2008 Annual Research Review
Monday, January 28, 2008

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8:00 - 9:00	Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00	Opening Session (Room 54-134, 5th floor, Engr. IV Bldg) Welcome by the Annual Research Review Chair Welcome by the Dean of Engineering Welcome by the Department Chairman Online MS Program in Signal Processing and Communications
10:00 - 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 - 12:45	Parallel Technical Tracks
	Emerging Software-Defined and Cognitive Radio Technology Room 57-124, 5th floor, Engr. IV Bldg Chair: Prof. Dejan Markovic        Minimizing Energy Consumption with an SDR based Morphable Radio Prof. Babak Daneshrad   An Outphasing PA for a Software-Defined Radio Transmitter Shervin Moloudi (graduate student)   Parallel Delta-Sigma Modulators for Reconfigurable ADC Design Prof. Sudhakar Pamarti   Multi-Dimensional Design Optimization of Pipelined A/D Converter Jintae Kim (graduate student)   Spectrum Sensing Design for Cognitive Radios Prof. Danijela Cabric   Nonlinear Turbo Codes: Even Closer to the Shannon Limit Miguel Griot (graduate student)      Emerging Internet Technology Room 67-124, 6th floor, Engr. IV Bldg Chair: Prof. John Villasenor   Silicon Photonics Devices for the Internet Prof. Sasan Fathpour   Optical Rogue Waves Dr. Daniel Solli (postdoctoral researcher)   Cross-layer networking for home, Internet, and UAV-aided Mobile Wireless Multimedia Networks Prof. Izhak Rubin   Cross Layer Optimal Operation of Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Julan Hsu (graduate student)   Media Distribution in the Home: Copper, Coax, Power Line or Wireless? Prof. Rajeev Jain, Dr. Vipin Aggarwal, Cimarron Mittelsteadt, and Rick Yuan Huang   The Merging of Cellular and the Internet Prof. John Villasenor      Emerging Nanotechnology Room 54-134, 5th floor, Engr. IV Bldg Chair Prof. Jason Woo   The Pursuit of Beyond Nanoelectronics Dr. Kos Galatsis   Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers: Bridging the Terahertz Gap Prof. Benjamin Williams   Materials Synthesis for Nanoelectronics/Nanophotonics Prof. Diana Huffaker   Development of a Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) Microscope for Sub-Diffraction Biological Imaging Margaret C. Chiang (graduate student)   Design Challenges for Nanoscale Manufacturing Prof. Puneet Gupta   Robust Synthesis with Defective Nano Devices Prof. Lei He
12:45 - 2:15	Luncheon and Interactive Student Poster Session 2nd floor patio, Engr. IV Bldg
2:15 - 4:15	Parallel Technical Tracks
	Emerging Wireless Technology Room 54-134, 5th floor, Engr. IV Bldg Chair: Prof. Babak Daneshrad        Maximizing the Capacity Performance of Compact Multi-Antenna Platforms Prof. Yuanxun (Ethan) Wang   A 60GHz CMOS Receiver Using a 30GHz LO Ali Parsa (graduate student)   Architecture Optimization for Multidimensional Signal Processing Prof. Dejan Markovic   Tera-Hertz CMOS Circuit Development and Its Potential Impacts to Future Communication and Imaging Systems Tim LaRocca (graduate student)      Emerging Tele-Health Room 57-124, 5th floor, Engr. IV Bldg Chair: Prof. William J. Kaiser   Medical Embedded Systems for Wireless Health Prof. Majid Sarrafzadeh   Dealing with Noise and Sparse Data in Automatic Speech Recognition Prof. Abeer Alwan   Ultra Wide-Field Lens-Free Monitoring of Cells on Chip Prof. Aydogan Ozcan   Neuroengineering the Brain-Technology Interface Prof. Jack Judy     Emerging Web Applications Room 67-124, 6th floor, Engr. IV Bldg Chair Prof. Mani Srivastava   Mining social Networks: Algorithms, Ethics, and Business Opportunities Prof. Vwani Roychowdhury   Knowledge-Driven Computing and Networking: Games, Information Processing, and Learning Prof. Mihaela van der Schaar   Participatory Sensing in Urban, social, and Personal Spaces Prof. Mani Srivastava   Words to Look at: Statistics, Media Art and the Prospects for Data Analysis in the Public Sphere Prof. Mark Hansen       Emerging Distributed Systems Room Rice, 6th floor, Boelter Hall Chair: Prof. Paulo Tabuada   Distributed Adaptive Networks Prof. Ali H. Sayed   Networked Fault-Tolerant Control and Distributed Water Systems Pro. Panagiotis Christofides   Decentralized Control Based on the Value of Information in Large Vehicle Arrays Prof. Jason Speyer   Image and Video Analysis: Towards Intelligent Machines Prof. Stefano Soatto   New Control Paradigms for Cars and Agricultural Irrigation Prof. Paulo Tabuada
4:15 - 5:15	Coffee Break and Interactive Student Poster Session
5:15 - 6:30	Reception (Rice Room, 6th floor, Boelter Hall)