipient Title of Award Source Begin Date End Date Amount
Karpovsky, Mark;
Taubin, Alexander
Kotiuga, P. Robert
Lee, Min-Chang
Little, omas;
Alanyali, Murat;
Kunz, omas;
Phillips, Nathan;
Saligrama, Venkatesh
Little, omas;
Alanyali, Murat;
Kunz, omas;
Phillips, Nathan;
Saligrama, Venkatesh
Morse, eodore
Moustakas, eodore
Moustakas, eodore
Moustakas, eodore
Moustakas, eodore
Oliver, William
Ruane, Michael
Ruane, Michael;
Swan, Anna
Saleh, Bahaa
Saleh, Bahaa
Cryptographic devices resistant to attacks:
Design methodology based on robust codes,
asynchronous circuitry and multi-valued logic
technology
Advanced Computational Electromagnetics
– ACE ‘06 Workshop (in conjunction with
Center for Computational Science)
Controlled studies of whistler wave interactions
with energetic particles in radiation belts
NeTS - NOSS: Semantic Internetworking of
Sensor Systems for Efficient In-Network Infor-
mation Processing
NeTS-NOSS: Sematic Internetworking of Sen-
sor Systems for Efficient In-Network Informa-
tion Processing
Specialty Fibers for Clinical Applications
Photonics Research and Development (Sub-
contract via University of Nevada Las Vegas
Research Foundation)
MURI: Gas Cluster Ion Beam (GCIB) Epitaxy
(Subcontract via Georgia Institute of Technol-
ogy)
Low-Cost Blue/UV LEDs with Very High
Photon Conversion and Extraction Efficiency
for White Lighting
Deep UV Semiconductor Laser for in situ Or-
ganic and Biological Exploration (Subcontract
via Photon Systems, Inc.)
Incoherent Scatter Radar Studies of Hot
Oxygen (in conjunction with Center for Space
Physics)
Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging
Systems (CenSSIS) – Education Program (sub-
contract via Northeastern University)
REU Site: Research Experiences for Under-
graduate Students in Photonics
Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging
Systems (CenSSIS) –Research rust 1 -Photo-
nics (Subcontract via Northeastern University)
CenSSIS Supplement - Quantum Optical
Coherence Tomography
Omnibase Logic Inc.
NSF
DoD/Air Force
NSF
NSF
DoD/Air Force
Dep of Energy
DoD/Air Force
Dep of Energy
NASA
NSF
NSF
NSF
National Security
Agency
NSF/Northeastern
University
05/26/05 8/31/06
4/1/06 3/31/07
3/1/06 11/30/06
1/1/05 12/31/06
1/1/05 12/31/07
2/1/05 1/31/07
4/1/06 10/31/06
5/1/03 5/14/06
9/1/04 9/30/07
1/1/06 12/31/08
11/15/05 10/31/06
9/1/05 8/31/06
5/1/06 4/30/07
9/1/05 8/31/06
2/1/03 8/31/26
$132,500
$25,000
$85,000
$250,000
$250,000
$150,000
$191,750
$49,158
$319,998
$125,000
$134,896
$59,537
$109,820
$126,128
$105,000
Annual Report, Page 5-20
Research
Recipient Title of Award Source Begin Date End Date Amount
Saleh, Bahaa
Saleh, Bahaa;
Teich, Malvin;
Sergienko, Alexander
Saleh, Bahaa
Teich, Malvin
Sergienko, Alexander
Saleh, Bahaa
Sergienko, Alexander
Teich, Malvin
Saligrama, Venkatesh
Saligrama, Venkatesh
Saligrama, Venkatesh
Semeter, Joshua
Semeter, Joshua
Semeter, Joshua
Sergienko, Alexander;
Teich, Malvin;
Saleh, Bahaa
Sergienko, Alexander;
Teich, Malvin;
Saleh, Bahaa
Starobinski, David
Starobinski, David
Teich, Malvin
Teich, Malvin
Quantum Imaging: New Methods and
Applications (DURIP) (Subcontract via
University of Rochester)
Quantum Imaging: New Methods and
Applications (MURI) (Subcontract via
University of Rochester)
Ultrafast Quantum Optics (Subcontract
via BBN Technologies)
Quantum Imaging: New Methods and
Applications (MURI) (Subcontract via
University of Rochester)
Networked Sensing Systems for Urban
Target Recognition
International Workshop on Networked
Sensing, Information, and Control
A Systems Approach to Networked Deci-
sion Making in Uncertain Environments
CAREER: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere
Coupling rough Multi-Sensor Data
Fusion
Ground-Based Investigation of Upflowing
Ions in the Discrete Aurora (in conjunc-
tion with Center for Space Physics)
AMISR Graduate Studies: Development
of Multi-Sensor Analysis Techniques and a
Synergistic Educational Program
Ultrafast Quantum Optics (Subcontract
via BBNTSolutions LLC)
Ultrafast Quantum Optics (Subcontract
via BBNT Solutions LLC)
A eory of Stability for Communication
Networks
A eory of Stability for Communication
Networks (in conjunction with Center for
Information and Systems Engineering)
Free Space Quantum Key Distribution (T.
Yarnall) (Subcontract via MIT/Lincoln
Laboratory)
Free Space Quantum Key Distribution (T.
Yarnall) (Subcontract via MIT/Lincoln
Laboratory)
DoD
DoD/Army
DoD/DARPA
DoD/Army
DoD/Navy
NSF
NSF
NSF
NSF
NSF
DoD/DARPA
DoD/DARPA
Dept. of Energy
Dept. of Energy
DoD/ Air Force
DoD/ Air Force
5/5/06 5/5/07
5/1/05 9/30/06
8/1/01 6/30/06
5/1/05 9/30/06
12/31/05 12/30/07
9/15/05 8/31/06
5/1/05 5/31/07
5/1/06 4/30/07
1/1/06 12/31/06
1/1/06 12/31/06
8/1/01 6/30/06
8/1/01 6/30/06
8/1/05 8/14/06
8/1/06 8/14/07
9/1/05 12/31/05
1/1/05 1/31/06
$77,000
$162,346
$84,375
$54,115
$75,000
$49,500
$80,000
$82,870
$80,033
$72,670
$84,375
$168,750
$99,999
$99,999
$14,965
$18,707
Annual Report, Page 5-21
Research
Recipient Title of Award Source Begin Date End Date Amount
Teich, Malvin
Trachtenberg, Ari
Ünlü, M Selim
Ünlü, M. Selim
Ünlü, M. Selim;
Swan, Anna;
Goldberg, Bennett;
DeLisi, Charles
Ünlü, Selim
Ünlü, Selim
Ünlü, Selim
Free Space Quantum Key Distribu-
tion (T. Yarnall) (Subcontract via
MIT/Lincoln Laboratory)
CAREER: Practical Data Synchro-
nization – Minimizing Communica-
tion
MURI: New Instrumentation for
Nanoscale Subsurface Spectroscopy
and Tomography (Subcontract via
University of Rochester) (
Design, Fabrication and Bench Test-
ing of the FLAMES (in conjunction
with Center for Nanoscience and
Nanobiotechnology)
International Collaboration on Reso-
nant Structures for Biosensing and
Imaging (in conjunction with Center
for Nanobiology and Nanosciences)
MOCVD Growth of GaAs Wafers
for Heterojunction Bipolar Transis-
tors with Reduced Burn-In (Subcon-
tract via Kopin Co)
MURI: New Instrumentation for
Nanoscale Subsurface Spectroscopy
and Tomography (Subcontract via
University of Rochester)
High-roughput, Label-Free, Pro-
moter Sequence Discovery
DoD
NSF
DoD/Air Force
DHHS
NSF
NSF
DoD/Air Force
HHS/NIH/NIGMS
06/01/06 08/31/06
2/1/02 1/31/07
6/13/03 1/14/07
9/20/05 08/31/07
5/1/06 4/30/09
7/1/05 6/30/06
6/15/03 6/14/06
7/1/06 06/30/07
$11,422
$70,708
$60,764
$51,502
$150,000
$45,250
$40,349
$231,250
Subtotal Grants with ECE PIs $5,151, 653
Rebbi, Claudio;
Brower, Richard
Caraminis, Michael;
Coker, David;
Giles, Roscoe;
Grossberg, S
Coker, David;
Giles, Roscoe;
Rebbi, Claudio;
Grossberg, S
Goldberg, Bennett;
ITR-(ASE)-(sim): Optimized Dirac Inverter
for Quantum Field eory ($100,000)
IGERT: Multidisciplinary Approach to the
Integration of High-Performance Computing
in Science Education ($541,210º
IGERT: Multidisciplanary Approach to the
Integration of High-Performance Computing
in Science Education ($100,980)
An Atomic Force Microscope for Biological
NSF
NSF
NSF
NSF
9/1/05 8/31/06
12/1/05 11/30/06
12/1/05 11/30/06
9/1/05 8/31/08
$50,000
$108,242
$20,196
$67,480
New Grants with ECE co-PIs
Recipient Title of Award Source Begin Date End Date Amount
Annual Report, Page 5-22
Research
Recipient Title of Award Source Begin Date End Date Amount
Subtotal Grants with ECE co-PIs $1,860,368
Grand Total $7,012,021
Klapperich, Catherine;
Ünlü, Selim
Goldberg, Bennett;
Swan, Anna;
Ünlü, Selim
Karl, Clem
Fraser, Donald;
Hubbard, Allyn
Fritz, eodore;
Ruane, Michael;
Hubbard, Allyn;
Sullivan, James
Hubbard, Allyn;
Mountain, David;
Caraminis, Michael
Hubbard, Allyn;
Mountain, David
Goldberg, Bennett;
Ruane, Michael;
Garik, Peter;
Phillips, Constance;
DeRosa, Donald
Goldberg, Bennett;
Ünlü, Selim
Klapperich, Catherine;
Goldberg, Bennett;
Ünlü, Selim;
Desai, Tejal
Mountain, David;
Hubbard, Allyn
Moustakas, eodore;
Fraser, Donald
Pi, So-Young;
Lane, Kenneth;
Brower, Richard;
Cohen, Andrew;
Rebbi, Claudio
Imaging, Lithography, and Force Measure-
ments (additional co-PIs: Desai Tejal, M.
Grinstaff) (in conjunction with Center for
Nanobiology and Nanosciences) ($168,700)
Nanoscale Imaging of Subcellular Processes
Photonics Technology Development
and Insertion/Task 25: Accoustic Sniper
Detection (in conjunction with Photonics
Center)
Loss Cone Imager ($732,000)
Models of Beaked Whale Hearing and
Responses to Underwater Noise (In
conjunction with Hearing Research Cen-
ter)(83469)
EarLab: A Virtual Hearing Laboratory
(in conjunction with Hearing Research
Center)(490,152)
GK-12 Project STAMP – Science Tech-
nology and Mathematics Partnerships
($76,500)
MURI: New Instrumentation for
Nanoscale Subsurface Spectroscopy and
Tomography (Subcontract via University of
Rochester) ($44,236)
Research Assistantships for High School
Students: An Atomic Force Miscroscope for
Biological Imaging, Lithography and Force
Measurements ($5,000)
Active Filtering in the Cochlea (in conjuc-
tion with the Hearing Research Center)
($501,089)
Photonics Research and Development
(Subcontract via University pf Nevada Las
Vegas Research Foundation) ($196,250)
Research in Particle Physics/Task E: eo-
retical Particle Physics
HHS/NIH/NIBIB
DOD
Air Force
DOD/Navy
HHS/NIH/NIDCD
NSF
DoD/Air Force
NSF
HHS/NIH/NIDCD
Dept. of Energy
Dept. of Energy
7/1/06 6/30/07
6/1/05 4/30/06
7/01/05 6/30/06
4/6/04 7/5/06
9/1/05 8/31/06
6/1/05 5/31/06
6/15/03 1/14/07
6/1/06 8/31/08
7/1/06 6/30/07
8/1/05 10/31/06
2/1/06 1/31/07
$340,213
$150,000
$366,000
$27,823
$245,076
$15,300
$22,118
$1,250
$250,545
$98,125
$98,000
Annual Report, Page 5-23
Research
Continuing Grants and Contracts, FY06
Recipient Title of Award Source Begin Date End Date
Alanyali, Murat
Alanyali, Murat
Alanyali, Murat
Bellotti,Enrico
Bigio, Irving J
Herbordt, Martin
Karl, W. Clem
Konrad, Janusz
Little, omas
Morse, eodore
Moustakas, eodore
Moustakas, eodore
Moustakas, eodore
Oliver, William
Roy, Ronald
Saleh, Bahaa
CAREER: Scalable Architechture for Self-
Managed Networks
Distributed Methods for Statistical Decision
Making in Networked Environments
Distributed Methods for statistical Decision
Making
CAREER: eoretical Investigation of Single
Photon Detectors for Quantum Technology
Graduate Student Support N. Kunapareddy
Exploratory /Development Grant: FPGA-
Based Computational Accelerators
Foundations in Automatic Target Recogni-
tion
“US-France Cooperative Research: Segmen-
tation and Reconstruction of Scenes with
Dynamic Objects”
REU Supplements: NetS-NOSS: Semantic
Internetworking of sensor systems for ef-
ficient in-network information processing
Ultra-Sensitive Bio-Detection Using Whip-
ering Gallery Spheres and Intra-Cavity Polar-
ization Mode Beating (PMB)
Deep Ultraviolet Laser Diod for UV Reso-
nance Enhanced Raman Identification of
Biological Agents
Novel Gan HBT for advanced T/R Modules
for X-band Radar Performance Enhance-
ment
Comparative Studies of UV LED’s Emit-
ting at 280 nm Grown along Polar and
Non-Polar Direction of AIN Substrates and
Templates
REU Suplement: Incoherent Scatter Radar
Studies of Hot Oxygen
Enhancement and Control of Remote
Acoustic Hemostasis and Focused Ultra-
sonic Surgery by Acoustic Cavitation
Engineering Research Center (ERC): Center
for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems
research thrust 1-acoustics
NSF
NSF
NSF
NSF
Socities
PHS/NIH/NCRR
AFOSR
NSF
NSF
NSF
Photon/DARPA
Air Force thru Photro-
nix
U.S. Air Force AFRL
NSF
CenSSIS Industrial
Northeastern Univer-
sity/NSF
7/1/03 7/31/08
8/1/04 7/31/07
8/1/02 7/31/07
5/1/05 4/30/10
6/1/05 5/31/06
7/1/04 6/30/06
9/1/03 8/31/06
5/1/03 10/31/06
1/1/05 12/31/06
9/1/04 8/31/07
2/15/04 2/15/06
9/27/04 9/29/06
5/10/05 8/10/06
11/15/03 10/31/06
5/1/03 5/31/07
9/1/04 8/31/06
Annual Report, Page 5-24
Research
Recipient Title of Award Source Begin Date End Date
Saleh, Bahaa
Sergienko, Alexander
Starobinski, David
Starobinski, David
Starobinski, David
Starobinski, David
Swan, Anna
Swan, Anna
Swan, Anna
Teich, Malvin
Trachtenberg, Ari
Unlu, Selim
Unlu, Selim
Quantitive Imaging and Coral Imaging
(CenSSIS supplement)
ITR-Integrated Source of High-Fidelity
Entangled States for Quantum Information
Processing
CAREER: Quality of Service Engineering with
Multiple Time-Scale Traffic (REU)
NeTS-NOSS: SensorNet Architecture for
indoor Location Detection: From Resolution
to Robustness
REU Supplements: NetS-NOSS: SensorNet
Architectures for Indoor Locations Detection:
From Resolution to Robustness
CAREER: Quality of Service Engineering with
Multiple Time-Scale Traffic
Nanometer Resolution Spectral Self-Interfer-
ence Fluorescence Microscopy
4 Schools for WIE
Nanometer Resolution Spectral Self-Interfer-
ence Flourescence Microscopy (REU and
Travel)
Functional imaging of synapses by entangled-
photon microscopy
A Scalable Middleware For Data Reconcilia-
tion in PDA’s and Mobile Networks
U.S. Switzerland Cooperative Research:
Monolithic High-speed Photoreceivers, Wave-
length, and Polarization Sensors on Si
NIRT: Advanced Characterization Tech-
niques in NIRT: Advanced Characterization
Technique in Optics for Nanostructures (AC-
TION)
CENSSIS
Northestern Univ
NSF
NSF
NSF
NSF
NSF
NSF
Northeastern/NSF
NSF
Packard Foundation
NSF
NSF
NSF
1/1/03 6/30/06
9/1/2003 8/31/2006
5/1/2003 7/31/2007
9/1/2004 8/31/2007
9/1/2004 8/31/2007
8/1/2002 7/31/2007
5/1/2002 4/30/2007
12/15/2002 10/31/2006
1/1/2003 4/30/2007
8/1/1999 8/31/2006
6/1/2003 5/31/2007
5/15/2002 4/30/2006
10/1/2004 9/30/2006
Recipient Source Amount
Gifts and Other Awards
Castañón, David BBN Technologies $7,000
Knepper, Ronald Analog Devices $50,000
Qin, Wei Intel Corporation $25,000
Sergienko, Alexander ELSAG Spa $50,000
Total Gifts and Awards $132,000
HighlightsOutlook
Annual Report, Page 6-1
1. Highlights
six:
Outlook
6.1 Mission and Vision
e Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(ECE) at Boston University is a medium-size Research-I
department with a current enrollment of 273 BS, 79 MS,
and 106 PhD students. e Department offers BS, MS and
PhD degree programs in Electrical Engineering (EE) and
Computer Systems Engineering (CSE) and a MS degree in
Photonics. Both undergraduate programs are accredited by
ABET. e Department has 43.5 FTE faculty, who earned
approximately $7M of new grants and contracts this year.
e Departmental facilities occupy about 55,000 sq. ft. in
the Photonics Building.
ECE is a multidisciplinary department, with a strong systems
perspective. ere are three overlapping areas of research and
instruction: Electrophysics, which includes photonics, solid
state materials and devices, and electromagnetics and space
physics; Information Systems and Sciences, which includes
signal and image processing, control and communication
systems, and networks; and Computer Systems Engineering,
which includes hardware, software applications, and comput-
er networks. e faculty have collegial ties to important Bos-
ton University research centers, most notably the Photonics
Center, the Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology
(CNN), the Center for Information Systems and Engineer-
ing (CISE), the Center for Computational Science, the Cen-
ter for Space Physics, the Center for Subsurface Sensing and
Imaging Systems (CenSSIS), and the Center for Cognitive
and Neural Systems. We also have strong links with several
other departments at Boston University (See Fig.1). Many
faculty members pursue collaborative cross-disciplinary re-
search with faculty in other Boston University departments
and have strong extramural ties in larger centers, multi-uni-
versity initiatives, and industry collaboratives.
Electrical engineering and computer systems engineering are
fundamental technology disciplines. ey address challeng-
ing research problems, support important applications, and
offer strong opportunities for business development. In-
novations from electrical and computer engineering define
modern society and support much of the world’s high-tech
economy. Personal computers, cellular phones, fiber optics
communications and the Internet, medical imaging systems,
digital CDs and DVDs, laser materials processing, new en-
ergy sources, and modern defense systems are just a few of
the many technologies arising from electrical and computer
systems engineering.
Electrical engineering and computer systems engineering are
also enabling disciplines. ey are critical to the development
of virtually every field of science, technology, and medicine.
Electronic instrumentation for measurements on scales from
nanometers to light years, environmental monitoring of pol-
lution, land use and global warming; automatic control sys-
tems for industry and transportation; data communications
for people, corporations, and governments; and computer
modeling for economics, DNA, weather, and security are ex-
amples of how we support broad areas of inquiry and contri-
butions to human knowledge and welfare.
Electrical and computer systems engineering have special
significance and relevance as key technologies for the 21st
century, where information and systems sciences will be vi-
tal to the solution of the significant problems facing society.
Other areas of the university benefit from the technologies
and training we provide to research, education, and outreach.
e Massachusetts economy, especially along Route 128/I93,
is strongly dependent on companies and industries rooted
in electrical and computer systems engineering. Even the
financial services economy of Boston relies on information
sciences, communications, and computer systems supported
by the disciplines we address. Finally, efficient, effective in-
telligence and defense systems increasingly rely on electrical
and computer systems engineering innovations to collect
data and project force in lieu of putting soldiers and military
assets directly at risk.
e ECE Department has attracted outstanding students and
faculty, instituted major centers, and built an excellent repu-
tation in the professional community. ECE Ph.D. students
have earned numerous Dean’s Fellowships and prestigious
external fellowships from NSF, DARPA and the Gates Foun-
dation. Most of the ECE junior faculty have been recognized
with CAREER awards and/or ONR Young Investigator
awards, and many of the senior faculty are world-renowned
figures in their fields.
e mission of the ECE Department is:
1. To educate our students to meet high standards of ex-
cellence in electrical and computer engineering in prepa-
ration for professional careers and advanced studies.
2. To create and disseminate new knowledge through ba-
sic and applied research in electrical and computer engi-
neering.
3. To serve as a resource of electrical and computer engi-
neering expertise at the local, regional, and national levels.
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Figure 1. Links Between the ECE Department and Other Departments and Centers
Our overall strategy for creating a prominent program in
education, research, and outreach is to continue to focus
on a few important interdisciplinary areas of excellence that
will create outstanding programs of research and innovation
while contributing to a strong undergraduate learning expe-
rience and cutting edge graduate research. is will require
faculty stability and growth and continued University sup-
port for curriculum and laboratory development.
Plans for faculty growth (and replacements in response to
attrition) have been motivated by the need to strengthen
existing research areas to become more competitive at a na-
tional level, develop new expertise to keep up with the rap-
idly changing face of the profession and to play a leading
role in shaping future technological advances, and respond
to shifting and growing student enrollments at both the un-
dergraduate and graduate levels. We also aim to exploit the
synergies between our existing research areas as well as links
with other departments and centers at Boston University. We
expect a strong rebound in high tech over the next five years,
and plan to invest wisely now to benefit from these coming
opportunities. e continued excellence of our faculty and
students will lead to the increased prominence desired for
Boston University’s ECE Department.
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6.2 History and Trends
e last decade has witnessed the maturation of the ECE de-
partment from a primarily undergraduate program to a more
balanced department with high quality instruction, a larger
graduate program, a substantial research program, and an in-
creasingly distinguished faculty. In 1994, a new Department
chair led an effort to expand research in a number of targeted
areas and to improve the instructional programs. e relo-
cation of the Department to the new Photonics Building in
1997 has provided faculty and students with excellent research
and instructional facilities. e recent history of the Depart-
ment is depicted by a number of vital statistics of enrollment,
faculty size, and grant funding, as described in this section.
A. Students
Statistics of enrollment in the BS, MS, and PhD ECE pro-
grams are displayed in Fig. 2. Undergraduate enrollment has
tended to mirror national patterns, including the following:
• After a period of stable undergraduate enrollment in 1996-
2001, a demographic decline is occurring, as enrollment
restrictions implemented to maintain high standards of
quality of the student body continue.
• While the enrollment in the EE program has remained
stable in the last decade, the large increase in CSE
enrollment that occurred in the late 1990’s has been
followed by a sharp decline (Fig. 3). For the first time
in ten years, the CSE undergraduate enrollment has
dropped below that of the EE program.
At the graduate level, the emphasis has shifted from profes-
sional MS-oriented students and the number of MS and
PhD students are now almost equal.
• MS degree enrollment has increased in the last few years
after a period of low enrollment following a sharp decline
in the late 1990’s due to the demise of the Corporate
Classroom program.
• PhD enrollment has risen. is year, we have reached
an all-time high number of 106 PhD students.
• Graduate teaching fellowship resources have remained
fixed, while RA support grew with grant funding.
Figure 2. History of BS, MS and PhD Student Enrollment
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Figure 3. EE and CSE Undergraduate Enrollment Statistics
Figure 4. History of Degrees Awarded
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Figure 5. History of Graduate Applications
B. Faculty and Staff
Faculty hiring has largely replaced departures, with a small net
growth in recent years. e appointment of three new faculty
in AY04-05, and the absence of departures this year is a step
in the right direction, but filling open faculty positions in key
areas remains a key departmental goal. Additionally, new fac-
Figure 6. Number of faculty (FTE). Afliate faculty and research faculty with no teaching responsibilities are not
included in this chart. Teaching faculty without an active research program are included.
ulty are needed in certain strategic areas. Previous faculty at-
trition has been caused by retirement, non-renewal of inactive
faculty, and competition from other institutions that made
attractive offers to some of our successful faculty. Proactive
action to prevent such attrition is necessary.
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Research funding has grown significantly in the last decade.
Total annual new research funding in the last five years averaged
to approximately $7.2M, compared to $5.2M in the 1996-00
period, and $2.4M in 1990-95. e number of non-research-
active faculty is diminishing, but still remains higher than we
would like.
Staff development has lagged behind the faculty and
programmatic changes. Scientific staff (research faculty, post-
docs, visiting scholars) has increased with associated space and
administrative demands, but the technical lab staff positions
have remained at six. Administrative staff has grown much
slower than the faculty/scientific staff head count and research
volume.
Figure 7. New research grants and contracts (the purple bars represent grants and contracts for which
the principal investigators were ECE faculty; the green bars represent the share of ECE faculty in
grants and contracts for which the PI are from other departments).
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6.3 Areas of Research & Instruction:
Needs & Targeted Growth
e ECE Department has three overlapping areas of research
and instruction (see the schematic illustration in Fig. 8): Elec-
trophysics, which includes photonics, solid state materials and
devices, and electromagnetics and space physics; Information
Systems & Sciences, which includes signal and image process-
A. Electrophysics
Electrophysics encompasses several strong and emerging ar-
eas of electrical engineering, including photonics, solid-state
materials and devices, nanotechnology, and space physics.
e electrophysics faculty have strong campus collabora-
tions with the Photonics Center, the Center for Nanoscience
and Nanobiotechnology (CNN) and the Center for Space
Physics and play key roles in the NSF Engineering Research
Center (ERC) for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems
(CenSSIS).
Photonics
When BU established the Photonics Center, it made a strate-
gic commitment to become a national center of excellence in
photonics. World-class research facilities were developed and
a number of senior and junior ECE faculty were added in
the photonics area. e photonics faculty have infused many
new courses into the curriculum, strengthening the PhD pro-
gram and eventually leading to the creation of the new MS in
Photonics degree program. e instructional program in pho-
ing, and control and communication systems; and Computer
Systems Engineering, which includes hardware, software ap-
plications, and computer and communication networks. e
following is a description of each of these areas, including its
present needs and its envisioned future.
tonics has been supported by external fellowships from the
Department of Education and from curriculum development
funds from industry and the National Science Foundation.
Research in photonics includes: photonic materials and de-
vices (led by Ted Moustakas, a world renowned leader in ni-
tride technology, Roberto Paiella, an expert in quantum-cas-
cade lasers, and new faculty member Luca Dal Negro, who is
developing a new facility in photonic-crystal devices); optical
fibers (with a unique fabrication facility led by Ted Morse);
quantum optics and its applications to imaging and secure
communication (with a group of distinguished senior faculty,
Bahaa Saleh, Alexander Sergienko, and Malvin Teich); optical
imaging and microscopy (Selim Ünlü, who leads research in
nanobioimaging associated with the Center for Nanoscience
& Nanobiotechnology) and carbon nanotubes (Anna Swan).
Biophotonics research is pursued by Irving Bigio, Anna Swan,
and Selim Ünlü, and research in magneto-optics and optical
storage is led by Michael Ruane and Floyd Humphrey. Re-
search funding in this area has grown substantially in recent
years, with a small fraction of the funds received through the
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Photonics Center. e 2000 award of Boston University’s first
NSF ERC, the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging
Systems (CenSISS), was a significant and widely publicized
accomplishment that has strengthened the sensing and imag-
ing component of photonics.
e future of the BU photonics program depends on our abil-
ity to maintain the present large momentum by continuing to
strengthen this program with new outstanding faculty in rel-
evant areas. We have an opportunity to benefit from the out-
standing facilities offered by the Photonics Center to launch
large research initiatives in photonics.
Solid State Materials & Devices
is area overlaps naturally with photonics and we have delib-
erately emphasized this connection in an effort to strengthen
the photonics program while meeting our instructional needs
in the semiconductor area. e most senior faculty member
in this area, Ted Moustakas, continues to lead a large research
program in the more advanced family of Nitride Semiconduc-
tors, an area for which the group is recognized as one of the
leading organizations in the world. e research is a combi-
nation of theoretical/modeling work in parallel with experi-
mental studies of these advanced materials and correspond-
ing devices. Intellectual Property derived from this work has
been licensed by the University to major US and Japanese
companies producing blue LEDs and blue lasers. Junior
faculty member Roberto Paiella is involved applications of
the nitrides to long-wavelength devices, including quantum
cascade lasers, and Enrico Bellotti pursues world class, and
well funded, research in numerical modeling of semiconduc-
tor materials and devices. e group is funded by DOE (for
applications in solid state lighting), by DARPA and NASA
(for the development of UV lasers and LEDs for identifica-
tion of biological and chemical agents, by the Air Force (de-
velopment of transistors for high power and high frequency
applications) and by ARL (development of quantum cascade
lasers). Fundamental work is supported by NSF, ONR and
AFOSR-MURI. e group collaborates closely with members
of the Physics Department. e most recent addition to this
group is Luca Dal Negro, who is developing a laboratory in
silicon light sources.
It is of great concern that the ECE Department has lost its sili-
con microelectromechanical (MEMS) fabrication facility and
has not yet replaced it. Further, the space that was previously
allocated for this purpose in the original plans of the Pho-
tonics building has been acquired by the Photonics Center
for its commercialization activities. Establishing a modest-size
silicon fabrication facility and recruiting in the area of micro-
and/or nanotechnology has been, and must remain, one of
our high priorities. e lab is necessary for our EE instruc-
tional program and for research in MEMS, optical MEMS,
and nanotechnology.
Identified at the national level as critical to economic and se-
curity needs, nanotechnology encompasses research in areas
related to photonics, biophotonics, and sensing and imaging
systems, areas of long-standing interest in the Department.
is is also consistent with university-wide initiatives and
with our objective of maintaining a strong interest in pho-
tonic solid-state materials and devices. Growth plans and re-
cruiting in this area must therefore be well coordinated at the
University level.
Electromagnetics & Space Physics
Both the EP and the ISS groups have maintained collabora-
tions with the Center for Space Physics (CSP). Two ECE fac-
ulty members (Bill Oliver and Josh Semeter) are directly in-
volved in atmospheric and remote sensing studies, and others
are involved in signal processing applications (David Casta-
ñon, Clem Karl, and Janusz Konrad) and instrumentation
(Allyn Hubbard and Mike Ruane). Affiliate appointments
for CSP/AST Professors Ted Fritz, Michael Mendillo, and
Supriya Chakrabarti in the ECE Department have strength-
ened the collaboration and facilitated the involvement of
ECE students in CSP projects in areas such as atmospheric
studies using radio wave technology, remote sensing, and as-
tronomical imaging. e recent addition of Prof. Semeter to
the ECE faculty has created a stronger link, and continued
collaboration remains of mutual benefit to both units. Other
ECE faculty involved in electromagnetics research include
Professors Mark Horenstein, who is engaged in novel designs
of microelectromechanical systems; Robert Kotiuga, whose
research addresses micromagnetics and numerical and topo-
logical aspects of electromagnetic fields; and Min-Chang Lee
who is conducting experiments in radio communication via
ionospheric plasma.
B. Information Systems and Sciences
e ECE department has established a strong, nationally rec-
ognized research group in the area of Information Sciences
and Systems (ISS). is is evidenced by the fact that almost
every ISS faculty member has been awarded the prestigious
CAREER award and several faculty members have success-
fully competed against top institutions in garnering highly
coveted MURI awards. ISS faculty members have also been
instrumental in bringing the highly competitive Engineer-
ing Research Center (ERC) on subsurface imaging to Boston
University, and another ERC is currently being contemplated
in the area of video networks. Many of the faculty chose BU
over competitive offers from higher ranked institutions. Our
most recent addition in this area is Masoud Sharif, who re-
cently received his PhD from CalTech.
Research in ISS deals with the dual aspects of uncertainty and
information in physical as well as engineered systems. e
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group works on applications including biomedical signal and
image processing, coding for communication systems, multi-
media communication, distributed and mobile computing,
sensor networks, and advanced visual communication and
entertainment. is area overlaps with the CSE group, and
a program in computer networks benefits from this diverse
expertise in the Department.
A particular strength of this group has been in establishing
a pre-eminent position in the area of sensor networks. In-
deed, it is not farfetched to say that, in this particular realm,
we are the strongest in the Boston area and favorably viewed
in comparison to other nationally recognized groups such as
Berkeley, Stanford, UIUC and Michigan. To put this into
perspective, an NSF funded workshop on networked sens-
ing, information and control organized by BU has almost
all faculty drawn primarily from these institutions and none
from Boston area schools (other than BU). e area of sen-
sor networks – a massive network of tiny sensors capable of
measuring, processing and exchanging data over a wireless
medium – has immense potential and the envisaged applica-
tions range from military surveillance to environmental biol-
ogy and ecological monitoring. In this context our faculty has
an ongoing collaboration with the BU biology department.
Another aspect of this group’s research involves the extraction
and interpretation of uncertain/incomplete information in
bio-medical imaging contexts. e laboratory has established
strong collaborative efforts with MGH and has an active on-
going collaboration with the BME department. A related area
of research actively being pursued by our faculty in collabora-
tion with MGH involves understanding the structure of very
high dimensional data through information-theoretic meth-
ods. is area has recently received significant attention in
the context of Bio-Informatics. e ISS group, with its strong
emphasis on understanding information and its structure, is
a natural home for this research endeavor. Our long-term vi-
sion would exploit our unique competitive advantage over
other Boston-area schools and establish a first-rate research
program in information sciences and its myriad applications
ranging from wireless communications, networked sensing,
and bio-informatics through active collaboration and well in-
stituted faculty hires. e continuation of recruitment of new
faculty members is essential to consolidation of the program
and retention of “star” faculty members.
C. Computer Systems Engineering
Computer systems engineering has a special significance as a
vital technology for the 21st century with very broad appli-
cations. is can be seen, for example, in the three national
priorities outlined by the NSF — Nanotechnology, Informa-
tion Technology, and Bioinformatics. eir confluence lies
directly within CSE. Some opportunities include: combin-
ing nanotechnology with computing technology on a chip,
development of computer systems for bioinformatics and
computational biology, application of knowledge engineering
to information technology and bioinformatics, and develop-
ment of embedded systems for communications and sensor
networks. e ECE Department has strengths consistent
with these opportunities including research in computer ar-
chitecture, VLSI, fault-tolerant computing, communications
and computer networking, embedded systems, and, compu-
tational science.
Communications and computer networking lies at the
boundary between the ISS group and the CSE group. ere
is no doubt that networks have dramatically changed our
society and are expected to continue to have a significant
economic impact and to drive much of electronics and com-
puter technology. Student demand for telecommunication
and networking courses has been high, and the Department
has recently enhanced the curriculum in this area at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels. A number of new faculty
members have established research programs in this area. e
Computer Science Department at BU has also targeted com-
puter networks as a strong research thrust, the Department of
Manufacturing Engineering has a strong systems group with
a related interest in discrete event systems, and the Center for
Information System Engineering (CISE) has linked research
activities across the campus. Our combined effort has created
a strong BU program in this important area.
VLSI electronics continues to be an area of fundamental im-
portance since VLSI circuits constitute the principal hardware
for computers and embedded systems. Maintaining a strong
instructional program in this area is essential for both our de-
gree programs. Application of VLSI electronics to biological
sensors is an area of great potential and interests both the ECE
and the Biomedical Engineering Departments. e addition
of more faculty in this area is essential to meet increased teach-
ing needs, to reduce the burden on the few research produc-
tive faculty in this area, and to give this area the critical mass
necessary to gain national recognition and competitiveness
for research funds.
Other important areas in computer engineering include em-
bedded systems and real time software design, reliable com-
puting, design automation, asynchronous systems, test and
diagnosis of computer hardware, and multimedia computing.
Research in computational science is strong in ECE and is
linked with the Center for Computational Science and the
Scientific Computing and Visualization Center. Another link
offering particularly strong synergistic possibilities with the
high-performance computing group is that with the Center
for Space Physics, a BU research center with strong links to
ECE. Research in high-performance computing is strong in
ECE and is linked with the Center for Computational Sci-
ence and the Scientific Computing and Visualization Center.
Another link offering particularly strong synergistic possibili-
ties with the high-performance computing group is that with
the Center for Space Physics, a BU research center with strong
links to ECE.
